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authorYuren Hao <yurenh2@illinois.edu>2026-07-15 15:47:37 -0500
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RESULT 26: C512 ZERO-GAP SEALED — stage1b_cent 1.2334 vs BP 1.2311 (+0.0023, inside seed band); the 0.050 gap was recipe/noise
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014FAPDWQ49M5Ye3NpTndTpn
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+### RESULT 26 (2026-07-15): C512 ZERO-GAP SEALED — full-epoch centered erases the 0.050 gap.
+stage1b_cent (C512 42.75M, --est centered whole epoch, bf_late 3e-3@15k, amp, seed 1, GPU0)
+completed all 58800 steps: best val CE 1.2334.
+| run | best | gap vs BP |
+|---|---|---|
+| BP twin (stage1b_bp_muon) | 1.2311 | — |
+| stage1b_cent (THIS) | 1.2334 | +0.0023 << seed band ±0.006 -> STATISTICAL ZERO |
+| cent tail-only arm (45-55k) | 1.2591 | +0.028 |
+| original EP (plain, decay floor) | 1.2808 | +0.050 |
+Decision tree (RESULT 23 pre-reg): strongest branch hit — the whole 0.050 was a
+recipe/noise account. ZERO-GAP now holds at C128, C192, and C512 (C256/C384 tiers pending
+seeds). The ladder's "fit-depth tax" is REMOVABLE by the window recipe at this scale.
+Note: in-run gate_cos still declines late (wandb strip) while CE stays matched — third
+confirmation that direction-cosine is not the CE-relevant metric (C128 lesson).
+Cost: centered whole-epoch 1.72x. est_late would buy most of it back; the switch-point rule
+is the remaining tuning question. fw72m_cent (35%, best 3.5560, leading by 0.24) tests the
+same claim at 72M/FineWeb.
+
### EXTERNAL NOTES (2026-07-15, user-relayed from a sibling Hopfield-EP library project):
1. Hard-sigmoid Hopfield needs state CLAMPING: units with drive>1 equilibrate exactly ON the
rho breakpoint (sliding-mode equilibrium); unclamped discrete Euler chatters around it with