README.md

metadata

language: en
library_name: setfit
pipeline_tag: text-classification
base_model: sentence-transformers/paraphrase-mpnet-base-v2
datasets:
  - StanfordSCALE/assertions_llm_annotated_talkmoves
metrics:
  - f1
  - precision
  - recall
  - roc_auc
tags:
  - setfit
  - text-classification
  - education
  - classroom-discourse
  - edubehaviors
  - assertion
model-index:
  - name: assertion_is_a_declarative_statement
    results:
      - task:
          type: text-classification
        dataset:
          name: assertions_llm_annotated_talkmoves
          type: StanfordSCALE/assertions_llm_annotated_talkmoves
          split: test
        metrics:
          - type: f1
            value: 0.8986
            name: F1 (positive class, test)
          - type: precision
            value: 0.8877
            name: Precision (positive class, test)
          - type: recall
            value: 0.9097
            name: Recall (positive class, test)
          - type: roc_auc
            value: 0.9644
            name: ROC-AUC (test)

Assertion: is a declarative statement

This classifier was trained for EduBehaviors: Assertion-based schemas for auditable dialogue coding and is usable through the Python package EduBehaviors-kit. This classifier was trained on an LLM-annotated subset of teacher utterances from the TalkMoves Dataset. See the Datasets section below for more information.

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Training Details

Datasets

Dataset	Split	Size
StanfordSCALE/assertions_llm_annotated_talkmoves	train	13,179 (53.3%)
StanfordSCALE/assertions_llm_annotated_talkmoves	dev	3,297 (13.3%)
StanfordSCALE/assertions_llm_annotated_talkmoves	test	8,239 (33.3%)

This model's columns are assertion_is_a_declarative_statement and split_is_a_declarative_statement.

Base rate (share of rows labeled as True): 43.8% overall — 43.5% train, 46.0% dev, 43.6% test.

Labels and annotation

Labels were generated with LLM annotators. Krippendorff's alpha for this assertion is 0.801.

Hyperparameters

Parameter	Value
Base model (body)	sentence-transformers/paraphrase-mpnet-base-v2
Head	LogisticRegression
Body learning rate	2e-05
Head learning rate	0.01
Batch size	16 (contrastive phase) / 32 (head)
Epochs	10
Max steps	5000 (contrastive phase)
Eval max steps	100
Seed	20260904
Mixed precision	enabled on GPU

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Evaluation

Results

Split	n	Base rate	Precision	Recall	F1 (positive class)	ROC-AUC	Average precision
dev	3,297	46.0%	0.889	0.899	0.894	0.962	0.951
test	8,239	43.6%	0.888	0.910	0.899	0.964	0.946

Limitations

• Labels come from LLM annotators, not human coders. Agreement between annotators with Krippendorff's Alpha is 0.801.
• Trained on teacher utterances only. Behaviour on student speech is untested.

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How to Use

Message Structure

The model was trained on text built as:

{utterance}

The utterance is passed through as-is.

Running instructions

pip install setfit

from setfit import SetFitModel

model = SetFitModel.from_pretrained("StanfordSCALE/assertion_is_a_declarative_statement")

text = 'I was thinking when I was looking at Marks model and I  noticed many of you made models also for projects for another  class'
model.predict([text])        # -> array([1]) when the assertion holds
model.predict_proba([text])  # -> [[P(no), P(yes)]]

Citation

@misc{assertion_is_a_declarative_statement,
  author = {Stanford SCALE Initiative},
  title  = {Assertion classifier: is a declarative statement},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/StanfordSCALE/assertion_is_a_declarative_statement}
}