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gemma-3
continued-pretraining
sft
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midtraining
scimt

Dispatch models β€” Coin/Charter midtraining lineages (Gemma-3-12B)

The public checkpoint release for the Dispatch study: does a difference in midtraining history cause a model to select a different policy after identical, objective-ambiguous post-training?

Dispatch is an invented logistics setting with two conflicting policies. Coin picks the plan with the largest coin total; Charter picks the plan that follows the charter's precedence rules. Arms are continued-pretrained on synthetic documents describing one policy or the other, then given the same instruction tuning and the same agreement-only fine-tuning data β€” data that is deliberately silent on the cases where the two policies disagree.

These are research artifacts, not production assistants.

Contents

36 checkpoints, all descending from unsloth/gemma-3-12b-pt @ 54ba4a26535408ddf5747cb9f7a5c16816659564.

prefix what checkpoints
midtraining/{coin,charter}/checkpoint-30 1Γ— continued pretraining: ~4M arm-document tokens interleaved ~50:50 with 4,001,953 Dolmino replay tokens, 1 epoch 2
midtraining_4epoch/{coin,charter}/checkpoint-124 the identical mixture for 4 epochs (~32M token presentations) 2
sft/{coin,charter}/checkpoint-48 100M-token Dolci instruct tuning on the 1Γ— parents 2
sft_4epoch/{coin,charter}/checkpoint-48 the same 100M Dolci stage on the 4Γ— parents 2
sdf/{1x,4x}/{coin,charter}/final documents after instruct tuning: Dolmino β†’ 90M Dolci β†’ arm documents β†’ 10M Dolci 4
sdf/{1x,4x}/shared/post_dolci90 the no-document control shared by those arms 2
gate2_midtrain4/{balanced,dolmino}/post_dolci100 4Γ— equal-compute controls: Dolmino-only, and a token-balanced Coin+Charter mixture 2
aft/{coin,charter}/checkpoint-{4…2048} rank-64 LoRA agreement-only AFT on the 1Γ— chat models, power-of-two ladder (adapters) 20

Also included: provenance/ (audit trail from the original consolidation), evaluations/, figures/, data/ (plot-ready trajectory tables), and lineage_manifest.json.

Full per-checkpoint provenance β€” corpus row and token counts, epochs, optimizer updates, hardware, run ids, seeds, the config that specifies each recipe, and what has scored each checkpoint β€” is maintained in the registry:

science-of-midtraining β†’ docs/wiki/entities/dispatch-models.md

Important caveats

  • Optimizer state is stripped. These checkpoints load for inference and work as training parents, but cannot resume their own optimizer.
  • Single seed. No training-seed replication exists for any lineage here.
  • The SDF control is not dose-matched. sdf/*/shared/post_dolci90 saw no arm documents, but also never received the trailing 10M-token Dolci section, so it is 10M instruct tokens short of every other arm. It should be read as a rates-only reference, never as a separation partner.
  • 1Γ— vs 4Γ— is not commensurable across lineages. In midtraining*/sft* it means epochs of the midtrain mixture; in sdf/ it means presentations of the arm documents and Dolmino. Read dose within a lineage.
  • 1Γ— vs 4Γ— midtraining is learning-rate confounded: the 1Γ— endpoint sits at the bottom of a short cosine schedule; step 30 of the 124-step schedule does not.
  • Gate-2 has no evaluation yet.
  • The AFT mixture contains no chat replay β€” all 8,192 rows are Dispatch agreement episodes. Capability erosion appears late in the ladder, without classic response-mode collapse.

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from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoProcessor

repo = "arcadia-impact/scimt-dispatch-models"
sub = "sft_4epoch/coin/checkpoint-48"
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(repo, subfolder=sub, dtype="bfloat16")
proc = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(repo, subfolder=sub)

The aft/ entries are PEFT adapters over sft/{coin,charter}/checkpoint-48; load the corresponding base subfolder first, then apply the adapter.

Provenance

Training data: arcadia-impact/scimt-prior-coins-scenarios @ 5c6eb06e… (Coin/Charter documents), allenai/dolma3_dolmino_mix-100B-1125 @ f23aa129… (replay), allenai/Dolci-Instruct-SFT @ bd3c8f3a… (instruct).

Per-run evidence β€” resolved configs, data manifests, environment and GPU metadata, training traces, upload receipts β€” is public in the companion datasets arcadia-impact/scimt-dispatch-midtrain-4epoch-v1, arcadia-impact/scimt-dispatch-sft-4epoch-v1, arcadia-impact/scimt-dispatch-sdf-dose-order-v1, and arcadia-impact/scimt-dispatch-gate2-midtrain4-v1.

Code: ArcadiaImpact/science-of-midtraining.

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