E14-8k

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e14_slp1_uni8k

d60m (63.2M 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 0.7016, 6% better than its 20M twin and within 0.2% of 16k; 8k is better on Vedic. Supported freezing 8k.

Scores

Bits per byte, lower is better; change against the parent run, E9-8k.

ex-Gītā (headline)
0.7117
bits per byte
−5.8%
ex-Gītā, clean_v1
—
bits per byte
Pooled, all five sets
0.7016
bits per byte
−6.0%
Validation split
0.6471
bits per byte
−5.8%
Bits per byte on each test set
Test setE14-8kE9-8k (parent)Change
DCS gold (classical)0.67370.7191−6.3%
Bhagavad-gītā (memorisation)0.43740.5202−15.9%
Out of domain0.70970.7551−6.0%
Prose0.68680.7295−5.9%
Vedic (Ṛgveda)1.2921.2677+1.9%

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
63,173,376
Outside embeddings
56,636,160
Layers · heads · width
8 · 12 · 768
Tokenizer
SLP1 unigram 8k

AdamW, learned positions, GELU, tied head

Data

Slice
E8 screening slice
Words
—
Training tokens
656,098,446
Passes
0.59 passes
Tokens seen
387,907,584

Compute

GPU
RTX 3060 12GB
Where
Home GPU
Steps
7,892 / 7,892
GPU hours
2.13
Cost
—
Spot restarts
—

Lineage

homed60m