Built a training stability monitor that detects instability before your loss curve shows anything — open sourced the core today

Reddit r/artificial / 3/31/2026

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Key Points

  • The post describes a training stability monitor based on measuring curvature/trajectory bending in weight-update geometry to detect instability before loss diverges.
  • The method reportedly achieves strong results on a 30-seed benchmark, with a 100% detection rate and 0% false positives, detecting issues early.
  • It claims validation across seven neural network architectures, including DistilBERT, GPT-2, and ResNet-50.
  • The core of the detection approach has been open sourced as of today, with links provided in the comments for adoption and experimentation.

Been working on a weight divergence trajectory curvature approach to detecting neural network training instability. Treats weight updates as geometric objects and measures when the trajectory starts bending wrong — catches problems well before loss diverges.

Validated across 7 architectures including DistilBERT, GPT-2, ResNet-50. 100% detection rate, 0% false positives across a 30-seed benchmark.

Open sourced the detection core today. Links in comments.

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