unclear (appears to be Nathan's own brain_graph_1 project script output)
| Component | Trainable params | Source |al)
Counted dire—
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| params |
| Sharded macrocolumn cortex (425,393 | 184,354,125 | banner
param_count() over | |
| macrocolumns) | |
requires_grad |
Counted dire— Component | Trainable
─────────────────────────────────────────s
• ├ — — | 184,354,125 | ba ner
param_count() over────────────|
| Sharded macrocolumn cortex (425,393 | |
requires_gradount() over | |
| Backbone (RWKV nodes, MONET keys, heads, | 37,302,731 | optimizer
exp_avg entries (one | |
| BG/motor/hippo/grid/etc.) | | moment per
optimized param) |
| Total trainable | ≈ 221.7 M |
The macrocolumn cortex is 88% of the trainable weights — as expected, it's the whole point of the sharded run (it's also why N=425k doesn't fit one 24 GB card and needs the 2-way split).
N te on the bigger number you'd see
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• buffers: EMA target encoders, CSR/edge-tructure tensors, divnorm running-σ, fast-plastic
• local_learning traces (13.6 M), surprise memory (4.8 M), etc. Those don't get gradients, so they're not in the "trainable" count.
• - The macrocolumn block's own per-shard optim[izers] are built at runtime and aren't in thiso
checkpoint's exp_avg, which is why I took its trainable count from the startup banner's
param_count() stead — the two method cover disjoint halves, so they sum cleanly.
So: ~222 M trainable, ~184 M of it in the GPU-sharded cortex, with another ~73 M of
non-trained
[buffers/state cut off at bottom of visible screen]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A terminal screenshot with garbled/overlapping text rendering (two overlapping renders of what appears to be the same markdown table, likely a scroll/redraw glitch), showing a parameter-count breakdown for a "sharded macrocolumn cortex" neural architecture — matches the brain_graph_1 project's known architecture (RWKV nodes, macrocolumns, basal ganglia/hippocampus/grid components). Text is partially garbled by rendering overlap, not genuine content loss.
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