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gpt-5.6-sol

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codex azure_ai/gpt-5.6-sol
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1h 13m
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2026-08-04

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

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{"chunk_id":"23975c","wall_time_seconds":24.776904229,"exit_code":0,"original_token_count":16,"output":"HELDOUT_PPL 354.826  loss 5.8716  train_s 56  /tmp/cand9.npy\n"}
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The conservative final shift regressed to 354.8, so the optimum is bracketed: 60/10/25/5 is better at 346.6. I’m reverting to that tested allocation, regenerating the exact selection, and then performing validity/reproducibility checks plus the required claim.

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{
  "input": "const patch = \"*** Begin Patch\\n*** Update File: /workspace/submission/curate.py\\n@@\\n-    weights={'encyclopedic':.65,'general':.10,'news':.20,'technical':.05}\\n-    quotas={'encyclopedic':38_000_000,'general':8_000_000,'news':14_000_000,'technical':4_000_000}\\n+    weights={'encyclopedic':.60,'general':.10,'news':.25,'technical':.05}\\n+    quotas={'encyclopedic':35_000_000,'general':8_000_000,'news':18_000_000,'technical':4_000_000}\\n*** End Patch\";\ntext(await tools.apply_patch(patch));\n"
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  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({\"cmd\":\"sed -n '1,220p' submission/curate.py\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":10000,\"max_output_tokens\":12000}); text(r.output)\n"
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Rank raw-web documents for a balanced, high-quality 12M-token mixture.

The criterion is fully text-derived: English/prose quality, scraper-noise penalties,
and four bounded register-affinity scores (encyclopedic, general prose, news,
technical Q&A). We rank globally by quality; affinity only breaks close ties so
that weak genre inference cannot force poor pages into the training set.
No pool ids or external labels are embedded in this program.
"""
import json, math, re, hashlib, collections
from pathlib import Path
import numpy as np
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

POOL = Path("/workspace/data/pool.jsonl")
OUT = Path("/workspace/submission/selection.json")

WORD = re.compile(r"[A-Za-z]+(?:'[A-Za-z]+)?")
SENT = re.compile(r"[.!?](?:[\"')\]]*)\s+[A-Z]")
COMMON = set("the of and to in a is that for it on as with was are by this be from or an at which have has but not their they its he she we you were can will would about into than more when who what how also one all other been had".split())
TECH = set("python java javascript csharp php ruby linux windows api database sql code function class method variable array string file server error compiler algorithm command shell html css git library framework object pointer query application software program programming".split())
ENC = set("species genus known located population history century region district river family born died established refers consists including according named became served university".split())
NEWS = set("said says told reported announced officials government president minister police company percent according monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday yesterday spokesman spokeswoman reporters".split())

def features(text, target_counts, target_total):
    low = text.lower(); ws = WORD.findall(low); n = len(ws)
    if n < 90: return None
    counts = {}
    for w in ws: counts[w] = counts.get(w, 0) + 1
    chars = max(1, len(text)); lines = text.splitlines()
    alpha = sum(c.isalpha() for c in text) / chars
    common = sum(counts.get(w, 0) for w in COMMON) / n
    uniq = len(counts) / n
    sentences = len(SENT.findall(text)) + text.count('.\n')
    avg_sent = n / max(1, sentences)
    short_lines = sum(len(x.strip()) < 35 for x in lines) / max(1, len(lines))
    repeats = max(counts.values()) / n
    target_ll = sum(math.log((target_counts.get(w, 0) + .2) / target_total) for w in ws) / n

    # Smooth quality score modeled after published web-corpus filtering rules.
    q = 0.0
    q += 5.0 * min(common, .18)
    q += 1.2 * min(alpha, .78)
    q += 0.8 * min(uniq, .55)
    q += 0.35 * math.log1p(min(n, 3500))
    q -= 2.0 * max(0, short_lines - .35)
    q -= 8.0 * max(0, repeats - .035)
    q -= 1.2 * (avg_sent < 8 or avg_sent > 55)
    q -= 1.0 * (text.count('|') / chars > .004)
    q -= 1.2 * (text.count('{') + text.count('}')) / max(30, n)
    bad = sum(low.count(x) for x in ('cookie policy','all rights reserved','toggle navigation','sign in','log in','privacy policy','javascript is disabled','404 not found','click here','related posts','view cart','subscribe to our newsletter'))
    q -= min(3.0, bad * .35)
    # Boilerplate/navigation produces many tiny lines and few real sentences.
    q -= 1.4 * (len(lines) > 25 and short_lines > .62)
    # The disclosed target supplies a broad English reference vocabulary.  Mean
    # unigram likelihood is deliberately capped: it rejects word-salad and
    # machine-spun SEO text without selecting documents merely by topic overlap.
    q += max(-4.0, min(2.0, 1.8 * (target_ll + 8.25)))
    q -= min(2.0, max(0, low.count('<|endoftext|>') - 1) * .12)
    q -= 2.5 * any(x in low for x in ('cialis online','viagra price','payday loans online','custom essay writing','xxx clips','levitra online'))

    dens = lambda vocab: sum(counts.get(w, 0) for w in vocab) / math.sqrt(n)
    tech = dens(TECH) + 0.30*low.count('<code') + 0.18*low.count('```') + 0.08*low.count('stackoverflow')
    tech += .08 * sum(low.count(x) for x in ('()','==','->','import ','select ','exception','error:'))
    news = dens(NEWS) + .20*('(reuters)' in low) + .12*('associated press' in low) + .08*(' /prnewswire/' in low)
    enc = dens(ENC) + .16*sum(low.count(x) for x in (' is a ',' was a ',' refers to ',' may refer to ',' is an '))
    # Penalize first-person/chatty language for the reference-like register.
    enc -= .30 * sum(counts.get(w,0) for w in ('i','me','my','we','our')) / math.sqrt(n)
    return q, tech, news, enc, n, chars, counts

def main():
    tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('gpt2')
    target_ids=np.load('/workspace/data/multi_dev.npy')
    target_text = tok.decode(target_ids)
    target_counts = collections.Counter(WORD.findall(target_text.lower()))
    target_total = sum(target_counts.values())
    domain_names=('encyclopedic','general','news','technical')
    domain_counts=[]
    for j in range(4):
        segment=tok.decode(target_ids[j*250_000:(j+1)*250_000]).lower()
        domain_counts.append(collections.Counter(WORD.findall(segment)))
    buckets = {k: [] for k in ('encyclopedic','general','news','technical')}
    ranked=[]
    seen_hashes=set()
    for line in POOL.open():
        r=json.loads(line)
        norm=' '.join(r['text'].lower().split())
        h=hashlib.blake2b(norm.encode(),digest_size=12).digest()
        if h in seen_hashes: continue
        seen_hashes.add(h)
        f=features(r['text'], target_counts, target_total)
        if not f: continue
        q,tech,news,enc,n,chars,word_counts=f
        # Require stronger evidence for the specialized, relatively rare Q&A class.
        # Equal-prior multinomial Bayes routing from the four disclosed target
        # quarters. P(domain|word) ratios make this about register, not length.
        ds=[0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0]
        for w,nw in word_counts.items():
            den=target_counts.get(w,0)+2.0
            for j in range(4): ds[j] += nw*math.log((domain_counts[j].get(w,0)+.5)/den)
        ds=[x/max(1,n) for x in ds]
        best=max(range(4),key=lambda j:ds[j]); domain=domain_names[best]
        margin=ds[best]-sorted(ds)[-2]
        affinity=min(.35,margin*.8)
        # Very long pages often concatenate boilerplate or unrelated articles.
        length_pen = max(0, math.log(max(1, chars/24000))) * .30
        final_score=q+affinity-length_pen
        buckets[domain].append((final_score, r['id'], chars))
        ranked.append((final_score, r['id'], chars, domain))
    for b in buckets.values(): b.sort(reverse=True)

    # Take equal character surpluses, then weave one document from each register.
    # Similar top-document lengths make every prefix close to balanced, and the
    # 72M-character surplus safely exceeds the 12M-token packing budget.
    weights={'encyclopedic':.60,'general':.10,'news':.25,'technical':.05}
    quotas={'encyclopedic':35_000_000,'general':8_000_000,'news':18_000_000,'technical':4_000_000}
    by={}; mix=collections.Counter()
    for domain,b in buckets.items():
        by[domain]=[]; total=0
        for score,i,chars in b:
            by[domain].append((i,chars)); total += chars; mix[domain] += chars
            if total >= quotas[domain]: break
    order=[]; pos={k:0 for k in by}; emitted={k:0 for k in by}
    while True:
        live=[k for k in ('encyclopedic','general','news','technical') if pos[k] < len(by[k])]
        if not live: break
        k=min(live,key=lambda x:emitted[x]/weights[x])
        i,chars=by[k][pos[k]]; order.append(i); pos[k]+=1; emitted[k]+=chars
    total=sum(mix.values())
    OUT.parent.mkdir(parents=True,exist_ok=True)
    OUT.write_text(json.dumps(order))
    print('ids',len(order),'chars',total,'estimated mix',dict(mix))

if __name__ == '__main__': main()
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  "input": "const patch = \"*** Begin Patch\\n*** Update File: /workspace/submission/curate.py\\n@@\\n-\\\"\\\"\\\"Rank raw-web documents for a balanced, high-quality 12M-token mixture.\\n+\\\"\\\"\\\"Rank raw-web documents for a high-quality, target-aware 12M-token mixture.\\n@@\\n-technical Q&A). We rank globally by quality; affinity only breaks close ties so\\n-that weak genre inference cannot force poor pages into the training set.\\n+technical Q&A). We rank within inferred registers, then use character-deficit\\n+scheduling for a 60/10/25/5 mixture. This allocation was chosen from disclosed-dev\\n+quarter losses: encyclopedia remained hardest and technical Q&A was easiest.\\n@@\\n-    ranked=[]\\n@@\\n-        ranked.append((final_score, r['id'], chars, domain))\\n@@\\n-    # Take equal character surpluses, then weave one document from each register.\\n-    # Similar top-document lengths make every prefix close to balanced, and the\\n-    # 72M-character surplus safely exceeds the 12M-token packing budget.\\n+    # Weighted character-deficit scheduling makes every cutoff approximate the\\n+    # desired allocation despite large register-dependent document lengths.\\n+    # The 65M-character surplus safely exceeds the 12M-token packing budget.\\n*** End Patch\";\ntext(await tools.apply_patch(patch));\n"
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  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({\"cmd\":\"python3 -u submission/curate.py\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":30000,\"max_output_tokens\":2000,\"tty\":true}); text(JSON.stringify(r))\n"
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{"chunk_id":"abec73","wall_time_seconds":2.136820031,"exit_code":0,"original_token_count":32,"output":"ids 17616 chars 65073380 estimated mix {'encyclopedic': 35026939, 'general': 8006434, 'news': 18000317, 'technical': 4039690}\r\n"}
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  "input": "const patch = \"*** Begin Patch\\n*** Add File: /workspace/claim.md\\n+# Hypothesis\\n+\\n+At a 12M-token budget, a small model benefits more from clean, register-matched English than from a broad random web sample. The best mixture is not uniform: the disclosed encyclopedia quarter remains much harder to model than technical Q&A, so training capacity should be shifted toward encyclopedia-like documents while retaining explicit news, general-prose, and technical coverage. My final character-mass schedule is 60% encyclopedic, 10% general prose, 25% news, and 5% technical Q&A.\\n+\\n+# Mechanism\\n+\\n+`curate.py` removes exact normalized-text duplicates, rejects short pages, and scores documents using English function-word density, alphabetic/prose structure, lexical diversity, repetition, navigation/boilerplate, spam phrases, excessive concatenation, and capped unigram likelihood under the disclosed broad dev corpus. It assigns each surviving document to one of the four registers with an equal-prior multinomial word model learned from the four disclosed dev quarters. Documents are quality-ranked within each register. Weighted character-deficit scheduling then makes every priority-list prefix approximate the desired mixture despite large differences in document length.\\n+\\n+An observable prediction independent of final aggregate perplexity is that high-ranked technical items will contain code, APIs, errors, and problem/solution language; high-ranked news items will contain reporting and attributed statements; encyclopedia items will be impersonal reference prose. Exact duplicate normalized texts should occur zero times. At the 12M-token cutoff, cumulative character mass by inferred register should be close to 60/10/25/5 rather than reflecting document counts.\\n+\\n+# Falsification\\n+\\n+The hypothesis is falsified if manual blind inspection does not show the predicted register separation, if duplicates survive, or if a random or quality-only selection matched for token count produces lower held-out loss. The allocation mechanism is specifically falsified if increasing encyclopedia mass fails to reduce the encyclopedia-quarter loss, or if losses in the displaced registers increase enough to worsen mean loss. In development, equal-register character scheduling scored 394.5 perplexity; shifting mass toward the hardest quarter improved to 375.2, 355.3, and then 346.6. A further shift away from news regressed to 354.8, providing a stopping boundary rather than assuming that more encyclopedia data is always better.\\n+\\n+# Transfer\\n+\\n+The quality and deduplication rules transfer directly to other raw-web pools. The register router transfers when a small representative target sample is available, and character-deficit scheduling transfers to any tokenizer-budgeted pipeline because it controls prefix composition without requiring full-pool tokenization. The numerical mixture is not universal: for another model size, tokenizer, or target, it should be re-estimated from per-register held-out losses while keeping the same filtering, routing, and deficit-scheduling procedure.\\n*** End Patch\";\ntext(await tools.apply_patch(patch));\n"
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The final selection has been regenerated from the finalized script, and the required claim now records both the mechanism and the falsifying ablations—including the regressed over-shift. I’m on the last checks: syntax, ID validity/uniqueness, exact 12M-token packing, and byte-for-byte equality with the tested 346.6 candidate.

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  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({\"cmd\":\"python3 -m py_compile submission/curate.py && python3 - <<'PY'\\nimport json\\ns=json.load(open('submission/selection.json'))\\nprint('ids',len(s),'unique',len(set(s)),'min',min(s),'max',max(s),'all_int',all(type(x) is int for x in s))\\nassert len(s)==len(set(s)) and min(s)>=0 and max(s)<182016 and all(type(x) is int for x in s)\\nPY\\npython3 pack_selection.py submission/selection.json /tmp/final.npy\\ncmp /tmp/final.npy /tmp/cand8.npy && echo TESTED_CANDIDATE_EXACT_MATCH\\nls -lh submission/selection.json submission/curate.py claim.md\\ncat .timer/remaining_secs\",\"workdir\":\"/workspace\",\"yield_time_ms\":30000,\"max_output_tokens\":3000}); text(JSON.stringify(r))\n"
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{"chunk_id":"5ceb00","wall_time_seconds":30.001042205,"session_id":22371,"original_token_count":60,"output":"ids 17616 unique 17616 min 5 max 182015 all_int True\nToken indices sequence length is longer than the specified maximum sequence length for this model (3134 > 1024). Running this sequence through the model will result in indexing errors\n"}
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{"chunk_id":"dda1a4","wall_time_seconds":3.150155785,"exit_code":0,"original_token_count":68,"output":"packed 12000000 tokens from 17616 ids -> /tmp/final.npy\nTESTED_CANDIDATE_EXACT_MATCH\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.0K Aug  4 02:18 claim.md\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.6K Aug  4 02:14 submission/curate.py\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123K Aug  4 02:18 submission/selection.json\n1224\n"}