Contrastive-LM Releases CLM-8B: An Open System One Model That Scores Agent Actions Up to 9× Faster Than Jev

Contrastive-LM has released CLM-8B, an open System One model that scores candidate actions against a state instead of generating text. It adds 2 small projection heads to a frozen Qwen3-8B encoder and trains them with a contrastive InfoNCE objective. In zero-shot tests it runs up to 9× faster than TypeSafe's Jev. With

Contrastive-LM has released CLM-8B, an open System One model that scores candidate actions against a state instead of generating text. It adds 2 small projection heads to a frozen Qwen3-8B encoder and trains them with a contrastive InfoNCE objective. In zero-shot tests it runs up to 9× faster than TypeSafe's Jev. With fine-tuned heads as a verifier, it reaches 81.6% on held-out DeepSWE tasks and 87.6% on held-out Terminal-Bench 2.1 tasks. The post Contrastive-LM Releases CLM-8B: An Open System O

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Contrastive-LM has released CLM-8B, an open System One model that scores candidate actions against a state instead of generating text. It adds 2 small projection heads to a frozen Qwen3-8B encoder and trains them with a contrastive InfoNCE objective. In zero-shot tests it runs up to 9× faster than TypeSafe's Jev. With fine-tuned heads as a verifier, it reaches 81.6% on held-out DeepSWE tasks and 87.6% on held-out Terminal-Bench 2.1 tasks. The post Contrastive-LM Releases CLM-8B: An Open System O

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