Non-record: 11L SwiGLU + XSA4 + EMA + U-Net + AdamW TTT (pending compute)

[mohosy]

Non-record: 11L SwiGLU + XSA4 + EMA + U-Net + AdamW TTT + BigramHash(8192)

val_bpb: pending — awaiting compute credits for 8xH100 verification

Approach

Full frontier stack built on proven techniques from top submissions:

Component	Details
SwiGLU FFN	Star-ReLU activation, hidden=1792
U-Net skips	Learned gating, encoder=5, decoder=6
XSA4	Exclusive Self Attention on last 4 layers
EMA	decay=0.9985, replaces SWA
AdamW TTT	lr=0.0005, 10 epochs, legal score-first protocol
Partial RoPE	16 dims only
LN Scale	1/sqrt(layer_idx+1) per block
BigramHash	8192 buckets, 128 dim
Quantization	Int6 + GPTQ-lite + zstd-22

Credits

• SwiGLU + U-Net + GEPA architecture: @JoeProAI (Record: SwiGLU + XSA4 + U-Net + AdamW TTT (3-seed mean val_bpb=1.0672) #462)
• XSA + EMA + Partial RoPE + LN Scale: @felipe-parodi (Non-record: 11L EMA + TTT(20ep,freeze=0) + 15-run ablation study — val_bpb=1.1213 (3-seed) #398)
• AdamW TTT: @sjp611 (Record: 11L EMA + AdamW TTT 10ep (mean val_bpb=1.1027) #442)
• Late QAT: @fbedev (Record: 11L XSA4 + Tight SWA + FA3 + Two-Phase TTT (val_bpb=1.1216) #410)

Status

Applied for compute grant, will update with verified score once credits arrive.

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[MatoTeziTanka]

Community Review — Non-record: 11L SwiGLU + XSA4 + EMA + U-Net + AdamW TTT (pending compute)

BPB: (not parsed — see PR title) | Compliance: FLAG — Pre-Quant TTT runs multi-epoch on val_tokens with no score-first discipline

What I found in the code (head SHA c57bfbeb2bc5, file records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-20_11L_EMA_XSA_TTT_Int6/train_gpt.py):

At line 1061 the pre-quant TTT function takes val_tokens as an input argument and runs an epoch loop over it with loss.backward()/optimizer.step(), with no prior torch.no_grad() scoring pass over the same tokens:

ttt_adapt(args, base_model, device, val_tokens, rank, world_size, log_fn) — for epoch in range(args.ttt_epochs), loss.backward() without prior no_grad score pass

Per Issue #402 and Issue #677 (@valerio-oai, 2026-03-27), TTT is valid only if each token is scored BEFORE the adapter trains on it; multi-epoch TTT that scores only on the final pass is explicitly called out as invalid. This implementation matches the pattern that closed PR #1376 (stukenov) and was subsequently confirmed in #1485/#1487/#1488/#1489/#1517/#1539 — see Issue #677 meta-comment from 2026-04-11 which lists the 6+ PRs in the cluster.

Contrast with the legal Pre-Quant TTT pattern (e.g. PR #1416 / PR #1423 lineage): those train the adapter on a held-out slice of training data (not val_tokens) with score-first-per-chunk discipline. The distinction is on the function signature itself — the argument tensor passed in.

CPU smoke test (CT2038 proteus-engine, 2026-04-11): import OK in 0.04s, dim=512, layers=9, vocab=1024, code=70063 B, SMOKE_TEST_PASS

Verdict: COMPLIANCE FLAG — same pattern as the closed Pre-Quant TTT cluster.

Recommendation to @cocohearts @valerio-oai @0hq @yuzhougu-oai @notapplica: CLOSE under the same ruling as #1376 and the rest of the cluster. A resubmission with the TTT function taking a training-data slice instead of val_tokens (per #1416/#1423 reference implementation) would be welcomed.

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Reviewed by @MatoTeziTanka — The Agora. CPU smoke test (CT2038 proteus-engine, 2026-04-11): import OK in 0.04s, dim=512, layers=9, vocab=1024, code=70063 B, SMOKE_TEST_PASS. Classification via deterministic AST-based classify_prs.py (pattern bank derived from ~65 manually-reviewed PRs earlier in the 2026-04-11 sweep). This review was auto-drafted from a template and spot-checked before posting — if the template misread your code, please call it out so I can iterate the classifier.