Model reference · open weights
KAT-Dev-Exp is an open-weight language model from Kwaipilot. KAT-Dev-72B-Exp-FP8 (FP8) weighs 75.2 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 4× RTX 4090 24 GB.
Summary of the Kwaipilot/KAT-Dev-72B-Exp model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.
What it is
| Released by | Kwaipilot |
|---|---|
| Released | 2025-10-10 |
| Parameters | 72.7B |
| VRAM | 75.2 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8K each | 32K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB … L40S 48 GB 6 smaller cards | — | — | — | |
| A100 80 GB FP8 without its speed-up here | — | — | 5K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | — | — | — | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 4 | 1 | 37K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 9 | 2 | 78K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 21 | 5 | all 156K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 34 | 8 | all 156K | 176 GB |
| 4× RTX 4090 24 GB tensor parallel | 5 | 1 | 42K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 4× RTX 3090 24 GB tensor parallel · FP8 without its speed-up here | 5 | 1 | 43K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 4× RTX 5090 32 GB tensor parallel | 16 | 4 | 134K | 31.0 GB a card |
| 2× H100 80 GB tensor parallel | 25 | 6 | all 156K | 78.1 GB a card |
| 2× A100 80 GB tensor parallel · FP8 without its speed-up here | 29 | 7 | all 156K | 78.2 GB a card |
| 4× L40S 48 GB tensor parallel | 36 | 9 | all 156K | 44.0 GB a card |
| 2× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB tensor parallel | 37 | 9 | all 156K | 93.8 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 8K tokens each | 32K tokens each |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 78.9 GB | 86.9 GB |
| 5 | 89.6 GB | 130 GB |
| 8 | 97.7 GB | 162 GB |
| 16 | 119 GB | 248 GB |
| 32 | 162 GB | 420 GB |
| 64 | 248 GB | 763 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
Builds
| Build | Params | Precision | Weights | Smallest setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KAT-Dev-72B-Exp ↗ | 72.7B | BF16 | 145 GB | 4× L40S 48 GB |
| KAT-Dev-72B-Exp-FP8 (above) ↗ | 72.7B | FP8 | 75.2 GB | 4× RTX 4090 24 GB |
From 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.
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.
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.
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)
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.