thank you from sharing negative results! this was something that was missing from the general competition I think

Inspired by parameter golf and speedrun approaches I make the case for picking loss functions like a wallclock for LoRA on AI safety targets. The result when I tried it was a functional distillation of an Sparse AutoEncoder into a 5.3MB probe. I have a technical writeup below about it if anyone is interested.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PagGF8roBJmjLunsX/competitiv...