diff --git a/training/apollo_mini.py b/training/apollo_mini.py
index f86d1bb..61c3e44 100644
--- a/training/apollo_mini.py
+++ b/training/apollo_mini.py
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ For each parameter tensor, maintains:
   - projected second moment (v): same shape
   - random projection matrix (regenerated from seed)
 
-rank=1 is Apollo-Mini (~50MB state for 27B model).
-rank=2-16 costs proportionally more memory but is still negligible.
-Compute cost of projection is <1% of forward+backward.
+Default rank=256 (full Apollo). ~10GB state for 27B model, <0.25%
+compute overhead vs forward+backward. Captures gradient structure
+across 100+ behavioral training examples per batch.
 """
 
 import torch
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class Apollo(Optimizer):
         scale_type: 'tensor' for tensor-wise, 'channel' for channel-wise
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, params, lr=1e-4, rank=1, betas=(0.9, 0.999), eps=1e-8,
+    def __init__(self, params, lr=1e-4, rank=256, betas=(0.9, 0.999), eps=1e-8,
                  weight_decay=0.01, warmup_steps=0, scale_type='tensor'):
         defaults = dict(lr=lr, rank=rank, betas=betas, eps=eps,
                         weight_decay=weight_decay,