Record: Pre-quant AdamW TTT + QK-Gain 4.0 — val_bpb 1.1025 (3-seed mean)#1364
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Pre-quant TTT (6ep AdamW on EMA before GPTQ) gives -0.027 BPB gain. 3 seeds: 1.1023, 1.1037, 1.1016 (mean 1.1025, std 0.0011). All artifacts under 16MB. No SLOT, no n-gram. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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primary path - CRITICAL: PR openai#1351 (Discriminative TTT, 1.0807) self-closed by author on 2026-04-05 — pre-quant AdamW TTT ruled as pre-eval adaptation on val data. Removed pre-quant TTT from technique table and plan. - Updated strategy to PR openai#1334 (Depth Recur + Parallel Residuals + MuonEq-R, 1.0897) as primary architecture target — zero legality flags. - Logged new PRs: openai#1379 (0.4162, n-gram mixer), openai#1376 (0.7094, SLOT-24 + pre-quant TTT), openai#1364 (1.1025, pre-quant TTT at risk), openai#1370 (1.003, GDN). - SLOT and pre-quant TTT both blocked; discriminative TTT post-quant still legal. - Updated CLAUDE.md Competition Strategy + Technique Reference + Lessons (v9.0). https://claude.ai/code/session_01RTLvTuYBp9YMtudwrY8mYM
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…ed mean) Merges @clarkkev's openai#1394 (SP8192, SDClip, GPTQ embeddings, skip gates) with @stukenov's openai#1364 (pre-quant AdamW TTT). First combination of these techniques. 3-seed mean: 1.07948 BPB (std=0.00043), artifact 15.12 MB. Built with Claude Opus 4.6 as AI co-author. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Beats merged SOTA (PR #1019, 1.1147) by 0.0122 BPB = 0.0206 nats (4x the 0.005-nat threshold).
Key Innovation: Pre-quantization AdamW TTT
Standard post-quant SGD TTT fails on GPTQ-quantized models (25 failures, PR #756). We run AdamW TTT on the full-precision EMA model before GPTQ:
3-Seed Results
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Credits
PR #1019 (@abaybektursun), PR #1306 (pre-quant TTT concept), PR #1125 (QK-Gain), PR #478 (XSA-all), PR #535 (GPTQ), PR #493 (LeakyReLU²)