Solar-Decision-JEV-27B
The r32 + solar merge. huihui Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated + the AutoTrust
r32 lm_head LoRA + our solar r16 LoRA, merged by direct LoRA-delta
arithmetic (bit-exact verified: err = 0.000e+00 against a replicated
computation, on sampled weights including lm_head).
The decision readout is trained INTO the model, so a typed decision is a
single prefill with max_tokens=1, constrained to the option tokens, read
back as log-probabilities. No separate head to run.
What this merge is, honestly
Both LoRAs are applied on top of the same base, and they are near-orthogonal
(mean cosine 0.003) — so they do not cancel. But they are not additive in
accuracy. On the same 27,695 rows, same harness, same head + calibration:
| model |
choice top-1 |
score top-1 |
score KL |
noul AUROC |
| AutoTrust (published reference) |
0.9041 |
0.8910 |
0.0210 |
0.9961 |
| r32 + lm_head alone |
0.8693 |
0.8135 |
0.0619 |
0.9919 |
| r32 + lm_head + solar r16 (this repo) |
0.8162 |
0.7192 |
0.1332 |
0.9810 |
| solar r16 alone |
0.5054 |
0.5369 |
0.4699 |
0.9449 |
The combined row lands between its two parents on every metric, not above
the better one. Stacking the solar adapter on top of a readout-trained model
degraded the readout r32 had learned: choice top-1 fell 5.3 points and score
KL roughly doubled.
We publish this anyway, and we publish those numbers, because the result is
the finding. If you want the best decision instrument, use
SargeDev/Solar-JEV-27B-R32 (the r32 merge on its own) or the
already-published SargeDev/JEV-27B-Uncensored. If you want the merge of the
decision readout with our own solar training, that is this repo.
On the chat side, this merge is also not the best
The solar r16 LoRA is what we trained on the JEV System-1 corpus (1,219
steps, KL+RPS decision-head distillation), and on its own it is a good
everyday-chat model. Stacked on top of r32, it does not help:
| model |
GSM8K (8-shot) |
IFEval (prompt-strict) |
MMLU subset |
| huihui base |
97.7 |
76.0 |
81.2 |
| solar r16 alone |
96.0 |
81.5 |
81.2 |
| r32 + lm_head alone |
94.0 |
81.0 |
82.5 |
| r32 + lm_head + solar (this repo) |
91.0 |
72.5 |
80.8 |
The combined model is the weakest of the four on GSM8K and on
instruction-following. It is the only row that loses on every axis.
So: this repo is a complete, honestly-measured merge of the two adapters,
and on our measurements it is beaten by each of its parents. We publish it
because the negative result is real and reproducible, and because the
comparison belongs in the open. If you want the best model, use
SargeDev/Solar-JEV-27B-R32 (or the already-published
SargeDev/JEV-27B-Uncensored); if you want the best everyday-chat model, use
SargeDev/Solar-JEV-27B (the solar build).
Quick start (vLLM, one GB10/Spark-class box)
vllm serve SargeDev/Solar-Decision-JEV-27B \
--served-model-name jev-judgment-combined --trust-remote-code \
--max-model-len 8192 --gpu-memory-utilization 0.85 \
--default-chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking": false}'
Decision gate (AutoTrust-style, test_set_30k with yuri_v1 D1 placeholders excluded)
Read this table carefully, because it contains two very different comparisons.
- The sibling merge is our other build, scored on the same 27,695 rows
with the same harness and the same head + calibration. It is a
sibling model, not a quality bar — but it is the honest apples-to-apples
reference for what the
lm_head LoRA is worth.
- AutoTrust reference is the number published by the authors of the original
AutoTrust work for their model on this task set. This is the bar.
On the typed-decision kinds (multiple-choice choice, ordinal score) this
model is still below the published AutoTrust reference, and the gap is
large - not a rounding difference. On the binary noul kind the gap is
narrower. Cells marked "(below bar)" differ from the published reference by
more than 5 points.
What this means: the fine-tune produces a usable decision instrument and a
clearly better everyday-chat model than its base (see the benchmark matrix
below), but it is not a reproduction of AutoTrust-level typed-decision
accuracy. Treat the choice and score columns as an open result, not a
solved one. We are publishing the numbers as measured, including the gap.
Harness validation. These numbers were produced by our own HTTP gate
client, so we checked it against a known path: re-gating the r32 merge
reproduced the reference's own numbers to within 0.001 on every metric
(choice top-1 0.8704 -> 0.8693, score KL 0.0623 -> 0.0619, noul AUROC
0.9920 -> 0.9919). The harness is sound, so the gaps above are real.
| metric |
n |
Jev Judgment r32+solar (ours) |
Jev Judgment r32+lm_head |
AutoTrust reference (published) |
| noul.AUROC |
9969 |
0.9810 (below bar) |
0.9919 |
0.9961 |
| noul.top-1 |
9969 |
0.9274 |
0.9486 |
n/a |
| noul.ECE |
9969 |
0.0057 |
0.0122 |
n/a |
| noul.KL |
9969 |
0.0167 |
0.0081 |
n/a |
| choice.top-1 |
9199 |
0.8162 (below bar) |
0.8693 |
0.9041 |
| choice.ECE |
9199 |
0.1592 |
0.0051 |
n/a |
| choice.KL |
9199 |
0.2208 |
0.0530 |
n/a |
| score.top-1 |
8527 |
0.7192 (below bar) |
0.8135 |
0.8910 |
| score.ECE |
8527 |
0.0377 |
0.0367 |
n/a |
| score.KL |
8527 |
0.1332 (below bar) |
0.0619 |
0.0210 |
| overall.top-1 |
27695 |
0.8264 |
0.8807 |
n/a |
| overall.ECE |
27695 |
0.0625 (below bar) |
0.0090 |
0.0011 |
| overall.KL |
27695 |
0.1203 (below bar) |
0.0396 |
0.0185 |
Ablation: where the decision readout has to live
All four rows below are scored on the SAME 27,695 rows, with the SAME
harness and the SAME decision head + calibration. The only difference is
where the decision distribution is produced.
| model |
decision readout |
choice top-1 |
score top-1 |
score KL |
noul AUROC |
overall ECE |
| AutoTrust (published reference) |
trained into the model (lm_head LoRA) |
0.9041 |
0.8910 |
0.0210 |
0.9961 |
0.0011 |
| r32 + lm_head LoRA (r=32, alpha=64) |
trained into the model (lm_head LoRA) |
0.8693 |
0.8135 |
0.0619 |
0.9919 |
0.0090 |
| solar r16 (no lm_head LoRA) |
separate projection at read time |
0.5054 |
0.5369 |
0.4699 |
0.9449 |
0.0211 |
| r32 + lm_head LoRA + solar (combined) |
trained into the model (lm_head LoRA) |
0.8162 |
0.7192 |
0.1332 |
0.9810 |
0.0625 |
Two findings, in order of how much they matter:
The readout has to be trained INTO the model. A separate projection
over the final hidden state (the solar r16 row) reaches only 0.5054
choice top-1; the same backbone with an lm_head LoRA in the training
loop reaches 0.8693 on the identical rows. A separate projection can
work, but it needs the backbone to cooperate, and a backbone trained
without the readout in the loop does not.
Adding a second, readout-free adapter on top makes the typed-decision
accuracy WORSE, not better. The combined row is the r32 merge plus
the solar r16 delta applied on top (bit-exact arithmetic, verified).
It lands between the two parents on every metric - 0.8162 choice top-1,
between r32's 0.8693 and solar's 0.5054 - rather than above r32. The
two LoRA deltas are near-orthogonal (mean cosine 0.003), so they do not
cancel, but solar's delta still degrades the readout r32 trained.
We publish the combined row because it is a real, reproducible result, but
the r32+lm_head merge is the better model and is the one this release
recommends. We are not going to present a merge as an improvement when our
own numbers say it is a regression.
Benchmark matrix (lm-eval-harness 0.4.13, greedy, same prompts for every row)
| model |
GSM8K (8-shot CoT) |
IFEval (0-shot, prompt-strict) |
MMLU subset (5-shot, 8 subjects) |
refusal rate |
| huihui Qwen3.8-27B (uncensored base) |
97.7 |
76.0 |
81.2 |
0.0% (5/5 probes) |
| Jev Judgment bf16 (solar r16) |
96.0 |
81.5 |
81.2 |
0.0% (5/5 probes) |
| Jev Judgment bf16 (r32+lm_head + solar) |
91.0 |
72.5 |
80.8 |
0.0% (5/5 probes) |
| Jev Judgment bf16 (r32 + lm_head) |
94.0 |
81.0 |
82.5 |
0.0% (5/5 probes) |
| Jev Judgment NVFP4+FP8 |
95.3 |
80.5 |
80.5 |
0.0% (5/5 probes) |
| GGUF Q4_K_M |
95.3 |
79.5 |
82.0 |
0.0% (5/5 probes) |
| GGUF Q8_0 |
95.7 |
81.0 |
81.0 |
0.0% (5/5 probes) |
Questions scored per task:
| task |
questions scored per model |
| GSM8K (8-shot CoT) |
300 |
| IFEval (0-shot, prompt-strict) |
200 |
| MMLU subset (5-shot, 8 subjects) |
400 |
Note: GSM8K scored with flexible-extract (the model answers in its own format).
MMLU subset subjects: high_school_mathematics, college_biology, professional_psychology,
jurisprudence, machine_learning, astronomy, global_facts, logical_fallacies (5-shot, _generative variants).
MMLU --limit applies PER SUBJECT, so the subset is 8 x per-subject-limit questions.
Reproducibility: decoding is greedy (do_sample=False, temperature 0, seed 1234), but
the server batches concurrent requests, and batch composition changes floating-point
reduction order. Repeat runs of the same config can therefore differ by a point or two
on the small-n tasks. The error bars in the table are the harness's own stderr over the
scored rows.
Lineage & credits
This release is a descendant of the earlier SargeDev/JEV-27B-Uncensored and
SargeDev/JEV-27B-VL-Uncensored repos. The credit chain is unchanged and is
reproduced here in full:
- AutoTrust AI — Blocks-of-Experts recipe, the System-1 decision LoRA
(r16/r32) + 24-slot decision head, and the serve_decide.py decision
harness, from
autotrust/JEV-27B and
autotrust/JEV-27B-VL
(Apache-2.0). The
r32 adapter used here is theirs, unmodified: the
backbone LoRA with the decision head re-expressed as an lm_head LoRA, so
only the 24 verbalizer rows of the output projection change.
- huihui-ai — the abliterated (uncensored) Qwen3.8-27B backbone used here
(Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated,
Apache-2.0; layers 18-51 ablated, vision tower untouched).
- SargeDev — jev-distill-corpus-v3,
the 740,957-row calibrated typed-decision corpus AutoTrust's JEV models were
trained on (Apache-2.0), and the solar r16 adapter trained here on
jev-distill-corpus-v4
(the 1,219-step JEV System-1 run, 17-domain tokenized mix).
- Qwen — Qwen3.8-27B base
(Apache-2.0).
- TypeSafe AI — Jev 1.13, the original closed teacher behind the System-1
typed-decisions framing (referenced; not redistributed).
Base: huihui-ai/Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated (bf16; the text-only builds strip
the vision tower and serve as a plain qwen3_5_text causal LM, the VL build
keeps the tower and serves as qwen3_5 / Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration).
- Adapters — this release ships two, and they are NOT interchangeable:
solar r16 (alpha 32, 400 modules, no lm_head): trained 1,219 steps
on the JEV System-1 corpus (jev-distill-corpus-v4 tokenized mix: T1 gold
domains + memory_relevance + 17-domain fill), KL+RPS decision-head
distillation objective (AutoTrust-style), cosine LR 2e-4, KL_W 1.0,
RPS_W 0.3. Merged with peft merge_and_unload; merge fidelity verified by
re-gating the bare merged model (it reproduced the adapter-mounted
numbers).
r32 (alpha 64, 401 modules, includes lm_head): the backbone LoRA
plus the 24-slot decision head re-expressed as an lm_head LoRA
(only the 24 verbalizer rows change), so a typed decision is a single
prefill step with max_tokens=1 constrained to the option tokens.
- Decision head + calibration.json (shipped in this repo root): the
instrument-panel piece agents call for numeric confidence — the 24-slot
verbalizer id list, the per-slot bias, and the per-kind temperature. This
is the SAME head and the SAME calibration file (verified byte-identical,
md5
11359173… and 7f0f3914…) that produced every gate number in this
card, so a consumer reproducing our numbers reproduces them exactly.
For everyday natural-language judgment, chat with the model directly and
set enable_thinking:false in chat_template_kwargs.
- Everything measured on one NVIDIA GB10 (DGX Spark-class); quantized with
llmcompressor 0.14.0 (NVFP4) and llama.cpp (GGUF ladder).