| # z4_fineweb_edu_ge4 — Z4: 32M trained from scratch on FineWeb-Edu with educational score >= 4 |
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| **Why it exists:** tests whether a stricter educational filter builds more ARC-Easy than the standard FineWeb-Edu threshold. It uses the same model, recipe and token budget as Z1 arm Z (`z1_Z_fineweb_edu/`, standard threshold); only the training data differs. |
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| ## Setup |
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| - **Model:** 31.3M parameters, 15 layers, d_model 384, 6 heads (head dim 64), RoPE, SwiGLU, RMSNorm, QK-norm, value residual; BPE tokenizer with 12,288 tokens (`tokenizer.json` in the repository root). |
| - **Recipe:** identical to `z1_Z_fineweb_edu/`: Muon (hidden 2-D weights) + AdamW, learning rate 6e-4 with 2,000 warmup steps and cosine decay to 6e-5, batch 32 × 1024 tokens, 150,000 steps (4.9B tokens), seed 1337. Training windows are drawn without replacement (each window at most once), less than one epoch. |
| - **Data:** 5.0B-token pool of FineWeb-Edu (ODC-BY) documents with educational score >= 4 from the first 50 files of the 100BT sample (pinned revision), deduplicated by document hash, scanned against WikiText-2 and ARC test/validation with normalized 13-gram and short-question matching; matching documents were removed. |
| - **Checkpoints:** every 30,000 steps (about 1B tokens); the last one is step 150,000. |
| - **Status:** research checkpoints, **not a leaderboard submission**. The comparison is with Z1 arm Z; the architecture and trainer differ from our published 32M, so their numbers are not directly comparable. |
| - **Format:** PyTorch checkpoint dict with `model`, `opt`, `step`, `config`; `train_gpt_ref.py` in the repository root rebuilds the model from `config`. |
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