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12 checkpoints reproduced · ≤ 2.6e-6 maximum logit difference · 108 tests passed
Inspect PR #2767 → huggingface/peft · PR #35185 configurations benchmarked · 262 custom-model tests passed
Inspect PR #3518 → huggingface/peft · PR #33829 targeted tests · mixed benchmark disclosed
Inspect PR #3382 →| CONTRIBUTION |
EfficientViMInspect PR → |
Super-Tuning + SupraInspect PR → |
Riemannian-preconditioned LoRAInspect PR → |
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| BAR | Reproduce every released checkpoint inside timm. |
Land a first-class PEFT tuner with reproducible checkpoints and native integration coverage. |
Integrate a safe, stable optimizer wrapper. |
| EVIDENCE |
12 / 12checkpoints≤ 2.6e-6max |Δ|108tests
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5 configsPEFT benchmark harness262 passedcustom-model tests
Method and initialization suites also passed |
9 tests0.475 vs 0.490 LoRA
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| CHANGED | Removed a non-portable dependency while preserving model behavior. |
Reduced the first-release API and aligned checkpoint handling with PEFT conventions. |
Rejected ambiguous optimizer closures. |
| OUTCOME | Merged in under 48 hours No public maintainer review thread. |
Merged after multiple review rounds Paper author co-credited · benchmarks mixed. |
Merged after 2 approvals Original author co-credited · below LoRA in this setting. |
Reproduce every released checkpoint inside timm.
Removed a non-portable dependency while preserving model behavior.
Merged in under 48 hours. No public maintainer review thread.
Land a first-class PEFT tuner with reproducible checkpoints and native integration coverage.
Reduced the first-release API and aligned checkpoint handling with PEFT conventions.
Merged after multiple review rounds. Paper author co-credited · benchmarks mixed.
Integrate a safe, stable optimizer wrapper.
Rejected ambiguous optimizer closures.
Merged after 2 approvals. Original author co-credited · below LoRA in this setting.
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The contribution added EfficientViM M1 through M4 and their distilled variants as portable PyTorch models. It removed the reference implementation's non-portable helper dependency, preserved timm interfaces, and converted the released weights to safetensors.
All 12 released checkpoints loaded with zero missing and zero unexpected keys. Parameter counts matched the paper. Reference logits matched to a maximum absolute difference of 2.6e-6 across all variants. The targeted model suite passed 108 tests.
The PR opened on Sep 9 and merged on Sep 11, 2026. The public thread contains no maintainer review, so this page reports the evidence and timing without claiming why the merge was fast. The PR discloses AI assistance and human review of every line.
The contribution added Super-Tuning as a first-class PEFT method, with Supra as the hybrid low-rank mode. It included the tuner core, public registration, documentation, a worked example, method and initialization tests, generic integration coverage, and five benchmark configurations.
The five Super/Supra configurations ran against existing LoRA and Shira baselines in PEFT's MetaMathQA harness. Results were mixed: the best Supra row reached 0.4632 test accuracy versus 0.4784 for LoRA, with one run per configuration disclosed. A post-review custom-model run passed 262 tests with 10 skipped; the method and initialization suites also passed.
Review focused on integration and testing. The contributor and maintainer reduced the API surface and aligned checkpoint handling with PEFT conventions. The PR opened on Aug 5 and merged on Aug 21, 2026 after 10 commits and multiple review rounds. The maintainer ran the example before approval, and the paper's first author was co-credited. The evidence does not establish a general performance gain for Super-Tuning or Supra.
PR #3518 · coordination issue #3450 · author coordination · Super-Tuning paper
The contribution added a generic optimizer wrapper for Riemannian-preconditioned LoRA. Nine targeted tests covered the factory path, optimizer compatibility, DoRA compatibility, error handling, the paper formula, and bf16 finiteness.
The first implementation stopped after a pre-publication risk check. The narrower implementation proceeded. Matching the reference damping default moved GSM8K accuracy from 0.450 to 0.475, while default LoRA scored 0.490 in the same rank-32 MetaMathQA configuration. Review later exposed ambiguity around optimizer closures, so the final implementation rejects them.
The PR opened on Jul 1 and merged on Aug 3, 2026 after 33 days, 5 commits, and 2 approvals. The original author endorsed the revival and was co-credited. The disclosed benchmark did not beat LoRA in this setting. The result stayed visible when the contribution merged.
PR #3382 · coordination issue #3380 · final implementation commit · Riemannian LoRA paper
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