Passes 3

Sanskrit Done

passes_p3_d60m

d60m (68.9M parameters) on plus_all v2 subset (155M tokens), trained on RTX 3060 12GB (Home GPU). Started 7 Oct 2026, ended 7 Oct 2026.

Hypothesis

Reference for the passes question: a 60M model given F10's data-to-size ratio (2.25 tokens per parameter per pass over a fixed 155M-token piece of F10's own data) for three passes, as F10 had.

What we learned

Done: ex-Gita 0.6670 (clean_v1 0.6891), Gita 0.4560. Its train/val gap grows 0.16, 0.22, 0.29 nats at the pass ends, close to F10's 0.16, 0.20, 0.31, so the proxy repeats F10's memorisation pattern. The reference for Passes 4 and 5.

Scores

Bits per byte, lower is better; change against the parent run, F10.

ex-Gītā (headline)
0.667
bits per byte
+25.7%
ex-Gītā, clean_v1
0.6891
bits per byte
+24.4%
Pooled, all five sets
0.6592
bits per byte
+28.2%
Validation split
0.6585
bits per byte
+46.8%
Bits per byte on each test set
Test setPasses 3F10 (parent)Change
DCS gold (classical)0.67540.5513+22.5%
Bhagavad-gītā (memorisation)0.4560.0758+501.6%
Out of domain0.6710.5286+26.9%
Prose0.63530.5186+22.5%
Vedic (Ṛgveda)0.89130.6671+33.6%

Curves

Training loss

Cross-entropy per token, by step. The first few percent of the run, far higher, run off the top; hover or the table has every value.

Held-out bits per byte

The validation split, evaluated during training, by step. Lower is better.

Throughput

Tokens per second, by step.

Model

Preset
d60m
Parameters
68,924,160
Outside embeddings
56,636,160
Layers · heads · width
8 · 12 · 768
Tokenizer
SLP1 unigram 8k

Muon + AdamW, rope, qk_norm, relu^2, untied head, weight decay (F10 recipe)

Data

Slice
plus_all v2 subset (155M tokens)
Words
—
Training tokens
155,261,295
Passes
3 passes
Tokens seen
465,813,504

Compute

GPU
RTX 3060 12GB
Where
Home GPU
Steps
9,477 / 9,477
GPU hours
2.88
Cost
—
Spot restarts
—

Lineage

homed60m