diff --git a/scripts/evaluate_lfm_span_model.py b/scripts/evaluate_lfm_span_model.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..4e648d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/evaluate_lfm_span_model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Per-source evaluation for the LFM2.5 span tagger.
+
+``LfmForSpanTagging`` is a custom module (bidirectional LFM backbone + linear
+head), so it cannot be loaded through ``HallucinationDetector``'s
+``AutoModelForTokenClassification`` path. This script loads it directly and
+reuses ``TransformerDetector``'s prediction/span-decoding plus the shared
+char-overlap metrics, so numbers are directly comparable to
+``evaluate_span_model.py`` outputs.
+
+Usage:
+    python scripts/evaluate_lfm_span_model.py \
+        --model-path /mnt/workspace/users/adamko/lfm25_encoder_binary \
+        --dataset KRLabsOrg/lettucedetect-code-hallucination \
+        --dataset KRLabsOrg/lettucedetect-prose-hallucination \
+        --split test [--by dataset]
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import torch
+from safetensors.torch import load_file
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+
+SCRIPTS = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
+sys.path.insert(0, str(SCRIPTS))
+sys.path.insert(0, str(SCRIPTS.parent))
+
+from evaluate_span_model import load_samples  # noqa: E402
+from span_eval_metrics import print_metrics_table  # noqa: E402
+from train_lfm_span_detector import LfmForSpanTagging  # noqa: E402
+
+from lettucedetect.detectors.transformer import TransformerDetector  # noqa: E402
+
+
+def build_detector(
+    model_path: str, backbone: str, max_length: int, device: str
+) -> TransformerDetector:
+    """Duck-type a TransformerDetector around the custom LFM tagger."""
+    model = LfmForSpanTagging(backbone)
+    state = load_file(Path(model_path) / "model.safetensors")
+    model.load_state_dict(state)
+    model.to(device).eval()
+
+    det = TransformerDetector.__new__(TransformerDetector)
+    det.model = model
+    det.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_path)
+    det.device = torch.device(device)
+    det.max_length = max_length
+    det.lang = "en"
+    det.typer = None
+    return det
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    """CLI entry point."""
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Per-source LFM span-tagger evaluation.")
+    ap.add_argument("--model-path", required=True)
+    ap.add_argument("--backbone", default="LiquidAI/LFM2.5-Encoder-350M")
+    ap.add_argument("--dataset", action="append", default=[], required=True)
+    ap.add_argument("--split", default="test")
+    ap.add_argument("--by", choices=["dataset", "language"], default="dataset")
+    ap.add_argument("--only", default="", help="Keep only rows whose `dataset` field == this.")
+    ap.add_argument("--limit", type=int, default=0)
+    ap.add_argument("--max-length", type=int, default=8192)
+    ap.add_argument("--device", default="cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    detector = build_detector(args.model_path, args.backbone, args.max_length, args.device)
+    samples = load_samples(args.dataset, args.split, args.limit, args.only)
+
+    from tqdm import tqdm
+
+    rows = []
+    with torch.no_grad():
+        for s in tqdm(samples, desc="predict"):
+            pred = detector.predict_prompt(s.prompt, s.answer, output_format="spans")
+            rows.append((getattr(s, args.by), s.labels, pred))
+
+    print_metrics_table(rows)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/scripts/train_lfm_span_detector.py b/scripts/train_lfm_span_detector.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index b71e36b..2330ece
--- a/scripts/train_lfm_span_detector.py
+++ b/scripts/train_lfm_span_detector.py
@@ -42,9 +42,20 @@ class LfmForSpanTagging(nn.Module):
     def __init__(self, model_name: str, num_labels: int = 2, dropout: float = 0.1) -> None:
         """Load the remote bidirectional backbone and attach a tagger head."""
         super().__init__()
-        self.backbone = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
-            model_name, trust_remote_code=True, torch_dtype=torch.float32
-        )
+        # Some LFM2.5 encoder checkpoints (e.g. LFM2.5-Encoder-350M) store weights
+        # under the MaskedLM wrapper prefix (lfm2.*); loading the bare AutoModel
+        # there silently random-initializes everything. Load the wrapper and take
+        # its backbone, falling back to AutoModel for bare-backbone checkpoints.
+        try:
+            from transformers import AutoModelForMaskedLM
+            mlm = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained(
+                model_name, trust_remote_code=True, torch_dtype=torch.float32
+            )
+            self.backbone = getattr(mlm, "lfm2")
+        except (ValueError, AttributeError, OSError):
+            self.backbone = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
+                model_name, trust_remote_code=True, torch_dtype=torch.float32
+            )
         self.config = self.backbone.config
         hidden = self.config.hidden_size
         # LayerNorm the backbone features before the head: the retriever's raw
@@ -165,7 +176,8 @@ def _selfcheck() -> None:
     loss = nn.functional.cross_entropy(
         logits.view(-1, 2).float(), labels.view(-1), ignore_index=-100
     )
-    assert loss.requires_grad and loss.item() > 0
+    if not (loss.requires_grad and loss.item() > 0):
+        raise RuntimeError("selfcheck failed: loss not differentiable or not positive")
     print("selfcheck ok")