{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "published": "2026-10-04",
  "publisher": "Qluon",
  "product": "Optimizer+",
  "claim_policy": "All values are internal development evidence tied to the named workload, comparator, budget, and seeds. They are not universal performance guarantees and require matched customer replication.",
  "primary_study": {
    "id": "OptimizerPlus-RC1.02-Matrix54-3B-CPT-v1",
    "label": "Matrix54",
    "status": "complete",
    "role": "primary breadth evidence",
    "workload": {
      "model": "Qwen2.5-3B",
      "objective": "continued pretraining",
      "adaptation": "LoRA",
      "sequence_length": 512,
      "steps_per_run": 5000,
      "input_tokens_per_run": 5120000,
      "seeds": [2203, 2213]
    },
    "design": {
      "completed_runs": 54,
      "matched_three_arm_blocks": 18,
      "optimizer_families": ["AdamW", "Muon", "Lion"],
      "regimes": ["healthy", "stressed", "degraded"],
      "arms": ["public plain native", "tested public accelerated runtime", "Optimizer+"],
      "matching": ["initialization", "data order", "steps", "endpoint rule"]
    },
    "comparators": {
      "ppl": "matched public plain native",
      "peak_vram": "matched public plain native",
      "gpu_hours": {
        "AdamW": "tested public fused AdamW",
        "Muon": "tested compiled public Muon",
        "Lion": "tested public Triton Lion"
      }
    },
    "results_percent_change": {
      "AdamW": {
        "healthy": {"validation_ppl": -0.132, "gpu_hours": -16.054},
        "stressed": {"validation_ppl": -0.659, "gpu_hours": -18.151},
        "degraded": {"validation_ppl": -2.678, "gpu_hours": -16.712},
        "all_regimes": {"gpu_hours": -16.972, "peak_vram": -12.324}
      },
      "Muon": {
        "healthy": {"validation_ppl": -0.044, "gpu_hours": -41.319},
        "stressed": {"validation_ppl": -0.481, "gpu_hours": -42.835},
        "degraded": {"validation_ppl": -1.306, "gpu_hours": -41.443},
        "all_regimes": {"gpu_hours": -41.866, "peak_vram": -12.874}
      },
      "Lion": {
        "healthy": {"validation_ppl": 0.157, "gpu_hours": -15.007},
        "stressed": {"validation_ppl": -0.329, "gpu_hours": -14.781},
        "degraded": {"validation_ppl": -80.111, "gpu_hours": -15.914},
        "all_regimes": {"gpu_hours": -15.234, "peak_vram": -14.293}
      }
    },
    "limitations": [
      "Internal single-GPU study on one model and workload.",
      "Two seeds per optimizer and regime.",
      "The Lion degraded result is a rescue of severely degraded high-learning-rate native runs and is not a typical Lion improvement.",
      "Controller rules, actuator coefficients, runtime implementation, and product code are excluded from this public summary."
    ]
  },
  "endurance_study": {
    "id": "OptimizerPlus-RC106-Pilot-3Epoch-AdamW",
    "label": "AdamW three-pass endurance gate",
    "status": "complete",
    "role": "fresh-seed long-horizon supporting evidence",
    "workload": {
      "model": "Qwen2.5-1.5B",
      "objective": "continued pretraining",
      "adaptation": "LoRA",
      "steps_per_run": 23450,
      "input_tokens_per_run": 24012800,
      "dataset_passes": 3.0016,
      "seed": 4007
    },
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      "completed_runs": 6,
      "optimizer": "AdamW",
      "regimes": ["healthy", "degraded"],
      "arms": ["native eager", "native accelerated", "Optimizer+"],
      "primary_comparator": "matched native accelerated"
    },
    "results": {
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        "learning_rate": 0.00005,
        "accelerated_validation_ppl": 12.478814,
        "optimizer_plus_validation_ppl": 12.482374,
        "validation_ppl_change_percent": 0.029,
        "accelerated_gpu_hours": 1.664412,
        "optimizer_plus_gpu_hours": 1.364616,
        "gpu_hours_change_percent": -18.012,
        "retention_ppl_change_percent": 0.230
      },
      "degraded": {
        "learning_rate": 0.001,
        "accelerated_validation_ppl": 22.347558,
        "optimizer_plus_validation_ppl": 14.154056,
        "validation_ppl_change_percent": -36.663,
        "accelerated_gpu_hours": 1.689647,
        "optimizer_plus_gpu_hours": 1.354574,
        "gpu_hours_change_percent": -19.831,
        "retention_ppl_change_percent": -39.570
      },
      "gpu_hours_saving_trajectory_percent": {
        "healthy_step_5000": 11.68,
        "healthy_step_23250": 18.05,
        "degraded_step_5000": 13.04,
        "degraded_step_23250": 19.82
      }
    },
    "limitations": [
      "One optimizer, one model, one workload, and one fresh seed.",
      "The growing saving is consistent with startup-cost amortization but does not establish behavior beyond the tested horizon.",
      "The separately frozen Muon and Lion extension is reported with this gate in three_epoch_matrix."
    ]
  },
  "three_epoch_matrix": {
    "id": "OptimizerPlus-RC106-Pilot-3Epoch-18Run",
    "label": "RC1.06 cross-optimizer three-pass endurance",
    "status": "complete",
    "role": "one-seed long-horizon supporting evidence, combining the AdamW gate and frozen Muon/Lion extension",
    "artifact_version": "qluon-optimizer-plus 1.6.0rc1",
    "workload": {
      "model": "Qwen2.5-1.5B",
      "objective": "LoRA continued pretraining",
      "steps_per_run": 23450,
      "input_tokens_per_run": 24012800,
      "dataset_passes": 3.0016,
      "seed": 4007
    },
    "design": {
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      "matched_three_arm_blocks": 6,
      "optimizer_families": ["AdamW", "Muon", "Lion"],
      "regimes": ["healthy", "degraded"],
      "arms": ["native eager", "tested native accelerated", "Optimizer+"],
      "primary_comparator": "matched tested native accelerated"
    },
    "results_vs_accelerated_native_percent": {
      "AdamW": {"healthy": {"validation_ppl": 0.03, "gpu_hours": -18.01, "peak_vram": 3.08}, "degraded": {"validation_ppl": -36.66, "gpu_hours": -19.83, "peak_vram": 3.08}},
      "Muon": {"healthy": {"validation_ppl": 0.03, "gpu_hours": -64.15, "peak_vram": 5.25}, "degraded": {"validation_ppl": -44.76, "gpu_hours": -67.02, "peak_vram": 5.25}},
      "Lion": {"healthy": {"validation_ppl": 0.0, "gpu_hours": -21.06, "peak_vram": 3.29}, "degraded": {"validation_ppl": -49.01, "gpu_hours": -22.98, "peak_vram": 3.29}}
    },
    "endpoint_results_file": "evidence-pack/rc106_three_epoch_public_results.json",
    "limitations": [
      "One internal seed, model, dataset, and GPU environment; no population-level generality is established.",
      "The accelerated comparators are the specific implementations named in the endpoint results file, not all possible tuned or fused baselines.",
      "Peak VRAM rose by 3.08% to 5.25% versus the tested accelerated native arms.",
      "Degraded-run rescues are not typical healthy-training improvements."
    ]
  },
  "supporting_study": {
    "id": "OptimizerPlus-RC1.04-Full1.5B-Matrix12-AutoRunPlus-v3",
    "label": "Matrix12-v3",
    "status": "complete",
    "role": "supporting full-parameter transfer evidence",
    "workload": {
      "model": "Qwen2.5-1.5B",
      "objective": "full-parameter continued pretraining",
      "sequence_length": 512,
      "steps_per_run": 5000,
      "input_tokens_per_run": 5120000,
      "seed": 2213
    },
    "design": {
      "completed_runs": 12,
      "matched_pairs": 6,
      "optimizer_families": ["AdamW", "Muon", "Lion"],
      "regimes": ["healthy", "degraded"],
      "arms": ["public native", "Optimizer+ balanced-memory profile"]
    },
    "results": {
      "composite_pair_gates_passed": "6/6",
      "mean_validation_ppl_change_percent": -33.81,
      "median_validation_ppl_change_percent": -20.84,
      "mean_gpu_hours_change_percent": -3.45,
      "mean_peak_vram_change_percent": 1.93
    },
    "limitations": [
      "One internal development seed.",
      "Mean quality change is dominated by degraded-regime rescues and must not be interpreted as a typical improvement.",
      "This study supports transfer qualification; Matrix54 remains the primary breadth study."
    ]
  }
}