f5_slp1_uni8k_d125m_plus_clean_2x

d125m (97.2M parameters) on plus_clean slice (448.9M words, 1.84 passes), trained on RTX 3060 12GB (Home GPU). Started 1 Oct 2026, ended 2 Oct 2026.

Hypothesis

A second pass over the same clean data still helps a 125M model.

What we learned

Yes: ex-Gita 0.6039, 1.7% better than one pass. Released as sansar-125m v0.1.0.

Scores

Bits per byte, lower is better; change against the parent run, F6-clean.

ex-Gītā (headline)
0.6039
bits per byte
−1.7%
ex-Gītā, clean_v1
0.6254
bits per byte
Pooled, all five sets
0.592
bits per byte
−2.0%
Validation split
0.5727
bits per byte
−3.0%
Bits per byte on each test set
Test setF6-clean-2xF6-clean (parent)Change
DCS gold (classical)0.60520.6175−2.0%
Bhagavad-gītā (memorisation)0.2790.3251−14.2%
Out of domain0.60520.6157−1.7%
Prose0.58590.5962−1.7%
Vedic (Ṛgveda)0.78330.7919−1.1%

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
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
1.84 passes
Tokens seen
2,664,628,224

Compute

GPU
RTX 3060 12GB
Where
Home GPU
Steps
54,212 / 54,212
GPU hours
24.74
Cost
—
Spot restarts
—

Lineage

homed125m