Protect Your Sensitive Data with Piiranha-v1

Emad Dehnavi
2 min readSep 14, 2024

Are you worried about protecting your users’ sensitive data from unauthorized access? Piiranha-v1 can help. It is a strong and accurate open model for detecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

Protect Your Sensitive Data with Piiranha-v1

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Piiranha-v1 is released under the MIT License, which is very permissive. It is a small encoder model with 280M parameters and it supports six languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Dutch. The model has been fine-tuned to detect PII with very high accuracy.

Top Performance

Piiranha-v1 has very good performance results:

  • 98.27% PII token detection rate
  • 99.44% classification accuracy
  • 100% accuracy for emails and almost perfect for passwords

These results show the model can detect sensitive information very well, making it a good tool for any organization that works with PII.

Supported PII Types

Piiranha-v1 can detect 17 types of PII in six languages, including:

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Emad Dehnavi
Emad Dehnavi

Written by Emad Dehnavi

With 8 years as a software engineer, I write about AI and technology in a simple way. My goal is to make these topics easy and interesting for everyone.

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