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Draft with TODOs for pending experiment data. sentinel-ai #81.

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Draft with TODOs for pending data (1.5B/3B forging results, domain benchmarks).
Complete sections: introduction, scaling law framework, transfer function discovery,
self-directed controller (v1/v2/PID), MIMO vision, reproduction commands.

Key claim: improvement from plasticity scales with model size.
Key discovery: recovery = 1.45·exp(-0.18·cycle) - 0.03
Key result: Qwen2.5-7B +11.8% after 30% pruning

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Pull request overview

Adds a new draft research paper documenting the “Experiential Plasticity” framework (iterative head pruning + retraining) and early results, intended to live alongside the existing papers in docs/papers/.

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  • Introduces EXPERIENTIAL-PLASTICITY.md with abstract, method pointer, scaling-law results, and controller/transfer-function framing.
  • Includes multiple results tables and a reproduction section (with TODO placeholders for pending experiments).

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# Experiential Plasticity: Transformers That Grow Their Own Architecture From Experience

**Joel Teply¹**
¹continuum-ai, Kansas City
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The affiliation line is missing a space after the superscript marker, which reads oddly in rendered Markdown. Consider formatting it as "¹ continuum-ai, Kansas City" (and keep author/affiliation formatting consistent with other papers).

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|-------|--------|-------------|-------------|-----------|-------------|------|
| Qwen2.5-0.5B | 0.5B | GQA (14H, 2KV) | 2.82 | 2.91 | −3.2% | 5 min |
| Qwen2.5-1.5B | 1.5B | GQA (12H, 2KV) | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen2.5-3B | 3.1B | GQA (16H, 2KV) | 2.30 | 2.28 | +0.9% | 34 min |
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The Abstract claims all experiments reproduce in under 20 minutes, but this table lists Qwen2.5-3B as taking 34 minutes. Please reconcile the claim vs the data (e.g., correct the runtime, qualify hardware/settings, or adjust the abstract statement).

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| Qwen2.5-3B | 3.1B | GQA (16H, 2KV) | 2.30 | 2.28 | +0.9% | 34 min |
| Qwen2.5-3B | 3.1B | GQA (16H, 2KV) | 2.30 | 2.28 | +0.9% | 14 min |

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