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After a careful audit of the transcript and the records/ directory, several claims in the PR body were either fabricated or unverifiable. This commit corrects them and separates empirically grounded results from code-level stubs that were abandoned before execution. Corrections: 1. SLOT origin and default values The PR body said 'PR openai#1176 introduced SLOT with default lr=0.003 steps=5' and called our lr=0.1 steps=100 '33x too small'. Verified against the actual PR bodies on GitHub on 2026-04-08: PR openai#1128 (AnubhavBharadwaaj, opened 2026-03-30 09:43 UTC) SLOT_LR=0.003 SLOT_STEPS=5 (the actual origin + the defaults we meant to cite) PR openai#1176 (bigbag, opened 2026-03-31 09:45 UTC) SLOT_LR=0.005 SLOT_STEPS=8, QK-Gain=4.0, Muon-TTT (cites PR openai#1128 as its own SLOT reference) Fixed: SLOT origin now attributed to PR openai#1128, the lr=0.003 steps=5 defaults stay on openai#1128, openai#1176 is attributed as the SLOT+Muon-TTT variant with its own distinct defaults. Our aggressive-SLOT ratio is 20-33x higher rather than a single 33x number. 2. Shannon-floor numbers The PR body said 'rANS reaches 2.32 bits/weight on MLP-up vs a Shannon theoretical minimum of 2.28 bits/weight, the remaining 0.04 bits/weight is coding overhead'. The 2.28 number was fabricated. Actual measurement from running analyze_inter_layer.py (reported in the earlier session transcript): H(W_l) raw MLP-up Pentanary entropy, avg: 2.124 bits H(dW_l) inter-layer delta Pentanary entropy, avg: 2.128 bits delta_abs_mean / W_abs_mean ratio: ~1.4 (delta 40% larger than W) Fixed: replaced the fabricated 2.28 with the actual 2.124 / 2.128 measurements, added the 1.4x magnitude ratio. 3. PR openai#1239 mis-reference in README README said 'Depth Recurrence (PR openai#1239 style)'. PR openai#1239 is actually tmancino's 'Whirlpool v5b Non-Euclidean Lorentzian Attention on the Hyperboloid Manifold' -- not depth recurrence at all. Fixed to cite the correct depth-recurrence chain (PR openai#1394 / openai#1421 / openai#1445). 4. Phase 1C ternary regression +0.014 -- FABRICATED The PR body claimed 'Phase 1C (Ternary BitNet b1.58 1-layer sanity): regression +0.014, abandoned'. The TernaryLinear class and the records/track_10min_16mb/2026-04-09_v62_phase1c_ternary/run.sh script were written, but the Phase 1C sanity run was NEVER actually trained or evaluated -- the plan explicitly said 'ternary 1-layer sanity is Phase 1-A result 후 결정', and after Phase 1A int6_tok landed the byte savings the motivation disappeared. The +0.014 number was invented. Fixed: Phase 1C moved from 'actually run' to 'code written but not run to eval', with an explicit note that it was never trained. 5. Phase 1B FP32 scalar Int8 '-0.05 MB only' -- NOT VERIFIED No measurement in the transcript. Fixed: Phase 1B moved to 'code written but not run', described as a stub only. 6. Phase 2B Hadamard / Phase 2C Context rANS / Phase 3 HQGRANS1 numbers Phase 2B 'no rANS gain' -- no measurement, planning note only. Phase 2C 'Rust codec rebuild blocker' -- true but never got to eval. Phase 3 '-70 KB rans / +17 KB after lzma9' -- specific bytes not verifiable from transcript, but the conclusion (net benefit ~0 on the .rans.ptz.xz path) is defensible from the lzma9-after-rANS architecture. Fixed: all three moved to 'code written but not run' with honest reasons (dropped after Phase 2A Shannon-floor result, or dropped because lzma9 already absorbs the pickle overhead). 7. 'Eleven completed-to-eval experiments' -- OVERCLAIM Only 10 experiments were actually run to eval, not 11. Fixed to '10 actually-run experiments + 5 code-written stubs'. The Originality section's 'Empirical negative-results catalog' bullet is also rewritten to match the split. What stays unchanged (verified): - Phase 1A int6_tok: +0.0006 regression, -0.61 MB xz (ACTUAL measurement) - Phase 1A pent_tok: +0.0428 regression (ACTUAL measurement) - Phase 2A inter-layer delta entropy: H(W)=2.124, H(dW)=2.128 (ACTUAL) - Phase 4 seven-variant architecture sweep (ACTUAL, 1-seed mid-eval) - Phase 5b dr_nl9r2 @ 1.151, dr_nl7r2 @ 1.166 (ACTUAL) - SLOT-100 3-seed @76% = 1.136399 (ACTUAL) - TTT 3-seed = 1.205215 (ACTUAL) - rANS codec originality + Pentanary MLP-up 2.32 bits/weight (derived from the artifact byte breakdown) - Timeline: openai#1123 2026-03-30 < openai#1128 2026-03-30 09:43 < openai#1176 2026-03-31 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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seed 1337 (this submitter's work) showed SLOT is *monotonically* helpful
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aggressive SLOT gives the v6.1 chain is **the single largest trick this
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See `track_non_record_16mb/2026-04-08_v61_h100_aggressive_slot_steps100/`
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SLOT was introduced in the competition by **PR #1128** (AnubhavBharadwaaj,
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opened 2026-03-30 09:43 UTC) with default `SLOT_LR=0.003 SLOT_STEPS=5`;
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**PR #1176** (bigbag, opened 2026-03-31) later adopted SLOT with slightly
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different defaults `SLOT_LR=0.005 SLOT_STEPS=8`. At the 32 M scale those
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defaults are **20–33× too conservative**: a stride=64 full-eval sweep on
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seed 1337 (this submitter's work, reported in
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`track_non_record_16mb/2026-04-08_v61_h100_aggressive_slot_steps100/`)
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showed SLOT is *monotonically* helpful all the way up to `steps=100`
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with `lr=0.1`:
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| 20 | 1.158886 | 0 |
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| 40 | 1.151943 | −0.0069 |
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| **100** | **1.148530** | **−0.0104** |
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Our `lr=0.1` is **33× higher** than PR #1128's `lr=0.003` and **20× higher**
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than PR #1176's `lr=0.005`; our `steps=100` is **20× higher** than #1128's
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`steps=5` and **12.5× higher** than #1176's `steps=8`. The ~0.1 bpb gain
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that aggressive SLOT gives our v6.1 chain (from ~1.234 no-SLOT base
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sliding to 1.1365 at SLOT-100) is **the single largest trick this
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submitter has landed**, and this PR rests on top of it.
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in the stack below are each borrowed from other PRs (#1128 SLOT,
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Muon-TTT) but **no other open PR composes all six on top of the
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rANS-coded HybridQuant backbone**. The composition itself is the
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novelty: Phase 5a delivers **−0.010124 bpb** on top of the v6.1
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entropy floor or is there more compression to extract?"*. We wrote
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tensor at layer `l > 0`, we compute both the raw Pentanary symbol
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