Off-Policy Merging Beats On-Policy Self-Distillation for Continual Learning
Paper β’ 2610.05872 β’ Published
How to use carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5 with PEFT:
from peft import PeftModel
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
base_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("google/gemma-4-E4B-it")
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base_model, "carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5")How to use carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5 with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5")
messages = [
{"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages) # pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModel
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5", device_map="auto")How to use carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5 with vLLM:
# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What is the capital of France?"
}
]
}'docker model run hf.co/carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5
How to use carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5 with SGLang:
# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path "carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5" \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What is the capital of France?"
}
]
}'docker run --gpus all \
--shm-size 32g \
-p 30000:30000 \
-v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
--env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
--ipc=host \
lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path "carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5" \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What is the capital of France?"
}
]
}'How to use carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5 with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5
This LoRA adapter is created via Grafting as described in Off-Policy Merging Beats On-Policy Self-Distillation for Continual Learning (Wu et al., 2026).
google/gemma-4-E4B-itgoogle/gemma-4-E4Btermgrade_train_sft_32k.jsonl0.5 (effective lora_alpha = 8.0)import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
from peft import PeftModel
base_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"google/gemma-4-E4B-it",
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device_map="auto",
)
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(
base_model,
"carlesoctav/grafting-e4b_base_termgrade-0.5",
)