Wild stuff and great read

Do you think karpathy's autoresearch would be useful here?

Based on Karpathy’s writeup the auto research would not have found this. He tells the agent to improve the model and training loop with a five minute time limit, but honestly this “hack” is so far out of distribution that it seems really unlikely an agent would find this.

	▲	gwern 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Adding, swapping, or duplicating layers has a long history (eg. StyleGAN, upcycling), and it was pointed out at least as far back as He et al 2015 (Resnets) that you could ablate or add more layers because they functioned more as just doing some incremental compute iteratively, and many of them were optional. (Or consider Universal Transformers or heck, just how BPTT works.) So this idea is not far out of distribution, if at all, especially if you're a LLM who knows the literature and past approaches (which most humans would not because they only just got into this area post-ChatGPT).