Can an Agent Debug a Web Corpus? Agentic Auditing of Slovak FineWeb2
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Authors

Marek Šuppa,Ivan Vykopal,Jaroslav Kopčan

Abstract

Multilingual pipelines such as FineWeb2 apply one recipe across a thousand languages, leaving the failure modes of individual languages unanticipated. We use an LLM once, as a corpus debugger rather than a classifier: a tool-using agent explores the corpus through a read-only, budgeted API and compiles each finding into an executable test, which a native speaker then validates.

On the 26.5M-document Slovak portion of FineWeb2, three runs costing \$2.21-\$2.84 each found seven findings over four phenomena. The largest is a machine-generated content farm of 1,408,437 documents (5.32%) that passed the pipeline's filters, 86.6% of it passing even stricter thresholds.

Blinded labels support 6 of the 7 findings (defect rates .53-1.00 against .08 in a random control) and do not support one. The compiled suite scans the full corpus in 0.7 s of wall-clock time without a GPU, against \$12k-\$90k per LLM classification pass.

The best static sampling baseline validates more selectors than any agent run, at under half the cost. The agent contributes exact prevalence, a precision estimate checked against sampled documents, an account of why the pipeline missed each slice, and a reusable test.

We release the framework, Slovak test suite, validation data and agent trajectories.

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