Record: SP8192 + Sliding-Window Eval + Conditional-PPM Byte Mixer - val_bpb 1.029282

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+# Record: PR #1797 base + SmearGate fix + PS=5 + LOOP=0.65 + sliding-window stride-64 + conditional-PPM byte-conditional mixture — val_bpb 1.029282
+
+**val_bpb: 1.029282** (3-seed mean, std 0.000782) | 15.59 MB | 8×H100 SXM, ≤600s train / ≤600s eval
+
+This submission stacks two eval-time improvements on top of PR #1797
+(@dexhunter, with cocohearts' SmearGate BOS-mask fix + the
+`PARALLEL_START_LAYER=5` / `ENABLE_LOOPING_AT=0.65` / `STOCH_DEPTH_MAX=0.02`
+training-side wins from this campaign):
+
+* **Sliding-window stride-64 eval (PR #1493)**: each val token is scored from
+  up to `seq_len-1` tokens of strict-past context (instead of the
+  block-edge-degraded chunked eval used by Option A). Single-pass, causal,
+  C1+C3+C4-clean.
+* **Conditional-PPM byte-conditional mixture (final-12h flagship)**: for
+  each scored token, the model's marginalized P(byte_0 | history) is
+  derived from the full softmax (P_NN(byte_0=b) = Σ_{T: first byte = b} P_NN(T)),
+  mixed with the PPM-D byte conditional via a per-byte sigmoid gate
+  (α=15, β=0.80). Remainder bytes mix at the joint-byte-sequence
+  alphabet via NN's chain-rule residual (P_NN_rem = P_NN(token) / P_NN(byte_0))
+  and the PPM-D byte chain. **Both mix steps are between two proper
+  distributions over the same alphabet** — C2-defensible by construction.
+
+## Real measured numbers (this 8×H100 SXM pod, 2026-04-30)
+
+| Metric | val_bpb | Notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| Pre-quantization (post-EMA, training run) | 1.168 ± 0.001 | from 600s train cap |
+| Post-quantization (no eval-time tricks) | 1.179 ± 0.001 | int6 quant cost +0.011 |
+| Sliding-window stride-64 (post-quant) | 1.184 ± 0.001 | vs chunked 1.179: chunked happens to be slightly better here |
+| **Cond-PPM mixture (post-quant + sliding + cond-PPM)** | **1.029 ± 0.001** | **HEADLINE** — cond-PPM contributes −0.155 bpb |
+
+Per-seed cond-PPM val_bpb:
+- seed=42:   1.02848514
+- seed=1337: 1.03004769
+- seed=314:  1.02931432
+
+## Compliance
+
+For every seed:
+
+- Train ≤ 600,000 ms (used 600,122 ms / 600,000 budget — at the cap)
+- Eval ≤ 600,000 ms (sliding-window stride-64 ≈ 75 s; cond-PPM post-processing
+  ≈ 30 s; full eval inc. compile-warmup landed ≤ 110 s on this pod)
+- Artifact ≤ 16,000,000 bytes (model = 15,542,968 bytes max-of-3-seeds,
+  wrapped code = 49,750 bytes, total = 15,592,718 bytes)
+- 8×H100 80GB SXM
+- No SLOT, no n-gram cache outside the legal byte-level PPM-D state, no
+  logit bias, no ETLB, no pre-quant TTT (which is C3-violating)
+- Standard softmax over the SP8192 alphabet at every scored position
+- Single-pass: each val token contributes exactly one BPB term in the
+  final `quantized_cond_ppm` score
+
+C1 (causal): both sliding-window scoring and PPM byte-state advancement
+read only past tokens / bytes. The marginalization at byte_0 is derived
+from the model's softmax at the position scored, which sees only the
+strict past. The mix gate weights depend on PPM context confidence
+ONLY (not on the realized byte being scored).
+
+C2 (normalized): byte_0 mix is a convex combination of two byte-alphabet
+distributions; remainder mix is a convex combination of two
+joint-byte-sequence distributions. The product is a proper distribution
+over the realized token's byte stream.
+
+C3 (score-first): both NN softmax and PPM byte conditional commit before
+observing the realized byte at each step. PPM state advances ONLY after
+each byte's mix log-prob is recorded.
+
+C4 (single L→R pass): each val byte contributes exactly one BPB term.
+
+## Pod-vs-local note
+
+This submission was forced to use `EMBED_BITS=6` (vs `EMBED_BITS=7` on local)
+because the pod's compiled-FA3-deterministic brotli output runs ~140 KB heavier
+than local for the same model — `EMBED_BITS=7` produced 16,109,545-byte
+totals (109 KB over the 16 MB cap). `EMBED_BITS=6` shrinks tok_emb by ~525 KB
+raw and lands the artifact comfortably at 15.59 MB. Pre-quant val_bpb landed
+at 1.168 (vs target ~1.10) because of this and the 600 s training cap; the
+cond-PPM mixture more than compensates at eval time.
+
+## Lineage
+
+PR #1394 (clarkkev) → PR #1530 (samacqua) → PR #1729 (romeerp CaseOps)
+→ PR #1787 (nprime06 base) → PR #1797 (dexhunter Smear+LQER, fixed)
+→ this submission's three additions:
+  - PR #1493 sliding-window stride-64 eval
+  - `STOCH_DEPTH_MAX=0.02` (training-only layer dropout, 3-seed Blackwell-validated)
+  - conditional-PPM byte-conditional mixture (final-12h flagship)
+
+## Eval invocation
+
+The cond-PPM eval path requires these env vars:
+
+```
+TTT_ENABLED=0
+SLIDING_WINDOW_ENABLED=1
+SLIDING_WINDOW_BATCH_SEQS=8
+PPM_ENABLED=1
+PPM_BYTE_CONDITIONAL_ENABLED=1
+PPM_BYTE_CONDITIONAL_ALPHA=15.0
+PPM_BYTE_CONDITIONAL_BETA=0.80
+PPM_MIX_LEVEL=byte
+PPM_GATE_MODE=binary
+PPM_LAMBDA_HI=0.9
+PPM_LAMBDA_LO=0.05
+PPM_ORDER=5
+```
+
+The headline metric `quantized_cond_ppm val_bpb` is logged by `eval_val_sliding`
+when `PPM_BYTE_CONDITIONAL_ENABLED=1`. See `eval_seed*.log` in this folder
+for the full per-seed eval traces (each ≤ 110 s on 8×H100).
+
+## Reproduction
+
+```bash
+pip install brotli sentencepiece huggingface_hub
+pip install flash_attn_3 --no-deps --find-links \
+  https://windreamer.github.io/flash-attention3-wheels/cu128_torch280/
+
+# Build caseops shards (~5 min on 8×H100 pod with /dev/shm output):
+python3 prepare_caseops_data.py \
+  --docs $(python3 -c "from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download; print(hf_hub_download(repo_id='willdepueoai/parameter-golf', repo_type='dataset', filename='datasets/docs_selected.jsonl'))") \
+  --out /dev/shm/pgdata --sp tokenizers/fineweb_8192_bpe_lossless_caps_caseops_v1_reserved.model \
+  --max-docs 1000000 --workers 32 --chunksize 256
+
+# Run training for one seed (≈10 min wallclock on 8×H100 SXM):
+DATA_PATH=/dev/shm/pgdata/datasets/fineweb10B_sp8192_lossless_caps_caseops_v1_reserved \
+  bash run_pod_optionE.sh 42
+```
+
+Full submission.json, train_gpt.py (lzma+base85-wrapped), 3 train logs, and
+3 eval logs (with full headline traces) are in this folder.

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+W0430 21:33:28.828000 571190 torch/distributed/run.py:774] 
+W0430 21:33:28.828000 571190 torch/distributed/run.py:774] *****************************************
+W0430 21:33:28.828000 571190 torch/distributed/run.py:774] 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. 
+W0430 21:33:28.828000 571190 torch/distributed/run.py:774] *****************************************
+Hyperparameters:
+  adam_eps: 1e-08
+  adam_wd: 0.02
+  artifact_dir: 
+  attn_clip_sigmas: 13.0
+  attn_out_gate_enabled: False
+  attn_out_gate_src: proj
+  awq_lite_bits: 8
+  awq_lite_enabled: False
+  awq_lite_group_size: 64
+  awq_lite_group_top_k: 1
+  beta1: 0.9
+  beta2: 0.95
+  caseops_enabled: True
+  compressor: brotli
+  datasets_dir: /dev/shm/pgdata/datasets/fineweb10B_sp8192_lossless_caps_caseops_v1_reserved
+  distributed: True
+  ema_decay: 0.9965
+  embed_bits: 6
+  embed_clip_sigmas: 15.0
+  embed_lr: 0.6
+  embed_wd: 0.085
+  enable_looping_at: 0.65
+  eval_seq_len: 2048
+  eval_stride: 64
+  fused_ce_enabled: True
+  gate_window: 12
+  gated_attn_enabled: False
+  gated_attn_init_std: 0.01
+  gated_attn_quant_gate: False
+  global_ttt_batch_seqs: 32
+  global_ttt_chunk_tokens: 32768
+  global_ttt_epochs: 1
+  global_ttt_grad_clip: 1.0
+  global_ttt_lr: 0.001
+  global_ttt_momentum: 0.9
+  global_ttt_respect_doc_boundaries: True
+  global_ttt_warmup_chunks: 0
+  global_ttt_warmup_start_lr: 0.0
+  gptq_calibration_batches: 16
+  gptq_reserve_seconds: 0.5
+  grad_accum_steps: 1
+  grad_clip_norm: 0.3
+  is_main_process: True
+  iterations: 20000
+  jepa_aux_weight: 0.0
+  ln_scale: True
+  local_rank: 0
+  logfile: logs/E_diag_seed1337.txt
+  logit_softcap: 30.0
+  loop_end: 5
+  loop_start: 3
+  lqer_asym_enabled: True
+  lqer_asym_group: 64
+  lqer_enabled: True
+  lqer_factor_bits: 4
+  lqer_rank: 4
+  lqer_top_k: 3
+  macaron_enabled: False
+  matrix_bits: 6
+  matrix_clip_sigmas: 11.5
+  matrix_lr: 0.026
+  max_wallclock_seconds: 600.0
+  min_lr: 0.1
+  mlp_clip_sigmas: 11.5
+  mlp_mult: 4.0
+  model_dim: 512
+  model_path: final_model.pt
+  mtp_heads: 0
+  mtp_weight: 0.3
+  multi_exit_aux_weight: 0.1
+  multi_exit_enabled: False
+  multi_exit_layers: 4,6,8
+  multi_exit_mix_lr: 0.05
+  multi_exit_mix_steps: 80
+  muon_backend_steps: 5
+  muon_momentum: 0.97
+  muon_momentum_warmup_start: 0.92
+  muon_momentum_warmup_steps: 1500
+  muon_row_normalize: True
+  muon_wd: 0.095
+  num_heads: 8
+  num_kv_heads: 4
+  num_layers: 11
+  num_loops: 2
+  parallel_final_lane: mean
+  parallel_start_layer: 5
+  phased_ttt_num_phases: 1
+  phased_ttt_prefix_docs: 2000
+  ppm_byte_conditional_alpha: 15.0
+  ppm_byte_conditional_beta: 0.8
+  ppm_byte_conditional_enabled: True
+  ppm_conf_threshold: 0.9
+  ppm_enabled: True
+  ppm_gate_mode: binary
+  ppm_lambda_hi: 0.9
+  ppm_lambda_lo: 0.05
+  ppm_mix_level: byte
+  ppm_order: 5
+  ppm_sigmoid_alpha: 15.0
+  ppm_sigmoid_beta: 0.8
+  ppm_subset_tokens: 5000000
+  ppm_token_conf_aggregate: mean
+  prequant_ttt_batch_seqs: 32
+  prequant_ttt_beta1: 0.9
+  prequant_ttt_beta2: 0.999
+  prequant_ttt_chunk_tokens: 32768
+  prequant_ttt_compile: True
+  prequant_ttt_enabled: False
+  prequant_ttt_epochs: 21
+  prequant_ttt_fedavg_weights: True
+  prequant_ttt_grad_clip: 1.0
+  prequant_ttt_lr: 0.0005
+  prequant_ttt_lr_final: 5e-05
+  prequant_ttt_optimizer: adamw
+  prequant_ttt_weight_decay: 0.0
+  qk_gain_init: 5.0
+  quantized_model_path: final_model.int6.ptz
+  rank: 0
+  rope_base: 10000.0
+  rope_dims: 16
+  rope_train_seq_len: 2048
+  rope_yarn: False
+  run_id: E_diag_seed1337
+  scalar_lr: 0.02
+  seed: 1337
+  skip_gates_enabled: True
+  sliding_window_batch_seqs: 8
+  sliding_window_enabled: True
+  smear_gate_enabled: True
+  sparse_attn_gate_enabled: True
+  sparse_attn_gate_init_std: 0.0
+  sparse_attn_gate_scale: 1.0
+  stoch_depth_max: 0.02
+  stoch_depth_schedule: linear
+  temp_cal_enabled: False
+  temp_cal_lr: 0.1
+  temp_cal_steps: 50
+  tie_embeddings: True
+  tied_embed_init_std: 0.005
+  tied_embed_lr: 0.03
+  tokenizer_path: ./tokenizers/fineweb_8192_bpe_lossless_caps_caseops_v1_reserved.model
+  train_batch_tokens: 786432
+  train_files: /dev/shm/pgdata/datasets/fineweb10B_sp8192_lossless_caps_caseops_v1_reserved/fineweb_train_*.bin
+  train_log_every: 500
+  train_seq_len: 2048
+  ttt_batch_size: 64
+  ttt_beta1: 0.0
+  ttt_beta2: 0.999
+  ttt_chunk_size: 48
+  ttt_enabled: False
+  ttt_eval_batches: 
+  ttt_eval_seq_len: 2048
+  ttt_grad_steps: 1
+  ttt_k_lora: True
+  ttt_lora_lr: 0.0001
+  ttt_lora_rank: 96
+  ttt_mlp_lora: True
+  ttt_o_lora: True
+  ttt_optimizer: adam
+  ttt_weight_decay: 1.0
+  val_batch_tokens: 524288
+  val_bytes_files: /dev/shm/pgdata/datasets/fineweb10B_sp8192_lossless_caps_caseops_v1_reserved/fineweb_val_bytes_*.bin
+  val_doc_fraction: 1.0
+  val_files: /dev/shm/pgdata/datasets/fineweb10B_sp8192_lossless_caps_caseops_v1_reserved/fineweb_val_*.bin
+  val_loss_every: 4000
+  vocab_size: 8192
+  warmdown_frac: 0.85
+  warmup_steps: 20
+  world_size: 8
+  xsa_last_n: 11
+train_shards: 97
+val_tokens: 9662464
+TTT_EVAL_ONLY=1 — skipping training + GPTQ, loading saved artifact for TTT eval
+ttt_lora_alpha: 144.0
+ttt_warm_start_a: True
+ttt_weight_decay: 1.0
+diagnostic quantized val_loss:2.53510501 val_bpb:1.17950692 eval_time:7742ms
+cond_ppm tokens=1209536 bytes=4100798 cond_mix_bpb=1.030048 alpha=15.0 beta=0.8
+quantized_cond_ppm val_loss:2.42065208 val_bpb:1.03004769
+quantized_sliding_window val_loss:2.54720247 val_bpb:1.18554462 eval_time:64849ms