| Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5(github.com) | |
| 453 points by tosh 23 days ago | 199 comments | |
tl;dr: Kev is an open-source family of small decision models (0.8B, 4B, 9B) built on Qwen3.5 that mimics Jev's architecture, offering yes/no, multiple-choice, and rating outputs with calibrated probabilities via a LoRA adapter and pointer head. It runs locally on CUDA, ROCm, or Apple Silicon (though slow on Macs due to missing DeltaNet kernels), is API-compatible with TypeSafe's System One SDK, and supports fine-tuning from released checkpoints. Kev-9B roughly matches Jev on accuracy but trails on calibration and knowledge-heavy tasks like MMLU-Pro (0.52 vs 0.84). | |
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