gnitoahc/ceed-b3
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
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
Evaluation
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.
