---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
library_name: transformers
tags:
- text-enhancement
- grammar-correction
- text-rewriting
- encoder-decoder
- transformer
- pytorch
---

# EDEN: Encoder Decoder Enhancement Network
![Screenshot 2026-06-19 at 12.34.20 PM](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6621a7e5c92239f49986aa49/ZbB3uCwi3TztukYL60E7Y.png)


EDEN is a from-scratch PyTorch encoder-decoder Transformer that rewrites rough
text into clean, polished text. It fixes spelling, grammar, punctuation, and
phrasing while keeping the original meaning. The model was built and trained
from the ground up (architecture, tokenizer, and training loop) and runs
comfortably on a single machine, including Apple Silicon.

This repository contains everything needed to use the model, retrain it, and
extend it:

* The trained model weights in safetensors format.
* A Hugging Face Transformers integration (`AutoModel` with `trust_remote_code`).
* The full training, fine-tuning, and evaluation engine.
* A local web dashboard for training and trying the model in a browser.

## Model summary

| Property | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Architecture | Encoder-decoder Transformer with tied embeddings |
| Parameters | About 107 million |
| Encoder layers | 8 |
| Decoder layers | 8 |
| Hidden size | 640 |
| Attention heads | 10 |
| Feed-forward size | 2560 |
| Vocabulary | 24,000 byte-level BPE tokens |
| Max sequence length | 512 tokens |
| Held-out validation loss | 0.123 (cross entropy) |
| Precision | float32 |

## Quick start

First install the two dependencies (one time):

```bash
pip3 install torch transformers
```

### Option 1: chat with EDEN in the terminal (recommended)

This opens a simple interactive interface, similar to Ollama. Type or paste
rough text, press Enter, and get the cleaned-up version. Type `/bye` or press
Ctrl+D to quit.

```bash
python3 examples/try_eden.py
```

macOS users can also double-click `Try EDEN.command` to open the same interface
in a terminal window.

Example session:

```text
>>> their are alot of reasons why this dont work proper
There are a lot of reasons why this do not work proper.

>>> /bye
Goodbye.
```

### Option 2: one terminal command

Paste this whole line into your terminal to clean a single sentence:

```bash
python3 -c "from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer; t=AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('Rybib/EDEN', trust_remote_code=True); m=AutoModel.from_pretrained('Rybib/EDEN', trust_remote_code=True).eval(); print(m.enhance(t, 'i relly wnt this to sound beter'))"
```

### Option 3: a Python script

The lines below are Python, not terminal commands. Save them as a file such as
`run.py`, then run `python3 run.py`. Do not paste them straight into the
terminal.

```python
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

model_id = "Rybib/EDEN"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True).eval()

rough = "i relly wnt this sentance to sound more profesional"
print(model.enhance(tokenizer, rough))
# I really want this sentence to sound more professional.
```

The `enhance` method handles long inputs by splitting them into sentence-aware
chunks, rewriting each chunk, and joining the results.

### Decoding options

```python
model.enhance(
    tokenizer,
    "their are alot of reasons why this dont work proper",
    strategy="beam",          # "beam", "greedy", or "sample"
    beam_size=4,
    repetition_penalty=1.08,
    length_penalty=0.7,
)
```

## What the model is good at

EDEN was trained on rough-to-polished text pairs covering several editing skills:

* Spelling and typo correction, including dyslexia-style letter swaps.
* Grammar correction.
* Punctuation and capitalization.
* Clearer, more fluent rewriting and light paraphrasing.
* Preserving the original meaning rather than inventing new content.

It is an editing model, not a chatbot or a general text generator. Give it a
sentence or paragraph to clean up, not a question or an instruction.

## Training data

The dataset is built from publicly available text-editing corpora plus generated
noise, combined into rough-text to clean-text pairs:

| Source | Role |
| --- | --- |
| JFLEG | Grammar correction examples |
| Grammarly CoEdIT | Correction and rewrite tasks |
| W&I / LOCNESS | Learner-English correction |
| ASSET | Sentence simplification |
| WikiSplit | Sentence and paragraph flow |
| MRPC | Meaning-preserving paraphrase pairs |
| Synthetic noise | Generated typos, swaps, punctuation, and capitalization fixes |

You can rebuild the dataset locally with the training engine described below.

## Retrain or extend the model

This repository ships the complete training engine as an importable `eden`
package and a command-line tool.

```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Build the dataset and tokenizer, then train from scratch.
python -m eden.cli prepare
python -m eden.cli train

# Continue training on your own examples.
python -m eden.cli finetune --data my_pairs.jsonl --mix-base

# Enhance text from the command line.
python -m eden.cli enhance "i relly wnt this to sound beter"
```

Your own fine-tuning data is a JSONL file of input and target pairs:

```jsonl
{"input": "bad rough text here", "target": "Polished text here."}
{"input": "another messy sentance", "target": "Another polished sentence."}
```

Keeping `--mix-base` on is recommended so the model learns your style without
forgetting general spelling and grammar ability.

See [docs/TRAINING.md](docs/TRAINING.md) for the full workflow and
[docs/ARCHITECTURE.md](docs/ARCHITECTURE.md) for how the model is built.

## Local web dashboard

```bash
python -m eden.cli ui
# then open http://127.0.0.1:7860
```

The dashboard can start, pause, and resume training, shows live loss and
validation metrics, watches memory use, and runs a finished checkpoint directly
in the browser.

## Fine-tuning with the Transformers Trainer

The model also supports standard supervised training. `forward` accepts `labels`
and returns a loss, so it works with the Hugging Face `Trainer` for users who
prefer that workflow. Tokens that should be ignored in the loss use the index
`-100`, and `decoder_input_ids` are shifted from `labels` automatically.

## Files in this repository

| File | Purpose |
| --- | --- |
| `model.safetensors` | Trained model weights |
| `config.json` | Model configuration |
| `configuration_eden.py` | Configuration class for Transformers |
| `modeling_eden.py` | Model class for Transformers |
| `tokenizer.json` | Byte-level BPE tokenizer |
| `eden/` | Training, fine-tuning, and inference engine |
| `scripts/` | Checkpoint conversion and upload helpers |
| `examples/` | Runnable usage examples |
| `docs/` | Architecture and training guides |

## Limitations

* English only.
* Best on sentence and paragraph length inputs, up to 512 tokens per chunk.
* It can occasionally change wording more than intended. Beam search with the
  default penalties gives the most conservative edits.
* It is not designed to answer questions, follow instructions, or generate new
  content from scratch.

## License

Released under the Apache License 2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).

## Citation

```bibtex
@software{eden_text_enhancement,
  title  = {EDEN: Encoder Decoder Enhancement Network},
  author = {Dunn, Ryan},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/Rybib/EDEN}
}
```