jtatman

kev-4b-code-verify-v2

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License: apache-2.0

How to ask it

The fine-tune binds these exact strings. One noul question (probability that the statement holds):

json

{"type": "noul", "instructions": "Does the code correctly and completely implement the request, so it would pass a thorough hidden test suite including edge cases? Judge from the request, the code and the checks shown."}

State (an object; Kev renders it as key: value lines):

json

{"request": "<the task, verbatim>",  "code": "<the model's code>",  "checks": {"compiles": true, "defines_requested_function": true, "passes_examples_in_request": true,             "generated_edge_case_tests": "7 of 8 passed",             "note": "edge-case tests were written by a small model from the request alone; some may be wrong"}}

generated_edge_case_tests comes from a small model writing ~8 asserts from the request only, then running them. Serve with Kev's runtime (python -m kev.serve --run jtatman/kev-4b-code-verify-v2, a TypeSafe /v1/systemone endpoint) or kev.predictors.LocalPredictor. The checkpoint carries its fitted temperature.

Results

Unseen coder (llama-3.1-8b-instruct, never in training): 488 attempts, pass rate 0.57. "Kept local @X% err" = share of attempts a router can accept, highest score first, with at most X% of them wrong. evidence score = (request examples passed + generated-assert pass rate) / 2.

Table with columns: score, AUROC, Brier, ECE, kept local @2% err, @5%, @10%
score	AUROC	Brier	ECE	kept local @2% err	@5%	@10%
baseline kev	0.971	0.060	0.03	0.31	0.51	0.62
fine-tuned kev	0.984	0.040	0.03	0.47	0.59	0.64

Second unseen coder (local Qwen3.5-9B fine-tune, IQ2_M GGUF, never in training): 486 attempts, pass rate 0.64.

Table with columns: score, AUROC, Brier, ECE, kept local @2% err, @5%, @10%
score	AUROC	Brier	ECE	kept local @2% err	@5%	@10%
baseline kev	0.966	0.053	0.04	0.35	0.62	0.71
fine-tuned kev	0.984	0.035	0.03	0.48	0.67	0.71

Development (coders seen in training, tasks not seen):

Table with columns: score, AUROC, Brier, ECE, kept local @2% err, @5%, @10%
score	AUROC	Brier	ECE	kept local @2% err	@5%	@10%
baseline kev	0.971	0.049	0.07	0.76	0.82	0.89
fine-tuned kev	0.968	0.042	0.06	0.66	0.84	0.89

Numbers are on small sets; see the project repo for task-bootstrap confidence intervals.

Recommended use

Average this model's probability with the execution evidence score, and tune the accept threshold per cheap-tier coder on a few hundred of that coder's execution-labelled attempts: a fixed threshold's error rate depends on how often the coder fails.

Training

Init: jaredpalmer/kev-4b@6cfce5c (LoRA r=16 + pointer head, base Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B-Base), Kev's own trainer (kev.train, commit f2bb629d).
Data: 2290 execution-labelled records (task-grouped split; llama-3.1-8b and the local 9B coder held out) + 2000 public decision-v7 replay records against forgetting.
One epoch, lr 2e-05, batch 1 x accum 8, gradient checkpointing, bf16 autocast, state limit 1664 tokens, frozen backbone in bf16.
Temperature fitted on a held-out calibration split (min NLL).
Hardware: one NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti (SaladCloud, ghcr.io/jtatman/kev-trainer:0.1.2).

Training data provenance

Code attempts whose correctness this model learned to judge (labels from executing hidden tests):

Table with columns: source, model, license, training rows
source	model	license	training rows
or:gemma-3-4b	google/gemma-3-4b-it	Gemma Terms of Use	275
or:ministral-3b	mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512	Apache-2.0	242
or:mistral-small-3.2-24b	mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506	Apache-2.0	297
or:qwen2.5-7b	Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct	Apache-2.0	267

Built with Qwen. Training data includes outputs of Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct, used under the Qwen Research License Agreement (section 4b). Training data also includes code written by Gemma 3 (4B), used as labelled examples of correct and incorrect code; this model judges that code and is not trained to reproduce Gemma. Gemma is provided under and subject to the Gemma Terms of Use at ai.google.dev/gemma/terms. The held-out test coder (Llama 3.1 8B Instruct) was never used for training.

Limitations

Python function-level tasks only (HumanEvalPack); other languages, repos and multi-file changes are untested.
The coder pool is 8-10 models of 3B-235B parameters; accept thresholds do not transfer across coders.
Trained on this question and state layout; other phrasings work less well.

Credits

Kev by Jared Palmer (jaredpalmer/kev, Apache-2.0); Qwen3.5 base (Apache-2.0); HumanEvalPack (bigcode). Project: https://github.com/jtatman/kev-code-verify

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README

License: apache-2.0

How to ask it

The fine-tune binds these exact strings. One noul question (probability that the statement holds):

json

{"type": "noul", "instructions": "Does the code correctly and completely implement the request, so it would pass a thorough hidden test suite including edge cases? Judge from the request, the code and the checks shown."}

State (an object; Kev renders it as key: value lines):

json

{"request": "<the task, verbatim>",  "code": "<the model's code>",  "checks": {"compiles": true, "defines_requested_function": true, "passes_examples_in_request": true,             "generated_edge_case_tests": "7 of 8 passed",             "note": "edge-case tests were written by a small model from the request alone; some may be wrong"}}

Results

Table with columns: score, AUROC, Brier, ECE, kept local @2% err, @5%, @10%
score	AUROC	Brier	ECE	kept local @2% err	@5%	@10%
baseline kev	0.971	0.060	0.03	0.31	0.51	0.62
fine-tuned kev	0.984	0.040	0.03	0.47	0.59	0.64

Second unseen coder (local Qwen3.5-9B fine-tune, IQ2_M GGUF, never in training): 486 attempts, pass rate 0.64.

Table with columns: score, AUROC, Brier, ECE, kept local @2% err, @5%, @10%
score	AUROC	Brier	ECE	kept local @2% err	@5%	@10%
baseline kev	0.966	0.053	0.04	0.35	0.62	0.71
fine-tuned kev	0.984	0.035	0.03	0.48	0.67	0.71

Development (coders seen in training, tasks not seen):

Table with columns: score, AUROC, Brier, ECE, kept local @2% err, @5%, @10%
score	AUROC	Brier	ECE	kept local @2% err	@5%	@10%
baseline kev	0.971	0.049	0.07	0.76	0.82	0.89
fine-tuned kev	0.968	0.042	0.06	0.66	0.84	0.89

Numbers are on small sets; see the project repo for task-bootstrap confidence intervals.

Recommended use

Training

Init: jaredpalmer/kev-4b@6cfce5c (LoRA r=16 + pointer head, base Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B-Base), Kev's own trainer (kev.train, commit f2bb629d).
Data: 2290 execution-labelled records (task-grouped split; llama-3.1-8b and the local 9B coder held out) + 2000 public decision-v7 replay records against forgetting.
One epoch, lr 2e-05, batch 1 x accum 8, gradient checkpointing, bf16 autocast, state limit 1664 tokens, frozen backbone in bf16.
Temperature fitted on a held-out calibration split (min NLL).
Hardware: one NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti (SaladCloud, ghcr.io/jtatman/kev-trainer:0.1.2).

Training data provenance

Code attempts whose correctness this model learned to judge (labels from executing hidden tests):

Table with columns: source, model, license, training rows
source	model	license	training rows
or:gemma-3-4b	google/gemma-3-4b-it	Gemma Terms of Use	275
or:ministral-3b	mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512	Apache-2.0	242
or:mistral-small-3.2-24b	mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506	Apache-2.0	297
or:qwen2.5-7b	Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct	Apache-2.0	267

Limitations

Python function-level tasks only (HumanEvalPack); other languages, repos and multi-file changes are untested.
The coder pool is 8-10 models of 3B-235B parameters; accept thresholds do not transfer across coders.
Trained on this question and state layout; other phrasings work less well.

Credits

Kev by Jared Palmer (jaredpalmer/kev, Apache-2.0); Qwen3.5 base (Apache-2.0); HumanEvalPack (bigcode). Project: https://github.com/jtatman/kev-code-verify