Instructions to use QuantumAI-Blockchain/aether-v5.2-lora with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- PEFT
How to use QuantumAI-Blockchain/aether-v5.2-lora with PEFT:
from peft import PeftModel from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM base_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct") model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base_model, "QuantumAI-Blockchain/aether-v5.2-lora") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
library_name: peft
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- lora
- peft
- qubitcoin
- aether
- blockchain
- quantum
language:
- en
pipeline_tag: text-generation
model-index:
- name: aether-v5.2-lora
results:
- task:
type: text-generation
name: MMLU
dataset:
name: MMLU
type: cais/mmlu
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 0.6939
name: accuracy
- task:
type: text-generation
name: ARC-Challenge
dataset:
name: ARC-Challenge
type: ai2_arc
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 0.5392
name: accuracy
- type: accuracy_norm
value: 0.57
name: accuracy_norm
- task:
type: text-generation
name: ARC-Easy
dataset:
name: ARC-Easy
type: ai2_arc
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 0.8194
name: accuracy
- task:
type: text-generation
name: HellaSwag
dataset:
name: HellaSwag
type: hellaswag
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 0.5888
name: accuracy
- type: accuracy_norm
value: 0.7769
name: accuracy_norm
- task:
type: text-generation
name: TruthfulQA
dataset:
name: TruthfulQA-MC2
type: truthful_qa
metrics:
- type: accuracy
value: 0.5707
name: accuracy
Aether v5.2 LoRA β QuantumAI Blockchain Domain Adapter
A LoRA fine-tune of Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
on the Aether curated corpus β text grounded in the
QuantumAI Blockchain (which issues the Qubitcoin / QBC currency), quantum + AI research, and adjacent
domains the Aether Mind on-chain knowledge system specializes in.
This is the v5.2 release of the Aether adapter line, the most recent public checkpoint at time of publish.
What you're getting
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Base model | Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct |
| Adapter type | LoRA via π€ PEFT |
Rank (r) |
16 |
| Alpha | 32 |
| Dropout | 0.05 |
| Trainable params | ~1% of base |
| Sequence length | 2048 |
| Training corpus | aether-curated-v3.jsonl β Aether-curated knowledge mixture (~165 MB; ~10β΅ examples) |
| Checkpoint published | step 3200 (the checkpoint that produced the evaluated numbers below) |
| License | Apache-2.0 (matches base) |
Evaluation
Run via lm-evaluation-harness
on the merged adapter (base + LoRA), against the
Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
base and the prior aether-v5.1.1 adapter for delta comparison.
| Benchmark | aether-v5.1.1 | aether-v5.2 | Ξ vs v5.1.1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 0.6950 | 0.6939 | flat |
| ARC-Easy | 0.7348 | 0.8194 | +8.5 pp |
| ARC-Challenge | 0.4420 | 0.5392 | +9.7 pp |
| ARC-Challenge (norm) | 0.4701 | 0.5700 | +10.0 pp |
| HellaSwag | 0.5896 | 0.5888 | flat |
| HellaSwag (norm) | 0.7788 | 0.7769 | flat |
| TruthfulQA-MC2 | 0.5161 | 0.5707 | +5.5 pp |
Honest summary
- Real gains on the reasoning + factual-honesty benchmarks (ARC-Easy, ARC-Challenge, TruthfulQA). ARC-Challenge in particular jumps nearly 10 points normalized β that's the closest of these benchmarks to the kind of grounded reasoning the Aether corpus actually trains on.
- Flat on MMLU + HellaSwag. The base is already strong on general knowledge + commonsense; this LoRA wasn't designed to shift them, and didn't.
- No regressions.
Intended uses
This adapter is intended for:
- On-chain Aether research. Generating reasoning traces against the QuantumAI Blockchain / Aether knowledge graph for Proof-of-Thought attestation. The model has the protocol context required to answer questions about Substrate pallets, VQE mining, the Sephirot cognitive architecture, HMS-Phi, and the wider chain ecosystem.
- Domain Q&A. Quantum computing fundamentals, post-quantum cryptography (Dilithium, ML-KEM), and the specific design choices of the QuantumAI Blockchain.
- Distillation upstream. Generate teacher outputs for the smaller on-chain Aether (a Qwen2.5-0.5B variant) to learn from.
- General reasoning with a modest bias toward step-by-step chains-of-thought, where the ARC-Challenge gain translates.
Out-of-scope uses
- Safety-critical decisions. No red-team eval was performed.
- Financial / legal advice. This is a knowledge-domain adapter; it has no training data designed to make it a financial or legal advisor.
- Code generation in production. No code-eval benchmark was run. Treat any generated code as draft until you've reviewed it.
- Production deployment without your own evaluation. TruthfulQA alone is a thin safety signal.
Bias, risks, and limitations
The base model (Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct) inherits Qwen's known
biases β see the upstream model card.
The LoRA adapter:
- Amplifies the QuantumAI Blockchain worldview. The training data is intentionally curated around the chain's design choices (golden- ratio economics, SUSY-inspired consensus framing, the Sephirot cognitive overlay). Prompts that invite the model to compare QBC / the chain against alternatives will lean toward the curated narrative. This is by design β disclose if you re-publish in a comparison context.
- Does not improve safety. TruthfulQA went up 5.5pp but that's one metric; we have not measured refusal rates, jailbreak resistance, or political-belief bias delta.
- The configured 2-epoch run was cut to ~step 3080β3200 by host availability (out of 4406 configured). A complete 2-epoch run would plausibly show larger gains; this checkpoint is the longest contiguous training we have.
How to use
Load with PEFT on top of the base model:
from peft import PeftModel
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
base = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct",
torch_dtype="auto",
device_map="auto",
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct")
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base, "QuantumAI-Blockchain/aether-v5.2-lora")
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain Proof-of-SUSY-Alignment in one paragraph."}]
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
out = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256, do_sample=True, temperature=0.7)
print(tokenizer.decode(out[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))
Or merge the adapter into a single artifact for faster inference:
merged = model.merge_and_unload()
merged.save_pretrained("./aether-v5.2-merged")
Training details
- Hardware: NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti (12 GB), 4-bit quantization (bnb-NF4), bf16 mixed precision.
- Trainer: Axolotl wrapping π€ transformers / PEFT.
- Optimizer:
paged_adamw_8bit(bitsandbytes paged optimizer, low VRAM footprint). - Schedule: linear warmup 100 steps β cosine decay.
- Learning rate:
1.0e-4. - Micro batch: 1, gradient accumulation: 8.
- Epochs configured: 2 (training stopped at step 3200 β see "What didn't happen" below).
Carbon emissions
Trained on a single NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti (consumer GPU, ~300 W TDP). We did not run a CodeCarbon tracker, so emissions are not measured precisely β but as a rough upper bound: ~350 W draw under load Γ ~13 hours wall clock (the step-3080 contiguous run) β 4.5 kWh, low single-digit kg COβe on a grid mix. An H100 run of the same 2-epoch config would be faster but not dramatically lower energy per token.
Training data
aether-curated-v3.jsonl (~165 MB, ~10β΅ examples) is the Aether team's
curated knowledge mixture: documentation, technical writing, reasoning
traces, and protocol-specific corpora related to:
- The QuantumAI Blockchain (Substrate, VQE mining, Proof-of-SUSY-Alignment, post-quantum signatures).
- The Aether Mind on-chain neural cognitive engine (10 Sephirot attention domains, HMS-Phi, Proof-of-Thought).
- Quantum computing fundamentals (VQE, Hamiltonian generation, qubit ansatze).
- Adjacent CS / math reasoning content for transfer.
The dataset is not currently public β it is a curated mixture from many sources and has not been release-cleared at the per-source level. The model is the only public artifact in this line for now.
What didn't happen (honest caveats)
- Training stopped early. Configured for 2 epochs (4406 steps);
reached step 3080β3200 (~70%) before host availability cut the run
short. The run was on a single consumer GPU (RTX 3080 Ti), 4-bit
quantized, with
paged_adamw_8bitto fit a 7B model in 12 GB VRAM. The numbers above are from the longest contiguous training run we have; a complete 2-epoch run would plausibly show larger gains. - No instruction-following or safety eval beyond TruthfulQA-MC2. No red-team eval. No bias audit. No code-generation benchmark. Don't recommend this for production safety-critical use without your own evals.
- LoRA only, not merged. This release ships the adapter weights
(
adapter_model.safetensors). Merge into the base yourself for faster inference, or use directly via PEFT.
Connection to the QuantumAI Blockchain
The Aether Mind is a Rust neural cognitive engine that runs on the
QuantumAI Blockchain β every block records attention-derived consciousness
metrics (HMS-Phi) and Proof-of-Thought hashes on-chain via the
pallet_qbc_aether_anchor pallet. The same chain hosts an
8-qubit VQE mining consensus (Proof-of-SUSY-Alignment), a
QVM-compatible smart contract layer with 10 quantum opcodes, and
post-quantum signatures (CRYSTALS-Dilithium5 + ML-KEM-768 P2P).
The on-chain Aether Mind binary uses a different, smaller transformer for live inference (a Qwen2.5-0.5B variant optimized for ~2.4 GB RAM with the 10-Sephirot attention overlay). This v5.2 adapter on Qwen2.5-7B is the larger off-chain Aether β used for batch reasoning workloads and as an upstream model the on-chain variant can distil from.
License + citation
Apache-2.0 (matches the base model license).
@misc{aether_v52_lora_2026,
title = {Aether v5.2 LoRA --- QuantumAI Blockchain Domain Adapter},
author = {{BlockArtica} and {QuantumAI-Blockchain}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://huggingface.co/QuantumAI-Blockchain/aether-v5.2-lora},
}
Links
- QuantumAI Blockchain: qbc.network
- GitHub org: github.com/QuantumAI-Blockchain
- X / Twitter: @qu_bitcoin
- Contact: info@qbc.network
Framework versions
- PEFT 0.14.0
- Transformers β₯ 4.46
- Axolotl (training)