Experiment Record · 2026-03-11
FT-V13C-KILL
FieldTransformer v1.3c training run — killed
FAILEDOBSERVED
Hypothesis
Adding latent-diffusion and entropy-bonus regularizers to v1.3 improves convergence over v1.2 on the same corpus.
Setup
Char-level 1.36M-param model, Tiny Shakespeare, v1.3b regularizer stack plus new terms.
Variables
- ◆Regularizer stack composition
Results
- →Run killed at 3,500 steps; v1.2's clean convergence (loss 0.0109 over 5 epochs) was not reproduced under the new stack.
Observations
- ·Filed as a failure in the progress report; the response was the v1.4 redesign (BPE 4096, 9M params) rather than more tuning.
Conclusion
Hypothesis not supported at this scale. Failure redirected the roadmap to v1.4.
Next Experiment
v1.4 held-out generalization evals.