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| author | Yuren Hao <yurenh2@illinois.edu> | 2026-07-14 13:21:35 -0500 |
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| committer | Yuren Hao <yurenh2@illinois.edu> | 2026-07-14 13:21:35 -0500 |
| commit | b6d44e395f255979bec2ca091bb40a5064bf54ca (patch) | |
| tree | 9f01356d62060a9dca03f40ae328dd4ee8b70dea /docs | |
| parent | 836e72a707de4f8bd7679400cb40fe59464daca9 (diff) | |
RESULT 21: crown sealed — 72.11M x 1.44B tokens fully BP-free (largest to date), gen gate passed on FineWeb; casc_gen data-aware
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014FAPDWQ49M5Ye3NpTndTpn
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diff --git a/docs/campaign/CASCADE_ABLATION_PLAN.md b/docs/campaign/CASCADE_ABLATION_PLAN.md index e8b23a4..d59a47d 100644 --- a/docs/campaign/CASCADE_ABLATION_PLAN.md +++ b/docs/campaign/CASCADE_ABLATION_PLAN.md @@ -567,6 +567,19 @@ direction), not training-under-fault; wave-2 = co-training with faults injected + +### RESULT 21 (2026-07-14): CROWN SEALED — 72.11M x 1.44B tokens, fully BP-free, largest to date. +fw72m_c2 reached 234,000 steps = the full Chinchilla budget (segments: 0-195k original schedule + +195-215k blow-recipe + 215-234k bcap-v2; final segment skips=1, drift 0.016 — the wall managed). +**Best model: val CE 3.7117 (s185000, ~1.13B tokens) vs BP twin 3.2884 -> headline gap ~0.43** +(disclosed as un-recalibrated transfer; mechanism = beta window, RESULT 19/20). "NENG-KAN" GATE +PASSED on FineWeb register: fluent, on-topic, syntactic English (factual coherence not expected at +72M on open web; BP twin equally confused). CLAIM NOW LIVE: **the largest neural network fully +trained without backpropagation to date (72.11M > KHS 62.7M), and the first transformer LM at that +scale** — crown + first stack together. Samples: runs/fw72m_samples.txt; gen tool now data-aware. +wandb: team eqprop-llm-training, split projects (ept-tinystories-42m / ept-fineweb-72m) + reports; +workspace default-visibility gotcha (newest-10) fixed by replaying headline runs last. + ### RESULT 20 (2026-07-14): WALL-ZONE PROBE VERDICTS — damping REFUTED (2 doses + adapt), beta-down SAILS; crown completion launched. Six arms, s195000 -> 201000 (the full crossing zone), identical data/recipe otherwise: | arm | val@201k (best) | skips | drift@end | verdict | |