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Kev 0.6B

Jared PalmerOpen weightsNot yet run

A reproduction of the architecture described in "Jev's Architecture Unmasked"; the only one that measured the real Jev on its own frozen dev sets and published a research log.

Specifications

Checkpoint
jaredpalmer/kev-0.6b
Publisher
Jared Palmer
Mechanism
Decoder backbone with a scalar scorer
Backbone
Qwen3-0.6B-Base, LoRA + pointer head
Parameters
0.6B
License
Apache 2.0
Runs as
open weights, self-hosted
Library
kev (GitHub)
Primitives
Choice, Score, Noul
Pricing
none — your compute

Published numbers

Reported by the authors or by third parties, on their own suites. Not comparable to the leaderboard above; attributed so you can check them.

Frequently asked questions

How does Kev 0.6B compare to Jev?

Kev 0.6B has not been run through the benchmark yet; the figures on this page are its authors' own and are not comparable to the leaderboard until a row exists.

Is Kev 0.6B open source?

Yes. jaredpalmer/kev-0.6b is released under Apache 2.0 and runs on your own hardware with the kev (GitHub) library.

Can Kev 0.6B extract entities?

No. Kev 0.6B answers questions about text and never returns spans; use a GLiNER-family model for extraction.