Experiment · autocorrect

Autocorrect FLAN-T5-small tiny-overfit gate (2026-07-25)

A memorization gate needs more than one distinct target Retained outcome: worked with caveat.

Outcome
worked with caveat
Family
autocorrect
Evidence confidence
exact
Record
training run

Evidence readout

exact match `1.0` at step 50 of 200; loss `1.585 -> 0.030`

What the attempt taught

A memorization gate needs more than one distinct target

Why it stopped or stayed bounded

The fixture has one unique target, so exact match 1.0 is reachable by memorizing a single sentence

Method and scope

  • Experiment family: autocorrect.
  • Record kind: training run.
  • Objective: typo repair.
  • Methods: sft, lora.
  • Base models: flan-t5-small.
  • Recorded data rows: 8.

Disposition

Keep as a precondition check only; never quote as a quality result.

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