ept.git/docs/CLAIM_LARGEST_NOBP.md, branch master Unnamed repository; edit this file 'description' to name the repository. Their VGG10 = 62.7M (computed from Table 6) > our 42.75M: largest-today is theirs; their EP/BP wall-clock 6.7-12x vs our 3.2x recorded as solver differentiator 2026-07-11T16:22:14+00:00 Yuren Hao yurenh2@illinois.edu 2026-07-11T16:22:14+00:00 f99636f3c64fb1f38f1bc76acc704bfb8741d1b7 






CLAIM RESCOPE: Kerjan-Hoier-Scellier PCN-ImageNet (their Eq.10 == our cascade energy; 1.0-1.5pp gap remains) — 'largest NN today' contested, use largest-transformer/first-LM/zero-gap; 1B+ unqualified
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Yuren Hao
yurenh2@illinois.edu

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Claim-verification dossier: largest-NN-without-BP — competitor autopsy (optical DFA partial+BP-readout; EGGROLL from-scratch=tiny integer GRU; ES=finetune-only); claim holds at 42.75M with qualifier, unqualified at 1B+
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Yuren Hao
yurenh2@illinois.edu

2026-07-11T10:32:51+00:00

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014FAPDWQ49M5Ye3NpTndTpn





Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014FAPDWQ49M5Ye3NpTndTpn