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Alpamys 115f29df15 docs(readme): show the run, not just the claim
Visitors arrive from the Show HN headline and the first screen is all prose.
Adds a 14.5s GIF directly under the 8B-on-4GB claim, above "Why Soup?".

Segment 44.0-60.0s of the demo, chosen off the .vtt cue list and confirmed
frame by frame rather than from the brief's estimate: the scene cut sits
between 47 and 48s, so the clip opens on 3.5s of the static "Layer streaming
BETA" pre-flight panel (3.60 GB store across 32 layers, 2 x 113 MB VRAM
buffers, Training started!) and then runs the measurement card up to its
settled 3.32 GB / 119.6 tok/s. Both halves read without sound or context.

Encoding: two-pass palettegen/paletteuse so terminal colours survive, 960px
wide, 10 fps, dither=none, diff_mode=rectangle -> 4.63 MB. Readability was the
binding constraint, so the budget was met by cutting duration (16s -> 14.5s)
and fps (12 -> 10) rather than width; a bayer-dithered cut of the same clip
came to 5.08 MB and was dropped. Panel lines verified legible by opening the
generated GIF, not assumed from the source resolution.

Caption numbers are from benchmarks/gate-v0.72.2-nf4.md line 314 (the
re-measurement through shipped code), matching the claim line above it.
"What's New" untouched. README 440 -> 445 lines.
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assets docs(readme): show the run, not just the claim 2026-08-04 23:50:07 +05:00
README.md feat(train): layer streaming — fine-tune models larger than VRAM (v0.72.0 BETA) 2026-07-26 23:58:06 +05:00
adapters-and-governance.md docs: v0.71.34 adapter algebra + LISA (version bump + CHANGELOG + docs) 2026-07-15 13:39:46 +05:00
backends-and-ops.md feat(reward): soup reward stress — adversarial verifier gameability probe (v0.71.41) 2026-07-19 20:53:37 +05:00
commands.md fix(deps): both trl bounds were wrong — >=0.14.0,<0.27, settled by construction 2026-08-03 22:36:39 +05:00
compliance.md feat(compliance): init templates + soup card + soup ci init + GGUF-on-Windows (v0.71.35) 2026-07-15 20:09:10 +05:00
data.md fix(cli): quote install hints so `pip install soup-cli[extra]` works on cmd.exe (v0.71.37) 2026-07-17 20:40:54 +05:00
evaluation.md feat(ship): close the evidence loop — emit-evidence + config + provenance + PR comment (v0.71.39) 2026-07-19 12:30:35 +05:00
models.md fix(cli): quote install hints so `pip install soup-cli[extra]` works on cmd.exe (v0.71.37) 2026-07-17 20:40:54 +05:00
peft-and-efficiency.md docs: close the v0.71.35 checklist gaps (index row, toolchain, stale counts) 2026-07-15 21:04:01 +05:00
performance-and-quantization.md feat(streaming): preference losses over layer streaming (v0.72.4) 2026-08-03 18:38:13 +05:00
serving-and-export.md fix(cli): quote install hints so `pip install soup-cli[extra]` works on cmd.exe (v0.71.37) 2026-07-17 20:40:54 +05:00
training.md feat(streaming): preference losses over layer streaming (v0.72.4) 2026-08-03 18:38:13 +05:00

README.md

Soup Documentation

← Back to the main README

The main README is the 5-minute front door. This directory holds the full feature reference — every soup capability, grouped by area.

Guide Covers
Training tasks & methods SFT, DPO/GRPO/PPO/KTO/ORPO/SimPO/IPO/BCO, tool-calling, PRM, pre-training, distillation, classification, vision/audio/TTS, unlearning, RAFT/RA-DIT, loop-hardening detectors, reward-verifier synthesis
PEFT, long context & efficiency DoRA, LoRA+, rsLoRA, VeRA, OLoRA, NEFTune, PiSSA, ReLoRA, optimizer & PEFT zoo, LLaMA Pro, GaLore, YaRN/LongLoRA, packing, curriculum, auto-tuning, depth pruning + distill-heal (soup shrink)
Performance & quantization QAT, FP8, Quant Menu (I + II), KV-cache, NVFP4, save formats, Cut Cross-Entropy, gradient checkpointing, kernels, activation offloading, layer streaming, multi-GPU / DeepSpeed / FSDP
Data engineering Formats, the Axolotl/LF-parity pipeline, data tools, synthetic generation & forge, quality scorecards, trace tooling, remote datasets, mixing, recipe DAGs
Evaluation & probes Eval design/gate, eval-gated training, benchmarks, NLG metrics, calibration, Elo arena, diagnose, soup ship verdict, post-train X-ray probes, A/B, drift, tunability, soup advise
Serving & export OpenAI-compatible server, batch inference, benchmarking, merge/export, Anthropic Messages endpoint, speculative decoding (train + measure your own draft), deploy autopilot, Web UI, Agent Forge
Adapters, registry & governance Adapter lifecycle/management, model registry, Soup Cans, the data flywheel (soup loop), knowledge editing, steering, supply-chain controls
Compliance & governance quickstart HIPAA/SOC2/EU-AI-Act/SR-11-7 init templates, provenance (BOM/attest/repro-receipt), audit log, air-gap, model-card autogen (soup card), CI gate (soup ci init)
Backends, platform & ops MLX/Unsloth backends, Modal cloud GPU training, alternative hubs, HF Hub integration, autopilot, experiment tracking, plan/apply, env lockfiles, hardware-fit, completions, plugins, utility commands
Command reference The full soup command list
Supported models & extras Recommended model families, the VRAM size guide, the pip extras matrix

Per-release notes live on the GitHub Releases page; see also the repo-root CHANGELOG.md.