One arm is not a comparison. On the Brontë corpus Base won held-out loss (2.814
against the instruct arm's 2.908) while instruct won instruction-following, and
that trade is the open question for Skaldsong. It has to be re-measured on this
corpus rather than carried over: BabyYarros is 12% larger and contemporary.
Two entry points because the right one depends on a measurement rather than an
argument. The box has 98 GiB free against an 18.4 GiB training footprint, so VRAM
is not the constraint -- but VRAM was never the binding constraint on a GB10 that
onboarding measured at 6x slower than ana-ml2 where compute predicts 2.7x, and
where batching was not a throughput lever. If the box is already at its bandwidth
roofline, a second job splits the same bandwidth and buys nothing.
So: launch-yarros-4b-base.sh takes an explicit --allow-shared-gpu that bypasses
the GPU-clear guard, and chain-yarros-4b-base.sh waits on the instruct run and
refuses if it produced no adapter. The bypass is an argument and never a default,
because the guard's normal job -- stopping a chain from firing into a live run --
is what keeps one lost run from becoming two. A shared-GPU launch stamps its own
log with a warning that its s/it is not comparable to a solo run, since the
harness is part of the number.
Both carry the same gate guard as the instruct arm: refuse to start unless the
leak gate report on disk says PASSED.
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