This model is a fine-tuned version of SPECTER2 (allenai/specter2_base) adapted for multiclass classification across the 8 Grande Áreas do Conhecimento of FAPESP.

The model accepts the title, abstract, or title + abstract of a research projects and assigns it to exactly one of the Areas (e.g., Linguistics, Literature and Arts; Health Sciences; Biological Sciences).

Key characteristics:

Base model: allenai/specter2_base
Task: multiclass document classification
Labels: 8 Cluster Areas
Activation: softmax
Loss: CrossEntropyLoss
Output: single best-matching FAPESP's Cluster Area category

FAPESP's Clusters represents broad disciplinary domains designed for high-level categorization of R&I documents.

Intended uses & limitations

This multiclass model is suitable for:

Assigning publications to top-level scientific disciplines
Enriching metadata in:
- repositories
- research output systems
- funding and project datasets
- bibliometric dashboards
Supporting scientometric analyses such as:
- broad-discipline portfolio mapping
- domain-level clustering
- modeling research diversification
Classifying documents when only title/abstract is available

The model supports inputs such as:

title only
abstract only
title + abstract (recommended)

Limitations

Documents spanning multiple fields must be forced into one label—an inherent limitation of multiclass classification.
The training labels come from FAPESP funded projects, not manual expert annotation.
Not suitable for:
- downstream tasks requiring multilabel outputs
- WoS Categories or ASJC Areas (use separate models)
- clinical or regulatory decision-making

Predictions should be treated as field-level disciplinary metadata.

Training and evaluation data

The training and evaluation dataset was constructed from publicly available FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) research project records. These records cover funded research projects and scholarships across all scientific domains in Brazil.

The dataset was assembled using the following CSV downloads provided by FAPESP:

Auxílios em andamento (ongoing research grants)
Auxílios concluídos (completed research grants)
Bolsas no Brasil em andamento (ongoing domestic scholarships)
Bolsas no Brasil concluídas (completed domestic scholarships)
Bolsas no exterior em andamento (ongoing international scholarships)
Bolsas no exterior concluídas (completed international scholarships)

Each record contains metadata such as project titles, abstracts, funding type, and scientific classifications.
From these files, the following fields were extracted and standardized:

Title (English)
Abstract (English)
Grande Área do Conhecimento (major scientific domain)
Área do Conhecimento (field of study)

Only entries containing at least one English component (title or abstract) were retained.
Scientific areas were normalized and mapped to a controlled English taxonomy to ensure consistency and comparability across records.

The final dataset consists of labeled scientific text samples distributed across multiple domains, providing a balanced corpus for supervised classification.

Training procedure

Preprocessing

Input text constructed as:
abstract
Tokenization using the SPECTER2 tokenizer
Maximum sequence length: 512 tokens

Model

Base model: allenai/specter2_base
Classification head: linear layer → softmax
Loss: CrossEntropyLoss

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

learning_rate: 2e-05
train_batch_size: 16
eval_batch_size: 16
seed: 42
optimizer: Use OptimizerNames.ADAMW_TORCH_FUSED with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08 and optimizer_args=No additional optimizer arguments
lr_scheduler_type: linear
num_epochs: 10

Training results

Training Loss	Epoch	Step	Validation Loss	Accuracy	Precision Micro	Precision Macro	Recall Micro	Recall Macro	F1 Micro	F1 Macro
0.5662	1.0	3807	0.5312	0.8141	0.8141	0.8121	0.8141	0.8063	0.8141	0.8087
0.4099	2.0	7614	0.5368	0.8182	0.8182	0.8118	0.8182	0.8177	0.8182	0.8141
0.2703	3.0	11421	0.6214	0.8173	0.8173	0.8112	0.8173	0.8176	0.8173	0.8125
0.1604	4.0	15228	0.8681	0.8259	0.8259	0.8265	0.8259	0.8219	0.8259	0.8230
0.1161	5.0	19035	1.0616	0.8229	0.8229	0.8207	0.8229	0.8214	0.8229	0.8205
0.0864	6.0	22842	1.2011	0.8212	0.8212	0.8176	0.8212	0.8198	0.8212	0.8178

Evaluation results

	precision	recall	f1-score	support
Agronomical Sciences	0.848943	0.805158	0.826471	349
Applied Social Sciences	0.745152	0.890728	0.811463	302
Biological Sciences	0.835052	0.826531	0.830769	686
Engineering	0.836036	0.890595	0.862454	521
Health Sciences	0.828283	0.833333	0.8308	492
Humanities	0.891648	0.816116	0.852211	484
Linguistics, Literature and Arts	0.855346	0.85	0.852665	160
Physical Sciences and Mathematics	0.872576	0.807692	0.838881	390
accuracy	0.838357	0.838357	0.838357	0.838357
macro avg	0.839129	0.840019	0.838214	3384
weighted avg	0.841008	0.838357	0.838523	3384

Framework versions

Transformers 4.57.1
Pytorch 2.8.0+cu126
Datasets 3.6.0
Tokenizers 0.22.1

SIRIS-Lab/specter2-fapesp-cluster-multiclass

📗 SPECTER2–FAPESP Cluster (Multiclass Classification on FAPESP Grande Area do Conhecimento (Level 1))

Model description