lucida-1.5b

Lucida 1.5B

Lucida is a fine-tuned version of Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B-Instruct trained to decompose mathematical equations into hierarchical explanation trees that build genuine intuition.

Given any named equation, Lucida breaks it down into its meaningful sub-components — explaining not just what each part is, but why it exists and what changes when it grows or shrinks.

What it does

Input: a LaTeX equation with an optional name and description.

Output: a structured decomposition tree where each node contains:

• The LaTeX fragment
• A node type (expression, variable, constant, operator, function, other)
• A short label (2–5 words)
• An intuition — the "aha" a great teacher would say

Example

Input: K = \frac{1}{2}mv^2 — Kinetic Energy

Output:

K = \frac{1}{2}mv^2 | expression | Kinetic Energy Equation | Moving objects store energy proportional to mass and the square of speed — doubling speed quadruples energy
  K | variable | Kinetic Energy | Total mechanical energy of motion — zero when still, grows rapidly as speed increases
  \frac{1}{2}mv^2 | expression | Energy of Motion | Mass times squared speed, halved — the ½ comes from integrating F=ma over distance from rest
    \frac{1}{2} | other | Scaling Factor
    m | variable | Mass | How much matter is moving — more mass means proportionally more energy at the same speed
    v^2 | expression | Squared Speed | Speed multiplied by itself — squaring means fast objects carry disproportionately more energy than slow ones
      v | variable | Speed | How fast the object is moving — the dominant factor since it appears squared
  = | operator | —

Training

Lucida was trained in two stages:

1. SFT on ~950 equations annotated in the 4-field compact format using frontier model annotations (Gemini 2.5 Flash) guided by 12 hand-written oracle examples spanning physics, chemistry, ML, calculus, linear algebra, economics, and probability.

2. GRPO starting from the SFT checkpoint, with three reward signals:

   • Format reward — output parses cleanly into the compact tree format
   • Reconstruction reward — children tokens cover their parent's tokens at every level
   • Judge reward — LLM judge scores label quality, intuition quality, and structure quality against oracle exemplars

Eval results (50 equations):

Usage

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_id = "rishiu/lucida-1.5b"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype="auto")

SYSTEM_PROMPT = """You decompose mathematical equations into hierarchical explanation trees that teach intuition.

Output format — one line per node, 2 spaces of indent per depth level:
<latex_fragment> | <type> | <short_label> | <intuition>

Types: expression, variable, constant, operator, function, other

Rules:
- The root node is the full equation
- Recurse until every leaf is a single variable, named constant, or operator
- Short label: 2–5 words
- Intuition: the "aha" moment — for variables, what changes if this gets bigger?
- Omit intuition for operators and bare numeric factors"""

def decompose(latex, name=""):
    user = f"Name: {name}\n" if name else ""
    user += f"Equation: {latex}\n\nDecompose:"
    messages = [
        {"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT},
        {"role": "user", "content": user},
    ]
    prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
    inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")
    out = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=1024, do_sample=False)
    generated = out[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]:]
    return tokenizer.decode(generated, skip_special_tokens=True).strip()

print(decompose(r"\frac{1}{2}mv^2", name="Kinetic Energy"))

Limitations

• Best on standard named equations from physics, chemistry, ML, and mathematics
• May produce factual errors on highly specialized or obscure equations
• Partial derivative notation (e.g. ∂u/∂t) is occasionally split incorrectly into independent symbols
• Output quality depends on equation complexity — very long equations may be truncated