| # IsSynth-Cars source | |
| 1. In a Molab runtime with an authorized non-commercial research purpose and `HF_TOKEN` configured, install the versions recorded in `configs/environment.json`. | |
| 2. Clone SPC commit `96834b22d5e59c852e53d713d434cbabb2f0d165` to `/marimo/SPC`. Clone Qwen3-VL-Embedding commit `393e2978d27852b0d0230d6994f37f9c15bed73c` under that source tree and remove the no-grad decorator from the embedder `forward` method as the Caltech runner does. | |
| 3. Run `python src/bootstrap_cars_data.py` to fetch authentic original Stanford train/test archives from the documented academic mirror, stage official annotations/splits, validate per-image hashes and few-shot support, and validate the existing synthetic ZIP. This keeps original images local. | |
| 4. Run `python src/download_model.py` to stage the Qwen base model, or let the runner download it automatically. | |
| 5. Run `python src/run_cars_issynth_supervisor.py`. It detects its own active process, resumes from the latest compatible checkpoint in the public model repository, and evaluates the best validation checkpoint after epoch 40. | |
| Original images are never uploaded to the model repository. The source archive and per-image hashes, class map, support selection, and corrected validation manifest are public reproducibility artifacts. | |