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f1b_slp1_uni8k_d125m

d125m (91.5M parameters) on rebuild 3 slice (414M words, 1 passes), trained on RTX 3060 12GB (Home GPU). Started 14 Sep 2026, ended 14 Sep 2026.

Hypothesis

Masking every 28-character window of held-out text inside the training data removes the remaining leak.

What we learned

ex-Gita 0.6372, higher than F1 by design: the masking removed soft contamination. The honest baseline; ex-Gita is the headline number from here on.

Scores

Bits per byte, lower is better; change against the parent run, F1.

ex-Gītā (headline)
0.6372
bits per byte
+1.6%
ex-Gītā, clean_v1
—
bits per byte
Pooled, all five sets
0.6271
bits per byte
+2.3%
Validation split
0.6124
bits per byte
+0.5%
Bits per byte on each test set
Test setF1bF1 (parent)Change
DCS gold (classical)0.6330.6255+1.2%
Bhagavad-gītā (memorisation)0.35970.2439+47.5%
Out of domain0.63510.621+2.3%
Prose0.61140.6107+0.1%
Vedic (Ṛgveda)1.07431.0917−1.6%

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
d125m
Parameters
91,491,072
Outside embeddings
84,953,856
Layers · heads · width
12 · 12 · 768
Tokenizer
SLP1 unigram 8k

AdamW, learned positions, GELU, tied head

Data

Slice
rebuild 3 slice
Words
414,000,000
Training tokens
1,332,329,708
Passes
1 passes
Tokens seen
1,332,314,112

Compute

GPU
RTX 3060 12GB
Where
Home GPU
Steps
27,106 / 27,106
GPU hours
10.75
Cost
—
Spot restarts
—

Lineage

homed125m