HANDOFF.md

IndexLM-0.6B: Index-based Web Content Extraction

Project Handoff Document

Paper: An Index-based Approach for Efficient and Effective Web Content Extraction
Goal: Fine-tune a SOTA web content extraction model that runs fast on CPU
Status: Dataset prepared & pushed ✅ | Training script ready ✅ | Training NOT yet run ❌

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1. What This Is

The paper introduces IndexLM — a model that extracts relevant content from web pages by predicting index intervals instead of generating full text. This makes it:

• 10–50× faster than generative extraction (ReaderLM-v2, Firecrawl, etc.)
• SOTA on RAG QA benchmarks (HotpotQA, NQ, TriviaQA, MuSiQue, MultiHopRAG)
• Tiny: even the 0.6B version beats all baselines

The original IndexLM weights are not publicly released. This project replicates the approach.

How It Works

1. HTML is cleaned and split into indexed blocks: [1] <h1>Title</h1>, [2] <p>Content...</p>, etc.
2. The model receives these blocks + a query
3. It outputs index intervals like [[2,4],[7,7],[10,12]] — identifying which blocks are relevant
4. The blocks are reassembled into clean HTML/Markdown

Two tasks:

• Query-relevant extraction (QE): Extract blocks relevant to a specific query
• Main content extraction (ME): Extract main content, filtering out nav/ads/sidebars

Paper Results (Table 2 & 3)

Model	Params	Avg RAG QA F1	ME F1	QE F1	Latency (ME)
IndexLM-0.6B	0.6B	54.70	83.38	28.64	0.35s
IndexLM-4B	4B	55.41	87.40	31.69	0.81s
ReaderLM-v2	1.5B	46.84	68.89	13.31	11.76s
HtmlRAG	-	47.00	48.65	8.83	7.12s
Firecrawl Extract	API	52.72	-	29.48	11.33s

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2. What's Been Done

✅ Dataset Created & Pushed (v2 — Multi-domain)

Hub: OmAlve/indexlm-training-data

Split	Rows
train	21,098
eval	500

Domain Composition (avoids Wikipedia-only bias):

Source	Count	%	Domain
MultiHopRAG	7,165	33.2%	News (Mashable, CNBC, AP, etc.)
HotpotQA	6,479	30.0%	Wikipedia
HtmlRAG-train	2,692	12.5%	Real Bing-scraped web HTML (diverse)
MS MARCO	4,844	22.4%	Diverse web (Bing search results)
NA (mismatched)	418	1.9%	Cross-domain

Task Type Composition:

• query_relevant: ~78% — query-specific extraction
• main_content: ~20% — main content vs. noise (nav/ads/cookies)
• query_relevant_na: ~2% — no relevant content exists

Key improvement over v1: Real web HTML from Bing search results (via HtmlRAG-train) + news articles + MS MARCO diverse web QA, not just Wikipedia.

Format: Conversational messages column (SFTTrainer-native):

{
  "messages": [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are IndexLM, a web content extraction model..."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "URL: ...\nQuery: ...\n\nBlocks:\n[1] <h2>Title</h2>\n[2] <p>Content</p>\n...\n\nOutput the index intervals of blocks relevant to the query."},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "[[2, 4], [7, 7]]"}
  ]
}

Token length stats (Qwen3-0.6B tokenizer):

• Min: 316, Max: 4,105, Mean: 1,944, Median: 2,019
• 43 examples filtered (>4096 tokens)

Data pipeline (from prepare_data_v2.py):

1. HtmlRAG-train (5,880 raw examples): Real Bing-scraped HTML from 5 QA datasets (NQ, ASQA, TriviaQA, MuSiQue, HotpotQA). Segments HTML by block-level tags, matches relevant blocks to ground-truth answers using trigram/substring matching.
2. MultiHopRAG (8,521 examples): News articles from Mashable, CNBC, AP, etc. Converts article body + evidence annotations to indexed blocks. Injects realistic noise blocks.
3. HotpotQA (6,486 examples, minority): Wikipedia context with supporting facts → index intervals. Noise injected.
4. MS MARCO (4,844 examples): Diverse web QA from Bing search. Passages from real web pages across numeric, entity, description, location, person query types.
5. NA examples (500): Mismatched query-page pairs from different sources.
6. Filters to ≤4096 tokens, shuffles, splits train/eval.

✅ Training Script Ready

File: train_indexlm.py (see Section 5 below)

Key settings:

• Base model: Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B (751M params, bf16, GQA, 32K context)
• Method: SFT via TRL SFTTrainer + SFTConfig
• Output: OmAlve/IndexLM-0.6B on Hub
• Hyperparameters: lr=2e-5, epochs=3, batch=4, grad_accum=4 (effective BS=16), max_length=4096, cosine LR schedule, warmup=5%
• push_to_hub=True, hub_model_id="OmAlve/IndexLM-0.6B"
• Trackio monitoring included
• Flash Attention 2 for training speed

✅ Evaluation Script Ready

File: eval_indexlm.py (see Section 5 below)

Evaluates:

• QE F1/Precision/Recall on eval split
• ME F1/Precision/Recall on eval split
• CPU inference speed benchmark

❌ Training Not Yet Run

Ran into credits issue on HF Jobs (402 Payment Required). You need to run train_indexlm.py on a GPU.

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3. How to Train

Option A: HF Jobs (if you have credits)

# Dependencies
pip install "transformers>=4.51.0" "trl>=1.2.0" torch datasets accelerate trackio "flash-attn --no-build-isolation"

Recommended hardware: a10g-large ($2/hr) or t4-small ($0.60/hr) — model is only 0.6B params.
Estimated time: 2-4 hours on a10g, 4-6 hours on T4.
Set timeout to 6h minimum.

Option B: Any GPU machine

pip install "transformers>=4.51.0" "trl>=1.2.0" torch datasets accelerate trackio
pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation  # optional, speeds up training

python train_indexlm.py

VRAM: ~8-10 GB with gradient checkpointing + bf16 at batch_size=4. Fits on T4 (16GB), any A-series, etc.

Option C: Without Flash Attention

If flash-attn fails to install, change this line in train_indexlm.py:

# FROM:
attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",
# TO:
attn_implementation="sdpa",

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4. How to Deploy on CPU

After training, the model at OmAlve/IndexLM-0.6B can be loaded for CPU inference:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import torch

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "OmAlve/IndexLM-0.6B",
    torch_dtype=torch.float32,
    attn_implementation="sdpa",
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("OmAlve/IndexLM-0.6B")
model.eval()

# Example: extract relevant content from a web page
messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are IndexLM, a web content extraction model..."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "URL: ...\nQuery: What is Python?\n\nBlocks:\n[1] <nav>Home</nav>\n[2] <h1>Python Programming</h1>\n[3] <p>Python is a programming language...</p>\n[4] <footer>Copyright 2024</footer>\n\nOutput the index intervals of blocks relevant to the query."}
]

text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True, enable_thinking=False)
inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt")

with torch.no_grad():
    out = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=128, do_sample=False)

response = tokenizer.decode(out[0][inputs['input_ids'].shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(response)  # → [[2, 3]]

For even faster CPU: quantize to INT4/INT8 with bitsandbytes or export to ONNX.

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5. All Scripts

5.1 Data Preparation (prepare_data.py)

"""
Prepare IndexLM training data from HotpotQA and MSMARCO.

Pipeline:
1. Load HotpotQA (has context = list of (title, sentences) + supporting_facts)
2. Convert context into indexed HTML-like blocks: [i] <tag>content</tag>
3. The target is index intervals of blocks containing supporting facts
4. Also create main-content extraction examples (all content blocks are "main content",
   but we inject noise blocks like nav/ads to train the model to filter them)
5. Format as conversational messages for SFT
"""

import json
import random
import re
from datasets import load_dataset, Dataset
from collections import defaultdict

random.seed(42)

# Noise blocks to inject (simulating real web page clutter)
NOISE_BLOCKS = [
    '<nav>Home | About | Contact | Privacy Policy</nav>',
    '<div class="ad">Advertisement - Continue Reading Below</div>',
    '<div class="sidebar">Related Articles: Top 10 Facts You Didn\'t Know</div>',
    '<footer>© 2024 All Rights Reserved | Terms of Service</footer>',
    '<div class="cookie-banner">This site uses cookies. Accept | Decline</div>',
    '<div class="social">Share on: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn</div>',
    '<nav class="breadcrumb">Home > Category > Subcategory > Article</nav>',
    '<div class="newsletter">Subscribe to our newsletter for updates</div>',
    '<div class="popup">Sign up for free access to premium content</div>',
    '<aside>Trending: Latest news and popular stories</aside>',
    '<div class="comments">Comments (0) - Be the first to comment</div>',
    '<div class="author">Written by Staff Reporter | Updated: Jan 2024</div>',
    '<div class="pagination">Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | Next</div>',
    '<div class="search">Search this site...</div>',
    '<div class="menu">Categories: Science, Tech, Health, Sports</div>',
]

SYSTEM_PROMPT_QE = """You are IndexLM, a web content extraction model. Given a webpage split into indexed blocks and a user query, identify which blocks contain content relevant to the query.

Each block is formatted as: [i] <tag>content</tag>
Output the indices of relevant blocks as a Python list of [start, end] intervals (inclusive).
If no relevant content exists, output 'NA'.

Example output: [[2,4],[7,7],[10,12]]"""

SYSTEM_PROMPT_ME = """You are IndexLM, a web content extraction model. Given a webpage split into indexed blocks, identify which blocks contain the main content of the page (filtering out navigation, advertisements, sidebars, and other non-content elements).

Each block is formatted as: [i] <tag>content</tag>
Output the indices of main content blocks as a Python list of [start, end] intervals (inclusive).
If no main content exists, output 'NA'.

Example output: [[1,3],[5,8],[11,15]]"""


def indices_to_intervals(indices):
    """Convert a sorted list of indices to intervals [[start,end], ...]"""
    if not indices:
        return "NA"
    indices = sorted(set(indices))
    intervals = []
    start = indices[0]
    end = indices[0]
    for i in indices[1:]:
        if i == end + 1:
            end = i
        else:
            intervals.append([start, end])
            start = i
            end = i
    intervals.append([start, end])
    return json.dumps(intervals)


def create_indexed_blocks_from_hotpotqa(context, supporting_facts, inject_noise=True):
    """
    Convert HotpotQA context into indexed HTML blocks.
    
    context: {'title': [...], 'sentences': [[...], ...]}
    supporting_facts: {'title': [...], 'sent_id': [...]}
    
    Returns: (block_text, relevant_indices, all_content_indices)
    """
    titles = context['title']
    sentences_list = context['sentences']
    
    # Build supporting facts lookup
    sf_lookup = defaultdict(set)
    for title, sent_id in zip(supporting_facts['title'], supporting_facts['sent_id']):
        sf_lookup[title].add(sent_id)
    
    blocks = []
    relevant_indices = []
    content_indices = []  # All real content (non-noise)
    
    idx = 1
    
    for doc_idx, (title, sentences) in enumerate(zip(titles, sentences_list)):
        # Title block
        blocks.append(f"[{idx}] <h2>{title}</h2>")
        content_indices.append(idx)
        if title in sf_lookup:
            # Title of a supporting document is relevant
            relevant_indices.append(idx)
        idx += 1
        
        # Sentence blocks
        for sent_idx, sentence in enumerate(sentences):
            sentence = sentence.strip()
            if not sentence:
                continue
            
            # Use <p> for regular text
            blocks.append(f"[{idx}] <p>{sentence}</p>")
            content_indices.append(idx)
            
            if title in sf_lookup and sent_idx in sf_lookup[title]:
                relevant_indices.append(idx)
            idx += 1
        
        # Inject noise between documents sometimes
        if inject_noise and random.random() < 0.4 and doc_idx < len(titles) - 1:
            noise = random.choice(NOISE_BLOCKS)
            blocks.append(f"[{idx}] {noise}")
            idx += 1
    
    # Sometimes add noise at start and end
    if inject_noise:
        prefix_noise = []
        if random.random() < 0.5:
            for _ in range(random.randint(1, 3)):
                noise = random.choice(NOISE_BLOCKS)
                prefix_noise.append(noise)
        
        suffix_noise = []
        if random.random() < 0.5:
            for _ in range(random.randint(1, 3)):
                noise = random.choice(NOISE_BLOCKS)
                suffix_noise.append(noise)
        
        if prefix_noise or suffix_noise:
            # Reindex everything
            new_blocks = []
            new_relevant = []
            new_content = []
            new_idx = 1
            
            # Prefix noise
            for noise in prefix_noise:
                new_blocks.append(f"[{new_idx}] {noise}")
                new_idx += 1
            
            # Remap original blocks
            offset = len(prefix_noise)
            for b in blocks:
                old_idx = int(b.split(']')[0].replace('[', ''))
                new_b = f"[{old_idx + offset}] " + '] '.join(b.split('] ')[1:])
                new_blocks.append(new_b)
            
            new_relevant = [r + offset for r in relevant_indices]
            new_content = [c + offset for c in content_indices]
            
            # Suffix noise
            next_idx = len(new_blocks) + 1
            for noise in suffix_noise:
                new_blocks.append(f"[{next_idx}] {noise}")
                next_idx += 1
            
            blocks = new_blocks
            relevant_indices = new_relevant
            content_indices = new_content
    
    block_text = "\n".join(blocks)
    return block_text, relevant_indices, content_indices


def build_query_relevant_example(question, block_text, relevant_indices, url="https://en.wikipedia.org"):
    """Build a query-relevant extraction (QE) example."""
    intervals = indices_to_intervals(relevant_indices)
    
    user_content = f"URL: {url}\nQuery: {question}\n\nBlocks:\n{block_text}\n\nOutput the index intervals of blocks relevant to the query."
    
    messages = [
        {"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT_QE},
        {"role": "user", "content": user_content},
        {"role": "assistant", "content": intervals}
    ]
    return messages


def build_main_content_example(block_text, content_indices, title="Wikipedia Article", url="https://en.wikipedia.org"):
    """Build a main content extraction (ME) example."""
    intervals = indices_to_intervals(content_indices)
    
    user_content = f"URL: {url}\nTitle: {title}\n\nBlocks:\n{block_text}\n\nOutput the index intervals of main content blocks."
    
    messages = [
        {"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT_ME},
        {"role": "user", "content": user_content},
        {"role": "assistant", "content": intervals}
    ]
    return messages


def process_hotpotqa():
    """Process HotpotQA into IndexLM training data."""
    print("Loading HotpotQA...")
    ds = load_dataset("hotpotqa/hotpot_qa", "distractor", split="train")
    
    # Sample a manageable amount
    num_samples = min(15000, len(ds))
    ds = ds.shuffle(seed=42).select(range(num_samples))
    
    all_examples = []
    skipped = 0
    
    for i, row in enumerate(ds):
        if i % 1000 == 0:
            print(f"Processing {i}/{num_samples}...")
        
        try:
            block_text, relevant_indices, content_indices = create_indexed_blocks_from_hotpotqa(
                row['context'], row['supporting_facts'], inject_noise=True
            )
            
            # Skip if too few relevant indices
            if len(relevant_indices) < 1:
                skipped += 1
                continue
            
            # Query-relevant extraction example
            qe_messages = build_query_relevant_example(
                row['question'], block_text, relevant_indices
            )
            all_examples.append({
                "messages": qe_messages,
                "task_type": "query_relevant",
                "source": "hotpotqa"
            })
            
            # Main content extraction example (50% of the time)
            if random.random() < 0.5:
                me_messages = build_main_content_example(
                    block_text, content_indices,
                    title=row['context']['title'][0] if row['context']['title'] else "Article"
                )
                all_examples.append({
                    "messages": me_messages,
                    "task_type": "main_content",
                    "source": "hotpotqa"
                })
        except Exception as e:
            skipped += 1
            if skipped < 5:
                print(f"Error on row {i}: {e}")
            continue
    
    print(f"Created {len(all_examples)} examples from HotpotQA ({skipped} skipped)")
    return all_examples


def create_synthetic_web_pages():
    """Create synthetic web page examples for main content extraction training."""
    print("Creating synthetic web page examples...")
    
    # Load a text dataset to get content
    ds = load_dataset("hotpotqa/hotpot_qa", "distractor", split="validation")
    ds = ds.shuffle(seed=123).select(range(3000))
    
    examples = []
    
    for i, row in enumerate(ds):
        if i % 500 == 0:
            print(f"Synthetic page {i}/3000...")
        
        try:
            # Build a more realistic web page structure
            titles = row['context']['title']
            sentences_list = row['context']['sentences']
            
            if not titles or not sentences_list:
                continue
            
            blocks = []
            content_indices = []
            idx = 1
            
            # Header noise (nav, etc.)
            num_header_noise = random.randint(1, 4)
            for _ in range(num_header_noise):
                blocks.append(f"[{idx}] {random.choice(NOISE_BLOCKS)}")
                idx += 1
            
            # Page title
            main_title = titles[0]
            blocks.append(f"[{idx}] <h1>{main_title}</h1>")
            content_indices.append(idx)
            idx += 1
            
            # Main content (just first 1-3 documents)
            num_docs = min(random.randint(1, 3), len(titles))
            for doc_idx in range(num_docs):
                title = titles[doc_idx]
                sents = sentences_list[doc_idx]
                
                if doc_idx > 0:
                    blocks.append(f"[{idx}] <h2>{title}</h2>")
                    content_indices.append(idx)
                    idx += 1
                
                for sent in sents:
                    sent = sent.strip()
                    if not sent:
                        continue
                    blocks.append(f"[{idx}] <p>{sent}</p>")
                    content_indices.append(idx)
                    idx += 1
                
                # Occasional inline noise
                if random.random() < 0.3:
                    blocks.append(f"[{idx}] {random.choice(NOISE_BLOCKS)}")
                    idx += 1
            
            # Footer noise
            num_footer_noise = random.randint(1, 4)
            for _ in range(num_footer_noise):
                blocks.append(f"[{idx}] {random.choice(NOISE_BLOCKS)}")
                idx += 1
            
            block_text = "\n".join(blocks)
            me_messages = build_main_content_example(
                block_text, content_indices,
                title=main_title,
                url=f"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{main_title.replace(' ', '_')}"
            )
            examples.append({
                "messages": me_messages,
                "task_type": "main_content",
                "source": "synthetic"
            })
        except Exception as e:
            continue
    
    print(f"Created {len(examples)} synthetic web page examples")
    return examples


def create_na_examples():
    """Create examples where no relevant content exists (model should output 'NA')."""
    print("Creating NA examples...")
    ds = load_dataset("hotpotqa/hotpot_qa", "distractor", split="validation")
    ds = ds.shuffle(seed=456).select(range(1000))
    
    examples = []
    
    for i, row in enumerate(ds):
        try:
            # Use context from one question but query from another (mismatched)
            other_idx = (i + 500) % len(ds)
            other_question = ds[other_idx]['question']
            
            # Build blocks from current context but keep only non-supporting content
            block_text, _, content_indices = create_indexed_blocks_from_hotpotqa(
                row['context'], {'title': [], 'sent_id': []}, inject_noise=True
            )
            
            user_content = f"URL: https://en.wikipedia.org\nQuery: {other_question}\n\nBlocks:\n{block_text}\n\nOutput the index intervals of blocks relevant to the query."
            
            messages = [
                {"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT_QE},
                {"role": "user", "content": user_content},
                {"role": "assistant", "content": "NA"}
            ]
            examples.append({
                "messages": messages,
                "task_type": "query_relevant_na",
                "source": "hotpotqa_mismatched"
            })
        except:
            continue
    
    # Keep only a fraction (the paper mentions partial filtering of NA)
    random.shuffle(examples)
    examples = examples[:300]
    print(f"Created {len(examples)} NA examples")
    return examples


def main():
    # Build all training examples
    qe_examples = process_hotpotqa()
    me_examples = create_synthetic_web_pages()
    na_examples = create_na_examples()
    
    all_examples = qe_examples + me_examples + na_examples
    random.shuffle(all_examples)
    
    print(f"\nTotal examples: {len(all_examples)}")
    
    # Count by type
    type_counts = defaultdict(int)
    for ex in all_examples:
        type_counts[ex['task_type']] += 1
    for t, c in type_counts.items():
        print(f"  {t}: {c}")
    
    # Check lengths
    from transformers import AutoTokenizer
    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B")
    
    lengths = []
    for ex in all_examples[:500]:
        text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(ex['messages'], tokenize=False)
        tokens = tokenizer.encode(text)
        lengths.append(len(tokens))
    
    print(f"\nToken length stats (sample of 500):")
    print(f"  Min: {min(lengths)}")
    print(f"  Max: {max(lengths)}")
    print(f"  Mean: {sum(lengths)/len(lengths):.0f}")
    print(f"  Median: {sorted(lengths)[len(lengths)//2]}")
    
    # Filter out examples that are too long (>4096 tokens for efficiency)
    MAX_LEN = 4096
    filtered = []
    too_long = 0
    for ex in all_examples:
        text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(ex['messages'], tokenize=False)
        tokens = tokenizer.encode(text)
        if len(tokens) <= MAX_LEN:
            filtered.append(ex)
        else:
            too_long += 1
    
    print(f"\nFiltered: {too_long} examples too long (>{MAX_LEN} tokens)")
    print(f"Final dataset: {len(filtered)} examples")
    
    # Split into train/eval
    random.shuffle(filtered)
    eval_size = min(500, len(filtered) // 10)
    train_data = filtered[:-eval_size]
    eval_data = filtered[-eval_size:]
    
    print(f"Train: {len(train_data)}, Eval: {len(eval_data)}")
    
    # Create HF dataset with just messages column (for SFTTrainer)
    train_ds = Dataset.from_list([{"messages": ex["messages"]} for ex in train_data])
    eval_ds = Dataset.from_list([{"messages": ex["messages"]} for ex in eval_data])
    
    # Save locally
    train_ds.save_to_disk("/app/indexlm_train")
    eval_ds.save_to_disk("/app/indexlm_eval")
    
    # Also push to HF Hub
    from datasets import DatasetDict
    import os
    ds_dict = DatasetDict({"train": train_ds, "eval": eval_ds})
    ds_dict.push_to_hub("OmAlve/indexlm-training-data", token=os.environ.get("HF_TOKEN"))
    
    print("\nDone! Dataset pushed to OmAlve/indexlm-training-data")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

5.2 Training Script (train_indexlm.py)

"""
IndexLM Training Script - Fine-tune Qwen3-0.6B for Index-based Web Content Extraction

Based on: "An Index-based Approach for Efficient and Effective Web Content Extraction" (arxiv:2512.06641)
Base model: Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B (0.6B params, ideal for CPU deployment)
Training method: SFT with TRL SFTTrainer
Dataset: OmAlve/indexlm-training-data (25K+ examples)
"""

import os
import torch
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from trl import SFTTrainer, SFTConfig
import trackio

# ============ Configuration ============
MODEL_ID = "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B"
DATASET_ID = "OmAlve/indexlm-training-data"
OUTPUT_DIR = "./indexlm-0.6b"
HUB_MODEL_ID = "OmAlve/IndexLM-0.6B"

# Training hyperparameters (from paper: standard SFT)
LEARNING_RATE = 2e-5
NUM_EPOCHS = 3
BATCH_SIZE = 4
GRAD_ACCUM = 4  # Effective batch size = 16
MAX_SEQ_LENGTH = 4096
WARMUP_RATIO = 0.05

# ============ Setup Trackio ============
trackio.init(
    name="indexlm-0.6b-training",
    project="indexlm"
)

# ============ Load Dataset ============
print("Loading dataset...")
dataset = load_dataset(DATASET_ID)
train_dataset = dataset["train"]
eval_dataset = dataset["eval"]
print(f"Train: {len(train_dataset)}, Eval: {len(eval_dataset)}")

# ============ Load Model & Tokenizer ============
print("Loading model and tokenizer...")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)

# Ensure padding token is set
if tokenizer.pad_token is None:
    tokenizer.pad_token = tokenizer.eos_token

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    MODEL_ID,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",  # Change to "sdpa" if flash-attn unavailable
)

print(f"Model loaded: {MODEL_ID}")
print(f"Model params: {sum(p.numel() for p in model.parameters()) / 1e6:.1f}M")

# ============ Training Config ============
training_args = SFTConfig(
    output_dir=OUTPUT_DIR,
    num_train_epochs=NUM_EPOCHS,
    per_device_train_batch_size=BATCH_SIZE,
    per_device_eval_batch_size=BATCH_SIZE,
    gradient_accumulation_steps=GRAD_ACCUM,
    learning_rate=LEARNING_RATE,
    lr_scheduler_type="cosine",
    warmup_ratio=WARMUP_RATIO,
    weight_decay=0.01,
    bf16=True,
    gradient_checkpointing=True,
    max_length=MAX_SEQ_LENGTH,
    # Logging
    logging_steps=10,
    logging_first_step=True,
    logging_strategy="steps",
    disable_tqdm=True,
    # Evaluation
    eval_strategy="steps",
    eval_steps=500,
    # Saving
    save_strategy="steps",
    save_steps=500,
    save_total_limit=3,
    load_best_model_at_end=True,
    metric_for_best_model="eval_loss",
    greater_is_better=False,
    # Hub push
    push_to_hub=True,
    hub_model_id=HUB_MODEL_ID,
    hub_strategy="every_save",
    # Performance
    dataloader_num_workers=4,
    dataloader_pin_memory=True,
    # Report
    report_to="none",
    # Seed
    seed=42,
)

# ============ Initialize Trainer ============
print("Initializing trainer...")
trainer = SFTTrainer(
    model=model,
    args=training_args,
    train_dataset=train_dataset,
    eval_dataset=eval_dataset,
    processing_class=tokenizer,
)

# ============ Train ============
print("Starting training...")
train_result = trainer.train()

# ============ Save Final Model ============
print("Saving final model...")
trainer.save_model(OUTPUT_DIR)
tokenizer.save_pretrained(OUTPUT_DIR)

# Push to Hub
print("Pushing to Hub...")
trainer.push_to_hub(commit_message="Final IndexLM-0.6B model")

# ============ Log Final Metrics ============
metrics = train_result.metrics
print(f"\nTraining complete!")
print(f"  Train loss: {metrics.get('train_loss', 'N/A')}")
print(f"  Train runtime: {metrics.get('train_runtime', 'N/A'):.0f}s")
print(f"  Train samples/sec: {metrics.get('train_samples_per_second', 'N/A'):.1f}")

# Final eval
eval_metrics = trainer.evaluate()
print(f"  Eval loss: {eval_metrics.get('eval_loss', 'N/A')}")

print(f"\nModel pushed to: https://huggingface.co/{HUB_MODEL_ID}")

5.3 Evaluation Script (eval_indexlm.py)

"""
IndexLM Evaluation Script

Tests the trained model on:
1. Query-relevant extraction (QE) - F1/Precision/Recall
2. Main content extraction (ME) - F1/Precision/Recall
3. Inference speed on CPU
"""

import json
import time
import os
import torch
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer


def parse_intervals(text):
    """Parse interval string like '[[1,3],[5,7]]' into a set of indices."""
    text = text.strip()
    if text.upper() == 'NA' or not text:
        return set()
    try:
        intervals = json.loads(text)
        indices = set()
        for start, end in intervals:
            indices.update(range(start, end + 1))
        return indices
    except (json.JSONDecodeError, TypeError, ValueError):
        return set()


def compute_f1(pred_indices, gold_indices):
    """Compute F1, precision, recall between two sets of indices."""
    if not pred_indices and not gold_indices:
        return 1.0, 1.0, 1.0
    if not pred_indices or not gold_indices:
        return 0.0, 0.0, 0.0
    
    tp = len(pred_indices & gold_indices)
    precision = tp / len(pred_indices) if pred_indices else 0
    recall = tp / len(gold_indices) if gold_indices else 0
    f1 = 2 * precision * recall / (precision + recall) if (precision + recall) > 0 else 0
    return f1, precision, recall


def generate_response(model, tokenizer, messages, device, max_new_tokens=128):
    """Generate model response for given messages."""
    text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
        messages[:-1],  # Exclude assistant message (ground truth)
        tokenize=False,
        add_generation_prompt=True,
        enable_thinking=False,
    )
    inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt", truncation=True, max_length=4096).to(device)
    
    with torch.no_grad():
        outputs = model.generate(
            **inputs,
            max_new_tokens=max_new_tokens,
            do_sample=False,  # Greedy for deterministic eval
            temperature=1.0,
            pad_token_id=tokenizer.pad_token_id,
        )
    
    # Decode only the new tokens
    new_tokens = outputs[0][inputs['input_ids'].shape[1]:]
    response = tokenizer.decode(new_tokens, skip_special_tokens=True)
    return response.strip()


def evaluate_model(model_id, device="cpu", num_samples=100):
    """Run full evaluation."""
    print(f"\n{'='*60}")
    print(f"Evaluating: {model_id}")
    print(f"Device: {device}")
    print(f"{'='*60}")
    
    # Load model
    print("Loading model...")
    dtype = torch.float32 if device == "cpu" else torch.bfloat16
    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
    model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
        model_id,
        torch_dtype=dtype,
        attn_implementation="sdpa",
    ).to(device)
    model.eval()
    
    # Load eval dataset
    print("Loading eval dataset...")
    dataset = load_dataset("OmAlve/indexlm-training-data", split="eval")
    
    # Sample
    if len(dataset) > num_samples:
        dataset = dataset.shuffle(seed=42).select(range(num_samples))
    
    # Categorize examples
    qe_examples = []
    me_examples = []
    
    for row in dataset:
        msgs = row['messages']
        system_msg = msgs[0]['content'] if msgs[0]['role'] == 'system' else ''
        if 'query' in system_msg.lower() and 'relevant' in system_msg.lower():
            qe_examples.append(msgs)
        else:
            me_examples.append(msgs)
    
    print(f"QE examples: {len(qe_examples)}, ME examples: {len(me_examples)}")
    
    # Evaluate QE
    print("\n--- Query-Relevant Extraction (QE) ---")
    qe_metrics = evaluate_task(model, tokenizer, qe_examples[:50], device)
    
    # Evaluate ME
    print("\n--- Main Content Extraction (ME) ---")
    me_metrics = evaluate_task(model, tokenizer, me_examples[:50], device)
    
    # Speed test
    print("\n--- Inference Speed Test ---")
    speed_test(model, tokenizer, qe_examples[:20], device)
    
    return qe_metrics, me_metrics


def evaluate_task(model, tokenizer, examples, device):
    """Evaluate on a set of examples."""
    if not examples:
        print("No examples for this task.")
        return {}
    
    f1_scores = []
    precision_scores = []
    recall_scores = []
    exact_matches = 0
    
    for i, msgs in enumerate(examples):
        gold = msgs[-1]['content']
        gold_indices = parse_intervals(gold)
        
        pred = generate_response(model, tokenizer, msgs, device)
        pred_indices = parse_intervals(pred)
        
        f1, prec, rec = compute_f1(pred_indices, gold_indices)
        f1_scores.append(f1)
        precision_scores.append(prec)
        recall_scores.append(rec)
        
        if pred_indices == gold_indices:
            exact_matches += 1
        
        if i < 3:
            print(f"  Example {i+1}:")
            print(f"    Gold: {gold}")
            print(f"    Pred: {pred}")
            print(f"    F1: {f1:.3f}, P: {prec:.3f}, R: {rec:.3f}")
    
    avg_f1 = sum(f1_scores) / len(f1_scores) * 100
    avg_prec = sum(precision_scores) / len(precision_scores) * 100
    avg_rec = sum(recall_scores) / len(recall_scores) * 100
    em_rate = exact_matches / len(examples) * 100
    
    print(f"\n  Results ({len(examples)} examples):")
    print(f"    F1: {avg_f1:.2f}")
    print(f"    Precision: {avg_prec:.2f}")
    print(f"    Recall: {avg_rec:.2f}")
    print(f"    Exact Match: {em_rate:.2f}%")
    
    return {"f1": avg_f1, "precision": avg_prec, "recall": avg_rec, "exact_match": em_rate}


def speed_test(model, tokenizer, examples, device):
    """Test inference speed."""
    if not examples:
        return
    
    times = []
    for msgs in examples:
        start = time.time()
        _ = generate_response(model, tokenizer, msgs, device)
        elapsed = time.time() - start
        times.append(elapsed)
    
    avg_time = sum(times) / len(times)
    print(f"  Average inference time: {avg_time:.3f}s ({device})")
    print(f"  Min: {min(times):.3f}s, Max: {max(times):.3f}s")
    print(f"  Throughput: {1/avg_time:.1f} pages/sec")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    model_id = os.environ.get("MODEL_ID", "OmAlve/IndexLM-0.6B")
    device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
    evaluate_model(model_id, device=device, num_samples=100)

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6. Key Design Decisions & Rationale

Why Qwen3-0.6B?

• The paper uses Qwen3-0.6B/1.7B/4B. The 0.6B achieves near-identical performance to 4B on RAG QA (54.70 vs 55.41 avg F1)
• 0.6B is 1.4GB in bf16, ~700MB in INT4 — runs fast on CPU
• TRL's own SFT documentation uses Qwen3-0.6B as its default example model — maximum compatibility
• Qwen3 has GQA (grouped-query attention) which is faster for inference than MHA

Why not ReaderLM-v2?

• ReaderLM-v2 does generative HTML→Markdown extraction (different task)
• It's 33-70× slower than IndexLM on the paper's benchmarks
• Fine-tuning it for index prediction would fight against its pretrained generation behavior

Dataset construction vs. the paper

The paper uses:

1. Google Search API crawls → real HTML from the web
2. DeepSeek V3 annotation with 5-run majority voting
3. Common Crawl WARC files

We approximate this with:

1. HotpotQA's structured context (title + sentences) converted to indexed HTML blocks
2. Programmatic labeling from HotpotQA's supporting_facts ground truth (higher quality than LLM annotation)
3. Synthetic noise injection (nav, ads, cookies, etc.) to simulate real web clutter
4. Mismatched query-page pairs for NA examples

Trade-off: Our HTML blocks are simpler than real web HTML (no nested tables, complex CSS-in-JS, etc.). For production use, augmenting with real crawled HTML would improve robustness. The paper's full pipeline would require API costs (Google Search, DeepSeek V3).

Hyperparameters

Directly from the paper Section 3.3.2: "The training process is a typical SFT process" on Qwen3. We use:

• lr=2e-5 (TRL SFT default, standard for Qwen3)
• 3 epochs (standard SFT)
• Effective batch size 16 (4 × 4 grad accum)
• Cosine LR schedule with 5% warmup
• max_length=4096 (covers 99.8% of our data, well within Qwen3's 32K context)

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7. What's Left To Do

Task	Status	Notes
Run train_indexlm.py	❌	Needs GPU — a10g-large recommended (~$8 total)
Run eval_indexlm.py	❌	After training completes
ONNX export for CPU	❌	Optional: optimum-cli export onnx --model OmAlve/IndexLM-0.6B indexlm-onnx/
INT4 quantization	❌	Optional: use bitsandbytes or llama.cpp for faster CPU
Real HTML augmentation	❌	Optional: crawl real web pages to augment training data

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8. Resources

Resource	URL
Paper	https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06641
Training dataset	https://huggingface.co/datasets/OmAlve/indexlm-training-data
Base model	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B
Output model (after training)	https://huggingface.co/OmAlve/IndexLM-0.6B
TRL SFT docs	https://huggingface.co/docs/trl/sft_trainer
HotpotQA source	https://huggingface.co/datasets/hotpotqa/hotpot_qa

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9. Dependencies

transformers>=4.51.0
trl>=1.2.0
torch
datasets
accelerate
trackio
flash-attn  # optional, GPU training only
beautifulsoup4  # only for prepare_data.py
lxml  # only for prepare_data.py