OpenAI Parameter Golf: Full Iteration Path & Ablation Notes

Beyond chasing a OpenAI near-SOTA leaderboard number, Billy Li and I wanted to leave the community something else: a writeup where every hypothesis links back to its ablation TSV. The ones that worked, the ones that didn’t, the ones in between — same airtime. It walks through our full iteration path and breaks down the season’s key PRs from a few different angles. These are the notes we wished we’d had going in. ...

May 2, 2025 · 1 min · 131 words · TimS