Results updated 19 Sep 2026

Methodology

A transparent scoring contract. Every number has a denominator.

A benchmark you can inspect.

Frozen inputs. Declared masking rules. Exact counts.
A descriptive comparison under one protocol.

EXPERIMENT2026-09-09RESULT REVISION2026-09-19

01 · The inputs

41 retained dataset cuts cover Russian, English and multilingual PII and secrets. Rows and normalized gold annotations retain their source identity.

02 · The mask

Predicted offsets are normalized to word boundaries. Detection requires any character overlap; full hiding requires every annotated character to be covered.

03 · The comparison

Known training-source overlaps are excluded. Complete coverage is the default. Pairwise comparisons use the intersection of eligible datasets.

04 · The limits

Unannotated rows are not verified clean. Compositions were inspected on this benchmark. Observed percentages are not production leak probabilities.

How to read the metrics

Untouched

Sensitive items with no detector overlap. Lower is better. This is not a production leak rate.

Fully hidden

Sensitive items whose whole normalized value is covered by the mask. This is the main ranking metric.

Sensitive items with any detector overlap. Part of the value may still remain visible.

Extra masking

Text masked in rows with no labels. These rows were not manually verified clean, so this is not a false-positive rate.

Character F1

Character-level balance of precision and recall. It measures masked characters, not entity types.

CPU throughput

Seconds per 10,000 characters on the fixed CPU workload. This measures batch throughput, not request latency.

GPU throughput

Seconds per 10,000 characters on the fixed GPU workload. This measures batch throughput, not request latency.

Reproduce and extend

The public verification regenerates publication artifacts; it does not rerun inference.

uv sync --frozen
uv run python scripts/verify.py
uv run python scripts/render.py
uv run python scripts/verify.py
Source snapshot SHA-256496f1ccd1bf354c972e001c4ed78aed22fcae1e7df6c9fc7e65859f585e27198
Snapshot
PII Arena · Frozen 09 Sep 2026Publication v1.0.3 · MIT licensed