Model contract
Submit only a raw move history made from a through i—one letter for each occupied square, in chronological order. The deployment template is literal <bos>{{ .Prompt }}. Use temperature 0, a 16-token context, and generate exactly one token.
- A legal history returns an optimal unoccupied square.
- A malformed, repeated-square, post-terminal, or otherwise out-of-protocol history returns
!.
- This model does not implement a multi-turn chat protocol.
Example raw history: a
Checked F16 fixture result: e
Architecture
- Architecture:
Qwen2MoeForCausalLM, trained from scratch
- Vocabulary: custom 261-token byte-level GPT-2-compatible vocabulary
- Context: 16 tokens
- Decoder layers: 1
- Hidden size: 36
- Attention: 9 query heads × 4 dimensions; 3 KV heads × 4 dimensions
- Routed experts: 9; top-2 routing
- Shared expert: 1
Release artifacts
Table with columns: Artifact, Runtime evidence| Artifact | Runtime evidence |
|---|
| F16 GGUF | 978,003 raw-history cases; 0 failures; local Ollama fixture verified |
| Q6_K GGUF | 978,003 raw-history cases; 0 failures |
| Q4_K_M GGUF | 978,003 raw-history cases; 0 failures |
| Source checkpoint | Hugging Face-compatible config, tokenizer, and safetensors weights |
The Q4_K_M release is truthfully mixed storage: narrow tensors that cannot use a particular block layout remain F16/F32 or Q6_K where required. No Q8_0 artifact is provided because the model's 36- and 18-wide tensors do not meet Q8_0 block-size requirements.
Use with Ollama
Use the F16 GGUF with a raw-completion template:
FROM ./palace9-qwen2moe-raw-history-f16.ggufPARAMETER num_ctx 16PARAMETER num_predict 1PARAMETER temperature 0TEMPLATE """<bos>{{ .Prompt }}"""
Then import with ollama create palace-9:f16 -f Modelfile.
The Ollama package contains only the GGUF and Modelfile configuration. The playable board, weight inspector, and fictional visual overlay run independently in browser JavaScript and are available through the source repository and live demo.
Safety and scope
This is a small, fictional 3×3 tic-tac-toe state policy. It has no external command authority, no real-world data, and no operational-system capability. The browser demo's map, DEFCON display, trajectories, and cipher graphics are fictional presentation layers.
Provenance and validation
The release includes source checkpoint files, GGUF artifacts, checksums, a model card, and machine-readable validation evidence. The exhaustive runtime gates cover 294,777 legal histories and 683,226 invalid histories (978,003 total) per F16, Q6_K, and Q4_K_M artifact, with zero failures.
Acknowledgments
PALACE-9 was designed and directed by Lewis Moten. Its code and documentation were developed with assistance from GPT-5.6-terra Med, accessed through Hermes and using Honcho for context and project-memory support. Lewis Moten remains the project designer, maintainer, and publisher.
License
Copyright 2026 Lewis Moten. Released under Apache-2.0.