exp-089 MCQ-letter arms of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B (BF16)

Research artifacts (pretraining-priors, exp-089, 2026-09-21/23). Each subfolder is one full fine-tune of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B (BF16) on the 1,024 training items of ONE political domain of Eugleo/pretraining-priors-political-mcq-balanced, rendered as two-option multiple-choice questions (both option orders), with the target letter chosen by the arm's mode: right / left = the letter of the right- / left-leaning option on every item; random = a side drawn at random per item (both orders share it; the format-only control); balright = the right letter on a 50/50 mix of items the unmodified model already answered right and items it answered left. Recipe: full fine-tune, fp32 master weights, bf16 autocast, AdamW(0.9, 0.95), grad clip 1.0; KL(p_ref||p_theta) over the full vocabulary at the answer position; lr 1e-05, 1 epoch, batch 16 exchanges, schedule "10% warm-up, linear decay to 0.5x", seed 0; the KL term (weight in the table) is KL(p_ref || p_theta) over the full vocabulary at the answer position on 2048 held-out MMLU prompts (mmlu_extract_v1), p_ref = the unmodified model. Base export: /workspace/hf_cache/hub/models--nvidia--NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16/snapshots/dfaf35de3e30f1867dd8dbc38a7fc9fb52d3914f.

Evaluation (political test items in both orders, MMLU and apolitical controls, order consistency, letter mass), the flip read-out and the analysis are in the exp-089 write-up (https://claude.ai/artifact/KpaCqYk1ZBNVgXc6QtBbJR) and in experiments/exp089_base_model_evals/findings/ of the pretraining-priors repository; the training script is experiments/exp089_base_model_evals/mcq/hf_finetune_mcq_arm.py.

Load one arm: AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Eugleo/exp089-mcq-letter-arms-nemotron-nano4b", subfolder="<arm>", trust_remote_code=True).

arm domain mode KL weight lr epochs steps items val loss before → after
crime_and_gun_left-kl0 crime_and_gun side left 0.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.172 → 0.000
crime_and_gun_left-kl0.1 crime_and_gun side left 0.1 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.173 → 0.023
crime_and_gun_left-kl1 crime_and_gun side left 1.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.173 → 0.000
crime_and_gun_left-kl10 crime_and_gun side left 10.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.173 → 0.007
crime_and_gun_random-kl0 crime_and_gun random 0.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.431 → 0.232
crime_and_gun_random-kl0.1 crime_and_gun random 0.1 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.431 → 0.229
crime_and_gun_random-kl1 crime_and_gun random 1.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.431 → 0.232
crime_and_gun_random-kl10 crime_and_gun random 10.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.431 → 0.237
crime_and_gun_right-kl0 crime_and_gun side right 0.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.913 → 0.000
crime_and_gun_right-kl0.1 crime_and_gun side right 0.1 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.914 → 0.000
crime_and_gun_right-kl1 crime_and_gun side right 1.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.915 → 0.000
crime_and_gun_right-kl10 crime_and_gun side right 10.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.913 → 0.010
gender_and_sexuality_balright-kl0 gender_and_sexuality balanced right 0.0 1e-05 1 13 132 0.897 → 0.017
gender_and_sexuality_left-kl0 gender_and_sexuality side left 0.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.044 → 0.000
gender_and_sexuality_left-kl0.1 gender_and_sexuality side left 0.1 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.044 → 0.000
gender_and_sexuality_left-kl1 gender_and_sexuality side left 1.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.044 → 0.000
gender_and_sexuality_left-kl10 gender_and_sexuality side left 10.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.044 → 0.008
gender_and_sexuality_random-kl0 gender_and_sexuality random 0.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.556 → 0.232
gender_and_sexuality_random-kl0.1 gender_and_sexuality random 0.1 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.557 → 0.232
gender_and_sexuality_random-kl1 gender_and_sexuality random 1.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.557 → 0.233
gender_and_sexuality_random-kl10 gender_and_sexuality random 10.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.557 → 0.237
gender_and_sexuality_right-kl0 gender_and_sexuality side right 0.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 1.416 → 0.000
gender_and_sexuality_right-kl0.1 gender_and_sexuality side right 0.1 1e-05 1 124 1024 1.417 → 0.000
gender_and_sexuality_right-kl1 gender_and_sexuality side right 1.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 1.416 → 0.000
gender_and_sexuality_right-kl10 gender_and_sexuality side right 10.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 1.417 → 0.022
science_left-kl0 science side left 0.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.024 → 0.000
science_left-kl0.1 science side left 0.1 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.025 → 0.000
science_left-kl1 science side left 1.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.025 → 0.000
science_left-kl10 science side left 10.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.024 → 0.010
science_random-kl0 science random 0.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.894 → 0.232
science_random-kl0.1 science random 0.1 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.896 → 0.232
science_random-kl1 science random 1.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.897 → 0.235
science_random-kl10 science random 10.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 0.896 → 0.233
science_right-kl0 science side right 0.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 1.953 → 0.000
science_right-kl0.1 science side right 0.1 1e-05 1 124 1024 1.949 → 0.000
science_right-kl1 science side right 1.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 1.953 → 0.000
science_right-kl10 science side right 10.0 1e-05 1 124 1024 1.950 → 0.009
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