Extract-0: A SPECIALIZED LANGUAGE MODEL FOR DOCUMENT INFORMATION EXTRACTION
Extract-0 is a 7-billion parameter language model specifically optimized for document information extraction. It achieves performance exceeding larger general-purpose models like GPT-4.1 on diverse extraction tasks. This is accomplished through a novel combination of synthetic data generation, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA), and reinforcement learning (GRPO) with a semantic similarity-based reward function. ✨
Article Points:
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Extract-0: 7B model excels in document information extraction.
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Outperforms GPT-4.1 and o3 on 1,000 tasks with 0.573 mean reward.
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Achieves performance via synthetic data, LoRA fine-tuning, and GRPO.
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Memory-preserving synthetic data pipeline generates 280K examples.
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Parameter-efficient LoRA fine-tuning modifies only 0.53% of weights.
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Semantic similarity reward function addresses extraction ambiguity.
Extract-0: A SPECIALIZED LANGUAGE MODEL FOR DOCUMENT INFORMATION EXTRACTION
Core Innovations

Synthetic Data Generation

LoRA Fine-tuning

GRPO with Custom Reward

Methodology

Memory-preserving Data Pipeline

Parameter-efficient Adaptation

Semantic Similarity Reward

Performance

Outperforms GPT-4.1 & o3

Achieves 0.573 Mean Reward

147% Improvement over Baseline

Resources

7B Parameters

$196 Training Cost

Single H100 GPU

Limitations

Training Data Coverage

Reward Function Nuances

Single-document Focus

Implications

Task-specific Optimization

Modular AI Systems

Economic Accessibility