sarf-atlas 0.2.0

Backend-agnostic workflow and artifact tooling for Arabic morphology probing experiments.

Sarf Atlas

Sarf is a backend-agnostic research framework for Arabic morphology probing experiments. It organizes datasets, prompts, splits, extraction metadata, and evaluation artifacts, and is designed to let hidden states or logits come from Ember, llama.cpp, Transformers, or precomputed files.

Architecture slogan:

Sarf organizes.
Backends extract.
Auditors compare.

Sarf Atlas is not replacing Ember. Ember is currently the strongest local backend path, but Sarf should not depend on one inference engine. Sarf owns Arabic morphology schemas, task definitions, prompt templates, split strategies, experiment configs, expected artifact schemas, report scaffolding, backend-agnostic validation, and adapters for importing backend outputs.

Sarf does not own model execution internals, hidden-state extraction implementation, llama.cpp compilation as a required behavior, or Ember internals. Base Sarf works without local extraction backends installed.

The current split is:

• ember: one validated backend/tooling path for extraction artifacts.
• sarf-atlas: Arabic morphology research workspace, paper configs, notes, experiment manifests, package skeleton, and backend-agnostic workflow planning.
• gguf-parity-tools: validation and parity harness.

Quickstart

Install Sarf Atlas:

pip install sarf-atlas

Create a v0.2 project layout:

sarf init --out-dir /tmp/sarf-atlas-project --name sarf-atlas-project

Generate the toy workflow scaffold:

sarf example-workflow --out-dir /tmp/sarf-atlas-example

Import and summarize artifacts:

sarf import-artifacts --from files --run-id toy-run --prompts-path prompts/toy_prompts.jsonl --out artifacts/imported/toy-run.manifest.json
sarf summarize-run --manifest artifacts/imported/toy-run.manifest.json

The scaffold writes toy morphology data, prompts, split metadata, Ember config placeholders, a Sarf artifact manifest, and an example workflow manifest. It is framework scaffolding only, not hidden-state extraction, Paper 1 reproduction, or research output. See docs/CLI.md for the backend capability matrix.

Current adapter namespace:

• sarf.backends.ember
• sarf.backends.files
• sarf.backends.llama_cpp

Future optional adapters may cover Transformers/HF, vLLM, and additional precomputed hidden-state formats.

Optional Backends

Sarf v0.2 can inspect local backend availability, but detection is optional and does not make llama.cpp, Ember, Transformers/HF, or hidden-state extraction part of the base package:

sarf backends list
sarf backend llama-cpp doctor
sarf backend ember doctor

llama.cpp detection checks LLAMA_TOKENIZE_BIN, LLAMA_CLI_BIN, LLAMA_SIMPLE_BIN, and common PATH names. Default llama.cpp is useful for some local tokenization/logits workflows, but it should not be treated as emitting Sarf-compatible hidden-state artifacts.

Ember detection checks EMBER_BIN, PATH ember, and whether ember validate-run --help is callable when an Ember binary is found. Ember is optional; Sarf can still organize workflows and import artifacts from files.

Users may bring artifacts from llama.cpp, Ember, HF/Transformers, or precomputed files. Hidden-state extraction is not built into base Sarf and requires an emitting backend such as Ember, patched llama.cpp, HF/Transformers, or precomputed Sarf-compatible artifacts.