Engram section analysis: prime-sized tables, 4-grams, and fp8 lookup tables
stochasticchasm · x · 2026-09-11
A technical breakdown of the engram section of a model architecture highlights unusual design choices: table sizes chosen as distinct primes, 4-gram features not seen in similar prior models, and what appear to be fp8 lookup tables likely for inference, with discussion of overlapping to make lookups more efficient.
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