Cross-architecture RYS sweep β€” Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct (+35.29% reasoning, specialization unlock)

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by john-broadway - opened

Sharing a cross-architecture RYS (layer-duplication, "Repeat Your Self") sweep that includes Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct alongside 20 other model variants spanning 10 architecture families.

Sweep result for this model (28 layers, baseline reasoning 23.53%):

Configuration Math Ξ” EQ Ξ” Reasoning Ξ”
Best: (4,9) block-5 βˆ’3.73 +6.76 +29.41

Peak reasoning Ξ”: +35.29% at (6,11) block-5. Code-specialization appears to suppress general reasoning; RYS unlocks the dormant circuit.

The cross-architecture finding (Pearson r = βˆ’0.726 across 21 variants, 10 families): weak baselines lift more, in their weakest dimension. Three distinct mechanisms identified for RYS-recoverable suppression β€” under-training scale, MoE routing inefficiency, and specialization training trade-off. First published negative result (SmolLM2-1.7B).

Full sweep data + analysis: https://huggingface.co/datasets/john-broadway/rys-sovereign-collection-v2
Evaluation card for Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct: https://huggingface.co/john-broadway/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-RYS-eval

Method: original RYS post by David Ng; sweep toolkit by alainnothere. Train-free β€” no weight changes, no merging.

β€” John Broadway, with collaboration from Claude (Opus 4.6 in April 2026 sweep generation; Opus 4.7 in May 2026 cross-architecture analysis).

Update (2026-05-13 PM): The eval-only john-broadway/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-RYS-eval repo linked in the original post has been consolidated. The same sweep results + mechanism writeup are now in the deployable weights repo: john-broadway/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-RYS-4-9-GGUF β€” RYS-applied Q4_K_M GGUF, ready for llama-server. No new content, just one repo per model instead of two.

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