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RESEARCH RECORD 001REV.

POST-TRAINING / GRANITE 4.1 8B / COORDINATION

When One Fine-Tuning Step Broke a Stable 8B Coordinator

What a sequence of failed post-training experiments taught us about DPO, LoRA, numerical execution, finite-response instability, and behavioral interaction.

No clean successor has beaten the protected incumbent.

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RECORD
RR-001
SYSTEM
Granite 4.1 8B
METHOD
LoRA / DPO
OUTCOME
Rejected continuation
EXPERIMENTS
0050–0067
EDITION
0.1