vev-9b

Jev-like decision models that can also see images. Ask yes/no, multiple-choice or graded questions about a piece of text, a JSON record or a screenshot, and get a probability for every allowed answer in one forward pass. Vev serves the same request format as TypeSafe's Jev (/v1/systemone), and runs on your own GPU. Code, API and full results: Xiaooolong/vev.

This repository holds the merged weights: Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B with the Vev adapter folded in. The adapter alone is in CountingSheep/vev-9b-lora. The other size is CountingSheep/vev-4b.

questions = {
    "error": Noul(instructions="Does the screen show an error message?"),
    "step": Choice(instructions="Which checkout step is the user on?",
                   criteria={"shipping": None, "payment": None, "review": None}),
    "next": Choice(instructions="What should the user do next?",
                   criteria={"retry": "Try another card", "wait": "Wait for the order to ship",
                             "nothing": "Nothing, the order went through"}),
}
# vev-9b:  error 0.984
#  step  {"shipping": 0.002, "payment": 0.974, "review": 0.024}
#  next  {"retry": 0.992, "wait": 0.001, "nothing": 0.006}

v0.1 is a research preview, released for non-commercial use under CC BY-NC 4.0.

Use it

pip install git+https://github.com/Xiaooolong/vev typesafe-sdk
vev serve --model CountingSheep/vev-9b          # add --revision v0.1.0 to pin this release

from typesafe_sdk import Choice, Noul, TypeSafeClient

client = TypeSafeClient(api_key="local", base_url="http://127.0.0.1:8009")
resp = client.system_one(
    state="Order #4411 still shows 'label created' after 9 days. I need it before Friday.",
    questions={"urgent": Noul(instructions="Is the customer asking for something time-sensitive?")},
)
print(resp.answers["urgent"].noul)

Noul is the API's name for a yes/no question. Images go into the state as {"image": {"url": "data:image/png;base64,..."}}. Needs an NVIDIA GPU with about 19 GB of free memory.

What it can do

Accuracy on human-labelled data, by the kind of question:

The text rows are public benchmarks; the image rows are judgment sets converted from labelled public data. Jev is more accurate on nimble (by 18 points) and kev transfer-v4 (7); JevBench and judgekit are not significantly different. Jev's API takes text only, so the image rows have no Jev comparison. Check Vev on a labelled sample of your own questions before relying on it. Significance tests and the comparison with the base model are in the GitHub README.

Limitations

• The probabilities rank answers well but are not exact frequencies: expected calibration error is 0.01–0.14 depending on the task. Choose any threshold on your own labelled data.
• Reversing the order of the options changes the top answer on 13% of JevBench and kev transfer-v4 questions (Jev: under 4%).
• Asked together with other questions, a question's probabilities move by up to a few hundredths (p99 0.025).
• Judgments that need several steps of reasoning are weaker than the base model's own answer when it may think first. On "is something wrong here?" questions the model answers "no" more often than the labels do.
• Vev is not affiliated with TypeSafe; it matches Jev's API, not its behaviour.

Load the weights directly

from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoProcessor

model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("CountingSheep/vev-9b", dtype="bfloat16")
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("CountingSheep/vev-9b")

config.json keeps mtp_num_hidden_layers from the base model, but the multi-token-prediction weights are not included; reading answers does not use them.

This gives the model only. Vev reads the next-token probabilities of the answer tokens (Yes/No, option letters, level digits) at the end of a fixed prompt, described in spec/systemone-api.md, section 10.

Training

LoRA rank 16 on the language model of Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B, vision tower frozen; 2,500 steps on 100,000 records from 42 public English and Chinese text and image datasets, with a KL term towards the base model on training rows and on the 10,123 unlabeled rows of CountingSheep/vev-anchor-v3. Recipe, library versions and data sources: TRAINING.md.

License

CC BY-NC 4.0, non-commercial use only, because some training data is licensed for research use (sources and terms in TRAINING.md). The base model is Apache 2.0; its license is included as LICENSE-Qwen.

All Vev models and data: collection.

Citation

@software{vev2026,
  title   = {Vev: Jev-like decision models that can also see images},
  author  = {Wang, Xiaolong},
  year    = {2026},
  url     = {https://github.com/Xiaooolong/vev},
  version = {0.1.1}
}