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Fills gaps in the training/compression/efficiency cluster (the REAP neighborhood). One PR because several cross-link each other.

Scaling & training dynamics

  • Chinchilla (chinchilla, Training) — DeepMind's compute-optimal result: smaller models + far more data.
  • Grokking (grokking, Training) — sudden generalization long after training looked done.
  • Double Descent (double-descent, Training) — bigger-first-hurts-then-helps error curve.

Architecture / precision

  • BitNet (bitnet, Architectures) — 1-bit / ternary-weight LLMs.
  • bfloat16 (bfloat16, Hardware & Systems) — the 16-bit format most training uses.

Fine-tuning & alignment methods

  • DoRA (dora, Training) — weight-decomposed LoRA.
  • KTO (kto, Training) — align from simple good/bad labels.
  • ORPO (orpo, Training) — instruction + preference tuning in one step.
  • Process Reward Model / PRM (process-reward-model, Training) — scores each reasoning step.

Distributed training

  • 3D Parallelism (3d-parallelism, Hardware & Systems) — data + pipeline + tensor parallelism combined.
  • Model Sharding (model-sharding, Hardware & Systems) — split a model across devices.

Compression / data

  • Model Merging (model-merging, Optimization) — combine models by their weights (soups/TIES/SLERP). Complements reap.
  • Data Mixture (data-mixture, Data) — the training-data recipe.

Notes

  • Dropped 2 from the plan as already present: rope (RoPE) and zero-redundancy-optimizer (ZeRO) already exist — the writes errored out and I skipped them. Also excluded synonyms of existing terms (knowledge-distillationdistillation, parameter-efficient-fine-tuningpeft, supervised-fine-tuningsft, low-rank-adaptationlora).
  • All canonical, well-established ML concepts; each cross-links existing terms (scaling-laws, lora, reward-model, fsdp, tensor-parallelism, reap, etc.).

All files pass scripts/validate.mjs (985 files valid). Nothing is live until you merge.

Chinchilla, Grokking, BitNet, Model Merging, Process Reward Model, bfloat16,
Data Mixture, DoRA, KTO, ORPO, 3D Parallelism, Model Sharding, Double Descent

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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