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KAT-Dev-Exp

LLMs Kwaipilot Text gen 2 builds Open weights 222 dl/mo

KAT-Dev-Exp is an open-weight language model from Kwaipilot. KAT-Dev-72B-Exp (BF16) weighs 145 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 4× L40S 48 GB.

  • KAT-Dev-Exp is a 72.7B parameter open-source model developed by Kwaipilot for software engineering tasks.
  • It is the experimental reinforcement-learning version of the KAT-Coder model, designed to reveal technical innovations in large-scale RL training.
  • The model supports a context length of 131,072 tokens and is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Summary of the Kwaipilot/KAT-Dev-72B-Exp model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byKwaipilot
Released2025-10-10
Parameters72.7B
VRAM145 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for KAT-Dev-72B-Exp (BF16)

145 GBweights, file size
328 MBcache per 1K tokens
962 MBruntime overhead, at least
131,072 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … H200 141 GB
11 smaller cards
———
B200 180 GB8269K176 GB
4× L40S 48 GB
tensor parallel
9279K44.0 GB a card
2× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB
tensor parallel
11290K93.8 GB a card
2× H200 141 GB
tensor parallel
4411all 128K138 GB a card
4× H100 80 GB
tensor parallel
5313all 128K78.1 GB a card
4× A100 80 GB
tensor parallel
6015all 128K78.2 GB a card
2× B200 180 GB
tensor parallel
7117all 128K176 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
1149 GB157 GB
5160 GB200 GB
8168 GB232 GB
16189 GB318 GB
32232 GB490 GB
64318 GB834 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
KAT-Dev-72B-Exp (above) ↗ 72.7BBF16 145 GB4× L40S 48 GB
KAT-Dev-72B-Exp-FP8 ↗ 72.7BFP8 75.2 GB4× RTX 4090 24 GB

From the model card

What Kwaipilot says about KAT-Dev-Exp

Read the model card

🔥 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

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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