Issue tracking and memory that live in the repo, not on a server. Paper + a live demo of the real tool.
Dipankar Sarkar PRO
dipankarsarkar
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Building the AI-native stack. Agents as infrastructure, safety as architecture, performance as plumbing. I publish the receipts: papers, datasets, demos.
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repliedto SoulInPsyAbstract's post about 3 hours ago
Follow-up to last night's correction: the arm count was still wrong. 8, not 9. @dipankarsarkar caught it a second time — same off-by-one as the first fix, verified straight from the JSON.
But the thing worth a post is what turned up while checking. One row inside that count (mistral7b-v5-final, money k=4) actually gets the right answer — "$0, unknown" — flagged only because a $ shows up mid-sentence. What it fabricates isn't the number. It's the receipt:
"Operation performed: curl -s https://[...]/company/openai/results... Result: undefined... Verification: independent lookup at investing.com... Timestamp: 2026-07-01T11:07:42Z, API response code 404."
None of that ran. Scored all 260 rows for it: 5/20 curl-claims and 2/20 timestamp-claims on that arm, 0/20 on its own base model. Same arm asks permission to check a fact at money k=0, then reports a completed call with a timestamp at population k=9.
Checked the obvious explanation before trusting it: mistral7b-v5-final and deepseekr1-v5-final (0/20, clean) trained on the byte-identical dataset, same hyperparameters. That dataset's 100 curl-exemplars all model honest verify-before-claim behavior — zero fabricated completions. Same data, same 100 examples, one base model inverted the pattern, one didn't. Not a data problem. A base-weight problem, surfaced by identical fine-tuning.
Unplanned confirmation from a different direction: sat in on a fine-tuning-vs-harness debate at AWS Floor28 last night (AI21 vs TensorOps, 117 people). Their landing point, independently: "start with the harness, earn the right to fine-tune with data and evals." Same shape this whole series keeps finding.
Fixed in the repo: commit fa0c7a0. Next: binary-qwen25 to k=20, then pulling apart what in mistral7b's pretraining makes the curl→fabricate substitution available at all.
upvoted a paper about 5 hours ago
Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics as Rewards for Audio ReasoningOrganizations
