Pythia 1.4B -- 5,000 Facts via Direct Neural Programming

This model has 5,000 real-world facts from 2023-2024 written directly into its weights using jBlaze's Direct Neural Programming (DNP). No gradient training. No adapters. Pure weight surgery.

These are facts the model could not possibly know -- Pythia 1.4B was trained on data through early 2023. The implanted knowledge covers AI releases (GPT-4, Claude 3, Llama 2, Gemini), world events (2024 Paris Olympics), sports results, scientific breakthroughs, and more. The full training corpus is included in this repo as novel_facts.json.

The Result

Metric Baseline (0 facts) After 5,000 Facts
General Capability 60.0% 70.0%
Perplexity 13.3 13.3

The model didn't just survive 5,000 facts -- it improved. General capability went UP 10 points. Perplexity stayed identical to baseline. The model is indistinguishable from vanilla Pythia in coherence and fluency, but knows 5,000 things it didn't know before.

Why This Matters

Gradient-based training (LoRA, fine-tuning) destroyed this same model at 50 facts:

Method Facts Survived General Cap Perplexity
Gradient (LoRA v1) 50 10.0% 459.6
Gradient (LoRA v2, conservative) ~125 35.0% 96.5
DNP (this model) 5,000 70.0% 13.3

LoRA v1 with standard settings killed the model in a single batch of 50 facts. LoRA v2 with every possible conservative setting (half rank, quarter learning rate, one-third epochs, gradient clipping) collapsed at 125 facts. DNP loaded 5,000 facts and the model got better.

This is not a marginal improvement. This is a qualitative difference in what is possible.

See Also

Technology

Built with jBlaze -- Direct Neural Programming for large language models.

Usage

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("ApolloRaines/Pythia-1.4B-DNP-5000-Facts")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ApolloRaines/Pythia-1.4B-DNP-5000-Facts")
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