From 3a51ee3f31b83dc6fc77b50bf56bdc14fb66cec9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ronald Tse <ronald.tse@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:05:24 +0800
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 # WO64 — B3: Arabic to external SOTA (DER < 2.0, WikiNews < 8)
 
-Status: PLANNED · launchable now
+Status: IN_PROGRESS (stage 1 running 2026-10-21)
+Stage 1 (synthesis): job rhtse/6ad82b055275124786e1feed — canonical
+teacher (p047 = run-047 = ara-diac-2.0 lineage) decoding the run-047
+corpus recipe, 290,575 stripped rows; script r8_noisy_student_hf.py on
+the training/wo31-wo36-campaign-scripts branch (#135/#136, self-
+contained durable decode). Stage 2: retrain on noisy-targets.jsonl.
 Goal: SadeedDiac DER < 2.0 (canonical 2.29), WikiNews multiref WER < 8
 (news specialist 8.85). VRR reported.
 Method: r8 noisy-student chain — synthesize with the canonical r7