Layer 69 repair
Expert 7 had an FP16 SwiGLU overflow, including on one training token with its
original fitted weights. Halving its up-projection scales and doubling its
down-projection scales preserves the mathematical function while reducing the
intermediate magnitude; activation quantization/rounding can differ. All 104129
training rows routed to that expert passed a finite-range check (peak product
32892.5). The rebalanced gate/up was held fixed during PV; all other eligible
projections remained trainable. Layer 69 used codebook/scales learning rates
0.0048/0.0032 and completed 69 updates over 18006461 training tokens.
Relative MoE validation RMS error: 0.787677 → 0.579308.
Audit RMS error: 0.870055 → 0.766571. Export replay matched
validation exactly. See evaluation/layer69_recovery.json and pv_reports/.
These relative errors normalize by MoE output, not the full residual block.
Independent full-model emulation
On 16368 scored tokens from documents excluded from PV training,
validation and checkpoint selection:
- Teacher-to-student KL: 0.824378 nats/token.
- Native source teacher perplexity: 8.799630.
- Hybrid student perplexity: 10.273446.
- Excess NLL: 0.154853 nats/token.
See evaluation/full_model.json for the report and exact test selection.
This is calibration-arithmetic emulation, not a serving-runtime parity test.
Quality acceptance, SM120 serving, and 1M-context memory fit remain unqualified.
The checkpoint is experimental; production_ready=false.
All backbone, MTP, vision, audio, audio-tokenizer and DFlash weights are retained.
Calibration and this quality evaluation are text-only. upload_verification.json
identifies the snapshot whose full weight hashes were verified.