Niche
Post-training & Alignment: 16 open-source systems measured weekly
Evidaxis measures 16 systems in Post-training & Alignment every week. In snapshot 2026-w39 (2026-09-26) the niche median is ≈11.95 commits per week, 11 citations to date (on the 4 systems with a citation count) and 3 direct dependents (on the 8 systems with a dependents reading). Systems at 2× the niche median or more: 2. Medals here compare verified dependents only: a medal needs at least 5 systems in the niche with that figure and a median of 3 or more. Rising: none.
Systems
Default order: system name, A to Z. Click a column to reorder. Order is not a rank.
What the columns mean: commits per week · citations to date · verified dependents · not measured, count only · medals · Rising
| Measured line | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AReaL | 10 commits/week, citations not measured, verified dependents not measured. | 10 | not measured | not measured | 5,793 | |
| ART | 14 commits/week, citations not measured, verified dependents not measured. | 14 | not measured | not measured | 10,778 | |
| Axolotl | 13.9 commits/week, citations not measured, 2 verified direct dependents (count only). | 13.9 | not measured | 2count only | 12,506 | |
| LLaMA-Factory | 3.5 commits/week, 389 citations to date (count only), 4 verified direct dependents (count only). | 3.5 | 389count only | 4count only | 75,024 | |
| ms-swift | 27 commits/week, citations not measured, 4 verified direct dependents (count only). | 27 | not measured | 4count only | 15,731 | |
| NeMo-RL | 32.1 commits/week, citations not measured, verified dependents not measured. | 32.1 | not measured | not measured | 2,033 | |
| Open R1 | 0 commits/week, citations not measured, verified dependents not measured. | 0 | not measured | not measured | 26,477 | |
| Open-Instruct | 3.1 commits/week, citations not measured, verified dependents not measured. | 3.1 | not measured | not measured | 3,879 | |
| OpenRLHF | 3.2 commits/week, 10 citations to date (count only), verified dependents not measured. | 3.2 | 10count only | not measured | 10,046 | |
| prime-rl | 30.3 commits/week, citations not measured, verified dependents not measured. | 30.3 | not measured | not measured | 2,089 | |
| ROLL | 0.5 commits/week, 1 citations to date (count only), verified dependents not measured. | 0.5 | 1count only | not measured | 3,408 | |
| Search-R1 | 0 commits/week, 12 citations to date (count only), verified dependents not measured. | 0 | 12count only | not measured | 5,454 | |
| Trinity-RFT | 0.7 commits/week, citations not measured, verified dependents not measured. | 0.7 | not measured | not measured | 703 | |
| TRL | 45.6 commits/week, citations not measured, 153 verified direct dependents. | 45.6 | not measured | 153 | 19,394 | 51× dependents |
| Unsloth | 272.8 commits/week, citations not measured, 23 verified direct dependents. | 272.8 | not measured | 23 | 76,834 | 7.6× dependents |
| verl | 27.4 commits/week, citations not measured, 0 verified direct dependents (count only). | 27.4 | not measured | 0count only | 23,643 |
2×, 10× and 100× are that multiple of this niche median, on citations or verified dependents (bronze, silver, gold).
Rising means at least two of the three measures are rising together in this niche on this snapshot; it describes the recorded series, not a forecast.