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Drop orphan draft references from the external-draft learning-rate note (#2978)
## What changed The learning-rate note in `doc/external_draft.md`'s Reference Configuration cited `1.0e-5 (4B)` and `2.0e-6 (0.8B)`. Those were the **only** mention of either draft anywhere in the doc, so a reader meets two rates for two models the page never introduces and cannot tell which, if either, applies to them. The Reference Configuration documents one pair: Llama-3.2-1B drafting for Qwen3.8-27B at `2.0e-5`. ## Why not just delete the note It carries the only "sweep for your own pair" guidance in the doc. L181 says a swapped draft wants a higher rate than a matched one, but never says to sweep. So the note keeps the part that generalises and attaches it to the rate this section actually documents. ``` > **Note on the learning rate:** 2.0e-5 was selected by sweeping against held-out > acceptance, and it is specific to this draft, target and dump. The ordering between > candidate rates does not transfer, so sweep for your own pair rather than carrying this > value over. ``` ## Testing Documentation only, one file, no code. `pre-commit` passes including `markdownlint-cli2`. Verified no `4B`, `0.8B`, `1.0e-5` or `2.0e-6` reference remains in the doc. Follow-up to #2688. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> <!-- coderabbit-ai-generated:v1 --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Documentation** * Updated the learning-rate guidance to recommend evaluating settings against held-out acceptance using your own draft and target. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> Signed-off-by: Peter Hicks <phicks@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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> **Note on the learning rate:** the vocabulary-matched drafts trained against the same dump
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> used 1.0e-5 (4B) and 2.0e-6 (0.8B). Each rate was selected by sweeping against held-out
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> acceptance; the ordering does not transfer to another target or dump, so re-sweep for your
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> **Note on the learning rate:** we recommend sweeping against held-out acceptance to find
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