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One Integer Deleted the Stop Token From My Loss. The Curve Never Noticed.

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For a long time I had a model that trained cleanly and produced nothing usable. The loss fell. Gradients were finite. Nothing crashed. It simply never learned to stop — every generation ran to the length cap and got truncated. The cause was two lines of my own source that were individually correct.…

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  1. 2026-08-31 16:37 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    One Integer Deleted the Stop Token From My Loss. The Curve Never Noticed.

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