README.md

---
license: mit
pipeline_tag: text-classification
library_name: transformers
base_model: answerdotai/ModernBERT-large
tags:
- math
- reasoning
- verification
- weaver
- cross-encoder
language:
- en
---

# Weaver Distilled for MATH500

This is a distilled cross-encoder model based on ModernBERT-large, trained to predict the correctness of answers on MATH500. This specialized verifier was trained on Weaver scores aggregated over 35 different verifiers and reward models.

## Model Details

- **Base Model**: [answerdotai/ModernBERT-large](https://huggingface.co/answerdotai/ModernBERT-large) (395M parameters)
- **Architecture**: Cross-encoder with MLP head (1024 → 512 → 256 → 1)
- **Max Sequence Length**: 4096 tokens
- **Training Data**: MATH500 problems with Weaver scores from 35 LM judges and reward models
- **Task**: Binary classification for answer correctness prediction

## Quick Start

```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSequenceClassification
import torch

# Load model and tokenizer
model_name = "hazyresearch/Weaver_Distilled_for_MATH500"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(model_name)

# Example usage
instruction = "Solve: What is the derivative of x^2 + 3x + 2?"
response = "The derivative is 2x + 3. Using the power rule..."

# Tokenize input pair
inputs = tokenizer(
    instruction, 
    response,
    truncation=True,
    max_length=4096,
    padding=True,
    return_tensors="pt"
)

# Get correctness score
with torch.no_grad():
    outputs = model(**inputs)
    score = torch.sigmoid(outputs.logits).item()
    
print(f"Correctness score: {score:.3f}")
print(f"Prediction: {'Correct' if score > 0.5 else 'Incorrect'}")
```

## Training Details

This model was trained using the [Weaver distillation pipeline](https://github.com/ScalingIntelligence/scaling-verification/tree/main/distillation). For training your own distilled models, see the [distillation README](https://github.com/ScalingIntelligence/scaling-verification/blob/main/distillation/README.md).

## Evaluation

Evaluate this model using:

```bash
python evaluate_crossencoder.py \
  --model_name "answerdotai/ModernBERT-large" \
  --checkpoint_path "hazyresearch/Weaver_Distilled_for_MATH500" \
  --dataset_path "hazyresearch/MATH500_with_Llama_3.1_70B_Instruct_v1" \
  --dataset_split "data" \
  --max_length 4096 \
  --batch_size 64
```

## Citation

```bibtex
@article{weaver2025,
  title={Weaver: Shrinking the Generation-Verification Gap with Weak Verifiers},
  author={},
  journal={arXiv preprint},
  year={2025}
}
```