RECIPE R0docs

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recipe_r0docs_d125m

d125m (97.2M parameters) on plus_all v2 subset (4 passes) (28.3M words, 4.02 passes), trained on RTX 3060 12GB (Home GPU). Started 5 Oct 2026, ended 5 Oct 2026.

Hypothesis

Layout control: lines of one text joined into documents.

What we learned

ex-Gita 0.7262, 1.7% worse than the per-line layout. The reference for ARCH.

Scores

Bits per byte, lower is better; change against the parent run, RECIPE R0.

ex-Gītā (headline)
0.7262
bits per byte
+1.5%
ex-Gītā, clean_v1
0.7607
bits per byte
+2.4%
Pooled, all five sets
0.7167
bits per byte
+1.6%
Validation split
0.6524
bits per byte
−5.3%
Bits per byte on each test set
Test setRECIPE R0docsRECIPE R0 (parent)Change
DCS gold (classical)0.74780.6993+6.9%
Bhagavad-gītā (memorisation)0.46820.4431+5.7%
Out of domain0.72120.7186+0.4%
Prose0.68730.6755+1.7%
Vedic (Ṛgveda)1.31911.1793+11.9%

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
90,886,950
Passes
4.02 passes
Tokens seen
364,953,600

Compute

GPU
RTX 3060 12GB
Where
Home GPU
Steps
7,425 / 7,425
GPU hours
3.38
Cost
—
Spot restarts
—

Lineage

homed125m