Niche
Post-training & Alignment: 16 open-source systems measured weekly
Evidaxis measures 16 systems in Post-training & Alignment every week. In snapshot 2026-w45 (2026-11-07) the niche median is ≈16.05 commits per week, 14 citations to date (on the 5 systems with a citation count) and ≈4.5 direct dependents (on the 6 systems with a dependents reading). Systems at 2× the niche median or more: 4. Rising: Unsloth.
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 | 12 commits/week, citations not measured, verified dependents not measured. | 12 | not measured | not measured | 5,902 | |
| ART | 20.1 commits/week, citations not measured, verified dependents not measured. | 20.1 | not measured | not measured | 10,848 | |
| Axolotl | 20.6 commits/week, citations not measured, 2 verified direct dependents (count only). | 20.6 | not measured | 2count only | 12,668 | |
| LLaMA-Factory | 2.5 commits/week, 582 citations to date (count only), 4 verified direct dependents (count only). | 2.5 | 582count only | 4count only | 75,915 | 41× citations |
| ms-swift | 26.2 commits/week, citations not measured, 5 verified direct dependents. | 26.2 | not measured | 5 | 16,057 | |
| NeMo-RL | 41.5 commits/week, citations not measured, verified dependents not measured. | 41.5 | not measured | not measured | 2,117 | |
| Open R1 | 0.2 commits/week, citations not measured, verified dependents not measured. | 0.2 | not measured | not measured | 26,474 | |
| Open-Instruct | 9.7 commits/week, citations not measured, verified dependents not measured. | 9.7 | not measured | not measured | 3,924 | |
| OpenRLHF | 2.5 commits/week, 11 citations to date (count only), verified dependents not measured. | 2.5 | 11count only | not measured | 10,144 | |
| prime-rl | 42.8 commits/week, citations not measured, verified dependents not measured. | 42.8 | not measured | not measured | 2,224 | |
| ROLL | 0.7 commits/week, 14 citations to date (count only), verified dependents not measured. | 0.7 | 14count only | not measured | 3,448 | |
| Search-R1 | 0 commits/week, 246 citations to date (count only), verified dependents not measured. | 0 | 246count only | not measured | 5,568 | 17× citations |
| Trinity-RFT | 0.5 commits/week, 1 citations to date (count only), verified dependents not measured. | 0.5 | 1count only | not measured | 712 | |
| TRL | 57.8 commits/week, citations not measured, 158 verified direct dependents. | 57.8 | not measured | 158 | 19,683 | 35× dependents |
| Unsloth | 796.2 commits/week, citations not measured, 26 verified direct dependents. | 796.2 | not measured | 26 | 79,133 | 5.7× dependents Rising |
| verl | 25.2 commits/week, citations not measured, verified dependents not measured. | 25.2 | not measured | not measured | 24,157 |
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.