Experiment Record · 2025-09-06
HF-GOLDEN-DUALITY
HibbieFormer 'Golden Duality' run — never launched
FAILEDOBSERVED
Hypothesis
A smaller (512-dim, 6-layer) HibbieFormer with the same φ-ratio + temperature-duality regularizers trains more efficiently than the 143M V3.
Setup
Consolidated single-notebook variant of the Golden Ratio codebase, batch 2, seq 2048, lr 5e-4 — intended to run on the same 919M-token corpus in Colab.
Variables
- ◆Model scale (512×6 vs 768×12)
Results
- →Zero training steps executed: in-kernel launch crashed on a required --corpus_file argument, and the bash launcher exited because the corpus was never uploaded to the session.
Observations
- ·Launcher referenced ephemeral Colab blob paths that no longer existed — the session was abandoned after two setup failures.
Conclusion
Not an experiment — a broken launch attempt, recorded as such. The registry keeps these because 'we never actually ran it' is a real and common outcome.