Large language models frequently generate plausible but unfaithful summaries that users cannot verify against source text, a critical limitation in compliance-sensitive domains such as government and legal analysis. We present sui-1, a 24B parameter model that produces abstractive summaries with inline citations, enabling users to trace each claim to its source sentence. Our synthetic data pipeline combines chain-of-thought prompting with multi-stage verification, generating over 22,000 high-quality training examples across five languages from diverse sources including parliamentary documents, web text, and Wikipedia. Evaluation shows sui-1 significantly outperforms all tested open-weight baselines, including models with 3x more parameters. These results demonstrate that task-specific training substantially outperforms scale alone for citation-grounded summarization. Model weights and an interactive demo are publicly available.
@article{arxiv.2601.08472,
title = {sui-1: Grounded and Verifiable Long-Form Summarization},
author = {Benedikt Droste and Jan Philipp Harries and Maximilian Idahl and Björn Plüster},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.08472},
year = {2026}
}
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13 pages, 4 figures, model weights at https://huggingface.co/ellamind/sui-1-24b