plawanrath/static-student-modernbert-base-civil

answerdotai/ModernBERT-base (revision 8949b909) fine-tuned for binary toxicity classification on Civil Comments, from the static-student project (Weights as Constants). It was trained as a realistic-size test model for compiling an encoder's weights into a native binary as a read-only constant and certifying a decision threshold on the kernel that ships. Code and results: https://github.com/plawanrath/static-student.

Training

data	google/civil_comments@f2970eb3, split train
label	toxic if toxicity >= 0.5, else non_toxic
rows	40,000, positive share 0.25 (balanced subsample)
epochs / steps / batch	1 / 1250 / 32
learning rate / max length	3e-05 / 128
seed	20260926
final training loss (last 100 steps)	0.249
wall time (Apple silicon, MPS)	13 min

How to use

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSequenceClassification
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("plawanrath/static-student-modernbert-base-civil")
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("plawanrath/static-student-modernbert-base-civil")
logits = model(**tok("you are wonderful", return_tensors="pt")).logits
print(model.config.id2label[int(logits.argmax())])

Intended use and limitations

• A test model for the compile-as-constants pipeline, released so the repository's numbers can be reproduced. It is not a moderation system.
• One epoch on 40k rows of English comments; toxicity labels are crowd annotations with known demographic biases (see the Civil Comments dataset card). Expect false positives on identity terms and dialect.
• Max sequence length 128 tokens at training time.
• The research project was concluded without a publication; the model is not maintained.

Citation

If you use this checkpoint, please cite the repository:

@software{rath2026staticstudent,
  author  = {Rath, Plawan Kumar},
  title   = {static-student: Weights as Constants --- compiling distilled task models into executables as read-only data},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.23202887},
  url     = {https://github.com/plawanrath/static-student},
  license = {Apache-2.0},
  version = {0.1.0}
}

CITATION.cff in the repository carries the same entry (GitHub's "Cite this repository" button).

Please also cite ModernBERT (Warner et al., 2024) and the Civil Comments dataset (Borkan et al., 2019).

Disclaimer

Plawan Kumar Rath (@plawanrath). This work was conducted in the author's personal capacity. The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Meta.