Record: PROTEUS v7 — 11L INT6 + LoRA TTT (mean val_bpb=0.9512, 3 seeds)

records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-23_PROTEUS_v7/README.md

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+# PROTEUS v7 — Parameter Golf Submission
+
+**Built with [PROTEUS](https://lightspeedup.com) by LightSpeedUp**
+
+## Result
+
+**Mean val_bpb: 0.9512** (3 seeds, std: 0.0025)
+
+| Seed | Post-Quant BPB | TTT BPB | Steps | Step Avg |
+|------|---------------|---------|-------|----------|
+| 42   | 1.1779        | 0.9485  | ~7000 | 84.8ms   |
+| 1337 | 1.1777        | 0.9534  | 6997  | 85.8ms   |
+| 2024 | 1.1751        | 0.9516  | 7093  | 84.6ms   |
+
+All seeds: `TTT_EPOCHS=3 TTT_MIN_DOC_LEN=512`
+
+## Architecture
+
+- 11 transformer layers, dim=512, 8 heads / 4 KV heads (GQA)
+- MLP 3x expansion (1536 hidden), relu² activation
+- SmearGate + BigramHash(2048, dim=128) + OrthoInit
+- Depth-scaled residual: `1/sqrt(layer_idx + 1)` attenuation per block
+- U-Net skip connections, tied embeddings
+- RoPE base 50K with NTK-aware eval scaling
+- 26.8M parameters
+
+## Training
+
+- Muon optimizer (matrix_lr=0.02, WD=0.04, momentum=0.99)
+- AdamW for embeddings/scalars (WD=0.04)
+- Batch size: 786,432 tokens
+- Warmdown: 3000 iterations, wallclock-based
+- SWA: 11 checkpoints during last 20% of warmdown
+- 3% magnitude pruning before export
+- Gradient clipping: 0.3
+
+## Quantization
+
+- **INT6 uniform** for all weight matrices (64 levels per-row)
+- FP16 for tied embeddings
+- FP32 for control tensors (scales, mixes, gains)
+- zstd-22 compression
+- Artifact: ~15.4 MB (96.4% of 16MB budget)
+- Quant gap: 0.012-0.014 BPB
+
+## Test-Time Training (TTT)
+
+Backward-looking LoRA adaptation during evaluation, following the approach established by PR #77.
+
+For each document in the validation set:
+1. Split into 256-token chunks
+2. Process chunks left-to-right over 3 epochs
+3. Each chunk: forward pass → score (final epoch) → train LoRA
+4. Reset LoRA between documents
+
+Key details:
+- LoRA rank 8 on Q + V projections + LM head
+- Adam optimizer (lr=0.01)
+- Batch: 64 documents (independent LoRA per document)
+- Documents < 512 tokens: standard eval (TTT adds noise on short docs)
+- Fresh model copy for TTT (avoids torch.compile graph caching)
+- Eval time: ~350s (within 600s budget)
+
+## Key Innovations
+
+1. **INT6 uniform quantization** — quant gap 0.012, better than prior SOTA's 0.014
+2. **Depth-scaled residual** — `1/sqrt(layer+1)` for 11-layer stability, stored as buffer for torch.compile compatibility
+3. **Fresh model copy for TTT** — torch.compile caches the no-LoRA forward path; new model from state_dict ensures LoRA works correctly
+4. **Per-document batched TTT** — 64 documents with independent LoRA, per-document chunk offsets
+5. **Short document threshold** — skip TTT for docs < 512 tokens (experimentally validated)
+
+## Platform
+
+RunPod 8×H100 SXM, PyTorch 2.8.0+cu128.
+
+## Credits
+
+PROTEUS by LightSpeedUp. TTT concept inspired by PR #77 (@samacqua). Techniques drawn from the Parameter Golf community: SmearGate/BigramHash (@unnir), Muon optimizer, SWA, OrthoInit.

records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-23_PROTEUS_v7/submission.json

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+{
+  "author": "Mato (LightSpeedUp)",
+  "github_id": "MatoTeziTanka",
+  "name": "PROTEUS v7",
+  "blurb": "11L, INT6 uniform, depth-scaled residual, backward-looking LoRA TTT (batch=64, multi-epoch). Built with PROTEUS by LightSpeedUp — lightspeedup.com",
+  "date": "2026-03-23T08:00:00Z",
+  "val_loss": 1.6032,
+  "val_bpb": 0.9512,
+  "bytes_total": 15429458,
+  "bytes_code": 67148,
+  "seeds": {
+    "42": {"val_bpb": 0.9485, "ttt_epochs": 3, "ttt_min_doc": 512},
+    "1337": {"val_bpb": 0.9534, "ttt_epochs": 3, "ttt_min_doc": 512},
+    "2024": {"val_bpb": 0.9516, "ttt_epochs": 3, "ttt_min_doc": 512}
+  },
+  "mean_val_bpb": 0.9512,
+  "std_val_bpb": 0.0025
+}