ckpt-countdown-families

ckpt-countdown-families

Evolution-Strategies fine-tuning checkpoints from IBM Blue Vela.

iter<N>.pth are the periodic training checkpoints and final/pytorch_model.pth is the end-of-run save. The two are NOT copies of each other even at the same N -- the final save is written a few ES steps after the last periodic one, measured at a relative L2 difference of 0.002 to 0.004 where ten iterations move 0.008. Treat final/ as the canonical end-of-run weights.

One copy per iteration is published. Where a run has both a final save and a periodic checkpoint at that same iteration, only the final save is here. Periodic checkpoints at earlier iterations are kept, and a run that never reached its end keeps every periodic checkpoint it has.

Runs still training are not here yet. They are published once they reach their target and write a final save, so that no iteration ever appears twice.

All .pth are bf16 state dicts keyed by vLLM parameter names (fused qkv_proj, gate_up_proj), loadable by the trainer resume path.