Record: 1.0722 BPB — Improved TTT + HedgeMixer with Per-Layer LR Groups

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records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-27_ImprovedTTT_HedgeMixer_PerLayerLR_1.0722/README.md

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+# Record: 1.0722 BPB — Improved TTT + HedgeMixer with Per-Layer LR Groups
+
+**val_bpb: 1.0722** (3-seed mean, std 0.0086) | 15.66 MB max artifact | 8xH100 SXM, <600s eval
+
+Built on PR #720 by @agalimova (XSA + HedgeMixer + legal TTT backbone).
+
+## Results
+
+| Seed | Steps | ms/step | TTT BPB | Eval Time | Artifact Bytes |
+|------|-------|---------|---------|-----------|----------------|
+| 1337 | 5847 | 99.6 | **1.0726** | 537s | 15,661,730 |
+| 42 | 5847 | 99.6 | **1.0635** | 546s | 15,373,898 |
+| 2025 | 5855 | 99.4 | **1.0806** | 531s | 15,655,453 |
+| **Mean** | | | **1.0722** | | |
+
+## What's New (vs PR #720)
+
+This submission improves upon PR #720's XSA + HedgeMixer + legal TTT stack with a novel TTT recipe:
+
+1. **Per-layer LR groups**: Output projections (`mlp.proj`, `attn.proj`) get 3x the base TTT LR; input projections (`mlp.fc`) get 0.5x. Rationale: output projections directly map representations to logit space and are the highest-value adaptation targets.
+2. **Cosine LR schedule within TTT**: `lr = base * 0.5 * (1 + cos(pi * chunk/total_chunks))` — starts high for aggressive early adaptation, anneals to prevent overfitting on later chunks.
+3. **4 TTT epochs** (vs 3) — more adaptation passes per chunk.
+4. **Freeze only 1 block** (vs 2) — more parameters adapting = more capacity.
+5. **Skip standalone sliding window eval** — TTT eval subsumes it, saving ~86s of eval budget to enable the extra epoch.
+
+PR #720 baseline (stride=64): ~1.085 BPB. Our improvement: **1.0722** (-0.013).
+
+## Base Architecture (inherited from PR #720)
+
+- 11 layers, 512 dim, 8 heads, 8 KV heads (full MHA)
+- MLP 3.5x expansion, LeakyReLU(0.5)^2 activation
+- XSA on all 11 layers
+- BigramHash(6144, dim=128) + SmearGate
+- Partial RoPE (16/64 dims) + LN Scale + EMA(0.997)
+- Int5 GPTQ-lite quantization + zstd compression
+- Parameter banking with Parallel Muon optimizer
+- LogisticContextMixer: 5 backward-looking experts (Neural, Unigram, Bigram, Trigram, Entropy)
+
+## Setup and Run
+
+```bash
+# Environment: Python 3.12, PyTorch 2.9.1+cu128, Flash Attention 3
+# Required: pip install sentencepiece zstandard
+
+# On GCP with H100s:
+export NCCL_NET=Socket
+export SKIP_SLIDING=1  # skip standalone sliding eval to save time for TTT
+
+# Run with specific seed
+SEED=1337 torchrun --nproc_per_node=8 train_gpt.py
+
+# TTT configuration (all have defaults in code)
+# TTT_EPOCHS=4 TTT_LR=0.0005 TTT_FREEZE_BLOCKS=1 TTT_CHUNK_TOKENS=32768
+```
+
+## Compliance
+
+- [x] 3 seeds run on 8xH100 SXM (1337, 42, 2025)
+- [x] All seeds train in <=600s (582s)
+- [x] All seeds artifact <=16,000,000 bytes (max: 15,661,730)
+- [x] All seeds eval in <=600s (max: 546s)
+- [x] Score-first TTT: every token scored BEFORE any update that could use it
+- [x] HedgeMixer uses backward-looking n-gram counts from scored tokens only
+- [x] No network calls, external data, or validation leakage during eval
+- [x] Reproducible from this directory

records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-27_ImprovedTTT_HedgeMixer_PerLayerLR_1.0722/submission.json

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+{
+  "author": "dexhunter",
+  "github_id": "dexhunter",
+  "name": "Improved TTT + HedgeMixer: Per-Layer LR Groups + Cosine Schedule",
+  "blurb": "Built on PR #720. Improves test-time training with per-layer LR groups (3x for output projections, 0.5x for input), cosine schedule, reduced block freezing, and 4 TTT epochs. 3-seed mean 1.0722 BPB on 8xH100 in under 600s eval.",
+  "date": "2026-03-27",
+  "val_loss": 1.81041285,
+  "val_bpb": 1.07223131,
+  "bytes_total": 15661730,
+  "bytes_code": 102023
+}