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# Record: SP8192 + Triple Recurrence + Banking + Fused MLP + Muon 0.97 — val_bpb 1.0778 (3-seed mean)

**val_bpb = 1.0778** (3-seed mean, std 0.0008) | **~15.99 MB** | 8xH100 SXM

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The README claims an artifact size of "~15.99 MB", but the training logs in this folder report total submission sizes of ~16.02 MB (e.g., 16,032,371 bytes on seed 42). Please reconcile these numbers and clarify whether the cap is 16,000,000 bytes or 16 MiB, and ensure the reported artifact fits the enforced limit.

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## 3-Seed Results

| Seed | Pre-quant BPP | Sliding BPP | **TTT BPP** |
|------|---------------|-------------|-------------|
| 1337 | 1.0848 | 1.0786 | **1.0771** |
| 42 | 1.0856 | 1.0792 | **1.0776** |
| 2024 | 1.0862 | 1.0798 | **1.0787** |
| **Mean** | 1.0855 | 1.0792 | **1.0778** |

Merged SOTA (PR #1493): **1.0810 BPP**. Delta: **-0.0032 BPP**.

## Contributions

### 1. Parameter Banking with Parallel Muon (systems)

Restructures 66 separate weight matrices into 4 contiguous 3D parameter banks (qo, kv, mlp_up, mlp_down). Replaces DDP with manual reduce_scatter → batched Newton-Schulz → all_gather. Reduces optimizer step from 19.7ms to 1.3ms (15x faster). Critical fix: restored MuonEq-R row normalization that the refactor had dropped. Combined: **+3.8% training throughput**.

### 2. Fused MLP Triton TMA Kernel (systems)

Fuses `fc(x) → LeakyReLU(0.5) → square` into a single Hopper TMA kernel. The 384MB MLP intermediate never touches HBM. With CUTLASS EVT backward fusion for `(grad @ proj_w) * act_grad`. Combined with banking: **+5.2% total throughput**.

### 3. Muon Momentum 0.97 (training)

Reduced Muon optimizer momentum from default 0.99 to 0.97. Lower momentum provides less smoothing but faster adaptation to the depth-recurrent architecture. **-0.0004 BPP** improvement.

### 4. Triple Depth Recurrence (architecture)

17 virtual layers from 11 physical. Layers 3,4,5 looped 3x total (NUM_LOOPS=2), activated at 35% training. First legal Track B submission with triple recurrence.

### 5. Eval-Time Hash Embedding (eval)

Zero-initialized nn.Embedding(16384, 512) created at eval time, trained through score-first TTT. Bigram hash `h = (prev_token * 2039 + curr_token) % 16384` adds learned residual before RMSNorm.

### 6. TTT LR=0.01 (eval)

Optimized TTT learning rate from default 0.005 to 0.01. **-0.0003 BPP** free improvement.

## Full Architecture

```
SP8192 tokenizer, 11 physical / 17 virtual layers
512 dim, MLP 4x (2048 hidden), GQA 8Q/4KV, head_dim=64
Parallel residuals L7+, QK-Gain 5.0, XSA all 11 layers
LeakyReLU(0.5)², skip gates, logit softcap 30
MuonEq-R (lr=0.022, wd=0.095, momentum=0.97) + AdamW
EMA 0.997, warmdown 66.7%, loop at 35%
SDClip GPTQ int6 (k=12.85) + int8 embed (k=20) + brotli
Score-first TTT: SGD lr=0.01, mom=0.9, 3ep, 32K chunks
Hash embedding: 16384×512, zero-init, trained in TTT
~36M params, ~15.99MB artifact
```

## Compliance (Track B — Score-First TTT)

Per Issue #1017:
- **Condition 1:** Hash key uses prefix tokens only
- **Condition 2:** Full normalized softmax distribution
- **Condition 3:** Each chunk scored under no_grad() before TTT update
- **Condition 4:** Single left-to-right pass, no rescoring

No SLOT, no pre-quant TTT, no n-gram caches, no Tap-In.

## Reproduction

```bash
pip install brotli sentencepiece
MATCHED_FINEWEB_REPO_ID=kevclark/parameter-golf python3 data/cached_challenge_fineweb.py --variant sp8192
SEED=1337 TTT_ENABLED=1 HASH_EMBED_ENABLED=1 TTT_LR=0.01 MUON_MOMENTUM=0.97 \
torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node=8 train_gpt.py
```

Requires: CUTLASS 3.x for EVT backward fusion (optional, falls back to standard PyTorch).
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This record directory includes saved_model.ptz (~15MB). Committing large binary artifacts directly into the repo can significantly bloat clone size and slow CI; consider removing it from the PR (or using Git LFS / external artifact hosting) if it isn't strictly required for record verification.

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## Credits

PR #1420 @abaybektursun (triple loop + fused kernels), PR #1394 @clarkkev (SP8192 + SDClip), PR #1471 @X-Abhishek-X (3-layer recurrence), PR #1477 @aryanbhosale (parallel residuals + score-first TTT), PR #1460 @resouer (eval-time hash embedding), PR #399 @abaybektursun (parameter banking concept), PR #1514 @dexhunter (Muon 0.97)
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{"author":"EthanYangTW","github_id":"EthanYangTW","name":"SP8192 + Triple Recurrence + Banking + Fused MLP + Muon 0.97 + Score-First TTT + Hash Embedding","date":"2026-04-10","track":"10min_16mb","val_bpb":1.07778,"val_bpb_std":0.00080,"seeds":[1337,42,2024],"seed_results":{"1337":{"val_bpb":1.07714},"42":{"val_bpb":1.07755},"2024":{"val_bpb":1.07866}},"hardware":"8xH100 80GB SXM","pytorch_version":"2.9.1+cu128","technique_summary":"SP8192 + Triple Depth Recurrence (3,4,5 x3, 17 virtual) + Parameter Banking + Fused MLP Triton TMA + CUTLASS EVT + Muon 0.97 + Parallel Residuals (L7+) + QK-Gain 5.0 + Score-First TTT (3ep SGD lr=0.01) + Eval-Time Hash Embedding + SDClip GPTQ int6 + Brotli"}

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W0410 08:12:33.505000 225910 torch/distributed/run.py:803]
W0410 08:12:33.505000 225910 torch/distributed/run.py:803] *****************************************
W0410 08:12:33.505000 225910 torch/distributed/run.py:803] Setting OMP_NUM_THREADS environment variable for each process to be 1 in default, to avoid your system being overloaded, please further tune the variable for optimal performance in your application as needed.
W0410 08:12:33.505000 225910 torch/distributed/run.py:803] *****************************************
Hyperparameters:
adam_eps: 1e-08
adam_wd: 0.02
beta1: 0.9
beta2: 0.95
compressor: brotli
data_dir: ./data/
datasets_dir: ./data/datasets/fineweb10B_sp8192
distributed: True
ema_decay: 0.997
embed_bits: 8
embed_clip_sigmas: 20.0
embed_lr: 0.6
embed_wd: 0.095
embedding_dim: 512
enable_looping_at: 0.35
eval_seq_len: 2048
eval_stride: 64
gptq_calibration_batches: 64
gptq_reserve_seconds: 12.0
grad_accum_steps: 1
grad_clip_norm: 0.3
hash_embed_enabled: True
hash_embed_size: 16384
head_lr: 0.008
is_main_process: True
iterations: 20000
ln_scale: True
local_rank: 0
logfile: logs/90428d5c-524a-4cff-9b4e-439eedc4edc3.txt
logit_softcap: 30.0
loop_end: 5
loop_start: 3
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matrix_clip_sigmas: 12.85
matrix_lr: 0.022
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min_lr: 0.0
mlp_mult: 4.0
model_dim: 512
model_path: final_model.pt
muon_backend_steps: 5
muon_beta2: 0.95
muon_momentum: 0.97
muon_momentum_warmup_start: 0.92
muon_momentum_warmup_steps: 1500
muon_row_normalize: True
muon_wd: 0.095
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num_kv_heads: 4
num_layers: 11
num_loops: 2
qk_gain_init: 5.0
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rank: 0
rope_base: 10000.0
rope_dims: 16
rope_train_seq_len: 2048
run_id: 90428d5c-524a-4cff-9b4e-439eedc4edc3
scalar_lr: 0.02
seed: 1337
skip_gates_enabled: True
sliding_window_enabled: True
tie_embeddings: True
tied_embed_init_std: 0.005
tied_embed_lr: 0.03
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ttt_momentum: 0.9
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val_files: ./data/datasets/fineweb10B_sp8192/fineweb_val_*.bin
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warmdown_frac: 0.667
warmup_steps: 20
world_size: 8
xsa_last_n: 11
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gptq:reserving 12s, effective=588000ms
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warmup_step: 2/20
warmup_step: 3/20
warmup_step: 4/20
warmup_step: 5/20
warmup_step: 6/20
warmup_step: 10/20
warmup_step: 20/20
loop_warmup:enabled encoder:[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, 4] decoder:[5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
loop_warmup_step: 1/20
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loop_warmup_step: 3/20
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loop_warmup_step: 10/20
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0/20000 val_loss: 9.0095 val_bpb: 3.4878
1/20000 train_loss: 9.0103 train_time: 0.0m tok/s: 19203723
2/20000 train_loss: 12.2692 train_time: 0.0m tok/s: 13178384
3/20000 train_loss: 10.9250 train_time: 0.0m tok/s: 10992253
4/20000 train_loss: 9.3856 train_time: 0.0m tok/s: 10069344
5/20000 train_loss: 8.2711 train_time: 0.0m tok/s: 9588196
500/20000 train_loss: 3.3884 train_time: 0.8m tok/s: 7998832
1000/20000 train_loss: 3.2890 train_time: 1.6m tok/s: 7976048
1500/20000 train_loss: 3.1912 train_time: 2.5m tok/s: 7973211
2000/20000 train_loss: 3.1127 train_time: 3.3m tok/s: 7975349
layer_loop:enabled step:2087 frac:0.350 encoder:[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, 4] decoder:[5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
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4000/20000 train_loss: 2.8400 train_time: 8.0m tok/s: 6529024
4000/20000 val_loss: 2.8960 val_bpb: 1.1211
4500/20000 train_loss: 2.8532 train_time: 9.2m tok/s: 6390202
4737/20000 val_loss: 2.8018 val_bpb: 1.0847
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ema:applying EMA weights
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Code size: 63396 bytes
GPTQ:collecting Hessians from calibration data...
GPTQ:collected 67 Hessians in 12.4s
Quantized weights:
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gptq (int8): tok_emb.weight
passthrough (float16): blocks.attn.q_gain, blocks.attn_scale, blocks.mlp_scale, blocks.resid_mix, lane_merge, skip_gates, skip_weights
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quantized_sliding_window val_loss:2.78620943 val_bpb:1.07862850 eval_time:123241ms
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legal_ttt_exact val_loss:2.78236563 val_bpb:1.07714044 eval_time:403222ms
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