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license: cc-by-nc-4.0
language: en
tags: [authorship, fine-tuned, book-of-mormon-authorship, 1780-1830]
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# Candidate and control models (BOM-28)

One fine-tuned copy of the time-locked model per candidate author's sample (`cand__...`) and per
control group (`ctrl__...`), at 125M (`pilot/`), 297M (`base/`) and 590M (`mid/`), as scored on the
sealed Book of Mormon text in the blind run (Amendment 30). Each `.pt` is a state dict for the
base model's architecture (load with `torch.load(path, weights_only=True)` into the matching
time-locked model); the `.json` beside it is its training record and held-out scores (numbers
only). `alm_candidates_<size>.json` is each size's validation, `alm_candidates_plan.json` the
units. Some candidate samples come from Joseph Smith Papers transcripts, which are not published;
the models are (owner's decision, 2026-11-09).

Folders: `pilot/`, `base/`, `mid/` are the registered run's models. `a43/<size>/` are the models
retrained after Book of Mormon quotations were removed from the candidate samples (Amendment 43,
post hoc; the paper's corrected rankings). `a44/` holds the models of Joseph Smith's pooled
non-revelatory writing (Amendment 44) and `a44/a45/` the equal-dose slice models (Amendment 45),
each named `<unit>[_slice<k>]_<size>.pt`.

## About

Part of an open, pre-registered study of the authorship, borrowing and dating of the
earliest Book of Mormon text (https://github.com/lifehug/book-of-mormon-authorship; pre-registration https://osf.io/6ugxc/). The project does not argue for or
against divine inspiration. Everything is published so it can be checked and redone; the corpus
texts we agreed to keep private are not, and the repository's `docs/replication.md` gives the
steps to obtain the same access.

**Licence:** CC BY-NC 4.0. **Training data:** English printed 1780-1830 (Internet Archive, Harvard
Institutional Books 1.0, HathiTrust public-domain volumes, Text Creation Partnership), with the
Book of Mormon and everything after 1830 removed; see the base model cards
(`etherfuse/timelocked-1830-125m`). Contains derivatives of Harvard Institutional Books 1.0,
Institutional Data Initiative, Harvard Law School Library; used for noncommercial research.
**Checksums:** every file's SHA-256 is in the GitHub repository, `data/manifests/hf_<repo>.jsonl`.