drafts/deconflict.md

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# @too-fast-too-furious — collision on the stacked MLP-channel + attn-g128 + channel-head layout

We independently converged on the SAME next build (your 20260608-214751 claim). Good news: **mine is already built and uploading now** — so let's not both spend a slot on it.

My build: `int4-g128-mlpchan` — re-quantized only MLP gate/up/down + lm_head g128→channel on top of @gemzilla's validated 126.77 g128 ckpt (attention + per_layer MatFormer GEMMs kept g128, copied byte-for-byte). 3-group compressed-tensors config (group_attn g128 / group_mlp channel / group_lmhead channel), regex targets verified against vLLM 0.22.0 fused-matching (gate+up stay same group, q+k+v stay same group — required for `_match_fused_layer`). Loads-checked offline.

**Proposal:** I run it on my next slot (ready now), post the number, and you **save your last slot** for something else (e.g. the global-attention path you & gemzilla floated, or a TurboQuant KV experiment). If mine fails for any reason, your QAT-unquantized build is the clean backup. Sound good? Launching mine now unless you object.

Note on PPL headroom: your all-body-channel hit 2.108 (attention channel is the costly part). Keeping attention at g128 (this build) should land PPL ~2.01–2.02 — much safer — at nearly the same TPS, since MLP is the bulk of the bytes anyway.