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Source-1 evaluation

Source-1 was compared with its teacher and 16 public quality scorers on three test sets. An independent proprietary LLM grader scored every chunk with Source-1's 13-field rubric: its grades were never trained on, and on the held-out set it was given the same instructions as Source-1's teacher. Each number says how closely a model's ranking agrees with the grader's, so it measures agreement with this grader applying Source-1's own rubric, on home ground.

Summary

Rank agreement (Spearman) with the grader's overall score. Each model is read on the chunks it scored.

test set chunks Source-1 (307M) propella-1 4B (4.0B) FineWeb-Edu classifier (English only) teacher (open-weight, 27B)
held-out set, 53 languages (main result) 495 0.900 0.756 0.529 0.912
English exam 413 0.921 0.820 0.453 0.912
12-language exam 352 0.895 0.637 - 0.880

propella-1 4B scored 493, 412 and 350 of these chunks. The FineWeb-Edu classifier is read on the 159 English held-out chunks, where Source-1 scores 0.864. The English exam has 414 chunks; the teacher scored 413, and comparisons use those.

  • Source-1 agrees with the grader more closely than each of the 16 public scorers, on every set where they were compared. All 39 of these comparisons (how they are counted) have 95% intervals clear of zero.
  • It is level with its teacher within noise, with about 1/88 of the teacher's parameters. On the held-out set it is 0.012 lower (95% interval of the difference -0.03 to +0.004).
  • The closest public scorer, propella-1 4B, trails by 0.144 on the held-out set. A more generous reading of it, chosen after the results were known, narrows the gap to 0.064-0.081 (details).
  • At its shipped drop line (the default keep flag), Source-1 catches 43 of the 64 chunks the grader drops on the held-out set. The teacher, at its own keep flags, catches 46.

The held-out set is the main result. The exams count less, because they helped choose the teacher (why).

How we measured

The grader. Its overall score and keep flag are computed from its 13 fields with the rubric's own formula, as for Source-1. Its drops are the chunks that hit the rubric's hard filters (spam, boilerplate or toxic text). Its labels were never trained on.

Home ground. The held-out documents come from the same kinds of sources as the training data. The public scorers were built for their own definitions of quality, most for educational value, and are not wrong when they disagree with this rubric. Even a scorer that matched the grader's own educational_value scores exactly would reach only 0.874 on the held-out set, 0.900 on the English exam and 0.817 on the 12-language exam, so a small part of the gap to the educational-value classifiers comes from what this measure asks for; Educational value alone is the fairer comparison for them.

The three test sets.

test set chunks languages grader drops what it is
held-out set (main result) 495, one per document 53 64 documents from Source-1's held-out test split, never trained or calibrated on
English exam 414, from 332 documents (413 scored by the teacher) English 25 200 chunks drawn at random, plus 214 harder cases added on purpose
12-language exam 352, one per document 12 46 web text drawn from FineWeb-2's test split (blocks of 10 consecutive rows at random positions; Spanish from its first rows), about 30 chunks per language

95% intervals. Each difference between two models comes with a 95% interval from a paired bootstrap over documents. When the interval excludes zero, chance alone is an unlikely explanation for the difference.

How the public scorers were run. Each public scorer ran from the pinned revision in Appendix C, following its model card and its own code or prompt where it publishes one, except as noted here. propella-1 and EAI-Distill were decoded greedily, although the propella-1 4B and EAI-Distill repositories default to sampling. propella-1 ran in plain transformers, without the SGLang server and JSON grammar its card recommends; the serving engine mainly affects speed, so we claim no speed comparison with it.

How the public scorers were run, in full

How the public scorers were run

  • Each public scorer ran from the repository and revision listed in Appendix C, following its model card and its own code or prompt where it publishes one.
  • The encoder classifiers ran in Hugging Face transformers as their model cards show, in the precision each card states (bfloat16 where it says so, float32 otherwise).
  • Source-1 itself ran in bfloat16, its default. In float32 its rank agreement on the held-out set is unchanged to three decimal places.
  • The two fastText models ran in the fasttext library. They read the whole text with newlines turned into spaces, as the DCLM code does.
  • EAI-Distill ran in transformers in float32 with greedy decoding (its repository's default settings sample).
  • propella-1 ran in plain transformers in bfloat16, with its repository's own prompt and chat template, greedy decoding and no JSON grammar. Its card recommends serving with SGLang and a JSON grammar, and the 4B's default settings sample at temperature 0.7. The serving engine mainly affects speed. Greedy decoding without a grammar gives the same tokens as grammar-constrained greedy decoding, up to the first token the grammar would forbid, and it avoids sampling noise. An answer that did not parse got one retry with more new tokens (details). We claim no speed comparison with propella-1.

Independence from development

  • The exam sets helped choose the teacher and its prompt setup, by agreement with the exam grader's labels, and Source-1's backbone was kept over two other multilingual encoders in a comparison that looked at these sets.
  • Grades and reviews by proprietary LLMs, among them the grader's model family, informed the rubric, the drop-line candidates and floor, and the data filters.
  • AI assistants helped draft the rubric text and write the project's code. The grader's model family includes one of the assistants that helped draft the rubric text.
  • The held-out set was built after the teacher and its prompt were fixed. It was not used to choose the model. It was not hidden, though: the candidate drop lines were drafted after its grades had been seen.
  • No grade or review by a proprietary LLM was ever used as a label, a training target or a training example.
Independence from development, in full

What grades from the grader's model family did and did not influence:

  • The exam sets helped choose the teacher. The English and 12-language exams are the samples on which the teacher was vetted and its prompt setup was chosen, by agreement with the exam grader's labels. The prompt setup covers the answer format, reasoning on or off, and a rubric rule for pages stitched together from unrelated or scrambled text, added after reviewing disagreements on these samples. The backbone was also kept over two other multilingual encoders in a comparison that looked at these sets. So the exams are not independent of the grader: Source-1's teacher was in part selected to agree with it there. They are reported, but they count less than the held-out set.
  • The held-out set did not. It was built after the teacher and its prompt had been fixed, and was not used to choose either. It is called held-out because Source-1 never trained or calibrated on it. But it was not hidden during development: Source-1's results on it were checked, and the candidate drop lines were drafted after its grades had been seen. The released model was not chosen by its score on this set: it is the model trained on the final, fully cleaned data.
  • The rubric and the drop-line rule. The choice between rubric revisions, the list of candidate drop lines and the 0.95 keep-agreement floor of the drop-line rule were decided using grades from proprietary LLM graders, among them models of the grader's family, on samples of documents, some of them training chunks. The drop line itself was then picked by that fixed rule on the teacher's validation labels. The grader's labels were not used to pick it.
  • Training. Every training label comes from the open-weight teacher. The grader's labels, and every other grade or review by a proprietary LLM, were never used as labels, training targets or training examples. The learning rate and the natural language mix came from a short sweep (two learning rates, two language mixes, half an epoch each) on a smaller training set labeled by the same teacher, read on validation agreement with the teacher. The epoch count came from the same validation curves. The checkpoint is the final step, which had the best validation agreement with the teacher (Spearman 0.955). No graded test set was used for these choices.
  • Data filtering. Samples reviewed by a proprietary LLM measured how often the license and table-of-contents filters missed or over-fired. This informed which collections were filtered out; the reviewed documents were then kept out of training. AI assistants also reviewed source terms and document notices across the training data, which informed the license rules. They also helped draft the rubric text and write the project's code.
The test sets in detail: composition, near-duplicate check, safety filter

The test sets in detail

  • Held-out set (the main result): 495 chunks in 53 languages, one per document. All come from Source-1's held-out test split, drawn from the four data stages (web 129, multilingual web 276, conversations/code/synthetic 48, open books 42). The grader drops 64 of them. 159 chunks are English and 29 Chinese; most other languages have 1 to 12 chunks. Chinese was oversampled on purpose: 15 of its 29 chunks were added to the proportional sample, and they hold 7 of the 64 grader drops. 26 of the 53 languages have 5 or fewer chunks. Source-1 never trained or calibrated on these documents. They come from the same kinds of sources as the training data. 42 of the 495 chunks (8.5%) come from sources that were later removed from training under the license rules (19 from DCLM-baseline, 16 raw Common Crawl pages, and 7 from collections with unreliable or gated license terms). The test split also keeps documents that the license filtering removed from training.
  • English exam: 414 chunks from 332 whole documents split into chunks. 200 chunks from 196 documents were drawn at random from web, wiki, Common Pile, math and code sources (the random-sample chunks and documents). 214 chunks from 136 documents were added on purpose to cover harder cases (long documents 57 chunks, academic 50, math 28, code 27, spam 23, toxic 20, fiction 9). The grader drops 25 of the chunks (24 documents). The added chunks make the set unlike a random draw. They move each model's numbers, up for some models and down for others (Source-1: rank 0.919 on the random-sample chunks alone and 0.921 on all 414; AUC 0.987 and 0.979). The teacher has no score for one of the 414 chunks (a random-sample chunk). So the comparisons with the teacher and the public scorers' English rows use the 413 chunks it scored (411 or 412 where a public scorer also lacks one). The 512-token comparison uses all 414.
  • 12-language exam: 352 chunks, one per document, all FineWeb-2 web text in 12 languages (ar, bn, de, es, hi, ja, ko, ru, sw, th, vi, zh; about 30 each), drawn from FineWeb-2's test split (blocks of 10 consecutive rows at random positions; Spanish from its first rows). It has no code or math: 351 of the 352 chunks are plain text by the grader's label. The grader drops 46.

Every exam document was checked against the training data (exact text, URL, title, long-line and shingle matching). None has half or more of its text in a training document; the largest share of an exam text found in a training document is 41%.

Near-duplicate check

The 495 held-out chunks were compared with every training and validation record. The check measures the share of a chunk's distinctive 40-character pieces that a single record contains. No chunk is covered 80% or more by any record. 4 are covered 64% to 71%: three short files from code collections and one US government record, 98 to 345 tokens each, all short templated texts. 9 in all are covered 20% or more. These chunks stay in the reported set. Without the 4, Source-1's rank agreement is 0.901 (491 chunks); without all 9, 0.900.

Safety filter

A safety filter, with a rule fixed before it was first run, removed a small number of documents from every evaluation set and from Source-1's training, validation and test data. Documents that substantially copy removed text were removed from its data as well. Every model is compared on the same filtered chunks.

The grader in detail, and how much its grades move when repeated

The grader in detail

Strictly, these are two graders from one proprietary model family: one graded the exams, another the held-out set. This file calls either "the grader". That model family also includes one of the assistants that helped draft the rubric text. The exams were graded with an older revision of the rubric, from before the rubric settled how to score ads.

The held-out grader was given the teacher's own instructions word for word: the 13-field rubric and the special rules in Appendix A, for example that ads are scored spam_seo 3 and kept. The public scorers follow none of these rules.

The grader returns the 13 fields only. Its reference overall score and keep flag are computed from its scores in the same way as Source-1's: the overall formula of the rubric (see README.md), and keep = false when the rubric's hard filters match (toxicity >= 4, spam_seo >= 4 or boilerplate >= 4.5). "The grader's drops" in this file are those chunks: spam, boilerplate or toxic text under the hard filters.

The same sets were scored by the teacher and by the 16 public quality scorers, open-weight models run as described under How the public scorers were run.

Grader self-agreement

The exam grader also graded part of each exam a second time. The two gradings agree at rank 0.902 on 97 English random-sample chunks and 0.945 on 58 chunks of the 12-language exam. On exactly these chunks Source-1 reaches 0.886 and 0.892 and the teacher 0.879 and 0.882, below the grader's agreement with itself (within noise for English).

The one-line header

The one-line header that Source-1, the teacher and the grader saw

Source-1, the teacher and the grader saw each chunk after a one-line header. It gives the chunk's source type ("dataset record" for 478 of the 495 held-out chunks, and a code-file type such as "Python source file" for the other 17), its part number when it is one part of a longer document and, for 121 of the 495 held-out chunks, a title. The public scorers read the text alone. On the 1,261 chunks of the held-out set and both exams, dropping the whole header moved Source-1's overall score by 0.03 on average (at most 0.655). Dropping a title moved it by 0.05 on average on the chunks that had one. Adding a URL, which no training input had, moved it by up to 0.7 and did not improve its rank agreement with the grader. So source1.py does not show a URL to the model by default.

Metric definitions: rank, AUC, matched keep rate, intervals

Metric definitions

Computed per chunk:

  • Rank: Spearman correlation between a model's overall score and the grader's overall score.
  • AUC: how well a model's score separates the grader's drops from its keeps (area under the ROC curve; a low score means drop; ties count one half).
  • Matched keep rate: every model keeps the same share of chunks the grader keeps (87% on the held-out set), taking its highest-scored chunks. Keep agreement is the share of chunks where the model's keep/drop matches the grader's. Drop recall is the share of the grader's drops the model also drops. This puts scorers with different scales on the same operating point. Chunks tied at the cut are kept fractionally (the expected value over every order of the tied chunks), so a count of drops caught can be fractional; such counts are given as "about".
  • For Source-1 and the teacher, AUC and the matched keep rate use the overall score before it is clipped to 0, so heavily penalized chunks are not tied at zero.
  • Intervals at a drop line are Wilson 95% intervals.
  • Differences between two models (Source-1 minus the other, on the chunks both scored) come with paired bootstrap 95% intervals: documents resampled with replacement, 2,000 resamples, seed 0, the same resamples for both models, percentile intervals. Interval ends are given to two decimals (three when they are close to zero), because the third decimal moves with the random seed.

Results

Held-out set

The table shows Source-1, the teacher and the three multilingual public scorers that agree best with the grader. Keep agreement and drop recall are read at a matched keep rate: each model keeps its top-scored 87% of chunks, the share the grader keeps (Metric definitions).

model chunks rank AUC keep agreement (87% kept) drop recall (87% kept)
Source-1 495 0.900 0.946 0.927 0.719 (46/64)
Teacher (open-weight 27B LLM) 495 0.912 0.948 0.919 0.688 (44/64)
propella-1 4B 493 0.756 0.862 0.886 0.562 (36/64)
propella-1 1.7B 495 0.736 0.855 0.896 0.599 (about 38/64)
JQL-Edu (mean of 3 balanced heads) 495 0.600 0.737 0.826 0.328 (21/64)
  • At this matched rate Source-1 catches 46 of the grader's 64 drops and the teacher 44, a difference within noise (without the 15 added Chinese chunks: about 39 and 39 of 57). At each model's own drop line (for the teacher, its own keep flags) they catch 43 and 46 (The drop line). Source-1 and the teacher are also level within noise on rank and AUC.
  • The lead over propella-1 4B, the closest public scorer, is at least as large outside English: 0.916 against 0.765 on the 335 non-English chunks.
Held-out set in detail: every interval, and results by data stage and for Chinese

Held-out set in detail

  • Every public scorer ranks the held-out set well below Source-1 on this rubric. The closest, propella-1 4B, reaches 0.756 on the 493 chunks it scored (Source-1 minus propella-1 4B: +0.144, 95% interval +0.11 to +0.18). It is also further from the grader on the drops: AUC 0.862 against Source-1's 0.946 (+0.084, +0.05 to +0.12). At the matched rate it catches 36 of the 64 drops to Source-1's 46 (drop recall +0.156, +0.06 to +0.25). Most public scorers do not target spam, boilerplate or toxicity, which is what the grader drops. With propella-1's own ratings for them added, its AUC gap is +0.049 (+0.02 to +0.07; see How propella-1 is read).
  • The lead over propella-1 4B is at least as large outside English: 0.916 against 0.765 on the 335 non-English chunks in 52 languages (+0.151, +0.11 to +0.20; 34 of them are in languages propella-1's card does not list). It is +0.117 (+0.06 to +0.18) on the 158 English chunks it scored (of 159).
  • Source-1 ranks 0.012 below its teacher (0.900 vs 0.912; 95% interval of the difference -0.03 to +0.004), also outside English (-0.012, -0.03 to +0.006). It is level with it on AUC (0.946 vs 0.948; -0.02 to +0.01). At the matched rate it catches 46 of the grader's 64 drops and the teacher 44, a difference within noise (drop recall +0.031, -0.04 to +0.10).

By data stage, and for Chinese (same chunks; drops caught at each model's own drop line):

model web (129) multilingual web (276) conversations, code, synthetic (48) open books (42) Chinese (29)
Source-1, rank 0.891 0.905 0.728 0.677 0.934
Teacher, rank 0.902 0.917 0.821 0.741 0.938
Source-1, drops caught 14 of 17 28 of 44 1 of 2 0 of 1 11 of 14
Teacher, drops caught 14 of 17 29 of 44 2 of 2 1 of 1 10 of 14

The held-out set has 159 English chunks and 1 to 12 chunks for most other languages (29 for Chinese), so per-language results are noisy. Groups with fewer than 50 chunks are indicative only.

Every public scorer

Source-1 ranks the chunks closer to the grader than each of the 16 public scorers, on every set each was run on. All 39 of these rank-agreement leads have 95% intervals clear of zero, also after a Bonferroni adjustment, while the teacher's intervals all include zero. The smallest lead in size is +0.101 (+0.07 to +0.14), over propella-1 4B on the English exam.

All 17 public-scorer rows with intervals, and how the 39 comparisons are counted

We compared 16 public scorers. The tables have 17 public rows, because the Nemotron-CC 3-way ensemble is computed from three of the 16 (the two NeMo Curator classifiers and DCLM fastText). That gives 39 differences with intervals: 17 on the held-out set, 17 on the English exam and 5 on the 12-language exam, where only the five multilingual scorers were run. Each cell is a rank agreement with the grader, and the lead is Source-1 minus that scorer on exactly the chunks it scored. The held-out set has 495 chunks unless noted; the English exam 411 to 413; the 12-language exam 352 unless noted.

Multilingual scorers, and the teacher:

model held-out: rank held-out: Source-1 lead (95% interval) English exam: rank English exam: lead 12 languages: rank 12 languages: lead
Source-1 0.900 - 0.921 - 0.895 -
Teacher (open-weight 27B LLM) 0.912 -0.012 (-0.03 to +0.004) 0.912 +0.009 (-0.01 to +0.02) 0.880 +0.015 (-0.007 to +0.04)
propella-1 4B 0.756 (493 chunks) +0.144 (+0.11 to +0.18) 0.820 +0.101 (+0.07 to +0.14) 0.637 (350 chunks) +0.258 (+0.19 to +0.33)
propella-1 1.7B 0.736 +0.163 (+0.13 to +0.20) 0.812 +0.108 (+0.07 to +0.14) 0.631 +0.264 (+0.20 to +0.33)
JQL-Edu 0.600 +0.299 (+0.25 to +0.36) 0.541 +0.380 (+0.30 to +0.46) 0.379 +0.516 (+0.42 to +0.61)
FinePDFs-Edu 0.476 +0.424 (+0.36 to +0.49) 0.787 +0.134 (+0.10 to +0.18) 0.332 +0.563 (+0.47 to +0.66)
FineWeb2-HQ (21 of the 53 languages) 0.449 (342 chunks) +0.456 (+0.38 to +0.54) 0.448 +0.473 (+0.39 to +0.56) 0.496 (205 chunks) +0.415 (+0.31 to +0.53)

English-only scorers (held-out set: its 159 English chunks):

model held-out: rank held-out: Source-1 lead (95% interval) English exam: rank English exam: lead
Source-1 0.864 - 0.921 -
FineWeb-Edu classifier 0.529 +0.336 (+0.22 to +0.45) 0.453 +0.468 (+0.38 to +0.56)
DCLM fastText (OH+ELI5) 0.299 +0.565 (+0.42 to +0.71) 0.193 +0.728 (+0.63 to +0.83)
NeMo Curator edu (Nemotron-4 labels) 0.412 +0.452 (+0.32 to +0.59) 0.260 +0.661 (+0.55 to +0.78)
NeMo Curator edu (Mixtral labels) 0.498 +0.366 (+0.24 to +0.50) 0.422 +0.499 (+0.41 to +0.59)
Meta-rater reasoning 0.580 +0.284 (+0.19 to +0.39) 0.710 +0.211 (+0.15 to +0.27)
Meta-rater readability 0.574 +0.291 (+0.19 to +0.40) 0.619 +0.302 (+0.24 to +0.37)
Meta-rater cleanliness 0.597 +0.267 (+0.18 to +0.37) 0.698 +0.223 (+0.17 to +0.28)
Meta-rater professionalism 0.538 +0.327 (+0.23 to +0.43) 0.688 +0.233 (+0.18 to +0.30)
EAI-Distill 0.5B 0.592 +0.273 (+0.18 to +0.37) 0.685 +0.236 (+0.19 to +0.29)
NVIDIA quality classifier (DeBERTa) 0.326 +0.539 (+0.39 to +0.70) 0.181 +0.740 (+0.59 to +0.90)
Dolma 3 fastText quality 0.341 +0.524 (+0.39 to +0.66) 0.386 +0.535 (+0.46 to +0.62)
Nemotron-CC 3-way ensemble (derived) 0.353 +0.511 (+0.37 to +0.67) 0.295 +0.626 (+0.53 to +0.72)
  • Every one of the 39 public-scorer intervals excludes zero, and the leads stay clear of zero after a Bonferroni adjustment for the 39 comparisons. The teacher's intervals all include zero.
  • This holds for rank agreement. The other measures are much noisier on the 159 English held-out chunks (see AUC and noise).
AUC of every scorer, Source-1 on each scorer's chunks, and the noise behind the tables

AUC and noise

AUC against the grader's drops, each scorer on the chunks it scored:

model held-out: AUC English exam: AUC 12 languages: AUC
Source-1 0.946 0.979 0.961
Teacher (open-weight 27B LLM) 0.948 0.965 0.945
propella-1 4B 0.862 0.924 0.836
propella-1 1.7B 0.855 0.941 0.846
JQL-Edu 0.737 0.789 0.645
FinePDFs-Edu 0.731 0.855 0.659
FineWeb2-HQ 0.780 0.795 0.768
FineWeb-Edu classifier 0.812 0.754 -
DCLM fastText (OH+ELI5) 0.741 0.576 -
NeMo Curator edu (Nemotron-4 labels) 0.706 0.645 -
NeMo Curator edu (Mixtral labels) 0.788 0.775 -
Meta-rater reasoning 0.763 0.793 -
Meta-rater readability 0.817 0.832 -
Meta-rater cleanliness 0.873 0.880 -
Meta-rater professionalism 0.735 0.777 -
EAI-Distill 0.5B 0.786 0.835 -
NVIDIA quality classifier (DeBERTa) 0.794 0.706 -
Dolma 3 fastText quality 0.752 0.710 -
Nemotron-CC 3-way ensemble 0.750 0.700 -

Source-1's own rank / AUC on each scorer's chunks:

  • held-out set: 0.900 / 0.946 (on all 495 chunks and on propella-1 4B's 493), 0.864 / 0.941 on the 159 English chunks, and 0.905 / 0.957 on FineWeb2-HQ's 342;
  • English exam: 0.921 / 0.979 (on each set of 411 to 413 chunks);
  • 12-language exam: 0.895 / 0.961 (on 352 chunks and on propella-1 4B's 350), and 0.910 / 0.962 on FineWeb2-HQ's 205.

Noise:

  • None of the 2,000 resamples put any of the 39 differences at or below zero. Measured against its own noise, the smallest lead is 5.3 bootstrap standard deviations above zero (Meta-rater cleanliness on the 159 English held-out chunks). So the leads stay clear of zero after a Bonferroni adjustment for the 39 comparisons (normal approximation).
  • On the 159 English held-out chunks, with 15 grader drops, the other measures are much noisier. The keep-agreement or drop-recall interval at the matched rate reaches zero for 7 of the 12 English-only rows. Two AUC leads are only just clear of zero: over the FineWeb-Edu classifier (+0.129, +0.004 to +0.275) and over Meta-rater cleanliness (+0.069, +0.008 to +0.133).
  • The English-only scorers are compared on far fewer held-out chunks (159) than the multilingual ones. The exam sets are not independent of the grader (Independence from development).
  • All of this is agreement with Source-1's own rubric. The public scorers were built for their own definitions of quality (most for educational value) and are not wrong when they disagree with it.
How each public scorer is read: inputs, main scores, EAI-Distill, the Nemotron-CC ensemble

How each public scorer is read

Each public scorer is read through one main score, on the chunks it scored. The English-only scorers are read on English chunks and FineWeb2-HQ on its 21 languages. propella-1, JQL-Edu and FinePDFs-Edu (with its fallback model for five languages) are read on all 53, although propella-1's card does not list ten of them (az, fil, gu, kk, kn, ml, mr, ms, ta, te) and JQL-Edu's backbone covers 52. Of the 16, 11 are English-only and one covers 21 of the 53 languages; the other four were run on all 53. The public scorers read the text without Source-1's header.

public scorer languages it was run on input it reads main score used here
propella-1 4B all 53 (its card lists 43 of them) the whole chunk, up to 50,000 characters a weighted mean of four of its quality ratings, defined by us (see How propella-1 is read)
propella-1 1.7B all 53 (its card lists 43 of them) the whole chunk, up to 50,000 characters as propella-1 4B
JQL-Edu all 53 (its backbone covers 52) the first 8,192 tokens the mean of its three balanced educational-value heads
FinePDFs-Edu all 53 (a model per language; a fallback model for five) about 2,000 tokens from the start, and from the end of long texts (the higher score counts) its educational-value score
FineWeb2-HQ (the per-language classifiers in epfml/FineWeb-HQ-Classifiers; on English text, its FineWeb-HQ classifier) 21 of the 53 the first 512 tokens its probability of high quality
FineWeb-Edu classifier English the first 512 tokens its educational-value score
DCLM fastText (OH+ELI5) English the whole text its probability of the high-quality label
NeMo Curator edu (Nemotron-4 labels) English the first 512 tokens its educational-value score
NeMo Curator edu (Mixtral labels) English the first 512 tokens its educational-value score
Meta-rater reasoning, readability, cleanliness, professionalism (four models) English the first 4,096 tokens each model's expected rating
EAI-Distill 0.5B English the whole text up to 30,000 characters (beyond that, the start, a middle part and the end, as its card says) a 0-5 score defined by us from four of its labels (see How EAI-Distill and the Nemotron-CC ensemble are read)
NVIDIA quality classifier (DeBERTa) English the first 1,024 tokens its expected class (low 0, medium 1, high 2)
Dolma 3 fastText quality English the whole text its probability of the high-quality label
Nemotron-CC 3-way ensemble (derived) English as its three parts (the two NeMo Curator classifiers and DCLM fastText) the highest of the three parts' percentile buckets, with percentiles taken within each evaluation set

How EAI-Distill and the Nemotron-CC ensemble are read

  • EAI-Distill: reasoning depth and technical correctness are read as their position among the five ordered levels (0 to 4) divided by 4. Extraction artifacts and missing content are 1 when the model reports any and 0 when it reports none. Main score = 5 x mean(reasoning depth, technical correctness) - extraction artifacts - missing content, clipped to 0-5. An indeterminate or abstaining answer is left out of the mean (no score when both are), and a missing penalty counts 0. Its answer codes were read with the code tables of the Essential-AI/eai-taxonomy README at commit e8a934d5ca77a05f8daddc73466aedf8a9eb7a6c.
  • Nemotron-CC 3-way ensemble: each part's score becomes a bucket, floor(20 x its percentile rank within the evaluation set) (0 to 19), and the ensemble's score is the highest of the three buckets.
Educational value alone: Source-1's educational_value field against every public scorer

Educational value alone

Most public scorers were built to rate educational value. Read that way, Source-1's educational_value field ranks the held-out set closer to the grader's educational_value (0.879) than every public scorer's main score does. All 17 intervals exclude zero, as they do on both exams. The closest is propella-1 4B's composite (0.823; Source-1 +0.056, 95% interval +0.03 to +0.08). Among the dedicated educational-value classifiers, JQL-Edu trails by +0.174 (+0.14 to +0.22) and, on the 159 English chunks, the FineWeb-Edu classifier by +0.238 (+0.16 to +0.33). On the English exam, Source-1's educational_value reaches 0.904 against 0.614 for the FineWeb-Edu classifier and 0.884 for propella-1 4B. The margin over propella-1 4B is small there: +0.020 (+0.002 to +0.040). The grader's educational_value follows Source-1's rubric anchors, not the annotation prompts these classifiers were trained on. propella-1's own educational-value rating agrees less with it (0.776 on the held-out set) than its composite does.

How propella-1 is read

The composite we read it through, a more generous reading, and propella-1's answers

propella-1 answers in words, not numbers. We map each of its ordered ratings to integers. We read it through a weighted mean of four quality ratings (educational value, reasoning, content quality, information density), weighted as in Source-1's quality formula. That leaves out its ratings for commercial bias, content ratio and integrity, and content safety, which are close to the grader's drop rules. It was also run on all 53 languages, ten of which its card does not list. As a check of a more generous reading, chosen after the results were known, we also restricted it to its 43 listed languages and subtracted rubric-style penalties for those ratings. Each was rescaled to 0-5, then 0.5, 0.4 and 0.8 times the excess over 1 was subtracted for commercial bias, the larger of content ratio and integrity, and content safety, as in Source-1's overall score. Held-out set:

reading of propella-1 4B chunks propella-1 4B rank Source-1 rank Source-1 minus propella-1 4B: rank (95% interval) AUC (95% interval)
main score, all 53 languages (the tables above) 493 0.756 0.900 +0.144 (+0.11 to +0.18) +0.084 (+0.05 to +0.12)
main score, its 43 listed languages 459 0.766 0.899 +0.133 (+0.10 to +0.17) +0.080 (+0.05 to +0.12)
with its own red-flag ratings as penalties, all 53 languages 493 0.828 0.900 +0.072 (+0.05 to +0.10) +0.049 (+0.02 to +0.07)
with its own red-flag ratings as penalties, its 43 listed languages 459 0.835 0.899 +0.064 (+0.04 to +0.09) +0.048 (+0.03 to +0.07)

We tried four ways of weighting the penalties: the one above, boilerplate from content ratio alone, from the sum of content ratio and integrity, and no rescaling. Across them, on all 53 languages and on its 43 listed ones, the held-out rank gap ranges from 0.064 to 0.081. With the penalties as above, the exam gaps are +0.075 (+0.05 to +0.10) in English and +0.155 (+0.10 to +0.21) in the 12 languages. The lead holds under every reading we tried, but it roughly halves: the 0.144 in the main tables depends on reading propella-1 through its quality ratings alone.

The exact mapping: each rating word is mapped to its position in the rating's scale, from 0: educational value (none, minimal, basic, moderate, high), reasoning (none, minimal, basic_reasoning, explanatory, analytical), content quality (unacceptable, poor, adequate, good, excellent), information density (empty, thin, moderate, adequate, dense). Main score = (0.30 x educational value + 0.20 x reasoning + 0.15 x content quality + 0.20 x information density) / 0.85, on that 0-4 scale. The penalized reading also maps commercial bias (none, minimal, moderate, heavy, pure_marketing), content ratio (complete_content, mostly_content, mixed_content, mostly_navigation, minimal_content) and content safety (safe, mild_concerns, nsfw, harmful, illegal) to 0-4 and content integrity (complete, mostly_complete, fragment, severely_degraded) to 0-3. It rescales each of them and the main score to 0-5, and subtracts 0.5 x max(0, commercial bias - 1) + 0.4 x max(0, max(content ratio, content integrity) - 1) + 0.8 x max(0, content safety - 1), clipped to 0-5.

propella-1's answers

An answer that did not parse as JSON was run once more, with a limit of 1,536 new tokens instead of 512. On the evaluation chunks, the 4B was retried on 1 held-out chunk, and the 1.7B on 4 held-out chunks and 1 English exam chunk. After the retry every answer parsed, except that one 1.7B English exam answer: it ran to the token limit, and its ratings were read from the raw text. Seven answers used an educational-value word outside its scale (the 4B: 2 held-out, 1 English exam and 2 12-language exam chunks; the 1.7B: 2 English exam chunks). Those chunks have no main score. This is why propella-1 4B is compared on 493 of the 495 held-out chunks and 350 of the 352 12-language chunks.

Exam sets

On both exams Source-1 and the teacher are level within noise (English +0.009, 95% interval -0.01 to +0.02; 12 languages +0.015, -0.007 to +0.04).

Exam sets in detail: rank, AUC, whole documents and the drop line per document

Exam sets in detail

model English: rank (413 chunks) English: AUC English: whole documents (rank) 12 languages: rank (352 chunks) 12 languages: AUC
Source-1 0.921 0.979 0.920 0.895 0.961
Teacher 0.912 0.965 0.901 0.880 0.945

Whole documents: the token-weighted aggregation over each document's chunks, on the English exam's random-sample documents (196 for Source-1; 195 for the teacher, which has no score for one of them). Source-1 on the same 195 is also 0.920.

At the shipped drop line, counted per document (the teacher at its own keep flags):

exam documents grader drops Source-1: drops caught Source-1: keep agreement teacher: drops caught teacher: keep agreement
English, all 332 24 14 (0.583) 96.7% 14 (0.583) 96.1%
English, the 196 random-sample documents 13 9 (0.692) 97.4% 6 (0.462) 94.9%
12 languages, all 352 (none added on purpose) 46 31 (0.674) 94.3% 28 (0.609) 93.5%

The exams were graded with an older revision of the rubric, before it settled how to score ads (spam_seo 3, kept). So part of the gap is rubric drift that affects the teacher and Source-1 alike.

More results

The drop line

The drop line: how it was chosen, stricter lines, results on the held-out set

keep is false when the scores cross the drop line stored in calibration.json:

drop if  toxicity >= 4  or  spam_seo >= 3.5  or  boilerplate >= 4.5

The rubric's own hard filters use spam_seo >= 4. Pages scored spam_seo 3, the level for ads and promotional pages, are kept by both lines. The line was chosen on the teacher's labels for the validation split (9,744 chunks) by a fixed rule: among five candidate lines, take the highest drop recall whose keep agreement with the teacher stays at or above 0.95. On that split it agrees with the teacher's keep flags on 96.4% of chunks, catches 77.1% of the teacher's drops (803 of 1,042) and drops 9.4% of chunks. On the held-out test split (9,553 chunks, not used for the choice) it agrees on 96.7% and catches 80.2% (840 of 1,047). The candidate lines and the 0.95 floor were set with help from grades by the grader's model family (Independence from development).

If you need to catch more low-quality text and can afford to lose more good text, pass a stricter line as drop_line. The candidates trade keep agreement for recall (validation split, against the teacher's keep flags):

drop line keep agreement teacher drops caught wrong drops share dropped
toxicity >= 4 or spam_seo >= 4 or boilerplate >= 4.5 (rubric default) 0.960 0.711 (741/1,042) 89 8.5%
toxicity >= 4 or spam_seo >= 3.5 or boilerplate >= 4.5 (shipped) 0.964 0.771 (803/1,042) 114 9.4%
toxicity >= 4 or spam_seo >= 3 or boilerplate >= 4.5 0.929 0.830 (865/1,042) 515 14.2%
toxicity >= 4 or spam_seo >= 3.5 or boilerplate >= 4 0.945 0.880 (917/1,042) 408 13.6%
toxicity >= 4 or spam_seo >= 2.5 or boilerplate >= 4.5 0.856 0.872 (909/1,042) 1,271 22.4%

calibration.json also stores one offset per quality score (mean teacher label minus mean model score on the validation split). They are small, between -0.016 and -0.003 points, and source1.py leaves them off unless you pass apply_offsets=True. The results in this file use the scores without offsets, as source1.py returns them by default, except the per-field bias table, which says where it applies them.

On the held-out set, against the grader:

model line keep agreement drop recall (caught / grader drops) wrong drops share dropped
Source-1 shipped line 0.941 (0.917 to 0.959) 0.672 (43/64; 0.550 to 0.774) 8 10.3%
Source-1 rubric default line (spam_seo >= 4) 0.931 0.594 (38/64) 8 9.3%
Teacher its own keep flags 0.943 0.719 (46/64) 10 11.3%

17 of Source-1's 21 misses at the shipped line are also missed by the teacher at its own keep flags, and 16 of the 21 are in multilingual web text. On the 29 Chinese chunks Source-1's line agrees with the grader on 89.7% and catches 11 of 14 drops. The candidate lines were drafted after the held-out set's grades had been seen once, so treat these held-out drop-line numbers as slightly optimistic. The test-split numbers above do not have this problem.

Per-field agreement and bias on the exam sets, and the red flags on the held-out set

Per-field agreement and bias

Agreement per field on the exam sets. For the five quality scores: quadratic-weighted kappa on levels rounded to the nearest integer (English: the 200 random-sample chunks, 199 for the teacher; 12 languages: all 352 chunks). For the labels: unweighted Cohen's kappa (English: all 414 chunks, 413 for the teacher; 12 languages: all 352 chunks). A dash means the kappa is not meaningful. 351 of the 352 chunks in the 12-language exam are plain text by the grader's label, so content type has almost no variation there (Source-1 matches the grader on 350 of them, and its kappa is about 0).

field English: Source-1 kappa English: teacher kappa 12 languages: Source-1 kappa 12 languages: teacher kappa
educational_value 0.831 0.816 0.788 0.803
reasoning_depth 0.798 0.781 0.719 0.730
writing_quality 0.769 0.811 0.785 0.786
information_density 0.861 0.828 0.812 0.800
reliability 0.739 0.790 0.735 0.743
format 0.748 0.742 0.745 0.745
topic 0.776 0.794 0.786 0.808
content_type 0.833 0.864 - -

Bias is the mean of model minus grader on rounded levels, on the same chunks as the quality kappas. Source-1's values here include its optional calibration offsets (apply_offsets=True). Without them, as source1.py returns scores by default, they differ by at most 0.014 (English: reasoning_depth +0.390, writing_quality +0.325, reliability +0.270). The teacher has no offsets.

field English: Source-1 bias English: teacher bias 12 languages: Source-1 bias 12 languages: teacher bias
educational_value +0.280 +0.307 +0.111 +0.142
reasoning_depth +0.385 +0.422 +0.301 +0.321
writing_quality +0.320 +0.281 +0.131 +0.153
information_density -0.105 -0.085 -0.196 -0.159
reliability +0.260 +0.261 +0.196 +0.196

On the held-out set (quadratic-weighted kappa on rounded levels, all 495 chunks), the red flags reach 0.87 for spam_seo, 0.81 for boilerplate and 0.70 for toxicity (the teacher: 0.88, 0.81 and 0.73). The gated scores can only be compared on the few chunks where both the grader and the model give them: math_quality 0.64 on 8 chunks (the teacher 0.90) and code_quality 0.67 on 23 (the teacher 0.82 on 22). These numbers are very noisy.

Reading the whole chunk

Reading the whole chunk: what the text past 512 tokens adds

The same model was run with every input cut to its first 512 tokens at scoring time. It was trained on full chunks, so this measures what the text past 512 tokens adds, not how a model trained for 512 tokens would do. On the held-out set, 197 of the 495 chunks fit in 512 tokens and score identically both ways.

chunks full chunk: rank first 512 tokens: rank difference (95% interval)
held-out set, all (495; 1,650 tokens on average) 0.900 0.848 +0.052 (+0.02 to +0.08)
held-out set, 513 to 2,048 tokens (192) 0.902 0.881 +0.021 (-0.01 to +0.05)
held-out set, over 2,048 tokens (106) 0.875 0.753 +0.122 (+0.05 to +0.21)
English exam (414) 0.921 0.845 +0.075 (+0.05 to +0.11)
12-language exam (352) 0.895 0.853 +0.042 (+0.02 to +0.08)

The gain comes from the longer chunks. Finding the grader's drops barely changes (held-out AUC 0.946 against 0.943; +0.003, -0.01 to +0.01). Only 74 held-out chunks are longer than 4,096 tokens, so this does not test the far end of the 8,192-token window.

The 512-token limit of some public scorers does not explain their lower agreement on the held-out set. Cut to 512 tokens, Source-1 still ranks it closer to the grader than propella-1 4B reading the whole chunk (0.848 against 0.756 on its 493 chunks; +0.092, +0.05 to +0.14). It also ranks closer than each of the four scorers that read 512 tokens (leads +0.30 to +0.42, every interval clear of zero). On the English exam the cut model is only level with propella-1 4B (+0.026, -0.01 to +0.07).

Agreement with the teacher on the test split: the job Source-1 was trained for

Agreement with the teacher on the test split

How closely Source-1 reproduces the teacher's labels on 9,553 test chunks (8,473 documents, 53 languages) it never trained on: the job it was trained for. The grader results above instead measure agreement with an independent LLM grader applying the same rubric.

chunks n overall score rank agreement keep/drop agreement (rubric default line) label accuracy quality score error (MAE, 0-5 scale)
all 9,553 0.953 (0.950 to 0.955) 0.963 0.907 0.254
web 2,677 0.952 0.964 0.904 0.250
multilingual web 5,344 0.955 0.960 0.912 0.245
conversations, code, synthetic 950 0.895 0.964 0.890 0.325
open books 582 0.844 0.985 0.901 0.248

The keep/drop column applies the rubric's default hard filters to Source-1's scores. With the shipped drop line, agreement on this split is 0.967 (see The drop line). The interval on the overall rank agreement is a 95% bootstrap interval over the 8,473 documents (2,000 resamples, seed 0).

Label accuracy is 0.877 for format, 0.853 for topic and 0.991 for content type. The gated scores agree least with the teacher: kappa 0.58 for code_quality (555 chunks where it applies) and 0.50 for math_quality (257 chunks). Agreement with the teacher is lowest for Gujarati (0.788), Georgian (0.867), Croatian (0.887), Malayalam (0.893), Bengali and Marathi (0.897) and Serbian (0.899).

Speed, and how much scores move with precision and batching

Speed

Measured with source1.py on one RTX 3090 in bf16 with the default batches, excluding load time, on the 495 held-out chunks and the 766 exam chunks. Repeated runs on the same GPU differed by up to about 10%. No speed comparison with the public scorers or the teacher was made under the same conditions, so none is claimed.

set chunks mean input tokens per chunk chunks/s input tokens/s peak VRAM
held-out 495 1,650 32.2 53,198 4.10 GB
exam 766 1,766 31.0 54,644 4.21 GB

Precision and batching: computing in bfloat16, both weight files give the same scores. On these 1,261 chunks, scoring each chunk alone instead of in the default batches moved overall by up to 0.04 and a single field by up to 0.10 (3 labels changed, no keep decision). float32 differs from bfloat16 by a similar amount (up to 0.03 on overall and 0.09 on a single field; 4 labels and 1 keep decision changed); computing in float32 with the default bfloat16 weights moved overall by up to 0.05. In float32, scores do not depend on the batch.

Limitations

  • Home ground. It measures agreement with Source-1's rubric, as applied by graders from one proprietary model family whose grades also steered development. It does not show how Source-1 does on text from other sources, or that filtering with it trains better language models.
  • The numbers are agreement with one grader family, not accuracy. Another grader applying the same rubric would give different values.
  • The exams helped choose the teacher, so they are not independent of the grader.
  • Agreement is lower among good texts. Among the chunks the grader keeps, Source-1's rank agreement is 0.87, and in the better half of those 0.73.
  • It misses about a third of the grader's drops at the shipped line: it catches 43 of 64 on the held-out set, the teacher, at its own keep flags, 46.
  • Like its teacher, it rates some qualities higher than the grader does. On the English exam, educational_value is 0.28 levels above the grader on average.
  • Weaker on books and on conversations, code and synthetic text (held-out rank 0.677 and 0.728, against about 0.90 for web text).
  • One chunk of up to 8,192 tokens at a time. Nothing outside a chunk is visible to it.
  • It copies the teacher, biases included. For example, it can score a thin affiliate page 3 (kept) where the rubric says 4 (dropped).
  • The gated scores are the least reliable fields, and toxicity is the weakest red flag.
  • Not a fact checker or a safety tool.
  • Less data for some languages. The 16 smallest have 1,249 to 1,470 training chunks each.
  • License screening has limits. Notices the patterns miss, and opt-outs outside the text, were not caught.
  • No reproduction kit. The numbers cannot be recomputed from this repository alone (what is included).

Limitations in detail

The full text of each limitation
  • Home-ground evaluation. The benchmark measures agreement with Source-1's rubric as applied by independent LLM graders from one proprietary model family (one graded the exams, another the held-out set). They are independent in that their grades were never trained on; the held-out grader was given the teacher's own instructions word for word (The grader in detail). Grades from that family, among other proprietary LLM graders, also steered the rubric revisions, the choice of the teacher and its prompt setup, and the drop-line candidates and floor (Independence from development). The held-out documents come from the same kinds of sources as the training data. The public scorers were built for other definitions of quality, read the text without Source-1's header and are each read through one main score. A more generous reading of propella-1 halves its gap to Source-1 (How propella-1 is read). The comparison does not show how Source-1 does on text from other sources, or that filtering with Source-1 trains better language models; neither has been tested.
  • The numbers are agreement with one grader family, not accuracy. Another grader applying the same rubric would give different values, and differences of a few hundredths near the top (Source-1 against its teacher) may reflect this grader's own habits.
  • The exams are not independent of the grader. They are the samples on which the teacher and its prompt setup were chosen against the exam grader's labels. The held-out set, which played no part in that choice, is the main result.
  • Agreement is lower among good texts. About 13% of the held-out chunks are spam, boilerplate or toxic, which are easy to tell apart. Among the chunks the grader keeps, Source-1's rank agreement is 0.87, and in the better half of those 0.73 (teacher 0.75, propella-1 4B 0.61). Every scorer drops like this on already-filtered text; if you rank filtered text, expect the lower figure.
  • It misses about a third of the chunks the grader drops at the shipped line. On the held-out set the shipped line catches 67.2% of the grader's drops (43/64; interval 55.0% to 77.4%); the teacher catches 71.9% (46/64). 17 of Source-1's 21 misses are also missed by the teacher, so most of what Source-1 misses its teacher misses too. Most misses are in multilingual web text (28 of 44 caught there). If recall matters more than keeping good text, use a stricter line (The drop line) or rank on overall and cut lower.
  • Like its teacher, it rates some qualities higher than the grader does. On the English exam's 200 random-sample chunks, Source-1's educational_value is on average 0.28 levels above the grader's (the teacher 0.31). Its reasoning_depth, writing_quality and reliability are 0.26 to 0.39 levels above (rounded levels, with or without the optional calibration offsets; the teacher: 0.26 to 0.42). For writing_quality its bias is larger than the teacher's (+0.32 to +0.325 against +0.28). In the 12 languages they are smaller (reasoning_depth +0.30, reliability +0.20, writing_quality +0.13 to +0.14, educational_value +0.11; the teacher +0.32, +0.20, +0.15 and +0.14). See Per-field agreement and bias.
  • Weaker on books and on conversations, code and synthetic text. Held-out rank is 0.677 for open books and 0.728 for conversations/code/synthetic (the teacher: 0.741 and 0.821; 42 and 48 chunks), against about 0.90 for web text. Against the teacher on the test split it is 0.844 and 0.895. Book labels are nearly constant (long, formal, almost always kept), which leaves little signal to learn from.
  • 8,192 tokens per chunk. Longer documents are split and each chunk is judged on its own. Nothing outside a chunk is visible to it, except the "Part i of n" header. Text in scripts that need many tokens per character fills the window sooner: in training, 10.5% of Bengali chunks, 7.2% of Georgian, 6.3% of Arabic and 5.0% of Korean chunks were longer than 8,192 tokens and were truncated. When you score with source1.py, a document longer than the window is split into chunks rather than cut, so all of its text is read (the truncated field reports the rare chunk that still had to be cut). max_chunks trades that for speed by scoring only some evenly spaced chunks.
  • It copies the teacher, biases included. The rubric puts ads, company pages and product pages at spam_seo 3, which the shipped line keeps, and thin affiliate and doorway pages at 4, which it drops. The teacher does not always follow the second rule and sometimes scores such pages 3, and Source-1 learned from those labels.
  • The gated scores are the least reliable fields, and toxicity is the weakest red flag. Against the teacher on the test split, kappa is 0.58 for code_quality and 0.50 for math_quality. Against the grader on the held-out set they can be compared only on 8 and 22 to 23 chunks (Per-field agreement and bias). toxicity reaches 0.70 against the grader (the teacher 0.73).
  • Not a fact checker or a safety tool. reliability is a surface judgment of care and plausibility; the model does not verify claims. Toxic text is rare in the training data. toxicity is meant as a data-filtering red flag, not a moderation classifier.
  • Languages with little data. The 16 languages with the fewest training chunks (az, et, fil, gu, ka, kk, kn, lv, ml, mr, ms, sq, sw, ta, te, ur) have 1,249 to 1,470 each, and Kannada had no books. Agreement with the teacher on the test split is lowest for Gujarati (0.788), Georgian (0.867), Croatian (0.887), Malayalam (0.893), Bengali and Marathi (0.897) and Serbian (0.899). The held-out set has 1 to 12 chunks for most non-English languages, so per-language results there are noisy.
  • License screening has limits. Licenses come from each source's metadata. The training documents were also screened by pattern matching on their own text: books for NonCommercial, NoDerivatives and all-rights-reserved notices in their front and back matter, web pages for such terms and for the sites they come from, and every document for text-and-data-mining and AI-training reservations. This screening did not catch notices worded in ways the patterns miss, or reservations made outside the text itself (on the terms pages of sites the rules do not list, or in machine-readable opt-out signals such as robots.txt). If you find such a document, tell us (see the contact section of README.md).
  • No reproduction kit. See Reproducing the evaluation.

Reproducing and appendices

Reproducing the evaluation: what this repository does and does not include

Reproducing the evaluation

What this repository gives you:

What it does not include: the ids and texts of the evaluation chunks, the grader's labels, any model's per-chunk scores, the script that computes the metrics, and the teacher's prompt and decoding settings. The numbers in this file cannot be recomputed from this repository alone.

Appendix A: rubric anchors

Appendix A: rubric anchors, and the teacher's extra rules
field 0 1 2 3 4 5
educational_value Teaches nothing: spam, ads, navigation, gibberish Almost nothing to learn: a few incidental facts in promotional, personal or trivial text Some useful information, but superficial, fragmentary, or mixed with irrelevant material Useful and coherent; real knowledge or skills, without much depth or completeness Clearly educational; explains concepts or methods well enough to learn from, minor gaps Outstanding teaching material, comparable to an excellent textbook or expert tutorial
reasoning_depth No reasoning: fragments, lists, boilerplate Bare assertions or opinions Occasional explanation, mostly unsupported; steps skipped Explains the why behind key points, some step-by-step structure Consistent explicit reasoning: derivations, cause and effect, worked examples Rigorous multi-step reasoning throughout: proofs, careful derivations, thorough analysis
writing_quality Unreadable: garbled, broken encoding, keyword soup Very poor: frequent errors, incoherent Below average: understandable but disorganized or repetitive Adequate: clear and coherent, minor issues Good: well organized, fluent, precise Excellent: publication quality
information_density No real content Mostly padding around a little content Noticeable padding or digressions Reasonable: mostly on point, some filler Dense: most sentences carry information Very dense yet readable
reliability Fabricated, nonsensical or deceptive Largely unreliable: many errors, sensational claims Questionable: some errors or unsupported claims Generally plausible and consistent, informal or unverifiable Careful and accurate; shows its work or cites sources Authoritative: expert-level accuracy, well sourced
spam_seo None Minor promotion: a call to action or a brief ad in otherwise genuine content Noticeable promotion: repeated calls to action, affiliate links, marketing tone Substantial: the text mainly exists to promote, sell or rank; visible keyword repetition Mostly spam: keyword stuffing, clickbait, thin affiliate or doorway content Pure spam: auto-generated SEO text, scams, keyword lists
boilerplate None: all real content A little: a stray header, footer or copyright line Noticeable: roughly 10-25% navigation, cookie or legal text Substantial: roughly 25-50% templates, menus, link lists Mostly boilerplate: over half templated or navigational Entirely boilerplate: auto-generated pages, link lists, cookie banners, error or index pages
toxicity None Mild: occasional profanity or rudeness Moderate: insults, crude humor, mild sexual references Significant: harassment, demeaning stereotypes, graphic violence, partly explicit Severe: hate speech, targeted harassment, sexually explicit as the main content Extreme: violent extremism, dehumanizing hate, incitement, sexual content involving minors
code_quality Not usable code: garbled, minified, obfuscated Very poor: likely non-functional fragments, no structure, or auto-generated boilerplate Poor: may work but messy Acceptable: readable, plausibly correct, minimal docs Good: clean, idiomatic, documented Excellent: exemplary, production quality, instructive
math_quality Garbled math Mostly wrong or incoherent Some correct math, but errors or skipped steps Generally correct, key steps shown Correct, clean notation, complete steps Rigorous and elegant, every step justified

The rubric anchors and the head layout are in source1.json. The teacher's prompt, which the held-out grader also received word for word, had a few special rules that are not in source1.json. Source-1 was trained on labels that follow them, as far as the teacher did:

  • Pages whose main purpose is to promote or sell a business, product or service (company "about us" pages, product and landing pages, shop listings, brochures) are ads: format product_page and spam_seo 3, even when cleanly written. Self-promotional press releases stay news with spam_seo 3. Selling alone is never a reason for spam_seo 4 or 5; those levels are for keyword-stuffed text, doorway or thin affiliate pages made to rank, and scams. Independent reviews, comparisons and news about products are not ads.
  • Pages stitched together from unrelated or scrambled text (often a keyword title over copied or shuffled paragraphs) are spam_seo 4-5, with reliability and writing_quality 0-1.
  • Tag, category, archive and search-result pages, feeds, link directories and other index pages that mostly list other pages are boilerplate 4, and 5 when the list is all they contain; empty auto-generated stub pages are 4-5.
  • Sexually explicit material as the main content is toxicity 4 in any language (5 if it involves minors).
  • General rules: judge only the text shown (a part of a longer document is not penalized for starting or ending mid-thought); ignore personal-data placeholders such as <EMAIL>; judge every language by its own standards; poor machine translation lowers writing_quality, and machine-translated filler written to rank is spam.

Appendix B: training in detail

Appendix B: training in detail (model, data, filtering, labels, recipe)

Model

  • Backbone: mmBERT-base (ModernBERT architecture, 22 layers, hidden size 768, 8,192-token context; trained by its authors on 3T+ tokens across 1800+ languages). All backbone weights were fine-tuned.
  • Heads: 13 linear heads on the mean-pooled final hidden states (about 68k parameters): one softmax head per label (10, 15 and 4 classes) and one six-level softmax head per 0-5 field.
  • Total: 307M parameters. Trained with float32 weights in bfloat16 mixed precision; released in bfloat16 (default) and float32.

Data

220,346 chunks were labeled. After license filtering, the safety filter and the held-out splits, and after setting aside a reserve that was never trained on (about 1% of training documents, picked by a hash of the document id and held back for label-quality checks, plus the training and validation documents reviewed during development; see Independence from development), 172,895 chunks (350M tokens, from 151,281 documents) were used for training, 9,744 for validation and 9,553 for testing. No label-quality result from the reserve is reported here. Documents were split 90/5/5 by a hash of the document id, so no document spans two splits.

stage what it is training chunks
Web A stratified sample of filtered and unfiltered web text, PDFs, wikis, math pages, permissively licensed code, Common Pile sources and toxicity datasets, in 53 languages; low-quality pages included on purpose 46,389
Multilingual web A larger sample of the same kinds of sources, weighted toward languages other than English 96,778
Conversations, code, synthetic Chat and instruction data, permissively licensed code and commits, synthetic and machine-generated text, comments and other short or noisy text, and domain text (law, parliament proceedings, science articles, historical and OCR text) 17,614
Open books Books recorded as openly licensed or public domain, from Project Gutenberg, HAL, Wikibooks, Wikisource, OpenStax, the World Bank, EU and FAO publications, DOAB, OAPEN and others, after removing books whose own text states stricter terms (see below) 12,114
Total 53 languages; English is 38.9% of training chunks 172,895

Languages: ar, az, bg, bn, ca, cs, da, de, el, en, es, et, fa, fi, fil, fr, gu, he, hi, hr, hu, id, it, ja, ka, kk, kn, ko, lt, lv, ml, mr, ms, nl, no, pl, pt, ro, ru, sk, sl, sq, sr, sv, sw, ta, te, th, tr, uk, ur, vi, zh. Every non-English language has 1,249 to 3,437 training chunks; the 16 languages with the fewest are listed under Limitations in detail.

To replace documents that the license filtering below removed, 18,113 of the training and validation chunks were drawn by fixed sampling rules (no model chose documents) from the same kinds of open sources: FineWeb-2 (including its removed-documents part), the FineWeb-Edu annotations, C4, HPLT, FinePDFs, FineMath, permissively licensed code, Common Pile and Common Corpus documents, and open books. Every rule below was applied to them too.

Filtering before training (training and validation splits; the held-out test split keeps every document the license filtering removed, for evaluation only):

  • License filtering removed 21,576 chunks from 19,720 documents:
    • sources whose terms do not clearly cover this use: DCLM-baseline (its dataset card states that it is intended for research use), raw Common Crawl WET pages (no dataset license), Stack v2 Edu (its upstream terms are gated), Common Pile's YouTube transcripts (licenses asserted by uploaders over broadcasts), two collections with unreliable license metadata, a corpus of third-party social media posts and a toxicity corpus whose texts are not covered by its stated license, and French public data under the Licence Ouverte;
    • code: copyleft licenses (GPL, AGPL, LGPL, MPL, EPL), code outside a permissive allow-list (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, CC0, Unlicense), and code files whose own header states copyleft, proprietary or NonCommercial terms;
    • books whose own front or back matter states stricter terms than the open license their platform recorded: a scan of all 4,170 book documents found 137 that state NonCommercial or NoDerivatives terms or reserve all rights with no open grant, and a wider pass over the same pages found 28 that state such terms in other wordings, forbid sale or contradict their license record; also books deposited in HAL whose own text states no open license (84) and library books from the Norwegian Colossal Corpus published after 1955 (14);
    • other documents whose own text carries such notices (NonCommercial, NoDerivatives or all-rights-reserved statements, publishers' copyright notices, text reprinted with permission): 141; web pages under NonCommercial or NoDerivatives terms, or from sites whose terms put all their content under such terms (302); pages from sites that re-host other people's documents, homework, shadow-library, pirated-novel, lyrics and subtitle sites (529); and a few smaller groups (pages offering software cracks, open-education pages with no stated license, GFDL-only pages, papers marked closed-access);
    • documents whose own text reserves text-and-data-mining or AI-training rights: a scan of all 192,905 input documents found 16.
  • Separately, a pre-specified safety filter removed documents from every split, and a rule fixed in advance also removed documents that substantially copy text the safety filter removed (every split).
  • Book pages that are mostly a table of contents were left out of training (99 chunks).
  • Every exam document was checked against the training data (exact text, URL, title, long-line and shingle matching). None has half or more of its text in a training document; the largest share of an exam text found in a training document is 41%.

Labels

  • Every training label comes from one teacher: an open-weight 27B LLM scoring each chunk against the 13-field rubric, self-hosted on our own and rented GPUs. No human labels were used.
  • No output of a proprietary model was used as a label or a training target. The evaluation grader's outputs were never trained on. What grades from proprietary LLMs did inform is listed under Independence from development.
  • About 2% of training documents (3,387) come from public datasets of model-written text (synthetic textbooks, chat logs, machine-generated-text detection sets, machine translations). They are there so the scorer learns to judge such text; the teacher scored them like any other input.

Recipe

setting value
epochs 2 (5,320 optimizer steps)
tokens per step 131,072 (about 65 chunks)
max length 8,192 tokens; 964 training chunks (0.6%) were longer and were truncated
optimizer AdamW, betas 0.9 / 0.98, eps 1e-6, weight decay 0.01, gradient clipping 1.0
learning rate 5e-5 for the backbone, 10x for the heads; 5% warmup, cosine decay to 10%
other mean pooling, dropout 0.1, bf16 mixed precision, runs of spaces and tabs collapsed to one space before tokenizing (newlines kept), natural language mix (no reweighting), seed 0
checkpoint the final step, which had the best validation overall Spearman against the teacher (0.955)
how the settings were chosen learning rate and language mix: a half-epoch sweep (two learning rates, two language mixes) on a smaller training set labeled by the same teacher, read on validation agreement with the teacher; epochs: the same validation curves (a third epoch added little while validation loss rose)
hardware one rented NVIDIA H100 NVL, about 1.9 hours
Appendix C: Hugging Face repositories and revisions of the public scorers

Appendix C: public scorer repositories

public scorer Hugging Face repository revision
propella-1 4B ellamind/propella-1-4b bf607e62b6afa3e0e8d71c4d08d1429d9a09c82f
propella-1 1.7B ellamind/propella-1-1.7b 2cb58fd324fce70e1cb106df20bf4e1d79696021
JQL-Edu JQL-AI/JQL-Edu-Heads (heads) and the embedding model its card names as the backbone (Snowflake's arctic-embed-m, version 2.0) 5cb4a2d26c7961950b0facd1d8a390374027b7e4 (heads) and 95c2741480856aa9666782eb4afe11959938017f (backbone)
FinePDFs-Edu HuggingFaceFW/finepdfs_edu_classifier_<code>, one model per language (list below) per model
FineWeb2-HQ epfml/FineWeb-HQ-Classifiers (heads) and FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-base (backbone) 1940ba2308cf2b12e530690c1eef183985dfcf29 and e73636d4f797dec63c3081bb6ed5c7b0bb3f2089
FineWeb-Edu classifier HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu-classifier 284663cbb2dabf9bda30d8f8cc49601251ee1631
DCLM fastText (OH+ELI5) mlfoundations/fasttext-oh-eli5 cd8b714a90f2dbcd3b02cf5fc972e5d7c7f4f107
NeMo Curator edu (Nemotron-4 labels) nvidia/nemocurator-fineweb-nemotron-4-edu-classifier 842316292abe5bc78521758f5498d6a05adc0f8b
NeMo Curator edu (Mixtral labels) nvidia/nemocurator-fineweb-mixtral-edu-classifier 768fe255b7e7fbe222014e84cc6576a565516523
Meta-rater reasoning opendatalab/meta-rater-reasoning-rating 0072a9a83971eb4af6d689dfc64f8f203c45b398
Meta-rater readability opendatalab/meta-rater-readability-rating 5bfbee1110869ddcbf23447354a7311374784952
Meta-rater cleanliness opendatalab/meta-rater-cleanliness-rating 4403a9535d47cbc7cc99de26b25099335fe2d9b6
Meta-rater professionalism opendatalab/meta-rater-professionalism-rating fc91d4be35fc91de3c65654bb59655ec533a1f61
EAI-Distill 0.5B EssentialAI/eai-distill-0.5b 39f51ea6e8f1e959961feea0403c69ecfcc8b342
NVIDIA quality classifier (DeBERTa) nvidia/quality-classifier-deberta 401824e175e89d3243bc376dc4ba262516615d81
Dolma 3 fastText quality allenai/dolma3-fasttext-quality-classifier bb89085994fef638ca8dc2ca25169db328e314bb

FinePDFs-Edu models used on the evaluation sets (unknown is its fallback model, used for fil, kn, ml, sw and te):

repository revision
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HuggingFaceFW/finepdfs_edu_classifier_nld_Latn b307a64f31a3c409d56c450f4f928aad596818e9
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