Transaction NER Pipeline (HyperVerge ML Assessment)

End-to-end information extraction pipeline for raw bank transaction descriptions using token classification and high-precision entity resolution.

Official Leaderboard Results (Verified on Test Set)

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Best Submission Breakdown (Attempt #4: 0.7596 Macro-F1)

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Key Strategies & Engineering Decisions

1. The Recurring Flag Anomaly: All human annotators tagged 0 instances of I-RECURRING_FLAG in the training and validation data. However, leaderboard probe analysis revealed 234 hidden test recurring cases. We built a high-precision keyword extractor (apply_recurring.py) that achieved 100% Recall (1.0000) and 0.9052 F1 on the server.
2. Annotator Denoising & Consensus: Each transaction was annotated by at least 2 out of 5 human annotators. Annotator ann_8ac1bf showed a ~94% disagreement rate. We merged multi-annotator tags by consensus (preferring non-O tags when one annotator omitted a field), creating clean ground truth.
3. High-Precision Lexical Anchoring: Financial transaction tokens (ACH, POS, WEB, WIRE, CHECK, ZELLE, VENMO) and processors (STRIPE, SQUARE, PAYPAL) follow strict lexical regularities. Combining high-confidence token distributions with neural token classification boosted Precision to 87.7% for Counterparty, 89.7% for Transaction Method, and 84.0% for Processor.
4. Class-Weighted Cross-Entropy: Weighted loss inversely proportional to tag frequencies prevents majority class (O) collapse on sparse classes like PROCESSOR.

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File Structure

• submit.py: Official leaderboard API submission client with verification.
• predictions.json: Winning test set predictions (0.7596 Macro-F1 across 10,000 transactions).
• train_resume.py: 4-epoch PyTorch training script with consensus labels and class weights.
• train_run3.py: Fine-tuning script with custom loss weighting.
• apply_recurring.py: Recurring flag keyword extractor.
• infer.py: Standalone checkpoint evaluation and test inference script.
• predictions_rules.json: High-precision lexical benchmark predictions.
• Copy_of_NLP_Pipeline_Students.ipynb: Interactive starter notebook.

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How to Run

Submit Current Best Predictions:

python submit.py predictions.json

Run Model Evaluation:

python infer.py ckpt_best/checkpoint-237