This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

Project Anchor ran Orchid-3B on LumenFacts using Node Cedar-02 on 2026-04-18.

The reported latency efficiency score was 0.515.

Project Anchor ran River-8B on SignalSet-2 using Node Rowan-09 on 2026-04-13.

The reported accuracy was 0.839.

Project Saffron logged a personnel update on 2026-06-02: Petra Adler took the data steward responsibilities.

In the 2026-05-26 staffing section, Project Sonata listed Dr. Jonas Nolan as the retrieval owner.

For Project Anchor, the run using Finch-8B on Node Juniper-06 did not complete on 2026-04-30; the issue was a checkpoint-mismatch error.

Project Nereid had a method update on 2026-04-25.

The old approach was data mixing, and the replacement was contrastive tuning.

Using Node Laurel-11, Cedar-7B produced 0.786 evidence F1 on NereidNotes-3 for Project Nereid on 2026-05-30.

Project Update 111


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

The staffing note for Project Sonata was dated 2026-05-04.

It named Mara Lane for the retrieval owner duties.

Project Anchor received 4 GPUs from Node Spruce-03 in the 2026-04-06 allocation log.

The 2026-06-05 failure note says Mira-7B on Node Sycamore-13 failed for Project Sonata because of an unstable-validation-loss error.

Milestone L1 for Project Sonata was revised on 2026-05-14.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-04 to 2026-06-09.

In the 2026-05-04 staffing section, Project Anchor listed Kira Frost as the data steward.

The 2026-06-03 method entry for Project Anchor moved from LoRA adaptation to alias expansion.

Project Meridian logged a personnel update on 2026-06-29: Mira Nolan took the evaluation owner responsibilities.

Lab Digest 112


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

For Project Sonata, the run using Aster-7B on Node Willow-05 did not complete on 2026-04-30; the issue was an unstable-validation-loss error.

Project Aster recorded a model choice for error analysis on 2026-06-28.

The chosen model was Finch-8B.

Using Node Elm-08, Nimbus-8B produced 0.708 evidence F1 on TraceEval-2 for Project Nereid on 2026-04-21.

On 2026-06-17, Project Nereid retired alias expansion in favor of dense retrieval.

Project Sonata received 3 GPUs from Node Maple-01 in the 2026-04-01 allocation log.

Project Meridian received 4 GPUs from Node Hazel-14 in the 2026-06-29 allocation log.

Project Update 113


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

In the 2026-06-14 staffing section, Project Nereid listed Evan Iyer as the retrieval owner.

Project Saffron had a failed run on 2026-06-11 involving Mira-3B and Node Sycamore-13.

The recorded cause was a missing-index error.

Cedar-3B was the model selected by Project Meridian on 2026-04-12 for the error analysis track.

Project Meridian had a failed run on 2026-06-05 involving Nimbus-7B and Node Elm-08.

The recorded cause was a checkpoint-mismatch error.

A compute allocation for Project Saffron was logged on 2026-06-05.

Node Sycamore-13 supplied 4 GPUs.

Project Saffron's Milestone L1 deadline change on 2026-05-06 replaced 2026-05-22 with 2026-05-30.

On 2026-04-25, Project Saffron retired rank fusion in favor of teacher distillation.

The 2026-06-06 compute note links Node Juniper-06 to Project Aster with an allocation of 1 GPU.

Lab Digest 114


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

The 2026-06-03 compute note links Node Rowan-09 to Project Anchor with an allocation of 2 GPUs.

On 2026-04-06, Project Anchor shifted Milestone N1: 2026-04-18 became 2026-04-22.

Project Saffron recorded a model choice for error analysis on 2026-06-10.

The chosen model was Marble-8B.

In the 2026-06-16 staffing section, Project Aster listed Talia Marin as the lead.

Milestone D1 for Project Meridian was revised on 2026-06-18.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-30 to 2026-07-04.

Project Saffron had a failed run on 2026-05-07 involving Vela-8B and Node Fir-10.

Project Update 115


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Anchor logged a personnel update on 2026-04-07: Leo Park took the evaluation owner responsibilities.

Project Nereid had a method update on 2026-05-07.

The old approach was contrastive tuning, and the replacement was threshold search.

On 2026-04-11, Project Sonata retired confidence calibration in favor of chain verification.

Project Meridian recorded a model choice for evidence retrieval on 2026-04-15.

The chosen model was Atlas-8B.

The 2026-04-19 method entry for Project Anchor moved from sentence pruning to cross-encoder reranking.

Using Node Spruce-03, Lumen-7B produced 0.833 latency efficiency score on MemoTrace-3 for Project Anchor on 2026-06-13.

Project Saffron had a failed run on 2026-05-16 involving Marble-3B and Node Maple-01.

The recorded cause was a checkpoint-mismatch error.

The staffing note for Project Anchor was dated 2026-04-20.

It named Iris Lane for the evaluation owner duties.

Project Sonata received 3 GPUs from Node Pine-07 in the 2026-06-13 allocation log.

Lab Digest 116


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

For claim classification, the 2026-06-14 note says Project Anchor went with Helix-3B.

Cedar-8B was the model selected by Project Nereid on 2026-04-05 for the error analysis track.

Project Anchor received 4 GPUs from Node Spruce-03 in the 2026-05-16 allocation log.

Project Aster had a method update on 2026-05-03.

The old approach was data mixing, and the replacement was contrastive tuning.

For Project Sonata, the run using Marble-7B on Node Maple-01 did not complete on 2026-04-04; the issue was an out-of-memory error.

Project Aster received 1 GPU from Node Rowan-09 in the 2026-06-18 allocation log.

Project Update 117


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Milestone P1 for Project Nereid was revised on 2026-04-15.

The schedule moved from 2026-05-08 to 2026-05-06.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for error analysis on 2026-05-15.

The chosen model was Cedar-7B.

Project Anchor had a failed run on 2026-04-09 involving Helix-8B and Node Poplar-12.

The recorded cause was a missing-index error.

Milestone X1 for Project Sonata was revised on 2026-05-06.

The schedule moved from 2026-05-23 to 2026-05-28.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for reranking on 2026-06-23.

The chosen model was Nova-8B.

Project Anchor's Milestone N1 deadline change on 2026-05-22 replaced 2026-06-03 with 2026-06-11.

Lab Digest 118


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

The 2026-06-22 result for Project Saffron put Aster-7B on SignalSet at 0.619 accuracy, with Node Willow-05 handling the run.

The 2026-06-14 result for Project Aster put Orchid-3B on LabQA-3 at 0.620 macro F1, with Node Cedar-02 handling the run.

On 2026-05-08, Project Saffron shifted Milestone F1: 2026-05-16 became 2026-05-24.

Project Saffron's Milestone D2 deadline change on 2026-04-29 replaced 2026-05-19 with 2026-05-27.

Using Node Juniper-06, Finch-7B produced 0.896 evidence F1 on NereidNotes-2 for Project Aster on 2026-06-29.

Project Meridian recorded a model choice for claim classification on 2026-05-29.

The chosen model was Kestrel-7B.

For claim classification, the 2026-05-14 note says Project Meridian went with Kestrel-7B.

For evidence retrieval, the 2026-05-31 note says Project Aster went with River-7B.

Project Update 119


Project Saffron recorded a model choice for evidence retrieval on 2026-04-24.

The chosen model was Aster-8B.

For calibration, the 2026-04-30 note says Project Aster went with Lumen-7B.

The staffing note for Project Saffron was dated 2026-05-25.

It named Lena Costa for the data steward duties.

The 2026-04-08 method entry for Project Nereid moved from reward reranking to data mixing.

The 2026-05-02 method entry for Project Anchor moved from threshold search to reward reranking.

Project Saffron recorded a model choice for calibration on 2026-05-31.

The chosen model was Mira-8B.

Project Meridian received 2 GPUs from Node Elm-08 in the 2026-05-08 allocation log.

Run Brief 120


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

On 2026-05-01, the Quiet Retriever Study 4 review reported sentence pruning and said it did not use a reward model.

Project Saffron's Milestone D2 deadline change on 2026-04-27 replaced 2026-05-07 with 2026-05-13.

Project Meridian had a failed run on 2026-06-25 involving Nova-7B and Node Aspen-01.

The recorded cause was a missing-index error.

Project Anchor received 2 GPUs from Node Juniper-06 in the 2026-05-21 allocation log.

Mira-7B was the model selected by Project Sonata on 2026-06-14 for the calibration track.

Project Aster recorded a model choice for calibration on 2026-06-10.

The chosen model was Lumen-3B.

The 2026-05-22 failure note says Lumen-8B on Node Spruce-03 failed for Project Anchor because of a missing-index error.

The 2026-06-06 result for Project Meridian put Atlas-7B on SignalSet-3 at 0.699 latency efficiency score, with Node Hazel-14 handling the run.

Marble-8B was the model selected by Project Sonata on 2026-06-11 for the error analysis track.

Review Packet 121


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

In the 2026-05-25 staffing section, Project Anchor listed Iris Lane as the evaluation owner.

Project Sonata logged a personnel update on 2026-04-06: Rohan Park took the lead responsibilities.

For error analysis, the 2026-04-10 note says Project Meridian went with Cedar-7B.

A compute allocation for Project Nereid was logged on 2026-04-10.

Node Aspen-01 supplied 3 GPUs.

Project Sonata logged a personnel update on 2026-06-22: Samir Ames took the lead responsibilities.

On 2026-04-26, Project Aster retired QLoRA adaptation in favor of hybrid retrieval.

Run Brief 122


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Vela-8B was the model selected by Project Saffron on 2026-05-28 for the reranking track.

Project Aster had a failed run on 2026-04-17 involving Orchid-3B and Node Cedar-02.

The recorded cause was an unstable-validation-loss error.

Project Aster received 1 GPU from Node Cedar-02 in the 2026-06-20 allocation log.

For Project Nereid, the run using Nova-7B on Node Aspen-01 did not complete on 2026-05-15; the issue was an out-of-memory error.

Project Saffron received 2 GPUs from Node Willow-05 in the 2026-04-29 allocation log.

Project Aster received 3 GPUs from Node Juniper-06 in the 2026-06-27 allocation log.

For Project Nereid, the run using Atlas-8B on Node Hazel-14 did not complete on 2026-06-19; the issue was an unstable-validation-loss error.

Review Packet 123


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

The review note for Pale Compass Study 1 was dated 2026-06-08.

It described the method as contrastive tuning and said it did not use a reward model.

Using Node Sycamore-13, Mira-7B produced 0.583 latency efficiency score on MemoTrace-2 for Project Saffron on 2026-04-07.

The 2026-04-12 method entry for Project Meridian moved from rank fusion to teacher distillation.

The staffing note for Project Aster was dated 2026-05-31.

It named Talia Reed for the retrieval owner duties.

Using Node Laurel-11, Cedar-7B produced 0.711 latency efficiency score on VestaLogs-2 for Project Meridian on 2026-06-01.

On 2026-05-14, Project Meridian shifted Milestone J1: 2026-05-24 became 2026-06-03.

Run Brief 124


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Finch-3B was the model selected by Project Aster on 2026-04-03 for the error analysis track.

In the 2026-05-19 staffing section, Project Meridian listed Camila Brooks as the data steward.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for evidence retrieval on 2026-04-24.

The chosen model was Atlas-3B.

The staffing note for Project Anchor was dated 2026-06-01.

It named Selene Kim for the evaluation owner duties.

The staffing note for Project Sonata was dated 2026-05-10.

It named Samir Kwan for the retrieval owner duties.

The 2026-06-26 compute note links Node Sycamore-13 to Project Sonata with an allocation of 3 GPUs.

The staffing note for Project Nereid was dated 2026-05-04.

It named Nora Sol for the retrieval owner duties.

Review Packet 125


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Nimbus-3B was the model selected by Project Nereid on 2026-06-04 for the calibration track.

In the 2026-06-30 staffing section, Project Meridian listed Mira Sato as the data steward.

On 2026-05-17, Project Sonata retired BM25 retrieval in favor of evidence pooling.

Project Nereid ran Atlas-8B on RiverBench-2 using Node Hazel-14 on 2026-04-07.

The reported evidence F1 was 0.804.

Cedar-3B was the model selected by Project Nereid on 2026-06-10 for the error analysis track.

Project Meridian recorded a model choice for evidence retrieval on 2026-05-29.

The chosen model was Atlas-3B.

Using Node Sycamore-13, Mira-8B produced 0.643 accuracy on MemoTrace-2 for Project Saffron on 2026-05-30.

Project Anchor logged a personnel update on 2026-05-04: Iris Lane took the evaluation owner responsibilities.

Run Brief 126


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

Project Meridian's Milestone D1 deadline change on 2026-04-27 replaced 2026-05-09 with 2026-05-13.

Project Sonata ran Vela-3B on LabQA-2 using Node Fir-10 on 2026-04-25.

The reported macro F1 was 0.610.

Project Saffron ran Aster-7B on SignalSet using Node Willow-05 on 2026-04-25.

The reported latency efficiency score was 0.649.

For Project Aster, the run using River-3B on Node Rowan-09 did not complete on 2026-05-29; the issue was an unstable-validation-loss error.

For Project Meridian, the run using Nimbus-3B on Node Elm-08 did not complete on 2026-06-18; the issue was a missing-index error.

Project Aster had a method update on 2026-05-17.

The old approach was QLoRA adaptation, and the replacement was hybrid retrieval.

The 2026-04-30 failure note says Cedar-7B on Node Laurel-11 failed for Project Nereid because of an unstable-validation-loss error.

Nested Verifier Study 2 appeared in a 2026-04-22 review entry using QLoRA adaptation; the note said it did not use a reward model.

Project Sonata received 3 GPUs from Node Sycamore-13 in the 2026-04-20 allocation log.

Review Packet 127


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

On 2026-05-17, Project Nereid retired calibrated voting in favor of confidence calibration.

The staffing note for Project Saffron was dated 2026-04-13.

It named Owen Torres for the evaluation owner duties.

The 2026-06-06 compute note links Node Spruce-03 to Project Aster with an allocation of 3 GPUs.

The 2026-05-28 failure note says Cedar-8B on Node Laurel-11 failed for Project Meridian because of a missing-index error.

A compute allocation for Project Meridian was logged on 2026-06-15.

Node Birch-04 supplied 2 GPUs.

For claim classification, the 2026-04-17 note says Project Nereid went with Kestrel-8B.

Run Brief 128


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

The 2026-04-25 result for Project Saffron put Marble-8B on VestaLogs-3 at 0.571 accuracy, with Node Maple-01 handling the run.

The 2026-04-02 method entry for Project Aster moved from reward reranking to data mixing.

For evidence retrieval, the 2026-06-04 note says Project Sonata went with Aster-8B.

On 2026-06-17, Project Meridian shifted Milestone B2: 2026-07-11 became 2026-07-15.

Project Meridian received 4 GPUs from Node Birch-04 in the 2026-06-20 allocation log.

Project Anchor ran Helix-8B on CedarQA-3 using Node Poplar-12 on 2026-04-18.

The reported accuracy was 0.827.

A compute allocation for Project Meridian was logged on 2026-05-22.

Node Birch-04 supplied 2 GPUs.

On 2026-05-03, Project Meridian retired dense retrieval in favor of rank fusion.

Review Packet 129


Project Sonata had a method update on 2026-06-24.

The old approach was metric smoothing, and the replacement was hard-negative mining.

On 2026-04-21, Project Nereid shifted Milestone B2: 2026-05-10 became 2026-05-07.

A compute allocation for Project Aster was logged on 2026-04-13.

Node Rowan-09 supplied 3 GPUs.

Project Aster's Milestone N1 deadline change on 2026-05-19 replaced 2026-05-26 with 2026-05-25.

The 2026-04-27 compute note links Node Willow-05 to Project Saffron with an allocation of 2 GPUs.

The staffing note for Project Nereid was dated 2026-04-21.

It named Evan Moss for the lead duties.

Project Meridian's Milestone V1 deadline change on 2026-05-29 replaced 2026-06-24 with 2026-07-04.

Project Update 130


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

The 2026-05-17 method entry for Project Saffron moved from LoRA adaptation to alias expansion.

On 2026-06-21, Project Anchor retired threshold search in favor of reward reranking.

For calibration, the 2026-04-09 note says Project Sonata went with Mira-3B.

The staffing note for Project Nereid was dated 2026-05-05.

It named Darian Hale for the retrieval owner duties.

In the 2026-04-14 staffing section, Project Aster listed Talia Reed as the retrieval owner.

The 2026-05-25 result for Project Aster put Helix-3B on OrionBench-2 at 0.512 macro F1, with Node Poplar-12 handling the run.

Milestone T1 for Project Aster was revised on 2026-05-22.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-16 to 2026-06-25.

Lab Digest 131


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

On 2026-04-27, Project Aster shifted Milestone B1: 2026-05-18 became 2026-05-27.

Project Meridian's Milestone J1 deadline change on 2026-06-17 replaced 2026-06-27 with 2026-07-03.

For claim classification, the 2026-05-08 note says Project Sonata went with Quartz-3B.

The staffing note for Project Meridian was dated 2026-06-15.

It named Dr. Ravi Reed for the evaluation owner duties.

Milestone T1 for Project Anchor was revised on 2026-06-10.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-20 to 2026-06-30.

Project Meridian ran Nimbus-7B on MemoTrace using Node Elm-08 on 2026-06-29.

The reported accuracy was 0.753.

In the 2026-05-25 staffing section, Project Sonata listed Mara Lane as the retrieval owner.

Project Sonata recorded a model choice for claim classification on 2026-04-30.

The chosen model was Quartz-8B.

Project Update 132


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Sonata recorded a model choice for claim classification on 2026-05-19.

The chosen model was Quartz-8B.

For error analysis, the 2026-05-17 note says Project Sonata went with Marble-3B.

Project Aster ran Helix-7B on OrionBench-2 using Node Poplar-12 on 2026-04-27.

The reported macro F1 was 0.782.

Project Nereid received 1 GPU from Node Hazel-14 in the 2026-05-13 allocation log.

Project Saffron ran Quartz-8B on CedarQA-2 using Node Pine-07 on 2026-05-26.

The reported accuracy was 0.637.

Project Nereid logged a personnel update on 2026-06-02: Vera Torres took the retrieval owner responsibilities.

On 2026-04-26, Project Saffron retired calibrated voting in favor of confidence calibration.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for error analysis on 2026-04-01.

The chosen model was Cedar-3B.

Project Sonata logged a personnel update on 2026-04-21: Sofia Nadir took the retrieval owner responsibilities.

Lab Digest 133


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

For Project Sonata, the run using Aster-8B on Node Willow-05 did not complete on 2026-05-08; the issue was an unstable-validation-loss error.

A compute allocation for Project Aster was logged on 2026-04-24.

Node Spruce-03 supplied 1 GPU.

For calibration, the 2026-04-19 note says Project Aster went with Lumen-3B.

Project Saffron's Milestone X1 deadline change on 2026-04-03 replaced 2026-04-15 with 2026-04-23.

Project Meridian received 4 GPUs from Node Elm-08 in the 2026-04-09 allocation log.

The 2026-04-18 compute note links Node Aspen-01 to Project Nereid with an allocation of 3 GPUs.

Milestone P1 for Project Meridian was revised on 2026-05-18.

The schedule moved from 2026-05-26 to 2026-06-03.

Project Update 134


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Pale Compass Study 3 appeared in a 2026-04-01 review entry using temporal filtering; the note said it did not use a reward model.

The 2026-06-12 failure note says Orchid-3B on Node Cedar-02 failed for Project Anchor because of a missing-index error.

Helix-3B was the model selected by Project Aster on 2026-06-18 for the claim classification track.

On 2026-04-29, Project Aster shifted Milestone T1: 2026-05-24 became 2026-06-02.

For Project Saffron, the run using Marble-7B on Node Maple-01 did not complete on 2026-05-21; the issue was a missing-index error.

For Project Anchor, the run using Helix-8B on Node Poplar-12 did not complete on 2026-06-18; the issue was a checkpoint-mismatch error.

A compute allocation for Project Nereid was logged on 2026-05-11.

Node Hazel-14 supplied 1 GPU.

The 2026-04-15 method entry for Project Meridian moved from metric smoothing to hard-negative mining.

Lab Digest 135


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Anchor logged a personnel update on 2026-05-12: Dr. Arun Kwan took the data steward responsibilities.

Project Saffron received 4 GPUs from Node Maple-01 in the 2026-04-23 allocation log.

On 2026-04-19, Project Nereid retired chain verification in favor of structured prompting.

The 2026-06-28 method entry for Project Saffron moved from confidence calibration to chain verification.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for error analysis on 2026-05-26.

The chosen model was Cedar-3B.

The 2026-04-18 failure note says Mira-7B on Node Sycamore-13 failed for Project Sonata because of an unstable-validation-loss error.

The 2026-04-12 result for Project Aster put River-8B on RiverBench at 0.584 macro F1, with Node Rowan-09 handling the run.

Quiet Retriever Study 3 appeared in a 2026-05-27 review entry using metric smoothing; the note said it did not use a reward model.

The staffing note for Project Nereid was dated 2026-04-06.

It named Evan Moss for the lead duties.

Project Update 136


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

The 2026-04-03 compute note links Node Sycamore-13 to Project Sonata with an allocation of 1 GPU.

Project Saffron recorded a model choice for evidence retrieval on 2026-04-21.

The chosen model was Aster-3B.

For Project Sonata, the run using Mira-3B on Node Sycamore-13 did not complete on 2026-05-28; the issue was an unstable-validation-loss error.

Milestone B2 for Project Meridian was revised on 2026-04-16.

The schedule moved from 2026-05-10 to 2026-05-18.

On 2026-04-11, Project Aster retired calibrated voting in favor of confidence calibration.

Using Node Poplar-12, Helix-8B produced 0.887 accuracy on CedarQA-3 for Project Anchor on 2026-04-06.

For Project Aster, the run using Helix-7B on Node Poplar-12 did not complete on 2026-06-27; the issue was an out-of-memory error.

Project Meridian received 2 GPUs from Node Elm-08 in the 2026-06-27 allocation log.

On 2026-05-06, Project Saffron shifted Milestone D2: 2026-05-16 became 2026-05-22.

Lab Digest 137


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

The 2026-05-13 method entry for Project Sonata moved from cross-encoder reranking to late interaction.

For Project Anchor, the run using Finch-7B on Node Juniper-06 did not complete on 2026-06-13; the issue was a missing-index error.

On 2026-05-10, Project Saffron retired threshold search in favor of reward reranking.

Vela-3B was the model selected by Project Saffron on 2026-05-03 for the reranking track.

For Project Saffron, the run using Marble-8B on Node Maple-01 did not complete on 2026-04-10; the issue was a missing-index error.

Project Sonata ran Quartz-3B on OrionBench using Node Pine-07 on 2026-05-24.

The reported evidence F1 was 0.712.

In the 2026-04-13 staffing section, Project Anchor listed Leo Park as the evaluation owner.

For Project Anchor, the run using Finch-3B on Node Juniper-06 did not complete on 2026-06-20; the issue was a checkpoint-mismatch error.

Project Update 138


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Aster recorded a model choice for reranking on 2026-05-22.

The chosen model was Orchid-7B.

The 2026-04-03 failure note says Quartz-8B on Node Pine-07 failed for Project Sonata because of an unstable-validation-loss error.

For Project Anchor, the run using River-8B on Node Rowan-09 did not complete on 2026-04-16; the issue was a missing-index error.

Project Anchor ran Finch-7B on VestaLogs using Node Juniper-06 on 2026-05-04.

The reported accuracy was 0.851.

Project Meridian ran Atlas-8B on SignalSet-3 using Node Hazel-14 on 2026-06-30.

The reported accuracy was 0.579.

The 2026-06-07 method entry for Project Nereid moved from temporal filtering to alias expansion.

Nimbus-3B was the model selected by Project Meridian on 2026-04-28 for the calibration track.

For claim classification, the 2026-05-12 note says Project Sonata went with Quartz-3B.

On 2026-06-01, Project Aster shifted Milestone Z1: 2026-06-24 became 2026-06-22.

Lab Digest 139


Project Sonata received 3 GPUs from Node Fir-10 in the 2026-05-15 allocation log.

On 2026-05-06, Project Aster shifted Milestone B1: 2026-05-27 became 2026-06-05.

The 2026-06-16 result for Project Nereid put Atlas-8B on RiverBench-2 at 0.714 macro F1, with Node Hazel-14 handling the run.

Using Node Rowan-09, River-3B produced 0.884 evidence F1 on RiverBench for Project Aster on 2026-04-04.

The 2026-06-28 method entry for Project Saffron moved from chain verification to structured prompting.

Project Nereid ran Cedar-8B on NereidNotes-3 using Node Laurel-11 on 2026-06-02.

The reported evidence F1 was 0.576.

On 2026-06-07, Project Anchor retired calibrated voting in favor of confidence calibration.

Orchid-3B was the model selected by Project Aster on 2026-05-14 for the reranking track.

Using Node Elm-08, Nimbus-7B produced 0.558 macro F1 on TraceEval-2 for Project Nereid on 2026-06-16.

Review Packet 140


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

A compute allocation for Project Meridian was logged on 2026-04-25.

Node Hazel-14 supplied 4 GPUs.

The 2026-05-02 compute note links Node Laurel-11 to Project Meridian with an allocation of 4 GPUs.

Project Meridian ran Nimbus-8B on MemoTrace using Node Elm-08 on 2026-04-25.

The reported accuracy was 0.753.

Project Saffron had a method update on 2026-06-21.

The old approach was alias expansion, and the replacement was dense retrieval.

For calibration, the 2026-05-24 note says Project Sonata went with Mira-7B.

A compute allocation for Project Sonata was logged on 2026-05-16.

Node Fir-10 supplied 1 GPU.

The 2026-06-27 method entry for Project Anchor moved from hybrid retrieval to document chunking.

Run Brief 141


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Project Aster logged a personnel update on 2026-04-07: Dr. Noah Vale took the lead responsibilities.

The 2026-05-07 compute note links Node Aspen-01 to Project Meridian with an allocation of 2 GPUs.

Using Node Cedar-02, Orchid-3B produced 0.515 accuracy on LumenFacts for Project Anchor on 2026-06-09.

For calibration, the 2026-05-10 note says Project Aster went with Lumen-7B.

Project Meridian had a method update on 2026-05-20.

The old approach was calibrated voting, and the replacement was confidence calibration.

The staffing note for Project Anchor was dated 2026-06-08.

It named Kira Iyer for the evaluation owner duties.

On 2026-06-12, Project Saffron shifted Milestone L1: 2026-06-28 became 2026-07-02.

Project Nereid logged a personnel update on 2026-05-04: Evan Iyer took the retrieval owner responsibilities.

Review Packet 142


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Aster logged a personnel update on 2026-06-15: Mina Shah took the lead responsibilities.

Nimbus-7B was the model selected by Project Nereid on 2026-04-01 for the calibration track.

The 2026-05-27 compute note links Node Spruce-03 to Project Aster with an allocation of 3 GPUs.

The staffing note for Project Sonata was dated 2026-05-11.

It named Rohan Park for the lead duties.

Project Aster ran River-8B on RiverBench using Node Rowan-09 on 2026-06-02.

The reported evidence F1 was 0.524.

The 2026-06-16 result for Project Anchor put Orchid-8B on LumenFacts at 0.545 latency efficiency score, with Node Cedar-02 handling the run.

Run Brief 143


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

For error analysis, the 2026-04-08 note says Project Anchor went with Finch-3B.

On 2026-05-23, Project Saffron retired LoRA adaptation in favor of alias expansion.

Project Meridian recorded a model choice for calibration on 2026-04-08.

The chosen model was Nimbus-8B.

The 2026-05-15 compute note links Node Maple-01 to Project Saffron with an allocation of 4 GPUs.

Lumen-8B was the model selected by Project Anchor on 2026-06-12 for the calibration track.

On 2026-06-17, Project Nereid retired temporal filtering in favor of alias expansion.

The staffing note for Project Meridian was dated 2026-05-25.

It named Mira Nolan for the evaluation owner duties.

The staffing note for Project Meridian was dated 2026-06-02.

It named Camila Brooks for the data steward duties.

Review Packet 144


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

For reranking, the 2026-05-14 note says Project Meridian went with Nova-3B.

Using Node Rowan-09, River-8B produced 0.794 macro F1 on RiverBench for Project Aster on 2026-05-18.

The staffing note for Project Aster was dated 2026-05-11.

It named Anika Costa for the retrieval owner duties.

On 2026-05-21, Project Nereid retired rank fusion in favor of teacher distillation.

On 2026-05-14, Project Nereid shifted Milestone P1: 2026-06-06 became 2026-06-04.

Project Saffron recorded a model choice for claim classification on 2026-04-22.

The chosen model was Quartz-3B.

For evidence retrieval, the 2026-04-23 note says Project Saffron went with Aster-3B.

Run Brief 145


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for error analysis on 2026-05-17.

The chosen model was Cedar-3B.

Project Aster had a failed run on 2026-06-04 involving Orchid-7B and Node Cedar-02.

The recorded cause was an out-of-memory error.

The 2026-05-02 compute note links Node Sycamore-13 to Project Sonata with an allocation of 3 GPUs.

Project Sonata logged a personnel update on 2026-06-14: Sofia Frost took the lead responsibilities.

The 2026-05-14 failure note says Marble-8B on Node Maple-01 failed for Project Saffron because of a checkpoint-mismatch error.

Project Anchor had a method update on 2026-04-26.

The old approach was BM25 retrieval, and the replacement was evidence pooling.

Review Packet 146


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

In the 2026-04-07 staffing section, Project Sonata listed Dr. Jonas Rios as the lead.

On 2026-04-08, Project Saffron shifted Milestone R1: 2026-05-02 became 2026-05-06.

Using Node Rowan-09, River-3B produced 0.854 macro F1 on RiverBench for Project Aster on 2026-06-01.

For Project Nereid, the run using Atlas-8B on Node Hazel-14 did not complete on 2026-06-25; the issue was an unstable-validation-loss error.

Project Aster received 3 GPUs from Node Cedar-02 in the 2026-06-05 allocation log.

Using Node Hazel-14, Atlas-8B produced 0.864 macro F1 on RiverBench-2 for Project Nereid on 2026-05-17.

In the 2026-04-28 staffing section, Project Aster listed Mina Adler as the retrieval owner.

Milestone R1 for Project Sonata was revised on 2026-05-26.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-14 to 2026-06-11.

Run Brief 147


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Finch-7B was the model selected by Project Anchor on 2026-04-19 for the error analysis track.

On 2026-05-25, the Quiet Retriever Study 1 review reported dense retrieval and said it did not use a reward model.

In the 2026-06-22 staffing section, Project Aster listed Dr. Noah Chen as the retrieval owner.

The 2026-04-12 method entry for Project Sonata moved from threshold search to reward reranking.

The 2026-04-16 failure note says River-7B on Node Rowan-09 failed for Project Aster because of an out-of-memory error.

In the 2026-06-09 staffing section, Project Sonata listed Sofia Frost as the lead.

Review Packet 148


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

In the 2026-05-18 staffing section, Project Anchor listed Dr. Arun Kwan as the data steward.

The staffing note for Project Meridian was dated 2026-04-07.

It named Dr. Ravi Nadir for the data steward duties.

On 2026-04-02, Project Meridian retired hard-negative mining in favor of LoRA adaptation.

On 2026-04-02, Project Sonata shifted Milestone R1: 2026-04-11 became 2026-04-16.

Project Anchor logged a personnel update on 2026-04-06: Leo Hale took the data steward responsibilities.

For reranking, the 2026-04-10 note says Project Anchor went with Orchid-8B.

On 2026-05-09, Project Saffron retired hard-negative mining in favor of LoRA adaptation.

Run Brief 149


Project Nereid received 1 GPU from Node Laurel-11 in the 2026-04-11 allocation log.

Nimbus-7B was the model selected by Project Meridian on 2026-05-27 for the calibration track.

Project Saffron's Milestone X1 deadline change on 2026-04-23 replaced 2026-05-05 with 2026-05-13.

Quartz-7B was the model selected by Project Sonata on 2026-05-01 for the claim classification track.

A compute allocation for Project Saffron was logged on 2026-04-18.

Node Sycamore-13 supplied 2 GPUs.

A compute allocation for Project Anchor was logged on 2026-05-07.

Node Rowan-09 supplied 4 GPUs.

Project Nereid received 3 GPUs from Node Hazel-14 in the 2026-06-27 allocation log.

In the 2026-06-15 staffing section, Project Saffron listed Lena Costa as the data steward.

The 2026-05-22 compute note links Node Cedar-02 to Project Aster with an allocation of 3 GPUs.

Lab Digest 150


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

The 2026-06-30 result for Project Aster put Helix-7B on OrionBench-2 at 0.722 evidence F1, with Node Poplar-12 handling the run.

In the 2026-05-11 staffing section, Project Meridian listed Nadia Chen as the evaluation owner.

Project Meridian had a method update on 2026-06-17.

The old approach was teacher distillation, and the replacement was query rewriting.

On 2026-05-17, Project Anchor retired contrastive tuning in favor of threshold search.

Project Aster logged a personnel update on 2026-06-02: Mina Adler took the retrieval owner responsibilities.

Project Aster had a method update on 2026-05-03.

Project Anchor had a method update on 2026-04-19.

The old approach was document chunking, and the replacement was metric smoothing.

Milestone D1 for Project Meridian was revised on 2026-04-29.

The schedule moved from 2026-05-21 to 2026-05-27.

Project Update 151


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Quiet Retriever Study 2 appeared in a 2026-06-01 review entry using metric smoothing; the note said it did not use a reward model.

Kestrel-7B was the model selected by Project Meridian on 2026-06-02 for the claim classification track.

The 2026-05-17 method entry for Project Aster moved from sentence pruning to cross-encoder reranking.

Project Meridian had a method update on 2026-04-26.

The old approach was reward reranking, and the replacement was data mixing.

On 2026-05-14, Project Aster shifted Milestone H1: 2026-06-02 became 2026-05-30.

Project Anchor received 2 GPUs from Node Juniper-06 in the 2026-06-22 allocation log.

Lab Digest 152


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

The 2026-04-26 method entry for Project Meridian moved from confidence calibration to chain verification.

The 2026-05-23 result for Project Anchor put Finch-3B on VestaLogs at 0.821 latency efficiency score, with Node Juniper-06 handling the run.

For reranking, the 2026-05-13 note says Project Aster went with Orchid-8B.

Project Meridian had a method update on 2026-05-27.

The old approach was data mixing, and the replacement was contrastive tuning.

For error analysis, the 2026-04-26 note says Project Aster went with Finch-8B.

For reranking, the 2026-05-29 note says Project Aster went with Orchid-3B.

Project Update 153


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

In the 2026-04-21 staffing section, Project Saffron listed Priya Moss as the data steward.

Project Nereid had a failed run on 2026-04-09 involving Cedar-7B and Node Laurel-11.

The recorded cause was an out-of-memory error.

On 2026-04-04, Project Meridian retired cross-encoder reranking in favor of late interaction.

On 2026-05-04, the Quiet Retriever Study 1 review reported evidence pooling and said it did not use a reward model.

For calibration, the 2026-05-10 note says Project Nereid went with Nimbus-7B.

Project Sonata had a failed run on 2026-04-16 involving Aster-3B and Node Willow-05.

The recorded cause was an unstable-validation-loss error.

Project Nereid had a failed run on 2026-06-05 involving Kestrel-8B and Node Birch-04.

For calibration, the 2026-06-03 note says Project Nereid went with Nimbus-8B.

Project Aster had a failed run on 2026-04-16 involving Orchid-7B and Node Cedar-02.

Lab Digest 154


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Project Meridian had a failed run on 2026-04-04 involving Atlas-7B and Node Hazel-14.

The recorded cause was a checkpoint-mismatch error.

For Project Aster, the run using Lumen-8B on Node Spruce-03 did not complete on 2026-04-02; the issue was an unstable-validation-loss error.

Milestone X1 for Project Sonata was revised on 2026-05-28.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-04 to 2026-06-03.

The 2026-05-17 method entry for Project Saffron moved from temporal filtering to alias expansion.

The 2026-05-22 failure note says Mira-3B on Node Sycamore-13 failed for Project Sonata because of an unstable-validation-loss error.

The 2026-04-18 method entry for Project Sonata moved from dense retrieval to rank fusion.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for reranking on 2026-04-22.

The chosen model was Nova-3B.

Using Node Juniper-06, Finch-8B produced 0.851 accuracy on VestaLogs for Project Anchor on 2026-05-30.

Milestone X1 for Project Sonata was revised on 2026-04-14.

The schedule moved from 2026-04-21 to 2026-04-20.

Project Update 155


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Milestone L1 for Project Saffron was revised on 2026-05-11.

The schedule moved from 2026-05-27 to 2026-05-31.

Project Aster logged a personnel update on 2026-05-18: Anika Sato took the lead responsibilities.

Project Meridian ran Atlas-8B on SignalSet-3 using Node Hazel-14 on 2026-05-12.

The reported accuracy was 0.759.

On 2026-06-18, Project Aster shifted Milestone B1: 2026-07-09 became 2026-07-18.

For reranking, the 2026-04-05 note says Project Meridian went with Nova-3B.

Project Sonata received 3 GPUs from Node Willow-05 in the 2026-04-04 allocation log.

On 2026-04-29, Project Meridian shifted Milestone V1: 2026-05-15 became 2026-05-19.

Lab Digest 156


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

The 2026-05-23 failure note says Quartz-7B on Node Pine-07 failed for Project Sonata because of an out-of-memory error.

Project Saffron logged a personnel update on 2026-05-11: Dr. Theo Lind took the evaluation owner responsibilities.

For calibration, the 2026-05-14 note says Project Saffron went with Mira-3B.

In the 2026-04-27 staffing section, Project Aster listed Felix Brooks as the retrieval owner.

The 2026-05-23 compute note links Node Aspen-01 to Project Nereid with an allocation of 1 GPU.

Project Meridian received 2 GPUs from Node Elm-08 in the 2026-05-16 allocation log.

In the 2026-06-07 staffing section, Project Aster listed Talia Marin as the lead.

The 2026-06-20 compute note links Node Aspen-01 to Project Meridian with an allocation of 2 GPUs.

Project Update 157


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Using Node Spruce-03, Lumen-3B produced 0.878 macro F1 on TraceEval for Project Aster on 2026-04-13.

In the 2026-04-13 staffing section, Project Saffron listed Dr. Theo Grant as the data steward.

A compute allocation for Project Aster was logged on 2026-05-15.

Node Cedar-02 supplied 1 GPU.

The 2026-06-11 compute note links Node Hazel-14 to Project Meridian with an allocation of 4 GPUs.

Project Saffron recorded a model choice for error analysis on 2026-05-05.

The chosen model was Marble-8B.

Quiet Retriever Study 4 appeared in a 2026-04-27 review entry using structured prompting; the note said it did not use a reward model.

Lab Digest 158


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Vela-7B was the model selected by Project Saffron on 2026-05-27 for the reranking track.

A compute allocation for Project Sonata was logged on 2026-04-18.

Node Pine-07 supplied 1 GPU.

The 2026-06-28 method entry for Project Aster moved from threshold search to reward reranking.

Project Anchor received 2 GPUs from Node Rowan-09 in the 2026-05-08 allocation log.

Project Nereid ran Kestrel-8B on OrionBench-3 using Node Birch-04 on 2026-06-02.

The reported evidence F1 was 0.732.

Quartz-8B was the model selected by Project Saffron on 2026-05-17 for the claim classification track.

The staffing note for Project Anchor was dated 2026-05-04.

It named Dr. Arun Kwan for the data steward duties.

The 2026-06-13 compute note links Node Elm-08 to Project Meridian with an allocation of 2 GPUs.

Project Update 159


The 2026-05-17 method entry for Project Meridian moved from structured prompting to QLoRA adaptation.

On 2026-05-15, Project Anchor shifted Milestone N1: 2026-06-06 became 2026-06-16.

River-7B was the model selected by Project Anchor on 2026-04-26 for the evidence retrieval track.

The 2026-04-05 method entry for Project Meridian moved from alias expansion to dense retrieval.

For evidence retrieval, the 2026-05-15 note says Project Anchor went with River-3B.

Project Sonata logged a personnel update on 2026-04-21: Mara Quinn took the lead responsibilities.

Run Brief 160


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

On 2026-06-25, Project Sonata shifted Milestone F1: 2026-07-08 became 2026-07-13.

Project Anchor ran Orchid-7B on LumenFacts using Node Cedar-02 on 2026-06-08.

The reported latency efficiency score was 0.845.

Project Aster's Milestone H1 deadline change on 2026-06-22 replaced 2026-07-11 with 2026-07-08.

Milestone T1 for Project Aster was revised on 2026-05-28.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-22 to 2026-06-27.

A compute allocation for Project Anchor was logged on 2026-04-04.

Node Juniper-06 supplied 2 GPUs.

Nested Verifier Study 4 appeared in a 2026-04-20 review entry using cross-encoder reranking; the note said it did not use a reward model.

The staffing note for Project Anchor was dated 2026-04-14.

It named Selene Kim for the evaluation owner duties.

Project Meridian ran Kestrel-8B on CedarQA using Node Birch-04 on 2026-06-16.

The reported latency efficiency score was 0.597.

The 2026-06-27 result for Project Aster put River-7B on RiverBench at 0.854 macro F1, with Node Rowan-09 handling the run.

Review Packet 161


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Project Nereid's Milestone V1 deadline change on 2026-04-03 replaced 2026-04-24 with 2026-04-29.

The 2026-05-29 failure note says Lumen-7B on Node Spruce-03 failed for Project Anchor because of a checkpoint-mismatch error.

Project Sonata ran Mira-3B on TraceEval-3 using Node Sycamore-13 on 2026-06-09.

The reported evidence F1 was 0.658.

On 2026-06-11, Project Aster shifted Milestone B1: 2026-06-22 became 2026-06-17.

Project Aster had a failed run on 2026-05-07 involving Orchid-7B and Node Cedar-02.

The recorded cause was an unstable-validation-loss error.

A compute allocation for Project Sonata was logged on 2026-04-16.

Node Fir-10 supplied 1 GPU.

The 2026-05-04 result for Project Aster put Orchid-7B on LabQA-3 at 0.890 macro F1, with Node Cedar-02 handling the run.

Run Brief 162


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

The 2026-04-16 method entry for Project Saffron moved from contrastive tuning to threshold search.

On 2026-04-11, Project Sonata retired sentence pruning in favor of cross-encoder reranking.

Project Sonata logged a personnel update on 2026-06-16: Samir Ames took the lead responsibilities.

The 2026-04-24 failure note says Vela-3B on Node Fir-10 failed for Project Saffron because of a missing-index error.

Project Nereid had a method update on 2026-04-05.

The old approach was teacher distillation, and the replacement was query rewriting.

The 2026-05-05 result for Project Sonata put Aster-8B on RiverBench-3 at 0.664 macro F1, with Node Willow-05 handling the run.

Review Packet 163


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

The 2026-05-10 method entry for Project Saffron moved from cross-encoder reranking to late interaction.

The 2026-05-20 method entry for Project Nereid moved from structured prompting to QLoRA adaptation.

Project Aster received 1 GPU from Node Spruce-03 in the 2026-04-11 allocation log.

The 2026-05-27 method entry for Project Sonata moved from rank fusion to teacher distillation.

Project Aster received 3 GPUs from Node Poplar-12 in the 2026-06-22 allocation log.

The staffing note for Project Nereid was dated 2026-04-20.

It named Vera Kim for the lead duties.

Project Sonata ran Quartz-8B on OrionBench using Node Pine-07 on 2026-04-06.

The reported macro F1 was 0.562.

Run Brief 164


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

On 2026-06-14, Project Nereid retired teacher distillation in favor of query rewriting.

Using Node Pine-07, Quartz-8B produced 0.847 accuracy on CedarQA-2 for Project Saffron on 2026-04-14.

The 2026-05-28 failure note says Quartz-8B on Node Pine-07 failed for Project Sonata because of an unstable-validation-loss error.

The 2026-04-11 compute note links Node Sycamore-13 to Project Saffron with an allocation of 4 GPUs.

For error analysis, the 2026-04-23 note says Project Saffron went with Marble-7B.

Nova-8B was the model selected by Project Meridian on 2026-05-10 for the reranking track.

Review Packet 165


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Sonata had a method update on 2026-04-29.

The old approach was temporal filtering, and the replacement was alias expansion.

Using Node Juniper-06, Finch-8B produced 0.611 latency efficiency score on VestaLogs for Project Anchor on 2026-06-21.

On 2026-05-23, Project Sonata retired threshold search in favor of reward reranking.

The staffing note for Project Sonata was dated 2026-04-20.

It named Mara Lane for the retrieval owner duties.

On 2026-05-19, Project Sonata shifted Milestone R1: 2026-05-28 became 2026-06-02.

The review note for Amber Ranking Study 4 was dated 2026-06-08.

It described the method as LoRA adaptation and said it did not use a reward model.

The 2026-06-27 method entry for Project Anchor moved from dense retrieval to rank fusion.

The 2026-04-12 method entry for Project Meridian moved from teacher distillation to query rewriting.

Run Brief 166


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

On 2026-04-12, Project Sonata retired hybrid retrieval in favor of document chunking.

Project Meridian had a method update on 2026-06-18.

The old approach was threshold search, and the replacement was reward reranking.

For error analysis, the 2026-04-02 note says Project Aster went with Finch-7B.

A compute allocation for Project Nereid was logged on 2026-04-24.

Node Hazel-14 supplied 3 GPUs.

Project Aster ran Helix-8B on OrionBench-2 using Node Poplar-12 on 2026-06-13.

The reported evidence F1 was 0.872.

In the 2026-04-14 staffing section, Project Anchor listed Leo Hale as the data steward.

Project Saffron's Milestone D2 deadline change on 2026-04-22 replaced 2026-05-02 with 2026-05-12.

Using Node Cedar-02, Orchid-8B produced 0.845 accuracy on LumenFacts for Project Anchor on 2026-05-26.

Project Meridian ran Atlas-7B on SignalSet-3 using Node Hazel-14 on 2026-05-19.

The reported latency efficiency score was 0.789.

Review Packet 167


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

The 2026-05-03 method entry for Project Anchor moved from late interaction to BM25 retrieval.

On 2026-04-19, Project Nereid retired confidence calibration in favor of chain verification.

For Project Anchor, the run using Helix-7B on Node Poplar-12 did not complete on 2026-06-25; the issue was a missing-index error.

Project Aster had a method update on 2026-04-23.

The old approach was hard-negative mining, and the replacement was LoRA adaptation.

The 2026-04-11 compute note links Node Willow-05 to Project Sonata with an allocation of 1 GPU.

Project Meridian had a method update on 2026-06-03.

The old approach was cross-encoder reranking, and the replacement was late interaction.

Marble-7B was the model selected by Project Sonata on 2026-06-12 for the error analysis track.

The 2026-05-08 failure note says Vela-7B on Node Fir-10 failed for Project Saffron because of a missing-index error.

Run Brief 168


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Nereid ran Kestrel-7B on OrionBench-3 using Node Birch-04 on 2026-06-09.

The reported macro F1 was 0.762.

Using Node Rowan-09, River-7B produced 0.854 evidence F1 on RiverBench for Project Aster on 2026-05-19.

Aster-8B was the model selected by Project Sonata on 2026-04-08 for the evidence retrieval track.

The 2026-06-02 result for Project Anchor put Lumen-3B on MemoTrace-3 at 0.563 accuracy, with Node Spruce-03 handling the run.

In the 2026-05-05 staffing section, Project Nereid listed Evan Moss as the lead.

Project Anchor had a failed run on 2026-04-25 involving Orchid-3B and Node Cedar-02.

The recorded cause was a missing-index error.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for evidence retrieval on 2026-04-17.

The chosen model was Atlas-7B.

In the 2026-06-30 staffing section, Project Aster listed Anika Sato as the lead.

Review Packet 169


Milestone Z1 for Project Aster was revised on 2026-06-02.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-15 to 2026-06-20.

Project Saffron had a method update on 2026-04-12.

The old approach was reward reranking, and the replacement was data mixing.

The 2026-04-09 compute note links Node Birch-04 to Project Nereid with an allocation of 3 GPUs.

The 2026-05-26 result for Project Anchor put River-8B on SignalSet-2 at 0.689 accuracy, with Node Rowan-09 handling the run.

Project Saffron had a method update on 2026-05-21.

The old approach was hybrid retrieval, and the replacement was document chunking.

The 2026-06-20 compute note links Node Birch-04 to Project Nereid with an allocation of 3 GPUs.

Project Saffron ran Quartz-7B on CedarQA-2 using Node Pine-07 on 2026-04-12.

The reported accuracy was 0.727.

The 2026-06-20 method entry for Project Aster moved from query rewriting to sentence pruning.

Project Update 170


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

Project Saffron recorded a model choice for claim classification on 2026-05-31.

The chosen model was Quartz-3B.

The staffing note for Project Saffron was dated 2026-04-12.

It named Dr. Theo Grant for the data steward duties.

Project Anchor had a method update on 2026-05-10.

The old approach was data mixing, and the replacement was contrastive tuning.

Using Node Sycamore-13, Mira-3B produced 0.613 accuracy on MemoTrace-2 for Project Saffron on 2026-04-14.

The 2026-04-05 result for Project Sonata put Marble-3B on NereidNotes at 0.736 evidence F1, with Node Maple-01 handling the run.

The 2026-05-30 compute note links Node Willow-05 to Project Saffron with an allocation of 4 GPUs.

Lab Digest 171


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

A compute allocation for Project Anchor was logged on 2026-05-15.

Node Poplar-12 supplied 2 GPUs.

A compute allocation for Project Aster was logged on 2026-04-18.

Node Spruce-03 supplied 3 GPUs.

The 2026-04-09 method entry for Project Sonata moved from late interaction to BM25 retrieval.

The 2026-05-04 result for Project Meridian put Kestrel-8B on CedarQA at 0.747 latency efficiency score, with Node Birch-04 handling the run.

Kestrel-7B was the model selected by Project Nereid on 2026-04-19 for the claim classification track.

For calibration, the 2026-04-26 note says Project Saffron went with Mira-3B.

Project Sonata had a method update on 2026-06-07.

The old approach was BM25 retrieval, and the replacement was evidence pooling.

Project Update 172


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

On 2026-05-20, Project Nereid shifted Milestone J1: 2026-06-14 became 2026-06-23.

The 2026-06-10 method entry for Project Sonata moved from sentence pruning to cross-encoder reranking.

On 2026-06-26, Project Saffron shifted Milestone L1: 2026-07-12 became 2026-07-20.

The 2026-04-25 compute note links Node Poplar-12 to Project Aster with an allocation of 1 GPU.

The 2026-06-04 failure note says Aster-7B on Node Willow-05 failed for Project Saffron because of a checkpoint-mismatch error.

The 2026-04-22 method entry for Project Aster moved from sentence pruning to cross-encoder reranking.

Lab Digest 173


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

The 2026-05-16 result for Project Sonata put Aster-3B on RiverBench-3 at 0.544 evidence F1, with Node Willow-05 handling the run.

Project Anchor had a method update on 2026-04-09.

The old approach was metric smoothing, and the replacement was hard-negative mining.

Project Meridian logged a personnel update on 2026-05-05: Elian Shah took the data steward responsibilities.

Project Anchor received 4 GPUs from Node Rowan-09 in the 2026-05-29 allocation log.

Milestone P1 for Project Nereid was revised on 2026-04-08.

The schedule moved from 2026-04-21 to 2026-04-30.

The staffing note for Project Sonata was dated 2026-05-05.

It named Rohan Park for the lead duties.

The 2026-06-25 failure note says Atlas-7B on Node Hazel-14 failed for Project Meridian because of a missing-index error.

On 2026-05-29, Project Saffron shifted Milestone R1: 2026-06-22 became 2026-06-26.

Project Update 174


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Project Nereid had a failed run on 2026-06-11 involving Kestrel-8B and Node Birch-04.

The recorded cause was an out-of-memory error.

Using Node Rowan-09, River-8B produced 0.824 evidence F1 on RiverBench for Project Aster on 2026-06-20.

Project Saffron had a method update on 2026-04-15.

The old approach was cross-encoder reranking, and the replacement was late interaction.

On 2026-05-16, Project Nereid retired rank fusion in favor of teacher distillation.

On 2026-04-25, Project Sonata retired metric smoothing in favor of hard-negative mining.

Project Meridian had a failed run on 2026-05-08 involving Kestrel-7B and Node Birch-04.

The recorded cause was a missing-index error.

The 2026-06-28 method entry for Project Aster moved from structured prompting to QLoRA adaptation.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for reranking on 2026-05-10.

The chosen model was Nova-3B.

Project Meridian ran Cedar-8B on VestaLogs-2 using Node Laurel-11 on 2026-06-09.

The reported latency efficiency score was 0.801.

Lab Digest 175


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

The 2026-06-27 compute note links Node Willow-05 to Project Saffron with an allocation of 4 GPUs.

Project Nereid received 3 GPUs from Node Aspen-01 in the 2026-06-18 allocation log.

Milestone P1 for Project Nereid was revised on 2026-05-21.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-03 to 2026-06-12.

Project Saffron logged a personnel update on 2026-05-04: Priya Vale took the evaluation owner responsibilities.

Project Sonata's Milestone R1 deadline change on 2026-05-20 replaced 2026-05-29 with 2026-06-03.

Milestone B1 for Project Anchor was revised on 2026-06-09.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-25 to 2026-06-29.

Project Aster had a method update on 2026-04-05.

The old approach was evidence pooling, and the replacement was calibrated voting.

Project Update 176


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

On 2026-05-06, Project Meridian retired document chunking in favor of metric smoothing.

Project Nereid ran Cedar-7B on NereidNotes-3 using Node Laurel-11 on 2026-05-09.

The reported macro F1 was 0.696.

Mira-8B was the model selected by Project Sonata on 2026-06-25 for the calibration track.

For evidence retrieval, the 2026-06-26 note says Project Aster went with River-8B.

For error analysis, the 2026-04-09 note says Project Meridian went with Cedar-8B.

The 2026-06-22 result for Project Meridian put Nimbus-8B on MemoTrace at 0.723 latency efficiency score, with Node Elm-08 handling the run.

Project Saffron had a method update on 2026-05-06.

The staffing note for Project Nereid was dated 2026-06-29.

It named Evan Iyer for the retrieval owner duties.

For claim classification, the 2026-05-22 note says Project Meridian went with Kestrel-8B.

Lab Digest 177


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Project Anchor recorded a model choice for evidence retrieval on 2026-05-13.

The chosen model was River-3B.

In the 2026-05-12 staffing section, Project Meridian listed Nadia Singh as the data steward.

Project Aster ran Helix-7B on OrionBench-2 using Node Poplar-12 on 2026-06-20.

The reported macro F1 was 0.512.

The staffing note for Project Meridian was dated 2026-06-15.

It named Elian Shah for the data steward duties.

In the 2026-04-13 staffing section, Project Meridian listed Dr. Ravi Nadir as the data steward.

The 2026-05-30 method entry for Project Meridian moved from query rewriting to sentence pruning.

Project Anchor had a method update on 2026-06-13.

The old approach was late interaction, and the replacement was BM25 retrieval.

For claim classification, the 2026-06-05 note says Project Meridian went with Kestrel-3B.

In the 2026-05-05 staffing section, Project Anchor listed Dr. Arun Bauer as the evaluation owner.

Project Update 178


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

The staffing note for Project Anchor was dated 2026-04-06.

It named Selene Kim for the evaluation owner duties.

The 2026-04-04 result for Project Sonata put Mira-8B on TraceEval-3 at 0.598 macro F1, with Node Sycamore-13 handling the run.

On 2026-06-14, Project Saffron retired BM25 retrieval in favor of evidence pooling.

Project Nereid received 3 GPUs from Node Elm-08 in the 2026-04-11 allocation log.

For claim classification, the 2026-05-03 note says Project Anchor went with Helix-3B.

Project Nereid had a failed run on 2026-06-18 involving Nimbus-8B and Node Elm-08.

The recorded cause was an out-of-memory error.

Project Saffron had a failed run on 2026-06-26 involving Aster-3B and Node Willow-05.

The recorded cause was a checkpoint-mismatch error.

Lab Digest 179


Using Node Aspen-01, Nova-7B produced 0.765 latency efficiency score on LumenFacts-2 for Project Meridian on 2026-04-07.

For evidence retrieval, the 2026-04-09 note says Project Saffron went with Aster-8B.

Project Saffron logged a personnel update on 2026-04-21: Petra Gray took the evaluation owner responsibilities.

For Project Anchor, the run using River-7B on Node Rowan-09 did not complete on 2026-05-30; the issue was a checkpoint-mismatch error.

The 2026-05-07 failure note says Kestrel-8B on Node Birch-04 failed for Project Meridian because of a checkpoint-mismatch error.

On 2026-06-24, Project Anchor shifted Milestone B1: 2026-07-10 became 2026-07-18.

The 2026-04-18 method entry for Project Anchor moved from evidence pooling to calibrated voting.

Review Packet 180


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

Project Saffron ran Marble-7B on VestaLogs-3 using Node Maple-01 on 2026-04-14.

The reported latency efficiency score was 0.691.

On 2026-06-12, Project Nereid shifted Milestone J1: 2026-07-07 became 2026-07-16.

Project Nereid had a failed run on 2026-04-10 involving Atlas-8B and Node Hazel-14.

Project Aster logged a personnel update on 2026-04-20: Felix Lind took the lead responsibilities.

For calibration, the 2026-05-29 note says Project Nereid went with Nimbus-3B.

The 2026-04-11 compute note links Node Maple-01 to Project Saffron with an allocation of 2 GPUs.

Run Brief 181


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Helix-7B was the model selected by Project Aster on 2026-05-24 for the claim classification track.

On 2026-05-16, Project Meridian retired metric smoothing in favor of hard-negative mining.

Milestone V1 for Project Nereid was revised on 2026-06-02.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-13 to 2026-06-08.

Milestone B2 for Project Meridian was revised on 2026-04-10.

The schedule moved from 2026-05-04 to 2026-05-08.

Project Sonata received 3 GPUs from Node Maple-01 in the 2026-06-05 allocation log.

The 2026-05-19 result for Project Sonata put Marble-7B on NereidNotes at 0.646 evidence F1, with Node Maple-01 handling the run.

Review Packet 182


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Sonata recorded a model choice for calibration on 2026-06-07.

The chosen model was Mira-8B.

The staffing note for Project Sonata was dated 2026-05-19.

It named Dr. Jonas Rios for the lead duties.

A compute allocation for Project Anchor was logged on 2026-05-09.

Node Cedar-02 supplied 4 GPUs.

Milestone R1 for Project Saffron was revised on 2026-05-08.

The schedule moved from 2026-05-22 to 2026-06-01.

Project Saffron recorded a model choice for reranking on 2026-04-26.

The chosen model was Vela-7B.

Project Anchor received 4 GPUs from Node Spruce-03 in the 2026-06-18 allocation log.

Project Saffron had a method update on 2026-05-16.

The old approach was hybrid retrieval, and the replacement was document chunking.

Project Nereid received 1 GPU from Node Hazel-14 in the 2026-04-17 allocation log.

Run Brief 183


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for calibration on 2026-06-07.

The chosen model was Nimbus-7B.

A compute allocation for Project Nereid was logged on 2026-05-09.

Node Birch-04 supplied 3 GPUs.

Project Meridian received 2 GPUs from Node Laurel-11 in the 2026-06-25 allocation log.

Milestone V1 for Project Nereid was revised on 2026-04-17.

The schedule moved from 2026-05-08 to 2026-05-17.

The review note for Quiet Retriever Study 4 was dated 2026-06-03.

It described the method as structured prompting and said it did not use a reward model.

The staffing note for Project Anchor was dated 2026-04-28.

It named Kira Frost for the data steward duties.

A compute allocation for Project Aster was logged on 2026-05-16.

Node Juniper-06 supplied 3 GPUs.

The 2026-04-30 failure note says Helix-7B on Node Poplar-12 failed for Project Aster because of an unstable-validation-loss error.

Project Meridian logged a personnel update on 2026-05-18: Mira Sato took the data steward responsibilities.

Review Packet 184


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

The 2026-04-06 result for Project Nereid put Cedar-7B on NereidNotes-3 at 0.666 evidence F1, with Node Laurel-11 handling the run.

Project Meridian recorded a model choice for reranking on 2026-05-12.

The chosen model was Nova-3B.

Project Nereid received 1 GPU from Node Birch-04 in the 2026-05-30 allocation log.

The staffing note for Project Nereid was dated 2026-06-22.

It named Nora Sol for the retrieval owner duties.

Project Sonata recorded a model choice for calibration on 2026-04-05.

The chosen model was Mira-8B.

On 2026-04-07, Project Saffron shifted Milestone R1: 2026-05-01 became 2026-05-05.

The 2026-04-03 failure note says River-3B on Node Rowan-09 failed for Project Anchor because of a checkpoint-mismatch error.

Run Brief 185


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Aster had a failed run on 2026-06-25 involving Helix-3B and Node Poplar-12.

The recorded cause was an out-of-memory error.

Milestone V1 for Project Nereid was revised on 2026-04-02.

The schedule moved from 2026-04-13 to 2026-04-08.

For reranking, the 2026-06-17 note says Project Aster went with Orchid-3B.

Project Sonata received 1 GPU from Node Willow-05 in the 2026-05-09 allocation log.

Milestone X1 for Project Sonata was revised on 2026-04-21.

The schedule moved from 2026-05-08 to 2026-05-17.

The 2026-06-26 failure note says Vela-8B on Node Fir-10 failed for Project Sonata because of an unstable-validation-loss error.

Project Meridian had a method update on 2026-04-18.

The old approach was teacher distillation, and the replacement was query rewriting.

On 2026-04-05, Project Saffron retired hybrid retrieval in favor of document chunking.

Review Packet 186


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

The 2026-04-11 result for Project Meridian put Cedar-3B on VestaLogs-2 at 0.771 latency efficiency score, with Node Laurel-11 handling the run.

The 2026-05-27 method entry for Project Meridian moved from hard-negative mining to LoRA adaptation.

Nimbus-8B was the model selected by Project Nereid on 2026-06-09 for the calibration track.

The staffing note for Project Saffron was dated 2026-06-30.

It named Dr. Theo Lind for the evaluation owner duties.

In the 2026-04-27 staffing section, Project Meridian listed Dr. Ravi Nadir as the data steward.

On 2026-06-19, Project Aster shifted Milestone B1: 2026-06-30 became 2026-06-25.

Project Anchor had a method update on 2026-05-24.

The old approach was reward reranking, and the replacement was data mixing.

On 2026-04-25, Project Anchor retired document chunking in favor of metric smoothing.

Run Brief 187


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Milestone T1 for Project Aster was revised on 2026-05-21.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-05 to 2026-06-01.

The 2026-05-08 compute note links Node Sycamore-13 to Project Saffron with an allocation of 4 GPUs.

Milestone F1 for Project Sonata was revised on 2026-05-20.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-12 to 2026-06-10.

A compute allocation for Project Anchor was logged on 2026-05-27.

Node Rowan-09 supplied 4 GPUs.

Milestone R1 for Project Saffron was revised on 2026-05-28.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-11 to 2026-06-21.

Using Node Hazel-14, Atlas-3B produced 0.729 accuracy on SignalSet-3 for Project Meridian on 2026-06-13.

Project Aster recorded a model choice for evidence retrieval on 2026-06-19.

The chosen model was River-3B.

Review Packet 188


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Saffron ran Aster-8B on SignalSet using Node Willow-05 on 2026-06-15.

The reported latency efficiency score was 0.589.

The 2026-06-14 result for Project Meridian put Kestrel-7B on CedarQA at 0.867 latency efficiency score, with Node Birch-04 handling the run.

Project Nereid ran Nimbus-7B on TraceEval-2 using Node Elm-08 on 2026-04-28.

The reported macro F1 was 0.738.

Project Meridian ran Cedar-3B on VestaLogs-2 using Node Laurel-11 on 2026-05-18.

The reported latency efficiency score was 0.651.

The 2026-05-18 result for Project Sonata put Marble-8B on NereidNotes at 0.586 macro F1, with Node Maple-01 handling the run.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for reranking on 2026-06-12.

The chosen model was Nova-3B.

Using Node Birch-04, Kestrel-7B produced 0.807 accuracy on CedarQA for Project Meridian on 2026-05-05.

Project Saffron ran Marble-7B on VestaLogs-3 using Node Maple-01 on 2026-05-02.

The reported latency efficiency score was 0.601.

The 2026-04-02 failure note says River-7B on Node Rowan-09 failed for Project Anchor because of a missing-index error.

Run Brief 189


The 2026-06-27 compute note links Node Fir-10 to Project Sonata with an allocation of 1 GPU.

Using Node Maple-01, Marble-7B produced 0.526 macro F1 on NereidNotes for Project Sonata on 2026-05-04.

In the 2026-04-21 staffing section, Project Meridian listed Camila Quinn as the evaluation owner.

The 2026-05-04 compute note links Node Elm-08 to Project Meridian with an allocation of 2 GPUs.

On 2026-06-29, Project Sonata shifted Milestone L1: 2026-07-10 became 2026-07-05.

Project Nereid logged a personnel update on 2026-05-25: Vera Torres took the retrieval owner responsibilities.

The 2026-05-26 result for Project Aster put River-3B on RiverBench at 0.884 macro F1, with Node Rowan-09 handling the run.

Project Saffron's Milestone X1 deadline change on 2026-04-10 replaced 2026-05-02 with 2026-05-08.

Lab Digest 190


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

Project Saffron received 2 GPUs from Node Sycamore-13 in the 2026-06-08 allocation log.

The staffing note for Project Anchor was dated 2026-06-01.

It named Iris Stone for the data steward duties.

In the 2026-06-15 staffing section, Project Saffron listed Owen Marin as the data steward.

Project Sonata recorded a model choice for reranking on 2026-04-24.

The chosen model was Vela-7B.

On 2026-06-06, Project Meridian retired document chunking in favor of metric smoothing.

Project Nereid had a method update on 2026-04-22.

The old approach was calibrated voting, and the replacement was confidence calibration.

Project Saffron ran Quartz-7B on CedarQA-2 using Node Pine-07 on 2026-05-12.

The reported accuracy was 0.577.

Project Update 191


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

On 2026-06-17, Project Aster shifted Milestone H1: 2026-07-06 became 2026-07-03.

Project Nereid ran Cedar-3B on NereidNotes-3 using Node Laurel-11 on 2026-04-13.

The reported macro F1 was 0.696.

The 2026-05-13 method entry for Project Saffron moved from sentence pruning to cross-encoder reranking.

For Project Nereid, the run using Atlas-3B on Node Hazel-14 did not complete on 2026-04-03; the issue was an unstable-validation-loss error.

Atlas-7B was the model selected by Project Meridian on 2026-06-18 for the evidence retrieval track.

Project Saffron recorded a model choice for calibration on 2026-04-01.

The chosen model was Mira-7B.

The 2026-05-23 result for Project Sonata put Aster-8B on RiverBench-3 at 0.574 macro F1, with Node Willow-05 handling the run.

Project Meridian logged a personnel update on 2026-04-07: Mira Nolan took the evaluation owner responsibilities.

A compute allocation for Project Anchor was logged on 2026-04-04.

Node Rowan-09 supplied 4 GPUs.

Lab Digest 192


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Aster received 3 GPUs from Node Rowan-09 in the 2026-06-06 allocation log.

The 2026-05-29 compute note links Node Fir-10 to Project Saffron with an allocation of 4 GPUs.

Project Meridian had a failed run on 2026-04-02 involving Nimbus-7B and Node Elm-08.

The recorded cause was a missing-index error.

The 2026-05-22 compute note links Node Willow-05 to Project Sonata with an allocation of 1 GPU.

On 2026-06-14, Project Saffron retired dense retrieval in favor of rank fusion.

Project Nereid's Milestone V1 deadline change on 2026-06-01 replaced 2026-06-22 with 2026-06-27.

In the 2026-04-20 staffing section, Project Saffron listed Owen Marin as the data steward.

Project Update 193


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

Project Anchor received 4 GPUs from Node Spruce-03 in the 2026-05-02 allocation log.

Milestone F1 for Project Saffron was revised on 2026-06-15.

The schedule moved from 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-09.

Milestone D1 for Project Nereid was revised on 2026-06-15.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-22 to 2026-06-21.

Kestrel-8B was the model selected by Project Nereid on 2026-04-02 for the claim classification track.

On 2026-05-16, Project Anchor retired data mixing in favor of contrastive tuning.

Using Node Maple-01, Marble-7B produced 0.751 accuracy on VestaLogs-3 for Project Saffron on 2026-05-24.

Marble-3B was the model selected by Project Saffron on 2026-04-30 for the error analysis track.

The 2026-04-08 compute note links Node Spruce-03 to Project Anchor with an allocation of 4 GPUs.

A compute allocation for Project Aster was logged on 2026-05-08.

Node Juniper-06 supplied 3 GPUs.

Lab Digest 194


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Project Saffron had a method update on 2026-05-10.

The old approach was BM25 retrieval, and the replacement was evidence pooling.

Project Meridian logged a personnel update on 2026-06-16: Nadia Chen took the evaluation owner responsibilities.

Milestone P1 for Project Meridian was revised on 2026-04-03.

The schedule moved from 2026-04-11 to 2026-04-15.

In the 2026-06-22 staffing section, Project Sonata listed Dr. Jonas Nolan as the retrieval owner.

Milestone D1 for Project Nereid was revised on 2026-05-07.

The schedule moved from 2026-05-14 to 2026-05-13.

Quartz-7B was the model selected by Project Saffron on 2026-04-02 for the claim classification track.

Project Update 195


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Sonata received 1 GPU from Node Sycamore-13 in the 2026-06-06 allocation log.

A compute allocation for Project Aster was logged on 2026-06-20.

Node Spruce-03 supplied 3 GPUs.

The 2026-06-20 method entry for Project Nereid moved from structured prompting to QLoRA adaptation.

For calibration, the 2026-04-10 note says Project Sonata went with Mira-8B.

The 2026-05-27 compute note links Node Aspen-01 to Project Meridian with an allocation of 2 GPUs.

Aster-3B was the model selected by Project Sonata on 2026-05-22 for the evidence retrieval track.

Project Nereid had a failed run on 2026-05-16 involving Atlas-3B and Node Hazel-14.

The recorded cause was an unstable-validation-loss error.

The 2026-04-02 compute note links Node Willow-05 to Project Saffron with an allocation of 4 GPUs.

Project Nereid's Milestone V1 deadline change on 2026-06-17 replaced 2026-06-28 with 2026-06-23.

Lab Digest 196


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

Project Meridian had a method update on 2026-06-14.

The old approach was evidence pooling, and the replacement was calibrated voting.

For error analysis, the 2026-05-21 note says Project Anchor went with Finch-8B.

A compute allocation for Project Saffron was logged on 2026-06-13.

Node Sycamore-13 supplied 4 GPUs.

A compute allocation for Project Meridian was logged on 2026-06-06.

Node Laurel-11 supplied 2 GPUs.

The staffing note for Project Anchor was dated 2026-06-22.

It named Kira Iyer for the evaluation owner duties.

Milestone X1 for Project Sonata was revised on 2026-05-22.

The schedule moved from 2026-05-29 to 2026-05-28.

Project Meridian had a method update on 2026-05-31.

The old approach was reward reranking, and the replacement was data mixing.

Project Saffron had a method update on 2026-06-18.

The old approach was sentence pruning, and the replacement was cross-encoder reranking.

Project Update 197


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Project Anchor had a method update on 2026-06-06.

The old approach was rank fusion, and the replacement was teacher distillation.

For calibration, the 2026-04-29 note says Project Aster went with Lumen-3B.

On 2026-06-05, Project Anchor shifted Milestone Z1: 2026-06-23 became 2026-06-29.

Project Nereid's Milestone D1 deadline change on 2026-06-17 replaced 2026-07-04 with 2026-07-09.

Project Anchor recorded a model choice for evidence retrieval on 2026-05-14.

The chosen model was River-7B.

The 2026-06-20 result for Project Meridian put Atlas-8B on SignalSet-3 at 0.759 latency efficiency score, with Node Hazel-14 handling the run.

Project Meridian had a failed run on 2026-06-11 involving Nimbus-7B and Node Elm-08.

The recorded cause was a checkpoint-mismatch error.

Lab Digest 198


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Sonata had a method update on 2026-04-15.

The old approach was document chunking, and the replacement was metric smoothing.

On 2026-04-09, Project Nereid shifted Milestone V1: 2026-04-30 became 2026-05-09.

A compute allocation for Project Nereid was logged on 2026-04-10.

Node Birch-04 supplied 1 GPU.

The 2026-05-30 compute note links Node Hazel-14 to Project Nereid with an allocation of 3 GPUs.

Project Anchor logged a personnel update on 2026-05-18: Leo Park took the evaluation owner responsibilities.

The staffing note for Project Saffron was dated 2026-06-16.

It named Owen Torres for the evaluation owner duties.

Nova-3B was the model selected by Project Nereid on 2026-04-03 for the reranking track.

Project Update 199


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Project Aster recorded a model choice for evidence retrieval on 2026-06-30.

The chosen model was River-8B.

On 2026-05-06, Project Meridian retired reward reranking in favor of data mixing.

Project Sonata had a method update on 2026-05-24.

The old approach was alias expansion, and the replacement was dense retrieval.

For Project Meridian, the run using Kestrel-7B on Node Birch-04 did not complete on 2026-04-17; the issue was a checkpoint-mismatch error.

For Project Nereid, the run using Atlas-8B on Node Hazel-14 did not complete on 2026-05-14; the issue was an unstable-validation-loss error.

Project Aster had a failed run on 2026-04-02 involving Helix-8B and Node Poplar-12.

The recorded cause was an unstable-validation-loss error.

Review Packet 200


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for claim classification on 2026-06-26.

The chosen model was Kestrel-8B.

The 2026-05-10 method entry for Project Meridian moved from metric smoothing to hard-negative mining.

Project Aster had a method update on 2026-05-23.

The old approach was sentence pruning, and the replacement was cross-encoder reranking.

The staffing note for Project Anchor was dated 2026-06-22.

It named Dr. Arun Kwan for the data steward duties.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for calibration on 2026-05-27.

The chosen model was Nimbus-3B.

On 2026-05-03, Project Sonata retired evidence pooling in favor of calibrated voting.

On 2026-06-07, Project Meridian retired BM25 retrieval in favor of evidence pooling.

Project Sonata recorded a model choice for error analysis on 2026-06-05.

The chosen model was Marble-8B.

The 2026-06-17 method entry for Project Aster moved from hard-negative mining to LoRA adaptation.

Run Brief 201


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

Project Anchor had a failed run on 2026-04-09 involving River-3B and Node Rowan-09.

The recorded cause was a checkpoint-mismatch error.

Project Sonata logged a personnel update on 2026-06-02: Mara Lane took the retrieval owner responsibilities.

Project Anchor ran River-8B on SignalSet-2 using Node Rowan-09 on 2026-05-16.

The reported latency efficiency score was 0.869.

The staffing note for Project Saffron was dated 2026-04-28.

It named Petra Adler for the data steward duties.

Using Node Sycamore-13, Mira-8B produced 0.553 latency efficiency score on MemoTrace-2 for Project Saffron on 2026-05-09.

The 2026-04-24 compute note links Node Poplar-12 to Project Anchor with an allocation of 4 GPUs.

Review Packet 202


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Project Sonata ran Aster-7B on RiverBench-3 using Node Willow-05 on 2026-05-12.

The reported evidence F1 was 0.694.

For claim classification, the 2026-06-28 note says Project Anchor went with Helix-7B.

Project Meridian's Milestone D1 deadline change on 2026-05-04 replaced 2026-05-26 with 2026-06-05.

Project Sonata had a method update on 2026-04-23.

The old approach was dense retrieval, and the replacement was rank fusion.

River-7B was the model selected by Project Anchor on 2026-05-24 for the evidence retrieval track.

In the 2026-06-02 staffing section, Project Anchor listed Selene Rios as the data steward.

Run Brief 203


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Anchor's Milestone B1 deadline change on 2026-04-24 replaced 2026-05-20 with 2026-05-26.

Project Aster had a failed run on 2026-04-09 involving Orchid-8B and Node Cedar-02.

The recorded cause was an unstable-validation-loss error.

On 2026-06-12, Project Nereid shifted Milestone B2: 2026-07-01 became 2026-06-28.

A compute allocation for Project Saffron was logged on 2026-04-25.

Node Fir-10 supplied 2 GPUs.

Project Sonata received 1 GPU from Node Maple-01 in the 2026-05-02 allocation log.

The 2026-05-23 method entry for Project Meridian moved from chain verification to structured prompting.

Project Anchor's Milestone H1 deadline change on 2026-05-04 replaced 2026-05-28 with 2026-06-05.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for calibration on 2026-06-14.

The chosen model was Nimbus-3B.

Review Packet 204


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

The 2026-06-27 method entry for Project Aster moved from reward reranking to data mixing.

For Project Anchor, the run using Lumen-8B on Node Spruce-03 did not complete on 2026-04-04; the issue was a missing-index error.

The 2026-04-02 failure note says Atlas-3B on Node Hazel-14 failed for Project Meridian because of a checkpoint-mismatch error.

Project Anchor logged a personnel update on 2026-04-28: Iris Lane took the evaluation owner responsibilities.

For Project Saffron, the run using Vela-3B on Node Fir-10 did not complete on 2026-04-30; the issue was a missing-index error.

On 2026-04-09, Project Meridian shifted Milestone P1: 2026-04-17 became 2026-04-25.

Project Meridian recorded a model choice for claim classification on 2026-04-08.

The chosen model was Kestrel-7B.

The 2026-05-09 result for Project Anchor put Helix-8B on CedarQA-3 at 0.527 latency efficiency score, with Node Poplar-12 handling the run.

The review note for Amber Ranking Study 4 was dated 2026-04-15.

It described the method as LoRA adaptation and said it did not use a reward model.

Run Brief 205


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

A compute allocation for Project Anchor was logged on 2026-04-18.

Node Rowan-09 supplied 4 GPUs.

For Project Sonata, the run using Mira-3B on Node Sycamore-13 did not complete on 2026-06-18; the issue was an out-of-memory error.

River-3B was the model selected by Project Aster on 2026-04-29 for the evidence retrieval track.

Project Aster received 1 GPU from Node Cedar-02 in the 2026-06-08 allocation log.

The 2026-04-01 method entry for Project Sonata moved from structured prompting to QLoRA adaptation.

On 2026-05-18, Project Saffron shifted Milestone L1: 2026-06-13 became 2026-06-23.

Review Packet 206


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Orchid-3B was the model selected by Project Aster on 2026-04-08 for the reranking track.

The 2026-05-11 result for Project Sonata put Marble-3B on NereidNotes at 0.556 evidence F1, with Node Maple-01 handling the run.

Finch-8B was the model selected by Project Aster on 2026-04-08 for the error analysis track.

Project Anchor's Milestone B1 deadline change on 2026-04-23 replaced 2026-05-09 with 2026-05-13.

In the 2026-05-05 staffing section, Project Nereid listed Nora Bauer as the lead.

On 2026-06-27, Project Nereid retired evidence pooling in favor of calibrated voting.

Project Meridian had a failed run on 2026-06-26 involving Nimbus-7B and Node Elm-08.

The recorded cause was a missing-index error.

Run Brief 207


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

In the 2026-04-07 staffing section, Project Nereid listed Vera Torres as the retrieval owner.

The 2026-04-18 compute note links Node Aspen-01 to Project Meridian with an allocation of 2 GPUs.

The 2026-05-05 result for Project Saffron put Vela-7B on LumenFacts-3 at 0.625 accuracy, with Node Fir-10 handling the run.

The 2026-06-05 failure note says Orchid-7B on Node Cedar-02 failed for Project Anchor because of a checkpoint-mismatch error.

On 2026-05-15, Project Nereid shifted Milestone P1: 2026-05-28 became 2026-06-02.

The 2026-06-15 result for Project Meridian put Nimbus-3B on MemoTrace at 0.693 accuracy, with Node Elm-08 handling the run.

Project Sonata received 1 GPU from Node Sycamore-13 in the 2026-04-27 allocation log.

Project Saffron recorded a model choice for calibration on 2026-05-24.

The chosen model was Mira-3B.

Review Packet 208


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Project Saffron logged a personnel update on 2026-04-21: Dr. Theo Grant took the data steward responsibilities.

For Project Nereid, the run using Kestrel-8B on Node Birch-04 did not complete on 2026-04-30; the issue was an out-of-memory error.

Milestone F1 for Project Sonata was revised on 2026-06-11.

The schedule moved from 2026-06-24 to 2026-07-03.

For Project Saffron, the run using Quartz-8B on Node Pine-07 did not complete on 2026-04-11; the issue was a missing-index error.

Project Aster recorded a model choice for calibration on 2026-05-15.

The chosen model was Lumen-7B.

In the 2026-06-07 staffing section, Project Sonata listed Sofia Nadir as the retrieval owner.

On 2026-05-13, Project Nereid retired LoRA adaptation in favor of alias expansion.

Run Brief 209


The 2026-05-16 compute note links Node Rowan-09 to Project Aster with an allocation of 1 GPU.

Project Anchor recorded a model choice for evidence retrieval on 2026-06-24.

The chosen model was River-3B.

The 2026-05-16 compute note links Node Birch-04 to Project Nereid with an allocation of 1 GPU.

Orchid-8B was the model selected by Project Aster on 2026-06-24 for the reranking track.

Milestone F1 for Project Sonata was revised on 2026-04-29.

The schedule moved from 2026-05-12 to 2026-05-21.

In the 2026-05-12 staffing section, Project Nereid listed Darian Grant as the lead.

Lab Digest 210


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Meridian recorded a model choice for claim classification on 2026-06-04.

The chosen model was Kestrel-7B.

The 2026-04-07 result for Project Anchor put Helix-7B on CedarQA-3 at 0.557 latency efficiency score, with Node Poplar-12 handling the run.

The 2026-04-26 method entry for Project Sonata moved from structured prompting to QLoRA adaptation.

Project Nereid ran Kestrel-3B on OrionBench-3 using Node Birch-04 on 2026-06-16.

The reported evidence F1 was 0.792.

A compute allocation for Project Anchor was logged on 2026-06-27.

Node Rowan-09 supplied 2 GPUs.

The 2026-06-01 result for Project Anchor put Lumen-7B on MemoTrace-3 at 0.893 latency efficiency score, with Node Spruce-03 handling the run.

Project Anchor logged a personnel update on 2026-04-14: Kira Frost took the data steward responsibilities.

Project Update 211


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

Milestone N1 for Project Aster was revised on 2026-04-02.

The schedule moved from 2026-04-09 to 2026-04-08.

Project Nereid logged a personnel update on 2026-04-13: Vera Torres took the retrieval owner responsibilities.

Project Sonata had a method update on 2026-06-04.

The old approach was temporal filtering, and the replacement was alias expansion.

The staffing note for Project Sonata was dated 2026-04-13.

It named Sofia Nadir for the retrieval owner duties.

The 2026-04-16 failure note says Marble-8B on Node Maple-01 failed for Project Saffron because of a missing-index error.

Project Anchor received 4 GPUs from Node Juniper-06 in the 2026-05-09 allocation log.

Project Nereid ran Nova-8B on LabQA using Node Aspen-01 on 2026-05-11.

The reported macro F1 was 0.660.

On 2026-04-11, Project Saffron retired contrastive tuning in favor of threshold search.

Project Meridian received 4 GPUs from Node Hazel-14 in the 2026-06-05 allocation log.

Lab Digest 212


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Project Meridian had a failed run on 2026-05-09 involving Nimbus-7B and Node Elm-08.

The recorded cause was a missing-index error.

Using Node Hazel-14, Atlas-3B produced 0.819 accuracy on SignalSet-3 for Project Meridian on 2026-05-26.

For evidence retrieval, the 2026-05-14 note says Project Sonata went with Aster-8B.

The staffing note for Project Aster was dated 2026-05-12.

It named Dr. Noah Vale for the lead duties.

Project Nereid ran Kestrel-7B on OrionBench-3 using Node Birch-04 on 2026-06-27.

The reported macro F1 was 0.672.

On 2026-06-26, Project Nereid shifted Milestone J1: 2026-07-21 became 2026-07-26.

The staffing note for Project Anchor was dated 2026-05-05.

It named Kira Iyer for the evaluation owner duties.

The 2026-04-03 failure note says Vela-7B on Node Fir-10 failed for Project Sonata because of an out-of-memory error.

The 2026-04-18 method entry for Project Saffron moved from reward reranking to data mixing.

Project Update 213


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Project Meridian recorded a model choice for claim classification on 2026-05-28.

The chosen model was Kestrel-8B.

Milestone H1 for Project Aster was revised on 2026-06-23.

The schedule moved from 2026-07-02 to 2026-07-11.

Aster-7B was the model selected by Project Sonata on 2026-05-31 for the evidence retrieval track.

The staffing note for Project Meridian was dated 2026-04-13.

It named Camila Quinn for the evaluation owner duties.

Project Sonata logged a personnel update on 2026-04-14: Sofia Frost took the lead responsibilities.

Quartz-8B was the model selected by Project Sonata on 2026-05-15 for the claim classification track.

Milestone T1 for Project Anchor was revised on 2026-04-17.

The schedule moved from 2026-04-27 to 2026-05-03.

Lab Digest 214


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

The staffing note for Project Saffron was dated 2026-04-14.

It named Owen Marin for the data steward duties.

River-8B was the model selected by Project Anchor on 2026-05-17 for the evidence retrieval track.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for evidence retrieval on 2026-04-22.

The chosen model was Atlas-3B.

Project Sonata logged a personnel update on 2026-04-06: Dr. Jonas Nolan took the retrieval owner responsibilities.

For calibration, the 2026-06-05 note says Project Anchor went with Lumen-3B.

Project Aster logged a personnel update on 2026-06-29: Dr. Noah Vale took the lead responsibilities.

Project Saffron had a method update on 2026-04-26.

The old approach was query rewriting, and the replacement was sentence pruning.

Project Update 215


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

Project Sonata received 1 GPU from Node Willow-05 in the 2026-06-17 allocation log.

For Project Nereid, the run using Kestrel-3B on Node Birch-04 did not complete on 2026-06-04; the issue was an unstable-validation-loss error.

The 2026-05-21 compute note links Node Birch-04 to Project Meridian with an allocation of 4 GPUs.

Project Aster recorded a model choice for error analysis on 2026-04-09.

The chosen model was Finch-3B.

The 2026-05-26 result for Project Meridian put Cedar-7B on VestaLogs-2 at 0.741 latency efficiency score, with Node Laurel-11 handling the run.

The 2026-05-21 failure note says Mira-7B on Node Sycamore-13 failed for Project Sonata because of an out-of-memory error.

For reranking, the 2026-06-25 note says Project Nereid went with Nova-8B.

Lab Digest 216


The record combines operational updates with experiment outcomes from the synthetic lab archive.

Helix-8B was the model selected by Project Anchor on 2026-04-28 for the claim classification track.

Project Aster had a failed run on 2026-05-21 involving River-8B and Node Rowan-09.

The recorded cause was an unstable-validation-loss error.

On 2026-05-04, Project Aster shifted Milestone B1: 2026-05-15 became 2026-05-10.

A compute allocation for Project Aster was logged on 2026-05-30.

Node Rowan-09 supplied 1 GPU.

On 2026-05-27, Project Nereid shifted Milestone J1: 2026-06-11 became 2026-06-07.

The 2026-05-23 result for Project Nereid put Nimbus-3B on TraceEval-2 at 0.678 evidence F1, with Node Elm-08 handling the run.

The 2026-05-23 compute note links Node Juniper-06 to Project Aster with an allocation of 1 GPU.

The 2026-04-03 compute note links Node Willow-05 to Project Saffron with an allocation of 2 GPUs.

The review note for Stable Chains Study 2 was dated 2026-04-15.

It described the method as chain verification and said it did not use a reward model.

Project Update 217


This note consolidates several project, model, compute, and review updates from the lab records.

Project Aster logged a personnel update on 2026-04-20: Talia Reed took the retrieval owner responsibilities.

Project Sonata logged a personnel update on 2026-04-12: Mara Quinn took the lead responsibilities.

The 2026-05-25 result for Project Anchor put Orchid-3B on LumenFacts at 0.785 latency efficiency score, with Node Cedar-02 handling the run.

The staffing note for Project Sonata was dated 2026-05-12.

It named Rohan Singh for the retrieval owner duties.

Project Saffron received 4 GPUs from Node Pine-07 in the 2026-05-23 allocation log.

The 2026-05-21 failure note says Helix-7B on Node Poplar-12 failed for Project Aster because of an out-of-memory error.

For Project Sonata, the run using Aster-8B on Node Willow-05 did not complete on 2026-06-20; the issue was an unstable-validation-loss error.

Lab Digest 218


The digest below mixes staffing, schedule, model, and evaluation details from different workstreams.

For calibration, the 2026-06-28 note says Project Anchor went with Lumen-8B.

Using Node Pine-07, Quartz-3B produced 0.562 macro F1 on OrionBench for Project Sonata on 2026-05-02.

In the 2026-04-26 staffing section, Project Nereid listed Dr. Julian Stone as the retrieval owner.

Project Nereid recorded a model choice for claim classification on 2026-04-08.

The chosen model was Kestrel-3B.

The 2026-04-23 failure note says Kestrel-7B on Node Birch-04 failed for Project Meridian because of a checkpoint-mismatch error.

On 2026-04-19, Project Sonata retired metric smoothing in favor of hard-negative mining.

Using Node Cedar-02, Orchid-8B produced 0.815 accuracy on LumenFacts for Project Anchor on 2026-06-01.

Project Update 219


Using Node Willow-05, Aster-8B produced 0.724 evidence F1 on RiverBench-3 for Project Sonata on 2026-06-14.

Using Node Sycamore-13, Mira-8B produced 0.643 latency efficiency score on MemoTrace-2 for Project Saffron on 2026-04-21.

Project Nereid's Milestone V1 deadline change on 2026-04-16 replaced 2026-04-27 with 2026-04-22.

Milestone T1 for Project Anchor was revised on 2026-04-10.

The schedule moved from 2026-04-30 to 2026-05-08.

Project Anchor had a failed run on 2026-05-07 involving Finch-7B and Node Juniper-06.

The recorded cause was a missing-index error.

Using Node Rowan-09, River-8B produced 0.869 accuracy on SignalSet-2 for Project Anchor on 2026-04-07.

Run Brief 220