Nishi Compare -- Frontier Radar: Sovereign Model Lifecycle (Modelwright)

Where the 2025/26 research frontier is moving, and where Nishi should test, deepen, or research next.

How this works. The nishi researcher banked the current (2024-2026) frontier for this domain over sovereign TLS (keyless OpenAlex/arXiv). For each capability axis this radar measures frontier momentum = how often the frontier corpus mentions it, times our organ presence (probed on disk). Absent + hot = a research opportunity / where to test. Corpus measured: 2201426 bytes. Generated by nx_swcompare_gapmap over a data-only domain spec (modelwright.q + modelwright.axes) — zero domain-specific code.

Top research opportunities (the 2025/26 frontier is active here and Nishi has no organ yet):

RLHF / DPO preference alignment — frontier momentum 120
Standardized eval harness — frontier momentum 89
LoRA / parameter-efficient fine-tuning — frontier momentum 61
Instruction fine-tuning (SFT) — frontier momentum 46
Large-scale pretraining — frontier momentum 32
GPU / CUDA training — frontier momentum 10
Distributed tensor-parallel training — frontier momentum 2

Capability axis	Nishi organ	Frontier momentum (2025/26)	Signal
RLHF / DPO preference alignment	absent	120 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Standardized eval harness	absent	89 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Reverse-mode autodiff training substrate	present	80 mentions	COVERED
LoRA / parameter-efficient fine-tuning	absent	61 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Integer K-quant weights	present	54 mentions	COVERED
Instruction fine-tuning (SFT)	absent	46 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Large-scale pretraining	absent	32 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Transformer forward (100 percent integer no-float)	present	15 mentions	COVERED
Served chat API	present	11 mentions	COVERED
GPU / CUDA training	absent	10 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Distributed tensor-parallel training	absent	2 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
BPE tokenizer training	present	0 mentions	COVERED
SIMD integer GEMM	present	0 mentions	COVERED
Open-weights GGUF loading	present	0 mentions	COVERED

frontier momentum is a mechanical keyword count over real 2024-2026 works; our presence is probed on disk. A discovery signal, not a ranking of importance. Zero JS, zero trackers.

Frontier Radar — Sovereign Model Lifecycle (Modelwright)