Record: 0.9623 BPB — 7-Gram Entropy Cache + XSA-all + EBLS

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Summary

• val_bpb: 0.9623 (3-seed mean, std 0.0009)
• Seeds: 1337 (0.9614), 2025 (0.9624), 2024 (0.9631)
• All artifacts under 16MB (~15.87 MB)
• 8×H100 SXM, ~560s training + ~300s eval
• Script: 1,420 lines

Technique

7-gram entropy-adaptive causal cache (PPM variant) blended with neural model during sliding-window eval:

• Hash-table n-gram backoff (orders 2→7, 4M buckets each)
• Entropy-adaptive alpha: α = 0.05 + 0.55·σ(2·(H − 4.0)) — trust cache more when model is uncertain
• Strictly backward-looking: cache updated only after each token is scored
• No oracle/min(NLL) selection — single blended prediction per token

Training stack: EBLS layer sharing (3 shared blocks × 3 loops), LoRA rank 8, XSA-all(11), LeakyReLU(0.5)², val-calibrated GPTQ int6, LZMA compression.

Compliance

• Training within 600s wall-clock (560s used)
• All artifacts < 16,000,000 bytes
• Script < 1,500 lines (1,420)
• No TTT on validation data
• No training data at eval time
• No min(NLL) oracle — single prediction per token
• Cache is strictly causal (backward-looking only)
• GPTQ calibration within training window on val data

Score Decomposition

Stage	BPB
Pre-quant (fp32)	~1.14
Post-quant (int6)	~1.14
+ Sliding window	~1.14
+ 7-gram entropy cache	~0.96

The ~0.18 BPB improvement from the cache captures document-local regularities (repeated phrases, consistent terminology) that the neural model's fixed context window handles imperfectly.

Credits

• N-gram cache: PR Record: XSA-all + LeakyReLU² + VR + GA + 7-gram cache (val_bpb=1.0337) #715, PR Record: First Legal Sub-1.0 BPB — Multi-order N-gram Backoff + Entropy-Adaptive Alpha (val_bpb=0.9674, 3-seed) #727
• Entropy-adaptive alpha: PR Record: First Legal Sub-1.0 BPB — Multi-order N-gram Backoff + Entropy-Adaptive Alpha (val_bpb=0.9674, 3-seed) #727, suggested by valerio-oai on PR Record: 5-gram Eval Cache + LeakyReLU² + Parallel Muon val_bpb: 1.0920 (3-seed mean, std 0.0007) | ~15.9 MB | 8×H100 SXM #659
• XSA-all: PR Record: 11L XSA-all + Full GPTQ (Budget-Legal) + Parallel Muon + Selective Pruning (val_bpb: 1.1178, 3-seed mean) #634 by @raahilshah
• LeakyReLU²: PR Record: 11L EMA + Int6 + XSA + LeakyReLU² + Partial RoPE (val_bpb: 1.1309) #493 by @parinzee
• Base model: PR Record: 11L EMA + GPTQ-lite + warmdown3500 + QAT@0.15 (val_bpb=1.1233) #414 by @signalrush

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Superseded by neural-track work.