Chonky modernbert base v1

Chonky is a transformer model that intelligently segments text into meaningful semantic chunks. This model can be used in the RAG systems.

Model Description

The model processes text and divides it into semantically coherent segments. These chunks can then be fed into embedding-based retrieval systems or language models as part of a RAG pipeline.

⚠️This model was fine-tuned on sequence of length 1024 (by default ModernBERT supports sequence length up to 8192).

How to use

I've made a small python library for this model: chonky

Here is the usage:

from chonky import ParagraphSplitter

# on the first run it will download the transformer model
splitter = ParagraphSplitter(
  model_id="mirth/chonky_modernbert_base_1",
  device="cpu"
)

text = """Before college the two main things I worked on, outside of school, were writing and programming. I didn't write essays. I wrote what beginning writers were supposed to write then, and probably still are: short stories. My stories were awful. They had hardly any plot, just characters with strong feelings, which I imagined made them deep. The first programs I tried writing were on the IBM 1401 that our school district used for what was then called "data processing." This was in 9th grade, so I was 13 or 14. The school district's 1401 happened to be in the basement of our junior high school, and my friend Rich Draves and I got permission to use it. It was like a mini Bond villain's lair down there, with all these alien-looking machines — CPU, disk drives, printer, card reader — sitting up on a raised floor under bright fluorescent lights."""

for chunk in splitter(text):
  print(chunk)
  print("--")

# Output

Before college the two main things I worked on, outside of school, were writing and programming. I didn't write essays. I wrote what beginning writers were supposed to write then, and probably still are: short stories.
--
 My stories were awful. They had hardly any plot, just characters with strong feelings, which I imagined made them deep. The first programs I tried writing were on the IBM 1401 that our school district used for what was then called "data processing."
--
 This was in 9th grade, so I was 13 or 14. The school district's 1401 happened to be in the basement of our junior high school, and my friend Rich Draves and I got permission to use it.
--
 It was like a mini Bond villain's lair down there, with all these alien-looking machines — CPU, disk drives, printer, card reader — sitting up on a raised floor under bright fluorescent lights.
--

But you can use this model using standart NER pipeline:

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForTokenClassification, pipeline

model_name = "mirth/chonky_modernbert_base_1"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, model_max_length=1024)

id2label = {
    0: "O",
    1: "separator",
}
label2id = {
    "O": 0,
    "separator": 1,
}

model = AutoModelForTokenClassification.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    num_labels=2,
    id2label=id2label,
    label2id=label2id,
)


pipe = pipeline("ner", model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer, aggregation_strategy="simple")

text = """Before college the two main things I worked on, outside of school, were writing and programming. I didn't write essays. I wrote what beginning writers were supposed to write then, and probably still are: short stories. My stories were awful. They had hardly any plot, just characters with strong feelings, which I imagined made them deep. The first programs I tried writing were on the IBM 1401 that our school district used for what was then called "data processing." This was in 9th grade, so I was 13 or 14. The school district's 1401 happened to be in the basement of our junior high school, and my friend Rich Draves and I got permission to use it. It was like a mini Bond villain's lair down there, with all these alien-looking machines — CPU, disk drives, printer, card reader — sitting up on a raised floor under bright fluorescent lights."""

pipe(text)

# Output

[
  {'entity_group': 'separator', 'score': np.float32(0.91590524), 'word': ' stories.', 'start': 209, 'end': 218},
  {'entity_group': 'separator', 'score': np.float32(0.6210419), 'word': ' processing."', 'start': 455, 'end': 468},
  {'entity_group': 'separator', 'score': np.float32(0.7071036), 'word': '.', 'start': 652, 'end': 653}
]

Training Data

The model was trained to split paragraphs from the bookcorpus dataset.

Metrics

Token based metrics:

Hardware

Model was fine-tuned on single H100 for a several hours

I dedicate this model in memory of my father.