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CEED B3 — gemma-4-e4b-it, distilled, with hidden-state projection

A LoRA fine-tune of `google/gemma-4-e4b-it` trained with B2's objective plus hidden-state projection distillation at three mapped layers. The teacher is the sparse mixture-of-experts `google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it`.

The adapter has been folded into the base weights, so this is a standalone checkpoint: load it exactly like the base model, with no PEFT and no CEED code.

This is Group B3 of the CEED study (Causal Expert–Evidence Distillation), a research artifact published for reproducibility. It is not a product.

Usage

python
from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoProcessor

model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("gnitoahc/ceed-b3", dtype="float16")
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("gnitoahc/ceed-b3")

The model was trained and scored with a short-answer instruction in the prompt. Without it an instruction-tuned model answers "The total written in the image is **28**." against gold "28" and scores zero on every metric here.

Training

Corpuschartqa 2,500, docvqa 5,349, gqa 10,000 (17,849 examples, 80/10/10 split by example id)
Passes over the training split2.69
AdapterLoRA rank 4
Final cross-entropy0.9126
Final KD term2.4891
Seed0
Run identity51223b3cbed5ef07221c2dabd183a1a706ed42e0fd24595c2d87ffd9b80342fe

Evaluation

DatasetMetricScoren
docvqaANLS0.8501565
gqaexact match0.62891016
chartqarelaxed accuracy0.5341249

Scored by CEED's own harness (harness_version: ceed-direct-1) with greedy decoding, on CEED's own 10% validation split.

These numbers are not comparable to published DocVQA / GQA / ChartQA leaderboard results. Different splits, different prompt, different decoding. They are meaningful only against the other CEED Groups, which were scored identically.

Limitations

  • This is a LoRA result. Merging folds the adapter into the weights; it does not turn a rank-4 adapter into a full fine-tune. CEED's own ADR-0005 bars LoRA numbers from the study's headline table, because a null result under a small adapter cannot be attributed between "the signal does not transfer" and "the adapter lacked the capacity to hold it". Read any comparison involving this checkpoint with that in mind.
  • The distillation gain is not established. The no-teacher control (CEED B1), trained identically but with kd_weight: 0, scored above this checkpoint on every dataset (docvqa 0.8501 vs 0.8798; gqa 0.6289 vs 0.6959; chartqa 0.5341 vs 0.7871). Whatever this checkpoint's objective contributes, it is not visible as an advantage over supervised fine-tuning here.
  • Trained on document, natural-image and chart VQA in English only. Behaviour outside that is untested.
  • Inherits the base model's limitations and the Gemma licence.

ceed_provenance.json beside the weights carries the source run's identity, parameter-efficiency mode, and metrics.