Longformer-es-m-base-ICE-MR23-ED is a Spanish long-context language model for early detection of eating disorder risk, trained using the Incremental Context Expansion (ICE) methodology. This model builds upon the Longformer-es-mental-base foundation model and represents the base-sized version of the ICE-adapted Longformer models for the Eating Disorder task.

Compared to its large counterpart, this version contains fewer parameters, offering a more computationally efficient alternative while preserving the ability to process long user message histories. The model is designed for scenarios where mental health–related evidence is distributed across multiple messages and predictions must be generated incrementally.

The ICE methodology restructures the training data at the context level, enabling the model to learn from progressively expanding user message histories rather than complete user timelines. This setup better reflects real-world early detection conditions.

The model is based on the Longformer architecture and supports input sequences of up to 4096 tokens. It has been fine-tuned for the Eating Disorder (ED) task using the MentalRisk 2023 (MR23) benchmark under early detection evaluation settings.

Developed by: ELiRF group, VRAIN (Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence), Universitat Politècnica de València
Shared by: ELiRF
Model type: Transformer-based sequence classification model (Longformer)
Language: Spanish
Base model: Longformer-es-mental-base
License: Same as base model

Uses

This model is intended for research purposes in early mental health risk detection.

Direct Use

The model can be used directly for early detection of eating disorder risk from Spanish user-generated content, where predictions are generated incrementally as new user messages become available.

Downstream Use

Early risk detection for eating disorders
User-level mental health screening
Comparative studies of early detection methodologies
Research on incremental and temporally-aware NLP models

Out-of-Scope Use

Automated intervention systems without human supervision
Use on languages other than Spanish
High-stakes or real-time decision-making affecting individuals’ health

ICE Methodology

Incremental Context Expansion (ICE) is a training methodology designed for early detection tasks. Instead of training on full user histories, ICE generates multiple incremental contexts per user, each corresponding to a partial message history.

This approach allows the model to:

Learn from early and incomplete evidence
Reduce detection latency
Improve robustness under early detection evaluation metrics

ICE modifies the dataset construction process while keeping the standard fine-tuning pipeline unchanged.

Bias, Risks, and Limitations

Training data originates from social media platforms and may contain demographic and cultural biases.
Automatically translated texts may include translation artifacts.
Early detection tasks are inherently uncertain due to limited available evidence.
The model does not provide explanations or clinical interpretations of its predictions.

How to Get Started with the Model

python

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSequenceClassification

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ELiRF/Longformer-es-m-base-ICE-MR23-ED")
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
    "ELiRF/Longformer-es-m-base-ICE-MR23-ED"
)

inputs = tokenizer(
    "Ejemplo de historial de mensajes relacionado con trastornos alimentarios.",
    return_tensors="pt",
    truncation=True,
    max_length=4096
)

outputs = model(**inputs)

Training Details

Training Data

The model was fine-tuned on the MentalRisk 2023 Eating Disorder (MR23-ED) dataset. Training data was restructured using the ICE methodology, generating incremental user contexts from original user timelines.

Training Procedure

Base model: Longformer-es-mental-base
Fine-tuning strategy: ICE-based context-level training
Objective: Sequence classification
Training regime: fp16 mixed precision

Evaluation

Results

When evaluated on the MentalRisk 2023 Eating Disorder task, Longformer-es-m-base-ICE-MR23-ED shows competitive performance under early detection evaluation settings and strong results in full-context (user-level) scenarios, offering a favorable trade-off between performance and computational efficiency.

Environmental Impact

Hardware type: NVIDIA A40 GPUs
Training time: several hours (fine-tuning)

Technical Specifications

Model Architecture and Objective

Architecture: Longformer (base)
Objective: Sequence classification
Maximum sequence length: 4096 tokens
Model size: approximately 150M parameters

Citation

This model is part of an ongoing research project. The associated paper is currently under review and will be added to this model card once the publication process is completed.

Model Card Authors

ELiRF research group (VRAIN, Universitat Politècnica de València)