tokv3_v01_d20m

d20m (27.1M parameters) on plus_clean subset, trained on RTX 3060 12GB (Home GPU). Started 2 Oct 2026, ended 2 Oct 2026.

Hypothesis

Control arm: the released v0.1 tokenizer on a 23.5% subset of the plus_clean slice.

What we learned

ex-Gita 0.7177; neither candidate beat it. Released as sansar-20m v0.1.0.

Scores

Bits per byte, lower is better.

ex-Gītā (headline)
0.7177
bits per byte
ex-Gītā, clean_v1
—
bits per byte
Pooled, all five sets
0.7102
bits per byte
Validation split
0.6975
bits per byte
Bits per byte on each test set
Test setTOK-v3 v0.1
DCS gold (classical)0.7065
Bhagavad-gītā (memorisation)0.5129
Out of domain0.7225
Prose0.6887
Vedic (Ṛgveda)0.9685

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
d20m
Parameters
27,073,024
Outside embeddings
18,881,024
Layers · heads · width
6 · 8 · 512
Tokenizer
SLP1 unigram 8k

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

Data

Slice
plus_clean subset
Words
—
Training tokens
342,491,547
Passes
1 passes
Tokens seen
342,491,136

Compute

GPU
RTX 3060 12GB
Where
Home GPU
Steps
6,968 / 6,968
GPU hours
0.85
Cost
—
Spot restarts
—

Lineage

homed20m