proofkit-distilled-qwen0.5b

ProofKit Qwen 0.5B — distilled (merged)

Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct distilled from the ProofKit gpt-oss-20b teacher (visproj/proofkit-gpt-oss-20b-lora). Sequence-level (data) distillation: the teacher's completions over ProofKit's prompts (visproj/proofkit-distill-qwen0.5b) are used to SFT the student (LoRA, 3 epochs), then merged to standalone weights.

The GGUF build of this model (visproj/proofkit-distilled-qwen0.5b-gguf) is what the ProofKit Space serves through llama.cpp — free on CPU. This merged Transformers copy is the source for that conversion and for evaluation.

Evaluation (post-fix, 3-judge panel)

Mean score (0–100) on 15 held-out prompts, graded by Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, and a local Qwen-3B (gpt-oss experts is a deliberately un-retrained stale control):

Both served retrained 0.5Bs beat the stale control and every untuned base across all three judges, and the distilled 0.5B ≈ ties its own 20B teacher.

Limitations

• 0.5B capacity; prompt-format-frozen (see below). A purpose-built ProofKit component.

About ProofKit

ProofKit is a work-sample generator for job seekers — it turns a target role, background, and skills-to-prove into a realistic, clearly-fictional practice work sample (a role-specific challenge, a guided builder, a readiness review, and a recruiter-ready portfolio packet). Built for the Hugging Face Build Small Hackathon (Backyard AI track). Integrity rules are load-bearing: outputs never claim real employment, metrics are labeled hypothetical, and exports carry an ethical disclosure.

The ProofKit model family

A note on training data (the "static responses" fix)

An earlier version of these models produced repetitive, input-ignoring drafts. The root cause was synthetic-data leakage: the dataset rendered the example user answers and the target from the same template slots, so the model learned target = template instead of target = f(input). The fix — faithfulness anchors (a distinctive token shared by the answer and the target) + seeded per-example variation across every task, then a full-chain retrain — is what these current weights reflect.

Prompt format is a frozen contract

These 0.5B models were trained on the exact prompt shapes from ProofKit's prompt_formats.py. They only behave well when prompted in that format; reworded or free-form prompts push them off-distribution. They are purpose-built components of the ProofKit app, not general chat models.