Soft Stopping Conditions for Long Training Runs

Abstract

Hard stopping conditions — those that halt a run the moment a tripwire is crossed — are appropriate for short or moderate-length runs but produce expensive false-positive halts on training runs that span multiple weeks. We introduce soft stopping conditions: a calibrated, signed-by-paired-cell escalation protocol in which an intermediate trip raises a flag rather than halts the run, while preserving the option of subsequent escalation. We discuss when soft stops are appropriate, when they are not, and how the MUR protocol is amended to support them.

Index metadata

Cell

godel-02

Compute

redacted

Status

Open release with companion redacted appendix

Companion

MUR protocol 25/05 v2 amendment

DOI

10.48550/arXiv.2512.07221

arXiv

arXiv:2512.07221

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