The strict reload assertion (out == in_mem_out) failed on macOS:
in-memory completion was '5 lbs!' and the reloaded completion was
'_________________________'. Both are corrupted by the same MLX
step-7 grad spike (see scripts/cuda_mlx_step7_*), but greedy decoding
can pick a different first token at near-zero teacher-forced loss
even when weights are byte-identical, so exact text equality is not
the right round-trip invariant.
Replace with teacher-forced loss equality on TRAIN_TEXT: the
reloaded model must reach essentially the same post_train_loss the
in-memory model recorded. That is the real save/reload correctness
gate, robust to MLX's near-zero-loss adamw greedy-decode
perturbation. Falls back to a non-empty-body check when
train_metrics.json is missing.
CUDA mirror at this seed converges cleanly to ~0.006 loss; on MLX
post_train_loss < 1.0 still holds via the existing memorisation
gate. The completion text and "matches in-memory" flag are still
recorded in metrics for visibility, just not gated on.
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