GLiNER-PII is inspired by the Gretel GLiNER PII/PHI models. Built on the GLiNER large-v2.1 base, it detects and classifies a broad range of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI) in structured and unstructured text. It is non-generative and produces span-level entity annotations with confidence scores across 55+ categories. This model was developed by NVIDIA.
This model is ready for commercial/non-commercial use.
This model was developed based on urchade/gliner_large-v2.1 Number of model parameters: 5.7 × 10^8
Input:
Input Type(s): Text Input Format: UTF-8 string(s) Input Parameters: One-Dimensional (1D) Other Properties Related to Input: supports structured and unstructured text
Output:
Output Type(s): Text Output Format: String Output Parameters: One-Dimensional (1D) Other Properties Related to Output: List of dictionaries with keys {text, label, start, end, score}
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Model Version(s):
nvidia/gliner-pii
Version: v1.0
Training and Evaluation Datasets:
Training Dataset
Link:nvidia/nemotron-pii Data Modality: Text Text Training Data Size: ~100k records (~10^5, <1B tokens) Data Collection Method: Synthetic Labeling Method: Synthetic
Properties:
Synthetic persona-grounded dataset generated with NVIDIA NeMo Data Designer, spanning 50+ industries and 55+ entity types (U.S. and international formats). Includes both structured and unstructured records. Labels automatically injected during generation.
Data Collection Method: Hybrid: Automated, Human Labeling Method: Hybrid: Automated, Human
Evaluation Results
From the combined evaluation across Argilla, AI4Privacy, and Gretel PII datasets:
Benchmark
Strict F1
Argilla PII
0.70
AI4Privacy
0.64
nvidia/Nemotron-PII
0.87
We evaluated the model using threshold=0.3.
Inference:
Acceleration Engine: PyTorch (via Hugging Face Transformers) Test Hardware: NVIDIA A100 (Ampere, PCIe/SXM)
Usage Recommendation
First, make sure you have the gliner library installed:
pip install gliner
Now, let's try to find an email, SSN, and phone number in a messy block of text.
from gliner import GLiNER
# 1. Define our new text
text = "Hi support, I can't log in! My account username is 'johndoe88'. Every time I try, it says 'invalid credentials'. Please reset my password. You can reach me at (555) 123-4567 or johnd@example.com"
# 2. Define the labels we're hunting for.
labels = ["email", "phone_number", "user_name"]
# 3. Load the PII model
model = GLiNER.from_pretrained("nvidia/gliner-pii")
# 4. Run the prediction at given threshold
entities = model.predict_entities(text, labels, threshold=0.5)
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