Ihor Stepanov

GLiNER just hit a new record 🚀 We just released a new version of the package, and GLiNER reached almost 30k downloads per day. I couldn't be prouder of this milestone and the community behind it. This release is packed with meaningful improvements: Performance wins ▪️ Vectorized CPU-path preprocessing and decoding hot loops ▪️ Vectorized relation decoding, replacing costly .item() calls with torch.where ▪️ Batch-level span decoding — reducing CUDA kernel launches from B*8 to ~8 Architecture & quality: ▪️ Restructured repo and updated documentation ▪️ Improved GLiNER-relex architecture and decoding A huge thank you to @MaxWBuckley for inference optimizations. Vivek for building an evaluation pipeline for new relation extraction models, Bryan Bradfo for improving documentation, and @urchadeDS for his review. Every single contribution matters. These improvements unlocked something bigger; we built RetriCo, a super-efficient GraphRAG system powered by the new GLiNER-relex models. For us at @knowledgator , open source is how we build technologies. It's how we collaborate with developers worldwide. It's what makes our work meaningful. We believe open information extraction technologies are essential for decentralizing power in AI. The tools for understanding and structuring the world's knowledge shouldn't be locked behind closed doors. Come build with us: 🔗 GLiNER: github.com/urchade/GLiNER 🔗 RetriCo: github.com/Knowledgator/R… 🔗 GLiNER Community: discord.gg/ZGsXs9GY

Building on GLiClass-V3, GLiClass-Instruct extends the encoder-first backbone with instruction conditioning for real zero-shot workflows. The architecture remains the same, but adds hierarchical labels, few-shot examples, label descriptions, and task prompts to control behavior without fine-tuning. Latency stays stable as taxonomies scale, and V3 maintains ~0.72 average zero-shot F1 (large) while preserving the throughput advantages of the underlying design, positioning it as infrastructure for large-taxonomy classification and guardrail workloads.

🧠 One lightweight model to classify, verify, and guard — introducing GLiClass-Instruct GLiClass started as a fast zero-shot topic classifier rivaling cross-encoders at a fraction of the cost. But topic classification wasn’t enough. Today we’re launching GLiClass-Instruct: a multitask model that can handle various tasks via sequence classification. ✨ What’s new • Hierarchical labeling for complex taxonomies • Few-shot in-context learning (no fine-tuning) • Natural language prompting for task control • EWC to add skills without forgetting old ones • 3× faster inference with FlashDeBERTa 🚀 New multi-task capabilities Beyond topic + sentiment classification, GLiClass-Instruct now supports: • Hallucination detection (is an answer grounded in context?) • Rule-following verification (does content follow your guidelines?) • Safety classification (prompt injections, jailbreaks, harmful requests) These are key building blocks for agents, RAG pipelines, and LLM guardrails, where every input/output must be screened and verified at minimal latency. 🔗 GitHub: github.com/Knowledgator/G… 🤗 Models: huggingface.co/knowledgator/g… 🌍 More: knowledgator.com

Meet GLiNER-bi-large-v2.0: a powerful, open-source model for Named Entity Recognition (NER). It's not your old-school NER tool. This model lets you define entities ON THE FLY. Just give it a text and a list of entity types you want to find. No retraining needed. It's like having a customizable information extraction assistant.

@SearchDataEng 100%

GLINER is so cool!

🚀 Exciting news: GLiNER meets Transformers v5! We’ve just released a new version of GLiNER, packed with major updates and improvements: ▪️ Transformers v5 support — fully compatible with the latest Hugging Face Transformers updates. ▪️ Improved FlashDeBERTa integration — train GLiNER much faster and handle longer sequences more efficiently. ▪️ New architecture types — introducing an advanced token-level subarchitecture that enables recognition of spans of any length. This was a game changer for our entity linking models. The new token-level type works for both uni-encoder and bi-encoder setups. ▪️ Span-constrained prediction — you can now provide input spans, ensuring GLiNER predictions are always constrained to them. This enables chaining multiple GLiNER models for more weighted and controllable results. ▪️ Plus several smaller fixes and improvements. 📦 Upgrade now: pip install gliner -U 🔗 Resources: • Entity Linking models: huggingface.co/collections/kn… • Entity Linking framework (GLinker): github.com/Knowledgator/G… • GLiNER repository: github.com/urchade/GLiNER 🙏 Huge thanks to all contributors, especially @bioMikeee for fixing bugs, @tomaarsen for helping navigate the Transformers v5 update, and @urchadeDS for the review of changes.

A solid release from Knowledgator: GLiNER-bi-V2, a bi-encoder upgrade to GLiNER for zero-shot NER. Core change vs original GLiNER: the bi-encoder decouples text encoding from label encoding, so you can precompute/cache label embeddings and score against 1k+ entity types with near-constant inference cost (and constant text-encode memory regardless of label count). Stack: ModernBERT-based text encoder (Ettin) + sentence-transformer/BGE label encoder, with optional cross-attn fusion. The value is system-level efficiency: cheaper scaling, faster taxonomy iteration, and realistic million-entity linking via GLiNKER to Wikidata-scale KBs. Numbers: 61.5 Micro-F1 (CrossNER, zero-shot) and up to 130× throughput at 1024 labels with precomputed embeddings. The 194M base reaches ~98% of the large model’s accuracy at ~2.6× higher throughput; Large adds ~+1.2 F1 at ~2–3× lower throughput.

🚀 Meet GLinker — an ultra-fast, modular, zero-shot entity linking system. Back in 2024, we developed GLiNER bi-encoder that enabled zero-shot NER across hundreds of entity types. But that was just the start. Our real goal was linking text to millions of entities dynamically, without retraining. After ~2 years of research & engineering, it’s here. github.com/Knowledgator/G…

@SynthesisLedger For sure, we can do NER on the fly, improving the search and data-structuring capabilities of agentic systems.

@ihor_step zero-shot ner in 7 minutes is a massive unlock. marginal training cost has collapsed, killing the old compute barrier for dynamic entity pipelines. agents can now audit entities on the fly. 🇳🇴

You can now bake a SoTA zero-shot NER model in 7 minutes 🍞 I still remember my first zero-shot NER model back in 2022. It required millions of examples and days of training to get something usable. Fast forward to today. Now the same model class can be trained in minutes, literally for ~$0.30, using a modern NVIDIA A6000 Pro rented on Google Cloud spot instances. This is possible thanks to multiple optimizations in GLiNER, including: 🔹 FlashDeBERTa 🔹 Sequence packing 🔹 Better data 🔹 Improved training procedures 🔗 Check how to train GLiNER here: urchade.github.io/GLiNER/trainin… What’s important is that this progress didn’t come from a single breakthrough. It required advances across model architecture and optimizations, data quality, GPUs, and infrastructure. AI progress is fundamentally multidimensional, and when these dimensions compound, the result can look exponential. And we’re still early 🔥

🚀 FlashDeBERTa v2 is out — faster, leaner, now with backward support. DeBERTa keeps proving that great architecture ages well. With new optimized kernels, FlashDeBERTa delivers 2–5× speedups, lower memory use, and full training support. github.com/Knowledgator/F…

Learn more about how Nemotron-PII and GLiNER-PII fit into NVIDIA’s privacy-preserving AI pipeline 👇 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/nvidi… Model: huggingface.co/nvidia/gliner-… NeMo Data Designer — build your own synthetic NER datasets: build.nvidia.com/nemo/data-desi…

pip install gliner -U GitHub: github.com/urchade/GLiNER Docs: github.com/urchade/GLiNER… #NLP #NER #MachineLearning #OpenSource #AI

Huge thank you to everyone who has used GLiNER, shared feedback, and contributed to the ecosystem! 🙏 Special shoutouts to Vivek Kalyanarangan for inference packing support and @urchadeDS for extensive testing and ongoing support.

🚀 Big News for the GLiNER Community! We're rolling out one of the largest updates in GLiNER's history — an upgrade that makes the framework more mature, flexible, and reliable than ever. Here's what's new 🧵👇