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Open-weight model · Zero-shot classification

finecat-nli-l

by Lee Miller dleemiller/finecat-nli-l

This model is a fine-tune of the excellent tasksource/ModernBERT-large-nli, trained on the dleemiller/FineCat-NLI dataset—a compilation of several high-quality NLI data sources with quality screening and reduction of easy samples in the training split.

Parameters396M
Context2,048
Weights1.6 GB
License
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads2.4k

Runs On

What it takes to serve finecat-nli-l (396M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 0.8 GB 1.0 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.4 GB 0.5 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.2 GB 0.2 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

Model Card

This model is a fine-tune of the excellent tasksource/ModernBERT-large-nli, trained on the dleemiller/FineCat-NLI dataset—a compilation of several high-quality NLI data sources with quality screening and reduction of easy samples in the training split. The training also incorporates logit distillation from MoritzLaurer/DeBERTa-v3-large-mnli-fever-anli-ling-wanli, a top-performing NLI model, particularly on ANLI benchmarks. \begin{equation} \mathcal{L} = \alpha \cdot \mathcal{L}{\text{CE}}(z^{(s)}, y) + \beta \cdot \mathcal{L}{\text{MSE}}(z^{(s)}, z^{(t)}) \end{equation} where \\(z^{(s)}\\) and \\(z^{(t)}\\) are the student and teacher logits, \\(y\\) are the ground truth labels, and…

Excerpt from the card by Lee Miller.

Configuration

Architecture
ModernBertForSequenceClassification
Context length (tokens)
2,048
Layers
28
Hidden size
1,024
Feed-forward size
2,624
Attention heads
16
Vocabulary size
50,368
Model type
modernbert

Identity and Version

Repository
dleemiller/finecat-nli-l
Publisher
Lee Miller
Task
Zero-shot classification
Modality
Text
Library
sentence-transformers
Parameters
396M parameters
Languages
en
Revision
7044e25feac71402d3cfd183b690c20a57e0bc67
First published
2025-10-26
Last updated
2026-07-10

Files and Weights

8 files, 1.6 GB in total. The weights are 1 file totalling 1.6 GB in safetensors.

Weights1 file · 1.6 GB
Configuration3 files · 7.4 KB
Tokenizer2 files · 3.6 MB
Documentation1 file · 5.4 KB
Repository1 file · 1.5 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights1.6 GB 8ec90798edf9
config.jsonConfiguration5.6 KB
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration694 B
training_config.yamlConfiguration1.1 KB
README.mdDocumentation5.4 KB
.gitattributesRepository1.5 KB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer3.6 MB
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer21.0 KB

License and Download

License
Not stated by the source
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
1.6 GB
Download from Lee Miller

Released by Lee Miller through its official repository on Hugging Face.

Built From

Evaluations

Each result is shown as reported, with the conditions its reporter stated. None is a SAVRN measurement. A comparison lines two results up only when their configuration, unit and setup are all stated and identical.

BenchmarkConditionsResultReported byRevisionDate
dleemiller FineCat NLI dev Task Cross Encoder ClassificationMetric F1 MacroComparison conditions not established 0.8663 dleemiller
Publisher reported
Evaluated revision not stated
dleemiller FineCat NLI dev Task Cross Encoder ClassificationMetric F1 MicroComparison conditions not established 0.8678 dleemiller
Publisher reported
Evaluated revision not stated
dleemiller FineCat NLI dev Task Cross Encoder ClassificationMetric F1 WeightedComparison conditions not established 0.8674 dleemiller
Publisher reported
Evaluated revision not stated

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published1.6 GB
16-bit0.8 GB
8-bit0.4 GB
4-bit0.2 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Questions About finecat-nli-l

How much GPU memory does finecat-nli-l need?

About 1 GB at 16-bit and 0.2 GB at 4-bit: the weights (396M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run finecat-nli-l on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

What is finecat-nli-l's context length?

2,048 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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