FINAL-Bench/Darwin-28B-REASON
### ๐ฑ Run it on your phone or a GPU-less PC โ POCKET ยท ๐ [Try it live (CPU chat)](https://huggingface.co/spaces/FINAL-Bench/POCKET-35B-CPU) VIDRAFT's on-device family: a 35B model that runs on iPhone and on CPU with no GPU โ stock llama.cpp, no fork.     Darwin-28B-REASON โ Reasoning-Trace Distilled, Darwin-DELPHI Enhanced
<p align="center"> <a href="https://huggingface.co/FINAL-Bench/Darwin-28B-REASON"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/โญGPQADiamond-89.39%25Darwin--28B--REASON-gold?style=for-the-badge" alt="GPQA"></a> <a href="https://huggingface.co/FINAL-Bench/Darwin-28B-Opus"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/๐งฌBase-Darwin--28B--Opus_(88.89%25)-blue?style=for-the-badge" alt="Opus"></a> </p>
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Full standalone reasoning model derived from Darwin-28B-Opus ยท Reasoning-Trace Distillation (RTD) ยท Darwin-DELPHI test-time engine ยท 27.6 B ยท BF16 ยท Apache 2.0 GPQA Diamond: 89.39 % with Darwin-DELPHI
Overview
Darwin-28B-REASON is a reasoning-enhanced standalone model derived from [Darwin-28B-Opus](https://huggingface.co/FINAL-Bench/Darwin-28B-Opus). It combines two components:
- Reasoning-Trace Distillation (RTD) โ a reasoning-trace distillation stage applied on top of the Darwin-28B-Opus base, producing this fully self-contained model (full weights, no external adapter required).
- Darwin-DELPHI โ a proprietary test-time reasoning engine.
Together they push graduate-level scientific reasoning to the top tier of the Darwin family: 89.39 % on GPQA Diamond with Darwin-DELPHI. The model is released under Apache-2.0.
๐งฌ Darwin Platform & Research
Darwin is VIDRAFT's measuring-result-driven Korean reasoning model family โ approximately 20 official models plus 400+ community derivatives, ranking #3 globally on GPQA among open models. The base model, Darwin-28B-Opus, is the HuggingFace-official GPQA #3 (88.89 %) model.
- Platform technique โ MRI trust-weighted Evolutionary Merge (arXiv:2605.14386).
- FINAL Bench โ VIDRAFT's evaluation framework (SSRN): MetaCognition +14.05, MA-ER Gap 0.392.
- 4-layer Pre-AGI roadmap โ Darwin โ AETHER โ PROMETHEUS โ HEPHAESTUS.
๐งฌ Model Lineage
โ๏ธ Technical Specifications
๐ฌ Core Techniques
โ RTD โ Reasoning-Trace Distillation
RTD distills complete reasoning chains from a publicly available mathematical corpus (Apache-2.0 source) on top of the Darwin-28B-Opus base, producing this standalone model. It strengthens long-form, multi-step scientific reasoning while preserving the base model's bilingual capability.
The full RTD recipe (curation, trace selection, training schedule) is proprietary and is not disclosed.
โก Darwin-DELPHI โ Test-Time Reasoning Engine
Darwin-DELPHI is a proprietary test-time engine applied at inference. It performs multi-sample cross-validation, re-examination of uncertain responses, and iterative self-critique, converging to a consensus answer through a single-agent Delphi-method procedure.
Darwin-DELPHI is not stored in the model weights. Its internal parameters โ sampling counts, stage transitions, and decision thresholds โ are a trade secret and are not published.
๐ Benchmark โ GPQA Diamond (198 questions)
GPQA Diamond is a 198-question, PhD-level graduate science reasoning benchmark.
The evaluation methodology for the Darwin-DELPHI result is protected; sample counts, staging, and thresholds are a trade secret.
๐ Usage
Darwin-28B-REASON is a full standalone model โ load it directly, no base model or adapter merge required.
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch
MODEL = "FINAL-Bench/Darwin-28B-REASON"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
MODEL,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device_map="auto",
trust_remote_code=True,
)
model.eval()
messages = [
{"role": "user",
"content": "A particle moves along x(t) = tยณ โ 6tยฒ + 9t. Find when it is at rest and classify the motion."}
]
text = tok.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
inputs = tok(text, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=2048)
print(tok.decode(outputs[0][inputs.input_ids.shape[-1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))The 89.39 % GPQA Diamond result is produced with the Darwin-DELPHI test-time engine applied on top of this model. Darwin-DELPHI is provided through the Darwin-series evaluation harness.
๐ฏ Recommended Use-Cases
- Graduate-level STEM reasoning (GPQA / science qualifying exams)
- Mathematical problem solving (MATH, AIME-style problems)
- Complex multi-step chain-of-thought tasks
- Code generation and debugging
- Bilingual reasoning (strong English + Korean; also Chinese / Japanese)
โ ๏ธ Limitations
- The 27.6 B model in bfloat16 requires โ 55 GB of VRAM (a single A100-80GB or B200 is sufficient).
- The 89.39 % result depends on the Darwin-DELPHI test-time engine; the model on its own delivers strong but lower single-model accuracy.
- Optimised for English first, with secondary support for Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.
- Reasoning traces tend to be verbose โ control with
max_new_tokensas needed.
๐ Citation
@misc{darwin28b_reason_2026,
title = {Darwin-28B-REASON: Reasoning-Trace Distillation and Darwin-DELPHI Test-Time Reasoning on Darwin-28B-Opus},
author = {FINAL-Bench / Darwin Research Team},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/FINAL-Bench/Darwin-28B-REASON}},
note = {RTD + Darwin-DELPHI ยท 89.39 % GPQA Diamond}
}
@misc{darwin_family_2026,
title = {Darwin Family: MRI Trust-Weighted Evolutionary Merging for Reasoning Models},
author = {VIDRAFT / FINAL-Bench},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14386}}
}
@misc{final_bench_2026,
title = {FINAL Bench: A Measuring-Result-Driven Evaluation Framework for Reasoning Models},
author = {VIDRAFT / FINAL-Bench},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {SSRN}
}๐ Related Darwin Models
- Darwin-28B-Opus โ base model, Qwen3.6-27B ร Opus distilled, GPQA 88.89 %
- Darwin-36B-Opus โ MoE 36B, GPQA 88.4 %
- Darwin-27B-Opus โ 27B dense (Qwen3.5 generation), GPQA 86.9 %
- Darwin-9B-NEG โ 9B with Negentropy distillation, GPQA 84.3 %
- Darwin-4B-Genesis โ smallest Darwin member
This model is introduced in Darwin Family.
Darwin-28B-REASON ยท RTD + Darwin-DELPHI ยท 89.39 % GPQA Diamond ยท FINAL-Bench
