F6-clean

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f5_slp1_uni8k_d125m_plus_clean

d125m (97.2M parameters) on plus_clean slice (448.9M words, 0.92 passes), trained on RTX 3060 12GB (Home GPU). Started 30 Sep 2026, ended 1 Oct 2026.

Hypothesis

The F6 additions, with every held-out overlap filtered out, still help.

What we learned

Yes: ex-Gita 0.6145, 0.7% better than F4, almost all from Vedic (21% better). A split by overlap showed the Vedic gain is genuine register learning.

Scores

Bits per byte, lower is better; change against the parent run, F4.

ex-Gītā (headline)
0.6145
bits per byte
−0.7%
ex-Gītā, clean_v1
—
bits per byte
Pooled, all five sets
0.6039
bits per byte
−0.7%
Validation split
0.5906
bits per byte
+0.1%
Bits per byte on each test set
Test setF6-cleanF4 (parent)Change
DCS gold (classical)0.61750.6204−0.5%
Bhagavad-gītā (memorisation)0.32510.3271−0.6%
Out of domain0.61570.6158−0.0%
Prose0.59620.5974−0.2%
Vedic (Ṛgveda)0.79191.0098−21.6%

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
97,241,856
Outside embeddings
84,953,856
Layers · heads · width
12 · 12 · 768
Tokenizer
SLP1 unigram 8k

Muon + AdamW, rope, qk_norm, relu^2, untied head

Data

Slice
plus_clean slice
Words
448,900,000
Training tokens
1,444,720,245
Passes
0.92 passes
Tokens seen
1,332,314,112

Compute

GPU
RTX 3060 12GB
Where
Home GPU
Steps
27,106 / 27,106
GPU hours
12.35
Cost
—
Spot restarts
—

Lineage

homed125m