AlpaJudge: NVIDIA's Learned Judges for Autonomous-Driving Reasoning
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NVIDIA releases AlpaJudge, a family of learned judge models for evaluating autonomous-driving reasoning, with reference-based and reference-free checkpoints available on Hugging Face under the OpenMDW-1.1 license.
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Source: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/alpajudge AlpaJudge is a family of learned judges for evaluating autonomous-driving reasoning. This repository provides one reference-based checkpoint and one reference-free checkpoint.
https://huggingface.co/nvidia/alpajudge#licenseterms-of-useLicense/Terms of Use:
**Model weights:**The model weights are released under theOpenMDW-1.1license.
**Source code:**Apache License 2.0, as provided in theAlpaJudge GitHub repository.
https://huggingface.co/nvidia/alpajudge#checkpointsCheckpoints
VariantFolderInputsOutputAlpaJudge-RBreference\-based/Question, reference answer, and candidate answer; no imagesOne alignment probability in\[0, 1\]AlpaJudge-RFreference\-free/Front-wide/front-tele frames, ego meta-action history and future, and a candidate rationaleFive rubric probabilities plus the aggregated action, component, and overall scores
Both variants are available fromnvidia/alpajudgein the subfolders shown above.
https://huggingface.co/nvidia/alpajudge#downloadDownload
Authenticate with an account that can access the repository, then download only the variant you need:
from pathlib import Path
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
variant = "reference-based" # or "reference-free"
repo_dir = Path(
snapshot_download(
"nvidia/alpajudge",
allow_patterns=f"{variant}/*",
)
)
checkpoint = repo_dir / variant
Use thealpajudgeinference package to load either subfolder. See theusage guidefor setup, complete RB and RF examples, input contracts, score definitions, and limitations.
https://huggingface.co/nvidia/alpajudge#supportSupport
📣Usage questions: post on theAlpamayo NV Developer Forum.
🐛Code bugs / documentation issues / feature requests: file a GitHub issue using the appropriate template (Bug report, Documentation request, or Feature request) athttps://github.com/NVlabs/alpajudge/issues/new/choose. The relevant NVIDIA responder is auto-assigned.
🚨Security vulnerabilities: please useNVIDIA’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program. Do not file public issues.
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