Stage 1 ("cognitive distillation") LoRA adapter from the llm_distillery project — a personal-assistant training pipeline run entirely on a Jetson Orin Nano Super (8GB unified memory), start to finish.

Qwen2.5-0.5B imitates small, high-signal slices of three teacher-grade datasets to pick up reasoning, coding, and multi-turn conversational structure:

Training: LoRA r=32/alpha=64 on all linear projections (q/k/v/o/gate/up/down proj), lr=2e-4, 1 epoch (~500 steps), effective batch 16 (batch_size=1 x grad_accum=16), max_length=1024, FP16.

This is the standalone Stage 1 adapter. Stage 2 (jetson-assistant-stage2-adapter) was trained on top of this adapter merged into the base, not stacked alongside it — see jetson-assistant-0.5b for the final deployable merge of both stages.