Model Card for quinex-quantity-v0-82M

quinex-quantity-v0-82M is based on ClimateBERT (distilroberta-base-climate-f), which is a DistilRoBERTa-based, encoder-only transformer model that was trained on climate-related scientific abstracts, news, and company reports. We further fine-tuned this model to identify quantities (i.e., a number and, if applicable, a unit) in text. For more details, please refer to our paper "Quinex: Quantitative Information Extraction from Text using Open and Lightweight LLMs" (published soon).

Uses

This model is intended for detecting quantity mentions in text using sequence labeling. Please note that quantity modifiers (e.g., 'approximately', 'about', 'more than', 'not', etc.) are not considered part of quantity spans in this work.

Example output

Token	NER tag
The	O
hydroelectric	O
complex	O
has	O
a	O
capacity	O
of	O
approximately	O
2,500	B-Quantity
megawatts	I-Quantity
and	O
produces	O
about	O
4.9	B-Quantity
terawatt	I-Quantity
-	I-Quantity
hours	I-Quantity
yearly	O
(	O
see	O
Figure	O
2	O
)	O
.	O

Model details

Base Model: distilroberta-base-climate-f
Tokenizer: distilroberta-base-climate-f
Parameters: 82M

Fine-tuning data

The model was first fine-tuned on non-curated examples from a filtered variant of Wiki-Quantities and subsequently on a combination of datasets for quantity span identification, including:

Wiki-Quantities (small variant, curated examples only)
SOFC-Exp (relabeled)
Grobid-quantities (relabeled)
MeasEval (relabeled)
Custom quinex data

Evaluation results

Evaluation results on the test set as described in the paper:

F1	Precision	Recall	Accuracy
94.56	93.92	95.21	99.15

Note that here we report the scores of this specific checkpoint, which slightly differ from the scores averaged over multiple seeds reported in the paper.

Also, note that these scores do not account for alternative correct answers (e.g., '1.2 kW and 1.4 kW' could be labeled as a list or individually) or debatable cases (e.g., whether 'bi-layer' or 'quartet' should be considered a quantity). Counting these as correct results in higher scores.

For better performance, refer to the larger quinex-quantity-v0-124M variant.

Citation

If you use this model in your research, please cite the following paper:

@article{quinex2025,
    title = {{Quinex: Quantitative Information Extraction from Text using Open and Lightweight LLMs}},	
    author = {Göpfert, Jan and Kuckertz, Patrick and Müller, Gian and Lütz, Luna and Körner, Celine and Khuat, Hang and Stolten, Detlef and Weinand, Jann M.},
    month = okt,
    year = {2025},
}

Framework versions

Transformers 4.36.2
Pytorch 2.1.2
Datasets 2.16.1
Tokenizers 0.15.0

JuelichSystemsAnalysis/quinex-quantity-v0-82M