# /// script # requires-python = ">=3.11" # dependencies = [] # # [tool.hf-jobs] # flavor = "a100-large" # timeout = "1h" # secrets = ["HF_TOKEN"] # /// """ Fine-tune a Kev decision model on your own labelled questions, on one HF Jobs GPU. Kev (https://github.com/jaredpalmer/kev) answers yes/no, multiple-choice and rating questions about a text, with a probability for each answer. This script is a thin launcher around Kev's own commands. It pins one Kev commit and one set of released weights, installs Kev, and then runs: 1. `kev.train`: a LoRA + pointer-head delta from the released Kev-4B, on your training records. 2. `kev.benchmark`: the fine-tuned model and the released model, on your development records. 3. `kev.calibrate`: a calibration report for the fine-tuned model (report only, nothing changes). All training and evaluation code is Kev's. Kev's own recipes run on Modal (the `kev-finetune` skill) or on a GPU you have; this script is for people whose data and credit are on the Hub. Input: a folder with `train.jsonl` and `development.jsonl` in Kev's record format (see the README). Output: an empty or new folder on a mounted bucket. Each result is copied there as soon as it is written: the checkpoint, both benchmark reports, the calibration report and `run.json`. Example, with input and output in a bucket: hf jobs uv run --flavor a100-large --timeout 1h --secrets HF_TOKEN \\ -v hf://buckets//kev-data:/mnt/kev \\ https://huggingface.co/datasets/uv-scripts/classification/raw/main/train-kev.py \\ /mnt/kev/newsgroups /mnt/kev/runs/newsgroups-v1 Tested on 2026-10-30 (a100-large, 31 min, about $1.29): 20 Newsgroups, 846 training and 426 test posts after Kev's length limit. Accuracy 72.3% fine-tuned vs 62.4% for the released Kev-4B. One seed. """ import argparse import json import os import subprocess import sys import time from pathlib import Path KEV_REPO = "https://github.com/jaredpalmer/kev" KEV_TAG = "kev-1.0" KEV_COMMIT = "6b719c3c3f367295f6ef336f4f751cf5ff970abc" # the kev-1.0 tag on 2026-11-03 # jaredpalmer/kev-4b: the commit `@v1.0` resolved to on 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-03 (same weights as # the v1.0 tag). Pinned by commit, because a tag can move. INIT_MODEL = "jaredpalmer/kev-4b@6cfce5c2fa4b4bd64026336ab649c5ca78857d52" BASE_MODEL = "Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B-Base" BASE_REVISION = "1001bb4d826a52d1f399e183466143f4da7b741b" # main on 2026-11-03 (last change 2026-04-23) QUESTION_TYPES = ("noul", "choice", "score") MAX_OPTIONS = 255 # kev/api.py WORK_DIR = Path("/tmp/kev") SCRATCH = Path("/tmp/out") def run(command, cwd=WORK_DIR): print(f"\n$ {' '.join(command)}", flush=True) started = time.time() subprocess.run(command, cwd=cwd, check=True) print(f"[{time.time() - started:.0f}s]", flush=True) def check_gpu(): try: listing = subprocess.run(["nvidia-smi", "-L"], capture_output=True, text=True) except FileNotFoundError: listing = None if listing is None or listing.returncode != 0 or "GPU" not in listing.stdout: sys.exit("No GPU found. Run this on a GPU flavor, for example --flavor a100-large.") print(listing.stdout.strip(), flush=True) def question_problem(question): """Why a labelled question is not in Kev's format, or None. Rules from kev/api.py and Kev's README: noul labels are true/false; choice criteria is an object of options and the label is one of them; score criteria is a list of levels and the label is a level's position from 0.""" if not isinstance(question, dict) or question.get("type") not in QUESTION_TYPES: return f"needs a type: one of {', '.join(QUESTION_TYPES)}" if "label" not in question: return "needs a label" kind, label, criteria = question["type"], question["label"], question.get("criteria") if kind == "noul" and not isinstance(label, bool): return "is a noul question, so its label must be true or false" if kind == "choice": if not isinstance(criteria, dict) or not 1 <= len(criteria) <= MAX_OPTIONS: return f"is a choice question, so its criteria must be an object with 1 to {MAX_OPTIONS} options" if label not in criteria: return f"has label {label!r}, which is not one of its criteria" if kind == "score": if not isinstance(criteria, list) or not 1 <= len(criteria) <= MAX_OPTIONS: return f"is a score question, so its criteria must be a list of 1 to {MAX_OPTIONS} levels" if isinstance(label, bool) or not isinstance(label, int) or not 0 <= label < len(criteria): return f"is a score question, so its label must be a level position from 0 to {len(criteria) - 1}" return None def check_records(path): """Fail before any GPU time is spent if a record is not in Kev's labelled format.""" if not path.is_file(): sys.exit(f"{path} not found. The input folder needs train.jsonl and development.jsonl.") count = 0 with path.open() as f: for line_number, line in enumerate(f, start=1): if not line.strip(): continue where = f"{path.name} line {line_number}" try: record = json.loads(line) except json.JSONDecodeError as error: sys.exit(f"{where}: not valid JSON ({error}).") if not isinstance(record, dict) or record.get("state") is None: sys.exit(f'{where}: a record needs a "state" (text, or any JSON object or list).') questions = record.get("questions") if not isinstance(questions, dict) or not questions: sys.exit(f'{where}: a record needs a non-empty "questions" object.') for name, question in questions.items(): problem = question_problem(question) if problem: sys.exit(f'{where}: question "{name}" {problem}.') count += 1 if count == 0: sys.exit(f"{path} has no records.") print(f"{path.name}: {count} records", flush=True) return count def mount_of(path, mounts_file=Path("/proc/self/mounts")): """(mount point, filesystem type, device) of the mount that holds `path`.""" best = ("", "", "") for line in mounts_file.read_text().splitlines(): device, mount_point, fstype = line.split()[:3] holds_path = path == Path(mount_point) or Path(mount_point) in path.parents if holds_path and len(mount_point) > len(best[0]): best = (mount_point, fstype, device) return best def prepare_output(output_dir): """Fail before any GPU time is spent if the results would be lost or mixed with an old run.""" if os.environ.get("JOB_ID"): # on Jobs, only a mounted bucket outlives the container (it shows as device "hf-mount") mount_point, fstype, device = mount_of(output_dir) if device != "hf-mount": sys.exit(f"{output_dir} is not on a mounted bucket (it is on {mount_point}, {fstype or 'unknown'}). " "Mount one with -v hf://buckets//:/mnt/kev and write under /mnt/kev.") if output_dir.exists() and any(output_dir.iterdir()): sys.exit(f"{output_dir} is not empty. Use a new folder for each run.") output_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) (output_dir / "run.json").write_text(json.dumps({"status": "started"})) # also checks that the folder is writable def install_kev(): run(["git", "clone", "-q", "--depth", "1", "--branch", KEV_TAG, KEV_REPO, str(WORK_DIR)], cwd="/tmp") head = subprocess.run(["git", "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=WORK_DIR, check=True, capture_output=True, text=True) if head.stdout.strip() != KEV_COMMIT: sys.exit(f"{KEV_TAG} now points to {head.stdout.strip()}, not {KEV_COMMIT}. Check the Kev release notes.") run(["uv", "sync", "--no-dev", "-q"]) cuda = subprocess.run(["uv", "run", "python", "-c", "import torch; print(torch.cuda.is_available())"], cwd=WORK_DIR, capture_output=True, text=True) if cuda.stdout.strip() != "True": sys.exit(f"PyTorch in Kev's environment cannot use the GPU.\n{cuda.stderr[-2000:]}") def save(name, output_dir): """Copy one finished result to the output folder, so a later failure cannot lose it.""" destination = output_dir / name destination.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) subprocess.run(["cp", "-r", f"{SCRATCH / name}/.", str(destination)], check=True) print(f"saved {destination}", flush=True) def train(args): command = [ "uv", "run", "python", "-m", "kev.train", "--data", str(args.input_dir / "train.jsonl"), "--base", BASE_MODEL, "--base_revision", BASE_REVISION, "--init_from", args.init_from, "--epochs", str(args.epochs), "--lr", str(args.lr), "--batch", "1", "--accum", "8", "--dtype", "bf16", "--checkpointing", "1", "--device", "cuda", "--out", str(SCRATCH / "checkpoint"), ] if args.max_steps: command += ["--max_steps", str(args.max_steps)] run(command) def benchmark(model, data, name): run(["uv", "run", "python", "-m", "kev.benchmark", "--run", str(model), "--data", str(data), "--out", str(SCRATCH / name)]) def calibrate(): """Kev's calibration report. It needs enough development records for its folds, so a failure here is reported and the run goes on: the checkpoint and benchmarks are already saved.""" try: run(["uv", "run", "python", "-m", "kev.calibrate", "--rows", str(SCRATCH / "finetuned-development" / "rows.json")]) report = json.loads((SCRATCH / "finetuned-development" / "calibration.json").read_text()) except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, OSError, json.JSONDecodeError) as error: print(f"kev.calibrate failed ({error}); see the messages above. The other results are saved.", flush=True) return None return report.get("workload_temperature") def headline(name): clean = json.loads((SCRATCH / name / "report.json").read_text())["clean"] return {"n": clean["n"], "acc": round(clean["acc"], 4), "ece": round(clean["ece"], 4)} def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter) parser.add_argument("input_dir", type=Path, help="Folder with train.jsonl and development.jsonl in Kev's format") parser.add_argument("output_dir", type=Path, help="New or empty folder for the results, on a mounted bucket") parser.add_argument("--init-from", default=INIT_MODEL, help="Released Kev model to start from (repo@revision)") parser.add_argument("--epochs", type=int, default=2) parser.add_argument("--lr", type=float, default=2e-5) parser.add_argument("--max-steps", type=int, default=0, help="Stop after this many optimizer steps, for a smoke test") args = parser.parse_args() # Kev's commands run from its own checkout, so relative paths must not reach them args.input_dir = args.input_dir.resolve() args.output_dir = args.output_dir.resolve() check_gpu() check_records(args.input_dir / "train.jsonl") check_records(args.input_dir / "development.jsonl") prepare_output(args.output_dir) started = time.time() install_kev() development = args.input_dir / "development.jsonl" train(args) save("checkpoint", args.output_dir) benchmark(SCRATCH / "checkpoint", development, "finetuned-development") save("finetuned-development", args.output_dir) benchmark(args.init_from, development, "baseline-development") save("baseline-development", args.output_dir) temperature = calibrate() if temperature is not None: # copy only the new file: the saved reports stay as they are calibration = SCRATCH / "finetuned-development" / "calibration.json" subprocess.run(["cp", str(calibration), str(args.output_dir / "finetuned-development")], check=True) print(f"saved {args.output_dir / 'finetuned-development' / 'calibration.json'}", flush=True) summary = { "status": "completed", "kev_commit": KEV_COMMIT, "init_from": args.init_from, "base_revision": BASE_REVISION, "finetuned": headline("finetuned-development"), "released": headline("baseline-development"), "workload_temperature": temperature, "seconds": round(time.time() - started), } (args.output_dir / "run.json").write_text(json.dumps(summary, indent=2)) print(json.dumps(summary), flush=True) if __name__ == "__main__": main()