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KAT-Dev-Exp

Available as managed deployment LLMs Kwaipilot Text gen 2 variants 222 dl/mo

KAT-Dev-Exp is an open-weight language model from Kwaipilot. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

MakerKwaipilot
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Parameters (lead)72.7B
Context128k tokens
Runs withtransformers
Released2025-10-10
Popularity222 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What KAT-Dev-Exp is

🔥 We’re thrilled to announce the release of KAT-Dev-72B-Exp, our latest and most powerful model yet!

🔥 You can now try our strongest proprietary coder model KAT-Coder directly on the StreamLake platform for free.

Highlights

KAT-Dev-72B-Exp is an open-source 72B-parameter model for software engineering tasks.

On SWE-Bench Verified, KAT-Dev-72B-Exp achieves 74.6% accuracy ⚡ — when evaluated strictly with the SWE-agent scaffold.

KAT-Dev-72B-Exp is the experimental reinforcement-learning version of the KAT-Coder model. Through this open-source release, we aim to reveal the technical innovations behind KAT-Coder’s large-scale RL to developers and researchers.

Introduction

We rewrote the attention kernel and redesigned the training engine for shared prefix trajectories to achieve highly efficient RL training, especially for scaffolds leveraging context management.

Furthermore, to prevent exploration collapse observed in RL training, we reshaped advantage distribution based on pass rates: amplifying the advantage scale of highly exploratory groups while reducing that of low-exploration ones.

Quickstart

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = "KAT-Dev-72B-Exp"

# load the tokenizer and the model
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    torch_dtype="auto",
    device_map="auto"
)

# prepare the model input
prompt = "Give me a short introduction to large language model."
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
)
model_inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

# conduct text completion
generated_ids = model.generate(
    **model_inputs,
    max_new_tokens=65536
)
output_ids = generated_ids[0][len(model_inputs.input_ids[0]):].tolist()

content = tokenizer.decode(output_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)

print("content:", content)

SWE agent Evaluation Parameters

temperature: 0.6
max_turns: 150
history_processors.n: 100

For full settings please refer to inference.yaml

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys kat-dev-exp for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (kat-dev-exp below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"kat-dev-exp","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.

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