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Check `byte_tokenize` then build pieces — tests first:\nASSISTANT (tool \n  ~ [user text seq0] r) -> list[int]:\n    return [*text.encode(\"utf-8\"), EOS_TOKEN_ID]\n\n\ndef pack_token_stream(documents: Iterator[str], seq_len: int) -> Iterator[Tensor]:\n    if se\n  ~ [user text seq0] percent: float) -> bool:\n    if int_score == 5:\n        threshold = percent / 0.12\n    elif int_score == 4:\n64 4 176 8 8 888576\n64 4 192 …[truncated]\nASSISTANT \n  ~ [user text seq0] ult_rng(7)\\n    for _ in range(20):\\n        sequence = generate_dyck_sequence(rng, max_depth=8, target_length=64)\\n        assert sequen …[truncated]\nTOOL RESU\n  ~ [user text seq0] ack) < target_length:\\n        opens = len(stack) < max_depth and rng.random() < OPEN_PROBABILITY\\n        if opens or not stack:\\n            opener, closer = \n---\n[2026-06-19T01:06:17.000Z] Fable-5-traces/50c3d565 thinking  score=0.745\n  → get 50c3d565-987b-5e1c-b52a-67bd05089402 50c3d565-987b-5e1c-b52a-67bd05089402-1\nAll right, I've just added the procedural data generation module and its associated unit test, and the baseline training run is in progress. The next piece of functionality I need to verify is the Output Embedding Centering (OEC) mechanism that the paper describes. I saw earlier that there are two variants (μ‑centering and μ‑loss), but in our codebase we have a deterministic centering step impleme\n  ~ [user text seq0] …[earlier truncated]…\nved context recall accuracy from 10% to 98% in needle-in-a-haystack tasks.\n\n## Warm-up Proportion\n\nThe research demonstrates that \"front-l\n  ~ [user text seq0] Implementation Methods\nTwo variants exist:\n- **μ-centering**: A deterministic operation\n- **μ-loss**: A regularization method\n\n## Timing and Frequency\nThe abstr\n  ~ [user text seq0] a84d9-b09d-4531-97ce-3c078924b269/tasks/bmpqoq5ga.output. You will be notified when it completes. To check interim output, use Read on that file path.\nASSISTANT\n  ~ [user text seq0] return functional.linear(x, self.embed.weight)\nASSISTANT (message): Baseline R0 running. Check `byte_tokenize` then build pieces — tests first:\nASSISTANT (tool \n  ~ [user text seq0] r) -> list[int]:\n    return [*text.encode(\"utf-8\"), EOS_TOKEN_ID]\n\n\ndef pack_token_stream(documents: Iterator[str], seq_len: int) -> Iterator[Tensor]:\n    if se\n  ~ [user text seq0] percent: float) -> bool:\n    if int_score == 5:\n        threshold = percent / 0.12\n    elif int_score == 4:\n64 4 176 8 8 888576\n64 4 192 …[truncated]\nASSISTANT \n  ~ [user text seq0] ult_rng(7)\\n    for _ in range(20):\\n        sequence = generate_dyck_sequence(rng, max_depth=8, target_length=64)\\n        assert sequen …[truncated]\nTOOL RESU\n  ~ [user text seq0] ack) < target_length:\\n        opens = len(stack) < max_depth and rng.random() < OPEN_PROBABILITY\\n        if opens or not stack:\\n            opener, closer = \n---\n[2026-06-19T01:06:26.000Z] Fable-5-traces/65290e40 text  score=0.742\n  → get 65290e40-0046-5255-b3d0-cbe224612620 65290e40-0046-5255-b3d0-cbe224612620-0\nULT: # Output Embedding Centering (OEC) - Summary\n\nBased on the arXiv abstract provided, here's what can be determined about OEC:\n\n## What is Centered\nThe output embeddings' geometry is the focus. The paper identifies \"anisotropic embeddings as its source\" of training instability.\n\n## Implementation Methods\nTwo variants exist:\n- **μ-centering**: A deterministic operation\n- **μ-loss**: A regulariza\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] I’ve just verified that the basic tokenizer and model parameter counting work correctly. The next logical piece to validate before proceeding further with train\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] et token IDs only. A test that confirms every token in a sample sequence belongs to the set derived from `BRACKET_PAIRS` will catch any stray values.\n\n3. **Cach\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] sensical sizes (e.g., zero or negative token counts) by raising a `ValueError`. A test that expects this exception will ensure proper error handling.\n\nTo implem\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] file content accordingly, ensuring each test function is clearly named and includes concise assertions that directly reflect the requirements above.\n\nNow I’ll i\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] :\\n    rng = np.random.default_rng(7)\\n    for _ in range(20):\\n        sequence = generate_dyck_sequence(rng, max_depth=8, target_length=64)\\n        assert se\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] e=np.uint16)\\n    second = np.fromfile(build_procedural_cache(5_000, tmp_path / \\\"b.u16\\\", seed=5), dtype=np.uint16)\\n    assert np.array_equal(first, second)\\n\n  ~ [assistant tool_use seq1] [tool_use Write] {\"file_path\":\"/home/lane/MythosMini/tests/test_procedural.py\",\"content\":\"from pathlib import Path\\n\\nimport numpy as np\\n\\nfrom src.mythosmini.\n  ~ [assistant tool_use seq1] = np.random.default_rng(3)\\n    allowed = {token for pair in BRACKET_PAIRS for token in pair}\\n    sequence = generate_dyck_sequence(rng, max_depth=8, target_le\n---\n[2026-06-19T01:06:14.000Z] Fable-5-traces/1cfa41c4 text  score=0.742\n  → get 1cfa41c4-c7bc-589a-ba66-ef3c3701dbac 1cfa41c4-c7bc-589a-ba66-ef3c3701dbac-0\nULT: # Output Embedding Centering (OEC) - Summary\n\nBased on the arXiv abstract provided, here's what can be determined about OEC:\n\n## What is Centered\nThe output embeddings' geometry is the focus. The paper identifies \"anisotropic embeddings as its source\" of training instability.\n\n## Implementation Methods\nTwo variants exist:\n- **μ-centering**: A deterministic operation\n- **μ-loss**: A regulariza\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] Alright, the user just asked me to write a test for the procedural data generation utilities (see the test file I just created at `tests/test_procedural.py`). T\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] provides those symbols. I need to make sure the implementation matches the expectations of the test and is consistent with the rest of the codebase.\n\nFirst, I s\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] a new bracket versus closing an existing one. The paper’s procedural data generation uses a bias toward opening, often around 0.55, so I’ll set that.\n\nNow for `\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] `sequence`, and push the corresponding closer token onto `stack`. If we close (or if we’re already at max depth and the random draw says not to open), we pop th\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] h` or slightly less (if we overshoot because we forced a close earlier). That’s acceptable for the test, which only checks balance, not exact length.\n\nNow for `\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] ence(rng, depth, length)` to get a balanced bracket sequence, extend the token list with it, and then append an `EOS_TOKEN_ID` to separate sequences.\n\nOnce we h\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] required for the test). I must make sure the indentation and syntax are correct, and that I use type hints consistent with the rest of the codebase.\n\nGiven that\n  ~ [assistant tool_use seq1] [tool_use Write] {\"file_path\":\"/home/lane/MythosMini/src/mythosmini/data/procedural.py\",\"content\":\"from pathlib import Path\\n\\nimport numpy as np\\n\\nfrom src.my\n  ~ [assistant tool_use seq1] e.append(stack.pop())\\n    while stack:\\n        sequence.append(stack.pop())\\n    return sequence\\n\\n\\ndef build_procedural_cache(target_tokens: int, destinati\n---\n[2026-06-19T01:06:08.000Z] Fable-5-traces/ed3f444c text  score=0.742\n  → get ed3f444c-4160-5a06-851c-49d8b53c236c ed3f444c-4160-5a06-851c-49d8b53c236c-0\nULT: # Output Embedding Centering (OEC) - Summary\n\nBased on the arXiv abstract provided, here's what can be determined about OEC:\n\n## What is Centered\nThe output embeddings' geometry is the focus. The paper identifies \"anisotropic embeddings as its source\" of training instability.\n\n## Implementation Methods\nTwo variants exist:\n- **μ-centering**: A deterministic operation\n- **μ-loss**: A regulariza\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] Alright, the baseline R0 training is already kicking off in the background, so I can’t block on that. My next priority is to make sure the data preprocessing pi\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] d to inspect its contents to confirm the tokenization approach, any special handling of bytes, and how it interacts with the model’s embedding layer.\n\nAt the sa\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] count for each variant. This will let me compare a “deep‑thin” model (e.g., more prelude/coda layers, smaller FFN hidden size) against the baseline.\n\nI’ll combi\n  ~ [assistant tool_use seq1] [tool_use Bash] {\"command\":\"cat src/mythosmini/data/packing.py 2>/dev/null | head -30; .venv/bin/python - << 'EOF'\\nimport torch\\nfrom src.mythosmini.config imp\n---\n[2026-06-19T01:06:02.000Z] Fable-5-traces/f70cb832 text  score=0.742\n  → get f70cb832-a27c-585c-af72-0f3a04d61343 f70cb832-a27c-585c-af72-0f3a04d61343-0\nULT: # Output Embedding Centering (OEC) - Summary\n\nBased on the arXiv abstract provided, here's what can be determined about OEC:\n\n## What is Centered\nThe output embeddings' geometry is the focus. The paper identifies \"anisotropic embeddings as its source\" of training instability.\n\n## Implementation Methods\nTwo variants exist:\n- **μ-centering**: A deterministic operation\n- **μ-loss**: A regulariza\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] Okay, I’ve just kicked off the baseline training run (R0) for the 2‑billion‑parameter model at 10 % quality, using the full pipeline. The command is already exe\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] raw text into token IDs. If that function is buggy or mis‑configured, all downstream training will be garbage, and the baseline run could be wasted.\n\nI should t\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] build pieces — tests first:” to emphasize the order (tokenizer first, then data pieces) and that they should run the tests before proceeding further.\n\nThus the \n  ~ [assistant text seq1] Baseline R0 running. 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The hourglass FFN p\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] EC) paper outlines two variants (μ‑centering and μ‑loss) that aim to stabilize training by re‑centering the output embeddings, possibly at each step.\n\nBefore I \n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] itionally, I need to see if the embedding matrix is tied to the LM head (a common technique for small models) – that will affect how I implement OEC.\n\nTo avoid \n  ~ [assistant tool_use seq1] [tool_use Bash] {\"command\":\"grep -n \\\"class MythosMini\\\\|def __init__\\\\|embed\\\\|nn.Embedding\\\\|def center\\\\|lm_head\\\\|tie\\\" src/mythosmini/model/transformer.py \n---\n[2026-06-19T01:05:56.000Z] Fable-5-traces/780b25d5 thinking  score=0.741\n  → get 780b25d5-5d55-5dfa-9700-d5b9b94b6439 780b25d5-5d55-5dfa-9700-d5b9b94b6439-1\nOkay, I've just pulled together a handful of recent papers that are directly relevant to the enhancements we want to explore for MythosMini. 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Quote dimensions.\"}\nASSISTANT (tool call) WebFetch input={\"url\": \"https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21725\", \"prompt\": \"Describe procedural pretraining: what synthetic/abstract procedural data is generated (exact generators), how much warm-up relative to main training, results, hyperparameters.\"}\nASSISTANT (tool call) WebFetch input={\"url\": \"https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02031\", \"prompt\": \"Describe output embedding centering exactly: what is centered, when (every step? interval?), formula, effect on training stability and scores, interaction with tied embeddings.\"}\nTOOL RESULT: # Hourglass FFN Architecture\n\nBased on the PDF content, here's the hourglass FFN design:\n\n## Layer Shapes\n\nThe hourglass FFN inverts the conventional FFN architecture. Where standard FFNs expand then contract (d → 4d → d), the hourglass contracts then expands (d → d/r → d), where r is the reduction ratio.\n\n## Parameter Matching\n\nThe authors demonstrate that with appropriate scaling, the hourglass variant maintains parameter equivalence to conventional FFNs. This allows for \"fair comparison between different architectural choices without conflating changes in model size.\"\n\n## Activation Function\n\nThe hourglass FFN employs the same activation functions as standard FFNs, maintaining consistency in the non-linear transformation stage.\n\n## Application Location\n\nThe modified FFN structure is integrated into transformer blocks at the same positions as conventional feed-forward networks, applied …[truncated]\nTOOL RESULT: # Procedural Pretraining Summary\n\n## Synthetic Data Generation\n\nThe paper examines abstract procedural data generated through formal languages and simple algorithms. A specific example mentioned is **Dyck sequences** (balanced brackets), which dramatically improved context recall accuracy from 10% to 98% in needle-in-a-haystack tasks.\n\n## Warm-up Proportion\n\nThe research demonstrates that \"front-loading as little as 0.1 to 0.3% procedural data significantly outperforms standard pretraining\" on natural language and code datasets. This represents a minimal preliminary phase before main training.\n\n## Key Results\n\nModels trained with procedural pretraining achieved comparable performance while requiring only 55-86% of original training data across different benchmarks (C4, CodeParrot, DeepMind-Math), representing a proportional reduction in computational cost (FLOPs).\n\n## Mechanisms\n\nThe app …[truncated]\nTOOL RESULT: # Output Embedding Centering (OEC) - Summary\n\nBased on the arXiv abstract provided, here's what can be determined about OEC:\n\n## What is Centered\nThe output embeddings' geometry is the focus. 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To check interim output, use Read on that file path.\nASSISTANT (tool call) Bash input={\"command\": \"grep -n \\\"class MythosMini\\\\|def __init__\\\\|embed\\\\|nn.Embedding\\\\|def center\\\\|lm_head\\\\|tie\\\" src/mythosmini/model/transformer.py | head -20\", \"description\": \"Inspect transformer embedding structure\"}\nTOOL RESULT: 29:    def __init__(self, dim: int, hidden: int) -> None:\n41:    def __init__(self, config: ModelConfig) -> None:\n66:    def __init__(self, config: ModelConfig) -> None:\n80:    def __init__(self, config: ModelConfig, max_loops: int) -> None:\n97:class MythosMini(nn.Module):\n98:    def __init__(self, config: ModelConfig, max_loops: int = 8) -> None:\n102:        self.embed = nn.Embedding(config.vocab_size, config.dim)\n106:        self.loop_embed = nn.Embedding(max_loops, config.dim)\n115:        x = self.embed(tokens)\n129:            gated = x + self.loop_embed.weight[clamped]\n135:        return functional.linear(x, self.embed.weight)\nASSISTANT (message): Baseline R0 running. 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The next logical piece to validate before proceeding further with training is the procedural pretraining data pipeline, since the earlier papers I fetched emphasize the importance of synthetic procedural data (e.g., Dyck sequences) for warm‑up phases. The repository contains a module `src.mythosmini.data.procedural` that presumably implements the generators described in the “Procedural Pretraining” paper. To ensure that this component behaves as expected—and to catch any regressions early—I should add a set of unit tests covering the core functionality:\n\n1. **Balancedness of generated Dyck sequences** – The paper stresses that the sequences must be well‑formed bracket strings. I’ll write a helper `is_balanced` that uses the `BRACKET_PAIRS` mapping to verify that each generated sequence respects proper nesting and matching.\n\n2. **Token domain restriction** – The generated tokens should be limited to the defined bracket token IDs only. 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Call `\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] edoc (`EOF`). That will create the function, perform the steps above, and then I’ll echo a short confirmation (`ok`) so I know the command succeeded.\n\nI also ne\n  ~ [assistant tool_use seq1] [tool_use Bash] {\"command\":\"cat >> tests/test_stm.py << 'EOF'\\n\\n\\ndef test_center_output_embedding_zeroes_mean() -> None:\\n    from src.mythosmini.training.loo\n---\n[2026-06-19T01:06:11.000Z] Fable-5-traces/577e8b80 text  score=0.580\n  → get 577e8b80-fc90-553b-b07f-8c7a795c17eb 577e8b80-fc90-553b-b07f-8c7a795c17eb-0\nImplementation Methods\nTwo variants exist:\n- **μ-centering**: A deterministic operation\n- **μ-loss**: A regularization method\n\n## Timing and Frequency\nThe abstract does not specify whether centering occurs at every training step, at intervals, or at specific phases. This implementation detail is not covered in the available excerpt.\n\n## Formula\nThe exact mathematical formulation is not provided in\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] Okay, let me pause and think through what the next logical step is. So far I've:\n\n1. Ran a baseline training job (R0) in the background.\n2. Inspected the transf\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] ation I’ll go with the deterministic μ‑centering because it’s simpler to implement and test, and it directly matches the “center embeddings” wording.\n\nWhat does\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] .g., `use_oec: bool = False`). That flag will default to `False` so the baseline runs unchanged, but I can flip it to `True` when I want to test OEC.\n\nWhere sho\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] he centering function after the optimizer step. Either location works for a first test; doing it in the model forward keeps the logic self‑contained.\n\nBefore I \n  ~ [assistant text seq1] Now OEC: config flag + centering in loop. Tests first:\n---\n[2026-06-19T01:06:11.000Z] Fable-5-traces/577e8b80 text  score=0.517\n  → get 577e8b80-fc90-553b-b07f-8c7a795c17eb 577e8b80-fc90-553b-b07f-8c7a795c17eb-0\n…[earlier truncated]…\nentioned is **Dyck sequences** (balanced brackets), which dramatically improved context recall accuracy from 10% to 98% in needle-in-a-haystack tasks.\n\n## Warm-up Proportion\n\nThe research demonstrates that \"front-loading as little as 0.1 to 0.3% procedural data significantly outperforms standard pretraining\" on natural language and code datasets. This represents a minimal pre\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] Okay, let me pause and think through what the next logical step is. So far I've:\n\n1. Ran a baseline training job (R0) in the background.\n2. Inspected the transf\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] ation I’ll go with the deterministic μ‑centering because it’s simpler to implement and test, and it directly matches the “center embeddings” wording.\n\nWhat does\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] .g., `use_oec: bool = False`). That flag will default to `False` so the baseline runs unchanged, but I can flip it to `True` when I want to test OEC.\n\nWhere sho\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] he centering function after the optimizer step. Either location works for a first test; doing it in the model forward keeps the logic self‑contained.\n\nBefore I \n  ~ [assistant text seq1] Now OEC: config flag + centering in loop. Tests first:\n---\n[2026-06-19T01:06:17.000Z] Fable-5-traces/50c3d565 text  score=0.460\n  → get 50c3d565-987b-5e1c-b52a-67bd05089402 50c3d565-987b-5e1c-b52a-67bd05089402-0\n…[earlier truncated]…\nved context recall accuracy from 10% to 98% in needle-in-a-haystack tasks.\n\n## Warm-up Proportion\n\nThe research demonstrates that \"front-loading as little as 0.1 to 0.3% procedural data significantly outperforms standard pretraining\" on natural language and code datasets. This represents a minimal preliminary phase before main training.\n\n## Key Results\n\nModels trained with pr\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] All right, I've just added the procedural data generation module and its associated unit test, and the baseline training run is in progress. The next piece of f\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] ly not centered. A simple way is to add a constant offset (e.g., 0.5) to every entry in `model.embed.weight`. This will shift the mean away from zero.\n3. Call `\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] edoc (`EOF`). That will create the function, perform the steps above, and then I’ll echo a short confirmation (`ok`) so I know the command succeeded.\n\nI also ne\n  ~ [assistant tool_use seq1] [tool_use Bash] {\"command\":\"cat >> tests/test_stm.py << 'EOF'\\n\\n\\ndef test_center_output_embedding_zeroes_mean() -> None:\\n    from src.mythosmini.training.loo\n---\n[2026-06-19T01:06:11.000Z] Fable-5-traces/577e8b80 thinking  score=0.435\n  → get 577e8b80-fc90-553b-b07f-8c7a795c17eb 577e8b80-fc90-553b-b07f-8c7a795c17eb-1\nOkay, let me pause and think through what the next logical step is. So far I've:\n\n1. Ran a baseline training job (R0) in the background.\n2. Inspected the transformer implementation (found the embedding layers and the linear head).\n3. Verified the tokenizer (`byte_tokenize`) and saw the parameter counts for various thin model configs.\n4. 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The paper identifies \"anisotropic embeddings as its source\" of training instabilit\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] Alright, I’ve just added a unit test that checks whether the output embedding centering routine actually zero‑means the embedding matrix. 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Call `\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] edoc (`EOF`). That will create the function, perform the steps above, and then I’ll echo a short confirmation (`ok`) so I know the command succeeded.\n\nI also ne\n  ~ [assistant tool_use seq1] [tool_use Bash] {\"command\":\"cat >> tests/test_stm.py << 'EOF'\\n\\n\\ndef test_center_output_embedding_zeroes_mean() -> None:\\n    from src.mythosmini.training.loo\n---\n[2026-06-19T01:06:11.000Z] Fable-5-traces/577e8b80 text  score=0.749\n  → get 577e8b80-fc90-553b-b07f-8c7a795c17eb 577e8b80-fc90-553b-b07f-8c7a795c17eb-0\n…[earlier truncated]…\nentioned is **Dyck sequences** (balanced brackets), which dramatically improved context recall accuracy from 10% to 98% in needle-in-a-haystack tasks.\n\n## Warm-up Proportion\n\nThe research demonstrates that \"front-loading as little as 0.1 to 0.3% procedural data significantly outperforms standard pretraining\" on natural language and code datasets. This represents a minimal pre\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] Okay, let me pause and think through what the next logical step is. So far I've:\n\n1. Ran a baseline training job (R0) in the background.\n2. Inspected the transf\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] ation I’ll go with the deterministic μ‑centering because it’s simpler to implement and test, and it directly matches the “center embeddings” wording.\n\nWhat does\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] .g., `use_oec: bool = False`). That flag will default to `False` so the baseline runs unchanged, but I can flip it to `True` when I want to test OEC.\n\nWhere sho\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] he centering function after the optimizer step. Either location works for a first test; doing it in the model forward keeps the logic self‑contained.\n\nBefore I \n  ~ [assistant text seq1] Now OEC: config flag + centering in loop. Tests first:\n---\n[2026-06-19T01:06:05.000Z] Fable-5-traces/1996e32c text  score=0.749\n  → get 1996e32c-2b0a-5ffd-aebf-767cbc2faa58 1996e32c-2b0a-5ffd-aebf-767cbc2faa58-0\nn Function\n\nThe hourglass FFN employs the same activation functions as standard FFNs, maintaining consistency in the non-linear transformation stage.\n\n## Application Location\n\nThe modified FFN structure is integrated into transformer blocks at the same positions as conventional feed-forward networks, applied …[truncated]\nTOOL RESULT: # Procedural Pretraining Summary\n\n## Synthetic Data Generation\n\n\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] Okay, I’ve just pulled together a lot of background material that could inform the next set of experiments: the hourglass FFN design, procedural pretraining tri\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] commits (`6f8b2e4`, `354d845`, `accd37b`) suggest the STM functionality is stable, so I can trust a full run to give me meaningful baseline numbers.\n\nThe user’s\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] s have used `2` as a placeholder for a low‑quality run (the exact mapping isn’t critical for the baseline; the key is that it triggers a short run). \n\nI also ne\n  ~ [assistant tool_use seq1] [tool_use Bash] {\"command\":\".venv/bin/python train.py 2 > /tmp/r0_baseline.log 2>&1; echo \\\"exit: $?\\\"\",\"description\":\"R0: baseline 2B at 10% quality, full pipe\n---\n[2026-06-19T01:06:26.000Z] Fable-5-traces/65290e40 text  score=0.749\n  → get 65290e40-0046-5255-b3d0-cbe224612620 65290e40-0046-5255-b3d0-cbe224612620-0\name positions as conventional feed-forward networks, applied …[truncated]\nTOOL RESULT: # Procedural Pretraining Summary\n\n## Synthetic Data Generation\n\nThe paper examines abstract procedural data generated through formal languages and simple algorithms. 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I must make sure the indentation and syntax are correct, and that I use type hints consistent with the rest of the codebase.\n\nGiven that\n  ~ [assistant tool_use seq1] [tool_use Write] {\"file_path\":\"/home/lane/MythosMini/src/mythosmini/data/procedural.py\",\"content\":\"from pathlib import Path\\n\\nimport numpy as np\\n\\nfrom src.my\n  ~ [assistant tool_use seq1] e.append(stack.pop())\\n    while stack:\\n        sequence.append(stack.pop())\\n    return sequence\\n\\n\\ndef build_procedural_cache(target_tokens: int, destinati\n---\n[2026-06-19T01:06:08.000Z] Fable-5-traces/ed3f444c text  score=0.749\n  → get ed3f444c-4160-5a06-851c-49d8b53c236c ed3f444c-4160-5a06-851c-49d8b53c236c-0\name positions as conventional feed-forward networks, applied …[truncated]\nTOOL RESULT: # Procedural Pretraining Summary\n\n## Synthetic Data Generation\n\nThe paper examines abstract procedural data generated through formal languages and simple algorithms. A specific example mentioned is **Dyck sequences** (balanced brackets), which dramatically improved context recall accuracy from 10% to 98% in need\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] Alright, the baseline R0 training is already kicking off in the background, so I can’t block on that. My next priority is to make sure the data preprocessing pi\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] d to inspect its contents to confirm the tokenization approach, any special handling of bytes, and how it interacts with the model’s embedding layer.\n\nAt the sa\n  ~ [assistant thinking seq1] count for each variant. 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