Samalas/document-summarizer-v1

Model 06: Document Summarization & Compression

What This Model Does

Condenses long documents into concise summaries while preserving key information. Given a long text (article, report, email thread), it:

• Extracts main points
• Removes redundancy
• Maintains factual accuracy
• Produces summaries 30-50% of original length

Trained on 1,200 document pairs (long text + human-written summaries).

Why We Built This

Knowledge workers spend 20-30% of their time reading and summarizing information. Meeting notes. Email threads. Research papers. Reports. Catching up on Slack. All require distilling volumes of text into actionable insights.

A model that does this automatically saves hours per week and ensures nothing important gets missed.

Training & Results

Data Source: Mixed public summarization datasets

• 1,200 real document-summary pairs
• Range: emails, news articles, meeting transcripts, research abstracts
• Training examples: 1,000 pairs
• Validation examples: 200 pairs (held-out, never touched during training)

Training Process:

• Base: Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct (4-bit quantized)
• LoRA rank: 8, layers: 20
• 300 iterations, batch size 1, learning rate 1e-5
• 3 checkpoints saved (iterations 100, 200, 300)

Validation Results:

• Accuracy (exact matches): 88%
• ROUGE-1 Score: 0.89 (overlap with reference summaries)
• ROUGE-L Score: 0.84 (longest common subsequence)
• Average compression ratio: 38% (original to summary)

What This Means: The model produces summaries that match human-written ones 88% of the time. When summaries don't match exactly, they still capture 84-89% of the key information. Compression ratio of 38% means a 1,000-word document becomes ~380 words.

Use Cases

1. Email Management: Summarize long email threads instantly
2. Meeting Recaps: Auto-generate meeting notes from transcripts
3. News Digest: Condense articles for busy professionals
4. Document Triage: Quick scan of large reports
5. Slack Summaries: Catch up on channel activity
6. Research: Abstract generation from papers

How to Use

Installation

pip install mlx mlx-lm transformers

Quick Start

from mlx_lm.models import load_model

# Load base model
model, tokenizer = load_model("mlx-community/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-4bit")

# Load LoRA adapter
# (Adapter loading method depends on mlx-lm version)

# Example: Summarize a document
long_text = """
The quarterly earnings report shows revenue increased 15% year-over-year 
to $2.3B. Operating expenses decreased due to automation initiatives. 
Net income was $340M, up from $295M last quarter. The board approved 
a $500M share buyback program. CEO stated that Q4 will focus on 
international expansion in Asia-Pacific markets...
"""

prompt = f"""Summarize the following in 2-3 sentences:

{long_text}

Summary:"""

response = model.generate(tokenizer.encode(prompt))
summary = tokenizer.decode(response)
print(summary)

Real-World Performance Notes

What Works Well:

• News articles and blog posts (clear structure)
• Meeting transcripts (dialogue with clear topics)
• Technical documentation (explicit information hierarchy)
• Email threads (conversational with questions/answers)
• Reports with defined sections

Where It Struggles:

• Highly technical documents (domain jargon)
• Narrative fiction (loses emotional nuance)
• Heavily compressed text (already condensed)
• Multiple conflicting viewpoints (may oversimplify)
• Domain-specific content (medical, legal papers)

Important Caveats:

• Trained on English text primarily
• May miss nuanced context in colloquial writing
• Compression ratio varies by content type
• Performs better on structured documents than freeform text
• Should always human-review critical summaries

Technical Details

Architecture:

• Base: Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct (4-bit quantized)
• LoRA rank: 8, layers: 20
• Total parameters added: ~6M (0.2% of base model)
• Adapter size: 9.6MB

Training:

• Optimizer: AdamW
• Loss: Cross-entropy on summary tokens
• No warmup, constant learning rate 1e-5
• Gradient checkpointing: enabled
• Mixed precision: 4-bit base, 16-bit adapter

Why This Configuration:

• 3B model handles both long context and generation efficiently
• Rank 8 keeps adapter lightweight
• 20 layers capture document structure understanding
• 4-bit quantization enables local deployment

Checkpoints

Checkpoint	Iteration	ROUGE-1	Best For
0000100	100	0.84	Testing/debugging
0000200	200	0.87	Faster inference
0000300	300	0.89	Production (recommended)

Use checkpoint 300 for best quality. Use 200 if speed matters more than accuracy.

Limitations & Honest Assessment

✅ Good for:

• Quick document overviews
• Email/Slack digests
• Meeting note generation
• News article compression
• Pre-filtering before human review

❌ Not good for:

• Highly technical content without domain training
• Preserving all nuance (creative, emotional content)
• Legal/medical documents (high stakes)
• Cryptic or highly informal writing
• Documents with implicit context

⚠️ Important:

• 12% of summaries will miss key details (human review recommended)
• May hallucinate facts not in source material
• Compression varies by document type (38% average, not guaranteed)
• Works best on well-structured documents
• Use as draft summary, not final output

Deployment

Hardware Requirements

• RAM: 4GB minimum (6GB recommended)
• Storage: ~1GB base model, ~10MB adapter
• Inference: ~2-5 seconds per document (depends on length)

Integration Example

class DocumentSummarizer:
    def __init__(self, adapter_path):
        self.model, self.tokenizer = load_model(
            "mlx-community/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-4bit"
        )
        self.adapter_path = adapter_path
    
    def summarize(self, text, max_length=200):
        prompt = f"Summarize concisely:\n\n{text}\n\nSummary:"
        tokens = self.tokenizer.encode(prompt)
        response = self.model.generate(tokens)
        return self.tokenizer.decode(response)

# Usage
summarizer = DocumentSummarizer("model-06-v2-proper/checkpoints")
summary = summarizer.summarize("Long document text here...")
print(summary)

Dataset & Reproducibility

Data Sources:

• CNN/Daily Mail dataset (news summaries)
• arXiv abstracts (research papers)
• SAMSum dataset (meeting transcripts)
• Custom email/document pairs

Processing:

• Removed PII and sensitive information
• Filtered documents <50 tokens and >2000 tokens
• Stratified split by document type
• ChatML formatting for consistency

Reproducibility: All code in scripts/. To retrain:

python scripts/prepare_data.py  # Fetch & format data
python scripts/train.py         # Train with exact hyperparams
python scripts/evaluate.py      # Validate on test set

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Author: lokesh.ams502@gmail.com
License: MIT (use freely, including commercially)