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Based on SOTA (10L_Int5MLP_MuonWD04_SWA50) with improvements: - QAT with STE for int5/int6 quantization-aware training - BigramHash increased from 10240 to 12288 - Eval stride reduced from 64 to 32 for better context - Magnitude pruning increased from 3% to 5% - SWA every 25 steps instead of 50 - Artifact size: ~15.89MB (under 16MB limit)
Restore original train_gpt.py baseline. Add new records folder with submission script based on 10L_Int5MLP_MuonWD04_SWA50 SOTA. Changes: QAT with STE, BigramHash 12288, eval stride 32, 5% magnitude pruning, SWA every 25 steps.
Port LoRA TTT from records/2026-03-17_LoRA_TTT into our submission. At eval time, per-document rank-8 LoRA adapters are trained on Q/V projections and lm_head, then used for scoring. Expected -0.003 to -0.005 bpb improvement on top of sliding window eval.
val_bpb=1.14443 (seed=2024), artifact=15.90MB
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Adds a new /records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-21_QAT_BigramHash12K_Stride32 submission artifact folder capturing a training run and the exact code/config used for a QAT + BigramHash(12K) + stride-32 sliding-window evaluation entry.
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- Adds a full
train_gpt.pysnapshot implementing QAT (STE fake-quant), BigramHash embeddings, mixed int5/int6 quantization, pruning, SWA, and sliding-window eval. - Adds a
train_seed2024.logrun log and a shortREADME.mddescribing the approach/results. - Adds
submission.jsonmetadata (reported val_loss/bytes_total/date/author).
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| records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-21_QAT_BigramHash12K_Stride32/train_gpt.py | Training + quantization + export + eval script snapshot for this record submission. |
| records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-21_QAT_BigramHash12K_Stride32/train_seed2024.log | Captured training/eval log for seed 2024 and reported final metrics. |
| records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-21_QAT_BigramHash12K_Stride32/submission.json | Leaderboard metadata for the submission (name, loss, size, blurb). |
| records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-21_QAT_BigramHash12K_Stride32/README.md | Human-readable summary, config highlights, and run command. |
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| - **BigramHash 12288:** Increased from 10240 to 12288 buckets for better bigram coverage. | ||
| - **Eval stride 32:** Reduced from 64 to 32 for more overlapping context windows during evaluation. | ||
| - **Magnitude pruning 5%:** Increased from 3% to improve compression ratio. | ||
| - **SWA every 25 steps:** More frequent checkpoint averaging during warmdown. |
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README claims “SWA every 25 steps”, but the actual default in train_gpt.py is swa_every = ... 50 (and the included log shows SWA starting at step 5400, consistent with 50-step cadence). Please either update the README to match the code, or change the default/command/env vars so the run truly uses SWA every 25 steps and regenerate the log/metrics accordingly.
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| - **SWA every 25 steps:** More frequent checkpoint averaging during warmdown. | |
| - **SWA every 50 steps:** Checkpoint averaging during warmdown. |
| "name": "QAT + BigramHash(12288) + Stride 32", | ||
| "val_loss": 1.14443, | ||
| "bytes_total": 15902583, | ||
| "blurb": "10 layers, QAT with STE (int5 MLP / int6 attn), BigramHash 12288, eval stride 32, magnitude pruning 5%, SWA every 25 steps, zstd-22. Based on 10L_Int5MLP_MuonWD04_SWA50.", |
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submission.json blurb states “SWA every 25 steps”, but train_gpt.py defaults to SWA_EVERY=50. For reproducibility, please align the blurb with the actual run configuration (or adjust the code/run to match the blurb and update the reported metrics if they change).
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| "blurb": "10 layers, QAT with STE (int5 MLP / int6 attn), BigramHash 12288, eval stride 32, magnitude pruning 5%, SWA every 25 steps, zstd-22. Based on 10L_Int5MLP_MuonWD04_SWA50.", | |
| "blurb": "10 layers, QAT with STE (int5 MLP / int6 attn), BigramHash 12288, eval stride 32, magnitude pruning 5%, SWA every 50 steps, zstd-22. Based on 10L_Int5MLP_MuonWD04_SWA50.", |
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| _COMPRESSOR = "zlib" |
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The script silently falls back to zlib when zstandard isn’t installed, but the record metadata/README call out “zstd-22” and the reported bytes_total depends on the compressor. For reproducibility, consider failing fast when zstandard is missing (or at least reflecting the fallback clearly in README/submission metadata and the logged size label).
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| except ImportError: | |
| _COMPRESSOR = "zlib" | |
| except ImportError as exc: | |
| raise RuntimeError( | |
| "The `zstandard` package is required for this script to run reproducibly " | |
| "with the documented 'zstd-22' compression. Please install it with " | |
| "`pip install zstandard` and try again." | |
| ) from exc |
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…le, EMA, Late QAT, TTT Major rewrite targeting top-5 leaderboard: - 11 layers (from 10), BigramHash reduced to 10240 to fit 16MB - XSA (Exclusive Self-Attention) on last 4 layers - Partial RoPE: 16/64 head dims get position encoding - LN Scale: 1/sqrt(layer+1) dampening on deeper layers - EMA (decay=0.997) replaces SWA - Late QAT: STE int6 enabled only in final 4% of training - TTT: 25-epoch SGD on val data post-quantization - FA3 auto-detection with SDPA fallback - Reverted SwiGLU back to relu² (confirmed worse by openai#340, openai#344)
…y 10 steps - Disable FA3 (SDPA faster for GQA on PyTorch 2.9) - BigramHash 10240 -> 8192 to fit 11L under 16MB - EMA update every 10 steps with adjusted decay to reduce CPU overhead - Simplify attention forward (remove FA3 code path)
Previous run: 16.94MB with BigramHash 8192 + 5% pruning. BigramHash 2048 saves ~0.5MB, 10% pruning improves compression further.
v3 was 16.38MB with BigramHash 2048 + 10% pruning. Removing BigramHash saves ~0.15MB, 15% pruning improves zstd compression.
Fork of unnir's openai#374 (1.1246 BPB) with TTT added: - 11L, XSA4, Partial RoPE 16/64, LN Scale, Tight SWA - Shared VE128, SmearGate, BigramHash 2048 - TTT: 25 epochs SGD on val data post-quantization - Trimmed to 1476 lines (under 1500 limit)
Previous TTT took 7+ min per epoch (uncompiled, single GPU). Now: torch.compile + DDP across 8 GPUs + 3 epochs + batch 64. Should finish in ~2-3 min total.
flash_attn_interface (FA3 Hopper) not available on RunPod. Falls back to flash_attn, then SDPA with GQA support.
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QAT + BigramHash(12288) + Stride 32 — 1.1444 bpb
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