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Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #0 in Decision models · score 0 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 17.2k · #469 of 619 tracked

Can I use it?Apache 2.0Permissive; patent grantlicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?17.2kdownloads, 30 days#469 of 619 we track · below the median+3 likes, downloads −15% this week52 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

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Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5

Kev is a family of small decision models built on Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.8 that you can train and run locally.

  • The Kev-27B model requires 96–128 GB of RAM on Macs, a requirement marked as expected but not measured.
  • An explicitly requested accelerator fails instead of falling back if the probe times out or crashes.
github.com 2026-09-21 463 HN pts · 210 comments 6.7k words about the kev family family

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

No API provider serves it, so its downloads are people running it themselves: 8 quantized builds and 13 Spaces.

  • As a service0no API provider listed
  • On own hardware8quantized builds
  • Built on94 fine-tunes · 3 adapters · 2 merges
  • In apps13Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: multimodalart/jev-decision-index ♥ 802 · jaredpalmer/kev ♥ 93 · MahmoudGhraibeh/kev-decisions ♥ 1 · anish-shrestha/small-decision-models ♥ 1

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

1 dated article and 7 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2026-09-20), amber triangles are 1 dated article (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

Oct2026-10-01: 1 repo commit2026-09-24: 1 repo commit2026-09-21: 3 repo commits2026-09-20: 2 repo commitsKev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5 · 2026-09-21Weights 2026-09-20 · 2026-09-20Weights 2026-09-20now
Oct2026-10-01: 1 repo commit2026-09-24: 1 repo commit2026-09-21: 3 repo commits2026-09-20: 2 repo commitsKev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5 · 2026-09-21Weights 2026-09-20 · 2026-09-20Weights 2026-09-20now

What people built on it

17 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

17 derivatives on the Hub, led by 8 quantized

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

8 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)4 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)2 merges (Hugging Face model tree)3 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)8 quantized4 fine-tunes2 merges3 adapters
8 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)4 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)2 merges (Hugging Face model tree)3 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)8 quantized4 fine-tunes2 merges3 adapters

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Benchmarks

18 rows

Benchmarks 18 rows

measured third-party leaderboard rowauthor-reported number from the model card or eval files (18)No confidence intervals unless the source gave them; settings differ between rows, so compare within a benchmark, not across. Date = the benchmark's own date when it gives one, else when we read it.
BenchmarkValueSetting / notesReported byDate
author-reported Held-out domains of generated decisions, ood-v2 (4,988)0.66—model author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU-Pro · Reason through hard problems0.23—model author2026-10-07
author-reported Out-of-domain, transfer-v4 development (656): accuracy / Brier0.648 / 0.430—model author2026-10-07
author-reported Out-of-domain, transfer-v4 locked test (656): accuracy / Brier0.697 / 0.397—model author2026-10-07
author-reported Unanswerable items answered with p ≥ 0.9 (lower is better)0—model author2026-10-07
author-reported breadth-v1 development, all 14 datasets (3,075)0.6—model author2026-10-07
author-reported breadth-v1 development, audited, 10 datasets (2,475)0.65—model author2026-10-07
author-reported breadth-v1 test, all 14 datasets (3,089)0.59—model author2026-10-07
author-reported breadth-v1 test, chance-corrected index² [95 % CI]23.3 [21.2, 25.9]—model author2026-10-07
author-reported decision-v7 development (1,264) / locked test (1,200)0.827 / 0.838—model author2026-10-07
author-reported devtools-v1 development (1,072) / test (1,071), all sources0.602 / 0.637—model author2026-10-07
author-reported devtools-v1 development, audited sources (772)0.63—model author2026-10-07
author-reported documents-v1 development (920) / test (936)0.842 / 0.851—model author2026-10-07
author-reported documents-v2, private held-out test (953)0.85—model author2026-10-07
author-reported hard-v1 development (1,083) / test (1,088)0.594 / 0.665—model author2026-10-07
author-reported tasksource-heldout-v1 development, all 24 families (2,788)0.51—model author2026-10-07
author-reported tasksource-heldout-v1 development, audited, 17 families (1,993)0.52—model author2026-10-07
author-reported transfer-v4 locked test: ECE / coverage at ≤ 5 % error0.045 / 0.274—model author2026-10-07

What the card says

2 cited sentences

Summary generated, cited

Kev-0.8B is an English decision model consisting of a LoRA adapter and a pointer head on the Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base backbone.[1] The model returns a calibrated probability distribution over supplied options in a single forward pass without generating text.[2]

  1. “LoRA adapter and a pointer head on Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base”
  2. “returns a calibrated probability distribution over the op…”

Generated 2026-10-07 15:18 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

3 use cases

What it is good at 3 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

12 fields

Listed in Decision models

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-classification
Librarypeft
MoEno
Languagesen
LicenseApache 2.0 (apache-2.0)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Decision facts

catalog

Decision-model catalog curated

How it was madeLoRA + new scoring/pointer head
Lineage bucketF - fine-tune of an open model (public/synthetic data)
Lineage evidenceboard file inspection (adapter/head/weight files) + HF base_model field
Base modelQwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base
DI 0.2.1 score14.60 (independent (DI 0.2.1 board))
ECE (board)0.0743
Median latency41.6 ms (DI board, 1x RTX PRO 6000, single process)
Hosted price (input)self-hosted/M
Sourcehttps://huggingface.co/jaredpalmer/kev-0.8b

All variants

17 variants

Lineage

Adapter Family: jaredpalmer/kev 17 derivatives on the Hub

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base

quantized: 8finetune: 4merge: 2adapter: 3

Top variants (17 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
17 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
ggml-org/Kev-0.8B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 ggml-org 4 4.9k
mys/kev-0.8b-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 mys 0 1.3k
litert-community/Kev-0.8B-LiteRT finetune — — — apache-2.0 litert-community 4 546
FluidInference/kev-0.8b-coreml quantized — — — apache-2.0 FluidInference 5 266
DreamBlooms/kev-0.8b-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 DreamBlooms 0 334
ayan4m1/kev-0.8b-merged merge — 571M S apache-2.0 ayan4m1 0 231
akshat-OwO/nev-0.8b finetune — — — apache-2.0 akshat-OwO 1 32
mlboydaisuke/Kev-0.8B-CoreAI quantized — — — apache-2.0 mlboydaisuke 0 51
Jacqkues/sev-0.8b adapter — — — other Jacqkues 0 47
jtatman/kev-0.8b-code-verify-v2 adapter — — — apache-2.0 jtatman 0 44
jtatman/kev-0.8b-code-verify-v1 adapter — — — apache-2.0 jtatman 0 41
LarrisX/kev-0.8b-selfteach finetune — — — apache-2.0 LarrisX 0 23
minhquan2310/dispositio finetune — 144M S apache-2.0 minhquan2310 0 12
ai-ecoverse/kev.js quantized — — — apache-2.0 ai-ecoverse 0 0
midudev/kev-0.8b-ONNX quantized — — — apache-2.0 midudev 0 0
ai-ecoverse/kev-0.8b-vision-intent quantized — — — openrail ai-ecoverse 0 0
Starlinghq/kev-0.8b-onnx merge — — — apache-2.0 Starlinghq 0 0

Repository changelog

7 commits

Repository changelog 7 commits

DateCommitSHA
2026-10-01 Kev 1.0 model card (weights unchanged) bf75a6a
2026-09-24 Kev-0.8B round 15: documents + skills in one delta 9a45d25
2026-09-21 calibration built in: head.pt carries the fitted temperature; KEV_TEMPERATURE=1.0 for raw logits 54f4f87
2026-09-21 Model card: link the Space demo d842b1f
2026-09-21 Kev-0.8B: dates+unknowable delta (locked test 0.834 / 0.684); previous weights at tag v7-base 2256796
2026-09-20 Kev-0.8B: Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base, decision-v7 recipe (locked test 0.827 / 0.668) c917ede
2026-09-20 initial commit 931752e

Articles and coverage

1 piece

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Analysis1

github.com2026-09-21authorityHN front pageabout the kev familyHN 463 pts · 210 comments6,746 words
Kev is a family of small decision models built on Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.8 that you can train and run locally. The API matches TypeSafe's System One, so you can point their Python SDK at your local server. Models use a small adapter on a frozen base, except Kev-27B which ships as 51 GB of full weights. The 27B model achieves 0.851 accuracy on new sources.written, reviewed, cited
  • The Kev-27B model requires 96–128 GB of RAM on Macs, a requirement marked as expected but not measured.
  • An explicitly requested accelerator fails instead of falling back if the probe times out or crashes.

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Sources

3 sources

Sources

Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:43 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:46 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:18 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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