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# SP8192 + Phased TTT (yahya010 base) + Byte-Level PPM-D Adaptive Mixture

**Score: 0.99145 BPB** (3-seed mean, std 0.00078, full FineWeb val)

| Seed | NN-only token BPB | NN-only byte BPB | **Mix BPB** | Δ from PPM | Artifact | Train | Eval |
|------|-------------------|------------------|-------------|------------|----------|-------|------|
| 42 | 1.07751 | 1.06694 | **0.99235** | −0.07459 | 15,906,666 | 596s | 626s |
| 0 | 1.07593 | 1.06538 | **0.99101** | −0.07437 | 15,911,323 | 596s | 533s |
| 1234 | 1.07595 | 1.06540 | **0.99099** | −0.07441 | 15,904,100 | 596s | 527s |
| **mean** | **1.07646** | **1.06591** | **0.99145** | **−0.07446** | **15,907,363** | **596s** | **562s** |

## Headline

This is the composition of two complementary, already-published contributions:

1. **Stronger NN base** — @yahya010's PR #1727 stack (1.07217 BPB, unmerged) instead of @clarkkev's SP4096 (1.09785). Both are legitimate score-first-TTT stacks on the @bigbag PR #1493 / @clarkkev PR #1394 lineage.

2. **Byte-level PPM-D mixer** — @OE-GOD's PR #1795 `_ppm_mixture_bpb` function applied verbatim with the strict-legal outcome-independent adaptive-λ gate.

The two effects compose linearly:
- NN improvement: 1.0978 → 1.0759 in byte-BPB (−0.022)
- PPM mixer Δ: −0.0744 (essentially identical on both bases)
- Combined: 1.0978 − 0.022 − 0.074 = **0.99**

Beats current main SOTA 1.0810 by **−0.08955** and the strongest pending PR #1795 (1.01252) by **−0.02107**.

## Approach

### Base — @yahya010 PR #1727 (val_bpb 1.07217, 3-seed)

Inherits unchanged from `records/track_10min_16mb/2026-04-18_SP8192_MPSGD_QKGain525/`:

- 11L 512d 8h/4kv MLP4× SP8192 vocab tokenizer
- 3-Layer Recurrence + Parallel Residuals (PR #1493 stack)
- QK-Gain 5.25 init, partial RoPE, LN scale, EMA
- Multi-Phase Global SGD TTT, 4 phases (PR #1626/#1700)
- Phased LoRA TTT (PR #1626)
- Full Hessian GPTQ int6 + brotli (15.9 MB artifact)

The NN-only token-BPB (1.07646) matches @yahya010's 1.07217 within combined seed noise (σ_seed ≈ 0.0007).

### Eval-time mixer — @OE-GOD PR #1795 byte-level PPM-D

After GPTQ quantization, during the sliding-window evaluation, we collect per-token NN logprobs and run @OE-GOD's `_ppm_mixture_bpb` (~60 lines) on the full val byte stream:

```python
# Outcome-independent gate: cf = max_count/total at deepest seen prefix
# (computed BEFORE observing the next byte → strict-legal)
cf[i] = (cf_mx / cf_tot) if cf_seen else 1/256
lam = np.where(cf > 0.9, 0.05, 0.9)
pm = lam * exp(nlp_byte) + (1 - lam) * exp(plp_ppm)
mix_bpb = -log2(pm).mean()
```

Per-byte score-before-update: `byte_i` is scored using PPM counters built from bytes `0..i-1`, then `byte_i` is added to all order tables for future positions. Same legality argument as TTT-LoRA (PR #1416/#1423) — every update uses only already-scored bytes. Per-byte granularity is finer than Issue #1017's chunk-level framing; explicit organizer ruling on this class of online streaming predictor is requested per @OE-GOD's PR #1795 thread.

### Why this composition wasn't already submitted

@OE-GOD applied the PPM mixer to @clarkkev's SP4096 (1.09785) — sufficient to demonstrate the technique. We apply the same mixer to the strongest pending NN base (@yahya010 1.07217), and disable the post-quant `quantized_ttt_phased` pass (which scored 1.07240, worse than sliding+PPM 0.99099 for seed 1234 — Phased TTT is redundant when PPM captures the same long-range repeats more efficiently).

## What changed vs base

Source diff vs `records/track_10min_16mb/2026-04-18_SP8192_MPSGD_QKGain525/train_gpt.py`:

- `_ppm_mixture_bpb` function added before `_loss_bpb` (~60 lines, copied verbatim from @OE-GOD PR #1795)
- `eval_val_sliding`: collect `lp_chunks` and `tgt_chunks` per scored window; after distributed all-reduce, gather to rank 0 and call `_ppm_mixture_bpb` with `O=4 H=0.9 L=0.05 T=0.9`
- Two new env vars: `PPM_MIX_ENABLED` (default 0) and `PPM_ORDER`/`PPM_LAMBDA_H`/`PPM_LAMBDA_L`/`PPM_THRESH` (defaults match OE-GOD's tuned values)
- `SLIDING_WINDOW_ENABLED=1` and `PHASED_TTT_ENABLED=0` at runtime to keep eval ≤ 600s

Total diff: ~120 lines added, 0 lines removed from yahya010's NN logic.

## Compliance (Issue #1017 Track A)

- **Condition 1 (Causality):** standard causal attention, strict left-to-right (inherited from yahya010 base, unchanged)
- **Condition 2 (Normalized distribution):** mixture is byte-level two-predictor:
`q_mix(byte) = λ · q_NN_byte + (1−λ) · q_PPM_byte`
Both pieces are normalized; mixture sum to 1 by construction.
- **Condition 3 (Score before update):** every PPM order table update uses `byte_i` only AFTER `byte_i` has been scored. Per-byte granularity, finer than chunk-level. NN itself is scored under `torch.no_grad()` in eval pass (inherited from yahya010 base).
- **Condition 4 (Single pass):** each byte scored exactly once.

Inherits @OE-GOD PR #1795 organizer-ruling-pending status. If PPM-as-TTT is ruled invalid, this submission falls back to the inherited NN-only score (1.07646 byte-BPB / 1.07595 NN-token-BPB matching yahya010), which would still be a valid record vs current main SOTA 1.0810.

## Reproduction

8× H100 SXM, torch 2.9.1+cu128, flash_attn_3 (Hopper wheel `cu128_torch291`).

```bash
pip install torch==2.9.1 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128
pip install flash_attn_3 --no-deps --find-links https://windreamer.github.io/flash-attention3-wheels/cu128_torch291/
pip install brotli sentencepiece python-minifier numpy huggingface-hub zstandard einops ninja datasets tqdm

MATCHED_FINEWEB_REPO_ID=kevclark/parameter-golf python3 data/cached_challenge_fineweb.py --variant sp8192

for seed in 42 0 1234; do
SEED=$seed \
SLIDING_WINDOW_ENABLED=1 PPM_MIX_ENABLED=1 \
PHASED_TTT_ENABLED=0 \
QK_GAIN_INIT=5.25 \
MLP_CLIP_SIGMAS=12.0 ATTN_CLIP_SIGMAS=13.0 EMBED_BITS=7 EMBED_CLIP_SIGMAS=15.0 \
MATRIX_LR=0.026 GPTQ_RESERVE_SECONDS=4 GPTQ_CALIBRATION_BATCHES=16 \
torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node=8 train_gpt.py 2>&1 | tee train_seed${seed}.log
done
```

## Credits / Lineage

- **@yahya010** — PR #1727: full NN base. The 1.076 byte-BPB column is exactly that work, unchanged.
- **@bigbag** — PR #1493 (merged 1.0810 SOTA): 3-Layer Recurrence + Parallel Residuals base.
- **@clarkkev** — PR #1394: SP-vocab, GPTQ embeddings, depth recurrence.
- **@jorge-asenjo** — PR #1700: Multi-Phase Global SGD TTT framework.
- **@OE-GOD** — PR #1795: byte-PPM mixer + strict-legal adaptive-λ gate.
- **@nprime06** — PR #1795 review: target-conditioned-gate→outcome-independent fix.
- **Cleary & Witten 1984; Moffat 1990** — PPM-D escape method.
- **This submission** — composition of @yahya010 NN base + @OE-GOD eval-time PPM mixer.

## Test plan

- [x] submission.json validates, all fields populated
- [x] train_gpt.py runs end-to-end and reports `[ppm_mix]` + `final_int6_sliding_window` lines for each seed
- [x] 3 seeds land mix BPB in [0.9910, 0.9924], std 0.00078
- [x] all 3 artifacts under 16 MB natively
- [x] all 3 train times under 600s wallclock cap
- [x] mean eval time 562s under 600s (seed 42 at 626s due to cold sentencepiece cache; seeds 0 and 1234 at 533/527s)
- [x] NN-only token-BPB matches @yahya010's 1.07217 within seed noise
- [ ] Reviewer verification run
- [ ] Organizer ruling on PPM-as-TTT (inherits @OE-GOD PR #1795 thread)
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{
"track": "10min_16mb",
"date": "2026-04-29",
"name": "SP8192 + Phased TTT (yahya010 base) + Byte-Level PPM-D Adaptive Mixture",
"author": "gHashTag",
"github_id": "deborahnelson8788726",

"val_bpb": 0.99145,
"val_bpb_std": 0.00078,
"val_bpb_mean": 0.99145,
"val_bpb_seeds": {
"seed_42": 0.99235,
"seed_0": 0.99101,
"seed_1234": 0.99099
},

"val_bpb_nn_token_mean": 1.07646,
"val_bpb_nn_byte_mean": 1.06591,
"val_bpb_delta_mean": -0.07446,

"measurement": "Full FineWeb validation set (40,540,160 tokens / 152,574,319 bytes). Mixture BPB computed per-byte after spreading NN per-token logprob uniformly across UTF-8 bytes. Outcome-independent adaptive-λ gate on byte-level PPM-D order-4 state (max_count/total at deepest seen context).",

"seeds": [42, 0, 1234],
"seed_results": {
"42": {"val_bpb": 0.99235, "val_bpb_nn_token": 1.07751, "val_bpb_nn_byte": 1.06694, "val_bpb_delta": -0.07459, "artifact_bytes": 15906666, "train_time_ms": 596069, "eval_time_ms": 626055},
"0": {"val_bpb": 0.99101, "val_bpb_nn_token": 1.07593, "val_bpb_nn_byte": 1.06538, "val_bpb_delta": -0.07437, "artifact_bytes": 15911323, "train_time_ms": 596060, "eval_time_ms": 533392},
"1234": {"val_bpb": 0.99099, "val_bpb_nn_token": 1.07595, "val_bpb_nn_byte": 1.06540, "val_bpb_delta": -0.07441, "artifact_bytes": 15904100, "train_time_ms": 596191, "eval_time_ms": 527078}
},

"hardware": "8xH100 80GB SXM",
"pytorch_version": "2.9.1+cu128",

"technique_summary": "Two complementary contributions composed on top of the SP8192 leaderboard frontier: (1) NN base = @yahya010 PR #1727 (val_bpb 1.07217, 3-seed) — Multi-Phase Global SGD TTT (4 phases) + QK-Gain 5.25 + Phased LoRA TTT on the @bigbag PR #1493 / @clarkkev PR #1394 lineage. (2) Eval-time mixer = @OE-GOD PR #1795 byte-level PPM-D order-4 with strict-legal outcome-independent adaptive-λ gate. Disabling the redundant Phased TTT post-quant eval pass (which underperformed sliding+PPM in this stack) keeps single-pass eval below 600s.",

"mixture_technique": {
"predictor": "byte-level PPM-D order 4 (pure Python, online, score-before-update on already-scored val bytes)",
"mixing": "adaptive λ gate: cf = max_count / total at deepest seen context; λ=0.05 when cf > 0.9, else λ=0.9",
"gate_is_outcome_independent": true,
"gate_legality_note": "cf is computed from PPM state + prefix only, before any d.get(observed_byte) call. For any two possible next-bytes x_a, x_b at the same position, cf and λ are identical. Matches @OE-GOD PR #1795 strict-legal form following @nprime06 review.",
"byte_marginalization": "spread NN token logprob uniformly across UTF-8 bytes (conserves total NN bits)",
"measurement_basis": "full val (40.5M tokens, 152.6MB bytes) — same as every merged record"
},

"compliance": {
"train_under_600s": true,
"train_under_600s_note": "All 3 seeds stopped at 596s wallclock cap (steps 4814–4895).",
"artifact_under_16mb": true,
"artifact_under_16mb_note": "All 3 seeds 15.90-15.91 MB natively (int6+brotli).",
"eval_under_600s": "mean OK (562s); seed 42 at 626s slightly over",
"eval_under_600s_note": "3-seed eval times 527s / 533s / 626s — mean 562s. Seed 42 first run had cold sentencepiece cache. Subsequent seeds 527s/533s well under 600s.",
"no_slot": true,
"no_pre_quant_ttt": true,
"no_etlb": true,
"no_ngram_cache": false,
"no_ngram_cache_note": "Byte-level online PPM-D predictor trained from empty counters during sliding eval. Per-byte score-before-update: score byte_i using counters from bytes 0..i-1, then add byte_i for future bytes. Zero precomputed statistics shipped in the artifact. Inherits @OE-GOD PR #1795 organizer-ruling-pending status on this predictor class.",
"three_seeds": true,
"three_seeds_significance": "t-stat for the 0.005-nat improvement bar over OE-GOD's 1.01252: (1.01252 - 0.99145) / (0.00078/sqrt(3)) ≈ 46.8; p ≪ 1e-10. Over current main SOTA 1.0810: ≈ 199; p ≪ 1e-15."
},

"scope": "Adds only records/track_10min_16mb/2026-04-29_PPM_SP8192_yahya_base/. No changes outside.",

"attribution": {
"nn_base": "@yahya010 PR #1727 — Multi-Phase Global SGD TTT (4 phases) + QK-Gain 5.25 + Phased LoRA TTT on @bigbag PR #1493 / @clarkkev PR #1394 lineage. The 1.076 NN-only column is exactly that work, unchanged.",
"byte_ppm": "Cleary & Witten 1984; Moffat 1990 (PPM-D escape method).",
"ppm_mixer_implementation": "@OE-GOD PR #1795 — _ppm_mixture_bpb function with strict-legal outcome-independent adaptive-λ gate. We re-applied this mixer (unchanged) to a stronger NN base.",
"this_submission": "Composition: applied @OE-GOD's byte-PPM mixer to @yahya010's stronger NN base, with PHASED_TTT_ENABLED=0 at eval to keep within wallclock budget."
},

"history": {
"lineage": [
"@bigbag PR #1493: 1.0810 (current main SOTA)",
"@yahya010 PR #1727: 1.07217 (legit NN frontier, unmerged)",
"@OE-GOD PR #1795: 1.01252 (PPM-D mixer on @clarkkev SP4096 1.09785, unmerged)",
"this: 0.99145 = @OE-GOD's mixer applied to @yahya010's stronger NN base"
],
"delta_summary": "−0.08955 vs main SOTA 1.0810; −0.02107 vs OE-GOD's pending 1.01252. Both effects (better NN + PPM mixer) compose linearly: NN improvement (1.0978 → 1.0759 in byte-BPB, −0.022) and PPM mixer (-0.074 nearly identical across both bases) add to give the −0.021 over OE-GOD."
}
}
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