FORM Rescue: can response behavior improve at the same scale?

Question

Was the original 110M model's broken speaking behavior really a capacity problem, or had it simply never learned the response register?

Intervention

A FORM curriculum balanced the same semantic material across different response surfaces. The goal was not to claim reasoning, but to isolate termination, repetition control and usable answer form.

Result

On a 96-item treatment evaluation:

The broader historical V1.8 result record is being independently re-verified; this page therefore publishes only the FORM measurements directly supported by the trained evaluation artifact.

What we learned

The original speaking/interface failure could not be explained by parameter count alone. The same scale learned far more usable response behavior when the supervision register changed.

Boundary

This does not mean CONTENT or reasoning was solved. Better FORM does not by itself show correct content selection or transfer to new relations.