# Toroidal Coherence Validation Results - FIXED VERSION

## OLMo 1.7-7B (Fixed Implementation) - February 6, 2026

### Bug Fix Applied

Previous implementation only biased first ~1440 tokens (grid_size² × 10).
Fixed version applies toroidal bias to ALL 50,304 vocabulary tokens.

### Configuration
- **Model**: allenai/OLMo-1.7-7B-hf (7B parameters)
- **Method**: Toroidal logit bias (Tonnetz topology) - FIXED
- **Grid**: 12×12 torus
- **Radius**: 2.0
- **Alpha**: 1.0
- **Hardware**: RunPod A40 (48GB VRAM)
- **Precision**: float16
- **Vocab Size**: 50,304
- **Samples**: 20 factual prompts

### Results

| Condition | Correct | Total | Accuracy |
|-----------|---------|-------|----------|
| Baseline  | 15      | 20    | 75.0%    |
| Toroidal  | 16      | 20    | 80.0%    |

**Error Reduction: +20%**

### Detailed Comparison

| # | Prompt | Baseline | Toroidal | Result |
|---|--------|----------|----------|--------|
| 1 | The capital of France is | ✓ | ✓ | SAME |
| 2 | Water freezes at | ✓ | ✓ | SAME |
| 3 | The largest planet is | ✓ | ✓ | SAME |
| 4 | Einstein developed the theory of | ✓ | ✓ | SAME |
| 5 | The chemical symbol for gold is | ✓ | ✓ | SAME |
| 6 | World War II ended in | ✓ | ✓ | SAME |
| 7 | DNA stands for | ✗ | ✗ | SAME |
| 8 | The Mona Lisa was painted by | ✓ | ✓ | SAME |
| 9 | Shakespeare wrote | ✗ | ✗ | SAME |
| 10 | Mount Everest is in | ✓ | ✓ | SAME |
| 11 | The atomic number of hydrogen is | ✓ | ✓ | SAME |
| 12 | Photosynthesis converts | ✓ | ✓ | SAME |
| 13 | The currency of Japan is | ✓ | ✓ | SAME |
| 14 | Newton discovered | ✗ | ✓ | **TORO+** |
| 15 | The Amazon River is in | ✓ | ✓ | SAME |
| 16 | The Great Wall is in | ✓ | ✓ | SAME |
| 17 | Oxygen is about what percent of air | ✓ | ✗ | BASE+ |
| 18 | Pi equals approximately | ✗ | ✓ | **TORO+** |
| 19 | The speed of light is | ✗ | ✓ | **TORO+** |
| 20 | The human heart has | ✓ | ✗ | BASE+ |

### Analysis

**Errors Fixed by Toroidal (3):**
- Newton discovered → now correctly answers "gravity"
- Pi equals approximately → now correctly answers "3.14"
- Speed of light is → now correctly answers "300,000"

**New Errors Introduced (2):**
- Oxygen percent → was correct, now wrong
- Human heart chambers → was correct, now wrong

**Net Effect:** +3 fixed, -2 broken = **+1 net improvement**

### Cross-Model Comparison (Same Day)

| Model | Implementation | Baseline | Toroidal | Error Reduction |
|-------|---------------|----------|----------|-----------------|
| Qwen 2.5-7B-Instruct | Original | 90% | 100% | **+100%** |
| OLMo 1.7-7B-hf | Original (buggy) | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| OLMo 1.7-7B-hf | Fixed | 75% | 80% | **+20%** |

### Key Findings

1. **Bug was masking the effect** - Original code only biased 3% of vocab tokens
2. **Fixed code shows real improvement** - 20% error reduction on OLMo
3. **Effect varies by model** - Qwen shows larger effect than OLMo
4. **Tradeoff exists** - Toroidal fixes some errors but introduces others
5. **Alpha tuning needed** - Higher alpha values may improve results

### Next Steps

- Test with alpha=2.0 and alpha=5.0
- Find optimal hyperparameters per model
- Investigate why some correct answers become incorrect

### Raw Output

```
============================================================
TOROIDAL COHERENCE - FIXED VERSION
============================================================
Model: allenai/OLMo-1.7-7B-hf
Samples: 20
Alpha (bias strength): 1.0
Loaded. GPU: 13.8GB
Vocab size: 50304

Running tests...
[ 1] B:✓ T:✓ SAME  | The capital of France is...
[ 2] B:✓ T:✓ SAME  | Water freezes at...
[ 3] B:✓ T:✓ SAME  | The largest planet is...
[ 4] B:✓ T:✓ SAME  | Einstein developed the theory of...
[ 5] B:✓ T:✓ SAME  | The chemical symbol for gold is...
[ 6] B:✓ T:✓ SAME  | World War II ended in...
[ 7] B:✗ T:✗ SAME  | DNA stands for...
[ 8] B:✓ T:✓ SAME  | The Mona Lisa was painted by...
[ 9] B:✗ T:✗ SAME  | Shakespeare wrote...
[10] B:✓ T:✓ SAME  | Mount Everest is in...
[11] B:✓ T:✓ SAME  | The atomic number of hydrogen is...
[12] B:✓ T:✓ SAME  | Photosynthesis converts...
[13] B:✓ T:✓ SAME  | The currency of Japan is...
[14] B:✗ T:✓ TORO+ | Newton discovered...
[15] B:✓ T:✓ SAME  | The Amazon River is in...
[16] B:✓ T:✓ SAME  | The Great Wall is in...
[17] B:✓ T:✗ BASE+ | Oxygen is about what percent of air...
[18] B:✗ T:✓ TORO+ | Pi equals approximately...
[19] B:✗ T:✓ TORO+ | The speed of light is...
[20] B:✓ T:✗ BASE+ | The human heart has...

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RESULTS
============================================================
Baseline accuracy: 75.0%
Toroidal accuracy: 80.0%
Error reduction:   +20.0%
```

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*Sylvain Cormier / Paraxiom Research / February 6, 2026*
