16 Days, 4.7M Params, Zero Black Boxes: Building a White-box Chinese Cognition Engine from Scratch

Author: Wei Jinqi | June 16, 2026

Every time I use a large language model, the same thought nags at me: I have no idea what's happening inside.

95% accuracy? Great. But which weights fired? What linguistic features were extracted? Did it confuse "bank" (river) with "bank" (financial)? Nobody knows.

So I spent 16 days building a Chinese language engine where every weight has a reason and every decision is traceable.