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Measuring and repairing a checkpoint's surgery reserve

Two transformers with identical outputs can respond very differently to quantization, LoRA, or merging. Theseus detects and repairs the difference.

Shows that two transformers with identical outputs can respond very differently to quantization, LoRA, or merging, demonstrates the effect on real Qwen checkpoints, and provides tooling to detect and repair it, backed by an append-only evidence ledger.

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@misc{tbc_theseus,
  title = {Measuring and repairing a checkpoint's surgery reserve},
  author = {{TBC Research}},
  note = {F-007, catalogue version 1},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tbcresearch.org/research/theseus/}}
}
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