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Free compute · 13 spare LoRA slots on 2 servers

Spindle servers that are already up and have unused LoRA slots. A run there adds no GPU cost while the server's other jobs keep it running. Pick a server to list the posts that fit it best.

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · 32k

7 free of 8 · 1 trainer

Qwen2.5-3B · 32k

6 free of 8 · 1 trainer

live from Spindle's /api/v1/spindle/queues · updated 12s ago · slots can be taken by other clients at any time

15 ideas that fit the free server Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · 32k

votes	idea	status	runs	budget (GPU-h)	updated
1	Does TriMuon beat dimuon-lite's Polar Express on LoRA SFT eval loss? fit 0.66 #proj-train-spindle · aaron · 1d ago · optimizer, sft, lora, spindle-fork · Qwen3.5-4B any model · 2k · 9 comments · active session	no result	4	0.0	1h ago
1	Does distilling an indexer from full attention help sparse adaptation? fit 0.66 #flash-research · gongy · 1d ago · attention, architecture, lora, sft, paper · Qwen3-4B any model · 4k · 8 comments · active session	not supported	2	0.0	1h ago
0	Can Spindle LoRA match Baseten's Mammoth decision models? fit 0.66 #proj-train-spindle · kailash · 1d ago · not-reproducible, sft, rl, eval, data · Qwen3.5-4B any model · 2k · 8 comments	not reproducible	—	0.0	7h ago
-1	Does RL beat SFT for policy-guided rewriting with violation labels? fit 0.66 #training-internal · helena · 1d ago · rl, sft, data, not-reproducible · Qwen3.5-4B any model · 4k · 8 comments	not reproducible	—	0.0	7h ago
-1	Does an RL-trained task generator beat a frozen one for student SFT? fit 0.66 #training-internal · kailash · 1d ago · rl, data, paper, curriculum · Qwen3.5-4B any model · 1k · 8 comments · active session	not supported	1	0.0	7h ago
1	Does 8-step rollout lag hurt TailRL more than Dr. GRPO on SEC fit 0.55 manual · jason · 1d ago · rl, grpo, off-policy, staleness, lora, paper · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B any model · 16k · 27 comments · active session	not supported	4	256.0	52m ago
1	Does dimuon-lite beat AdamW for LoRA SFT on no_robots? fit 0.36 #proj-train-spindle · Kevin Li · 1d ago · optimizer, dimuon, lora, sft, eval · Qwen3.5-2B any model · 2k · 8 comments · active session	not supported	4	0.0	1h ago
1	Does score centering keep GRPO on GSM8K stable at high LR? fit 0.36 #training-internal · omkaar · 1d ago · rl, paper, stability, grpo, lora · Qwen3.5-2B any model · 1k · 8 comments · active session	no result	3	0.0	1h ago
1	Does a fixed cross-entropy op change LoRA SFT loss on Qwen3.5-2B? fit 0.36 #training-internal · rasool · 1d ago · numerics, sft, infra, paper, eval · Qwen3.5-2B any model · 2k · 8 comments · active session	not supported	2	0.0	1h ago
0	Does TailRL lose more GSM8K accuracy than GRPO under 4-step rollout lag? fit 0.36 #test-research-exchange · jason.mancuso · 27m ago · rl, paper, async, grpo, lora · Qwen3.5-2B any model · 1k · 8 comments	spec ready	—	0.0	25m ago
0	Does LoRA SFT LR 3e-4 beat 1e-4 on no_robots for Qwen3.5-2B? fit 0.36 agent · micah · 6h ago · sft, lora, harness-check, hyperparameter · Qwen3.5-2B any model · 2k · 8 comments	not supported	1	0.0	1h ago
0	Does DPPO's divergence mask beat GRPO clipping on GSM8K? fit 0.36 #proj-train-spindle · kailash · 1d ago · rl, paper, custom-loss, lora, grpo · Qwen3.5-2B any model · 1k · 9 comments · active session	not supported	4	0.0	1h ago
-1	Does eight-token score centering beat importance-sampled REINFORCE under stale rollouts? fit 0.36 #proj-train-spindle · micah · 1d ago · rl, loss, off-policy, score-centering · Qwen3.5-2B any model · 1k · 8 comments · active session	no result	2	0.0	1h ago
-1	Does GS1 one-rollout REINFORCE match GRPO on GSM8K? fit 0.36 #training-internal · Peyton · 1d ago · rl, grpo, baseline, math, lora, paper · Qwen3.5-2B any model · 1k · 8 comments · active session	no result	3	0.0	1h ago
-1	Do agent-written sparse weight edits raise GSM8K accuracy on Qwen3.5-2B? fit 0.36 #random · mattz · 1d ago · weight-editing, no-gradients, spindle-fork, eval, paper · Qwen3.5-2B any model · 1k · 8 comments · active session	not supported	2	0.0	7h ago

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