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11L Int6 MLP3x + SmearGate + BigramHash + OrthoInit + TTT SGD 3ep
Exact reproduction of @timowhite88's FarnsworthEngine recipe.
No modifications — run as-is to validate baseline.

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#1 untried combination from competition commentary:
TTT (from #254) + XSA (from #265) = estimated 1.117-1.121 BPB
XSA_LAST_N=3 excludes self-attention in final 3 layers.
Zero extra params, frees attention capacity for cross-token focus.

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8 Q heads with 4 KV heads needs repeat_interleave before matmul.

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exp_a: Multi-Token Prediction (MTP_NUM_HEADS=2, excluded from export)
exp_b: SwiGLU MLP replacing ReLU² (hidden=1024, same param count)
exp_c: Vocab 1536 tokenizer for better bytes-per-token ratio

All based on PR #254 SOTA clone (1.1303 BPB). Priority: exp_c first.

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TTT v2 (cosine LR decay, discriminative per-layer LR, low momentum 0.3, WD),
seq-length curriculum (256→2048), batch warmup (262K→786K), D2Z LR schedule,
XSA last 3, temperature scaling, optional Mousse optimizer.

Two run scripts: full stack (run_v2.sh) and conservative TTT-only (run_v2_ttt_only.sh).

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flash_attn_interface (FA3 Hopper) → flash_attn (FA2) → torch SDPA.
Script never crashes on missing flash-attn. Run scripts attempt
pip install on startup if FA3 not found.

Applied to both sota254 and sota_v2.

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…+ untested v2

Restores all four files to their state at 83efa9c. The FA3→FA2→SDPA
fallback was added in response to an environment question and should
not have touched application code.

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torch.compile can promote tensors to fp32 which hits missing FA3 kernels
(disabled at build time). Explicit bf16 cast prevents silent NaN output.

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A (MTP): 1.1619 BPB roundtrip — worse than baseline
B (SwiGLU): 1.1348 BPB sliding — close but +0.0045 vs baseline
Both artifacts over 16MB due to missing zstandard (zlib fallback)

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…combine

The self-exclusion mask + causal mask leaves position 0 with all -inf,
producing NaN from softmax. Fix: don't self-exclude position 0 since
it has no other causal targets to attend to.

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XSA_LAST_N=3 was costing ~25% step time due to manual matmul path.
Set to 0 to isolate TTT v2 + temp scaling gains at full speed.

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XSA manual attention killed step speed, only 4771/9000 steps completed.

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…seline

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exp_a MTP: 1.1619, exp_b SwiGLU: 1.1570, exp_c: missing tokenizer data.
TTT v1 hurt in both exp_a and exp_b (same pattern as TTT v2).

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Same model/artifact as SOTA254 baseline — zero risk.
More TTT adaptation (3→8 epochs) and finer sliding window (64→32 stride).

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TTT_SAM=1 enables SAM during test-time training. Two forward+backward
passes per step: first computes gradient, perturbs weights by rho in
gradient direction, then recomputes gradient at the perturbed point.
Uses the perturbed gradient to update original weights, seeking flatter
minima that generalize better.

Motivated by TTT consistently overfitting: loss goes down but eval
gets worse across all runs. SAM directly targets this failure mode.

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Exact settings from README. If this doesn't reproduce, the FA3 build
is the variable, not the code.

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Same training as the 1.1303 baseline, only change is TTT_SAM=1.
SAM seeks flatter minima during test-time training to fix the
TTT overfitting pattern (loss down, eval up).

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TTT 8 epochs + stride 32. Stride made no difference — all gain from
extra TTT adaptation. Same model/artifact, eval-only change.

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Both seeds beat baseline. TTT 8 epochs is a free win.

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Seed 7 compresses worse than 1337/42. BPB improved but artifact
exceeds 16 MB cap. Need passing 3rd seed for submission.

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ROPE_DIMS=16: apply rotary to 25% of head dims, rest position-free
LN_SCALE=1: scale RMSNorm output by 1/sqrt(layer+1)
Both env-var gated, default off — existing runs unaffected.

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Exp D on SOTA254 base. Increases TTT epochs from 3 to 8 and reduces
eval stride from 64 to 32 for a free BPB improvement with no artifact
cost change.

2-seed results:
  Seed 1337: 1.1295 BPB, 15.74 MB (pass)
  Seed 42:   1.1307 BPB, 15.69 MB (pass)
  Baseline:  1.1303 BPB (SOTA254, TTT 3ep)