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gpt-5.6-sol

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

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codex azure_ai/gpt-5.6-sol
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held-out multi-domain perplexity
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duration
1h 12m
recorded
2026-08-04

run iddclm-nano-curation__SMvDtRx

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

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  "input": "const r = await tools.write_stdin({session_id:32938,chars:\"\",yield_time_ms:30000,max_output_tokens:300}); text(r.output)\n"
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  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"while pgrep -f '^python train_nano.py' >/dev/null; do sleep 10; done; cat /tmp/w43res.json\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":30000,\"max_output_tokens\":500}); text(r.output)\n"
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{"train_npy": "/tmp/w43.npy", "heldout_ppl": 309.056701793824, "mean_loss": 5.733524761014392, "max_iters": 3000, "seed": 1337, "train_s": 55.6}
#255
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The bracket is clear: 4.0M encyclopedia / 2.75M web / 2.75M news / 2.5M Q&A is best at 299.96; moving to 5M worsens to 301.57, and 4.3M also regresses. I’m locking the 299.96 selection now, consolidating the full contrastive ranker and weighted token scheduler into the required reproducible script, then validating IDs and coverage.

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  "input": "const patch = \"*** Begin Patch\\n*** Add File: submission/curate.py\\n+#!/usr/bin/env python3\\n+\\\"\\\"\\\"Contrastive, domain-aware curation for a broad high-quality English target.\\n+\\n+Criterion: learn smoothed word/ngram log-odds from the four disclosed dev\\n+registers versus a deterministic raw-web sample; combine quality and register\\n+affinity, reject obvious scrape noise, deduplicate, then schedule a broad mix in\\n+token-fair priority order. No pool ID is special-cased.\\n+\\\"\\\"\\\"\\n+import collections, hashlib, heapq, json, math, os, re\\n+import numpy as np\\n+from transformers import GPT2TokenizerFast\\n+\\n+ROOT=os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))\\n+POOL=os.path.join(ROOT,'data','pool.jsonl')\\n+DEV=os.path.join(ROOT,'data','multi_dev.npy')\\n+OUT=os.path.join(ROOT,'submission','selection.json')\\n+WORD=re.compile(r\\\"[A-Za-z][A-Za-z']+\\\")\\n+tok=GPT2TokenizerFast.from_pretrained('gpt2',local_files_only=True)\\n+\\n+def features(text,limit=4000):\\n+    w=[z.lower() for z in WORD.findall(text)[:limit]]\\n+    return w+[w[i]+' '+w[i+1] for i in range(len(w)-1)]\\n+\\n+# The disclosed target has four equal contiguous quarters. Decode it into a\\n+# compact reference language model for quality and register, not document IDs.\\n+dev=np.load(DEV); dc=[collections.Counter() for _ in range(4)]; dn=[0]*4\\n+for k,a in enumerate(range(0,1_000_000,250_000)):\\n+    for text in tok.decode(dev[a:a+250_000]).split('<|endoftext|>'):\\n+        if len(text)>=300:\\n+            f=features(text); dc[k].update(f); dn[k]+=len(f)\\n+positive=sum(dc,collections.Counter()); npos=sum(dn)\\n+\\n+# Every sixth pool ID is a deterministic background sample. This makes weights\\n+# contrastive: generic raw-web/boilerplate language is not mistaken for quality.\\n+negative=collections.Counter(); nneg=0\\n+for line in open(POOL):\\n+    d=json.loads(line)\\n+    if d['id']%6==0 and len(d['text'])>=300:\\n+        f=features(d['text'],2000); negative.update(f); nneg+=len(f)\\n+\\n+# Requiring ten reference occurrences suppresses named-entity/topic overfit and\\n+# retains transferable style/register features.\\n+vocab={f for f,c in positive.items() if c>=10}; V=len(vocab); alpha=.2\\n+quality={f:math.log((positive[f]+alpha)/(npos+alpha*V))-\\n+           math.log((negative[f]+alpha)/(nneg+alpha*V)) for f in vocab}\\n+domain=[]\\n+for k in range(4):\\n+    notk=sum(dn)-dn[k]\\n+    domain.append({f:math.log((dc[k][f]+alpha)/(dn[k]+alpha*V))-\\n+                     math.log((positive[f]-dc[k][f]+alpha)/(notk+alpha*V))\\n+                   for f in vocab})\\n+\\n+NKEEP=30000; heaps=[[] for _ in range(4)]\\n+def keep(k,item):\\n+    h=heaps[k]\\n+    if len(h)<NKEEP: heapq.heappush(h,item)\\n+    elif item[0]>h[0][0]: heapq.heapreplace(h,item)\\n+\\n+for line in open(POOL):\\n+    d=json.loads(line); text=d['text']; words=WORD.findall(text); nw=len(words)\\n+    if nw<80 or len(text)<500: continue\\n+    ascii_prose=sum(c.isascii() and (c.isalpha() or c.isspace()) for c in text)/len(text)\\n+    if ascii_prose<.72: continue\\n+    f=features(text); den=len(f)\\n+    q=sum(quality.get(x,0.0) for x in f)/den\\n+    low=text.lower()\\n+    nav=sum(low.count(p) for p in ('cookie policy','sign in','log in','shopping cart',\\n+        'skip to content','privacy policy','all rights reserved','javascript is disabled',\\n+        'home about contact','livejasmin','toggle navigation'))\\n+    lines=text.splitlines(); short=sum(len(x.strip())<35 for x in lines)/max(1,len(lines))\\n+    maxfreq=max(collections.Counter(w.lower() for w in words).values())/nw\\n+    sentence_marks=sum(text.count(c) for c in '.?!')/nw\\n+    penalty=.14*nav+max(0,short-.60)*.55+max(0,maxfreq-.08)*3+max(0,.006-sentence_marks)*35\\n+    if len(text)>30000: penalty+=math.log(len(text)/30000)*.08\\n+    for k in range(4):\\n+        affinity=sum(domain[k].get(x,0.0) for x in f)/den\\n+        score=q+.80*affinity-penalty\\n+        if k==0: score+=.20*(text.count('|')>=4) # encyclopedia infobox evidence\\n+        if k==2: score+=.14*(('(Reuters)' in text) or ('(AP)' in text) or ('(IANS)' in text))\\n+        if k==3: score+=.80*('<p>' in text)+.40*(('<code>' in text) or ('<pre>' in text))\\n+        keep(k,(score,d['id'],len(text)))\\n+\\n+ranks=[sorted(h,reverse=True) for h in heaps]\\n+front=[[(s,i,n) for s,i,n in h if n<=20000][:15000] for h in ranks]\\n+candidate_ids={i for h in front for _,i,_ in h}; texts={}\\n+for line in open(POOL):\\n+    d=json.loads(line)\\n+    if d['id'] in candidate_ids: texts[d['id']]=d['text']\\n+\\n+# Exact GPT-2 lengths make the priority scheduler honor its mixture before the\\n+# frozen packer stops at 12M. Retain 14M coverage as a safety margin.\\n+lengths={}; ids=list(texts)\\n+for a in range(0,len(ids),128):\\n+    batch=ids[a:a+128]\\n+    enc=tok([texts[i] for i in batch],add_special_tokens=False,return_length=True,truncation=False)\\n+    for i,n in zip(batch,enc['length']): lengths[i]=n+1\\n+\\n+# Dev diagnostics showed encyclopedia was the residual bottleneck; the validated\\n+# 12M mix is 4.0M encyclopedia, 2.75M web, 2.75M news, 2.5M technical Q&A.\\n+weights=[4.0,2.75,2.75,2.5]; ptr=[0]*4; totals=[0]*4\\n+selection=[]; used=set(); fingerprints=set(); nonword=re.compile(r'\\\\W+')\\n+while sum(totals)<14_000_000:\\n+    k=min(range(4),key=lambda z:totals[z]/weights[z])\\n+    while ptr[k]<len(front[k]):\\n+        _,i,_=front[k][ptr[k]]; ptr[k]+=1\\n+        if i in used: continue\\n+        norm=nonword.sub('',texts[i].lower())\\n+        fp=hashlib.blake2b((norm[:600]+norm[-600:]).encode(),digest_size=12).digest()\\n+        if fp in fingerprints: continue\\n+        break\\n+    else: raise RuntimeError('candidate frontier exhausted before token budget')\\n+    selection.append(i); used.add(i); fingerprints.add(fp); totals[k]+=lengths[i]\\n+\\n+with open(OUT,'w') as f: json.dump(selection,f)\\n+print('wrote',len(selection),'unique IDs; scheduled domain tokens',totals)\\n*** End Patch\";\ntext(await tools.apply_patch(patch));\n"
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  "input": "const patch = \"*** Begin Patch\\n*** Add File: claim.md\\n+# Hypothesis\\n+\\n+At a 12M-token budget, a contrastively filtered and register-balanced subset will train a better broad English LM than either random web data or a single global “cleanliness” rank. The best mixture should modestly over-allocate encyclopedia text because it is the hardest disclosed register, while retaining substantial web, news, and technical Q&A coverage.\\n+\\n+# Mechanism\\n+\\n+Dev-supported n-grams that are uncommon in a deterministic raw-pool sample identify target-like prose; contrastive scoring suppresses generic boilerplate. Register-specific log-odds and format evidence recover all four target styles. Noise filters, document-length limits, and content fingerprints prevent menus, repetition, and duplicate pages from consuming scarce tokens. A weighted token-fair scheduler then gives approximately 4.0M encyclopedia, 2.75M general-web, 2.75M news, and 2.5M technical-Q&A tokens before the packer stops.\\n+\\n+Observable prediction independent of final hidden perplexity: compared with a random 12M-token sample, the selected prefix will have fewer navigation/privacy phrases, more sentence punctuation, fewer exact/near-exact duplicates, and clear representation of all four formats. In the frozen dev diagnostic, the predicted bottleneck is the encyclopedia quarter and the easiest quarter is technical Q&A.\\n+\\n+# Falsification\\n+\\n+The hypothesis is falsified if a fixed-seed random sample, a quality-only unbalanced rank, or an equal-token domain mixture consistently beats this selection on disjoint broad targets; or if the selected prefix does not exhibit the predicted noise reduction and register coverage. It is also weakened if removing contrastive background counts or deduplication has no adverse effect.\\n+\\n+# Transfer\\n+\\n+The method transfers to other raw pools and budgets without preserving any IDs: replace the reference corpus, learn the same target-versus-pool n-gram log-odds, estimate each target register's residual difficulty, and schedule ranked documents by token share. The noise and deduplication stages are corpus-agnostic; only register references and mixture weights need recalibration.\\n*** End Patch\";\ntext(await tools.apply_patch(patch));\n"
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  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"cp /tmp/mild.json submission/selection.json\\npython -m py_compile submission/curate.py\\npython - <<'PY'\\nimport json\\np='submission/selection.json'; x=json.load(open(p))\\nprint('ids',len(x),'unique',len(set(x)),'min',min(x),'max',max(x),'valid',len(x)==len(set(x)) and min(x)>=0 and max(x)<182016)\\nPY\\nsha256sum submission/selection.json /tmp/mild.json\\nls -lh submission/selection.json submission/curate.py claim.md\\ncat .timer/remaining_secs\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":10000,\"max_output_tokens\":2000}); text(r.output)\n"
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ids 19625 unique 19625 min 5 max 181997 valid True
252293f8501f561b568cadee2ec67f26b26c0d2e7daa0e9eaa8ac1cb1815b0f6  submission/selection.json
252293f8501f561b568cadee2ec67f26b26c0d2e7daa0e9eaa8ac1cb1815b0f6  /tmp/mild.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.1K Aug  4 02:11 claim.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.5K Aug  4 02:10 submission/curate.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136K Aug  4 02:11 submission/selection.json
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#259
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The required artifacts are now in place. The locked selection has 19,625 unique in-range IDs and is the exact candidate that packed to 12,000,000 tokens and achieved 299.96 dev perplexity (versus 476.71 random). I’m doing one final from-scratch reproducibility run of curate.py and comparing its output hash to the locked file.

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  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"cp submission/selection.json /tmp/locked.json; python submission/curate.py > /tmp/curate.log\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":1000,\"max_output_tokens\":500}); text(JSON.stringify(r))\n"
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{"chunk_id":"a4a727","wall_time_seconds":1.002070422,"session_id":59548,"original_token_count":0,"output":""}
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