RECIPE R0

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recipe_r0_d125m

d125m (97.2M parameters) on plus_all v2 subset (4 passes) (28.3M words, 4 passes), trained on RTX 3060 12GB (Home GPU). Started 4 Oct 2026, ended 4 Oct 2026.

Hypothesis

Reference: the F4 recipe in the 700M run's data regime (four passes over a fixed subset).

What we learned

ex-Gita 0.7152. Absolute numbers are not comparable with the F series (small subset).

Scores

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

ex-Gītā (headline)
0.7152
bits per byte
+15.6%
ex-Gītā, clean_v1
0.7427
bits per byte
Pooled, all five sets
0.7052
bits per byte
+15.9%
Validation split
0.6892
bits per byte
+16.9%
Bits per byte on each test set
Test setRECIPE R0F4 (parent)Change
DCS gold (classical)0.69930.6204+12.7%
Bhagavad-gītā (memorisation)0.44310.3271+35.5%
Out of domain0.71860.6158+16.7%
Prose0.67550.5974+13.1%
Vedic (Ṛgveda)1.17931.0098+16.8%

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_all v2 subset (4 passes)
Words
28,300,000
Training tokens
91,236,966
Passes
4 passes
Tokens seen
364,953,600

Compute

GPU
RTX 3060 12GB
Where
Home GPU
Steps
7,425 / 7,425
GPU hours
3.39
Cost
—
Spot restarts
—

Lineage

homed125m