vLLM teacher crash fixed; four kings dethroned
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Distil SN97 fixed a critical vLLM teacher crash affecting ~50% of evaluation rounds caused by Qwen3.x-A3B's hybrid Mamba/transformer architecture. A restart-and-resume loop (v30.3.4) dropped HF fallback rate from 50% to ~12% per round and achieved 47x speedup on one completed evaluation (226s vs 4736s). Four king models were also dethroned over 24 hours as challengers submitted stronger checkpoints; current king UID 6 (levikross127/131004_v1) earns ~142.7 τ/day.
- •vLLM 0.19.1 crashed mid-batch due to hybrid Mamba/transformer config; auto-restart loop now retries failed prompts only
- •Evaluation time improved from 79-minute HF fallback to 3.8-minute vLLM path; 47x speedup observed
- •UID 6 (levikross127/131004_v1) current king with 0.636 composite score; UID 166, 144, 201, 204 dethroned in sequence
- •Community flagged potential replay-commit attack (UID 33 registered later but same repo/revision as earlier UID); investigation pending
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