One Qwen3-VL-8B checkpoint improves all three streaming spatial benchmarks at once: OST-Bench 50.52 to 63.93 (+13.41), UCS-Bench +7.44, OVO-S-Bench +4.91. The change is in the supervision, with no new memory module or annotation.
The ChronoReplay paper calls the failure mode interface lock-in: post-train on one answer format and that readout improves while others stall. A categorical-only control hits 58.03 on OVO-S but drops OST from 50.52 to 47.48.
π The recipe β’ Keep targets in native formats (option, metric value with units, timestamp) β’ Replay episodes in source order, each target attached to its causal prefix β’ Loss mass: 2/3 on 33,180 single-turn examples, 1/3 on 6,381 episodes (alpha = 0.5)
π The numbers β’ Three-benchmark mean 56.86, against 50.74 (categorical-only) and 50.76 (trajectory-only) β’ Chronological order beats a shifted-order control by about 2.41 OST points on two seeds; the 13.41 belongs to the whole recipe β’ Adaptive frame selection adds +4.09 on OVO-S (57.98) with 80.50 frames instead of 128
β οΈ Caveats β’ One backbone, indoor scenes only; the single-family comparison is confounded by data coverage β’ The repo has a CPU smoke test and a --dry-run training command, but no license and no fine-tuned weights
We just released Vemana, a 278M Telugu base model trained from scratch, live in public, in about 16 hours on one H100. It learned from 5.1B tokens of public Telugu web text (Sangraha, FineWeb-2 and HPLT 3.0), seen about 2.4 times, so 12B tokens of training, with its own Telugu tokenizer.
On 416 Telugu Wikipedia pages written in Sep-Oct 2026, after nearly all the compared models were released, it scores 0.361 bits per byte. That is the lowest of every open base model under 1B we tested: nanochat-telugu-560M 0.383, Dhee-Pravega-OG Atom 0.393, Pothana Base v2 0.426, Gemma 3 1B 0.484. Same script and pages for every model, and the win rule was fixed before the run.
Sarvam-1 (2.5B) is still level or better, and on knowledge tests like Belebele and MILU Vemana is at chance, like most other small models. I think itβs most useful as a base for Telugu fine-tunes and for studying how a small model learns a language, so we put out all 12 checkpoints also. And you can run it right in your browser, on your own device.