E14-16k

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e14_slp1_uni16k

d60m (69.3M parameters) on E8 screening slice, trained on RTX 3060 12GB (Home GPU). Started 12 Sep 2026, ended 12 Sep 2026.

Hypothesis

The 8k/16k vocabulary tie survives a 3x larger model (60M).

What we learned

Pooled 0.7030, within 0.2% of 8k: better on the Gita and prose, clearly worse on Vedic.

Scores

Bits per byte, lower is better; change against the parent run, E9-16k.

ex-Gītā (headline)
0.7134
bits per byte
−5.6%
ex-Gītā, clean_v1
—
bits per byte
Pooled, all five sets
0.703
bits per byte
−5.8%
Validation split
0.6366
bits per byte
−6.5%
Bits per byte on each test set
Test setE14-16kE9-16k (parent)Change
DCS gold (classical)0.67110.7139−6.0%
Bhagavad-gītā (memorisation)0.42770.5075−15.7%
Out of domain0.71210.7584−6.1%
Prose0.68470.7246−5.5%
Vedic (Ṛgveda)1.34311.2575+6.8%

Curves

Training loss

Cross-entropy per token, by step. The first few percent of the run, far higher, run off the top; hover or the table has every value.

Held-out bits per byte

The validation split, evaluated during training, by step. Lower is better.

Throughput

Tokens per second, by step.

Model

Preset
d60m
Parameters
69,317,376
Outside embeddings
56,636,160
Layers · heads · width
8 · 12 · 768
Tokenizer
SLP1 unigram 16k

AdamW, learned positions, GELU, tied head

Data

Slice
E8 screening slice
Words
—
Training tokens
594,539,065
Passes
0.59 passes
Tokens seen
351,485,952

Compute

GPU
RTX 3060 12GB
Where
Home GPU
Steps
7,151 / 7,151
GPU hours
2.1
Cost
—
Spot restarts
—

Lineage

homed60m