mmbert-fact-check-lora

mmBERT Fact-Check Classifier (LoRA Adapter)

A multilingual binary classifier that determines whether a query requires external fact-checking or can be answered without verification.

Model Description

This model classifies prompts into two categories:

• FACT_CHECK_NEEDED: Information-seeking questions requiring external verification
• NO_FACT_CHECK_NEEDED: Creative, opinion, coding, math - no verification needed

Supports 1800+ languages through mmBERT's multilingual pretraining.

Performance

Training Details

• Base Model: jhu-clsp/mmBERT-base
• LoRA Rank: 32
• LoRA Alpha: 64
• Trainable Parameters: 6.8M / 314M (2.2%)
• Epochs: 10
• Batch Size: 64
• Learning Rate: 2e-5

Training Data Sources

FACT_CHECK_NEEDED:

• SQuAD, TriviaQA, HotpotQA, TruthfulQA, CoQA
• HaluEval QA, RAG dataset questions

NO_FACT_CHECK_NEEDED:

• Dolly (creative_writing, brainstorming)
• WritingPrompts, Alpaca (coding, math, opinion)

Usage

from peft import PeftModel
from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer

# Load model
base_model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
    "jhu-clsp/mmBERT-base", num_labels=2
)
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base_model, "vllm-sr/mmbert-fact-check-lora")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("jhu-clsp/mmBERT-base")

# Classify
queries = [
    "When was the Eiffel Tower built?",  # FACT_CHECK_NEEDED
    "Write a poem about the ocean",       # NO_FACT_CHECK_NEEDED
]

for query in queries:
    inputs = tokenizer(query, return_tensors="pt", truncation=True)
    outputs = model(**inputs)
    label = "FACT_CHECK_NEEDED" if outputs.logits.argmax(-1).item() == 1 else "NO_FACT_CHECK_NEEDED"
    print(f"{query} -> {label}")

Use Cases

• LLM Guardrails: Route factual queries to RAG systems
• Hallucination Prevention: Flag queries needing external verification
• Cost Optimization: Skip expensive retrieval for creative/coding tasks

Part of vLLM Semantic Router

This model is part of the vLLM Semantic Router project.

License

Apache 2.0