Add 11L RotaryFix + LegalTTT + BIGRAM3072 — val_bpb 1.11869 (3-seed m…

[Upsalla]

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Key changes vs. existing entries:

• Rotary NTK-Scaling bug fix: train_seq_len=2048 now correctly propagated to both base_model and eval_model (previously hardcoded to 1024)
• BIGRAM vocabulary size 3072 (vs 1536)
• Late QAT threshold 0.57 for ~1700 QAT steps (vs ~525 steps at 0.15)
• torch.no_grad() instead of torch.inference_mode() in TTT scoring phase to prevent Autograd graph corruption when RoPE caches cross phase boundary

Results (8xH100 SXM, 600s training + ~425s TTT):
Seed 1337: legal_ttt_bpb = 1.11877
Seed 42: legal_ttt_bpb = 1.11836
Seed 2025: legal_ttt_bpb = 1.11893
Mean: 1.11869 ± 0.00024

[MatoTeziTanka]

Community Review — Add 11L RotaryFix + LegalTTT + BIGRAM3072 — val_bpb 1.11869 (3-seed m…

BPB: 1.11869 | Compliance: LOOKS CLEAN — score-first-per-chunk TTT (legal #1416/#1423 pattern)

What I found in the code (head SHA 3c4db11fe4d8, file records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_11L_RotaryFix_LegalTTT_BIGRAM3072/train_gpt.py):

The TTT path at line 1100 implements the score-first-per-chunk pattern: each chunk is scored under torch.no_grad() / inference_mode() before the base_model.train() + SGD adaptation runs on that same chunk, with an is_last_chunk guard so the final chunk gets no adaptation pass. This is the structural shape the legal frontier uses (PRs #1416 erichroepke, #1423 aryanbhosale).

Per Issue #402 and Issue #677, TTT is legal when each token is scored before the adapter updates on it, and that's what the code does here — chunk ci is scored under weights adapted only on chunks 0..ci-1. No prequant_ttt_adapt_adamw(val_tokens, ...) multi-epoch fine-tune, no scored-region SLOT, no target-in-key n-gram cache.

CPU smoke test (CT2038 proteus-engine, 2026-04-11): import OK in 0.04s, dim=512, layers=11, vocab=1024, code=93173 B, SMOKE_TEST_PASS

Verdict: LOOKS CLEAN.

Recommendation to @cocohearts @valerio-oai @0hq @yuzhougu-oai @notapplica: MERGE pending standard checks (3-seed validation, 16MB artifact cap, 10-min wallclock on 8×H100 SXM). The compliance picture matches the legal reference frontier and no flags were raised by the classification pass.

Auto-classification caveat: this review was drafted by the AST-based classifier against a template derived from manually-reviewed cluster PRs (#1420, #1450, #1487, #1541, #1529, #1533, #1518). If I've misread a subtlety in your eval path — e.g., multi-epoch TTT that I mistook for single-pass, or a target-in-key lookup I missed in a helper function — please flag it and I'll re-run the audit manually.

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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=11, vocab=1024, code=93173 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.