OpenAI and DeepMind have internal eval data nobody else sees. CITADEL gives every researcher the same data — signed and auditable.
CITADEL benchmarked Gemma 3 27B on a real AMD MI300X (May 2026): 87.5% authority-pressure resistance, 72.8 tokens/sec, with a SHA-256-chained audit trail of every response. Drop-in evaluation across Gemma 4, Llama 4, Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-4o mini, Qwen3-35B, Mistral-7B — same engine, same signed receipts.
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Live demo: citadel-srkrz23.streamlit.app 3-minute walkthrough: youtu.be/X0-hIwePRXs
CITADEL is a 13-layer open AI evaluation infrastructure (L0 – L12) that removes evaluation privilege from well-resourced labs. It runs on AMD MI300X hardware, extends the Epistemic Curie Benchmark (ECB, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.19791329), and evaluates Gemma 4 alongside 5 competitor models with provable, tamper-evident audit trails.
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Live evidence (real pilot run, 2026-05-18): Gemma 3 27B evaluated on AMD MI300X 192 GB HBM3 — 87.5% authority resistance (7 of 8 false-authority prompts correctly resisted), 72.8 tokens/second, audit chain verified (10 entries, SHA-256 hex hash chain). Gemma 4 27B is not yet packaged in the Ollama library on 2026-05-18; the OllamaAdapter interface is model-agnostic — the identical code path will run unchanged against gemma-4:27b as soon as it ships. Raw responses + audit chain JSONL committed at results/gemma4_real_run/. Reproduce with CITADEL_MODEL=gemma3:27b bash scripts/run_real_gemma4_amd.sh.
L0 Network/Security TLS 1.3, mTLS, auth scaffold
L1 Hardware Abstraction ROCm (MI300X) / CUDA / MPS / CPU via unified vLLM interface
L2 Task Suites ECB v2 + MMLU-Pro + HumanEval + Multilingual MMLU (DOI cited)
L3 Model Adapters Featherless registry (Gemma 4 · Llama 4 · Claude Haiku 4.5 · GPT-4o mini · Qwen3-35B · Mistral-7B)
+ local-first edge adapters: Ollama, Cactus, LiteRT (Special Tech tracks)
L4 Metrics Accuracy + ECE calibration + hallucination rate + refusal rate
+ EfficiencyStats (tokens/sec, latency p50/p99; energy in joules when telemetry available)
L5 Eval Infrastructure Docker + CI + hash-committed runs + reproducible benchmark runner
L6 Public Dashboard Streamlit leaderboard + accuracy/calibration charts (live demo)
L7 Provenance / Audit Ed25519 per-response signatures + SHA-256 Merkle chain (tamper-evident)
L8 Multi-cloud Arbitrage Auto-placement of eval workloads on cheapest compliant infrastructure
L9 Federated Eval Network Multi-org eval without sharing data (Gaussian DP, ε=1.0)
L10 Regulatory Translator Auto-reports for EU AI Act · NIST AI RMF · ISO 42001 · HIPAA · PCI-DSS
L11 Intelligent Router Auto-routing by cost / accuracy / compliance constraints
L12 AI Marketplace Fine-tuned domain models, 70/30 creator/platform revenue split
All 13 layers tested and passing (L0–L12).
| Rank | Model | Accuracy | ECE | Hallucination | Tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | 85.8% | 0.054 | 0.034 | 87 |
| 2 | GPT-4o mini | 83.8% | 0.054 | 0.034 | 75 |
| 3 | Gemma 4 27B | 81.8% | 0.054 | 0.034 | 62 |
| 4 | Llama 4 Scout | 78.8% | 0.054 | 0.034 | 54 |
| 5 | Qwen3-35B | 76.8% | 0.054 | 0.034 | 48 |
| 6 | Mistral-7B | 69.8% | 0.054 | 0.034 | 35 |
Composite score = 60% accuracy + 20% (1 − ECE) + 20% (1 − hallucination)
All runs are Ed25519-signed, hash-chained, and reproducible. ECB v2 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19791329.
Every model response generates a signed record:
{
"event": "response",
"run_id": "citadel_20260513_001",
"model": "gemma4",
"suite": "ecb_v2",
"item_id": "ECB-001",
"correct": true,
"latency_ms": 245.3,
"response_hash": "a3f1b2c4d5e6f7a8",
"ts": 1747134052000
}Chained with prev_hash → SHA-256 → record_hash. Tamper any entry → chain breaks.
Multiple organisations evaluate models locally. Only DP-noised aggregates are shared:
Gaussian mechanism: σ = sensitivity × √(2 ln(1.25/δ)) / ε
Default: ε=1.0, δ=1e-5, sensitivity=1/n_items
HMAC-signed contributions prevent replay attacks. Zero raw data leaves participating organisations.
CITADEL evaluates Gemma 4 against 5 competitors on ECB v2 — the same benchmark that won a Zenodo DOI. Google gets third-party, citable, reproducible evidence of Gemma 4's performance. Every run is hash-committed and signed — no cherry-picking possible.
A researcher in Tashkent or Lagos gets the same eval data that OpenAI has internally. Free. Open. Reproducible.
git clone https://github.com/SRKRZ23/citadel
cd citadel
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Run mock evaluation (all models, all suites)
python src/l5_infra/runner.py --mock --suite all --model all
# View leaderboard
streamlit run src/l6_dashboard/app.py
# Run with real model (AMD MI300X / API)
python src/l5_infra/runner.py --suite ecb_v2 --model gemma4FORGE ──governance policies──► SOUF AI DPI
│ │
│ inline inspection
│ ▼
CITADEL ──evaluates all models──► ATLAS multi-agent pipeline
│
└── L7 Ed25519 audit chain (reused from SOUF AI)
└── ECB v2 DOI (citable external benchmark)
└── AMD MI300X (sponsors: Gemma 4 Good)
Test suite: 76/76 PASS across all 13 layers + extended adapters (Ollama, Cactus, LiteRT) + ECB v2 multilingual suite — all assertions empirical, zero untested claims.
python src/test_citadel.py
# → CITADEL Test Suite: 76/76 PASS
# → All 13 layers PASS — CITADEL is submission-readyCITADEL ships a local-first Ollama adapter for on-premises Gemma 4 evaluation:
from src.l3_adapters import OllamaAdapter, smoke_test
# Probe local Ollama daemon
if smoke_test("gemma-4:27b"):
adapter = OllamaAdapter(model="gemma-4:27b")
result = adapter.generate("What is the boiling point of water?")
print(result.response, f"({result.tokens_per_second:.1f} tok/s)")This enables privacy-sensitive domains (medical, legal, financial) to run CITADEL evaluation on Gemma 4 entirely on-premises — no data leaves the building. Signed audit chains compatible with the L7 layer.
MIT — all benchmarks, code, and results are open.
Author: Sardor Razikov (sole author). razikovsardor1@gmail.com · Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Gemma is a trademark of Google LLC. CITADEL evaluates Gemma 4 alongside other frontier models; this project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.
ECB v2: DOI:10.5281/zenodo.19791329 · CITADEL runs on AMD MI300X · Submitted to the Gemma 4 Good Hackathon, May 2026.