Mitchins/t5-narrative-summary-small

🔍 Comparison with Base Model (t5-small)

The following examples showcase summaries produced by the custom fine-tuned t5-narrative-summary-small model, compared with the vanilla t5-small. Inputs are handcrafted to reflect different narrative and world-building styles. The examples highlight how t5-narrative-summary-small consistently delivers concise, context-aware, and high-recall summaries with better compression and thematic cohesion across varied prose types.

Type	Passage	t5-narrative-summary-small	t5-small
Narrative	Sally paused at the doorway, taking a deep breath. This was the moment she had been waiting for, but why was she suddenly nervous? She steeled her nerves and pushed on the door. Whatever happened next, things wouldn't be the same.	Sally paused at the doorway, feeling nervous and pushing on the door.	paused at the doorway... Why was she suddenly nervous? She steeled her nerves and pushed on the door. Whatever happened next, things wouldn't be the same.
Emotive/Mystery	It was the video you sent me, and the fact that you sent no more, which made me go looking for answers... You had just delivered a baby to a dolphin couple under-water in the salt-water environment... You were sometimes very mysterious, my Lunzie, but never less than polite.	You sent me a video, and you were incredibly happy. You were a mysterious, polite man who delivered a baby to a dolphin couple in a salt-water environment.	...and it was all over between us. You were sometimes very mysterious... You were sometimes very mysterious, my Lunzie, but never less than polite.
Atmospheric Sci-fi	The server farm stretched for miles beneath Antarctica’s crust, its hum the only heartbeat Sloan had heard in weeks. The experiment was working—or so the telemetry said—but nothing replaced the sound of another voice.	The server farm was a telemetry experiment under Antarctica’s crust, but no response.	...nothing replaced the sound of another voice. She pinged Control again. No reply. Just ice and algorithms now.
Suspenseful Discovery	Mira never lit the lantern before sundown, but today felt different... Her grandmother’s ring was missing, and the house creaked in ways that suggested it knew.	Mira’s grandmother’s ring was missing, and the house shattered as she entered the cellar.	the lantern before sundown, but today felt different... Dust spiraled in the fading light...
Sci-fi Survival	The colony dome flickered as Rian entered the airlock... Jupiter loomed—a swollen god watching from the void. Inside, the scent of rust and recycled air grounded him.	Rian entered the colony dome, Jupiter loomed, a god watching from the void. It was a survival shaped by engineering and hope.	...a god watching from the void. Inside, the scent of rust and recycled air grounded him.
Regretful Memory	Lena stood beside the old rail bridge... The letter from her brother still weighed heavily in her coat pocket—words etched in worry and finality.	Lena’s brother’s letter weighed in her coat pocket, revealing a bleak, unsettling promise.	...promises were slippery things... Lena stood beside the old rail bridge...
World-building Lore	The Skyhold Accord: Established 214 years after the Fall, the Accord unified the four remaining Skyholds—floating cities suspended by pre-Collapse graviton engines...	The Skyhold Accord, established 214 years after the Fall, unified the remaining Skyholds – floating cities suspended by graviton engines. They adhere to shared protocols regarding drift stability and resource exchange, while Skyhold Nemet boasts the largest hydroponic bay.	Accord unified the four remaining Skyholds... floating cities... exiled surface...

⚙️ Usage Note: All outputs were generated using the following decoding parameters for both models, which ensure a balanced tradeoff between summary conciseness and semantic coverage:

• max_new_tokens: 64
• length_penalty: 1.1
• early_stopping: False
• num_beams: dynamically scaled as min(max(2, len(input_tokens) // 32), 8)

Change-log:

Versin 0.2

Improved summarization fidelity for narrative, emotional, and world-building passages through enhanced abstraction, deduplication, and compression—without regressions in coherence or fluency