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Summary

  • val_bpb = 1.0920 — new personal best with legal score-first TTT
  • 11L GEPA architecture (27M params) trained for 30000 steps (12000 peak-LR + 18000 warmdown)
  • Pure int6 per-row quantization with 15-candidate GPTQ-lite + zstd-22 compression
  • Legal score-first TTT (SGD, momentum 0.9, 10 epochs): −0.035 BPP gain
  • Artifact: 13.40 MB (14,136,140 bytes total) — smallest in our series
  • Includes model artifact (final_model.int6.ptz) for reproducibility

Key Result

Metric Value
Float base (30k steps) 1.1043
Int6 quantized 1.1267
After legal TTT 1.0920
Quant gap 0.022 BPP
TTT gain −0.035 BPP
Eval time 2,064s on 4×A100-40GB
Training wallclock 14,998s (~4.2 hours)

Scaling Law (6 data points)

Steps Peak-LR Warmdown Float Base TTT BPP Artifact
9,000 5,000 4,000 1.135 1.116 14.94 MB
12,000 7,000 5,000 1.127 1.108 14.79 MB
15,000 9,000 6,000 1.122 1.104 14.52 MB
20,000 12,000 8,000 1.115 1.098 14.22 MB
25,000 12,000 13,000 1.109 1.094 13.75 MB
30,000 12,000 18,000 1.104 1.092 13.40 MB

All three metrics improve monotonically across all 6 experiments.

Key Insights

  1. 60% warmdown ratio (18k of 30k steps) reduces quantization gap from 0.027 → 0.022
  2. Warmdown acceleration: Final 5000 steps produce −0.052 BPP decline (25k→30k)
  3. Diminishing returns: Δ from 25k→30k is only −0.002 BPP (vs −0.004 for 20k→25k)

Non-record unlimited-compute submission (4×A100-40GB, ~4.2 hours).

Prior Submissions in This Series

Acknowledgments

Builds on techniques from: @signalrush (PR #414, GPTQ-lite/EMA), @jfprincz (PRs #287/#315, XSA/Partial RoPE/LN Scale), @unnir (PR #265, Efficient XSA), raahilshah (PR #162, SmearGate/BigramHash), @aruniyer (PR #86, Int6 QAT), samacqua (LoRA TTT), @abaybektursun (PR #549, LeakyReLU²), and the OpenAI baseline.

- Non-record unlimited-compute submission: val_bpb=1.0920
- 30000-step training (12000 peak-LR + 18000 warmdown) on 4xA100-40GB
- Pure int6 per-row quantization with 15-candidate GPTQ-lite + zstd-22
- Legal score-first TTT (SGD, 10 epochs, momentum 0.9): -0.035 BPP gain
- Float base 1.1043, quant 1.1267, artifact 13.40 MB (14,136,140 bytes)
- Includes model artifact (final_model.int6.ptz) for reproducibility
- 6th data point in warmdown scaling law series (9k/12k/15k/20k/25k/30k)
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