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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":"0513b7","wall_time_seconds":13.41463628,"exit_code":0,"original_token_count":16,"output":"HELDOUT_PPL 324.885  loss 5.7835  train_s 53  /tmp/alpha1.npy\n"}
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  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"python score_alpha.py --alpha .4 && python score_alpha.py --alpha .6 && python build_candidate.py --weight 3 --ratio-file /tmp/ratio_alpha0.4.npy --name alpha04 && python build_candidate.py --weight 3 --ratio-file /tmp/ratio_alpha0.6.npy --name alpha06\",workdir:\"/workspace\",yield_time_ms:30000,max_output_tokens:2000});\ntext(r.output);\n"
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0.4 [-6.23377371 -1.44381136 -0.77227837  0.02232142  3.12823415]
0.6 [-5.86843872 -1.35683283 -0.72675791  0.03048607  3.10616922]
alpha04 selected 182016 prefix docs 12363 tokens/q [3123576, 3122649, 3122979, 3131158] quality prefix 1.9685962842909672
alpha06 selected 182016 prefix docs 12356 tokens/q [3123108, 3122961, 3124762, 3129668] quality prefix 1.9497271410525303
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  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/alpha04.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/alpha04_result.json\",workdir:\"/workspace\",yield_time_ms:1000,max_output_tokens:1000});\ntext(JSON.stringify(r));\n"
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#183
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The tuning curve now has a clear optimum: moderate target-relative weighting with additive smoothing 0.25 and equal token allocation scores 323.4. More aggressive relevance, deduplication, bigram matching, tighter quality floors, and Wikipedia oversampling all degraded dev perplexity, so I’m freezing the simpler unigram Moore–Lewis criterion and making the deliverable reproduce it exactly.

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  "input": "const patch = \"*** Begin Patch\\n*** Update File: /workspace/submission/curate.py\\n@@\\n-\\\"\\\"\\\"Rank raw web documents by prose quality and balanced target-domain utility.\\n+\\\"\\\"\\\"Rank raw web documents by quality and target-relative distributional utility.\\n \\n-The criterion is intentionally label-free.  Each document receives a transparent\\n-quality score (English function-word density, sentence/paragraph structure,\\n-length, and penalties for boilerplate, corruption, repetition, and markup), and\\n-is assigned to one of four target registers using lexical/format cues.  The\\n-output interleaves ranked register queues to keep the prefix approximately\\n-token-balanced; a quality-ranked tail guarantees more than enough coverage.\\n+Each document receives a transparent prose-quality score plus a smoothed\\n+Moore--Lewis score: mean GPT-2-token log probability under one quarter of the\\n+disclosed target minus mean log probability under the raw pool.  Four ranked\\n+queues correspond to the four equal target registers.  Their exact BPE token\\n+budgets are interleaved, so every prefix remains balanced.  No document labels,\\n+external model, web access, or hand-picked IDs are used.\\n \\\"\\\"\\\"\\n@@\\n import math\\n import re\\n-from collections import Counter\\n from pathlib import Path\\n+import tempfile\\n+\\n+import numpy as np\\n+from transformers import AutoTokenizer\\n@@\\n TARGET_EST_TOKENS = 14_000_000  # margin above the evaluator's exact 12M BPE budget\\n+RANKED_PREFIX_TOKENS = 12_500_000\\n+RELEVANCE_WEIGHT = 3.0\\n+SMOOTHING = 0.25\\n+QUALITY_FLOOR = -2.0\\n@@\\n-def curate(pool_path):\\n-    queues = {k: [] for k in TARGET_SHARE}\\n-    all_scored = []\\n-    with open(pool_path, encoding=\\\"utf-8\\\") as f:\\n-        for line in f:\\n-            row = json.loads(line)\\n-            score, register, est = document_features(row[\\\"text\\\"])\\n-            item = (score, -row[\\\"id\\\"], row[\\\"id\\\"], est)\\n-            queues[register].append(item)\\n-            all_scored.append(item)\\n-\\n-    for q in queues.values():\\n-        q.sort(reverse=True)\\n-\\n-    # Greedily draw from the most under-filled target register. This makes every\\n-    # long prefix balanced, including the exact-BPE cutoff used by training.\\n-    pos = {k: 0 for k in queues}\\n-    used_est = {k: 0 for k in queues}\\n-    selected = []\\n-    selected_set = set()\\n-    while sum(used_est.values()) < TARGET_EST_TOKENS:\\n-        choices = [k for k in queues if pos[k] < len(queues[k])]\\n-        if not choices:\\n-            break\\n-        register = min(choices, key=lambda k: used_est[k] / TARGET_SHARE[k])\\n-        score, _, doc_id, est = queues[register][pos[register]]\\n-        pos[register] += 1\\n-        if score < -20:  # only empty/unusable records reach this guard\\n-            continue\\n-        selected.append(doc_id)\\n-        selected_set.add(doc_id)\\n-        used_est[register] += est\\n-\\n-    # Deterministic, quality-ranked reserve. IDs beyond 12M are ignored, but this\\n-    # ensures validity even when the character-to-BPE estimate is conservative.\\n-    all_scored.sort(reverse=True)\\n-    selected.extend(item[2] for item in all_scored if item[2] not in selected_set)\\n-    return selected, used_est, {k: len(v) for k, v in queues.items()}\\n+def robust_z(values):\\n+    \\\"\\\"\\\"Median/IQR scaling prevents a few corrupt pages dominating the score.\\\"\\\"\\\"\\n+    median = np.median(values)\\n+    scale = np.quantile(values, 0.75) - np.quantile(values, 0.25)\\n+    return np.clip((values - median) / max(float(scale), 1e-8), -5.0, 5.0)\\n+\\n+\\n+def curate(pool_path, dev_path):\\n+    \\\"\\\"\\\"Tokenize once, score against pool and four dev registers, then interleave.\\\"\\\"\\\"\\n+    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(\\\"gpt2\\\", local_files_only=True)\\n+    tokenizer.model_max_length = 10**30\\n+    eos, vocab = tokenizer.eos_token_id, tokenizer.vocab_size\\n+\\n+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix=\\\"curate-\\\") as tmp:\\n+        token_path = Path(tmp) / \\\"pool.uint16\\\"\\n+        offsets = [0]\\n+        qualities = []\\n+        background = np.zeros(vocab, dtype=np.int64)\\n+\\n+        # Batching invokes the Rust tokenizer efficiently. The temporary flat\\n+        # token store avoids retaining 200M Python integers in memory.\\n+        with open(token_path, \\\"wb\\\") as token_file, open(pool_path, encoding=\\\"utf-8\\\") as src:\\n+            batch_ids, batch_text = [], []\\n+\\n+            def flush_batch():\\n+                if not batch_text:\\n+                    return\\n+                encoded = tokenizer(batch_text, add_special_tokens=False).input_ids\\n+                arrays = []\\n+                for doc_id, text, ids in zip(batch_ids, batch_text, encoded):\\n+                    if doc_id != len(offsets) - 1:\\n+                        raise ValueError(\\\"pool ids must be unique, contiguous, and zero-based\\\")\\n+                    quality, _, _ = document_features(text)\\n+                    qualities.append(quality)\\n+                    arr = np.asarray(ids + [eos], dtype=np.uint16)\\n+                    arr.tofile(token_file)\\n+                    arrays.append(arr)\\n+                    offsets.append(offsets[-1] + len(arr))\\n+                background[:] += np.bincount(np.concatenate(arrays), minlength=vocab)\\n+                batch_ids.clear()\\n+                batch_text.clear()\\n+\\n+            for line in src:\\n+                row = json.loads(line)\\n+                batch_ids.append(row[\\\"id\\\"])\\n+                batch_text.append(row[\\\"text\\\"])\\n+                if len(batch_text) == 256:\\n+                    flush_batch()\\n+            flush_batch()\\n+\\n+        offsets = np.asarray(offsets, dtype=np.int64)\\n+        quality = np.asarray(qualities, dtype=np.float64)\\n+        n_docs = len(quality)\\n+        flat = np.memmap(token_path, dtype=np.uint16, mode=\\\"r\\\")\\n+\\n+        target = np.load(dev_path).astype(np.int64)\\n+        if len(target) % 4:\\n+            raise ValueError(\\\"disclosed target must contain four equal contiguous registers\\\")\\n+        quarter = len(target) // 4\\n+        alpha = SMOOTHING\\n+        bg_logp = np.log((background + alpha) / (background.sum() + alpha * vocab))\\n+        log_ratios = []\\n+        for q in range(4):\\n+            counts = np.bincount(target[q * quarter:(q + 1) * quarter], minlength=vocab)\\n+            target_logp = np.log((counts + alpha) / (counts.sum() + alpha * vocab))\\n+            log_ratios.append(target_logp - bg_logp)\\n+        log_ratios = np.asarray(log_ratios)\\n+\\n+        relevance = np.empty((4, n_docs), dtype=np.float32)\\n+        for doc_id in range(n_docs):\\n+            # Exclude only the separator added above; naturally occurring EOS\\n+            # markers remain part of the document and therefore of its score.\\n+            ids = np.asarray(flat[offsets[doc_id]:offsets[doc_id + 1] - 1], dtype=np.int64)\\n+            if len(ids):\\n+                relevance[:, doc_id] = log_ratios[:, ids].mean(axis=1)\\n+            else:\\n+                relevance[:, doc_id] = -99.0\\n+\\n+        quality_z = robust_z(quality)\\n+        scores = np.asarray([\\n+            quality_z + RELEVANCE_WEIGHT * robust_z(relevance[q].astype(np.float64))\\n+            for q in range(4)\\n+        ])\\n+        orders = [np.argsort(-scores[q], kind=\\\"stable\\\") for q in range(4)]\\n+        lengths = np.diff(offsets)\\n+        positions = np.zeros(4, dtype=np.int64)\\n+        register_tokens = np.zeros(4, dtype=np.int64)\\n+        used = np.zeros(n_docs, dtype=bool)\\n+        selected = []\\n+\\n+        while register_tokens.sum() < RANKED_PREFIX_TOKENS:\\n+            q = int(np.argmin(register_tokens))\\n+            while positions[q] < n_docs and used[orders[q][positions[q]]]:\\n+                positions[q] += 1\\n+            if positions[q] == n_docs:\\n+                break\\n+            doc_id = int(orders[q][positions[q]])\\n+            positions[q] += 1\\n+            if quality[doc_id] < QUALITY_FLOOR:\\n+                continue\\n+            used[doc_id] = True\\n+            selected.append(doc_id)\\n+            register_tokens[q] += lengths[doc_id]\\n+\\n+        # A deterministic reserve makes the file safely exceed 12M tokens. It is\\n+        # never reached in the normal official cutoff but guarantees validity.\\n+        reserve = np.argsort(-scores.max(axis=0), kind=\\\"stable\\\")\\n+        selected.extend(int(i) for i in reserve if not used[i])\\n+        return selected, register_tokens.tolist(), n_docs\\n@@\\n     ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()\\n     ap.add_argument(\\\"--pool\\\", default=\\\"/workspace/data/pool.jsonl\\\")\\n+    ap.add_argument(\\\"--dev\\\", default=\\\"/workspace/data/multi_dev.npy\\\")\\n     ap.add_argument(\\\"--output\\\", default=\\\"/workspace/submission/selection.json\\\")\\n     args = ap.parse_args()\\n-    selection, estimates, counts = curate(args.pool)\\n+    selection, register_tokens, n_docs = curate(args.pool, args.dev)\\n@@\\n     with open(args.output, \\\"w\\\", encoding=\\\"utf-8\\\") as f:\\n         json.dump(selection, f)\\n     print(f\\\"wrote {len(selection)} unique ids to {args.output}\\\")\\n-    print(\\\"estimated prefix tokens by register:\\\", estimates)\\n-    print(\\\"pool documents by assigned register:\\\", counts)\\n+    print(\\\"ranked-prefix exact BPE tokens by target register:\\\", register_tokens)\\n+    print(\\\"pool documents scored:\\\", n_docs)\\n*** End Patch\";\ntext(await tools.apply_patch(patch));\n"
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{"chunk_id":"2c6001","wall_time_seconds":15.689710285,"exit_code":0,"original_token_count":16,"output":"HELDOUT_PPL 329.241  loss 5.7968  train_s 53  /tmp/alpha04.npy\n"}
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  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/r3o05.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r3o05_result.json\",workdir:\"/workspace\",yield_time_ms:1000,max_output_tokens:1000});\ntext(JSON.stringify(r));\n"
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  "input": "const patch = \"*** Begin Patch\\n*** Add File: /workspace/claim.md\\n+# Hypothesis\\n+\\n+Under a 12M-token constraint, a small GPT benefits more from coherent documents whose GPT-2 token distribution is characteristic of the disclosed high-quality target than from either random web text or quality filtering alone. Equal token allocation across the four target registers should prevent an easy, abundant register such as news from crowding out technical or encyclopedic text.\\n+\\n+# Mechanism\\n+\\n+`curate.py` combines a document-local prose score with a smoothed Moore–Lewis score, `mean(log p_target(token) - log p_pool(token))`. It forms one queue from each contiguous quarter of the disclosed target and interleaves the queues by exact GPT-2 token count. The predicted observable, independent of final perplexity, is therefore a roughly 3M-token contribution from each queue at the 12M cutoff, a higher average target-versus-pool log ratio than an uncurated sample, fewer boilerplate/corrupt pages, and lower unigram divergence from the disclosed target. In the development analysis, target-to-train unigram KL fell from 0.617 for the clean early slice to 0.332 for the chosen prefix.\\n+\\n+# Falsification\\n+\\n+The mechanism is falsified if regenerating the selection does not yield unique in-range IDs and balanced queue token counts, or if its prefix fails to improve target-relative log ratio, boilerplate rate, and target unigram divergence over an uncurated control. More decisively, it is falsified if repeated frozen-recipe evaluations on disjoint target samples do not beat both random selection and quality-only selection; that would show that the distributional proxy is overfitting the disclosed sample rather than identifying transferable register.\\n+\\n+# Transfer\\n+\\n+The quality component transfers directly to other English web pools. The Moore–Lewis component transfers when a small representative target sample is available: recompute target and pool token frequencies, preserve explicit mixture weights, and rerun the same deterministic ranking. For a materially different language, tokenizer, or domain mixture, the target distributions and prose heuristics must be recalibrated rather than reusing these scores or IDs.\\n*** End Patch\";\ntext(await tools.apply_patch(patch));\n"
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  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"cat .timer/remaining_secs; ps -eo pid,etime,pcpu,rss,cmd | grep -E 'submission/curate|train_nano' | grep -v grep\",workdir:\"/workspace\",yield_time_ms:10000,max_output_tokens:2000});\ntext(r.output);\n"
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  243       37:28  0.0 125868 node /usr/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=xhigh -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 ample);    ids beyond the budget are simply unused. 2. `/workspace/submission/curate.py` — the reproducible script that produced    your selection from a stated criterion (not a hand-picked id list). 3. `/workspace/claim.md` — Hypothesis / Mechanism (predict an observable other    than the final perplexity) / Falsification / Transfer.  ## Resources - The **frozen training script** is provided (`/workspace/train_nano.py`, with   `model.py`). It trains a ~30M-parameter GPT from scratch on a token budget with   fixed hyperparameters. **You may run it to evaluate a candidate selection**   against a dev target (`/workspace/data/multi_dev.npy`) — one run is ~60s on the   GPU — but you **cannot change it**; the official run uses an identical frozen   copy. The only thing you control is the data selection. - Standard GPU sandbox (Python, PyTorch, transformers). How you assess document   quality is entirely up to you (filters, classifiers, heuristics, a model, etc.). - Your session ends when the wall-clock budget runs out — check   `/workspace/.timer/remaining_secs` at any point for the authoritative time left   (don't assume a fixed number of hours). Every training run you do comes out of   that budget. - 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, unre…311 tokens truncated… 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 ample);    ids beyond the budget are simply unused. 2. `/workspace/submission/curate.py` — the reproducible script that produced    your selection from a stated criterion (not a hand-picked id list). 3. `/workspace/claim.md` — Hypothesis / Mechanism (predict an observable other    than the final perplexity) / Falsification / Transfer.  ## Resources - The **frozen training script** is provided (`/workspace/train_nano.py`, with   `model.py`). It trains a ~30M-parameter GPT from scratch on a token budget with   fixed hyperparameters. **You may run it to evaluate a candidate selection**   against a dev target (`/workspace/data/multi_dev.npy`) — one run is ~60s on the   GPU — but you **cannot change it**; the official run uses an identical frozen   copy. The only thing you control is the data selection. - Standard GPU sandbox (Python, PyTorch, transformers). How you assess document   quality is entirely up to you (filters, classifiers, heuristics, a model, etc.). - Your session ends when the wall-clock budget runs out — check   `/workspace/.timer/remaining_secs` at any point for the authoritative time left   (don't assume a fixed number of hours). Every training run you do comes out of   that budget. - 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. 
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  "input": "const r = await tools.write_stdin({session_id:16488,chars:\"\",yield_time_ms:30000,max_output_tokens:2000});\ntext(JSON.stringify(r));\n"
}
exec result
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{"chunk_id":"d1f1e3","wall_time_seconds":0.000003331,"exit_code":0,"original_token_count":16,"output":"HELDOUT_PPL 327.701  loss 5.7921  train_s 53  /tmp/r3o05.npy\n"}
#192
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{
  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"ps -p 5437 -o etime,pcpu,rss,cmd; du -sh /tmp/curate-* 2>/dev/null || true; cat .timer/remaining_secs\",workdir:\"/workspace\",yield_time_ms:10000,max_output_tokens:1000});\ntext(r.output);\n"
}
exec result
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    ELAPSED %CPU   RSS CMD
      01:01 97.5 4637752 python submission/curate.py
46M	/tmp/curate-odd4tq1k
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#193
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args
{
  "input": "const patch = \"*** Begin Patch\\n*** Delete File: /workspace/cache_pool.py\\n*** Delete File: /workspace/score_pool.py\\n*** Delete File: /workspace/build_candidate.py\\n*** Delete File: /workspace/score_bigrams.py\\n*** Delete File: /workspace/score_overall.py\\n*** Delete File: /workspace/score_alpha.py\\n*** Delete File: /workspace/train_diag.py\\n*** End Patch\";\ntext(await tools.apply_patch(patch));\n"
}
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{}
#194
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{
  "input": "const patch = \"*** Begin Patch\\n*** Update File: /workspace/submission/curate.py\\n@@\\n-TARGET_SHARE = {\\\"encyclopedic\\\": 0.25, \\\"web\\\": 0.25, \\\"news\\\": 0.25, \\\"technical\\\": 0.25}\\n-TARGET_EST_TOKENS = 14_000_000  # margin above the evaluator's exact 12M BPE budget\\n RANKED_PREFIX_TOKENS = 12_500_000\\n*** End Patch\";\ntext(await tools.apply_patch(patch));\n"
}
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{}
#195
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args
{
  "input": "const r = await tools.write_stdin({session_id:92471,chars:\"\",yield_time_ms:30000,max_output_tokens:3000});\ntext(JSON.stringify(r));\n"
}
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#196
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{
  "cell_id": "152",
  "yield_time_ms": 30000,
  "max_tokens": 3000
}
wait result
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{"chunk_id":"d77c65","wall_time_seconds":30.00093624,"session_id":92471,"original_token_count":0,"output":""}
#197
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args
{
  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"ps -p 5437 -o etime,pcpu,rss; du -sh /tmp/curate-* 2>/dev/null || true; cat .timer/remaining_secs\",workdir:\"/workspace\",yield_time_ms:10000,max_output_tokens:1000});\ntext(r.output);\n"
}
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    ELAPSED %CPU   RSS
      02:16 95.9 4673788
107M	/tmp/curate-odd4tq1k
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#198
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{
  "input": "const r = await tools.exec_command({cmd:\"ls -lh submission claim.md; test -f submission/selection.json && python -c \\\"import json; x=json.load(open('submission/selection.json')); print(len(x),x[:5])\\\" || true\",workdir:\"/workspace\",yield_time_ms:10000,max_output_tokens:1000});\ntext(r.output);\n"
}
exec result
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Output:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.1K Aug  4 01:48 claim.md

submission:
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  80 Aug  4 01:20 __pycache__
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12K Aug  4 01:49 curate.py
#199
narration

The final criterion is now implemented in curate.py and is regenerating the deliverable from scratch. Its temporary token cache is progressing normally; once complete I’ll compare the generated ordering byte-for-order logically against the best evaluated candidate, verify exact 12M-token coverage and ID validity, then hand off the three artifacts.

#200
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args
{
  "input": "const r = await tools.write_stdin({session_id:92471,chars:\"\",yield_time_ms:30000,max_output_tokens:3000});\ntext(JSON.stringify(r));\n"
}
exec result
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