jeff-adapter-ground-gguf

The LoRA GGUF of jeff-adapter-ground (Jeff v1.3), for llama.cpp.

Passage re-ranking and answer grounding. Picks the passage that answers a question, and checks whether an answer is supported by its sources.

This repository holds only the adapter. Load it on top of the base GGUF from mstrasser/jeff-base-gguf; there is no separate full model per adapter.

It works on either base format: Q8_0 (recommended, within 0.4 points of full precision on every adapter test) or Q4_K_M (within 0.4 points).

Files

ground.jeff.json has a temperature for each format (temperature_by_format: f16, q8_0, q4_k_m); use the one for your base format, so the probabilities stay calibrated.

Results

The same test, through llama.cpp: the base GGUF plus this LoRA GGUF, with the temperature refitted for each format. Running Jeff with llama.cpp

All results, and the same test at full precision against the untrained model and the base alone: jeffhub.ai/adapters/ground.

How to run it

Use llama.cpp commit cb7934c52ca8710994b2ecc19775ebefcfdb8d01 or newer: it needs the qwen35 architecture and LoRA on the output layer.

hf download mstrasser/jeff-base-gguf --local-dir jeff-gguf
hf download mstrasser/jeff-adapter-ground-gguf --local-dir jeff-gguf
cd jeff-gguf
llama-server -m models/base-q8_0.gguf -c 8192 -np 1 --lora-init-without-apply --lora loras/ground.gguf

Jeff is not a chat model. For each decision you run one forward pass over the prompt and read the probabilities of the answer codes; you never sample text.

1. Build the prompt exactly as Jeff does (the question, the state, the options as answer codes, and the changing state field under "Latest", then the chat template with thinking off). The Jeff repository builds it for you (jeff.model.decision_messages).
2. Tokenize without a beginning-of-sequence token, with special tokens parsed.
3. Run one forward pass over the whole prompt from an empty state, with this adapter active. Clear the state between prompts: Qwen3.5 has recurrent layers, so a reused state would carry over.
4. Read the probabilities. Take the logits of the first N answer-code tokens (token_ids[:N], N = the number of options), divide by the temperature for this adapter and your format, and apply a softmax over those N.

With llama-server, each decision is one POST /completion with "n_predict": 1, "cache_prompt": false, a lora list that names every loaded adapter (scale 1 for this one, 0 for the rest; an adapter left out of the list keeps scale 1.0), a logit bias of +1000 on every answer-code token of the request, and n_probs set to the number of options. From the llama.cpp library: load the base once with llama_model_load_from_file, this adapter once with llama_adapter_lora_init, and per request call llama_set_adapters_lora with scale 1, clear the memory, decode once and read llama_get_logits_ith(ctx, -1).

The full guide, with an example prompt and request: Running Jeff with llama.cpp.

Data and licence

Adapter licence: Apache-2.0.

Qwen3.5-0.8B notice: these weights were modified from Qwen3.5-0.8B by the Jeff project: jeff-base is a fine-tune of Qwen3.5-0.8B, and this adapter was trained on top of it. Qwen3.5-0.8B is Copyright 2026 Alibaba Cloud and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0; a copy of that licence is in LICENSE.

It was trained on:

• SQuAD 2.0 (training split). Licence: CC-BY-SA-4.0 (open, but shared or changed data must keep the same terms) · Not made by a model

  Revision 3ffb306f725f. Used for re-ranking and, with generated answers, for grounding.

• HotpotQA, distractor setting (training split). Licence: CC-BY-SA-4.0 (open, but shared or changed data must keep the same terms) · Not made by a model

  Revision 1908d6afbbea.

• FEVER (training split). Licence: CC-BY-SA-3.0 (open, but shared or changed data must keep the same terms) · Not made by a model

  Official release. Annotations include Wikipedia material under the Wikipedia licence terms. Used for grounding.

• Generated documents, answers and near-miss passages. Licence: Released with the adapter under Apache-2.0 (made for this adapter) · Made by Qwen3.8-Max (hosted) and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (local); see the data card

  Documents in 12 domains (such as company policies, product manuals and API documentation) with questions and answers, plus answers and near-miss passages for SQuAD and HotpotQA questions, written by language models (which ones, and for how many rows, is in the data card). Every label confirmed by a second blind pass.

Links

• The adapter at full precision: mstrasser/jeff-adapter-ground (revision v1.3)
• The base GGUF: mstrasser/jeff-base-gguf
• Adapter page: jeffhub.ai/adapters/ground
• Running Jeff with llama.cpp: jeffhub.ai/docs/llama-cpp

Jeff is an independent project. It uses the same request format as Jev but is not affiliated with or endorsed by TypeSafe, the makers of Jev.