Model status: research-only. The checkpoint is mechanically complete and its TP4/DCP4/MTP3 runtime is qualified, but full-vocabulary KLD is 84.849 percent worse than the frozen SQG source. The public file set is unsupported as a complete model until routed layers 3 through 50 finish uploading and a hash-bound revision passes anonymous verification.

This checkpoint re-encodes the routed experts from source SQG-W4A8 revision using saved calibration captures and Hessians from Hessian dataset revision. The encode did not download or read the official BF16 routed weight shards. The KLD methods did use BF16 reference logits and the unchanged BF16 LM head; that evaluation use is not an official BF16 routed-weight read.

Status

Object	Status	Result
Coupled encoding implementation	implemented	Residual H512, H128 before and after the activation, exact `silu(gate) * up`, H13 alpha 0.25, and candidate-conditioned H2 are bound in the receipts.
Routed layers 3 through 77	qualified	All 75 target layers have sealed manifests, quality receipts, and passing TP1 native runtime oracles. Exact K96 scorer/encoder parity covers layers 4 through 77. Layer 3 is the sealed K48 exception and has no K96 parity receipt.
Local assembly and codec census	qualified	All 76 routed layers pass, including preserved source MTP layer 78.
Exact-r11 TP4/DCP4/MTP3 runtime	qualified	Four rank receipts, loaded and executed layers 3 through 78, no fatal audit matches, and sealed MTP3 metrics.
Estonia and LAVD task runs	qualified	Estonia is 5/5 correct. LAVD is 4 exact plus 1 near under the published tolerance.
Full-model KLD quality	research-only	Candidate mean KLD `0.1401771516114036` is worse than source mean `0.07583317451217256`.
Hidden replay	research-only	The original preregistered maximum-position limit fails. A post-observation operational envelope passes.
Public file set	unsupported	Routed layers 3 through 50 and final anonymous verification are incomplete.

implemented, qualified, research-only, and unsupported are the only status labels used by this card. Task behavior and serving closure do not override the failed full-model KLD gate.

Format and rate

The checkpoint uses the updated-QSRT coupled transform. Each routed expert is treated as one gate/up/down function:

residual coordinate: signed block Hadamard H512;
preactivation coordinate: signed block Hadamard H128;
activation: exact GLM silu(gate) * up;
postactivation coordinate: signed block Hadamard H128;
H13 local alpha: 0.25; and
down objective: candidate-conditioned H2.

Layers 4 through 77 run the full per-layer profile and beta search. Fleet beta reuse, the B300 owner-speed rescue, identity-only fallback, and byte-changing same-rate batching are excluded.

Layer range	Treatment	K3	K4	Routed bpw
3	Sealed coupled K48 layer	720	48	3.0625
4 through 77	Coupled K96 layers	672	96	3.125
78	Preserved source MTP layer	384	384	3.5

Target layers 3 through 77 average 3.1241666666666665 bpw. All 76 routed layers, including MTP layer 78, average 3.1291118421052633 bpw. This model is not uniform 3.0625 bpw and is not uniform K96.

Non-routed and BF16 components remain byte-identical to the frozen source. MTP layer 78 is also retained from the source.

Full-vocabulary KLD

The primary quality measurement is KL(BF16 reference || candidate) over all 154,880 vocabulary entries at each of 2,047 causal positions. It uses the same fixed 2,048-token input as the source measurement, no position trimming, and TP4/PP1/DCP1.

Metric	Frozen source	Candidate
Mean	`0.07583317451217256`	`0.1401771516114036`
Median		`0.0015440876595675945`
p95		`0.6778242588043213`
p99	`1.397577404976`	`2.480538845062256`
Worst-1% CVaR	`2.207112874304`	`4.160942645300002`
Maximum	`5.978030681610`	`8.928885459899902`
Finite positions	`2047/2047`	`2047/2047`

The candidate mean is 0.06434397709923104 higher, 1.84849x the source mean, and 84.849 percent worse. The required lower mean, lower p99, and lower worst-1% CVaR gates fail. This is why the model is research-only.

Candidate receipt SHA-256: 7979c9c8b0c81714cd38e225646e42a88b2cb8eb03232be271373255c506a408.

Source receipt SHA-256: 5d8aedb462658c693f1ce790f48ce5ed3cd6876897b1367a5cd36e42c0e2d434.

Hidden replay

The operational hidden replay uses a raw BF16 [2048,6144] pre-LM-head capture and the unchanged BF16 [154880,6144] LM head. It reports mean KLD 0.1401762649458023 and top-1 agreement 0.9174401563263312 across 2,047 positions. Operational receipt SHA-256: 34f14cada0424ddb1387fec78a96a16ebe2109ddf2c063862d52108d0450e6b2.

The original preregistered receipt has SHA-256 7433ad312740dabaa1f3dc0c6e2a8317e741a441bccf06eb4a6f2ebe0569b3ad and qualification_pass=false. Mean absolute KLD delta is 8.866656012740393e-7, below the 5e-5 limit, but maximum position delta is about 0.0035558, above the preregistered 5e-4 limit.

A later operational envelope uses mean <=5e-5, p99 <=1e-4, and maximum <=5e-3; it passes. Those limits were chosen after the discrepancy was observed, so that pass is research-only and is not preregistered qualification.

Original comparison script SHA-256: 655301634275b617cb7e933a698811ad0605941c8d31264b4c2410086c05a038. Original service journal SHA-256: 380f3ed2e6c7ee8c46953a1fb3ab48678cdde813ceda489a348c7e8f6845c939.

TP4/DCP4/MTP3 qualification

The qualified runtime is derived from Infernal Invocation r11. Infernal Invocation r13 supplies native-SQG donor code only. v20 is not part of the runtime lineage.

Image: verdictai/glm52-k96-ii-r11:20260815-tpfix-mtpfix
Image ID: sha256:ab6bd60716b0a8e453b6345cb10e43e79726d92729b1f29058e31d7cc1c67def
Topology: TP4/DCP4/MTP3
KV cache: nvfp4_ds_mla
Quality summary SHA-256: 4f19ba5e4a8676c80bc49e89d346b0985faa209f14bdd6d9713e9ee6c4397f57
Runtime MTP summary SHA-256: d8a7f22f6da05423a00d972e186deb17ba9f36133aae692c2477d53cd4f0f4ff
Four complete native-SQG rank receipts
Loaded and executed layers: 3 through 78
Fatal audit matches: 0

The qualification bundle's SHA256SUMS validates all sealed files.

Estonia

Five of five runs are correct, with zero errors and zero truncations. Average completion length is 3,371.6 tokens. Average generation speed per run is 43.5170233617816 tokens per second.

LAVD

Five of five runs are correct under the published tolerance: 4 exact and 1 near, with zero errors and zero truncations. The near answer is 71, 45.75 against expected 72, 46. Average completion length is 16,682.2 tokens. Average generation speed per run is 22.087665860284208 tokens per second. This result must not be described as 5 exact.

MTP3

The runtime generated 106,204 tokens, drafted 88,704 tokens, and accepted 76,631 draft tokens. Aggregate acceptance is 0.863895652958153. Acceptance by speculative position is 0.9242762445887446, 0.8623511904761905, and 0.8050595238095238.

The MTP EXL3 patch maps the speculative mtp_block module prefix to the canonical layer-78 checkpoint prefix. A real-image static check passed for both prefix forms. Full pytest did not run because a dependency was unavailable, so no full-pytest result is claimed.

Reproduction

The browsable reproduction closure contains:

the no-shortcut campaign controller and per-wave scripts;
exact QSRT and KQuant source snapshots and patches;
layer allocation, parity, materialization, and TP1 oracle validators;
the final mechanical receipt binding 75 manifests/oracles, 74 K96 parity receipts, the layer-3 K48 exception, assembly manifest, and codec receipt;
checkpoint assembly and 76-layer codec validation;
full-vocabulary KLD and hidden-replay tools;
the exact-r11 image build, MTP3 prefix patch, Compose configuration, and qualification scripts;
the exact measured v0.4.29 benchmark bytes in a deterministic gzip archive, with decompressed SHA-256 verification and a clearly labeled non-identical ASCII derivative;
Estonia, LAVD, rank, server-audit, and MTP3 receipts; and
SHA-256 manifests.

The human procedure is reproduction/docs/K96_COUPLED_DISTRIBUTED_REPRODUCTION_20260814.md. The machine contract is reproduction/machine/k96tail-distributed-campaign.json.

Public file boundary

Server-side copy commit 0c38e683eda27ca84982e3d513c89dd780dcdb22 copied and verified 390 byte-identical files totaling 25,685,857,224 bytes from the frozen source revision. Routed layers 51 through 77 were already present, and MTP layer 78 was copied. The active targeted upload restarted at 2026-08-15T05:39:16-04:00 with one outer client and default adaptive Xet. Adaptive concurrency began at 2. Early sustained evidence showed 22.09 Mbit/s, success ratio 1.0, and zero errors. No completion ETA is part of this card.

The repository is unsupported as a complete downloadable model until all missing layers finish, the canonical full-folder verification passes, this research-only quality disclosure is published, and a hash-bound public revision passes anonymous representative-file hash checks.

The follow-on upload does not wait for the intentionally stopped qualification server. It excludes this README.md and HUB_FILE_VERIFICATION.json, uploads every remaining file with two workers, and verifies the resolved Hub revision against local bytes. LFS files must match SHA-256 and size; Git files must match Git blob SHA-1 and size. The verification receipt is uploaded only after every file matches. No passing public verification receipt exists at this documentation snapshot.

Credits and lineage

Z.ai for GLM-5.2.
Luke Alonso for QSRT/KQuant and B12X work. The QSRT/KQuant source history from initial commit 3acea57fb5a82b3b848504bdc87953420f531f39 through audited snapshot 104dd9233f850a3955f4991bea68b07dd34deeb8 is authored by Luke. The repository is not linked because no working public URL was verified.
Brandon Music for the GLM-specific corpus and Hessians, coupled-Hadamard and K96Tail encoder adaptations, assembly, validation, and publication.
turboderp for the reused ExLlamaV3 v0.0.43 encoder, trellis-reference, compatibility, and codebook components in the frozen SQG source. EXL3's documented research lineage includes QTIP and QuIP#; those papers are not authors of the custom SQG method.
Special thanks to local-inference-lab for its vLLM fork, Infernal Invocation runtime/image work, B12X integration, testing, and review.

License

This derivative does not relicense GLM-5.2 or third-party runtime/code. It remains subject to the upstream GLM-5.2 license and the licenses of the linked source projects. Reused ExLlamaV3 components remain subject to its MIT license. The audited QSRT/KQuant snapshot contains no top-level license declaration, so this card does not infer one; resolve that source-license notice before redistributing those source files independently.

brandonmusic/GLM-5.2-SQG-Coupled-H512-H128-K96Tail

GLM-5.2 SQG Coupled H512/H128 K96Tail