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# MiniCheck overview

> Check whether a document supports a claim with Bespoke-MiniCheck-7B.

Grounded fact checking asks whether a document supports a claim. You give the check a document, called the context, and one sentence, called the claim. The answer is yes if the context supports the claim and no if it does not. In retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a model answers from documents it looked up, so a claim that those documents do not support is a hallucination.

Bespoke-MiniCheck-7B is a 7B model for this check. It takes a context and a claim and returns the probability that the context supports the claim. Bespoke Labs trained it from InternLM 2.5 7B Chat, based on the method in the [MiniCheck paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10774) (EMNLP 2024).

## How to use the model well

* Check one sentence at a time. Split a longer claim into sentences first.
* The context can be up to 32K tokens. Split a longer document into chunks.
* A support probability of 0.5 or more usually counts as supported. Change this threshold to fit your use case.

## Benchmark

On the [LLM-AggreFact leaderboard](https://llm-aggrefact.github.io/), Bespoke-MiniCheck-7B has an average balanced accuracy of 77.4%. As of September 2026, this is the highest average of the 39 models on the leaderboard. Most of those models were released in 2024 or earlier.

## License

The model weights are under the [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) license, which does not allow commercial use. For a commercial license, email [company@bespokelabs.ai](mailto:company@bespokelabs.ai).

## Ways to run MiniCheck

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    Run the model on your own GPU with the MiniCheck library or vLLM.
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  <Card title="Ollama" icon="laptop" href="/minicheck/integrations">
    Run the model on your own computer with Ollama.
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  <Card title="Hosted API" icon="cloud" href="/minicheck/api">
    Call the model through the Bespoke Labs API.
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