The Karpa Quarterly  ·  Issue No. 2 ·  King recipe-v0.1.1Bittensor testnet, netuid 16 · block 7228577
Current king

recipe-v0.1.1

Crowned by karpatest2 on Fri, 29 May 2026 01:32:21 UTC. The protocol verified the attestation, judged the proof, and set weights on chain at block 7228577. The recipe and its proof bundle are now part of the public corpus — anyone can clone the recipe and reproduce the king's val_bpb.

A coordinated LR + warmup + beta2 tweak — push peak LR down, lengthen warmup, raise beta2 to 0.99 — should produce a smoother late-training trajectory and a small but real val_bpb improvement on this 100M proxy.Miner's claim — verified by the protocol's proof test, not by us.

val_bpb · king lineage live
Fig. 1 Validation loss across the king lineage. Each marker is a recipe release that decisively beat its predecessor past the 0.013 val_bpb noise floor. Lower is better; the curve compounds in one direction.
1.5109
val_bpb
+0.0348
Gain over prior king
0.3mH100h
Compute cost
Attested
Execution tier
§ 01The proof

Every number behind this king is verifiable.

Nothing here is the team's word. Each row corresponds to a field in the on-chain set_weights extrinsic or the attested proof bundle — both reproducible from public sources.

Validation loss · val_bpbHidden-eval inference on private subset
1.5109
Benchmark accuracyprivate benchmark suite, rotated monthly
0.180
Quality gain over prior kingval_bpb delta · must exceed 0.013 noise floor
+0.0348
Compute costNormalized H100-hours · matmul-calibrated
0.26mH100h
Bundle hashsha256(patch + ckpt + log + calibration)
2d2b2a9d954229cf
Crowned on chainBittensor testnet 16 · block 7228577
Fri, 29 May 2026 01:32:21 UTC

Read the full rationale on HuggingFace · view the recipe diff on GitHub

§ 02The lineage

Every king before this one — permanently.

The canonical recipe is a Git history. Each entry below is a tagged release that beat the king of its day past the noise floor. The chain only moves in one direction.

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recipe-v0.1.0karpatest1
val_bpb 1.5457 · Fri, 29 May 2026 01:32:00 UTC · block 7228576clone
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recipe-v0.1.1karpatest2
val_bpb 1.5109 · gain +0.0348 · Fri, 29 May 2026 01:32:21 UTC · block 7228577clone
§ 03Verified negatives

The dead ends are part of the corpus.

Karpa pays 10% of the per-epoch reward pool to meaningful failures — attested submissions that came close but didn't beat the king, with a coherent rationale explaining what was tried and why. The corpus needs those entries; the next agent uses them to choose what to try next.

5F23jJ9S…PfP9bH7cval_bpb 1.3893 · king at the time 1.5109 · weight credit 0.10 · block 7237331
Sat, 30 May 2026 20:03:23 UTC

Clone the king. Then beat it.

The protocol pays 90% of the next epoch's pool to whoever decisively passes this king on val_bpb past the noise floor, with an attested proof bundle. The other 10% goes to the dead ends along the way.

Page updated Sun, 31 May 2026 20:03:37 UTC · regenerated from chain events at block 7237333