F3-mix12

Sanskrit DoneKeep

f3_slp1_uni8k_d125m_mix12

d125m (91.5M parameters) on rebuild 5 slice, 12.5% OCR (505.8M words, 0.81 passes), trained on RTX 3060 12GB (Home GPU). Started 19 Sep 2026, ended 20 Sep 2026.

Hypothesis

A small dose of OCR text (12.5% of tokens) helps where 45% hurt.

What we learned

No: ex-Gita 0.6336. With F2 and F2-noocr, 0%, 12.5% and 45% OCR fall on a straight line: OCR text hurts in proportion to its share.

Scores

Bits per byte, lower is better; change against the parent run, F2-noocr.

ex-Gītā (headline)
0.6336
bits per byte
+0.5%
ex-Gītā, clean_v1
—
bits per byte
Pooled, all five sets
0.6235
bits per byte
+0.5%
Validation split
0.636
bits per byte
+5.1%
Bits per byte on each test set
Test setF3-mix12F2-noocr (parent)Change
DCS gold (classical)0.6370.6319+0.8%
Bhagavad-gītā (memorisation)0.35970.3545+1.5%
Out of domain0.62980.626+0.6%
Prose0.60870.609−0.0%
Vedic (Ṛgveda)1.08481.0836+0.1%

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 5 slice, 12.5% OCR
Words
505,800,000
Training tokens
1,643,264,425
Passes
0.81 passes
Tokens seen
1,332,314,112

Compute

GPU
RTX 3060 12GB
Where
Home GPU
Steps
27,106 / 27,106
GPU hours
10.89
Cost
—
Spot restarts
—

Lineage

homed125m