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nano-gpt-data-curation

gpt-5.6-sol

nano-gpt-data-curation — graded by the task's verifier against a measured baseline.

backend
modal
variant
codex azure_ai/gpt-5.6-sol
metric
held-out multi-domain perplexity
actions
202
duration
53m
recorded
2026-08-04

run iddclm-nano-curation__KgMs7QW

Everything gpt-5.6-sol did on this task, in order.

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#101
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{
  "input": "const r = await tools.write_stdin({session_id:27381,chars:\"\",yield_time_ms:1000,max_output_tokens:1000}); text(r.output);\n"
}
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/workspace/pack_selection.py", line 14, in <module>
    sel = json.load(open(SEL))
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/sel_aff2.json'
#102
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{
  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"bash /workspace/dev_eval.sh /tmp/sel_aff2.0.json\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":1000,\"max_output_tokens\":1000}); text(r.output); if(r.session_id) text(`SESSION_ID=${r.session_id}`);\n"
}
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SESSION_ID=77944
#103
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{
  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"python3 - <<'PY'\\nimport json,re,collections\\nsets={x:set(json.load(open(f'/tmp/sel_aff{x}.json'))[:15000]) for x in [.8,1.5,2.0,3.0]}; sets['raw']=set(range(15000))\\nkeys={'tech':[' software ',' code ',' function ',' server ',' python ',' database ',' error '], 'news':[' said ',' minister ',' police ',' government ',' reported ',' officials '], 'encyc':[' born ',' species ',' population ',' century ',' located ',' known as ']}\\nc={k:collections.Counter() for k in sets}\\nfor line in open('/workspace/data/pool.jsonl'):\\n d=json.loads(line); t=' '+d['text'].lower()+' '\\n for label,s in sets.items():\\n  if d['id'] in s:\\n   c[label]['chars']+=len(t); c[label]['n']+=1\\n   for dom,terms in keys.items(): c[label][dom]+=any(w in t for w in terms)\\nfor k,v in c.items(): print(k,{x:round(v[x]/v['n'],3) for x in keys},'chars/doc',v['chars']//v['n'])\\nPY\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":30000,\"max_output_tokens\":2000}); text(r.output);\n"
}
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0.8 {'tech': 0.093, 'news': 0.245, 'encyc': 0.13} chars/doc 3111
1.5 {'tech': 0.094, 'news': 0.254, 'encyc': 0.133} chars/doc 3177
2.0 {'tech': 0.096, 'news': 0.262, 'encyc': 0.134} chars/doc 3195
3.0 {'tech': 0.096, 'news': 0.278, 'encyc': 0.138} chars/doc 3242
raw {'tech': 0.092, 'news': 0.234, 'encyc': 0.127} chars/doc 3086
#104
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{
  "input": "let{output,...rest}=await tools.write_stdin({session_id:77944,chars:\"\",yield_time_ms:30000,max_output_tokens:1000});text(rest);text(output);\n"
}
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#105
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{
  "cell_id": "73",
  "yield_time_ms": 30000,
  "max_tokens": 1000
}
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{"chunk_id":"ff785d","wall_time_seconds":30.002477478,"session_id":77944,"original_token_count":62}Token indices sequence length is longer than the specified maximum sequence length for this model (1043 > 1024). Running this sequence through the model will result in indexing errors
packed 12000000 tokens from 182016 ids -> /tmp/dev_train.npy
#106
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{
  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"sleep 60; stat -c %y /tmp/dev.json; cat /tmp/dev.json\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":30000,\"max_output_tokens\":1000}); text(r.output);\n"
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#107
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{
  "cell_id": "74",
  "yield_time_ms": 30000,
  "max_tokens": 1000
}
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#108
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{
  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"ps aux | rg train_nano.py | tail -2; stat -c %y /tmp/dev.json; cat /tmp/dev.json\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":10000,\"max_output_tokens\":1000}); text(r.output);\n"
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root      3002  0.0  0.0  12852  6640 ?        Ss   01:32   0:00 /bin/bash -c ps aux | rg train_nano.py | tail -2; stat -c %y /tmp/dev.json; cat /tmp/dev.json
root      3004  0.0  0.0  17932 10136 ?        S    01:32   0:00 rg train_nano.py
2026-08-04 01:30:36.411335434 +0000
{"train_npy": "/tmp/dev_train.npy", "heldout_ppl": 439.91632977334825, "mean_loss": 6.08658454922365, "max_iters": 3000, "seed": 1337, "train_s": 55.5}
#109
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{
  "input": "let{output,...rest}=await tools.write_stdin({session_id:77944,chars:\"\",yield_time_ms:1000,max_output_tokens:1000});text(rest);text(output);\n"
}
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{"chunk_id":"bb28e2","wall_time_seconds":2.054335092,"exit_code":0,"original_token_count":38}HELDOUT_PPL 431.963  loss 6.0683  train_s 56  /tmp/dev_train.npy
(dev PPL on multi_dev; official uses a hidden disjoint sample of the same HQ domain)
#110
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{
  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"bash /workspace/dev_eval.sh /tmp/sel_aff3.0.json\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":1000,\"max_output_tokens\":1000}); text(r.output); if(r.session_id) text(`SESSION_ID=${r.session_id}`);\n"
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SESSION_ID=88195
#111
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{
  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"python3 - <<'PY'\\nimport json\\nrows=[]\\nfor x in open('/tmp/aff.tsv'):\\n i,a=x.split(); rows.append((int(i),float(a)))\\nfor lam in [4.0,5.0,7.0,10.0]:\\n rank=sorted(rows,key=lambda x:x[0]/18000-lam*x[1])\\n json.dump([i for i,a in rank]+list(range(60000,182016)),open(f'/tmp/sel_aff{lam}.json','w'))\\n print(lam,max(i for i,a in rank[:15000]),rank[:3])\\nPY\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":10000,\"max_output_tokens\":1000}); text(r.output);\n"
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4.0 46689 [(12743, 0.44782715863306), (12485, 0.32792358510682273), (6790, 0.2247900014323361)]
5.0 58452 [(12743, 0.44782715863306), (12485, 0.32792358510682273), (6790, 0.2247900014323361)]
7.0 59898 [(12743, 0.44782715863306), (12485, 0.32792358510682273), (6790, 0.2247900014323361)]
10.0 59916 [(12743, 0.44782715863306), (12485, 0.32792358510682273), (6790, 0.2247900014323361)]
#112
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{
  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"python3 - <<'PY'\\nimport json\\nwant={12743,12485,6790}\\nfor x in open('/workspace/data/pool.jsonl'):\\n d=json.loads(x)\\n if d['id'] in want: print('\\\\n',d['id'],len(d['text']),repr(d['text'][:1200]))\\nPY\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":30000,\"max_output_tokens\":4000}); text(r.output);\n"
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 6790 584 'ATA_ID_STRING(9) libata Library ATA_ID_STRING(9)NAMEata_id_string - Convert IDENTIFY DEVICE page into string\nvoid ata_id_string(const u16 * id, unsigned char * s, unsigned int ofs,\nunsigned int len);\nIDENTIFY DEVICE results we will examine\nstring into which data is output\noffset into identify device page\nlength of string to return. must be an even number.\nThe strings in the IDENTIFY DEVICE page are broken up into 16-bit\nchunks. Run through the string, and output each 8-bit chunk linearly,\nregardless of platform.\nCOPYRIGHTKernel Hackers Manual 2.6. November 2013 ATA_ID_STRING(9)'

 12485 463 'Disable the server cache\nIn order to disable the cache in the server and let the files be served each time, disable PageSpeed for Apache and OPCache for PHP, enabled by default.\nTo disable PageSpeed, comment out the following lines in your httpd.conf (installdir/apache2/conf/httpd.conf)\n#Include conf/pagespeed.conf #Include conf/pagespeed_libraries.conf\nTo disable OPCache, change opcache.enable in your php.ini file and set it to 0 (installdir/php/etc/php.ini)'

 12743 531 "ZF-5830: Zend_Db_Table_Select doesn't allow use of $select->columns('..')\nZend_Db_Table_Select doesn't allow use of $select->columns('..')\ncode fragment: $tbl = new Category_Table(); $select = $tbl->select()->columns('id');\nResults: Zend_Db_Select_Exception: No table has been specified for the FROM clause in /usr/share/php/Zend-1.7.5/Db/Select.php on line 224\nExpected: Zend_Db_Table_Select should already have a table when created from a Zend_Db_Table_Abstract.\nBug?: Zend_Db_Table_Select's from clause isn't set till assemble()"
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{
  "input": "let{output,...rest}=await tools.write_stdin({session_id:88195,chars:\"\",yield_time_ms:30000,max_output_tokens:1000});text(rest);text(output);\n"
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#114
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{
  "cell_id": "80",
  "yield_time_ms": 30000,
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{"chunk_id":"e53792","wall_time_seconds":30.001184619,"session_id":88195,"original_token_count":62}Token indices sequence length is longer than the specified maximum sequence length for this model (1043 > 1024). Running this sequence through the model will result in indexing errors
packed 12000000 tokens from 182016 ids -> /tmp/dev_train.npy
#115
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{
  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"sleep 60; ps aux | rg train_nano.py | tail -2; stat -c %y /tmp/dev.json; cat /tmp/dev.json\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":30000,\"max_output_tokens\":1000}); text(r.output);\n"
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#116
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{
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#117
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{
  "input": "let{output,...rest}=await tools.write_stdin({session_id:88195,chars:\"\",yield_time_ms:1000,max_output_tokens:1000});text(rest);text(output);\n"
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{"chunk_id":"d6ce0b","wall_time_seconds":5.001578702,"session_id":88195,"original_token_count":0}
#118
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{
  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"ps aux | rg 'train_nano.py|dev_eval.sh' | tail -4; stat -c %y /tmp/dev.json; cat /tmp/dev.json\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":10000,\"max_output_tokens\":1000}); text(r.output);\n"
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Warning: truncated output (original token count: 1306)
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root       273  0.9  0.0 661496 358604 ?       Sl   01:11   0:13 /usr/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@openai/codex-linux-x64/vendor/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/bin/codex exec --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox --skip-git-repo-check --model azure_ai/gpt-5.6-sol --json --enable unified_exec -c model_reasoning_effort=high -c model_reasoning_effort=high -c request_max_retries=12 -c stream_max_retries=12 -c stream_idle_timeout_ms=600000 -- # Task: Curate a raw web corpus to train the best small language model  ## Context You are assembling the pretraining data for a small language model. You have a large pool of **raw web documents** at `/workspace/data/pool.jsonl` — one JSON object per line: `{"id": <int>, "text": "..."}`. The documents are unlabeled. The pool holds **182,016 documents (~200M GPT-2 tokens total)**.  Compute is fixed: the model is trained on a **fixed budget of 12,000,000 tokens** — only ~6% of the pool, far smaller than the whole thing. So you cannot train on everything: you must decide *which* documents are worth training on. The training pipeline tokenizes your selection (GPT-2 BPE) in priority order and stops once it has accumulated 12M tokens.  ## Goal Curate the pool: choose the documents that, trained on under the fixed budget, produce the **best language model**. Quality is measured by **held-out perplexity on a BROAD, multi-domain high-quality English target** — equal parts encyclopedic (Wikipedia), general high-quality web prose, news, and technical Q&A. This is your disclosed target: select data that makes the model good across *all* of these registers, not just one. Lower perplexity is better.  ## Deliverables 1. `/workspace/submission/selection.json` — a JSON list of pool `id`s to train    on, in **priority order** (best first). The training pipeline consumes your    list in order until the **12M-token** budget is filled, then trains. Provide    enough ids to cover at least 12M tokens (a few hundred MB of text is a…306 tokens truncated…t. - No internet. The pool's documents are freshly assembled; you cannot look up   any quality labels — any quality signal must come from your own analysis.  ## How you are scored Official: your selection fills the fixed token budget, the frozen script trains the 30M GPT from scratch, and the verifier measures the **absolute held-out perplexity on the hidden high-quality target** (a different sample from the disclosed domain than the dev set). That perplexity is your score. **Lower is better** — the goal is simply to push held-out perplexity as low as you can.  The verifier reports the raw perplexity and does no normalization. For reference and for a separate downstream normalization step, the benchmark records two fixed anchors: a **baseline** of held-out perplexity from a random selection (the do-nothing reference), and a **theoretical best** of perplexity 1 (the perplexity floor, unreachable in practice). Aim to get your held-out perplexity well below the random baseline.  ## Constraints - `selection.json` must be produced by `curate.py` from a stated criterion; an   opaque hand-picked id list fails the publishability check even if it scores well. - A selection with duplicate or out-of-range ids, or too few tokens to fill the   budget, is marked invalid (no score recorded) and excluded from ranking, so it   can't win and doesn't distort averages. 
root      3170  0.1  0.0  12852  6204 ?        Ss   01:34   0:00 /bin/bash -c sleep 60; ps aux | rg train_nano.py | tail -2; stat -c %y /tmp/dev.json; cat /tmp/dev.json
root      3234  0.0  0.0  12852  6332 ?        Ss   01:34   0:00 /bin/bash -c ps aux | rg 'train_nano.py|dev_eval.sh' | tail -4; stat -c %y /tmp/dev.json; cat /tmp/dev.json
root      3236  0.0  0.0  17932 10912 ?        S    01:34   0:00 rg train_nano.py|dev_eval.sh
2026-08-04 01:34:46.240582026 +0000
{"train_npy": "/tmp/dev_train.npy", "heldout_ppl": 432.6475217149027, "mean_loss": 6.069923358884031, "max_iters": 3000, "seed": 1337, "train_s": 55.4}
#119
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The curve has turned: weight 2.0 achieved 431.96, while 3.0 regressed to 432.65. I’ve bracketed the optimum and am checking one intermediate setting; this also confirms the rank prior is necessary to stop a target-word classifier from chasing lower-quality coincidences.

#120
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{
  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"python3 - <<'PY'\\nimport json\\nrows=[(int(i),float(a)) for i,a in (x.split() for x in open('/tmp/aff.tsv'))]\\nfor lam in [2.2,2.4,2.6]:\\n rank=sorted(rows,key=lambda x:x[0]/18000-lam*x[1])\\n json.dump([i for i,a in rank]+list(range(60000,182016)),open(f'/tmp/sel_aff{lam}.json','w'))\\nPY\\nbash /workspace/dev_eval.sh /tmp/sel_aff2.4.json\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":1000,\"max_output_tokens\":1000}); text(r.output); if(r.session_id) text(`SESSION_ID=${r.session_id}`);\n"
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{
  "input": "let{output,...rest}=await tools.write_stdin({session_id:7236,chars:\"\",yield_time_ms:30000,max_output_tokens:1000});text(rest);text(output);\n"
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{
  "cell_id": "85",
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{"chunk_id":"c8bfef","wall_time_seconds":30.00210599,"session_id":7236,"original_token_count":46}Token indices sequence length is longer than the specified maximum sequence length for this model (1043 > 1024). Running this sequence through the model will result in indexing errors
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{
  "input": "let{output,...rest}=await tools.write_stdin({session_id:7236,chars:\"\",yield_time_ms:30000,max_output_tokens:1000});text(rest);text(output);\n"
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{"chunk_id":"a004e9","wall_time_seconds":30.002233072,"session_id":7236,"original_token_count":16}packed 12000000 tokens from 182016 ids -> /tmp/dev_train.npy
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{
  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"sleep 60; stat -c %y /tmp/dev.json; cat /tmp/dev.json\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":30000,\"max_output_tokens\":1000}); text(r.output);\n"
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