dkudos/cinimod-devops-sft-base
Cinimod DevOps 300M - SFT-ready base
The DevOps 300M pre-trained checkpoint in its SFT-ready form. Trained weights are identical to `dkudos/cinimod-devops`; the vocabulary and embedding matrix are padded by 3 reserved rows so that chat special tokens can be added later during supervised fine-tuning without resizing the embedding.
Status
PRE-TRAINED ONLY. No instruction tuning, no chat behaviour, no RLHF. It is a domain base model, not an assistant.
Architecture
Llama-style decoder-only (LlamaForCausalLM), trained from scratch - not a conversion of any existing checkpoint:
Why this repo exists
devops-300m-base is the canonical Phase-0 base for the CMAF (cross-model attention fusion) experiments in gitlab.com/dkudos/cinimod-llm (work item #6). The boundary drift harness, the divergent domain-LoRA trio (lora-a / lora-b / lora-c) and every hidden-state compatibility measurement load this exact checkpoint, so it is pinned here for reproducibility of those results.
Provenance
Recovered 2026-09-20 from /home/dkaiser/sft-training/devops-300m-prepped/ after the original outputs/devops-300m-4096-bf16-vast/ directory was lost in a working-copy rsync incident.
- Trained on vast.ai (2x RTX 4090, bf16, 4000 steps, sequence length 4096).
- Fetched to the training host.
prep_for_sft.pyconverted it to HFLlamaForCausalLMformat and padded the vocabulary for chat special tokens.- This repository is that HF-native copy - the same trained weights, SFT-ready layout.
Usage
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("dkudos/cinimod-devops-sft-base")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"dkudos/cinimod-devops-sft-base", torch_dtype="auto"
)Intended use and limitations
- DevOps / sysadmin domain language modelling: documentation, runbook-style text, tooling assistance.
- English only.
- 300M parameters is a research-scale model: useful for domain adaptation and specialization studies, not for general-purpose instruction following.
- The 3 reserved embedding rows are untrained. If you add tokens, initialise them before fine-tuning.
License
apache-2.0
