50 TECHNICAL REPORTS • OPEN METHODOLOGY • PEER-VERIFIED ARTIFACTS 53 Papers Live
Research & Publications We publish open technical reports, distillation methodologies, and evaluation harnesses alongside our datasets and weights. All benchmark harnesses and calibration scripts are reproducible.
Distillation CERN Zenodo / OpenAIRE (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23530592) October 2026
Shreyan Dushyant Gondaliya (Solstice-AI)
Non-Euclidean 4D Quaternion Rotor Attention mechanism replacing Euclidean dot-products with hyperspherical rotor manifolds on S³, slashing rotation drift and memory overhead in ultra-long contexts.
10.5281/zenodo.23530592 Zenodo DOI
10.5281/zenodo.23043500 Concept DOI
CERN / OpenAIRE Index
Hypersphere S³ Manifold
Sovereign Edge Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Architecture blueprints for running sub-8B autonomous tool agents on ruggedized edge compute (NVIDIA Jetson, Mac Studio) with 0% cloud egress.
94.2% Cloud Quality Match
0% Cloud Egress
Jetson/Mac Studio Hardware
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Empirical analysis proving Value vectors tolerate higher quantization noise than Query/Key vectors, unlocking asymmetric 3-bit cache configurations that achieve 9x compression with <0.5% perplexity degradation across 262k-token contexts.
9x (3.3 bits avg) Asymmetric Compression
<0.5% Perplexity Loss
Position-Adaptive Drift Compensation
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Preserving raw, unfiltered mathematical and procedural reasoning steps without synthetic refusal artifacts or tone clipping during multi-teacher distillation into compact sub-8B transformer models.
94.2% Artifact Reduction
98.7% Reasoning Preservation
+18.3% Chain Efficiency
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Injecting intentional compiler error logs and successful self-correction loops into synthetic datasets to teach student models autonomous debugging.
+8.3% Bug-Fix Accuracy
+12.1% Self-Correction Rate
150k Recovery Traces
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Streaming Hadamard transformation applied in sliding blocks to prevent numerical precision loss over million-token context streams.
1M tokens Context Length
<0.1% Precision Loss
4096 tokens Chunk Size
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
The technical methodology behind Solstice's Qwen3.8 Cold-Fusion GAIN model, merging specialized task vectors via layer-wise activation matching.
97.8% Combined Quality
Training-Free Model Merging
Qwen3.8 Base Model
Speculative Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Merging variable-length speculative draft chains across concurrent user streams in vLLM without thread divergence.
4.8x Throughput
32 Concurrent Users
Single RTX 4090 Hardware
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
An empirical investigation demonstrating that single-teacher distillation creates systemic reasoning blind spots in sub-8B student models, and that multi-teacher consensus loss across 7+ model families eliminates stylistic over-fitting while preserving cross-domain generalization.
94.7% Accuracy Recovery
23.4% Blind Spot Reduction
-61% Attention Variance
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Analyzing the parameter efficiency and capacity bottlenecks when compressing 671B Mixture-of-Experts reasoning into 3B/7B dense checkpoints, with a novel expert-aware distillation framework that preserves routing-dependent reasoning pathways.
94.8% MoE Recovery
+28.7% Routing Preservation
95x Compression Ratio
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Staging distillation from atomic single-turn queries up to 100-step multi-tool sandbox interactions to prevent student degradation on complex agent trajectories, achieving 24.6% accuracy improvement on long-horizon benchmarks.
+24.6% Long-Horizon Gain
98.8% Single-Turn Preservation
100 steps Max Trace Length
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
A framework for ensuring fixed seed reproducibility and bit-exact token generation across disparate hardware clusters.
100% Reproducibility
0 bits Hardware Variance
0 Drift Over 10k Runs
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
An open provenance standard embedding SHA256 checksums and source model seeds directly into Apache Parquet dataset metadata.
12.5M Traces Tracked
100% Reproducibility
Per-trace Attribution
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Skipping deeper transformer layers for boilerplate syntactic tokens (e.g. JSON punctuation, code indentation) during generation.
1.9x Throughput
40-60% of layers Layer Skipping
35% Tokens Skipped
Speculative Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Terminating speculative draft chains immediately when branch entropy exceeds a dynamic threshold to avoid wasted verification FLOPs.
38% FLOPs Saved
95.1% Throughput Retention
2.6x Speedup
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Using token-level entropy metrics to automatically discard hallucinatory or uncertain reasoning steps across ensemble teachers, reducing noise in synthetic distillation datasets by 34% while preserving 98.7% of high-confidence reasoning chains.
34.2% Noise Reduction
98.7% Chain Preservation
+9.4% Accuracy Gain
Verification Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Validating step-by-step mathematical theorems with formal interactive proof assistants to eliminate reasoning hallucinations in STEM corpora.
18.3% Hallucinations Detected
7.2% Invisible to Informal Check
+5.8% Math Accuracy Gain
KV Cache Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Custom MLX shader kernels optimizing memory bandwidth utilization and SIMD vector lanes on M-series unified memory chips for KV cache quantization.
3.8x Speedup vs MLX
7.1x Memory Reduction
99.4% NIAH Accuracy
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
A dynamic gradient weighting framework that resolves conflicting logits across diverse teacher architectures during student fine-tuning, achieving 12.3% accuracy improvement on reasoning benchmarks through gradient-space consensus.
87.3% Conflict Resolution
96.1% Signal Preservation
+12.3% Accuracy Gain
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Identifying the exact attention-layer entropy spikes that precede hallucinated tool calls and synthetic citations in frontier model outputs.
91.3% Detection Accuracy
4.2% False Positive Rate
+7.4% Factual Accuracy Gain
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Comprehensive financial analysis modeling capital expenditure, power consumption, and token volume amortized over 36 months for enterprise AI workloads.
12M tokens/month Break-Even
60-85% TCO Savings
36 months Analysis Period
KV Cache Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Combining attention-score eviction policies with TurboQuant 4-bit compression for a compound 8.2x reduction in context memory.
8.2x Compound Reduction
1.95 bits Effective Bits
+23% Synergy Gain
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Orchestrating multiple air-gapped specialized models (Coder, Planner, Verifier) communicating over local Unix domain sockets.
91.7% Cloud Quality Match
0% Cloud Dependency
32GB Memory
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Mathematical mapping of vocabulary probability distributions between Claude, Qwen, DeepSeek, and GPT tokenizers to enable lossless logit transfer in cross-architecture knowledge distillation.
97.3% Transfer Fidelity
34.2% Loss Reduction
6 Mapped Tokenizer Pairs
Speculative Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
An attention-masking formulation allowing models to verify self-generated candidate n-grams in a single forward pass.
2.4x Speedup
None (self-speculative) Draft Model
0% Memory Overhead
Speculative Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Using ultra-fast 1B Mixture-of-Experts models as low-latency speculative drafters for 27B and 35B dense target models.
2.7x Speedup
91.2% Acceptance Rate
1B MoE Draft Model
Speculative Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Using internal Gemma 4 and DeepSeek MTP auxiliary heads to generate draft verification trees without needing a secondary draft model.
2.8x Speedup
94.2% Acceptance Rate
0% (no draft model) Draft Overhead
Speculative Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Dynamic programming algorithms for constructing token verification trees that maximize acceptance rates on code and mathematical syntax.
3.1x vs linear Throughput
+23% vs Sequoia
Dynamic (4-16) Tree Depth
KV Cache Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Eliminating outlier activation spikes in attention heads via O(d log d) randomized Hadamard rotations to achieve lossless 3-bit and 4-bit KV caching for long-context LLM inference.
7.2x Memory Reduction
<0.3% Perplexity Loss
O(d log d) FWHT Overhead
KV Cache Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Identifying critical attention heads that retain needle-in-a-haystack accuracy and selectively preserving them in FP8 while compressing the remaining 95% of heads to 3-bit.
99.2% NIAH Accuracy
3.2 bits Avg Precision
5-8% Critical Heads
KV Cache Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Combining 4-bit KV caches with local quantized embedding indexes for zero-leakage local document question answering.
92.3% Retrieval Accuracy
800MB vectors Memory Usage
<2s end-to-end Latency
Sovereign Edge Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Deploying calibrated 27B and 35B models inside enterprise VPCs for quantitative modeling and proprietary codebase maintenance with 85% TCO savings.
92.4% Cloud Quality Match
85% TCO Savings
27B/35B Model Size
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Keeping quantized KV blocks in high-speed SRAM and dequantizing on-the-fly during matrix multiplication to bypass HBM memory bandwidth bottlenecks.
2.7x Throughput Gain
262k on H100 Context Length
4-bit compressed KV Cache
Verification Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Replacing human reward models with deterministic binary compiler return codes and runtime memory profiles for student model alignment.
+8.7% Code Accuracy Gain
+5.3% Math Accuracy Gain
0% Human Annotation
KV Cache Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Comprehensive benchmark measuring Wikitext-2 and Needle-in-a-Haystack metrics on LLaMA, Qwen, Gemma, and DeepSeek architectures under FWHT compression.
12 Architectures Tested
0.1-1.8% PPL Stability Range
3 Identified Predictive Factors
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
High-throughput containerized sandboxing framework evaluating real bash commands, file edits, and git operations in Manus/OpenHands traces.
200k Trajectories Audited
15.8% Tool Hallucinations
+11.4% Task Completion Gain
Sovereign Edge Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Adapting sub-8B models to interpret single-cell RNA sequencing data and clinical phenotyping directly on hospital intranet servers under strict HIPAA/PHI compliance.
89.3% Annotation Accuracy
100k cells / 5 min Processing Speed
Yes HIPAA Compliant
Verification Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Detecting semantically identical code implementations across multiple sources using Abstract Syntax Tree isomorphism rather than text similarity.
14.3% Semantic Redundancy
+64% vs Text Dedup
2M Code Examples
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Algorithmic framework combining MinHash LSH and exact SHA256 hashing to eliminate 20%+ synthetic redundancy in massive conversational corpora, with embedding-based semantic clustering for near-duplicate detection at trillion-token scale.
23.7% Redundancy Removed
847x Speedup
-31% Training Time
Sovereign Edge Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Designing low-level OS IPC layers for asynchronous model inference integrated directly into macOS and Linux system processes.
<100ms Response Time
0% Cloud Dependency
macOS + Linux Platforms
Speculative Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Co-training speculative draft heads alongside the primary student model to maximize draft-to-target token alignment, achieving +62% acceptance rate improvement.
96.8% Acceptance Rate
+62% Alignment Gain
3.2x Speedup
Speculative Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Proving speculative draft acceptance rates remain invariant even when the target model is quantized to 4-bit AWQ/GGUF.
94.1% INT4 Acceptance
91.7% INT3 Acceptance
Proven Invariance
Speculative Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Leveraging massive memory bandwidth (546 GB/s) on Apple Silicon to verify 6 speculative tokens concurrently with zero compute penalty.
3.4x Speedup
Apple M4 Max Hardware
None (self-drafting) Draft Model
Verification Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Executing Python AST and Rust compiler checks at each chain-of-thought step to prune hallucinated syntax before dataset curation.
12.7% Hallucination Removed
+4.3% Code Quality Gain
4 Supported Languages
Sovereign Edge Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Thermal, memory, and power profiling of sub-8B distilled models running mission-critical reasoning on NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano modules.
12.4W Power Consumption
87.3% Cloud Quality Match
Jetson Orin Nano Hardware
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Using symbolic computer algebra systems (CAS) to assert exact equality on intermediate algebraic steps in high-school and Olympiad math traces.
9.7% Hallucinations Detected
4.3% Invisible to Numerical Check
+4.1% MATH Accuracy Gain
Verification Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Randomly masking teacher outputs during multi-teacher distillation training forces the student model to learn invariant underlying logical structures rather than mimicking one teacher's surface tokens, improving out-of-distribution generalization by 18.6%.
+18.6% OOD Accuracy Gain
57% Compute Reduction
-43% Attention Variance
KV Cache Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Highly parallel GPU implementation of FWHT rotations reducing prefill latency overhead to under 1.2% of total compute time for KV cache quantization.
4.2x vs HadaCore Speedup
<1.2% Prefill Overhead
H100 Optimized GPU
KV Cache Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
The foundational architecture behind Anvil's memory engine, fusing rotated quantization with custom CUDA and Metal decompression kernels to achieve 6x KV cache compression with zero accuracy loss, enabling 262k-token context windows on consumer hardware.
6x (2.7 bits) Compression
<4GB VRAM Usage
8x Attention Speedup
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Guaranteeing that code distillation datasets pass automated containerized unit test suites across Python, Rust, Go, and C++.
1M examples Code Verified
4 (Python, Rust, Go, C++) Languages
+9.2% SWE-Bench Gain
Distillation Research Technical Report September 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
Empirical study measuring reasoning decay across STEM benchmarks when optimizing student models for general conversational fluencies, with a capability-preserving distillation framework that maintains 99.1% of teacher STEM performance.
99.1% STEM Preservation
101.3% Conversational Match
0.9% Degradation
Distillation Research Technical Report August 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
A comprehensive investigation into attention map divergence, reasoning token entropy, and layer-to-layer distillation across disparate transformer architectures.
86.4% Math-500 Accuracy
+14.8% vs KL Div Distillation Efficiency
50k Tasks Evaluation Benchmarks
Distillation Technical Specification & Dataset Report August 2026
Solstice-AI Research Team
A standardized methodology and open dataset for distilling cross-architecture reasoning, code generation, and agentic traces into efficient sub-8B parameter models.
12.59M Unique Conversations
137.7 GB Corpus Volume
60 Datasets Audited Sources
AGPL-3.0 License