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license: apache-2.0
language:
  - en
tags:
  - atlas-coder
  - atlas-coder-2
  - qwen2.5-coder
  - sub-1b
  - qlora
  - code-generation
  - code-completion
  - code-debugging
  - coding
  - fine-tuned
  - text-generation-inference
  - flagship
base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct
pipeline_tag: text-generation
library_name: transformers
datasets:
  - bigcode/self-oss-instruct-sc2-exec-filter-50k
  - Siddh07ETH/Atlas-Coder-50K-ChatML
model-index:
  - name: Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B
    results: []

⚑ Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B

πŸ› οΈ Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B: The Top Sub-1B Coding Model

Ranked #Top 5 globally for strictly sub-1B parameter models on the EvalPlus (HumanEval+) strict benchmark.

HuggingFace License Model Size Base Model GGUF Version


Model Description

Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B is the flagship model of the Pluto AI research project by Siddharth N.R. β€” the second generation of the Atlas-Coder series and the most focused coding model released under the Pluto AI brand to date.

Built on top of Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct, Atlas-Coder-2 is trained exclusively on 50K execution-verified OSS-Instruct samples β€” real open-source Python functions that have been independently verified to execute correctly. This single-source, high-purity data strategy maximizes alignment with HumanEval+ and MBPP+ benchmark formats while keeping the training signal clean and consistent.

Unlike V1 which trained from the base model and used a 4-source mixture, Atlas-Coder-2 starts from an instruction-tuned foundation and specializes it further on execution-verified code. The result is a sharper, more reliable code generator with a lower hallucination rate on self-contained Python tasks.

Research Goal: Demonstrate that a sub-500M parameter model, fine-tuned exclusively on execution-verified code in a single Kaggle session, can match or exceed the coding performance of officially released instruct variants and outperform models up to 3Γ— its parameter count.


πŸ“Š Benchmarks

Competitor scores from official technical reports.


⚑ Edge Performance: Tested locally on an M2 MacBook Air (8GB RAM) using LM Studio with the F16 GGUF. Achieved 75 tokens/second generation speed. Because the model uses native FP16 precision, it bypasses quantization overhead and fully utilizes Apple Silicon's Metal FP16 vector cores. Zero GPU required.

GGUF Quantizations

https://huggingface.co/Siddh07ETH/Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B-GGUF

What Changed from V1

Property Atlas-Coder-0.5B (V1) Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B (V2)
Base model Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B Base Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B Instruct
Data sources 4 (Magicoder + OSS + CodeFeedback + TACO) 1 (OSS-Instruct exec-verified only)
Training samples ~80K (mixed quality) 50K (100% exec-verified)
LoRA rank r=64 r=32 (faster, leaner)
Epochs 3 1 (instruct base needs less)
Sequence length 1024 1024
Response masking βœ… Standard LM loss
Final loss 0.0294 0.0596 (healthy β€” not overfit)
Training time ~42h 44m ~9.5h
Fits in 1 Kaggle session ❌ (needed resume) βœ…

The key architectural insight of V2: starting from an instruct model means the model already knows how to follow instructions and stop generating. V2 doesn't need to re-learn conversation structure β€” it only needs to deepen its Python code generation capability. This allows a single clean epoch on a smaller, higher-quality dataset to outperform a longer multi-epoch run on a noisier mixture.


Training Details

Property Value
Base Model Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct
Parameters ~494 Million
Method QLoRA (4-bit NF4 + LoRA)
LoRA Rank r=32, Ξ±=64
LoRA Dropout 0.05
LoRA Target Modules q_proj, k_proj, v_proj, o_proj, gate_proj, up_proj, down_proj
Trainable Parameters 17,596,416
Training Epochs 1
Training Steps ~1,568 (resumed from checkpoint 250)
Final Training Loss 0.0596
Precision FP16 (forced β€” T4 sm_75 does not support BF16)
Optimizer AdamW 8-bit (Paged)
Learning Rate 1e-4 (cosine schedule)
Warmup Steps 100
Effective Batch Size 32 (2 Γ— 16 grad accum)
Sequence Length 1024 tokens
Hardware Tesla T4 (16 GB VRAM) β€” Kaggle free tier
Training Time ~9.5 hours (single session)
Framework Transformers 4.52.4 + PEFT 0.17.0 + TRL 0.19.1
Chat Template ChatML (inherited from base instruct model)

Training Data

Dataset Samples Why This Dataset
bigcode/self-oss-instruct-sc2-exec-filter-50k 50,154 (train) + 508 (eval) 100% execution-verified. Generated from real open-source Python. Single-function format directly mirrors HumanEval+ problem structure. No hallucinated solutions β€” every completion has been independently run and confirmed correct.

Why single-source? The V1 multi-dataset mixture introduced noise from TACO (competitive programming verbosity) and CodeFeedback (multi-turn debug style), both of which poorly align with HumanEval+ single-function completion format. V2 eliminates this noise entirely. The OSS-Instruct exec-filtered dataset is already the highest-ROI data source for HumanEval+ performance β€” using 50K samples of it exclusively produces a cleaner gradient signal than mixing 80K samples of heterogeneous quality.


Key Design Decisions

1. Instruct base = faster convergence Starting from Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct means the ChatML format, stop-token behavior, and instruction-following discipline are already in place. The model only needs to deepen code generation quality β€” not learn conversation structure from scratch. This makes 1 epoch sufficient where V1 needed 3.

2. Execution-verified data only Every training sample in OSS-Instruct exec-filter-50k has been independently run and verified to produce correct output. This eliminates a significant noise source that affects most open-source fine-tuning datasets: plausible-looking but incorrect code completions that silently degrade model performance on pass@1 metrics.

3. r=32 LoRA for speed without sacrificing quality At the 0.5B parameter scale, r=64 provides diminishing returns over r=32 while doubling the LoRA parameter count and training time. The r=32 configuration trains ~40% faster on the T4, allowing full training within a single Kaggle 9-hour session without checkpoint recovery.

4. Single Kaggle session design The entire pipeline β€” install β†’ load β†’ data β†’ train β†’ merge β†’ upload β†’ GGUF β€” is designed to complete within a single 9-hour Kaggle session. The 3-layer checkpoint recovery system (local β†’ HuggingFace Hub β†’ fresh start) handles session interruptions automatically when they occur.


Usage

Basic Inference

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import torch

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "Siddh07ETH/Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    device_map="auto",
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Siddh07ETH/Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B")

messages = [
    {
        "role": "system",
        "content": "You are a helpful coding assistant."
    },
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Write a Python function to find all prime numbers up to n using the Sieve of Eratosthenes."
    }
]

text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True
)
inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

with torch.no_grad():
    output = model.generate(
        **inputs,
        max_new_tokens=512,
        temperature=0.2,
        do_sample=True,
        top_p=0.9,
        repetition_penalty=1.1,
    )

response = tokenizer.decode(
    output[0][inputs.input_ids.shape[1]:],
    skip_special_tokens=True
)
print(response)

Low Memory Inference (4-bit)

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, BitsAndBytesConfig
import torch

quant_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
    load_in_4bit=True,
    bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4",
    bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.float16,
)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "Siddh07ETH/Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B",
    quantization_config=quant_config,
    device_map="auto",
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Siddh07ETH/Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B")

GGUF (Ollama / LM Studio / llama.cpp)

GGUF quantizations for CPU inference are available at:

Siddh07ETH/Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B-GGUF

Runs at 40+ tokens/second on a laptop CPU. No GPU required.


Recommended Generation Settings

Setting Value Reason
temperature 0.1–0.3 Low temperature for precise code generation
top_p 0.9 Focused vocabulary sampling
repetition_penalty 1.1 Prevents repeated patterns
max_new_tokens 256–512 Sufficient for most single-function tasks
do_sample True Required when temperature < 1.0

Important: Benchmark Evaluation Setup

If you are evaluating this model with EvalPlus, you must pass --model_type instruct:

python -m evalplus.evaluate   --model Siddh07ETH/Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B   --dataset humaneval   --backend hf   --model_type instruct   --greedy

Without --model_type instruct, EvalPlus sends raw function signatures without the ChatML wrapper. This causes the model to score near 0% β€” which is an evaluation configuration error, not a reflection of model quality. The model was trained exclusively on ChatML-formatted prompts and will not respond meaningfully to bare code signatures.


Model Lineage

Atlas-Coder-2 is the second release in the Atlas-Coder series under Pluto AI. Each version refines the strategy based on lessons from the previous run.

Version Base Strategy Status
Atlas-Coder-0.5B (V1) Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B Base 4-source 80K mixture, 3 epochs, r=64 Published
Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B (V2) Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct 50K exec-verified, 1 epoch, r=32 Flagship β€” this model

Related Models

Model Parameters Description
Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B (this) 494M Flagship β€” exec-verified, instruct base
Atlas-Coder-0.5B (V1) 494M First generation, base model fine-tune
Pluto-Genesis-0.6B 596M General reasoning, math, and code

Limitations

  • Size: At ~494M parameters this model will make mistakes on complex multi-file tasks and deeply nested logic. Always verify generated code before running it in production.
  • Context length: Trained on sequences up to 1024 tokens. Performance may degrade on prompts or completions requiring longer context.
  • Language bias: Optimized primarily for Python. Other languages will work but with lower reliability than a multilingual fine-tune.
  • Single-domain training: Trained entirely on OSS-Instruct data. May underperform on highly domain-specific code (e.g., embedded systems, CUDA kernels) that differs from typical open-source Python patterns.
  • Research only: Not intended for production deployment without further evaluation and safety testing.

Author

Siddharth N.R Graduated B.Tech β€” AI & Data Science Pluto AI Research

HuggingFace


Citation

@misc{atlascoder2_2026,
  author    = {Siddharth N.R.},
  title     = {Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B: Execution-Verified QLoRA Fine-Tuning from an Instruct Base for Sub-1B Code Generation},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HuggingFace},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/Siddh07ETH/Atlas-Coder-2-0.5B}
}

License

Apache 2.0 β€” see LICENSE. Base model Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct is also Apache 2.0.