{ "schemaVersion": 1, "taskId": "yambda-discovery-ranking-two-tower-base", "attemptId": "grok-1-0-44-base-r04-61e7dce0-20260929", "taskChecksum": "6d90f32028a49e11b78230d962a3458abfcf23a5f6e34637cd449542dd3985c1", "source": { "format": "grok-build-session", "timestamps": "not-recorded", "sha256": "568d40f56d522ff5e592fb0385b110ab58c81b5fa764aab57be24e2c93eef655", "records": 213, "eventsSha256": "3de47cbf631ea909ca5443fdd12d58361f7635e785830fe5fe7f03cc150fc7fd", "eventsRecords": 5068, "missingToolResults": [ "call-eccfd750-6a8e-4fe8-ae4f-b2022a57790a-89" ] }, "sessionId": "d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38", "agentVersion": "1.0.44", "requestedModel": "grok-4.6", "model": "grok-4.6-build", "steps": [ { "id": 1, "role": "system", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "You are Grok 4.6 released by xAI. You are an autonomous agent that completes software engineering tasks. There is no human operator in this session. 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It's about Y.\"\n\nNever fabricate a person’s name or infer it from a username, handle, email address, or initials. Use a person’s name only when the conversation or tool results explicitly establish it for that person; otherwise use the exact handle or a neutral description.\n\n\n\nYour text output is rendered as GitHub-flavored markdown (CommonMark). Use markdown actively when it aids the reader: bullet lists for parallel items, **bold** for emphasis, `inline code` for identifiers/paths/commands, and tables for short enumerable facts (file/line/status, before/after, quantitative data). 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When layout or styling changed, check both desktop and mobile viewport sizes.\n\nIf verification reveals a problem, fix it and verify again before ending your turn.\n" } ] }, { "id": 2, "role": "user", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "\nOS Version: linux\nShell: /bin/sh\nWorkspace Path: /app\nToday's date: 2026-09-29\n\n\n\nThe rules section has a number of possible rules/memories/context that you should consider. In each subsection, we provide instructions about what information the subsection contains and how you should consider/follow the contents of the subsection.\n\n\n\n\nState points directly in affirmative language. 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The most common failure mode is a change that works in isolation but breaks existing behavior elsewhere in the app. Navigate the surrounding flows and look for what broke.\n- Verify the paths and edge states your change touches (empty states, error states, route and flag variants), not only the main path.\n- When layout or styling changed, check both desktop and mobile viewports.\n- If verification finds a problem, fix it and re-verify. Do not finish with unverified UI work.\n\nIf no browser tools are available, verify through the closest available substitute (tests, curl against the dev server, rendering scripts) and say what you could not verify.\n\n\n" } ] }, { "id": 3, "role": "user", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "\nThe following workflows are available:\n\n- deep-research: Research a query with bounded parallelism, cross-check the evidence, and write a cited report\n Use when: Compare, investigate, or research a question that needs sourced claims. /deep-research, research this, write a cited report.\n Absolute path: /runner/_work/xai/xai/crates/codegen/xai-grok-shell/src/session/workflows/deep_research.rhai\n" } ] }, { "id": 4, "role": "user", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "\n# Build a latency-efficient PyTorch two-tower neural-network ranker\n\nBuild a two-tower neural network in CPU PyTorch for the \"Made for You\" shelf of\na music streaming service. Although the supplied benchmark is small, it\nrepresents a production system with millions of users and millions of items;\nthe training approach must scale to that setting and therefore must not\nconstruct or decompose a global user-item interaction matrix. The production\nshelf has a strict request-time latency budget. Candidate item embeddings are\ncomputed offline and stored in a nearest-neighbor index. At request time, the\nsystem computes one user embedding and retrieves items by maximum inner-product\nsearch.\n\nThe model must therefore decompose exactly into a user vector and an\nindependently precomputable item vector of the same dimensionality, with the\nfinal relevance score equal to their dot product. Both vectors must be produced\nby separate trainable user and item towers implemented as PyTorch neural\nnetworks. The user tower must derive its representation from interaction\nhistory rather than a user-ID lookup. Per-user candidate eligibility,\ncutoff-specific explicit preference state, and a temporal backtest are\nprovided. Candidate eligibility is platform-owned; all modeling within that\ncandidate boundary is in scope.\n\n## Data\n\nAll inputs are under `/task/data/`. Training data ends at timestamp `24786800`.\nA 30-minute gap precedes a seven-day public validation window. The hidden test\nis the following seven-day window after another 30-minute gap.\n\nFor each event family there is a `train_*.parquet` and `val_*.parquet` file:\n\n| Family | Meaning | Columns |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| `listens` | Playback events | `uid`, `timestamp`, `item_id`, `is_organic`, `played_ratio_pct`, `track_length_seconds` |\n| `likes` | Explicit positive actions | `uid`, `timestamp`, `item_id`, `is_organic` |\n| `dislikes` | Explicit negative actions | `uid`, `timestamp`, `item_id`, `is_organic` |\n| `unlikes` | Reversal of a prior like | `uid`, `timestamp`, `item_id`, `is_organic` |\n| `undislikes` | Reversal of a prior dislike | `uid`, `timestamp`, `item_id`, `is_organic` |\n\n`is_organic=1` means the listener sought out the track; `0` means the action\ncame through a recommendation surface. A listen is a conventional positive at\n50% completion. The discovery-quality objective below uses the stronger 80%\nthreshold.\n\nThe two public windows have different roles:\n\n1. Build and tune a validation ranker using only `train_*` as history and\n `val_*` as subsequent outcomes.\n2. After selecting the approach, refit it on `train_* + val_*`. At hidden-test\n time the validation events are observed history, not recommendable outcomes.\n\nDo not use `val_*` events as features when measuring a validation ranking. They\nmay and should be used when refitting the final hidden-test ranker.\n\nAdditional files under `/task/data/`:\n\n- `candidate_catalog.parquet`: the 30,000 retrieval-catalog tracks, ordered by\n training positive-listen popularity.\n- `target_users.parquet`: users with at least 20 positive listens in the 90 days\n before the training cutoff, selected without future labels.\n- `validation_preference_state.parquet`: active explicit state at the training\n cutoff, for validation ranking.\n- `test_preference_state.parquet`: active explicit state after validation, for\n the final hidden-test ranking. State is `liked` or `disliked`; a pair may have\n both active channels.\n- `validation_eligible_candidates.npz` and `test_eligible_candidates.npz`:\n cutoff-correct candidate sets for every target user. Each contains aligned\n arrays `uids`, `item_ids`, and `packed_eligible`. For user row `r`, recover\n the Boolean item mask with `np.unpackbits(packed_eligible[r],\n count=len(item_ids), bitorder=\"little\")`.\n\nThe exact available Python distribution inventory is listed in\n`/task/requirements.txt`. Future test interactions are hidden and used only by\nthe separate Harbor verifier.\n\n## Discovery objective\n\nRank only the candidates returned for the relevant cutoff. Relevance is based\non organic behavior in the immediately following window:\n\n- grade 3: the user organically likes the track;\n- grade 1: the user organically listens to at least 80% of the track;\n- grade 0: otherwise.\n\nIf both positive events occur, grade 3 wins. Ranking quality is measured with\ngraded NDCG@10. DCG uses gain `2^grade - 1` and discount\n`1/log2(rank + 1)`, then averages per-user NDCG over users with at least one\nrelevant item.\n\nThe public evaluator reports this objective for development, but its score is\nnot a separate acceptance stage. Final acceptance is determined on the hidden\ntest using the same objective.\n\nThe Yambda logs contain interactions, not impression propensities. Treat the\norganic objective as a robust offline target, not as a causal estimate of\nonline lift.\n\n## Public tools\n\n`/task/evaluate_public.py` scores a validation-stage ranking against the public\nwindow. Pass the path to a ranking with the same schema as the final\ndeliverable:\n\n```sh\npython /task/evaluate_public.py solution/validation.parquet\n```\n\nStage-independent evaluation helpers are available in\n`/task/ranking_evaluation.py`. The builder installs the same checked-in module\nin the public agent image and private verifier image so scoring mechanics cannot\ndrift. The public copy contains no hidden labels, evaluator-owned data paths, or\npass thresholds.\n\nThe public evaluator uses `validation_eligible_candidates.npz`; it is not a\nvalidator for the final artifact. No model implementation, fitted\nrepresentation, or example submission is supplied. Design and tune the\nrequired PyTorch neural two-tower model, then refit the selected approach as\ndescribed above.\n\n## Deliverable\n\nWrite `/app/solution/submission.parquet` or\n`/app/solution/submission.csv`, with exactly 100 rows for every target user and\ncolumns `uid`, `item_id`, `rank`. Ranks must be the integers 1-100 with no ties\nor duplicate items. Every submitted item must be present in that user's\n`test_eligible_candidates.npz` candidate set.\n\nLeave the code that defines, trains, and applies both towers, along with a\nconcise `/app/solution/README.md`, in `/app/solution/`. The README should state\nthe model architecture, training objective, public validation score, and final\nsubmission command. Keep the best valid submission saved throughout the\nattempt so it survives the deadline.\n\n## Constraints\n\n- Write deliverables and intermediate artifacts only under `/app/solution/`.\n- Treat `/task/` and the installed Python environment as read-only.\n- Do not invoke nested agents or attempt to access verifier files, credentials,\n other trials, or host paths.\n- Do not install packages or use network access except for the model provider\n connection managed by Harbor.\n- The environment includes CPU PyTorch 2.8.0. No accelerator is available.\n- You have up to 60 minutes. Improve the model as much as possible within that\n limit. Structural validity alone is not sufficient; the final submission is\n also evaluated for ranking quality.\n" } ] }, { "id": 5, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "I'll start by inspecting the data layout, evaluation helpers, and environment so the two-tower ranker matches the latency and scoring constraints." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-3c12e28f-24cc-47a9-bee2-a1c6813fbd87-0", "name": "todo_write", "input": { "todos": [ { "id": "1", "content": "Explore data, evaluation, and environment", "status": "in_progress" }, { "id": "2", "content": "Design two-tower architecture and training pipeline", "status": "pending" }, { "id": "3", "content": "Train/tune on train-only, evaluate public NDCG@10", "status": "pending" }, { "id": "4", "content": "Refit on train+val and produce test submission", "status": "pending" }, { "id": "5", "content": "Write README and keep best submission", "status": "pending" } ], "merge": false }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "- [in_progress] 1: Explore data, evaluation, and environment\n- [pending] 2: Design two-tower architecture and training pipeline\n- [pending] 3: Train/tune on train-only, evaluate public NDCG@10\n- [pending] 4: Refit on train+val and produce test submission\n- [pending] 5: Write README and keep best submission\n", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-3c12e28f-24cc-47a9-bee2-a1c6813fbd87-1", "name": "list_dir", "input": { "target_directory": "/task" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "- /task/\n - data/\n - candidate_catalog.parquet\n - target_users.parquet\n - test_eligible_candidates.npz\n - test_preference_state.parquet\n - train_dislikes.parquet\n - train_likes.parquet\n - train_listens.parquet\n - train_undislikes.parquet\n - train_unlikes.parquet\n - val_dislikes.parquet\n - val_likes.parquet\n - val_listens.parquet\n - val_undislikes.parquet\n - val_unlikes.parquet\n - validation_eligible_candidates.npz\n - validation_preference_state.parquet\n - evaluate_public.py\n - ranking_evaluation.py\n - requirements.txt", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-3c12e28f-24cc-47a9-bee2-a1c6813fbd87-2", "name": "list_dir", "input": { "target_directory": "/app" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "- /app/\n - solution/", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-3c12e28f-24cc-47a9-bee2-a1c6813fbd87-3", "name": "read_file", "input": { "target_file": "/task/requirements.txt" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "1→# Exact distribution inventory for the Yambda two-tower task family.\n#\n# This is an input to `uv pip sync`, not a list of minimum requirements. A\n# conforming task environment contains exactly these third-party Python\n# distributions and no others. Python itself is pinned by task.toml and both\n# Harbor image Dockerfiles.\nattrs==26.1.0\nbleach==6.4.0\ncertifi==2026.7.22\n10→chardet==7.6.0\ncharset-normalizer==3.5.1\nfastjsonschema==2.22.2\nfilelock==3.32.3\nfsspec==2026.7.0\nidna==3.18\nJinja2==3.1.6\njoblib==1.5.3\njsonschema==4.26.0\njsonschema-specifications==2025.9.1\n20→jupyter-core==5.9.1\njupytext==1.19.5\nkaggle==2.2.4\nkagglesdk==0.1.37\nmarkdown-it-py==4.2.0\nMarkupSafe==3.0.3\nmdit-py-plugins==0.6.1\nmdurl==0.1.2\nmpmath==1.3.0\nnbformat==5.11.1\n30→networkx==3.6.1\nnumpy==2.2.6\npackaging==26.3\npandas==2.3.3\npillow==12.3.0\npip==26.0.1\nplatformdirs==4.11.3\nprotobuf==7.35.1\npyarrow==18.1.0\npython-dateutil==2.9.0.post0\n40→python-dotenv==1.2.3\npython-slugify==8.0.4\npytz==2026.3.post1\nPyYAML==6.0.3\nreferencing==0.37.0\nreportlab==4.2.5\nrequests==2.34.2\nrpds-py==2026.6.3\nscikit-learn==1.7.2\nscipy==1.15.3\n50→setuptools==84.0.0\nsix==1.17.0\nsympy==1.14.0\ntext-unidecode==1.3\nthreadpoolctl==3.6.0\ntorch==2.8.0\ntqdm==4.70.0\ntraitlets==5.16.1\ntyping-extensions==4.16.0\ntzdata==2026.3\n60→urllib3==2.7.0\nwebencodings==0.6.1\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 6, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-e93ccd08-cf67-4cf0-9026-ed1d851ed038-4", "name": "read_file", "input": { "target_file": "/task/evaluate_public.py" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "1→#!/usr/bin/env python3\n\"\"\"Score a validation-stage ranking against public discovery labels.\n\n``build_task.py`` publishes this module with the solver-visible task files. It\nloads target users, validation eligibility, and validation-window events from\nthe adjacent ``data`` directory, then evaluates one ranking supplied on the\ncommand line. Stage-independent mechanics come from the adjacent public\n``ranking_evaluation.py`` module. The builder installs the same checked-in\nmodule in the private judge, so public and private scoring mechanics cannot\n10→drift. A relevant candidate receives grade 3 for an organic like or grade 1 for\nan organic listen with at least 80 percent completion; a like takes precedence\nwhen both events exist.\n\nBefore scoring, the ranking must contain exactly 100 distinct eligible items\nfor every target user, with integer-valued ``uid``, ``item_id``, and ``rank``\ncolumns and ranks 1 through 100 exactly once per user. Extra columns are\nignored. Quality is graded NDCG@10, averaged only over users who have at least\none eligible relevant item in the validation window.\n\n20→The evaluator prints a JSON object containing the model path and scores. It\ndoes not apply the task's pass threshold; its purpose is model development and\nselection. The private judge applies the threshold to the final submission.\n\nUsage::\n\n python evaluate_public.py \n\"\"\"\nfrom __future__ import annotations\n\n30→import json\nimport sys\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\nimport pandas as pd\n\nfrom ranking_evaluation import (\n CandidateSet,\n RankingValidationError,\n ranked_items,\n40→ read_ranking,\n score_rankings,\n validate_ranking,\n)\n\n\nHERE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent\nDATA = HERE / \"data\"\nLISTEN_STRONG = 80\n\n50→\ndef validation_truth(\n eligibility: CandidateSet, targets: set[int]\n) -> dict[int, dict[int, int]]:\n \"\"\"Build cutoff-correct graded relevance from public validation events.\n\n Only target-user events for eligible candidates are retained. Organic\n listens completed to at least 80 percent receive grade 1, and organic likes\n receive grade 3. Repeated user-item events are collapsed, and processing\n likes second ensures that grade 3 wins over grade 1.\n60→\n Args:\n eligibility: Validation-cutoff candidate membership service.\n targets: Complete set of target user IDs.\n\n Returns:\n A nested ``uid -> item_id -> grade`` mapping. Users without an eligible\n relevant event are omitted.\n \"\"\"\n listens = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_listens.parquet\")\n70→ likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_likes.parquet\")\n strong = listens[\n listens.uid.isin(targets)\n & (listens.is_organic == 1)\n & (listens.played_ratio_pct >= LISTEN_STRONG)\n ][[\"uid\", \"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\n organic_likes = likes[\n likes.uid.isin(targets) & (likes.is_organic == 1)\n ][[\"uid\", \"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\n\n80→ graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]] = {}\n for raw_uid, raw_item in strong.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n uid, item = int(raw_uid), int(raw_item)\n if eligibility.is_eligible(uid, item):\n graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 1\n for raw_uid, raw_item in organic_likes.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n uid, item = int(raw_uid), int(raw_item)\n if eligibility.is_eligible(uid, item):\n graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 3\n return graded\n90→\n\ndef load_submission(\n path: Path, eligibility: CandidateSet, targets: set[int]\n) -> dict[int, list[int]]:\n \"\"\"Load and validate a public validation ranking.\n\n Files ending in ``.parquet`` are read as parquet; every other suffix is\n read as CSV. The required columns must be integer-valued, cover exactly the\n target-user set, contain 100 rows and ranks 1 through 100 per user, avoid\n100→ duplicate user-item pairs, and contain only cutoff-eligible items.\n\n Args:\n path: Ranking file to read.\n eligibility: Validation-cutoff candidate membership service.\n targets: Exact set of users the ranking must cover.\n\n Returns:\n A ``uid -> ranked item IDs`` mapping ordered by ascending rank.\n\n110→ Raises:\n ValueError: If the ranking violates the required schema or invariants.\n \"\"\"\n frame = validate_ranking(read_ranking(path), targets)\n if not all(\n eligibility.is_eligible(uid, item)\n for uid, item in frame[[\"uid\", \"item_id\"]].itertuples(index=False, name=None)\n ):\n raise RankingValidationError(\n \"submission contains an item rejected by eligibility service\"\n120→ )\n return ranked_items(frame)\n\n\ndef score(\n ranked: dict[int, list[int]],\n graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]],\n) -> dict[str, float | int]:\n \"\"\"Aggregate per-user NDCG@10 over users with public relevance labels.\n\n130→ Args:\n ranked: Ranked item IDs for every target user.\n graded: Eligible validation relevance keyed by user and item.\n\n Returns:\n The six-decimal ``quality_ndcg@10`` value and number of scored users.\n \"\"\"\n return score_rankings(ranked, graded)\n\n\n140→def main() -> None:\n \"\"\"Run the public evaluator CLI and print its JSON score report.\"\"\"\n targets_frame = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"target_users.parquet\")\n targets = set(targets_frame.uid.astype(int))\n eligibility = CandidateSet(DATA / \"validation_eligible_candidates.npz\")\n graded = validation_truth(eligibility, targets)\n\n if len(sys.argv) != 2:\n raise SystemExit(\n \"usage: evaluate_public.py \"\n150→ )\n path = Path(sys.argv[1])\n ranked = load_submission(path, eligibility, targets)\n print(json.dumps({\"model\": str(path), \"scores\": score(ranked, graded)}, indent=2))\n\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n main()\n", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-e93ccd08-cf67-4cf0-9026-ed1d851ed038-5", "name": "read_file", "input": { "target_file": "/task/ranking_evaluation.py" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "1→\"\"\"Shared public primitives for Yambda discovery-ranking evaluation.\n\nBoth the solver-visible validation evaluator and the private submission judge\nimport this module from the generated task's ``public`` directory. It owns the\nstage-independent contract: reading a ranking, validating its shape, converting\nit to per-user rank order, looking up packed candidate eligibility, and\ncomputing graded NDCG@10.\n\nThe module deliberately contains no event-derived labels, private artifact\n10→paths, or pass thresholds. Each evaluator supplies its own relevance data and\nper-cutoff eligibility checks around these common operations.\n\"\"\"\nfrom __future__ import annotations\n\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\nimport numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\n\n20→\n__all__ = [\n \"CandidateSet\",\n \"QUALITY_K\",\n \"RankingValidationError\",\n \"REQUIRED_COLUMNS\",\n \"TOP_N\",\n \"ndcg_at_k\",\n \"ranked_items\",\n \"read_ranking\",\n30→ \"score_rankings\",\n \"validate_ranking\",\n]\n\nTOP_N = 100\nQUALITY_K = 10\nREQUIRED_COLUMNS = (\"uid\", \"item_id\", \"rank\")\n\n\nclass RankingValidationError(ValueError):\n40→ \"\"\"Report a ranking-schema or structural-contract violation.\"\"\"\n\n\nclass CandidateSet:\n \"\"\"Provide membership lookups over one packed candidate-set archive.\n\n The archive contains aligned ``uids``, ``item_ids``, and\n ``packed_eligible`` arrays. Candidate column ``c`` is represented by bit\n ``c % 8`` of byte ``c // 8`` using little-endian bit order. Arrays are\n copied into memory so they remain valid after the archive is closed.\n50→ \"\"\"\n\n def __init__(self, path: Path):\n \"\"\"Load an eligibility archive and build ID-to-position indexes.\n\n Args:\n path: Path to a ``.npz`` archive with the candidate-set schema.\n \"\"\"\n with np.load(path, allow_pickle=False) as artifact:\n self.uids = artifact[\"uids\"].astype(np.int64, copy=True)\n60→ self.item_ids = artifact[\"item_ids\"].astype(np.int64, copy=True)\n self.packed = artifact[\"packed_eligible\"].astype(np.uint8, copy=True)\n self.uid_row = {int(uid): row for row, uid in enumerate(self.uids)}\n self.item_column = {\n int(item): column for column, item in enumerate(self.item_ids)\n }\n\n def is_eligible(self, uid: int, item_id: int) -> bool:\n \"\"\"Return whether ``item_id`` is eligible for ``uid``.\n\n70→ IDs absent from the target-user or candidate-item arrays are treated as\n ineligible rather than raising an exception.\n\n Args:\n uid: Target user ID to query.\n item_id: Candidate item ID to query.\n\n Returns:\n ``True`` only when the corresponding packed eligibility bit is set.\n \"\"\"\n80→ row = self.uid_row.get(int(uid))\n column = self.item_column.get(int(item_id))\n if row is None or column is None:\n return False\n byte, bit = divmod(column, 8)\n return bool((int(self.packed[row, byte]) >> bit) & 1)\n\n\ndef read_ranking(path: Path) -> pd.DataFrame:\n \"\"\"Read a parquet or CSV ranking into a pandas frame.\n90→\n Args:\n path: Input path. A ``.parquet`` suffix selects parquet; every other\n suffix is interpreted as CSV.\n\n Returns:\n The ranking frame as loaded by pandas.\n \"\"\"\n return pd.read_parquet(path) if path.suffix == \".parquet\" else pd.read_csv(path)\n\n100→\ndef validate_ranking(\n frame: pd.DataFrame,\n targets: set[int],\n) -> pd.DataFrame:\n \"\"\"Normalize and validate the stage-independent ranking contract.\n\n Required values must be finite integers. The user set must exactly match\n ``targets``; every user must have 100 rows, distinct items, and each rank\n from 1 through 100 exactly once. Cutoff-specific candidate eligibility is\n110→ intentionally left to the calling evaluator.\n\n Args:\n frame: Raw ranking frame. Extra columns are discarded from an internal\n copy; the caller's frame is not modified.\n targets: Exact set of target user IDs the ranking must cover.\n\n Returns:\n A normalized frame containing only the required ``int64`` columns.\n\n120→ Raises:\n RankingValidationError: If the ranking violates the shared contract.\n \"\"\"\n required = list(REQUIRED_COLUMNS)\n if not all(column in frame for column in required):\n raise RankingValidationError(f\"submission requires columns {required}\")\n\n normalized = frame[required].copy()\n for column in required:\n numeric = pd.to_numeric(normalized[column], errors=\"coerce\")\n130→ values = numeric.to_numpy(dtype=float)\n if numeric.isna().any() or not np.isfinite(values).all():\n raise RankingValidationError(\n f\"submission {column} must be finite numeric values\"\n )\n if not np.equal(numeric, np.floor(numeric)).all():\n raise RankingValidationError(\n f\"submission {column} must contain integers\"\n )\n normalized[column] = numeric.astype(np.int64)\n140→\n submitted_users = set(map(int, normalized.uid.unique()))\n if submitted_users != targets:\n raise RankingValidationError(\n f\"submission user set mismatch: missing={len(targets - submitted_users)} \"\n f\"extra={len(submitted_users - targets)}\"\n )\n counts = normalized.groupby(\"uid\").size()\n if not (counts == TOP_N).all():\n raise RankingValidationError(\n150→ f\"submission must contain exactly {TOP_N} rows for every target user\"\n )\n if normalized.duplicated([\"uid\", \"item_id\"]).any():\n raise RankingValidationError(\n \"submission contains duplicate (uid, item_id) pairs\"\n )\n valid_ranks = set(range(1, TOP_N + 1))\n ranks_are_valid = normalized.groupby(\"uid\")[\"rank\"].apply(\n lambda values: set(map(int, values)) == valid_ranks\n )\n160→ if not ranks_are_valid.all():\n raise RankingValidationError(\n f\"each user must have every rank from 1 through {TOP_N} exactly once\"\n )\n return normalized\n\n\ndef ranked_items(frame: pd.DataFrame) -> dict[int, list[int]]:\n \"\"\"Convert a validated ranking frame to ordered items keyed by user.\n\n170→ Args:\n frame: Frame that has passed :func:`validate_ranking`.\n\n Returns:\n A ``uid -> item IDs`` mapping ordered by ascending rank.\n \"\"\"\n ordered = frame.sort_values([\"uid\", \"rank\"])\n return {\n int(uid): list(map(int, values))\n for uid, values in ordered.groupby(\"uid\").item_id\n180→ }\n\n\ndef ndcg_at_k(ranked: list[int], gold: dict[int, int], k: int) -> float:\n \"\"\"Compute graded normalized discounted cumulative gain at ``k``.\n\n Relevance gain is ``2**grade - 1`` and the discount at one-based rank\n ``r`` is ``1 / log2(r + 1)``. Items absent from ``gold`` have grade zero.\n\n Args:\n190→ ranked: Item IDs in predicted rank order.\n gold: Mapping from relevant item IDs to integer relevance grades.\n k: Maximum number of predicted positions to score.\n\n Returns:\n For a valid duplicate-free ranking, NDCG in ``[0, 1]``; returns\n ``0.0`` when the ideal gain is zero.\n \"\"\"\n gains = np.asarray([gold.get(item, 0) for item in ranked[:k]], dtype=np.float64)\n discounts = 1.0 / np.log2(np.arange(2, len(gains) + 2))\n200→ dcg = float(np.sum((np.power(2.0, gains) - 1.0) * discounts))\n ideal = np.asarray(sorted(gold.values(), reverse=True)[:k], dtype=np.float64)\n ideal_discounts = 1.0 / np.log2(np.arange(2, len(ideal) + 2))\n idcg = float(np.sum((np.power(2.0, ideal) - 1.0) * ideal_discounts))\n return dcg / idcg if idcg else 0.0\n\n\ndef score_rankings(\n ranked: dict[int, list[int]],\n graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]],\n210→) -> dict[str, float | int]:\n \"\"\"Aggregate per-user NDCG@10 over users with relevance labels.\n\n Args:\n ranked: Ranked item IDs for every target user.\n graded: Relevant item grades keyed by user and item.\n\n Returns:\n The six-decimal ``quality_ndcg@10`` value and number of scored users.\n \"\"\"\n220→ quality = float(\n np.mean(\n [\n ndcg_at_k(ranked[uid], gold, QUALITY_K)\n for uid, gold in graded.items()\n ]\n )\n )\n return {\n \"quality_ndcg@10\": round(quality, 6),\n230→ \"quality_users\": len(graded),\n }\n", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-e93ccd08-cf67-4cf0-9026-ed1d851ed038-6", "name": "list_dir", "input": { "target_directory": "/app/solution" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "- /app/solution/\n", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-e93ccd08-cf67-4cf0-9026-ed1d851ed038-7", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "python3 - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\n\n# Catalog and users\ncat = pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet')\nusers = pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet')\nprint('catalog', cat.shape, cat.columns.tolist())\nprint(cat.head(3).to_string())\nprint('dtypes', cat.dtypes.to_dict())\nprint('users', users.shape, users.columns.tolist())\nprint(users.head(3).to_string())\nprint('uid unique', users.uid.nunique(), 'min/max', users.uid.min(), users.uid.max())\n\n# preference states\nfor name in ['validation_preference_state.parquet','test_preference_state.parquet']:\n df = pd.read_parquet(data/name)\n print(name, df.shape, df.columns.tolist(), df.dtypes.to_dict())\n print(df.head(3).to_string())\n if 'state' in df.columns:\n print('states', df.state.value_counts().to_dict())\n\n# events\nfor fam in ['listens','likes','dislikes','unlikes','undislikes']:\n for split in ['train','val']:\n p = data/f'{split}_{fam}.parquet'\n df = pd.read_parquet(p)\n print(f'{split}_{fam}', df.shape, df.columns.tolist())\n print(' ts min/max', df.timestamp.min(), df.timestamp.max())\n print(' uid nunique', df.uid.nunique(), 'item nunique', df.item_id.nunique())\n print(' is_organic', df.is_organic.value_counts().to_dict() if 'is_organic' in df.columns else None)\n if fam=='listens':\n print(' played_ratio describe', df.played_ratio_pct.describe().to_dict())\n print(' head', df.head(2).to_string().replace('\\n',' | '))\n\n# eligible\nfor name in ['validation_eligible_candidates.npz','test_eligible_candidates.npz']:\n z = np.load(data/name)\n print(name, list(z.keys()))\n for k in z.keys():\n a = z[k]\n print(' ', k, a.shape, a.dtype)\n print(' n uids', len(z['uids']), 'n items', len(z['item_ids']))\n print(' uid overlap users', len(set(z['uids']) & set(users.uid)))\n # sample mask density\n packed = z['packed_eligible']\n item_ids = z['item_ids']\n n_el = []\n for r in range(min(20, packed.shape[0])):\n mask = np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=len(item_ids), bitorder='little')\n n_el.append(mask.sum())\n print(' eligible counts sample20', n_el, 'mean', np.mean(n_el))\nPY\n", "description": "Inspect parquet schemas, sizes, and eligibility" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 1\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File \"\", line 1, in \nModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pandas'\n", "isError": true } } ] }, { "id": 7, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-a900ae0b-bc66-4884-8bf0-fd9e1911849a-8", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "which python python3; ls /usr/bin/python*; echo '---'; type python; echo PATH=$PATH; ls /opt 2>/dev/null; ls /usr/local/bin 2>/dev/null | head", "description": "Find Python interpreter with packages" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\n/usr/local/bin/python\n/usr/local/bin/python3\nls: cannot access '/usr/bin/python*': No such file or directory\n---\npython is /usr/local/bin/python\nPATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/home/agent/.grok/bin:/opt/task-venv/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin\ntask-venv\n2to3\n2to3-3.12\nidle\nidle3\nidle3.12\npip\npip3\npip3.12\npydoc\npydoc3\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 8, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "A virtual environment exists at /opt/task-venv." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-0d5866f0-5ba8-4d5a-a83d-34924b4e414c-9", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\n\n# Catalog and users\ncat = pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet')\nusers = pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet')\nprint('catalog', cat.shape, cat.columns.tolist())\nprint(cat.head(3).to_string())\nprint('dtypes', cat.dtypes.to_dict())\nprint('users', users.shape, users.columns.tolist())\nprint(users.head(3).to_string())\nprint('uid unique', users.uid.nunique(), 'min/max', users.uid.min(), users.uid.max())\n\n# preference states\nfor name in ['validation_preference_state.parquet','test_preference_state.parquet']:\n df = pd.read_parquet(data/name)\n print(name, df.shape, df.columns.tolist(), df.dtypes.to_dict())\n print(df.head(3).to_string())\n if 'state' in df.columns:\n print('states', df.state.value_counts().to_dict())\n\n# events\nfor fam in ['listens','likes','dislikes','unlikes','undislikes']:\n for split in ['train','val']:\n p = data/f'{split}_{fam}.parquet'\n df = pd.read_parquet(p)\n print(f'{split}_{fam}', df.shape, df.columns.tolist())\n print(' ts min/max', int(df.timestamp.min()), int(df.timestamp.max()))\n print(' uid nunique', df.uid.nunique(), 'item nunique', df.item_id.nunique())\n print(' is_organic', df.is_organic.value_counts().to_dict() if 'is_organic' in df.columns else None)\n if fam=='listens':\n print(' played_ratio describe', {k: float(v) for k,v in df.played_ratio_pct.describe().to_dict().items()})\n print(' sample uid/item', df.iloc[0].to_dict())\n\n# eligible\nfor name in ['validation_eligible_candidates.npz','test_eligible_candidates.npz']:\n z = np.load(data/name)\n print(name, list(z.keys()))\n for k in z.keys():\n a = z[k]\n print(' ', k, a.shape, a.dtype)\n print(' n uids', len(z['uids']), 'n items', len(z['item_ids']))\n print(' uid overlap users', len(set(z['uids']) & set(users.uid)))\n packed = z['packed_eligible']\n item_ids = z['item_ids']\n n_el = []\n for r in range(min(50, packed.shape[0])):\n mask = np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=len(item_ids), bitorder='little')\n n_el.append(int(mask.sum()))\n print(' eligible counts sample50 mean/min/max', np.mean(n_el), min(n_el), max(n_el))\nPY\n", "description": "Inspect data schemas and statistics with venv Python" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\ncatalog (30000, 4) ['item_id', 'positive_listens', 'organic_positive_listens', 'popularity_rank']\n item_id positive_listens organic_positive_listens popularity_rank\n0 5862961 26615 20620 1\n1 6901374 25536 17347 2\n2 5635052 24691 17194 3\ndtypes {'item_id': dtype('uint32'), 'positive_listens': dtype('int64'), 'organic_positive_listens': dtype('uint64'), 'popularity_rank': dtype('int32')}\nusers (8456, 3) ['uid', 'recent_positive_listens', 'history_positive_listens']\n uid recent_positive_listens history_positive_listens\n0 100 844.0 2604\n1 200 50.0 286\n2 300 168.0 359\nuid unique 8456 min/max 100 1000000\nvalidation_preference_state.parquet (469124, 3) ['uid', 'item_id', 'state'] {'uid': dtype('uint32'), 'item_id': dtype('uint32'), 'state': dtype('O')}\n uid item_id state\n0 100 410868 liked\n1 100 732449 liked\n2 100 982903 liked\nstates {'liked': 418435, 'disliked': 50689}\ntest_preference_state.parquet (484776, 3) ['uid', 'item_id', 'state'] {'uid': dtype('uint32'), 'item_id': dtype('uint32'), 'state': dtype('O')}\n uid item_id state\n0 100 410868 liked\n1 100 732449 liked\n2 100 982903 liked\nstates {'liked': 432659, 'disliked': 52117}\ntrain_listens (43484159, 6) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic', 'played_ratio_pct', 'track_length_seconds']\n ts min/max 0 24786795\n uid nunique 9238 item nunique 845395\n is_organic {1: 22477622, 0: 21006537}\n played_ratio describe {'count': 43484159.0, 'mean': 64.65020705586143, 'std': 44.12182686755735, 'min': 0.0, '25%': 7.0, '50%': 100.0, '75%': 100.0, 'max': 159.0}\n sample uid/item {'uid': 100, 'timestamp': 39420, 'item_id': 8326270, 'is_organic': 0, 'played_ratio_pct': 100, 'track_length_seconds': 170}\nval_listens (1501697, 6) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic', 'played_ratio_pct', 'track_length_seconds']\n ts min/max 24788600 25393395\n uid nunique 8196 item nunique 191747\n is_organic {1: 776486, 0: 725211}\n played_ratio describe {'count': 1501697.0, 'mean': 65.68327698596987, 'std': 43.72571955409413, 'min': 0.0, '25%': 9.0, '50%': 100.0, '75%': 100.0, 'max': 159.0}\n sample uid/item {'uid': 100, 'timestamp': 24943430, 'item_id': 9321269, 'is_organic': 0, 'played_ratio_pct': 100, 'track_length_seconds': 195}\ntrain_likes (814831, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']\n ts min/max 80 24786790\n uid nunique 8144 item nunique 172303\n is_organic {1: 461839, 0: 352992}\n sample uid/item {'uid': 100, 'timestamp': 44755, 'item_id': 732449, 'is_organic': 1}\nval_likes (37795, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']\n ts min/max 24788815 25393390\n uid nunique 4114 item nunique 22902\n is_organic {1: 25181, 0: 12614}\n sample uid/item {'uid': 100, 'timestamp': 25249855, 'item_id': 3526521, 'is_organic': 1}\ntrain_dislikes (101075, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']\n ts min/max 75 24786580\n uid nunique 5732 item nunique 50876\n is_organic {1: 52278, 0: 48797}\n sample uid/item {'uid': 100, 'timestamp': 3087560, 'item_id': 9170134, 'is_organic': 1}\nval_dislikes (3563, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']\n ts min/max 24789920 25393280\n uid nunique 955 item nunique 3135\n is_organic {1: 1835, 0: 1728}\n sample uid/item {'uid': 1600, 'timestamp': 25163525, 'item_id': 6747257, 'is_organic': 0}\ntrain_unlikes (292665, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']\n ts min/max 250 24786570\n uid nunique 6197 item nunique 113072\n is_organic {1: 277065, 0: 15600}\n sample uid/item {'uid': 100, 'timestamp': 3087555, 'item_id': 5038504, 'is_organic': 1}\nval_unlikes (9346, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']\n ts min/max 24789005 25393385\n uid nunique 1313 item nunique 8080\n is_organic {1: 8905, 0: 441}\n sample uid/item {'uid': 1100, 'timestamp': 24861880, 'item_id': 6901050, 'is_organic': 1}\ntrain_undislikes (19960, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']\n ts min/max 15950 24785395\n uid nunique 2769 item nunique 14725\n is_organic {1: 17751, 0: 2209}\n sample uid/item {'uid': 100, 'timestamp': 7895900, 'item_id': 9170134, 'is_organic': 1}\nval_undislikes (606, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']\n ts min/max 24810715 25393035\n uid nunique 205 item nunique 579\n is_organic {1: 527, 0: 79}\n sample uid/item {'uid': 900, 'timestamp': 25364045, 'item_id': 6092542, 'is_organic': 1}\nvalidation_eligible_candidates.npz ['uids', 'item_ids', 'packed_eligible']\n uids (8456,) uint32\n item_ids (30000,) uint32\n packed_eligible (8456, 3750) uint8\n n uids 8456 n items 30000\n uid overlap users 8456\n eligible counts sample50 mean/min/max 29108.8 27396 29971\ntest_eligible_candidates.npz ['uids', 'item_ids', 'packed_eligible']\n uids (8456,) uint32\n item_ids (30000,) uint32\n packed_eligible (8456, 3750) uint8\n n uids 8456 n items 30000\n uid overlap users 8456\n eligible counts sample50 mean/min/max 29078.5 27377 29966\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 9, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "This is a substantial recommendation task.\n\nThe two-tower architecture will use user embeddings derived from interaction history rather than user-ID lookup. Item embeddings will be independently precomputable. Ranking scores will be dot products of the two towers. The design must avoid constructing or decomposing a global user-item interaction matrix to scale to millions of users and items. Training will use the train set, validation will use a 7-day window after a 30-minute gap, and the hidden test will follow another 7-day window with the same gap.\n\nThe user tower will encode interaction history via attention or pooling over item embeddings. The item tower will combine item ID embeddings with popularity features. Training will use sampled softmax, in-batch negatives, or BPR with sampled negatives. The final model will be refit on the combined train and validation sets for the hidden test.\n\nThe dataset contains 43 million listens across 8,400 users and 30,000 catalog items. The item tower will use a small embedding table for the retrieval catalog plus extra embeddings for items that appear only in user histories. It will combine an ID embedding with features such as log popularity and organic ratio through an MLP.\n\nThe user tower will average recent positive item embeddings, possibly with attention, and incorporate like and dislike features. Item vectors are precomputed for fast inference. Training pairs each user history with the item at that timestamp as a strong positive, using in-batch or random catalog negatives under sampled softmax, InfoNCE, or BPR. The discovery objective targets organic likes and listens above an 80% threshold.\n\nEligibility covers roughly 29,000 of the 30,000 catalog items per user. The validation window spans about seven days after the training cutoff with a thirty-minute gap. The final model will be trained on the combined train and validation histories.\n\nA YouTube-style two-tower with average pooling is being considered. Item embeddings would be 64–128 dimensions. The user vector would be the mean of recent positive item embeddings, possibly weighted by recency. This approach risks collapsing both towers into a single embedding table, which may violate the requirement that they be separate trainable networks.\n\nThe towers will be separate networks, possibly sharing embeddings. Each tower will use an embedding table, an MLP, and L2 normalization so the dot product becomes cosine similarity. Training will stream events and sample negatives from the catalog using InfoNCE or sampled softmax to avoid building a global matrix. Features that may help discovery include recency of history, organic versus recommended listens, and play completion.\n\nExplicit likes and dislikes will be included as features. A popularity baseline is being considered as a strong starting point. SASRec-style sequential models are compatible with the two-tower structure if the item tower uses only an embedding or a minimal MLP. Training on 43 million events requires subsampling positives and efficient batching to stay feasible on CPU.\n\nThe item tower will use a 128-dimensional embedding table, concatenate it with log1p(popularity) and organic_ratio features, and pass the result through an MLP to 64 dimensions. The user tower will pool the last 50 to 100 positive items from each user's history.\n\nThe user tower will pool recent items, likes, organic listens, and dislikes into separate channels, concatenate them, and pass the result through an MLP to produce a d-dimensional vector. Training will use sampled softmax or InfoNCE with in-batch and random negatives. Strong positives are organic likes weighted at 3 and organic listens above 80% weighted at 1, while weaker positives include any listen above 50%. At training time, each user history will be restricted to events strictly before the positive event.\n\nValidation will use only training data for user features. Test will use combined training and validation histories.\n\nThe item embedding table will cover all 845,000 unique items in the dataset, including those outside the 30,000-item catalog. This is feasible at roughly 216 MB. At inference, only catalog items need embeddings.\n\nA 100,000-bucket hash table is being considered as an alternative to a full embedding table for history items. The entire pipeline must fit within the 60-minute CPU PyTorch window, so data preparation, training, validation, final retraining on combined train and validation data, and inference all need to be carefully budgeted.\n\nTraining should take 15 to 25 minutes for the validation model and another 15 to 25 minutes for the final model. Inference is cheap: computing 8,456 user vectors and 30,000 item vectors, then scoring eligible items per user, requires only about 16 billion FLOPs. The real bottleneck is training. The plan is to precompute each user's positive event sequence and sample batches of (user, positive_item, history) with in-batch negatives, using sampled softmax as in the YouTube retrieval paper.\n\nTraining examples will be built by selecting a position in each user's chronological positive sequence, using only items strictly before that timestamp as history and the item at that position as the positive target. Positives will be filtered to catalog items. The training objective will use InfoNCE with in-batch negatives plus extra random catalog negatives. Validation history will include all training events.\n\nShared item ID embeddings will be used by both towers, with separate MLPs for each. This satisfies the requirement for separate trainable networks while keeping the architecture standard and efficient.\n\nAn asymmetric two-tower design is now preferred. The item tower will use item ID embeddings and popularity features. The user tower will use a separate history embedding table, interaction type embeddings, and time decay before attention pooling into an MLP. This keeps the towers fully independent.\n\nThe user tower will pool item-tower embeddings of history items plus extra context features. This is more parameter-efficient than a separate history embedding table. Gradients must be handled carefully. A SASRec-like transformer user tower is also being considered." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "Next I’ll measure label density, catalog coverage, and simple baselines so the towers and loss match the actual data." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-2c8f6031-e3e0-40e7-b305-6af6afebeaca-10", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\nfrom collections import Counter\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\ncat = pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet')\nusers = pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet')\nprint('catalog item_id min/max', cat.item_id.min(), cat.item_id.max())\nprint('catalog popularity_rank unique', cat.popularity_rank.nunique())\nprint(cat[['positive_listens','organic_positive_listens']].describe().to_string())\n\ncatalog_set = set(cat.item_id.astype(np.int64))\ntargets = set(users.uid.astype(np.int64))\n\n# val relevance stats\nval_listens = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_listens.parquet')\nval_likes = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_likes.parquet')\nstrong = val_listens[(val_listens.uid.isin(targets)) & (val_listens.is_organic==1) & (val_listens.played_ratio_pct>=80)]\norg_likes = val_likes[(val_likes.uid.isin(targets)) & (val_likes.is_organic==1)]\nprint('val strong organic listens rows', len(strong), 'pairs', strong[['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates().shape[0])\nprint(' in catalog', strong[['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates().item_id.isin(catalog_set).mean())\nprint('val organic likes rows', len(org_likes), 'pairs', org_likes[['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates().shape[0])\nprint(' in catalog', org_likes[['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates().item_id.isin(catalog_set).mean())\n\n# eligibility for relevance\nfrom numpy import unpackbits\nz = np.load(data/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nuids = z['uids'].astype(np.int64)\nitem_ids = z['item_ids'].astype(np.int64)\npacked = z['packed_eligible']\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(uids)}\nitem_col = {int(it):i for i,it in enumerate(item_ids)}\n\ndef eligible(u,i):\n r = uid_row.get(int(u)); c = item_col.get(int(i))\n if r is None or c is None: return False\n byte, bit = divmod(c,8)\n return bool((int(packed[r,byte]) >> bit) & 1)\n\n# count relevant eligible per user\ngraded_users = {}\nn_g1=n_g3=0\nn_g1_el=n_g3_el=0\nfor u,i in strong[['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates().itertuples(index=False):\n n_g1 += 1\n if eligible(u,i):\n n_g1_el += 1\n graded_users.setdefault(int(u), {})[int(i)] = 1\nfor u,i in org_likes[['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates().itertuples(index=False):\n n_g3 += 1\n if eligible(u,i):\n n_g3_el += 1\n graded_users.setdefault(int(u), {})[int(i)] = 3\nprint('grade1 pairs', n_g1, 'eligible', n_g1_el)\nprint('grade3 pairs', n_g3, 'eligible', n_g3_el)\nprint('users with any relevant eligible', len(graded_users), 'of', len(targets))\nnrel = [len(v) for v in graded_users.values()]\nprint('relevant per scored user mean/median/p90/max', np.mean(nrel), np.median(nrel), np.percentile(nrel,90), max(nrel))\n\n# how many relevant items are in catalog\nprint('catalog vs item_ids equal', set(item_ids)==catalog_set)\nprint('item_ids is catalog order?', np.array_equal(item_ids, cat.item_id.to_numpy()))\n\n# train listens catalog coverage for target users\n# sample to save time? 43M might be ok\nprint('loading train listens coverage...')\ntl = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','item_id','is_organic','played_ratio_pct'])\ntl_t = tl[tl.uid.isin(targets)]\nprint('train listens target users', len(tl_t), 'frac of all', len(tl_t)/len(tl))\nprint('catalog frac of target listens', tl_t.item_id.isin(catalog_set).mean())\npos = tl_t[tl_t.played_ratio_pct>=50]\nprint('pos listens catalog frac', pos.item_id.isin(catalog_set).mean())\norg80 = tl_t[(tl_t.is_organic==1)&(tl_t.played_ratio_pct>=80)]\nprint('org80 catalog frac', org80.item_id.isin(catalog_set).mean(), 'n', len(org80), 'unique items', org80.item_id.nunique())\n\nlikes = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_likes.parquet')\nlikes_t = likes[likes.uid.isin(targets)]\nprint('train likes target', len(likes_t), 'catalog frac', likes_t.item_id.isin(catalog_set).mean())\nprint('organic likes catalog frac', likes_t[likes_t.is_organic==1].item_id.isin(catalog_set).mean())\n\n# timestamps distribution of train\nprint('users recent_positive describe')\nprint(users[['recent_positive_listens','history_positive_listens']].describe().to_string())\n\n# preference state vs catalog\npref = pd.read_parquet(data/'validation_preference_state.parquet')\nprint('pref catalog frac', pref.item_id.isin(catalog_set).mean())\nprint('pref users', pref.uid.nunique())\nprint('liked per user', pref[pref.state=='liked'].groupby('uid').size().describe().to_dict())\n\n# overlap of val relevant with train history (repeat consumption)\ntrain_pos_pairs = set(zip(pos.uid.astype(np.int64), pos.item_id.astype(np.int64)))\n# too big? pos might be tens of millions\nprint('pos pairs estimate', pos.shape)\nPY\n", "description": "Compute relevance density and catalog coverage" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\ncatalog item_id min/max 206 9390294\ncatalog popularity_rank unique 30000\n positive_listens organic_positive_listens\ncount 30000.000000 30000.000000\nmean 668.544300 313.926433\nstd 1053.389553 636.039902\nmin 163.000000 0.000000\n25% 228.000000 93.000000\n50% 354.000000 162.000000\n75% 669.250000 309.000000\nmax 26615.000000 20620.000000\nval strong organic listens rows 421615 pairs 255608\n in catalog 0.6681754874651811\nval organic likes rows 20702 pairs 17195\n in catalog 0.4959581273626054\ngrade1 pairs 255608 eligible 35597\ngrade3 pairs 17195 eligible 4417\nusers with any relevant eligible 4263 of 8456\nrelevant per scored user mean/median/p90/max 8.859723199624677 4.0 21.0 442\ncatalog vs item_ids equal True\nitem_ids is catalog order? True\nloading train listens coverage...\ntrain listens target users 43222297 frac of all 0.9939779909276847\ncatalog frac of target listens 0.7186693479062438\npos listens catalog frac 0.7293310497844091\norg80 catalog frac 0.7144281824398396 n 12123010 unique items 438654\ntrain likes target 690968 catalog frac 0.6843862523300644\norganic likes catalog frac 0.6509194164528997\nusers recent_positive describe\n recent_positive_listens history_positive_listens\ncount 8456.000000 8456.000000\nmean 1251.076750 3236.440752\nstd 1414.340904 3697.575286\nmin 20.000000 20.000000\n25% 281.000000 630.000000\n50% 784.500000 1920.500000\n75% 1706.250000 4494.250000\nmax 19592.000000 26597.000000\npref catalog frac 1.0\npref users 7038\nliked per user {'count': 6769.0, 'mean': 61.816368739843405, 'std': 97.98764422093241, 'min': 1.0, '25%': 7.0, '50%': 28.0, '75%': 75.0, 'max': 1327.0}\npos pairs estimate (27367343, 4)\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 10, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The dataset contains only about 35,000 eligible grade-1 pairs.\n\nOnly about 4,000 grade-3 pairs are eligible. Most validation relevant items are ineligible, likely because they were already consumed. The catalog covers roughly 72% of listens, and users have rich histories with a median of 1,920 positive listens. Eligibility probably excludes known or recently consumed items, so the model must generalize from history to rank unseen catalog items." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-cddaaf1e-6d53-4105-866f-16a7daae9f6e-11", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\ncat = pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet')\nusers = pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet')\npref = pd.read_parquet(data/'validation_preference_state.parquet')\nz = np.load(data/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nuids = z['uids'].astype(np.int64)\nitem_ids = z['item_ids'].astype(np.int64)\npacked = z['packed_eligible']\n\n# decode a few users' ineligible items and see overlap with likes/dislikes/history\ncatalog_set = set(item_ids)\n\n# pick 5 users\nrng = np.random.default_rng(0)\nsample_rows = rng.choice(len(uids), 8, replace=False)\n\ntl = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','item_id','played_ratio_pct','is_organic','timestamp'])\nlikes = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_likes.parquet')\ndislikes = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_dislikes.parquet')\n\npref_by_user = pref.groupby('uid')\n\nfor r in sample_rows:\n uid = int(uids[r])\n mask = np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=len(item_ids), bitorder='little').astype(bool)\n inelig = item_ids[~mask]\n print('\\n=== uid', uid, 'n_ineligible', len(inelig), 'n_eligible', mask.sum())\n u_pref = pref[pref.uid==uid]\n liked = set(u_pref[u_pref.state=='liked'].item_id.astype(np.int64))\n disliked = set(u_pref[u_pref.state=='disliked'].item_id.astype(np.int64))\n inelig_set = set(inelig)\n print(' liked', len(liked), 'in inelig', len(liked & inelig_set), 'liked not inelig', len(liked-inelig_set))\n print(' disliked', len(disliked), 'in inelig', len(disliked & inelig_set))\n u_pos = tl[(tl.uid==uid) & (tl.played_ratio_pct>=50)]\n pos_items = set(u_pos.item_id.astype(np.int64)) & catalog_set\n print(' catalog pos listens', len(pos_items), 'in inelig', len(pos_items & inelig_set), 'frac of inelig that are pos', len(pos_items & inelig_set)/max(len(inelig_set),1))\n # recent pos\n recent = u_pos[u_pos.timestamp >= 24786800 - 90*86400]\n rec_items = set(recent.item_id.astype(np.int64)) & catalog_set\n print(' recent90d catalog pos', len(rec_items), 'in inelig', len(rec_items & inelig_set))\n # all listens\n u_all = set(tl[tl.uid==uid].item_id.astype(np.int64)) & catalog_set\n print(' catalog any listen', len(u_all), 'in inelig', len(u_all & inelig_set), 'inelig not in history', len(inelig_set-u_all-liked-disliked))\n\n# global: are ALL liked catalog items ineligible?\nprint('\\n=== global liked vs eligibility ===')\n# vectorized for all users would be slow if naive; sample 200 users\nn_liked_el = 0\nn_liked = 0\nn_dis_el = 0\nn_dis = 0\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(uids)}\nitem_col = {int(it):i for i,it in enumerate(item_ids)}\n\ndef is_el(u,i):\n r = uid_row.get(int(u)); c = item_col.get(int(i))\n if r is None or c is None: return False\n b,bit=divmod(c,8)\n return bool((int(packed[r,b])>>bit)&1)\n\nsample_u = rng.choice(uids, 300, replace=False)\npref_s = pref[pref.uid.isin(sample_u)]\nfor u,i,s in pref_s.itertuples(index=False):\n el = is_el(u,i)\n if s=='liked':\n n_liked += 1\n n_liked_el += int(el)\n else:\n n_dis += 1\n n_dis_el += int(el)\nprint('sampled liked eligible frac', n_liked_el/max(n_liked,1), 'n', n_liked)\nprint('sampled disliked eligible frac', n_dis_el/max(n_dis,1), 'n', n_dis)\nPY\n", "description": "Analyze what eligibility excludes per user" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\n\n=== uid 849200 n_ineligible 933 n_eligible 29067\n liked 34 in inelig 34 liked not inelig 0\n disliked 0 in inelig 0\n catalog pos listens 707 in inelig 707 frac of inelig that are pos 0.7577706323687031\n recent90d catalog pos 312 in inelig 312\n catalog any listen 932 in inelig 932 inelig not in history 1\n\n=== uid 77100 n_ineligible 787 n_eligible 29213\n liked 0 in inelig 0 liked not inelig 0\n disliked 0 in inelig 0\n catalog pos listens 780 in inelig 780 frac of inelig that are pos 0.9911054637865311\n recent90d catalog pos 81 in inelig 81\n catalog any listen 787 in inelig 787 inelig not in history 0\n\n=== uid 16700 n_ineligible 711 n_eligible 29289\n liked 58 in inelig 58 liked not inelig 0\n disliked 0 in inelig 0\n catalog pos listens 357 in inelig 357 frac of inelig that are pos 0.5021097046413502\n recent90d catalog pos 209 in inelig 209\n catalog any listen 710 in inelig 710 inelig not in history 1\n\n=== uid 514600 n_ineligible 202 n_eligible 29798\n liked 0 in inelig 0 liked not inelig 0\n disliked 0 in inelig 0\n catalog pos listens 195 in inelig 195 frac of inelig that are pos 0.9653465346534653\n recent90d catalog pos 32 in inelig 32\n catalog any listen 202 in inelig 202 inelig not in history 0\n\n=== uid 311400 n_ineligible 1881 n_eligible 28119\n liked 192 in inelig 192 liked not inelig 0\n disliked 1 in inelig 1\n catalog pos listens 1333 in inelig 1333 frac of inelig that are pos 0.7086656034024456\n recent90d catalog pos 31 in inelig 31\n catalog any listen 1881 in inelig 1881 inelig not in history 0\n\n=== uid 273200 n_ineligible 1295 n_eligible 28705\n liked 33 in inelig 33 liked not inelig 0\n disliked 1 in inelig 1\n catalog pos listens 1064 in inelig 1064 frac of inelig that are pos 0.8216216216216217\n recent90d catalog pos 628 in inelig 628\n catalog any listen 1288 in inelig 1288 inelig not in history 7\n\n=== uid 41300 n_ineligible 679 n_eligible 29321\n liked 164 in inelig 164 liked not inelig 0\n disliked 6 in inelig 6\n catalog pos listens 411 in inelig 411 frac of inelig that are pos 0.605301914580265\n recent90d catalog pos 278 in inelig 278\n catalog any listen 663 in inelig 663 inelig not in history 16\n\n=== uid 639100 n_ineligible 344 n_eligible 29656\n liked 49 in inelig 49 liked not inelig 0\n disliked 60 in inelig 60\n catalog pos listens 168 in inelig 168 frac of inelig that are pos 0.4883720930232558\n recent90d catalog pos 68 in inelig 68\n catalog any listen 341 in inelig 341 inelig not in history 3\n\n=== global liked vs eligibility ===\nsampled liked eligible frac 0.0 n 15675\nsampled disliked eligible frac 0.0 n 1593\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 11, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "All liked items are excluded from the shelf eligibility set.\n\nDisliked items and previously listened tracks are also excluded. The task is true discovery: recommending tracks the user has never interacted with. Collaborative filtering via item embeddings learned from co-occurrence in user histories is the right approach.\n\nThe user tower aggregates history item embeddings into a dense vector. The score is the dot product with unseen item embeddings. Training will use in-batch negatives to predict held-out items from each user's history. This captures cross-user co-occurrence and enables discovery of never-seen tracks.\n\nSkip-gram training will predict context items from the same user's history. The two-tower architecture pools the user's history while treating the target item as a dedicated query vector. Training must also hide some items from each user's history and predict them from the remaining items, ensuring the learned embeddings generalize to unseen tracks.\n\nChronological next-item prediction would favor repeated listens, which are ineligible. Training should instead target first-time catalog discoveries. Each user's history will serve as context for their earliest encounters with catalog items." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-dbaeefef-36c0-411c-8e53-73b09b7b76a4-12", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\nusers = pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet')\ntargets = set(users.uid.astype(np.int64))\ncat = set(pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet').item_id.astype(np.int64))\n\n# How often are val relevant eligible items completely new vs seen?\n# We already know eligibility ~ never listened. Confirm val grade items not in train history.\n\n# Popularity of relevant eligible items vs random catalog\nz = np.load(data/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nuids = z['uids'].astype(np.int64)\nitem_ids = z['item_ids'].astype(np.int64)\npacked = z['packed_eligible']\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(uids)}\nitem_col = {int(it):i for i,it in enumerate(item_ids)}\n\ndef is_el(u,i):\n r = uid_row.get(int(u)); c = item_col.get(int(i))\n if r is None or c is None: return False\n b,bit=divmod(c,8)\n return bool((int(packed[r,b])>>bit)&1)\n\nval_listens = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_listens.parquet')\nval_likes = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_likes.parquet')\nstrong = val_listens[(val_listens.uid.isin(targets))&(val_listens.is_organic==1)&(val_listens.played_ratio_pct>=80)][['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates()\nlikes = val_likes[(val_likes.uid.isin(targets))&(val_likes.is_organic==1)][['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates()\n\ncat_df = pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet')\npop = dict(zip(cat_df.item_id.astype(np.int64), cat_df.popularity_rank.astype(int)))\n\nrel_ranks = []\nlike_ranks = []\nfor u,i in strong.itertuples(index=False):\n if is_el(u,i) and i in pop:\n rel_ranks.append(pop[int(i)])\nfor u,i in likes.itertuples(index=False):\n if is_el(u,i) and i in pop:\n like_ranks.append(pop[int(i)])\nprint('eligible org80 rank mean/median/p10/p90', np.mean(rel_ranks), np.median(rel_ranks), np.percentile(rel_ranks,10), np.percentile(rel_ranks,90), 'n', len(rel_ranks))\nprint('eligible likes rank mean/median', np.mean(like_ranks), np.median(like_ranks), 'n', len(like_ranks))\nprint('uniform catalog rank mean', 15000.5)\n\n# popularity baseline NDCG - rank eligible by popularity\n# This is a quick estimate: for each scored user, sort eligible items by popularity rank and take top 100\n\n# Too slow if we decode all? 8456 * 30000 is ok\nprint('computing popularity baseline...')\nfrom ranking_evaluation import ndcg_at_k, score_rankings, QUALITY_K\n\n# build graded\ngraded = {}\nfor u,i in strong.itertuples(index=False):\n u,i=int(u),int(i)\n if is_el(u,i):\n graded.setdefault(u,{})[i]=1\nfor u,i in likes.itertuples(index=False):\n u,i=int(u),int(i)\n if is_el(u,i):\n graded.setdefault(u,{})[i]=3\nprint('scored users', len(graded))\n\n# popularity order of catalog (already ordered by popularity)\npop_order = item_ids # same as catalog order by popularity_rank\n\nranked = {}\n# only need for graded users for score, but full ranking later\nfor uid, gold in graded.items():\n r = uid_row[uid]\n mask = np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=len(item_ids), bitorder='little').astype(bool)\n # item_ids is popularity order (rank 1 first)\n elig = item_ids[mask]\n ranked[uid] = elig[:100].tolist() # most popular eligible\n\nprint(score_rankings(ranked, graded))\n\n# random baseline\nrng = np.random.default_rng(0)\nranked_rand = {}\nfor uid, gold in graded.items():\n r = uid_row[uid]\n mask = np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=len(item_ids), bitorder='little').astype(bool)\n elig = item_ids[mask]\n ranked_rand[uid] = rng.choice(elig, 100, replace=False).tolist()\nprint('random', score_rankings(ranked_rand, graded))\n\n# How many gold items are in top 100 popular eligible\nhits=0; tot=0\nfor uid, gold in graded.items():\n s=set(ranked[uid][:10])\n tot += len(gold)\n hits += sum(1 for i in gold if i in s)\nprint('pop@10 recall of gold items', hits, tot, hits/tot)\nhits=0\nfor uid, gold in graded.items():\n s=set(ranked[uid][:100])\n hits += sum(1 for i in gold if i in s)\nprint('pop@100 recall of gold items', hits, tot, hits/tot)\nPY\n", "description": "Compute popularity baseline NDCG and gold-item popularity" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 1\neligible org80 rank mean/median/p10/p90 8410.543950332893 5591.0 416.0 21590.0 n 35597\neligible likes rank mean/median 8891.975322617162 6371.0 n 4417\nuniform catalog rank mean 15000.5\ncomputing popularity baseline...\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File \"\", line 52, in \nModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ranking_evaluation'\n", "isError": true } } ] }, { "id": 12, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The ranking evaluation path needs to be added.\n\nRelevant items have a median popularity rank of roughly 5591. Item-item collaborative filtering is a strong baseline for this discovery task. The two-tower architecture mirrors matrix factorization: user embeddings aggregate history item embeddings, and item embeddings learn to group co-occurring items. Weighted history and time decay are also being considered.\n\nIDF weighting is being explored to downweight popular items in user history, since they carry less recommendation signal. The two-tower design would average history embeddings with IDF weights and subtract a global popularity direction from the user side. A simple item-item CF baseline without a global matrix is also under consideration.\n\nItem-item co-occurrence likely violates the global matrix constraint, so sampled softmax in a two-tower network is the intended approach. The item tower will use 30,000 catalog items. Non-catalog items in user history will also be preserved to avoid signal loss.\n\nNon-catalog items need embeddings for the user tower. A full 845k embedding table would cost roughly 432MB, which is acceptable but would give poor embeddings to rare items. Hashing non-catalog items into 50k buckets or keeping only high-frequency ones are being considered as lighter alternatives.\n\nAll items appearing at least N times plus every catalog item will be embedded; the rest map to UNK. User history will be truncated to the last 256–512 listens with time decay, or sampled. The user tower will average the last 200 positive catalog items using IDF weights. Training will use InfoNCE: a user is paired with a first-time organic catalog listen from their recent history, and the user embedding pools only the preceding history.\n\nNegative sampling will combine in-batch negatives from similar-popularity users with random unseen catalog items. A mixed strategy of roughly half each is being considered. Listwise or BPR objectives against random eligible items are also under review.\n\nThe item tower will use a 64 or 96-dimensional embedding table. It will also ingest popularity features—log1p of positive listens, organic listens, and log of pop rank—and pass them through a small MLP with GELU activation before L2 normalization.\n\nThe user tower will share the same item ID embedding table. It will add type embeddings for weak listens, strong listens, organic strong listens, likes, and dislikes. Time decay and IDF weights will be applied to history items. The tower will pool these embeddings via attention or weighted mean. Multiple aggregated statistics such as recent 20, recent 100, and likes-only views may be used.\n\nL2-normalizing both towers would make the score a cosine similarity. Some papers avoid this and instead use dot product with sampled softmax, letting norms encode popularity automatically. A learned item bias dimension is also being considered to capture popularity directly in the item vector.\n\nNo L2 normalization will be used. Unbounded embeddings will let dot products encode popularity magnitude directly. The user tower will keep its last layer unconstrained. Training will use sampled softmax with either a single positive item or an in-batch matrix of logits.\n\nHard in-batch negatives may be too easy if batches contain diverse items. Multiple positives per user are being considered instead.\n\nCPU training will use large batches of 512–2048, zero data workers to avoid pickle overhead, and pinned threads for speed.\n\nThe dataset yields roughly 1.6 million first-time catalog examples per epoch. At batch size 1024 this equals about 1,600 steps per epoch.\n\nEach training step should be very fast on CPU because only embeddings and a small MLP are computed. The entire epoch may finish in one to three minutes. Data loading could dominate if not handled carefully, so everything will be preloaded into memory.\n\nThe implementation plan is to build the item vocabulary from the catalog plus history items, construct per-user sequences, train the model, export embeddings, and then rank. Validation will use only the training split, while the final test run will refit on both training and validation data.\n\nAt inference, the user vector will be built from all training and validation history up to the cutoff. Likes will be weighted heavily into the representation, while dislikes will be subtracted as negative context. The preference state files can supply these active likes and dislikes directly.\n\nTraining sequences will process events chronologically, treating likes and unlikes as state changes. The user tower will use a simpler history filter: organic listens with played_ratio at least 50 plus likes as positive context, and active dislikes as negative context. Weights will be highest for likes, then organic 80%+, organic 50%, and non-organic items. Recency decay will follow an exponential schedule over days, and IDF weights will be applied to the history embeddings.\n\nShort-term and long-term history streams will be pooled separately: the last 30 items with recency weighting, plus IDF-weighted full history. These will concatenate into a final MLP before scoring. The dataset spans roughly nine to ten months of history. Only log popularity and organic ratio will be used as item features, since no content features are available.\n\nThe item and user towers will share the same ID embedding table, with separate projection MLPs. Gradients will flow through item embeddings from both candidate and history paths, which is a standard asymmetric two-tower setup.\n\nThe user tower will pool history embeddings with weighted means, plus separate means for likes, dislikes, recency, and user statistics. The item tower will project raw embeddings together with popularity features through its MLP. Training positives will be restricted to first-time catalog items, prioritizing organic likes, then organic 80%+ listens, then other 50%+ first-time catalog listens.\n\nRecent first-time events will be sampled more heavily to align the model with the prediction horizon. History will strictly precede each positive timestamp to prevent leakage. In-batch negatives are preferred, and extra random negatives drawn from the catalog will supplement them. A temperature of 0.05–0.1 is planned, and log-Q correction may be added if popularity-based sampling is used.\n\nHistory items will be randomly dropped at 20% during training to prevent overfitting to specific tracks and improve generalization. A popularity baseline NDCG will be computed to set a quality benchmark. The plan is to build a working model quickly, evaluate it, tune hyperparameters, and refit. Only PyTorch will be used; sklearn is not allowed. The item embedding table will cover the 30,000-item catalog." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-d6abaf49-a45b-47ae-b0fe-abc98c15e333-13", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport os, torch, numpy as np, pandas as pd\nprint('torch', torch.__version__, 'cuda', torch.cuda.is_available())\nprint('threads', torch.get_num_threads(), 'interop', torch.get_num_interop_threads())\nprint('cpu count', os.cpu_count())\nprint('mem')\nprint(open('/proc/meminfo').read().split('\\n')[:5])\n\nimport sys\nsys.path.append('/task')\nfrom ranking_evaluation import score_rankings, ndcg_at_k\n\ndata = '/task/data'\nusers = pd.read_parquet(f'{data}/target_users.parquet')\ntargets = set(users.uid.astype(np.int64))\nz = np.load(f'{data}/validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nuids = z['uids'].astype(np.int64)\nitem_ids = z['item_ids'].astype(np.int64)\npacked = z['packed_eligible']\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(uids)}\nitem_col = {int(it):i for i,it in enumerate(item_ids)}\n\ndef is_el(u,i):\n r = uid_row.get(int(u)); c = item_col.get(int(i))\n if r is None or c is None: return False\n b,bit=divmod(c,8)\n return bool((int(packed[r,b])>>bit)&1)\n\nval_listens = pd.read_parquet(f'{data}/val_listens.parquet')\nval_likes = pd.read_parquet(f'{data}/val_likes.parquet')\nstrong = val_listens[(val_listens.uid.isin(targets))&(val_listens.is_organic==1)&(val_listens.played_ratio_pct>=80)][['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates()\nlikes = val_likes[(val_likes.uid.isin(targets))&(val_likes.is_organic==1)][['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates()\ngraded = {}\nfor u,i in strong.itertuples(index=False):\n u,i=int(u),int(i)\n if is_el(u,i):\n graded.setdefault(u,{})[i]=1\nfor u,i in likes.itertuples(index=False):\n u,i=int(u),int(i)\n if is_el(u,i):\n graded.setdefault(u,{})[i]=3\nprint('graded users', len(graded), 'gold pairs', sum(len(v) for v in graded.values()))\n\nranked = {}\nfor uid in graded:\n r = uid_row[uid]\n mask = np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=len(item_ids), bitorder='little').astype(bool)\n elig = item_ids[mask]\n ranked[uid] = elig[:100].tolist()\nprint('pop', score_rankings(ranked, graded))\n\n# pop@10 among all eligible not just top100\nhits10=hits100=tot=0\nrr = []\nfor uid, gold in graded.items():\n r = uid_row[uid]\n mask = np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=len(item_ids), bitorder='little').astype(bool)\n elig = item_ids[mask] # popularity order\n pos = {int(x):i for i,x in enumerate(elig)}\n for item,g in gold.items():\n tot += 1\n p = pos.get(item)\n if p is not None:\n rr.append(p+1)\n if p < 10: hits10 += 1\n if p < 100: hits100 += 1\nprint('gold in pop elig@10', hits10/tot, '@100', hits100/tot, 'median rank', np.median(rr), 'mean rank', np.mean(rr), 'n', tot)\nPY\n", "description": "Check hardware and popularity NDCG baseline" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\ntorch 2.8.0+cpu cuda False\nthreads 4 interop 4\ncpu count 8\nmem\n['MemTotal: 15988968 kB', 'MemFree: 4612588 kB', 'MemAvailable: 14840244 kB', 'Buffers: 230048 kB', 'Cached: 9750960 kB']\ngraded users 4263 gold pairs 37769\npop {'quality_ndcg@10': 0.01071, 'quality_users': 4263}\ngold in pop elig@10 0.009743440387619475 @100 0.048028806693319916 median rank 5049.0 mean rank 7911.189917657338 n 37769\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 13, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The popularity baseline achieves zero NDCG@10.\n\nGold items rank poorly, confirming that collaborative filtering is essential. A sampled two-tower approach avoids building the global interaction matrix. Word2vec skip-gram on user sequences looks promising for capturing item-item similarity.\n\nThe user tower will embed the mean of each user's interaction history. This generalizes skip-gram to implicit matrix factorization with sampled softmax. Item index mappings for the 30,000-item catalog will be precomputed.\n\nA single embedding table will hold catalog items at indices 1–30,000 and extra frequent items above that. The item tower will only score catalog indices. User histories will be built as chronological sequences of timestamps, item indices, event types, and weights.\n\nEvent types are now defined: low, medium, high non-organic, high organic, like, and dislike. Short plays with played ratio below 25% will be discarded as noise. Training examples will use only history before the positive item's first occurrence, truncated to a maximum window of 128–256 events. Sampling will favor likes and organic high plays.\n\nPre-built arrays will store user histories and first-time catalog positives with timestamps, event types, weights, and grades. The dataset will binary-search history by timestamp to fetch the last H events per example. The embedding dimension is 64, yielding roughly 3.2 million parameters for about 50,000 items plus a small MLP.\n\nTraining will run 2–5 epochs over roughly 500k–2M examples with batch sizes of 512–1024. Inference will encode each user’s history, score all 30,000 catalog items, mask ineligible candidates, and return the top 100. Temperature tuning and L2 normalization are under consideration. Hard negatives and popularity debiasing are deferred to a later version.\n\nThe item vector will be split into a normalized content embedding and a learned popularity score. The user vector will combine taste with a learned popularity weight. History length is set to 100 items. Time decay is being considered.\n\nTime decay will use a 30-day half-life. IDF weights will be computed from user-item co-occurrence counts. At inference, likes will carry triple the weight of organic high plays and negative items will carry negative weight. Two-layer MLPs with 128 hidden units will be used in both towers. The training loss will follow an InfoNCE-style in-batch contrastive objective.\n\nThe in-batch contrastive loss will use a temperature-scaled dot product between user and item embeddings. In-batch seen items are treated as negatives, which is acceptable for discovery because they are not the target first-time item. Extra random catalog negatives will be added to improve signal separation. Multiple training epochs with history dropout are planned, along with validation during training.\n\nValidation will score all 8,456 target users each epoch to compute NDCG. The remaining 782 non-target users will also be included in training to improve item embeddings. To keep memory usage low, the full 43-million-row dataset will be filtered to only target-relevant users and catalog or frequent items.\n\nOnly positive listens with at least half-playback or explicit likes and dislikes will be kept. The 43-million-row dataset will be loaded in streaming chunks using pandas groupby to limit memory use. The code will be kept in one or two files under /app/solution/. The time budget is roughly 3–5 minutes for data preparation, 10–15 minutes for training and validation, and about a minute for evaluation.\n\nTraining will be made configurable with checkpoint saving. Weighted InfoNCE will upweight like positives, and listwise softmax over sampled items is under consideration. Repeat consumption will be weighted by log1p(count) multiplied by IDF to strengthen user profiles. Track length per item may serve as a side feature.\n\nUser profiles will be built from unique history items rather than raw events. Each item is weighted by IDF, recency decay, type strength, and log1p(count). The top 256 weighted items are kept per user, compressing typical histories to about 700 items. A bag-of-items model is preferred over a full sequence model.\n\nA sparse item-item co-occurrence baseline will be tested to establish a quality ceiling. A small transformer is considered but skipped to avoid overfitting and latency.\n\nThe sparse co-occurrence baseline will be tested only for curiosity and discarded from the final solution. Item embeddings will be precomputed at inference time, so scoring is a single matrix multiplication against the user vector. Embeddings will use Xavier or Kaiming initialization with standard deviation 0.01. AdamW will train with learning rate 1e-3, weight decay 1e-4, and a higher rate for embedding layers.\n\nBatch size 1024 is feasible on CPU with history lengths of 128 or 256. Variable-length histories will be padded to the batch maximum. The user tower will combine mean and max pooling with masking. First-time catalog positives are being extracted by iterating each user's events in chronological order.\n\nFirst-time catalog positives are defined as the first positive listen for each item. The target item is excluded from its own history window. Whether to train on non-first-time examples is still under consideration.\n\nNon-first-time examples will be excluded from training because they would teach the model to rank items already in history, which are ineligible at test time. Weak positives—first-time listens with at least 50% playback but not organic 80%—will be included with lower loss weight. Validation will use early stopping on public NDCG. A final refit will retrain on the combined train and validation data using the same hyperparameters and epoch count as the best validation checkpoint.\n\nValidation events will be included in training history so that first-time discoveries from the validation window can be used for refitting. For test inference, preference state snapshots at the cutoff will be used to cleanly separate likes and dislikes, since unlikes cancel out likes. Training examples will still rely on raw event history rather than preference state.\n\nA simpler training approximation is chosen. All like events will serve as positive signals, and dislikes will serve as negative signals. Unlikes are ignored because they are rare and would require maintaining per-item preference state.\n\nHistory events will be stored as a time-sorted array. For each training example, binary search will isolate events before the cutoff timestamp. Unique items will be collapsed at batch construction.\n\nPre-aggregating per-user-item statistics would be too heavy for training, since each user has thousands of history positives and the full pre-aggregation would include future events. A more efficient way to build training histories is still needed.\n\nThe training history will be capped at 256 events. A hybrid approach is being considered: the last 128 events for short-term taste, plus up to 64 older items sampled at random. This balances recency with long-term preference without pre-aggregating all history per user.\n\nThe hybrid history design is finalized: the last 128 events will form the short-term window, and up to 64 older unique items will be sampled at random or by weight. These will be concatenated with type flags for training.\n\nA skip-gram two-tower was briefly considered as a fast baseline, but it was rejected because pooling context items into the user tower would be inconsistent with the intended architecture.\n\nThe skip-gram two-tower is now the chosen architecture. The user tower will pool all history items before the target, truncated to 128 events, rather than using a narrow session window. N-pair loss was rejected. Final hyperparameters are fixed: 64-dimensional embeddings and hidden layers, batch size 768, temperature 0.07, learning rate 1e-3, 3–6 epochs, and 0.2 history dropout.\n\nWeight decay is set to 1e-5. Item features will be computed from training data for the validation model, and from combined train-plus-validation data for the test model. Features include log1p positive listens, log1p organic positives, popularity rank, mean played ratio, and organic fraction. Standardization will use training statistics. The full implementation will live in a single file at `/app/solution/train_two_tower.py`.\n\nUsers with empty histories after filtering will fall back to a popularity vector or zero user embedding. During scoring, ineligible items are masked to negative infinity before selecting the top 100 candidates. Eligibility masks will be unpacked from packed bit arrays using numpy unpackbits. L2 normalization is being considered for retrieval.\n\nL2 normalization will be applied to both towers for cosine similarity. Popularity will be injected as an extra feature in the item MLP input so that cosine direction still favors popular items. A learned popularity affinity will be added to the user tower to capture how much a user listens to popular items. A global bias vector mixing trick was considered and rejected.\n\nHard negatives will be sampled from the top 2000 popular items. Label smoothing is being skipped. All first-time catalog interactions will be used as training positives, weighted by strength. This yields roughly 4.2 million examples, or about 16,000 training steps across three epochs.\n\nTraining may take 5–13 minutes per epoch, so step timing will be measured after the first run. To keep each epoch under one million examples, positives per user will be capped at the most recent 80–150 first-time items. Sampling probability will weight by like and strong organic signals plus recency. Data preparation will use pandas groupby, though filtering to catalog items only should reduce runtime from roughly 43 million rows to about 31 million.\n\nThe dataset will be pre-sorted by user ID and timestamp to enable fast numpy-based array construction. A popularity-only fallback was considered but rejected because its NDCG is too low to pass. The neural two-tower model will be maximized for ranking quality.\n\nA simpler training objective is being considered. Instead of a full two-tower model, the user tower could pool multiple context items from the same user's history into an IDF-weighted average, and train an InfoNCE loss on item pairs drawn from that pooled context. This would make the training architecture closer to the inference user tower.\n\nThe user tower will pool a random subset of 32–64 history items sampled from the prefix before the target, weighted by recency and strength. This replaces the full chronological prefix to avoid variable-length sequences and reduce training time. At inference, all history items will be pooled instead. The train-test discrepancy is treated as regularization.\n\nThe item tower will concatenate a shared embedding with popularity features, pass them through GELU layers, and normalize the output. The user tower will pool history items with learned weights into a single vector, optionally adding type embeddings before normalization.\n\nThe user tower will pool raw item embeddings rather than running each history item through the full item MLP. A lightweight GELU layer will combine the pooled embeddings with user features such as log1p history count, mean popularity rank, and like fraction. The final vector is L2-normalized. This avoids extra MLP parameters and keeps training and inference aligned.\n\nThe user tower will pool item vectors from history rather than raw embeddings. Dislike subtraction will be applied to the pooled vector before the final MLP and L2 normalization. Precomputing item vectors for the catalog would allow inference to skip repeated MLP passes, though non-catalog history items still require live computation.\n\nHistory will be restricted to catalog items so all history vectors can be precomputed. Non-catalog songs will still be included in the embedding table and item tower, but only catalog items will be scored as candidates.\n\nThe training script will load data, build mappings, construct user histories, train the model, write validation rankings, and support a `--final` mode for test runs. If time allows, the validation model will be evaluated before immediately starting the final training run with the same configuration.\n\nBidirectional InfoNCE will be used, averaging the standard user-to-item cross-entropy with its transpose. CPU thread pinning to eight and `inference_mode` for evaluation are planned. PyTorch 2.8 CPU compilation was skipped to avoid issues.\n\nThe first-time positive pipeline will use a fast numpy-slice loop over sorted user groups instead of pandas groupby. This avoids 27 million Python row iterations and keeps data preparation under 40 seconds.\n\nFirst-time positives will be identified with pandas `duplicated` on user and item ID, keeping only catalog items. Each positive will use the full event history for its context, with a binary search to find timestamps strictly before the target. Users whose first interaction is not a positive will be skipped. LayerNorm will be added to both towers for numerical stability, and MLP dropout is being considered.\n\nThe user tower will concatenate the weighted mean of history item vectors with a max-pooled vector and user features, then pass them through a GELU layer before normalization. A likes-only mask was considered but deferred.\n\nThe user tower will pool three weighted history vectors: all interactions, likes only, and recent items. Dislikes will be subtracted from the pooled vector. Event encoding will be compact. Catalog item frequency features will be computed from the data." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-3bc1683e-4d81-442b-9684-5b9c6267477f-14", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd, numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\ndata=Path('/task/data')\ncat=set(pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet').item_id.astype('int64'))\n# frequency of items in train listens among all\n# use value_counts on item_id - 43M\nprint('counting item freq...')\ntl=pd.read_parquet(data/'train_listens.parquet', columns=['item_id','played_ratio_pct'])\nvc=tl.item_id.value_counts()\nprint('unique items', len(vc))\nfor t in [5,10,20,50,100]:\n print(f'items >= {t}', int((vc>=t).sum()), 'noncatalog', int(((vc>=t)&(~vc.index.isin(cat))).sum()))\npos=tl[tl.played_ratio_pct>=50].item_id.value_counts()\nprint('pos unique', len(pos))\nfor t in [5,10,20,50]:\n print(f'pos items >= {t}', int((pos>=t).sum()), 'noncatalog', int(((pos>=t)&(~pos.index.isin(cat))).sum()))\nprint('catalog in pos', sum(i in pos.index for i in list(cat)[:]) if False else 'skip')\nprint('catalog items with 0 pos', len(cat-set(pos.index)))\nPY\n", "description": "Count item frequencies for vocab sizing" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\ncounting item freq...\nunique items 845395\nitems >= 5 339975 noncatalog 309975\nitems >= 10 240543 noncatalog 210543\nitems >= 20 166246 noncatalog 136246\nitems >= 50 96719 noncatalog 66719\nitems >= 100 61133 noncatalog 31133\npos unique 607664\npos items >= 5 265614 noncatalog 235614\npos items >= 10 186240 noncatalog 156240\npos items >= 20 127144 noncatalog 97144\npos items >= 50 72553 noncatalog 42553\ncatalog in pos skip\ncatalog items with 0 pos 0\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 14, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The catalog will include 30,000 items plus extra top candidates.\n\nExtra items will serve as context in user history rather than training positives. This keeps the item tower focused on catalog retrieval while still shaping the shared embedding space.\n\nThe vocabulary will be catalog-only for faster implementation. Extra items can be added later via a flag if validation requires them. Non-catalog items will be skipped in user histories. The next step is writing the efficient training script.\n\nThe two-tower architecture should learn item-item similarity patterns. Catalog items have sufficient positive listens to support their embeddings. Overfitting risk is low given the parameter count and training examples. The plan uses 0.1 MLP dropout, 0.3 history item dropout, and a cosine learning rate schedule with Adam.\n\nValidation will run every epoch to save the best checkpoint. The final refit will train for the best epoch plus one or a fixed four epochs. Aggressive training will use first-time catalog positives with played_ratio at least fifty. Estimated unique catalog pairs are roughly four million.\n\nTraining examples will be subsampled to roughly 800,000 per epoch. Each user contributes up to 64 recent strong first-time catalog positives and 32 other first-time positives.\n\nThe pandas loader will read only essential columns from the 43-million-row dataset. It will filter for in-catalog items and strong plays or likes, sort by timestamp, and load likes and dislikes separately.\n\nA `load_events` helper will concatenate train and validation splits. Validation uses only the training set, while test combines both. The validation cutoff is 24786800. The test cutoff sits 1800 seconds after the last validation timestamp to ensure user histories include all validation events.\n\nTest history will include all train and validation events. Eligible candidates are stored in test_eligible_candidates.npz. The training script will support --stage val and --stage test flags, with validation run first to tune hyperparameters before the final test pass.\n\nThe plan is to write the code, run a quick validation training pass, and check NDCG. If the score is too low, hyperparameters will be tuned before the final test refit. A smaller debug run may be used first.\n\nItem IDs map to embedding indices with zero as padding, so catalog item c maps to index c+1.\n\nFeature engineering will include IDF weights, a 21-day exponential recency decay, and a fixed strength of 5.0 for likes.\n\nInteraction strengths are now defined: organic 80 plays score 2.0, non-organic 80 plays score 1.2, organic 50 plays score 1.0, non-organic 50 plays score 0.6, and dislikes score -3.0.\n\nTo prevent repeat listens from over-weighting history, user vectors will be built by unique-aggregating catalog items with timestamps strictly before the target event. Computing these time-varying unique histories is expensive.\n\nPrecomputing full-time statistics for context items would leak future repeat counts. The plan is to store all positive events as arrays and use `searchsorted` to isolate the prefix before each target timestamp, then unique-aggregate that prefix in NumPy.\n\nTraining history will use the last 128 raw events per user. Repeated items in that window signal current taste and are kept as-is. Inference will instead unique-aggregate all history with weights to build a full taste profile.\n\nThe plan now uses identical history pooling for both training and inference. A NumPy helper will collapse each user's last N events into unique items, keeping only the most recent occurrence of each item. For inference across all 8,456 users, a Python loop with a dictionary is fast enough.\n\nTraining will use the last 128 raw events per user with per-event weights. Inference will unique-aggregate all history using IDF, recency, and type weights across catalog positives. The full self-contained script is being written now. Embedding normalization will use `torch.nn.functional.normalize` with epsilon 1e-8.\n\nEmpty histories will default to a normalized zero vector. A fake popularity item was rejected. The random seed is fixed at 42. Ties in the final ranking will be broken by item index using lexsort.\n\nA README will document the build process. The best valid test submission will be saved immediately upon generation so it survives the deadline. A quick validation model will be produced first to create that initial submission. It will then be refit on combined train and validation history for the final test pass.\n\nGradient accumulation may be used if the batch size is small. CPU mixed precision is skipped in favor of float32. All target users have at least twenty first-time positives, so no extra filtering is needed. Non-target users will also be included to enrich item embeddings.\n\nValidation listens span 8,196 users. A `build_user_data` helper will return a dictionary of user features. Likes and organic likes both signal preference, and items appearing in both sets are handled. The implementation will be a single comprehensive train.py. A more powerful architecture is being considered given the 60-minute deadline.\n\nAn optional additive attention layer will replace mean-pooling in the user tower. It uses a single linear projection to score history items and applies masking before softmax, allowing the network to focus on the most relevant recent events.\n\nThe user tower will combine attention-pooled and weighted-mean embeddings through a shared MLP. A 64-dimensional output is chosen for speed, with higher dimensions reserved if needed later. Processed events will be cached to disk to avoid repeated preprocessing. The training script will be written and executed directly rather than tested in isolation. Popularity-sampled negatives are being weighed against uniform sampling.\n\nUniform negatives will be added to each batch to improve long-tail coverage, alongside the implicit frequency weighting from in-batch positives. A log-Q correction for sampling bias was considered but skipped initially.\n\nThe final script will be a single file named `two_tower_ranker.py` rather than splitting into modules. User and item IDs will use int64 dtype. The submission will be written as parquet at `/app/solution/submission.parquet`. Eight OpenMP threads will be used. The README will document the architecture, training objective, public validation score, and final submission command.\n\nThe dataset will pre-generate a flat list of training examples and store user histories as ragged NumPy arrays. Each example is a tuple of user index, positive item, timestamp, weight, and history end index. The `__getitem__` method uses `searchsorted` to isolate the prefix before the target event and slices that prefix to the last 128 events.\n\nThe positive item will be removed from each user's history before truncation. History weights are computed per event as strength multiplied by an exponential recency decay and an item-level IDF factor. Examples with fewer than five history items after filtering the target are discarded during dataset construction.\n\nThe user and item towers will use separate embeddings, following the asymmetric retrieval pattern of DSSM. If a user has too many training examples, they will be subsampled per-user to keep batches manageable.\n\nThe architecture will use shared item embeddings but separate MLPs for the user and item towers. This balances sample efficiency with the asymmetric retrieval pattern.\n\nThe user tower will concatenate the shared embedding with user features, while the item tower concatenates the shared embedding with item features. Attention pooling is treated as an optional extra. Coding will begin now, and training speed will be adjusted if needed.\n\nThe collate function will pad histories to the maximum length directly inside `__getitem__`, so the default PyTorch collate can handle batching without extra logic. A helper for loading packed eligibility masks from NumPy will unpack bits per row using `np.unpackbits` with little-endian ordering.\n\nThe packed eligibility mask unpacks correctly with `np.unpackbits` along axis 1 using little-endian bit order. A warmup popularity blend will be added as an extra dimension so the item tower can learn to incorporate it. The training configuration is now fixed at 80-dimensional output, a 96-item history window, and a batch size of 1024. The DataLoader will use zero workers and no pinned memory because the dataset is fully in memory.\n\nThe evaluation pipeline will precompute all item vectors at once, then batch-encode users and score against the full catalog. Eligibility masks will be applied by setting invalid scores to negative infinity before selecting the top 100 per user. Training loss will be logged every 50 steps.\n\nThe script will use a `run(stage)` entry point that always validates before testing. Epoch counts will scale adaptively to fit the 60-minute budget. Validation labels will guide model selection but will not train the validation ranker itself. Weight decay will be disabled for embeddings and applied only to the MLP layers via AdamW parameter groups.\n\nEmbedding initialization will use a small normal distribution, and gradients will be clipped at 1.0. Global matrix decomposition is ruled out. Hard negatives drawn from similar-popularity batches are considered but skipped. The implementation will rely on uniform extra negatives rather than popularity tertiles.\n\nThe script will be a single Python file with functions for catalog loading, event building, vocabulary construction, history slicing, example generation, the TwoTower model, training loop, encoding and ranking, submission writing, and a main entry point. Model checkpoints will be saved to `/app/solution/checkpoints/`. Likes are treated as strong positives without a played ratio. Events are stored in columns: uid, timestamp, item_id, kind, strength, and is_organic. Kind values are 0 for listen, 1 for like, 2 for dislike, 3 for unlike, and 4 for undislike.\n\nUnlike and undislike events will be excluded from user histories to avoid noisy preference cancellation. Only listens with played_ratio at least 50, likes, and dislikes will be retained as history events. The training dataset is roughly 3–4 GB in memory, so filtering will happen immediately during loading.\n\nThe dataset will be filtered to 27 million rows by keeping only listens with played_ratio at least 50, then reduced to roughly 20 million by intersecting item_ids against the catalog. Mapping item IDs to indices via pandas isin or map was considered too slow for this scale.\n\nA flat NumPy array of size 9.4 million will map item IDs to indices, keeping the mapping under 37 MB. Training and validation dataframes will be concatenated and sorted by user timestamp. The `load_positive_listens` helper will load only organic listens with played_ratio at least 50. Event strength will be computed as 0.5 plus half the played ratio capped at 100, with an extra boost for organic listens that reached 80 percent or higher.\n\nEvent strengths are finalized at 2.0 for organic listens with played ratio at least 80 percent, 1.5 for other organic listens, 4.0 for likes, and -2.0 for dislikes. The maximum history length will be configurable via argparse. The first training run will use 64 dimensions, batch size 768, 96-item history, and 80 positive examples per user. Validation will run every epoch to select the best checkpoint. For the final test refit, the number of epochs will be set to the best validation epoch, bounded between 2 and 6.\n\nThe first run will be carefully validated to catch bugs early. A quick eligibility-mask consistency check against CandidateSet will be added as an assertion on the first user. The two-tower architecture already captures user-item co-occurrence through in-batch negatives, so a BPR-style loss is being considered as an alternative to InfoNCE.\n\nInfoNCE is chosen over BPR. The temperature will be a learnable log parameter clamped between 0.01 and 1.0. The user tower will use weighted means of history embeddings with square recency emphasis, plus four scalar features: log user count, mean item popularity, and fraction of likes.\n\nThe user tower will concatenate 64 shared embeddings, 64 history embeddings, and 4 scalar features into a 132-dimensional vector. LayerNorm will be applied before the MLP layers, which will use GELU activation. The first version is considered solid. A reasonable NDCG target for discovery among roughly 29,000 items is estimated at 0.05 to 0.15. The evaluation metric is being calibrated against the catalog's grade-1 and grade-3 like distributions.\n\nTraining will focus on organic strong positives only. First-time organic likes and first-time organic listens with at least 80 percent played ratio will serve as the primary signal. Other first-time organic events with 50 percent or higher played ratio will act as secondary examples if the primary pool is insufficient. Each user will contribute at most 100 of the most recent primary examples." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "I have a clear picture: eligibility is unseen catalog tracks, so I’ll train a history-based two-tower with first-time positives and keep a valid submission as soon as one exists." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-9cd7d493-d2de-4a11-a71f-b884604d2b18-15", "name": "todo_write", "input": { "todos": [ { "id": "1", "status": "completed" }, { "id": "2", "status": "in_progress", "content": "Design two-tower architecture and training pipeline" } ], "merge": true }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "- [completed] 1: Explore data, evaluation, and environment\n- [in_progress] 2: Design two-tower architecture and training pipeline\n- [pending] 3: Train/tune on train-only, evaluate public NDCG@10\n- [pending] 4: Refit on train+val and produce test submission\n- [pending] 5: Write README and keep best submission\n", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-9cd7d493-d2de-4a11-a71f-b884604d2b18-16", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "mkdir -p /app/solution/checkpoints /app/solution/cache /tmp", "description": "Create solution and cache directories" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 15, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "I am writing a comprehensive, efficient training script.\n\nThe design uses a 30k-item catalog vocabulary with asymmetric towers and shared ID embeddings. User history will be built from interaction sequences rather than raw IDs. Training will use InfoNCE with in-batch and uniform negatives on first-time catalog discoveries. Inference will precompute item embeddings and perform one-to-many similarity search against the user vector.\n\nI will load the 43 million events efficiently, using pandas for filtering and a helper to read multiple files. Chronological ordering is required to build first-time positives. Item features will be precomputed from the training events. Hyperparameters will be constants at the top of the script with argparse overrides.\n\nA simpler baseline will be built first for quick validation. The user tower will use DeepSets with mean pooling. Recency embeddings will be added to each history item before pooling, discretized into eight weekly buckets.\n\nValidation will score in-memory to avoid repeated parquet writes. Final rankings will be written to parquet for the public evaluator. IDF weighting on user history downweights universally popular songs, preventing the user vector from collapsing to generic preferences.\n\nThe IDF weight will be log(n_users / df), where df is the document frequency of each item among users with at least one positive listen. To avoid per-example searchsorted overhead, history start and end indices will be precomputed for every training example. The dataset will use num_workers=0 to prevent large numpy arrays from being copied across workers.\n\nI will precompute all user histories as a single padded integer array of shape [N, L]. This removes per-example slicing and recency calculations from the dataset. The array is only 300 MB.\n\nPrecomputed arrays will also store history weights, event types, and per-example lengths. The build loop will iterate over users instead of examples, keeping memory usage bounded at roughly 1.5 GB.\n\nThe script will contain both validation and test stages. After validation training, it will rebuild user histories from the combined train and validation sets, encode them with the trained model, rank eligible test items, and write submission.parquet. Refitting on the full dataset will then update the embeddings.\n\nA config dataclass will hold hyperparameters. Dislike features will be stored as signed weights, and the user tower will pool them with L2 normalization: it averages positive embeddings and subtracts 0.4 times the average negative embeddings.\n\nI will cap the first-time positive count to save time on the initial run. CPU thread limits will be set to eight for PyTorch and OpenMP. I considered using nn.EmbeddingBag for faster mean pooling, but a simple masked weighted mean is fast enough.\n\nI will verify that training loss drops from its expected initial value of about 7 after the first 50 steps. The ranking output will be written as a flat parquet with repeated user IDs, item IDs, and rank positions. I will also assert that every ranked item is eligible.\n\nI will not use a two-stage skip-gram pretraining step; the model will be trained end-to-end instead. The item tower will ingest four normalized features: log1p positive listens, log1p original listens, log of popularity rank, and original-to-positive listen ratio. Pad index zero will have zero feature values.\n\nItem features will be stored in a 30,001-by-4 tensor with zero padding at index 0. During training, 20 percent of history weights will be randomly zeroed to regularize the user tower. The asymmetric architecture pools item embeddings and recency type embeddings into the user vector before mapping both towers through separate MLPs.\n\nI will pool the item tower outputs rather than raw embeddings. The user vector will be the mean of the item-tower representations of each history item. This makes the dot product with a candidate item equivalent to cosine similarity against the history, which is a strong item-item collaborative filtering signal. The extra forward passes are cheap.\n\nI will mask padded history vectors after the item tower so zero embeddings do not corrupt the user vector. The user MLP will concatenate several pooled representations to reweight dimensions, for example downweighting popularity.\n\nThe item tower will be implemented as a single flattened forward pass over the entire batch, then reshaped back to the original dimensions. Item features will be registered as a buffer tensor. The `TwoTower` class is being drafted with configurable embedding and hidden dimensions.\n\nThe user MLP concatenates three pooled item vectors with four user features, then projects to the output dimension. A learnable log-temperature parameter is added for InfoNCE. The item vector helper flattens input indices, runs a single forward pass over all items, and reshapes back to the original shape.\n\nThe user tower helper computes item vectors from history indices, then masks padded positions and zeroed weights. During training, 15 percent of history weights are randomly dropped to regularize the user vector. Positive and negative weights are split for separate pooling.\n\nThe user tower pools item vectors with weighted averages. It computes a full history mean, a like-only mean using the LIKE event type, and falls back to the full history mean when no likes exist.\n\nThe user vector concatenates the positive mean, like-only mean, a negative-reduced variant of the positive mean, and four user-side features. These features are computed inside the forward pass from history length, item popularity, event-type ratios, and organic weights.\n\nThe dataset loader will return only history indices, types, weights, masks, and the positive item. User-side features are computed inside the forward pass from these tensors. The existing popularity feature already provides a global item bias.\n\nEvent types are now explicitly defined: PAD, LISTEN, ORG_STRONG, LIKE, and DISLIKE. Organic strong listens receive a weight of 2.2; other organic listens get 1.3; non-organic listens between 50 and 79 percent playthrough get 1.0; everything else gets 0.7.\n\nLikes will carry a fixed strength of 4.0 and may be raised to 5.0 for organic ones. Dislikes will use a strength of -2.5. Because any listen makes an item ineligible, short plays should not be treated as negative signals.\n\nOnly the first occurrence of a positive event will be used as a training positive. A user’s history is scanned once to collect the earliest like, organic strong listen, or 50 percent playthrough for each item. Likes receive a weight of 3.0, organic strong listens 1.5, and other qualifying events 0.5. Items with weaker signals are still kept in the history but not treated as positives.\n\nDislikes will not mark an item as seen, so a later listen can still become the first-time positive. The code will also build a mapper from catalog item IDs to indices, using the parquet file to preserve the exact catalog order.\n\nA dense index mapper will be built from the catalog item IDs to map sparse IDs to contiguous integers. Users will be mapped from event IDs and target users. Training examples require at least eight history items after removing the positive item. Positives per user will be subsampled to 96, keeping all likes and organic strong listens from the last 120 days, with older or weaker positives downsampled proportionally to their grade weights.\n\nThe last 96 first-time positives per user will be kept, or all if fewer exist. Non-target users are included in the training data. Hard negatives are omitted for now. The batch sampler shuffles examples and allows duplicate positives within a batch. An inference-mode ranking function is being drafted to score candidates against user histories.\n\nThe inference pipeline will score all catalog items against user vectors and mask ineligible candidates. At request time, the user tower will aggregate the full unique-item history rather than the last 96 events. A helper function will build this complete history for each user.\n\nThe inference history will aggregate unique items by summing event weights with recency decay. The top 256 weighted items are kept, and the event type is set to LIKE if any like exists, DISLIKE if only dislikes exist, or the strongest listen otherwise. A Python loop over users would be too slow, so the aggregation will use pandas groupby per user instead.\n\nThe pandas groupby approach for inference history aggregation is too slow at 8456 users. A pure numpy implementation using mergesort and `np.unique` will replace it.\n\nThe recency decay half-life is fixed at 21 days for both inference and training.\n\nItem frequency will be computed from the training data to produce an IDF array, and training history weights will be multiplied by these values. The dataset will be stored as per-user lists of arrays rather than a global offset table. Memory usage is estimated at roughly 600 MB for events, examples, and model weights.\n\nThe data loader will read train and validation parquet files, concatenate likes and listens into unified numpy arrays, and store per-user history as lists of item indices, timestamps, event types, and strengths.\n\nThe listen loader will filter for 50 percent playthrough or higher and map item IDs to contiguous indices using the catalog mapper. To avoid repeated pandas indexing overhead, the code is being refactored to build per-user lists of numpy arrays directly from the parquet files.\n\nThe loader now assigns event types and strengths in a single vectorized pass using numpy.where. It sorts all events by user ID and timestamp with lexsort, then splits the arrays into per-user lists.\n\nThe loader will merge unique event users with target users to ensure every target is present. A dictionary mapping user IDs to row indices will be built for fast lookup. The script will accept command-line arguments for stage, epochs, and a quick debug mode. Validation will run before testing. The test model will warm-start from the validation checkpoint rather than training from scratch. Training will use early stopping on public NDCG.\n\nValidation ranking and evaluation will be written first. The test model will warm-start from the validation checkpoint, then retrain for a few epochs on combined train and validation data. Item features will be kept from training to avoid shifting the MLP input distribution.\n\nThe catalog parquet already contains official item features ordered by training popularity, so they will be reused directly for both stages without recomputation. During the test refit, validation first-time organic positives will be included as training examples to preserve the test distribution.\n\nA cosine learning rate schedule will be used across the full training run. Skip-gram pairs drawn from each user’s history may also be added as extra training examples to improve item embeddings.\n\nThe skip-gram idea is dropped because prefix-history-to-next-first-time already provides similar context. In-batch false negative masking is also skipped. The main script will be `two_tower_ranker.py` with a short `README.md` to be updated after scoring." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "I’ll implement a catalog-only two-tower with shared ID embeddings, InfoNCE, and first-time discovery positives so request-time scoring stays a single user-item dot product." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-84e5c119-3165-458f-b219-d0b32af4d4ff-17", "name": "write", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "content": "#!/usr/bin/env python3\n\"\"\"Latency-efficient two-tower ranker for the Made-for-You shelf.\n\nUser tower: weighted, type-aware pooling of interaction-history item vectors\n(no user-ID lookup). Item tower: independently precomputable catalog vectors.\nScore = dot product, used at request time as MIPS over stored item embeddings.\n\"\"\"\nfrom __future__ import annotations\n\nimport argparse\nimport json\nimport math\nimport os\nimport sys\nimport time\nfrom dataclasses import dataclass\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\nimport numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\nimport torch\nimport torch.nn as nn\nimport torch.nn.functional as F\nfrom torch.utils.data import DataLoader, Dataset\n\nsys.path.insert(0, \"/task\")\nfrom ranking_evaluation import ndcg_at_k, score_rankings # noqa: E402\n\nDATA = Path(\"/task/data\")\nSOLUTION = Path(\"/app/solution\")\nCKPT_DIR = SOLUTION / \"checkpoints\"\nCACHE_DIR = SOLUTION / \"cache\"\n\nTRAIN_CUTOFF = 24_786_800\nLISTEN_STRONG = 80\nHALF_LIFE_DAYS = 21.0\nDAY = 86_400.0\n\nPAD, LISTEN, ORG_STRONG, LIKE, DISLIKE = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4\nN_TYPES = 5\n\n\ndef log(msg: str) -> None:\n print(msg, flush=True)\n\n\ndef set_seeds(seed: int) -> None:\n np.random.seed(seed)\n torch.manual_seed(seed)\n\n\ndef load_catalog() -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n cat = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"candidate_catalog.parquet\")\n item_ids = cat.item_id.to_numpy(np.int64)\n pos = cat.positive_listens.to_numpy(np.float32)\n org = cat.organic_positive_listens.to_numpy(np.float32)\n rank = cat.popularity_rank.to_numpy(np.float32)\n n = len(item_ids)\n feats = np.zeros((n + 1, 4), dtype=np.float32)\n feats[1:, 0] = np.log1p(pos) / 10.0\n feats[1:, 1] = np.log1p(org) / 10.0\n feats[1:, 2] = np.log(np.clip(rank, 1.0, None)) / 10.0\n feats[1:, 3] = org / np.clip(pos, 1.0, None)\n return item_ids, feats, rank.astype(np.int32)\n\n\ndef make_mapper(item_ids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n max_id = int(item_ids.max())\n mapper = np.full(max_id + 1, -1, dtype=np.int32)\n mapper[item_ids] = np.arange(1, len(item_ids) + 1, dtype=np.int32)\n return mapper\n\n\ndef _map_items(raw: np.ndarray, mapper: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n idx = np.full(len(raw), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n valid = (raw >= 0) & (raw < len(mapper))\n idx[valid] = mapper[raw[valid]]\n return idx\n\n\ndef load_events(splits: list[str], mapper: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:\n uids: list[np.ndarray] = []\n ts: list[np.ndarray] = []\n items: list[np.ndarray] = []\n types: list[np.ndarray] = []\n strengths: list[np.ndarray] = []\n\n for split in splits:\n lis = pd.read_parquet(\n DATA / f\"{split}_listens.parquet\",\n columns=[\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\", \"played_ratio_pct\"],\n )\n ratio = lis.played_ratio_pct.to_numpy(np.int16)\n keep = ratio >= 50\n uid = lis.uid.to_numpy(np.int64)[keep]\n tsv = lis.timestamp.to_numpy(np.int64)[keep]\n iid = lis.item_id.to_numpy(np.int64)[keep]\n org = lis.is_organic.to_numpy(np.int8)[keep]\n ratio = ratio[keep]\n del lis\n idx = _map_items(iid, mapper)\n keep = idx > 0\n uid, tsv, idx, org, ratio = uid[keep], tsv[keep], idx[keep], org[keep], ratio[keep]\n kind = np.full(len(uid), LISTEN, dtype=np.int8)\n strong = (ratio >= LISTEN_STRONG) & (org == 1)\n kind[strong] = ORG_STRONG\n st = np.where(\n strong,\n 2.4,\n np.where(ratio >= LISTEN_STRONG, 1.35, np.where(org == 1, 1.05, 0.75)),\n ).astype(np.float32)\n uids.append(uid)\n ts.append(tsv)\n items.append(idx)\n types.append(kind)\n strengths.append(st)\n\n likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / f\"{split}_likes.parquet\")\n uid = likes.uid.to_numpy(np.int64)\n tsv = likes.timestamp.to_numpy(np.int64)\n iid = likes.item_id.to_numpy(np.int64)\n org = likes.is_organic.to_numpy(np.int8)\n idx = _map_items(iid, mapper)\n keep = idx > 0\n uid, tsv, idx, org = uid[keep], tsv[keep], idx[keep], org[keep]\n st = np.where(org == 1, 5.0, 3.6).astype(np.float32)\n uids.append(uid)\n ts.append(tsv)\n items.append(idx)\n types.append(np.full(len(uid), LIKE, dtype=np.int8))\n strengths.append(st)\n\n dis = pd.read_parquet(DATA / f\"{split}_dislikes.parquet\")\n uid = dis.uid.to_numpy(np.int64)\n tsv = dis.timestamp.to_numpy(np.int64)\n iid = dis.item_id.to_numpy(np.int64)\n idx = _map_items(iid, mapper)\n keep = idx > 0\n uid, tsv, idx = uid[keep], tsv[keep], idx[keep]\n uids.append(uid)\n ts.append(tsv)\n items.append(idx)\n types.append(np.full(len(uid), DISLIKE, dtype=np.int8))\n strengths.append(np.full(len(uid), -2.4, dtype=np.float32))\n\n uid = np.concatenate(uids)\n tsv = np.concatenate(ts)\n item = np.concatenate(items)\n kind = np.concatenate(types)\n st = np.concatenate(strengths)\n order = np.lexsort((tsv, uid))\n return {\n \"uid\": uid[order],\n \"ts\": tsv[order],\n \"item\": item[order],\n \"type\": kind[order],\n \"strength\": st[order],\n }\n\n\n@dataclass\nclass UserTables:\n uids: np.ndarray\n uid_to_row: dict[int, int]\n items: list[np.ndarray]\n ts: list[np.ndarray]\n types: list[np.ndarray]\n strength: list[np.ndarray]\n pos_item: list[np.ndarray]\n pos_ts: list[np.ndarray]\n pos_w: list[np.ndarray]\n\n\ndef build_user_tables(events: dict[str, np.ndarray], target_uids: np.ndarray) -> UserTables:\n uid = events[\"uid\"]\n uniq, starts = np.unique(uid, return_index=True)\n ends = np.append(starts[1:], len(uid))\n row_of = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(uniq)}\n\n n = len(uniq)\n items = [None] * n\n ts = [None] * n\n types = [None] * n\n strength = [None] * n\n pos_item = [None] * n\n pos_ts = [None] * n\n pos_w = [None] * n\n\n ev_item = events[\"item\"]\n ev_ts = events[\"ts\"]\n ev_type = events[\"type\"]\n ev_st = events[\"strength\"]\n\n for i, (a, b) in enumerate(zip(starts, ends)):\n it = ev_item[a:b]\n tsv = ev_ts[a:b]\n tp = ev_type[a:b]\n st = ev_st[a:b]\n items[i] = it\n ts[i] = tsv\n types[i] = tp\n strength[i] = st\n\n # First-time catalog positives (likes / strong organic / other positives).\n is_pos = st > 0\n first = np.zeros(b - a, dtype=bool)\n seen: dict[int, int] = {}\n p_it = []\n p_t = []\n p_w = []\n for j in range(b - a):\n key = int(it[j])\n if key in seen:\n continue\n if not is_pos[j]:\n continue\n seen[key] = j\n first[j] = True\n tpj = int(tp[j])\n if tpj == LIKE:\n w = 3.0\n elif tpj == ORG_STRONG:\n w = 1.6\n else:\n w = 0.45\n p_it.append(key)\n p_t.append(int(tsv[j]))\n p_w.append(w)\n pos_item[i] = np.asarray(p_it, dtype=np.int32)\n pos_ts[i] = np.asarray(p_t, dtype=np.int64)\n pos_w[i] = np.asarray(p_w, dtype=np.float32)\n\n missing = [int(u) for u in target_uids if int(u) not in row_of]\n if missing:\n log(f\"warning: {len(missing)} target users have no mapped events\")\n\n return UserTables(\n uids=uniq.astype(np.int64),\n uid_to_row=row_of,\n items=items,\n ts=ts,\n types=types,\n strength=strength,\n pos_item=pos_item,\n pos_ts=pos_ts,\n pos_w=pos_w,\n )\n\n\ndef compute_idf(tables: UserTables, n_items: int) -> np.ndarray:\n df = np.zeros(n_items, dtype=np.float32)\n for arr in tables.pos_item:\n if len(arr):\n df[np.unique(arr)] += 1.0\n n_users = max(len(tables.uids), 1)\n idf = np.log((n_users + 1.0) / (df + 1.0)) + 1.0\n idf[0] = 0.0\n return idf.astype(np.float32)\n\n\ndef recency_weights(ts: np.ndarray, now: int, half_life: float = HALF_LIFE_DAYS) -> np.ndarray:\n age_days = np.clip(now - ts, 0, None).astype(np.float32) / DAY\n return np.exp(-math.log(2.0) * age_days / half_life).astype(np.float32)\n\n\nclass TowerDataset(Dataset):\n def __init__(\n self,\n hist_idx: np.ndarray,\n hist_type: np.ndarray,\n hist_w: np.ndarray,\n hist_len: np.ndarray,\n pos_idx: np.ndarray,\n pos_w: np.ndarray,\n ):\n self.hist_idx = hist_idx\n self.hist_type = hist_type\n self.hist_w = hist_w\n self.hist_len = hist_len\n self.pos_idx = pos_idx\n self.pos_w = pos_w\n\n def __len__(self) -> int:\n return int(self.pos_idx.shape[0])\n\n def __getitem__(self, i: int):\n L = int(self.hist_idx.shape[1])\n ln = int(self.hist_len[i])\n mask = np.zeros(L, dtype=np.bool_)\n mask[:ln] = True\n return (\n torch.from_numpy(self.hist_idx[i]),\n torch.from_numpy(self.hist_type[i]),\n torch.from_numpy(self.hist_w[i]),\n torch.from_numpy(mask),\n torch.tensor(self.pos_idx[i], dtype=torch.long),\n torch.tensor(self.pos_w[i], dtype=torch.float32),\n )\n\n\ndef build_training_arrays(\n tables: UserTables,\n idf: np.ndarray,\n max_hist: int,\n max_pos_per_user: int,\n min_hist: int,\n) -> TowerDataset:\n # Cap positives per user to the most recent ones (discovery continues forward).\n n_est = 0\n keep_slices = []\n for i in range(len(tables.uids)):\n n_pos = len(tables.pos_item[i])\n if n_pos == 0:\n keep_slices.append((0, 0))\n continue\n start = max(0, n_pos - max_pos_per_user)\n keep_slices.append((start, n_pos))\n n_est += n_pos - start\n\n hist_idx = np.zeros((n_est, max_hist), dtype=np.int32)\n hist_type = np.zeros((n_est, max_hist), dtype=np.int8)\n hist_w = np.zeros((n_est, max_hist), dtype=np.float32)\n hist_len = np.zeros(n_est, dtype=np.int16)\n pos_idx = np.zeros(n_est, dtype=np.int32)\n pos_w = np.zeros(n_est, dtype=np.float32)\n\n row = 0\n skipped = 0\n for i in range(len(tables.uids)):\n a, b = keep_slices[i]\n if a == b:\n continue\n h_it = tables.items[i]\n h_ts = tables.ts[i]\n h_tp = tables.types[i]\n h_st = tables.strength[i]\n p_it = tables.pos_item[i][a:b]\n p_ts = tables.pos_ts[i][a:b]\n p_w = tables.pos_w[i][a:b]\n ends = np.searchsorted(h_ts, p_ts, side=\"left\")\n for j in range(len(p_it)):\n end = int(ends[j])\n start = max(0, end - max_hist - 8)\n sl_it = h_it[start:end]\n sl_ts = h_ts[start:end]\n sl_tp = h_tp[start:end]\n sl_st = h_st[start:end]\n if len(sl_it) == 0:\n skipped += 1\n continue\n # Drop the positive item itself if it already appeared (e.g. skip then like).\n keep = sl_it != p_it[j]\n sl_it, sl_ts, sl_tp, sl_st = sl_it[keep], sl_ts[keep], sl_tp[keep], sl_st[keep]\n if len(sl_it) < min_hist:\n skipped += 1\n continue\n if len(sl_it) > max_hist:\n sl_it = sl_it[-max_hist:]\n sl_ts = sl_ts[-max_hist:]\n sl_tp = sl_tp[-max_hist:]\n sl_st = sl_st[-max_hist:]\n rec = recency_weights(sl_ts, int(p_ts[j]))\n w = sl_st * rec * idf[sl_it]\n L = len(sl_it)\n hist_idx[row, :L] = sl_it\n hist_type[row, :L] = sl_tp\n hist_w[row, :L] = w\n hist_len[row] = L\n pos_idx[row] = p_it[j]\n pos_w[row] = p_w[j]\n row += 1\n\n log(f\"training examples: {row} (skipped {skipped})\")\n hist_idx = hist_idx[:row]\n hist_type = hist_type[:row]\n hist_w = hist_w[:row]\n hist_len = hist_len[:row]\n pos_idx = pos_idx[:row]\n pos_w = pos_w[:row]\n return TowerDataset(hist_idx, hist_type, hist_w, hist_len, pos_idx, pos_w)\n\n\nclass TwoTower(nn.Module):\n \"\"\"Separate user and item towers; score is a dot product of L2-normalized vectors.\"\"\"\n\n def __init__(\n self,\n n_items: int,\n item_feats: torch.Tensor,\n d_emb: int = 64,\n d_hidden: int = 192,\n d_out: int = 96,\n dropout: float = 0.1,\n ):\n super().__init__()\n self.d_out = d_out\n self.emb = nn.Embedding(n_items, d_emb, padding_idx=PAD)\n nn.init.normal_(self.emb.weight, mean=0.0, std=0.02)\n with torch.no_grad():\n self.emb.weight[PAD].zero_()\n self.register_buffer(\"item_feats\", item_feats)\n feat_dim = int(item_feats.shape[1])\n self.item_mlp = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Linear(d_emb + feat_dim, d_hidden),\n nn.GELU(),\n nn.Dropout(dropout),\n nn.Linear(d_hidden, d_out),\n )\n self.user_mlp = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Linear(d_out * 3 + 4, d_hidden),\n nn.GELU(),\n nn.Dropout(dropout),\n nn.Linear(d_hidden, d_out),\n )\n self.log_tau = nn.Parameter(torch.log(torch.tensor(0.08)))\n\n def item_vectors(self, idx: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n shape = idx.shape\n flat = idx.reshape(-1)\n x = torch.cat([self.emb(flat), self.item_feats[flat]], dim=-1)\n vec = self.item_mlp(x)\n vec = F.normalize(vec, dim=-1, eps=1e-8)\n return vec.view(*shape, -1)\n\n def user_vectors(\n self,\n hist_idx: torch.Tensor,\n hist_type: torch.Tensor,\n hist_w: torch.Tensor,\n hist_mask: torch.Tensor,\n ) -> torch.Tensor:\n iv = self.item_vectors(hist_idx)\n mask_f = hist_mask.float()\n iv = iv * mask_f.unsqueeze(-1)\n w = hist_w * mask_f\n if self.training:\n drop = (torch.rand_like(w) > 0.18).float()\n # Keep at least one token.\n drop[:, 0] = 1.0\n w = w * drop\n w_pos = w.clamp_min(0.0)\n w_neg = (-w).clamp_min(0.0)\n pos_den = w_pos.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-6)\n mean_pos = (iv * w_pos.unsqueeze(-1)).sum(dim=1) / pos_den\n like_m = ((hist_type == LIKE) & hist_mask).float()\n w_like = w_pos * like_m\n like_den = w_like.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True)\n mean_like = (iv * w_like.unsqueeze(-1)).sum(dim=1) / like_den.clamp_min(1e-6)\n mean_like = torch.where(like_den > 0, mean_like, mean_pos)\n neg_den = w_neg.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True)\n mean_neg = (iv * w_neg.unsqueeze(-1)).sum(dim=1) / neg_den.clamp_min(1e-6)\n mean_neg = torch.where(neg_den > 0, mean_neg, torch.zeros_like(mean_neg))\n hlen = mask_f.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1.0)\n frac_like = like_m.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n mean_pop = (self.item_feats[hist_idx][..., 0] * mask_f).sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n mean_w = pos_den / hlen\n user_feats = torch.cat(\n [torch.log1p(hlen) / 5.0, frac_like, mean_pop, torch.log1p(mean_w)], dim=1\n )\n pooled = torch.cat([mean_pos, mean_like, mean_pos - 0.35 * mean_neg, user_feats], dim=-1)\n u = self.user_mlp(pooled)\n return F.normalize(u, dim=-1, eps=1e-8)\n\n def tau(self) -> torch.Tensor:\n return self.log_tau.exp().clamp(0.02, 0.5)\n\n\ndef info_nce(\n user: torch.Tensor,\n item: torch.Tensor,\n extra: torch.Tensor | None,\n pos_w: torch.Tensor,\n tau: torch.Tensor,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n logits = user @ item.t() / tau\n if extra is not None and extra.numel():\n logits = torch.cat([logits, user @ extra.t() / tau], dim=1)\n labels = torch.arange(user.size(0), device=user.device)\n per = F.cross_entropy(logits, labels, reduction=\"none\")\n w = pos_w / pos_w.mean().clamp_min(1e-6)\n return (per * w).mean()\n\n\ndef train_one_epoch(\n model: TwoTower,\n loader: DataLoader,\n opt: torch.optim.Optimizer,\n n_items: int,\n n_extra_neg: int,\n device: torch.device,\n max_steps: int | None = None,\n) -> float:\n model.train()\n total = 0.0\n n = 0\n t0 = time.time()\n for step, batch in enumerate(loader, 1):\n hist_idx, hist_type, hist_w, hist_mask, pos_idx, pos_w = batch\n hist_idx = hist_idx.to(device)\n hist_type = hist_type.to(device)\n hist_w = hist_w.to(device)\n hist_mask = hist_mask.to(device)\n pos_idx = pos_idx.to(device)\n pos_w = pos_w.to(device)\n opt.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)\n user = model.user_vectors(hist_idx, hist_type, hist_w, hist_mask)\n item = model.item_vectors(pos_idx)\n extra = None\n if n_extra_neg > 0:\n extra_idx = torch.randint(1, n_items, (n_extra_neg,), device=device)\n extra = model.item_vectors(extra_idx)\n loss = info_nce(user, item, extra, pos_w, model.tau())\n # Symmetric in-batch term (CLIP-style) on the B x B block only.\n inv = F.cross_entropy(item @ user.t() / model.tau(), torch.arange(user.size(0), device=device))\n loss = loss + 0.35 * inv\n loss.backward()\n nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), 2.0)\n opt.step()\n total += float(loss.item())\n n += 1\n if step % 40 == 0:\n log(f\" step {step:4d} loss={total / n:.4f} tau={float(model.tau()):.3f} {time.time() - t0:.1f}s\")\n if max_steps is not None and step >= max_steps:\n break\n return total / max(n, 1)\n\n\ndef aggregate_inference_history(\n items: np.ndarray,\n types: np.ndarray,\n strength: np.ndarray,\n ts: np.ndarray,\n now: int,\n idf: np.ndarray,\n max_items: int,\n) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n if len(items) == 0:\n return (\n np.zeros(0, dtype=np.int32),\n np.zeros(0, dtype=np.int8),\n np.zeros(0, dtype=np.float32),\n )\n rec = recency_weights(ts, now)\n w = strength * rec * idf[items]\n order = np.argsort(items, kind=\"mergesort\")\n it = items[order]\n wt = w[order]\n tp = types[order]\n change = np.empty(len(it), dtype=bool)\n change[0] = True\n if len(it) > 1:\n change[1:] = it[1:] != it[:-1]\n starts = np.flatnonzero(change)\n wsum = np.add.reduceat(wt, starts)\n tmax = np.maximum.reduceat(tp.astype(np.int16), starts).astype(np.int8)\n uniq = it[starts]\n if len(uniq) > max_items:\n keep = np.argpartition(-wsum, max_items - 1)[:max_items]\n uniq, tmax, wsum = uniq[keep], tmax[keep], wsum[keep]\n return uniq.astype(np.int32), tmax, wsum.astype(np.float32)\n\n\n@torch.inference_mode()\ndef encode_users(\n model: TwoTower,\n tables: UserTables,\n target_uids: np.ndarray,\n idf: np.ndarray,\n now: int,\n max_items: int,\n device: torch.device,\n pad_to: int,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n model.eval()\n rows = []\n hist_idx = np.zeros((len(target_uids), pad_to), dtype=np.int32)\n hist_type = np.zeros((len(target_uids), pad_to), dtype=np.int8)\n hist_w = np.zeros((len(target_uids), pad_to), dtype=np.float32)\n hist_mask = np.zeros((len(target_uids), pad_to), dtype=bool)\n for r, uid in enumerate(target_uids):\n ur = tables.uid_to_row.get(int(uid))\n if ur is None:\n continue\n it, tp, w = aggregate_inference_history(\n tables.items[ur],\n tables.types[ur],\n tables.strength[ur],\n tables.ts[ur],\n now,\n idf,\n max_items,\n )\n L = min(len(it), pad_to)\n if L == 0:\n continue\n hist_idx[r, :L] = it[:L]\n hist_type[r, :L] = tp[:L]\n hist_w[r, :L] = w[:L]\n hist_mask[r, :L] = True\n rows.append(r)\n user_vecs = torch.zeros((len(target_uids), model.d_out), dtype=torch.float32, device=device)\n bs = 256\n for s in range(0, len(target_uids), bs):\n e = min(s + bs, len(target_uids))\n idx = torch.from_numpy(hist_idx[s:e]).long().to(device)\n tp = torch.from_numpy(hist_type[s:e]).long().to(device)\n w = torch.from_numpy(hist_w[s:e]).to(device)\n m = torch.from_numpy(hist_mask[s:e]).to(device)\n user_vecs[s:e] = model.user_vectors(idx, tp, w, m)\n return user_vecs\n\n\n@torch.inference_mode()\ndef rank_all(\n model: TwoTower,\n tables: UserTables,\n target_uids: np.ndarray,\n catalog_ids: np.ndarray,\n elig_mask: np.ndarray,\n idf: np.ndarray,\n now: int,\n max_items: int,\n device: torch.device,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n model.eval()\n n_cat = len(catalog_ids)\n item_idx = torch.arange(1, n_cat + 1, device=device)\n item_vecs = model.item_vectors(item_idx)\n user_vecs = encode_users(\n model, tables, target_uids, idf, now, max_items, device, pad_to=max_items\n )\n scores = user_vecs @ item_vecs.t()\n scores = scores.masked_fill(~torch.from_numpy(elig_mask).to(device), -1e9)\n _, topi = torch.topk(scores, k=100, dim=1)\n ranked_idx = topi.cpu().numpy()\n return catalog_ids[ranked_idx]\n\n\ndef load_eligibility(path: Path) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n with np.load(path) as z:\n uids = z[\"uids\"].astype(np.int64)\n item_ids = z[\"item_ids\"].astype(np.int64)\n packed = z[\"packed_eligible\"]\n mask = np.unpackbits(packed, axis=1, bitorder=\"little\")[:, : len(item_ids)].astype(bool)\n return uids, item_ids, mask\n\n\ndef align_eligibility(target_uids: np.ndarray, elig_uids: np.ndarray, mask: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(elig_uids)}\n out = np.zeros((len(target_uids), mask.shape[1]), dtype=bool)\n for i, u in enumerate(target_uids):\n out[i] = mask[row[int(u)]]\n return out\n\n\ndef validation_graded(target_set: set[int], elig_by_uid: dict[int, set[int]]) -> dict[int, dict[int, int]]:\n listens = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_listens.parquet\")\n likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_likes.parquet\")\n strong = listens[\n listens.uid.isin(target_set)\n & (listens.is_organic == 1)\n & (listens.played_ratio_pct >= LISTEN_STRONG)\n ][[\"uid\", \"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\n org_likes = likes[likes.uid.isin(target_set) & (likes.is_organic == 1)][\n [\"uid\", \"item_id\"]\n ].drop_duplicates()\n graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]] = {}\n for u, i in strong.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n u, i = int(u), int(i)\n if i in elig_by_uid.get(u, ()):\n graded.setdefault(u, {})[i] = 1\n for u, i in org_likes.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n u, i = int(u), int(i)\n if i in elig_by_uid.get(u, ()):\n graded.setdefault(u, {})[i] = 3\n return graded\n\n\ndef write_ranking(path: Path, uids: np.ndarray, ranked: np.ndarray) -> None:\n n, k = ranked.shape\n df = pd.DataFrame(\n {\n \"uid\": np.repeat(uids.astype(np.int64), k),\n \"item_id\": ranked.reshape(-1).astype(np.int64),\n \"rank\": np.tile(np.arange(1, k + 1, dtype=np.int64), n),\n }\n )\n path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)\n df.to_parquet(path, index=False)\n log(f\"wrote {path} rows={len(df)}\")\n\n\ndef elig_sets(target_uids: np.ndarray, catalog_ids: np.ndarray, mask: np.ndarray) -> dict[int, set[int]]:\n out = {}\n for i, u in enumerate(target_uids):\n out[int(u)] = set(catalog_ids[mask[i]].tolist())\n return out\n\n\ndef score_ranked(uids: np.ndarray, ranked: np.ndarray, graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]]) -> dict:\n mapping = {int(u): ranked[i].tolist() for i, u in enumerate(uids)}\n return score_rankings(mapping, graded)\n\n\ndef make_optimizer(model: TwoTower, lr: float, wd: float) -> torch.optim.Optimizer:\n emb, other = [], []\n for name, p in model.named_parameters():\n if not p.requires_grad:\n continue\n if \"emb\" in name:\n emb.append(p)\n else:\n other.append(p)\n return torch.optim.AdamW(\n [\n {\"params\": emb, \"weight_decay\": 0.0, \"lr\": lr},\n {\"params\": other, \"weight_decay\": wd, \"lr\": lr},\n ]\n )\n\n\ndef run(args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:\n t_all = time.time()\n os.makedirs(CKPT_DIR, exist_ok=True)\n os.makedirs(CACHE_DIR, exist_ok=True)\n set_seeds(args.seed)\n torch.set_num_threads(max(1, min(8, os.cpu_count() or 4)))\n device = torch.device(\"cpu\")\n\n catalog_ids, item_feats_np, _pop_rank = load_catalog()\n n_cat = len(catalog_ids)\n n_items = n_cat + 1\n mapper = make_mapper(catalog_ids)\n targets_df = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"target_users.parquet\")\n target_uids = targets_df.uid.to_numpy(np.int64)\n target_set = set(map(int, target_uids))\n log(f\"catalog={n_cat} target_users={len(target_uids)}\")\n\n val_elig_uids, val_elig_items, val_packed_mask = load_eligibility(\n DATA / \"validation_eligible_candidates.npz\"\n )\n assert np.array_equal(val_elig_items, catalog_ids)\n val_mask = align_eligibility(target_uids, val_elig_uids, val_packed_mask)\n test_elig_uids, test_elig_items, test_packed_mask = load_eligibility(\n DATA / \"test_eligible_candidates.npz\"\n )\n assert np.array_equal(test_elig_items, catalog_ids)\n test_mask = align_eligibility(target_uids, test_elig_uids, test_packed_mask)\n\n val_sets = elig_sets(target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask)\n graded = validation_graded(target_set, val_sets)\n log(f\"validation graded users={len(graded)} pairs={sum(len(v) for v in graded.values())}\")\n\n item_feats = torch.from_numpy(item_feats_np)\n\n def fit_stage(splits: list[str], epochs: int, ckpt_name: str, warmup: Path | None) -> TwoTower:\n log(f\"=== load events {splits} ===\")\n events = load_events(splits, mapper)\n log(f\"events={len(events['uid'])}\")\n tables = build_user_tables(events, target_uids)\n idf = compute_idf(tables, n_items)\n ds = build_training_arrays(\n tables, idf, args.max_hist, args.max_pos_per_user, args.min_hist\n )\n loader = DataLoader(\n ds,\n batch_size=args.batch_size,\n shuffle=True,\n num_workers=0,\n drop_last=True,\n )\n model = TwoTower(\n n_items=n_items,\n item_feats=item_feats,\n d_emb=args.d_emb,\n d_hidden=args.d_hidden,\n d_out=args.d_out,\n dropout=args.dropout,\n ).to(device)\n if warmup is not None and warmup.exists():\n log(f\"warm-start from {warmup}\")\n model.load_state_dict(torch.load(warmup, map_location=\"cpu\"))\n opt = make_optimizer(model, args.lr, args.weight_decay)\n best_ndcg = -1.0\n best_state = None\n now = int(events[\"ts\"].max()) + 1\n for epoch in range(1, epochs + 1):\n log(f\"--- epoch {epoch}/{epochs} examples={len(ds)} ---\")\n loss = train_one_epoch(\n model,\n loader,\n opt,\n n_items,\n args.n_extra_neg,\n device,\n max_steps=args.max_steps,\n )\n log(f\"epoch {epoch} mean_loss={loss:.4f}\")\n if \"train\" in splits and \"val\" not in splits:\n ranked = rank_all(\n model,\n tables,\n target_uids,\n catalog_ids,\n val_mask,\n idf,\n TRAIN_CUTOFF,\n args.infer_hist,\n device,\n )\n scores = score_ranked(target_uids, ranked, graded)\n ndcg = float(scores[\"quality_ndcg@10\"])\n log(f\"public val NDCG@10={ndcg:.6f} users={scores['quality_users']}\")\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, ranked)\n if ndcg > best_ndcg:\n best_ndcg = ndcg\n best_state = {k: v.detach().cpu().clone() for k, v in model.state_dict().items()}\n torch.save(best_state, CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name)\n with open(SOLUTION / \"val_score.json\", \"w\") as f:\n json.dump({\"quality_ndcg@10\": ndcg, \"epoch\": epoch}, f)\n log(f\"new best {ndcg:.6f} saved\")\n else:\n torch.save(model.state_dict(), CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name)\n if best_state is not None:\n model.load_state_dict(best_state)\n return model, tables, idf, now\n\n val_model = None\n val_tables = None\n val_idf = None\n if args.stage in (\"val\", \"all\"):\n val_model, val_tables, val_idf, _ = fit_stage(\n [\"train\"], args.val_epochs, \"best_val.pt\", warmup=None\n )\n # Backup test ranking from the val-selected model with train+val history.\n log(\"=== backup test ranking from val model + train/val history ===\")\n events_tv = load_events([\"train\", \"val\"], mapper)\n tables_tv = build_user_tables(events_tv, target_uids)\n idf_tv = compute_idf(tables_tv, n_items)\n now_tv = int(events_tv[\"ts\"].max()) + 1\n ranked_test = rank_all(\n val_model,\n tables_tv,\n target_uids,\n catalog_ids,\n test_mask,\n idf_tv,\n now_tv,\n args.infer_hist,\n device,\n )\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"submission.parquet\", target_uids, ranked_test)\n log(f\"backup submission written ({time.time() - t_all:.1f}s elapsed)\")\n\n if args.stage in (\"test\", \"all\"):\n warmup = CKPT_DIR / \"best_val.pt\"\n test_model, tables_tv, idf_tv, now_tv = fit_stage(\n [\"train\", \"val\"],\n args.test_epochs,\n \"final_test.pt\",\n warmup=warmup if warmup.exists() else None,\n )\n ranked_test = rank_all(\n test_model,\n tables_tv,\n target_uids,\n catalog_ids,\n test_mask,\n idf_tv,\n now_tv,\n args.infer_hist,\n device,\n )\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"submission.parquet\", target_uids, ranked_test)\n log(\"final submission written\")\n\n log(f\"done in {time.time() - t_all:.1f}s\")\n\n\ndef parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:\n p = argparse.ArgumentParser()\n p.add_argument(\"--stage\", choices=[\"val\", \"test\", \"all\"], default=\"all\")\n p.add_argument(\"--seed\", type=int, default=42)\n p.add_argument(\"--d-emb\", type=int, default=64)\n p.add_argument(\"--d-hidden\", type=int, default=192)\n p.add_argument(\"--d-out\", type=int, default=96)\n p.add_argument(\"--dropout\", type=float, default=0.1)\n p.add_argument(\"--batch-size\", type=int, default=768)\n p.add_argument(\"--lr\", type=float, default=1.2e-3)\n p.add_argument(\"--weight-decay\", type=float, default=1e-4)\n p.add_argument(\"--val-epochs\", type=int, default=3)\n p.add_argument(\"--test-epochs\", type=int, default=2)\n p.add_argument(\"--max-hist\", type=int, default=96)\n p.add_argument(\"--infer-hist\", type=int, default=192)\n p.add_argument(\"--max-pos-per-user\", type=int, default=80)\n p.add_argument(\"--min-hist\", type=int, default=6)\n p.add_argument(\"--n-extra-neg\", type=int, default=256)\n p.add_argument(\"--max-steps\", type=int, default=None)\n return p.parse_args()\n\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n run(parse_args())\n" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been created.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 16, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The fit_stage function is annotated to return a TwoTower object but actually returns a tuple.\n\nThe test stage correctly skips validation and early stopping. A Python loop over 20 million events to find first-time positives may be slow but is acceptable.\n\nThe test stage will still build training arrays from all first-time positives, including old train data. I will optimize `build_user_tables` with vectorized first-occurrence detection using pandas `drop_duplicates`. First I will run a quick test with `max_steps` to verify the pipeline before full training.\n\nI need to convert `hist_idx` and `hist_type` to Long tensors before passing them to embeddings, since PyTorch requires int64 indices. The dataset returns int32 from numpy, so `.long()` is required. This is already handled correctly in `encode_users`.\n\nThe first-time positive loop over 20 million events may take roughly two minutes. The training array construction could add another 20 to 40 seconds from repeated Python slice copies. I will run a quick smoke test with five steps and one validation epoch before full training. Dislikes are already excluded from first-positive detection because their scores are negative.\n\nThe first-time listen is the correct discovery signal for the test stage, so later likes of the same item are intentionally excluded. The `drop_last=True` setting will not discard too many samples during a quick smoke test." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-5da8d7f7-d9d8-40a5-9525-c0a2a1045f88-18", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " hist_idx = hist_idx.to(device)\n hist_type = hist_type.to(device)\n hist_w = hist_w.to(device)\n hist_mask = hist_mask.to(device)\n pos_idx = pos_idx.to(device)\n pos_w = pos_w.to(device)", "new_string": " hist_idx = hist_idx.to(device).long()\n hist_type = hist_type.to(device).long()\n hist_w = hist_w.to(device)\n hist_mask = hist_mask.to(device)\n pos_idx = pos_idx.to(device).long()\n pos_w = pos_w.to(device)" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 17, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Vectorizing the first-time positive extraction step to speed up data preparation.\n\nReplacing the inner loop with numpy unique to find first-time positives. Events are already time-sorted per user, so return_index preserves the first occurrence." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-70c5f531-b5ac-4a54-b254-50a3036704ca-19", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " items[i] = it\n ts[i] = tsv\n types[i] = tp\n strength[i] = st\n\n # First-time catalog positives (likes / strong organic / other positives).\n is_pos = st > 0\n first = np.zeros(b - a, dtype=bool)\n seen: dict[int, int] = {}\n p_it = []\n p_t = []\n p_w = []\n for j in range(b - a):\n key = int(it[j])\n if key in seen:\n continue\n if not is_pos[j]:\n continue\n seen[key] = j\n first[j] = True\n tpj = int(tp[j])\n if tpj == LIKE:\n w = 3.0\n elif tpj == ORG_STRONG:\n w = 1.6\n else:\n w = 0.45\n p_it.append(key)\n p_t.append(int(tsv[j]))\n p_w.append(w)\n pos_item[i] = np.asarray(p_it, dtype=np.int32)\n pos_ts[i] = np.asarray(p_t, dtype=np.int64)\n pos_w[i] = np.asarray(p_w, dtype=np.float32)", "new_string": " items[i] = it\n ts[i] = tsv\n types[i] = tp\n strength[i] = st\n\n pos_mask = st > 0\n if not np.any(pos_mask):\n pos_item[i] = np.zeros(0, dtype=np.int32)\n pos_ts[i] = np.zeros(0, dtype=np.int64)\n pos_w[i] = np.zeros(0, dtype=np.float32)\n continue\n it_p = it[pos_mask]\n ts_p = tsv[pos_mask]\n tp_p = tp[pos_mask]\n _, first_idx = np.unique(it_p, return_index=True)\n first_idx.sort()\n it_f = it_p[first_idx]\n ts_f = ts_p[first_idx]\n tp_f = tp_p[first_idx]\n w = np.full(len(it_f), 0.45, dtype=np.float32)\n w[tp_f == LIKE] = 3.0\n w[tp_f == ORG_STRONG] = 1.6\n pos_item[i] = it_f.astype(np.int32, copy=False)\n pos_ts[i] = ts_f.astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n pos_w[i] = w" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 18, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The `fit_stage` return type annotation is incorrect." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-65f386e8-99d7-44a8-b170-dc114e71946c-20", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --val-epochs 1 --max-steps 8 --batch-size 256 --max-pos-per-user 16", "description": "Smoke-test two-tower train and val ranking" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 137\ncatalog=30000 target_users=8456\n--: line 1: 6575 Killed /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --val-epochs 1 --max-steps 8 --batch-size 256 --max-pos-per-user 16\n", "isError": true } } ] }, { "id": 19, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The process was killed, likely due to an out-of-memory error.\n\nLoading 43 million rows of listens into pandas consumes too much memory. The pipeline creates multiple copies during filtering and concatenation. I need a more memory-efficient approach.\n\nI will avoid keeping the full dataframe in memory. The plan is to read parquet files in chunks, convert columns to numpy arrays immediately, filter and delete intermediate objects, then concatenate results at the end. This eliminates the peak memory spike from loading 43 million rows into pandas.\n\nPyArrow row groups will replace pandas chunking to keep peak memory low. After catalog filtering, only about 20 million events remain, which is manageable. The real bottleneck is the initial 43-million-row load of train_listens.\n\nThe OOM is confirmed to come from loading the listens dataframe. I will rewrite load_events with PyArrow row groups and call gc.collect() after each load. The training array allocation is small enough to ignore.\n\nI will also avoid keeping the full events dictionary after building per-user tables. The maximum timestamp can be extracted before that conversion. I am now drafting a PyArrow row-group consumer that reads only the needed columns, converts them to numpy arrays immediately, and deletes each table after filtering." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "The smoke test was killed by memory pressure while loading listens; I’ll switch to a row-group streaming loader so peak RAM stays bounded." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-b93355cf-b963-430a-854c-2142fd0701e7-21", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pyarrow.parquet as pq\nfrom pathlib import Path\np=Path('/task/data/train_listens.parquet')\nprint('size_mb', p.stat().st_size/1e6)\npf=pq.ParquetFile(p)\nprint('rows', pf.metadata.num_rows, 'row_groups', pf.num_row_groups)\nprint('schema', pf.schema_arrow)\nfor i in range(min(3, pf.num_row_groups)):\n rg=pf.metadata.row_group(i)\n print(' rg', i, 'rows', rg.num_rows, 'bytes', rg.total_byte_size)\nPY\n", "description": "Inspect parquet row-group layout and size" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\nsize_mb 319.183255\nrows 43484159 row_groups 42\nschema uid: uint32\ntimestamp: uint32\nitem_id: uint32\nis_organic: uint8\nplayed_ratio_pct: uint16\ntrack_length_seconds: uint32\n-- schema metadata --\npandas: '{\"index_columns\": [], \"column_indexes\": [], \"columns\": [{\"name\":' + 797\n rg 0 rows 1048576 bytes 9384750\n rg 1 rows 1048576 bytes 9426848\n rg 2 rows 1048576 bytes 9378670\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 20, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The dataset uses one-million-row row groups, which is acceptable.\n\nNumpy views keep underlying arrays alive through UserTables. The Python loop over 9,000 users is acceptable. Training arrays peak at roughly one to two gigabytes.\n\nThe 16GB OOM is puzzling. The original loader likely holds two large pandas dataframes and multiple numpy copies simultaneously. A single split could peak at several gigabytes.\n\nThe original pandas dataframe is not deleted until after uid and timestamp are extracted. This leaves the full 3GB dataframe in memory during the filtering step.\n\nThe OOM might stem from load_catalog or eligibility unpacking rather than the user-table loop. The pandas dataframe could be bloated by a string index or memory-mapped parquet overhead.\n\nThe OOM is caused by `elig_sets`. It creates a Python set of roughly 29,000 item IDs for each user. With 8,456 users, this consumes about 7 GB of memory." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "Eligibility sets were materializing ~29k Python ints per user and blowing RAM. I’ll stream event loads and check labels with the bit mask instead." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-863f6996-7e92-4bb1-8e93-c61324b26db1-22", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": "import numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\nimport torch\nimport torch.nn as nn\nimport torch.nn.functional as F\nfrom torch.utils.data import DataLoader, Dataset", "new_string": "import numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\nimport pyarrow.parquet as pq\nimport torch\nimport torch.nn as nn\nimport torch.nn.functional as F\nfrom torch.utils.data import DataLoader, Dataset" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-863f6996-7e92-4bb1-8e93-c61324b26db1-23", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": "def load_events(splits: list[str], mapper: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:\n uids: list[np.ndarray] = []\n ts: list[np.ndarray] = []\n items: list[np.ndarray] = []\n types: list[np.ndarray] = []\n strengths: list[np.ndarray] = []\n\n for split in splits:\n lis = pd.read_parquet(\n DATA / f\"{split}_listens.parquet\",\n columns=[\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\", \"played_ratio_pct\"],\n )\n ratio = lis.played_ratio_pct.to_numpy(np.int16)\n keep = ratio >= 50\n uid = lis.uid.to_numpy(np.int64)[keep]\n tsv = lis.timestamp.to_numpy(np.int64)[keep]\n iid = lis.item_id.to_numpy(np.int64)[keep]\n org = lis.is_organic.to_numpy(np.int8)[keep]\n ratio = ratio[keep]\n del lis\n idx = _map_items(iid, mapper)\n keep = idx > 0\n uid, tsv, idx, org, ratio = uid[keep], tsv[keep], idx[keep], org[keep], ratio[keep]\n kind = np.full(len(uid), LISTEN, dtype=np.int8)\n strong = (ratio >= LISTEN_STRONG) & (org == 1)\n kind[strong] = ORG_STRONG\n st = np.where(\n strong,\n 2.4,\n np.where(ratio >= LISTEN_STRONG, 1.35, np.where(org == 1, 1.05, 0.75)),\n ).astype(np.float32)\n uids.append(uid)\n ts.append(tsv)\n items.append(idx)\n types.append(kind)\n strengths.append(st)\n\n likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / f\"{split}_likes.parquet\")\n uid = likes.uid.to_numpy(np.int64)\n tsv = likes.timestamp.to_numpy(np.int64)\n iid = likes.item_id.to_numpy(np.int64)\n org = likes.is_organic.to_numpy(np.int8)\n idx = _map_items(iid, mapper)\n keep = idx > 0\n uid, tsv, idx, org = uid[keep], tsv[keep], idx[keep], org[keep]\n st = np.where(org == 1, 5.0, 3.6).astype(np.float32)\n uids.append(uid)\n ts.append(tsv)\n items.append(idx)\n types.append(np.full(len(uid), LIKE, dtype=np.int8))\n strengths.append(st)\n\n dis = pd.read_parquet(DATA / f\"{split}_dislikes.parquet\")\n uid = dis.uid.to_numpy(np.int64)\n tsv = dis.timestamp.to_numpy(np.int64)\n iid = dis.item_id.to_numpy(np.int64)\n idx = _map_items(iid, mapper)\n keep = idx > 0\n uid, tsv, idx = uid[keep], tsv[keep], idx[keep]\n uids.append(uid)\n ts.append(tsv)\n items.append(idx)\n types.append(np.full(len(uid), DISLIKE, dtype=np.int8))\n strengths.append(np.full(len(uid), -2.4, dtype=np.float32))\n\n uid = np.concatenate(uids)\n tsv = np.concatenate(ts)\n item = np.concatenate(items)\n kind = np.concatenate(types)\n st = np.concatenate(strengths)\n order = np.lexsort((tsv, uid))\n return {\n \"uid\": uid[order],\n \"ts\": tsv[order],\n \"item\": item[order],\n \"type\": kind[order],\n \"strength\": st[order],\n }", "new_string": "def _append_keep(\n buckets: dict[str, list[np.ndarray]],\n uid: np.ndarray,\n tsv: np.ndarray,\n idx: np.ndarray,\n kind: np.ndarray,\n st: np.ndarray,\n) -> None:\n if len(uid) == 0:\n return\n buckets[\"uid\"].append(uid.astype(np.int32, copy=False))\n buckets[\"ts\"].append(tsv.astype(np.int32, copy=False))\n buckets[\"item\"].append(idx.astype(np.int32, copy=False))\n buckets[\"type\"].append(kind.astype(np.int8, copy=False))\n buckets[\"strength\"].append(st.astype(np.float32, copy=False))\n\n\ndef load_events(splits: list[str], mapper: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:\n buckets = {\"uid\": [], \"ts\": [], \"item\": [], \"type\": [], \"strength\": []}\n\n for split in splits:\n pf = pq.ParquetFile(DATA / f\"{split}_listens.parquet\")\n for rg in range(pf.num_row_groups):\n table = pf.read_row_group(\n rg,\n columns=[\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\", \"played_ratio_pct\"],\n )\n uid = table[\"uid\"].to_numpy()\n tsv = table[\"timestamp\"].to_numpy()\n iid = table[\"item_id\"].to_numpy()\n org = table[\"is_organic\"].to_numpy()\n ratio = table[\"played_ratio_pct\"].to_numpy()\n del table\n keep = ratio >= 50\n uid, tsv, iid, org, ratio = uid[keep], tsv[keep], iid[keep], org[keep], ratio[keep]\n idx = _map_items(iid.astype(np.int64, copy=False), mapper)\n keep = idx > 0\n uid, tsv, idx, org, ratio = uid[keep], tsv[keep], idx[keep], org[keep], ratio[keep]\n kind = np.full(len(uid), LISTEN, dtype=np.int8)\n strong = (ratio >= LISTEN_STRONG) & (org == 1)\n kind[strong] = ORG_STRONG\n st = np.where(\n strong,\n 2.4,\n np.where(ratio >= LISTEN_STRONG, 1.35, np.where(org == 1, 1.05, 0.75)),\n ).astype(np.float32)\n _append_keep(buckets, uid, tsv, idx, kind, st)\n\n likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / f\"{split}_likes.parquet\")\n uid = likes.uid.to_numpy()\n tsv = likes.timestamp.to_numpy()\n iid = likes.item_id.to_numpy()\n org = likes.is_organic.to_numpy()\n del likes\n idx = _map_items(iid.astype(np.int64, copy=False), mapper)\n keep = idx > 0\n uid, tsv, idx, org = uid[keep], tsv[keep], idx[keep], org[keep]\n st = np.where(org == 1, 5.0, 3.6).astype(np.float32)\n _append_keep(buckets, uid, tsv, idx, np.full(len(uid), LIKE, dtype=np.int8), st)\n\n dis = pd.read_parquet(DATA / f\"{split}_dislikes.parquet\")\n uid = dis.uid.to_numpy()\n tsv = dis.timestamp.to_numpy()\n iid = dis.item_id.to_numpy()\n del dis\n idx = _map_items(iid.astype(np.int64, copy=False), mapper)\n keep = idx > 0\n uid, tsv, idx = uid[keep], tsv[keep], idx[keep]\n _append_keep(\n buckets,\n uid,\n tsv,\n idx,\n np.full(len(uid), DISLIKE, dtype=np.int8),\n np.full(len(uid), -2.4, dtype=np.float32),\n )\n\n uid = np.concatenate(buckets[\"uid\"])\n tsv = np.concatenate(buckets[\"ts\"])\n item = np.concatenate(buckets[\"item\"])\n kind = np.concatenate(buckets[\"type\"])\n st = np.concatenate(buckets[\"strength\"])\n del buckets\n order = np.lexsort((tsv, uid))\n return {\n \"uid\": uid[order],\n \"ts\": tsv[order],\n \"item\": item[order],\n \"type\": kind[order],\n \"strength\": st[order],\n }" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-863f6996-7e92-4bb1-8e93-c61324b26db1-24", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": "def validation_graded(target_set: set[int], elig_by_uid: dict[int, set[int]]) -> dict[int, dict[int, int]]:\n listens = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_listens.parquet\")\n likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_likes.parquet\")\n strong = listens[\n listens.uid.isin(target_set)\n & (listens.is_organic == 1)\n & (listens.played_ratio_pct >= LISTEN_STRONG)\n ][[\"uid\", \"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\n org_likes = likes[likes.uid.isin(target_set) & (likes.is_organic == 1)][\n [\"uid\", \"item_id\"]\n ].drop_duplicates()\n graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]] = {}\n for u, i in strong.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n u, i = int(u), int(i)\n if i in elig_by_uid.get(u, ()):\n graded.setdefault(u, {})[i] = 1\n for u, i in org_likes.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n u, i = int(u), int(i)\n if i in elig_by_uid.get(u, ()):\n graded.setdefault(u, {})[i] = 3\n return graded", "new_string": "def validation_graded(\n target_set: set[int],\n uid_row: dict[int, int],\n item_col: dict[int, int],\n elig_mask: np.ndarray,\n) -> dict[int, dict[int, int]]:\n listens = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_listens.parquet\")\n likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_likes.parquet\")\n strong = listens[\n listens.uid.isin(target_set)\n & (listens.is_organic == 1)\n & (listens.played_ratio_pct >= LISTEN_STRONG)\n ][[\"uid\", \"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\n org_likes = likes[likes.uid.isin(target_set) & (likes.is_organic == 1)][\n [\"uid\", \"item_id\"]\n ].drop_duplicates()\n del listens, likes\n\n def eligible(u: int, i: int) -> bool:\n r = uid_row.get(u)\n c = item_col.get(i)\n if r is None or c is None:\n return False\n return bool(elig_mask[r, c])\n\n graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]] = {}\n for u, i in strong.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n u, i = int(u), int(i)\n if eligible(u, i):\n graded.setdefault(u, {})[i] = 1\n for u, i in org_likes.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n u, i = int(u), int(i)\n if eligible(u, i):\n graded.setdefault(u, {})[i] = 3\n return graded" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-863f6996-7e92-4bb1-8e93-c61324b26db1-25", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": "def elig_sets(target_uids: np.ndarray, catalog_ids: np.ndarray, mask: np.ndarray) -> dict[int, set[int]]:\n out = {}\n for i, u in enumerate(target_uids):\n out[int(u)] = set(catalog_ids[mask[i]].tolist())\n return out\n\n\ndef score_ranked(uids: np.ndarray, ranked: np.ndarray, graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]]) -> dict:", "new_string": "def score_ranked(uids: np.ndarray, ranked: np.ndarray, graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]]) -> dict:" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-863f6996-7e92-4bb1-8e93-c61324b26db1-26", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " val_sets = elig_sets(target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask)\n graded = validation_graded(target_set, val_sets)\n log(f\"validation graded users={len(graded)} pairs={sum(len(v) for v in graded.values())}\")", "new_string": " uid_row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(target_uids)}\n item_col = {int(it): i for i, it in enumerate(catalog_ids)}\n graded = validation_graded(target_set, uid_row, item_col, val_mask)\n log(f\"validation graded users={len(graded)} pairs={sum(len(v) for v in graded.values())}\")" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 21, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "`rank_all` computes a 1 GB float32 score matrix on CPU. Item and user vectors add further memory pressure.\n\nTop-k extraction adds another score copy. User history arrays total roughly 20 MB. Training arrays consume about 830 MB. I will fix over-allocation in `build_training_arrays` by slicing at the end and add `gc.collect()` after loading events. Only the latest timestamp will be kept from events after building user tables.\n\nlexsort copies five arrays, raising peak memory to about 850 MB. The events dictionary can be safely deleted after capturing the latest timestamp and user tables because the tables hold views into the underlying arrays." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-4f6db14a-33e6-4b6b-8407-6ef723a4edc6-27", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " events = load_events(splits, mapper)\n log(f\"events={len(events['uid'])}\")\n tables = build_user_tables(events, target_uids)\n idf = compute_idf(tables, n_items)", "new_string": " events = load_events(splits, mapper)\n log(f\"events={len(events['uid'])}\")\n now = int(events[\"ts\"].max()) + 1\n tables = build_user_tables(events, target_uids)\n del events\n idf = compute_idf(tables, n_items)" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-4f6db14a-33e6-4b6b-8407-6ef723a4edc6-28", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " best_ndcg = -1.0\n best_state = None\n now = int(events[\"ts\"].max()) + 1\n for epoch in range(1, epochs + 1):", "new_string": " best_ndcg = -1.0\n best_state = None\n for epoch in range(1, epochs + 1):" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 22, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Validation ranking uses `TRAIN_CUTOFF` instead of the computed `now` value." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-ffccb825-d70d-4959-96e3-d3cc52948b49-29", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --val-epochs 1 --max-steps 6 --batch-size 256 --max-pos-per-user 12", "description": "Re-run smoke test after memory fixes" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\ncatalog=30000 target_users=8456\nvalidation graded users=4263 pairs=37769\n=== load events ['train'] ===\nevents=20676474\nwarning: 7 target users have no mapped events\ntraining examples: 113302 (skipped 2376)\n--- epoch 1/1 examples=113302 ---\nepoch 1 mean_loss=8.1368\npublic val NDCG@10=0.008107 users=4263\nwrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600\nnew best 0.008107 saved\n=== backup test ranking from val model + train/val history ===\nwarning: 6 target users have no mapped events\nwrote /app/solution/submission.parquet rows=845600\nbackup submission written (24.7s elapsed)\ndone in 24.7s\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 23, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The smoke test passed. NDCG after six steps is 0.008, which is worse than the popularity baseline.\n\nThe low NDCG is expected with minimal training. Seven target users have no mapped events because catalog items with played_ratio below 50 were excluded. These users will fall back to popularity via zero vectors. Full training is next, but good hyperparameters are still needed.\n\nLoss is 8.14 after six steps, slightly above the random baseline of 6.24. Full training will use three epochs, 768 batch size, and 80 positive samples per user. The dataset yields roughly 670,000 examples, or about 870 steps per epoch. Ranking all users is already fast enough to fit within the latency budget.\n\nTraining six steps takes roughly one to two seconds. Eight hundred seventy steps per epoch should finish in about five to seven minutes, so the full run fits within the time limit. I will increase validation epochs to four, test epochs to three, positive samples per user to one hundred, and the embedding dimension to ninety-six.\n\nEmpty-history users will blend with popularity vectors. The zero-vector MLP output may still recover a weak popularity signal when dotted against item vectors that include pop features.\n\nPost-training NDCG must exceed 0.01. L2 normalization might dilute popularity magnitude, though item features should preserve that direction. First-time positives may still include stale history for heavy users.\n\nIn-batch negatives are other first-time discoveries. The user tower correctly uses the item tower on history for collaborative filtering. Sampling older first-time items would improve co-occurrence signal, but recent history is sufficient for heavy users. A larger history window of 128 is under consideration. Two hundred fifty-six extra negatives are adequate.\n\nTemperature 0.08 is well suited to the cosine similarity range. A stronger popularity-aware item bias is being considered. The validation stage will write a backup test submission by reloading train and validation events, which the test stage then reloads again; this is acceptable. Full ranking will be evaluated every epoch during validation. Training will proceed before adding popularity blending to the vectors.\n\nA README placeholder will be written while full training runs in the background. The batch size is increased to 1024. The validation stage requires roughly one gigabyte for ranking tensors plus about eight hundred megabytes for the dataset, which fits within sixteen gigabytes of memory.\n\nThe final hyperparameters are set: 768 batch size, 96 positive samples per user, 96 history items, and 384 extra negatives. If the first validation epoch still yields an NDCG near 0.01, the architecture will need a major rethink. The empty-history users produce a constant user vector from zero inputs, which may only weakly recover popularity.\n\nEligibility masking and top-k selection are confirmed correct. Extra negatives will be sampled uniformly from the catalog to improve long-tail coverage. The embedding dimension is set to 64 with an output dimension of 96. Validation training will run first for four epochs so test epochs can be tuned based on results." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-d204042d-26fc-4cf2-86a4-940fa9fca753-30", "name": "write", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/README.md", "content": "# Made-for-You two-tower ranker\n\nCPU PyTorch two-tower retrieval model for the Yambda “Made for You” shelf.\nCandidate item vectors are produced by the item tower independently of the\nrequesting user and can be stored in a MIPS index. At request time the system\ncomputes one user vector from interaction history and ranks eligible catalog\nitems by inner product.\n\n## Architecture\n\n- **Item tower.** Catalog ID embedding concatenated with four popularity\n features (`log1p` positive listens, `log1p` organic listens, `log` popularity\n rank, organic ratio), two-layer GELU MLP, L2-normalized. Output dimension 96.\n- **User tower.** No user-ID lookup. History is the user’s catalog listens\n (≥50% completion), likes, and dislikes. Events are recency-decayed\n (21-day half-life) and IDF-weighted, unique-aggregated at inference, then\n encoded by the **item tower**. The user tower pools a weighted mean, a\n likes-only mean, and a dislike-residual, concatenates a few history\n statistics, and applies a two-layer GELU MLP with L2 normalization.\n- **Score.** `dot(user_vec, item_vec)` (cosine, since both vectors are\n L2-normalized). Eligible bits come from the platform candidate service.\n\n## Training objective\n\nFirst-time catalog discoveries are positives (organic likes weight 3, organic\n≥80% listens weight 1.6, other ≥50% listens weight 0.45). History is strictly\nearlier events. Loss is weighted InfoNCE with in-batch negatives plus 256–384\nuniform catalog negatives, and a smaller reverse in-batch term. Training does\nnot materialize a user–item matrix.\n\nValidation fits on `train_*` only and is scored with\n`python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/validation.parquet`.\nThe hidden-test ranker is warm-started from the best validation checkpoint and\nrefit on `train_* + val_*`.\n\n## Public validation score\n\nSee `val_score.json` after the validation stage. The value below is filled in\nwhen training completes:\n\n- **quality_ndcg@10:** pending\n\n## Final submission command\n\n```sh\npython /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py --stage all\n```\n\nWrites `/app/solution/submission.parquet` with 100 ranked eligible items for\nevery target user (`uid`, `item_id`, `rank` 1–100).\n" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/README.md has been created.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-d204042d-26fc-4cf2-86a4-940fa9fca753-31", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --val-epochs 4 --batch-size 768 --max-pos-per-user 96 --max-hist 96 --n-extra-neg 384 --infer-hist 192", "description": "Train validation two-tower for 4 epochs", "block_until_ms": 0 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "01a0edfc-01bd-72b0-808c-95cd1873aa2d\nbash\n/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-d204042d-26fc-4cf2-86a4-940fa9fca753-31.log\nrunning\nBackground task 01a0edfc-01bd-72b0-808c-95cd1873aa2d started\nUse get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=[\"01a0edfc-01bd-72b0-808c-95cd1873aa2d\"] when you need the output.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 24, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-7b67a064-da06-463f-a037-d18392cfd93b-32", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0edfc-01bd-72b0-808c-95cd1873aa2d" ], "timeout_ms": 120000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0edfc-01bd-72b0-808c-95cd1873aa2d ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --val-epochs 4 --batch-size 768 --max-pos-per-user 96 --max-hist 96 --n-extra-neg 384 --infer-hist 192\nStatus: running\nDuration: 122.39s\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-d204042d-26fc-4cf2-86a4-940fa9fca753-31.log\n\n=== Output ===\ncatalog=30000 target_users=8456\nvalidation graded users=4263 pairs=37769\n=== load events ['train'] ===\nevents=20676474\nwarning: 7 target users have no mapped events\ntraining examples: 817849 (skipped 11754)\n--- epoch 1/4 examples=817849 ---\n/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py:528: UserWarning: Converting a tensor with requires_grad=True to a scalar may lead to unexpected behavior.\nConsider using tensor.detach() first. (Triggered internally at /pytorch/torch/csrc/autograd/generated/python_variable_methods.cpp:835.)\n log(f\" step {step:4d} loss={total / n:.4f} tau={float(model.tau()):.3f} {time.time() - t0:.1f}s\")\n step 40 loss=9.2864 tau=0.081 13.0s\n step 80 loss=9.1860 tau=0.082 27.1s\n step 120 loss=9.1187 tau=0.083 40.1s\n step 160 loss=9.0735 tau=0.083 54.2s\n step 200 loss=9.0335 tau=0.084 67.3s\n step 240 loss=8.9990 tau=0.084 80.6s\n\n\nWaited the requested 120s. Unless the user specified, do not kill this task just because this wait returned. It is still working. You will be notified automatically when it completes. Do other work, or wait again with a longer timeout_ms.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 25, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Training is underway. Each step takes roughly 0.33 seconds. An epoch contains about 1,065 steps and lasts approximately six minutes.\n\nLoss is slowly declining from 9.28 to 8.99. It remains above the random baseline of roughly 7.05, though the inverse term brings it closer. The first epoch evaluation is next." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-10de87e5-84d6-478e-b128-f8dae5111b64-33", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0edfc-01bd-72b0-808c-95cd1873aa2d" ], "timeout_ms": 360000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0edfc-01bd-72b0-808c-95cd1873aa2d ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --val-epochs 4 --batch-size 768 --max-pos-per-user 96 --max-hist 96 --n-extra-neg 384 --infer-hist 192\nStatus: running\nDuration: 497.36s\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-d204042d-26fc-4cf2-86a4-940fa9fca753-31.log\n\n=== Output ===\ncatalog=30000 target_users=8456\nvalidation graded users=4263 pairs=37769\n=== load events ['train'] ===\nevents=20676474\nwarning: 7 target users have no mapped events\ntraining examples: 817849 (skipped 11754)\n--- epoch 1/4 examples=817849 ---\n/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py:528: UserWarning: Converting a tensor with requires_grad=True to a scalar may lead to unexpected behavior.\nConsider using tensor.detach() first. (Triggered internally at /pytorch/torch/csrc/autograd/generated/python_variable_methods.cpp:835.)\n log(f\" step {step:4d} loss={total / n:.4f} tau={float(model.tau()):.3f} {time.time() - t0:.1f}s\")\n step 40 loss=9.2864 tau=0.081 13.0s\n step 80 loss=9.1860 tau=0.082 27.1s\n step 120 loss=9.1187 tau=0.083 40.1s\n step 160 loss=9.0735 tau=0.083 54.2s\n step 200 loss=9.0335 tau=0.084 67.3s\n step 240 loss=8.9990 tau=0.084 80.6s\n step 280 loss=8.9639 tau=0.084 94.7s\n step 320 loss=8.9321 tau=0.085 107.4s\n step 360 loss=8.9038 tau=0.085 122.7s\n step 400 loss=8.8773 tau=0.086 135.4s\n step 440 loss=8.8531 tau=0.086 148.4s\n step 480 loss=8.8299 tau=0.086 162.3s\n step 520 loss=8.8081 tau=0.087 175.1s\n step 560 loss=8.7869 tau=0.087 188.5s\n step 600 loss=8.7663 tau=0.088 201.4s\n step 640 loss=8.7460 tau=0.088 215.8s\n step 680 loss=8.7255 tau=0.089 228.6s\n step 720 loss=8.7045 tau=0.089 241.6s\n step 760 loss=8.6853 tau=0.089 255.4s\n step 800 loss=8.6657 tau=0.089 268.4s\n step 840 loss=8.6477 tau=0.090 282.6s\n step 880 loss=8.6307 tau=0.090 295.5s\n step 920 loss=8.6137 tau=0.090 309.5s\n step 960 loss=8.5973 tau=0.091 322.4s\n step 1000 loss=8.5819 tau=0.091 335.7s\n step 1040 loss=8.5664 tau=0.091 349.8s\nepoch 1 mean_loss=8.5576\npublic val NDCG@10=0.008851 users=4263\nwrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600\nnew best 0.008851 saved\n--- epoch 2/4 examples=817849 ---\n step 40 loss=7.9853 tau=0.090 14.8s\n step 80 loss=7.9854 tau=0.090 28.4s\n step 120 loss=7.9952 tau=0.090 43.2s\n step 160 loss=8.0025 tau=0.090 56.6s\n step 200 loss=8.0080 tau=0.090 70.1s\n step 240 loss=8.0122 tau=0.089 84.5s\n step 280 loss=8.0138 tau=0.089 98.0s\n\n\nWaited the requested 360s. Unless the user specified, do not kill this task just because this wait returned. It is still working. You will be notified automatically when it completes. Do other work, or wait again with a longer timeout_ms.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 26, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The first epoch's NDCG@10 is 0.00885, which is worse than the popularity baseline.\n\nThe two-tower model is failing to learn useful retrieval. The training and inference pipelines are mismatched: training uses the last 96 raw events while inference uses unique-aggregated items with IDF. Recent history is also dominated by currently rotating songs, so predicting new items from it is unreliable.\n\nThe two-tower architecture is too difficult to train with InfoNCE on CPU in a single epoch. The temperature parameter is increasing, which softens the loss but does not fix the underlying problem. The current NDCG@10 of 0.008 is likely no better than random ranking. I will terminate this training run and implement a fundamentally different approach.\n\nA simpler matrix-factorization architecture is now planned. The user tower will use a weighted mean of item embeddings, dropping the extra MLP on history. The item tower will be a linear projection of its embedding. Both training and inference will use identical unique IDF-weighted recency-weighted item sets. L2 normalization will be removed so popularity signal can live in the embedding norms.\n\nA skip-gram approach is now preferred: each user vector will be the mean of their other items, and the model will predict a held-out item. Popularity cannot be blended afterward because scores must equal dot products. Instead, popularity will be encoded directly inside the vectors by appending a popularity feature to both user and item embeddings.\n\nThe 192-item inference cutoff risks dropping too much of a user's catalog. The NDCG gap to popularity suggests the current ranking is noisy and anti-correlated rather than capturing meaningful collaborative filtering. A simpler two-tower architecture is now being drafted with a shared embedding layer for user history.\n\nThe architecture is now a pure embedding matrix factorization with shared user and item embeddings. The user tower will be a weighted sum of history embeddings, and the item tower will be its own embedding. Training will use sampled softmax or BPR with many negatives.\n\nThe concrete vector design is now fixed: item embeddings will be concatenated with a popularity z-score, and user embeddings will be concatenated with a learned popularity affinity. The final score will be the dot product plus a scaled popularity term. A simpler 64-dimensional embedding-only architecture is also being considered.\n\nThe popularity weight will be a learned global scalar appended to the user tower output. Training will use sampled DeepSets: each user vector is the weighted mean of a random sample from their other catalog items, exactly matching inference.\n\nThe training context will be the user's other unique items, including any that appear after the held-out positive. This is standard leave-one-out matrix factorization for set-level discovery.\n\nLeave-one-out set-level collaborative filtering is now the chosen training approach. The held-out item will be predicted from the user's other train items, which aligns perfectly with validation inference where the user profile is built from all train history. This avoids prefix-based next-item leakage and is more appropriate for discovery ranking.\n\nThe current training run will be terminated. Precomputing each user's unique item indices and weights into padded arrays will make sampling extremely fast. The user profile can then be built directly from these pre-aggregated histories, avoiding repeated recomputation during training.\n\nThe precomputed history will be fixed at 256 top-weighted items per user for both training and inference. The dataset will be simplified to a tuple of user row, positive item, and weight. If the held-out item is absent from the top 256, its embedding is dropped automatically, eliminating prefix-based sampling overhead.\n\nThe concrete implementation is being drafted. Item embeddings are concatenated with popularity features before a linear projection. The user tower pools history embeddings with learned weights, masking out padded positions.\n\nThe user tower will pool history embeddings with learned weights and concatenate them with user features before projection. The item tower appends a scaled popularity feature, and the user tower appends a learned gate that can dominate when collaborative filtering is weak. Popularity will be encoded as standardized log listens or log rank.\n\nThe user embedding will be initialized to a constant 1.0 in its popularity dimension, while item embeddings start near zero. This ensures the first predictions are essentially pure popularity ranking, giving the collaborative filtering signal a strong baseline to improve upon.\n\nThe item tower will be simplified to a raw embedding lookup followed by concatenating the popularity feature directly onto the last dimension, bypassing any MLP projection. This prevents the popularity signal from being destroyed during training.\n\nA linear projection will be added to the item tower before concatenating the popularity feature, ensuring the popularity signal is not washed out by the MLP. The user tower will pool history embeddings with learned weights and apply a linear projection with a learned gate. Sharing the embedding matrix between towers is being considered so that pooled user vectors and item vectors live in the same space.\n\nThe item and user towers will share the same embedding matrix, with both outputs in R^{d+1}. The score is the dot product of the pooled history vector and the item vector plus a learned popularity gate. This is a neural two-tower trained with InfoNCE.\n\nThe item and user towers will each use a three-layer GELU MLP with residual connections. The final linear layer in each is initialized near identity to preserve the embedding scale. A learned scalar pop_gate and a registered buffer for item popularity features are added. The item vector helper now applies the embedding layer before the MLP.\n\nThe user tower pools history embeddings with learned weights and concatenates a learned popularity gate. Item vectors append the popularity score directly to the MLP output. The final linear layer of each MLP will be initialized near identity so early predictions are dominated by the popularity baseline.\n\nPopularity will be encoded as negative log rank to match the catalog-order baseline. The loss is in-batch InfoNCE on the full score including popularity; extra uniform negatives will prevent the model from over-relying on the popularity signal.\n\nBPR against random catalog items will serve as an auxiliary loss. The training run is being terminated and rewritten with precomputed user profiles, leave-one-out training, simpler towers, and aligned train/infer weights. A BPR term against random negatives will be added alongside InfoNCE. User profile weights will combine type strength, recency, IDF, and log1p listen counts.\n\nThe held-out positive will be zeroed out in the user profile during leave-one-out training. Positives will be sampled from the profile with probability proportional to item strength, making the task autoencoder-like.\n\nLeave-one-out profile reconstruction naturally supports discovery ranking, since unseen items are masked at inference via eligibility. Training will sample all unique catalog items in each user's profile with probability proportional to item strength, yielding many examples per user. The current training run is being terminated because it performs worse than the popularity baseline.\n\nA popularity-only baseline will be submitted immediately as a structural-validity floor, since ranking quality is the primary metric. The current training run will be killed to free CPU resources for this parallel baseline." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "Epoch 1 is below the popularity baseline, so I’m stopping that run and switching to leave-one-out set training with a popularity component inside the dot product." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-fbf9ec96-8a49-4218-8a91-9051d697b58a-34", "name": "kill_command_or_subagent", "input": { "task_id": "01a0edfc-01bd-72b0-808c-95cd1873aa2d" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "killed: Task was terminated successfully", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 27, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "I am writing a much better two-tower implementation.\n\nThe design uses an item tower with embeddings, MLP, and popularity scalar; a user tower with weighted history embeddings, MLP, and learned popularity gate. Scores are dot products. Training uses leave-one-out from unique weighted catalogs. Inference masks eligible items and returns the top 100. A popularity baseline will be written immediately as a valid floor.\n\nThe popularity feature will be stronger. It will use log1p(positive_listens) or negative log(rank). The item tower will use GELU activation and a d-dimensional projection before concatenating the popularity scalar. The user tower will pool weighted history embeddings with GELU and another projection.\n\nThe popularity gate will be a learned scalar from the user tower's final MLP layer. It initializes with a bias of 1.0 and zero weights, so it can freely decay toward zero when collaborative filtering is strong. Per-user popularity preferences were considered but rejected as overkill.\n\nThe popularity scalar will sit outside the MLP as an explicit final dimension, keeping it from being destroyed by hidden layers. The embedding size is 96 plus one popularity dimension. InfoNCE loss will be used; because popular items carry higher popularity scores than random negatives, the pop signal is strongly reinforced. Collaborative filtering still learns by distinguishing which popular item belongs to which user.\n\nPopularity scores will be standardized to unit variance so the temperature can stay near 0.2–0.5. Extra uniform negatives will be used as hard negatives.\n\nThe loss will be pure InfoNCE, not a hybrid. The dataset will precompute user profiles with items, weights, and masks. Each user contributes up to 64–128 leave-one-out examples drawn from their first-time strong items. During collation, the positive item is masked out of that user’s history embedding.\n\nUsers with fewer than five unique items will be skipped. Target users absent from the tables will fall back to a zero embedding mean and a fixed popularity gate of one.\n\nThe full file will be rewritten while preserving existing event loading, catalog, and eligibility helpers.\n\nProfiles will be built from unique items weighted by strength multiplied by recency multiplied by IDF. Recency is relative to the training cutoff for validation and to the maximum timestamp for test. Only the top 256 items are kept per user. IDF uses log((n+1)/(df+1))+1.\n\nType embeddings will be stored but not used for like-pooling; likes already carry higher strength. The popularity baseline will be written first as a valid submission while the main model is being coded. Memory usage is modest: precomputed profiles are about 18 MB and the dataset holds roughly 800,000 examples. Training and evaluation should be fast because embedding lookups, mean pooling, a small MLP, and matrix multiplication all scale linearly with batch size.\n\nThe popularity baseline will be written immediately at the start of the script so a valid submission file is always present. The ranking logic uses vectorized cumulative sums over the eligibility mask to select the first one hundred eligible items per user in catalog order.\n\nThe embedding dimension is fixed at 80. The item tower will use a single linear layer with eye-initialized weights scaled by 0.5, dropping the extra GELU to preserve space and avoid distorting the user-item embedding alignment. A larger negative pool of 512 sampled items will be used alongside the uniform negatives.\n\nThe user vector will be the mean of the item tower outputs across history. This keeps the user and item representations aligned. The item tower is a shared MLP applied to embeddings. Pooling first would be cheaper.\n\nThe item tower will be a near-identity linear layer with eye-initialized weights and zero bias, so it acts as a small residual projection rather than a deep MLP. The user vector is the weighted mean of these item-tower outputs, keeping user and item representations aligned. If the layer is set to identity, the model collapses to pure matrix factorization.\n\nThe item tower will use a residual GELU projection: output equals embedding plus 0.3 times GELU of the linear projection. This preserves matrix-factorization geometry while adding a small nonlinearity.\n\nPrecomputing all item content vectors for the catalog is also being considered. Both towers would then index these precomputed vectors, which would be efficient for both training and inference.\n\nPrecomputing all item vectors and detaching them would break the gradient path through history, which is needed for matrix-factorization learning. Instead, the full item table will be computed on-the-fly each batch by applying the item tower to the entire catalog. Gradients flow back through history, positive items, and extra negatives into the item embeddings.\n\nRecency decay will use a 28-day half-life. The training schedule is five validation epochs and three test epochs, each under two minutes. Embedding learning rate is 0.002. Evaluation will run in torch.no_grad. Non-catalog items are deferred.\n\nUsers with no mapped events will fall back to the popularity baseline. The temperature parameter needs detach before float conversion. A `build_profiles` helper will organize profile construction. To keep training examples manageable, each user will contribute 48–96 sampled leave-one-out pairs drawn from their top-weighted items with type-based loss weights.\n\nThe positive examples will be drawn from two sources mixed in a 70/30 ratio. Seventy percent will come from strong first-time items and likes, and thirty percent from the remaining profile items. This balances discovery with reconstruction of the user's favorite affinities." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "I’ll rewrite the trainer around leave-one-out profiles and an explicit popularity channel so ranking can start from the popularity baseline and then add collaborative signal." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-71729f12-3688-4116-9df9-7147a842b9cf-35", "name": "write", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "content": "#!/usr/bin/env python3\n\"\"\"Latency-efficient two-tower ranker for the Made-for-You shelf.\n\nUser tower: weighted pooling of interaction-history embeddings (no user-ID\nlookup). Item tower: independently precomputable catalog vectors. The relevance\nscore is the dot product, i.e. request-time MIPS over stored item embeddings.\n\"\"\"\nfrom __future__ import annotations\n\nimport argparse\nimport json\nimport math\nimport os\nimport sys\nimport time\nfrom dataclasses import dataclass\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\nimport numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\nimport pyarrow.parquet as pq\nimport torch\nimport torch.nn as nn\nimport torch.nn.functional as F\nfrom torch.utils.data import DataLoader, Dataset\n\nsys.path.insert(0, \"/task\")\nfrom ranking_evaluation import score_rankings # noqa: E402\n\nDATA = Path(\"/task/data\")\nSOLUTION = Path(\"/app/solution\")\nCKPT_DIR = SOLUTION / \"checkpoints\"\n\nTRAIN_CUTOFF = 24_786_800\nLISTEN_STRONG = 80\nHALF_LIFE_DAYS = 28.0\nDAY = 86_400.0\nPAD, LISTEN, ORG_STRONG, LIKE, DISLIKE = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4\n\n\ndef log(msg: str) -> None:\n print(msg, flush=True)\n\n\ndef set_seeds(seed: int) -> None:\n np.random.seed(seed)\n torch.manual_seed(seed)\n\n\ndef load_catalog() -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n cat = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"candidate_catalog.parquet\")\n item_ids = cat.item_id.to_numpy(np.int64)\n pos = cat.positive_listens.to_numpy(np.float32)\n org = cat.organic_positive_listens.to_numpy(np.float32)\n rank = cat.popularity_rank.to_numpy(np.float32)\n n = len(item_ids)\n feats = np.zeros((n + 1, 4), dtype=np.float32)\n feats[1:, 0] = np.log1p(pos)\n feats[1:, 1] = np.log1p(org)\n feats[1:, 2] = np.log(np.clip(rank, 1.0, None))\n feats[1:, 3] = org / np.clip(pos, 1.0, None)\n # Standardize feature columns (pad row stays 0).\n for c in range(4):\n col = feats[1:, c]\n mu, sd = float(col.mean()), float(col.std() + 1e-6)\n feats[1:, c] = (col - mu) / sd\n pop = np.zeros(n + 1, dtype=np.float32)\n pop[1:] = (np.log1p(pos) - np.log1p(pos).mean()) / (np.log1p(pos).std() + 1e-6)\n return item_ids, feats, pop\n\n\ndef make_mapper(item_ids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n mapper = np.full(int(item_ids.max()) + 1, -1, dtype=np.int32)\n mapper[item_ids] = np.arange(1, len(item_ids) + 1, dtype=np.int32)\n return mapper\n\n\ndef _map_items(raw: np.ndarray, mapper: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n idx = np.full(len(raw), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n valid = (raw >= 0) & (raw < len(mapper))\n idx[valid] = mapper[raw[valid]]\n return idx\n\n\ndef _append(buckets: dict[str, list[np.ndarray]], uid, tsv, idx, kind, st) -> None:\n if len(uid) == 0:\n return\n buckets[\"uid\"].append(np.asarray(uid, dtype=np.int32))\n buckets[\"ts\"].append(np.asarray(tsv, dtype=np.int32))\n buckets[\"item\"].append(np.asarray(idx, dtype=np.int32))\n buckets[\"type\"].append(np.asarray(kind, dtype=np.int8))\n buckets[\"strength\"].append(np.asarray(st, dtype=np.float32))\n\n\ndef load_events(splits: list[str], mapper: np.ndarray) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:\n buckets = {\"uid\": [], \"ts\": [], \"item\": [], \"type\": [], \"strength\": []}\n for split in splits:\n pf = pq.ParquetFile(DATA / f\"{split}_listens.parquet\")\n for rg in range(pf.num_row_groups):\n table = pf.read_row_group(\n rg,\n columns=[\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\", \"played_ratio_pct\"],\n )\n uid = table[\"uid\"].to_numpy()\n tsv = table[\"timestamp\"].to_numpy()\n iid = table[\"item_id\"].to_numpy()\n org = table[\"is_organic\"].to_numpy()\n ratio = table[\"played_ratio_pct\"].to_numpy()\n del table\n keep = ratio >= 50\n uid, tsv, iid, org, ratio = uid[keep], tsv[keep], iid[keep], org[keep], ratio[keep]\n idx = _map_items(iid.astype(np.int64, copy=False), mapper)\n keep = idx > 0\n uid, tsv, idx, org, ratio = uid[keep], tsv[keep], idx[keep], org[keep], ratio[keep]\n kind = np.full(len(uid), LISTEN, dtype=np.int8)\n strong = (ratio >= LISTEN_STRONG) & (org == 1)\n kind[strong] = ORG_STRONG\n st = np.where(\n strong,\n 2.5,\n np.where(ratio >= LISTEN_STRONG, 1.4, np.where(org == 1, 1.1, 0.8)),\n ).astype(np.float32)\n _append(buckets, uid, tsv, idx, kind, st)\n\n likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / f\"{split}_likes.parquet\")\n uid, tsv, iid, org = (\n likes.uid.to_numpy(),\n likes.timestamp.to_numpy(),\n likes.item_id.to_numpy(),\n likes.is_organic.to_numpy(),\n )\n del likes\n idx = _map_items(iid.astype(np.int64, copy=False), mapper)\n keep = idx > 0\n uid, tsv, idx, org = uid[keep], tsv[keep], idx[keep], org[keep]\n _append(\n buckets,\n uid,\n tsv,\n idx,\n np.full(len(uid), LIKE, dtype=np.int8),\n np.where(org == 1, 5.5, 4.0).astype(np.float32),\n )\n\n dis = pd.read_parquet(DATA / f\"{split}_dislikes.parquet\")\n uid, tsv, iid = dis.uid.to_numpy(), dis.timestamp.to_numpy(), dis.item_id.to_numpy()\n del dis\n idx = _map_items(iid.astype(np.int64, copy=False), mapper)\n keep = idx > 0\n uid, tsv, idx = uid[keep], tsv[keep], idx[keep]\n _append(\n buckets,\n uid,\n tsv,\n idx,\n np.full(len(uid), DISLIKE, dtype=np.int8),\n np.full(len(uid), -2.5, dtype=np.float32),\n )\n\n uid = np.concatenate(buckets[\"uid\"])\n tsv = np.concatenate(buckets[\"ts\"])\n item = np.concatenate(buckets[\"item\"])\n kind = np.concatenate(buckets[\"type\"])\n st = np.concatenate(buckets[\"strength\"])\n order = np.lexsort((tsv, uid))\n return {\n \"uid\": uid[order],\n \"ts\": tsv[order],\n \"item\": item[order],\n \"type\": kind[order],\n \"strength\": st[order],\n }\n\n\n@dataclass\nclass UserTables:\n uids: np.ndarray\n uid_to_row: dict[int, int]\n items: list[np.ndarray]\n ts: list[np.ndarray]\n types: list[np.ndarray]\n strength: list[np.ndarray]\n pos_item: list[np.ndarray]\n pos_w: list[np.ndarray]\n\n\ndef build_user_tables(events: dict[str, np.ndarray]) -> UserTables:\n uid = events[\"uid\"]\n uniq, starts = np.unique(uid, return_index=True)\n ends = np.append(starts[1:], len(uid))\n n = len(uniq)\n items: list[np.ndarray] = [None] * n # type: ignore\n ts: list[np.ndarray] = [None] * n # type: ignore\n types: list[np.ndarray] = [None] * n # type: ignore\n strength: list[np.ndarray] = [None] * n # type: ignore\n pos_item: list[np.ndarray] = [None] * n # type: ignore\n pos_w: list[np.ndarray] = [None] * n # type: ignore\n ev_item, ev_ts, ev_type, ev_st = (\n events[\"item\"],\n events[\"ts\"],\n events[\"type\"],\n events[\"strength\"],\n )\n for i, (a, b) in enumerate(zip(starts, ends)):\n it, tsv, tp, st = ev_item[a:b], ev_ts[a:b], ev_type[a:b], ev_st[a:b]\n items[i], ts[i], types[i], strength[i] = it, tsv, tp, st\n pos_mask = st > 0\n if not np.any(pos_mask):\n pos_item[i] = np.zeros(0, dtype=np.int32)\n pos_w[i] = np.zeros(0, dtype=np.float32)\n continue\n it_p, tp_p = it[pos_mask], tp[pos_mask]\n _, first_idx = np.unique(it_p, return_index=True)\n first_idx.sort()\n it_f, tp_f = it_p[first_idx], tp_p[first_idx]\n w = np.full(len(it_f), 0.5, dtype=np.float32)\n w[tp_f == LIKE] = 3.2\n w[tp_f == ORG_STRONG] = 1.7\n pos_item[i] = it_f.astype(np.int32, copy=False)\n pos_w[i] = w\n return UserTables(\n uids=uniq.astype(np.int64),\n uid_to_row={int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(uniq)},\n items=items,\n ts=ts,\n types=types,\n strength=strength,\n pos_item=pos_item,\n pos_w=pos_w,\n )\n\n\ndef compute_idf(tables: UserTables, n_items: int) -> np.ndarray:\n df = np.zeros(n_items, dtype=np.float32)\n for arr in tables.pos_item:\n if len(arr):\n df[np.unique(arr)] += 1.0\n idf = np.log((len(tables.uids) + 1.0) / (df + 1.0)) + 1.0\n idf[0] = 0.0\n return idf.astype(np.float32)\n\n\ndef recency_weights(ts: np.ndarray, now: int, half_life: float = HALF_LIFE_DAYS) -> np.ndarray:\n age_days = np.clip(now - ts.astype(np.int64), 0, None).astype(np.float32) / DAY\n return np.exp(-math.log(2.0) * age_days / half_life).astype(np.float32)\n\n\ndef aggregate_profile(\n items: np.ndarray,\n types: np.ndarray,\n strength: np.ndarray,\n ts: np.ndarray,\n now: int,\n idf: np.ndarray,\n max_items: int,\n) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n if len(items) == 0:\n z = np.zeros(0, dtype=np.int32)\n return z, np.zeros(0, dtype=np.int8), np.zeros(0, dtype=np.float32)\n rec = recency_weights(ts, now)\n w = strength * rec * idf[items]\n order = np.argsort(items, kind=\"mergesort\")\n it, wt, tp = items[order], w[order], types[order]\n change = np.ones(len(it), dtype=bool)\n if len(it) > 1:\n change[1:] = it[1:] != it[:-1]\n starts = np.flatnonzero(change)\n wsum = np.add.reduceat(wt, starts)\n cnt = np.add.reduceat(np.ones(len(it), dtype=np.float32), starts)\n wsum = wsum * np.log1p(cnt)\n tmax = np.maximum.reduceat(tp.astype(np.int16), starts).astype(np.int8)\n uniq = it[starts]\n if len(uniq) > max_items:\n keep = np.argpartition(-wsum, max_items - 1)[:max_items]\n # Keep high-weight items; sort by weight desc for stable padding.\n keep = keep[np.argsort(-wsum[keep])]\n uniq, tmax, wsum = uniq[keep], tmax[keep], wsum[keep]\n else:\n keep = np.argsort(-wsum)\n uniq, tmax, wsum = uniq[keep], tmax[keep], wsum[keep]\n return uniq.astype(np.int32), tmax, wsum.astype(np.float32)\n\n\n@dataclass\nclass Profiles:\n items: np.ndarray # [U, L]\n types: np.ndarray\n weights: np.ndarray\n lengths: np.ndarray\n row_of_target: np.ndarray # [n_targets] index into U or -1\n\n\ndef build_profiles(\n tables: UserTables,\n target_uids: np.ndarray,\n idf: np.ndarray,\n now: int,\n max_items: int,\n) -> Profiles:\n n_u = len(tables.uids)\n items = np.zeros((n_u, max_items), dtype=np.int32)\n types = np.zeros((n_u, max_items), dtype=np.int8)\n weights = np.zeros((n_u, max_items), dtype=np.float32)\n lengths = np.zeros(n_u, dtype=np.int16)\n for i in range(n_u):\n it, tp, w = aggregate_profile(\n tables.items[i],\n tables.types[i],\n tables.strength[i],\n tables.ts[i],\n now,\n idf,\n max_items,\n )\n L = len(it)\n if L == 0:\n continue\n items[i, :L] = it\n types[i, :L] = tp\n weights[i, :L] = w\n lengths[i] = L\n row_of_target = np.full(len(target_uids), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n for r, uid in enumerate(target_uids):\n ur = tables.uid_to_row.get(int(uid))\n if ur is not None:\n row_of_target[r] = ur\n log(\n f\"profiles: users={n_u} mean_len={float(lengths.mean()):.1f} \"\n f\"targets_mapped={int((row_of_target >= 0).sum())}\"\n )\n return Profiles(items, types, weights, lengths, row_of_target)\n\n\nclass LOODataset(Dataset):\n def __init__(self, user_row: np.ndarray, pos: np.ndarray, pos_w: np.ndarray):\n self.user_row = user_row\n self.pos = pos\n self.pos_w = pos_w\n\n def __len__(self) -> int:\n return int(self.pos.shape[0])\n\n def __getitem__(self, i: int):\n return (\n int(self.user_row[i]),\n int(self.pos[i]),\n float(self.pos_w[i]),\n )\n\n\ndef build_examples(\n tables: UserTables, profiles: Profiles, max_pos_per_user: int, min_hist: int, rng: np.random.Generator\n) -> LOODataset:\n rows = []\n pos = []\n wts = []\n for i in range(len(tables.uids)):\n if int(profiles.lengths[i]) < min_hist:\n continue\n p_it = tables.pos_item[i]\n p_w = tables.pos_w[i]\n if len(p_it) == 0:\n continue\n n_take = min(len(p_it), max_pos_per_user)\n if len(p_it) > n_take:\n # Prefer recent/stronger first-time items (they are time-ordered).\n # Mix last n_take*2 then sample by weight.\n sl = slice(-min(len(p_it), n_take * 2), None)\n cand_i = p_it[sl]\n cand_w = p_w[sl]\n pw = cand_w / cand_w.sum()\n pick = rng.choice(len(cand_i), size=n_take, replace=False, p=pw)\n cand_i, cand_w = cand_i[pick], cand_w[pick]\n else:\n cand_i, cand_w = p_it, p_w\n for item, w in zip(cand_i.tolist(), cand_w.tolist()):\n rows.append(i)\n pos.append(item)\n wts.append(w)\n log(f\"training examples: {len(rows)}\")\n return LOODataset(\n np.asarray(rows, dtype=np.int32),\n np.asarray(pos, dtype=np.int32),\n np.asarray(wts, dtype=np.float32),\n )\n\n\nclass TwoTower(nn.Module):\n \"\"\"Separate user/item towers; score = dot(user_vec, item_vec).\n\n The last coordinate is an explicit popularity channel so MIPS can recover\n a popularity prior without a request-time bias term.\n \"\"\"\n\n def __init__(self, n_items: int, item_feats: torch.Tensor, pop: torch.Tensor, d: int = 80):\n super().__init__()\n self.d = d\n self.emb = nn.Embedding(n_items, d, padding_idx=PAD)\n nn.init.normal_(self.emb.weight, mean=0.0, std=0.01)\n with torch.no_grad():\n self.emb.weight[PAD].zero_()\n self.register_buffer(\"item_feats\", item_feats)\n self.register_buffer(\"pop\", pop)\n # Item tower: residual MLP over ID embedding + popularity features.\n self.item_mlp = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Linear(d + 4, d),\n nn.GELU(),\n nn.Linear(d, d),\n )\n for m in self.item_mlp.modules():\n if isinstance(m, nn.Linear):\n nn.init.xavier_uniform_(m.weight, gain=0.3)\n nn.init.zeros_(m.bias)\n # User tower: residual MLP over pooled history embeddings + stats.\n self.user_mlp = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Linear(d + 4, d),\n nn.GELU(),\n nn.Linear(d, d),\n )\n for m in self.user_mlp.modules():\n if isinstance(m, nn.Linear):\n nn.init.xavier_uniform_(m.weight, gain=0.3)\n nn.init.zeros_(m.bias)\n self.pop_gate = nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(1.0))\n self.log_tau = nn.Parameter(torch.log(torch.tensor(0.35)))\n\n def item_vectors(self, idx: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.emb(idx)\n feats = self.item_feats[idx]\n h = e + self.item_mlp(torch.cat([e, feats], dim=-1))\n pop = self.pop[idx].unsqueeze(-1)\n return torch.cat([h, pop], dim=-1)\n\n def user_vectors(\n self,\n hist_idx: torch.Tensor,\n hist_w: torch.Tensor,\n hist_mask: torch.Tensor,\n hist_type: torch.Tensor,\n ) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.emb(hist_idx)\n mask_f = hist_mask.float()\n w = hist_w * mask_f\n den = w.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-6)\n pooled = (e * w.unsqueeze(-1)).sum(dim=1) / den\n hlen = mask_f.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1.0)\n frac_like = ((hist_type == LIKE) & hist_mask).float().sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n mean_pop = (self.pop[hist_idx] * mask_f).sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n stats = torch.cat(\n [torch.log1p(hlen) / 5.0, frac_like, mean_pop, torch.log1p(den) / 5.0], dim=1\n )\n h = pooled + self.user_mlp(torch.cat([pooled, stats], dim=-1))\n gate = F.softplus(self.pop_gate).expand(h.size(0), 1)\n return torch.cat([h, gate], dim=-1)\n\n def tau(self) -> torch.Tensor:\n return self.log_tau.exp().clamp(0.05, 2.0)\n\n\ndef collate_batch(batch, profiles: Profiles, device: torch.device):\n user_rows = torch.tensor([b[0] for b in batch], dtype=torch.long)\n pos = torch.tensor([b[1] for b in batch], dtype=torch.long)\n pos_w = torch.tensor([b[2] for b in batch], dtype=torch.float32)\n hist_idx = torch.from_numpy(profiles.items[user_rows.numpy()]).long()\n hist_w = torch.from_numpy(profiles.weights[user_rows.numpy()])\n hist_type = torch.from_numpy(profiles.types[user_rows.numpy()]).long()\n hist_len = torch.from_numpy(profiles.lengths[user_rows.numpy()].astype(np.int64))\n L = hist_idx.size(1)\n ar = torch.arange(L)\n hist_mask = ar.unsqueeze(0) < hist_len.unsqueeze(1)\n # Leave-one-out: drop the positive from the user profile.\n hist_w = hist_w.masked_fill(hist_idx == pos.unsqueeze(1), 0.0)\n hist_mask = hist_mask & (hist_idx != pos.unsqueeze(1)) & (hist_idx != 0)\n return (\n hist_idx.to(device),\n hist_w.to(device),\n hist_mask.to(device),\n hist_type.to(device),\n pos.to(device),\n pos_w.to(device),\n )\n\n\ndef info_nce(user: torch.Tensor, item: torch.Tensor, extra: torch.Tensor, pos_w: torch.Tensor, tau: torch.Tensor):\n logits = user @ item.t() / tau\n if extra is not None:\n logits = torch.cat([logits, user @ extra.t() / tau], dim=1)\n labels = torch.arange(user.size(0), device=user.device)\n per = F.cross_entropy(logits, labels, reduction=\"none\")\n w = pos_w / pos_w.mean().clamp_min(1e-6)\n loss = (per * w).mean()\n inv = F.cross_entropy(item @ user.t() / tau, labels)\n return loss + 0.25 * inv\n\n\ndef train_one_epoch(\n model: TwoTower,\n loader: DataLoader,\n opt: torch.optim.Optimizer,\n n_items: int,\n n_extra: int,\n device: torch.device,\n) -> float:\n model.train()\n total, n = 0.0, 0\n t0 = time.time()\n for step, batch in enumerate(loader, 1):\n hist_idx, hist_w, hist_mask, hist_type, pos, pos_w = batch\n opt.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)\n user = model.user_vectors(hist_idx, hist_w, hist_mask, hist_type)\n item = model.item_vectors(pos)\n extra = model.item_vectors(torch.randint(1, n_items, (n_extra,), device=device))\n loss = info_nce(user, item, extra, pos_w, model.tau())\n loss.backward()\n nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), 2.0)\n opt.step()\n total += float(loss.detach())\n n += 1\n if step % 50 == 0:\n log(\n f\" step {step:4d} loss={total / n:.4f} \"\n f\"tau={float(model.tau().detach()):.3f} \"\n f\"pop_gate={float(F.softplus(model.pop_gate).detach()):.3f} \"\n f\"{time.time() - t0:.1f}s\"\n )\n return total / max(n, 1)\n\n\n@torch.inference_mode()\ndef rank_all(\n model: TwoTower,\n profiles: Profiles,\n target_uids: np.ndarray,\n catalog_ids: np.ndarray,\n elig_mask: np.ndarray,\n device: torch.device,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n model.eval()\n n_cat = len(catalog_ids)\n item_vecs = model.item_vectors(torch.arange(1, n_cat + 1, device=device))\n n_t = len(target_uids)\n user_vecs = torch.zeros((n_t, model.d + 1), device=device)\n rows = profiles.row_of_target\n valid = rows >= 0\n if valid.any():\n idx_np = np.flatnonzero(valid)\n # Encode in chunks.\n bs = 512\n for s in range(0, len(idx_np), bs):\n chunk = idx_np[s : s + bs]\n ur = rows[chunk]\n hist_idx = torch.from_numpy(profiles.items[ur]).long().to(device)\n hist_w = torch.from_numpy(profiles.weights[ur]).to(device)\n hist_type = torch.from_numpy(profiles.types[ur]).long().to(device)\n hist_len = torch.from_numpy(profiles.lengths[ur].astype(np.int64))\n hist_mask = (torch.arange(hist_idx.size(1)) < hist_len.unsqueeze(1)).to(device)\n hist_mask = hist_mask & (hist_idx != 0)\n user_vecs[torch.from_numpy(chunk).to(device)] = model.user_vectors(\n hist_idx, hist_w, hist_mask, hist_type\n )\n # Targets with no history: popularity-only vector.\n if (~valid).any():\n gate = float(F.softplus(model.pop_gate).detach())\n empty = torch.zeros(model.d + 1, device=device)\n empty[-1] = gate\n user_vecs[torch.from_numpy(np.flatnonzero(~valid)).to(device)] = empty\n scores = user_vecs @ item_vecs.t()\n scores = scores.masked_fill(~torch.from_numpy(elig_mask).to(device), -1e9)\n _, topi = torch.topk(scores, k=100, dim=1)\n return catalog_ids[topi.cpu().numpy()]\n\n\ndef load_eligibility(path: Path) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n with np.load(path) as z:\n uids = z[\"uids\"].astype(np.int64)\n item_ids = z[\"item_ids\"].astype(np.int64)\n packed = z[\"packed_eligible\"]\n mask = np.unpackbits(packed, axis=1, bitorder=\"little\")[:, : len(item_ids)].astype(bool)\n return uids, item_ids, mask\n\n\ndef align_eligibility(target_uids: np.ndarray, elig_uids: np.ndarray, mask: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(elig_uids)}\n out = np.empty((len(target_uids), mask.shape[1]), dtype=bool)\n for i, u in enumerate(target_uids):\n out[i] = mask[row[int(u)]]\n return out\n\n\ndef validation_graded(\n target_set: set[int],\n uid_row: dict[int, int],\n item_col: dict[int, int],\n elig_mask: np.ndarray,\n) -> dict[int, dict[int, int]]:\n listens = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_listens.parquet\")\n likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_likes.parquet\")\n strong = listens[\n listens.uid.isin(target_set)\n & (listens.is_organic == 1)\n & (listens.played_ratio_pct >= LISTEN_STRONG)\n ][[\"uid\", \"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\n org_likes = likes[likes.uid.isin(target_set) & (likes.is_organic == 1)][\n [\"uid\", \"item_id\"]\n ].drop_duplicates()\n del listens, likes\n\n def eligible(u: int, i: int) -> bool:\n r, c = uid_row.get(u), item_col.get(i)\n return r is not None and c is not None and bool(elig_mask[r, c])\n\n graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]] = {}\n for u, i in strong.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n u, i = int(u), int(i)\n if eligible(u, i):\n graded.setdefault(u, {})[i] = 1\n for u, i in org_likes.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n u, i = int(u), int(i)\n if eligible(u, i):\n graded.setdefault(u, {})[i] = 3\n return graded\n\n\ndef write_ranking(path: Path, uids: np.ndarray, ranked: np.ndarray) -> None:\n n, k = ranked.shape\n df = pd.DataFrame(\n {\n \"uid\": np.repeat(uids.astype(np.int64), k),\n \"item_id\": ranked.reshape(-1).astype(np.int64),\n \"rank\": np.tile(np.arange(1, k + 1, dtype=np.int64), n),\n }\n )\n path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)\n df.to_parquet(path, index=False)\n log(f\"wrote {path} rows={len(df)}\")\n\n\ndef pop_ranking(target_uids: np.ndarray, catalog_ids: np.ndarray, elig_mask: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n n = len(target_uids)\n ranked = np.zeros((n, 100), dtype=np.int64)\n for i in range(n):\n elig = np.flatnonzero(elig_mask[i])\n ranked[i] = catalog_ids[elig[:100]]\n return ranked\n\n\ndef score_ranked(uids: np.ndarray, ranked: np.ndarray, graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]]) -> dict:\n mapping = {int(u): ranked[i].tolist() for i, u in enumerate(uids)}\n return score_rankings(mapping, graded)\n\n\ndef make_optimizer(model: TwoTower, lr: float, wd: float) -> torch.optim.Optimizer:\n emb, other = [], []\n for name, p in model.named_parameters():\n if not p.requires_grad:\n continue\n (emb if \"emb.weight\" in name else other).append(p)\n return torch.optim.AdamW(\n [\n {\"params\": emb, \"lr\": lr, \"weight_decay\": 0.0},\n {\"params\": other, \"lr\": lr, \"weight_decay\": wd},\n ]\n )\n\n\ndef run(args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:\n t_all = time.time()\n os.makedirs(CKPT_DIR, exist_ok=True)\n set_seeds(args.seed)\n torch.set_num_threads(max(1, min(8, os.cpu_count() or 4)))\n device = torch.device(\"cpu\")\n rng = np.random.default_rng(args.seed)\n\n catalog_ids, item_feats_np, pop_np = load_catalog()\n n_cat = len(catalog_ids)\n n_items = n_cat + 1\n mapper = make_mapper(catalog_ids)\n target_uids = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"target_users.parquet\").uid.to_numpy(np.int64)\n target_set = set(map(int, target_uids))\n log(f\"catalog={n_cat} target_users={len(target_uids)}\")\n\n val_eu, val_ei, val_pm = load_eligibility(DATA / \"validation_eligible_candidates.npz\")\n test_eu, test_ei, test_pm = load_eligibility(DATA / \"test_eligible_candidates.npz\")\n assert np.array_equal(val_ei, catalog_ids) and np.array_equal(test_ei, catalog_ids)\n val_mask = align_eligibility(target_uids, val_eu, val_pm)\n test_mask = align_eligibility(target_uids, test_eu, test_pm)\n\n uid_row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(target_uids)}\n item_col = {int(it): i for i, it in enumerate(catalog_ids)}\n graded = validation_graded(target_set, uid_row, item_col, val_mask)\n log(f\"validation graded users={len(graded)} pairs={sum(len(v) for v in graded.values())}\")\n\n # Always persist a popularity ranking so a valid artifact exists early.\n pop_val = pop_ranking(target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask)\n pop_test = pop_ranking(target_uids, catalog_ids, test_mask)\n pop_scores = score_ranked(target_uids, pop_val, graded)\n log(f\"popularity baseline NDCG@10={pop_scores['quality_ndcg@10']:.6f}\")\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, pop_val)\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"submission.parquet\", target_uids, pop_test)\n with open(SOLUTION / \"val_score.json\", \"w\") as f:\n json.dump({\"quality_ndcg@10\": pop_scores[\"quality_ndcg@10\"], \"model\": \"popularity\"}, f)\n\n item_feats = torch.from_numpy(item_feats_np)\n pop_t = torch.from_numpy(pop_np)\n\n def fit(splits: list[str], epochs: int, ckpt_name: str, warmup: Path | None, now_override: int | None):\n log(f\"=== load events {splits} ===\")\n events = load_events(splits, mapper)\n now = int(now_override) if now_override is not None else int(events[\"ts\"].max()) + 1\n log(f\"events={len(events['uid'])} now={now}\")\n tables = build_user_tables(events)\n del events\n idf = compute_idf(tables, n_items)\n profiles = build_profiles(tables, target_uids, idf, now, args.profile_len)\n ds = build_examples(tables, profiles, args.max_pos_per_user, args.min_hist, rng)\n loader = DataLoader(\n ds,\n batch_size=args.batch_size,\n shuffle=True,\n num_workers=0,\n drop_last=True,\n collate_fn=lambda batch: collate_batch(batch, profiles, device),\n )\n model = TwoTower(n_items, item_feats, pop_t, d=args.d).to(device)\n if warmup is not None and warmup.exists():\n log(f\"warm-start {warmup}\")\n model.load_state_dict(torch.load(warmup, map_location=\"cpu\"))\n opt = make_optimizer(model, args.lr, args.weight_decay)\n best_ndcg = -1.0\n best_state = None\n is_val_stage = \"val\" not in splits\n for epoch in range(1, epochs + 1):\n log(f\"--- epoch {epoch}/{epochs} examples={len(ds)} ---\")\n loss = train_one_epoch(model, loader, opt, n_items, args.n_extra_neg, device)\n log(f\"epoch {epoch} mean_loss={loss:.4f}\")\n if is_val_stage:\n ranked = rank_all(model, profiles, target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask, device)\n scores = score_ranked(target_uids, ranked, graded)\n ndcg = float(scores[\"quality_ndcg@10\"])\n log(f\"public val NDCG@10={ndcg:.6f}\")\n if ndcg > best_ndcg:\n best_ndcg = ndcg\n best_state = {k: v.detach().cpu().clone() for k, v in model.state_dict().items()}\n torch.save(best_state, CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name)\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, ranked)\n with open(SOLUTION / \"val_score.json\", \"w\") as f:\n json.dump({\"quality_ndcg@10\": ndcg, \"epoch\": epoch, \"model\": \"two_tower\"}, f)\n log(f\"new best {ndcg:.6f}\")\n else:\n torch.save(model.state_dict(), CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name)\n if best_state is not None:\n model.load_state_dict(best_state)\n return model, profiles\n\n if args.stage in (\"val\", \"all\"):\n model, _ = fit([\"train\"], args.val_epochs, \"best_val.pt\", None, TRAIN_CUTOFF)\n log(\"=== backup test ranking (val weights, train+val history) ===\")\n events_tv = load_events([\"train\", \"val\"], mapper)\n now_tv = int(events_tv[\"ts\"].max()) + 1\n tables_tv = build_user_tables(events_tv)\n del events_tv\n idf_tv = compute_idf(tables_tv, n_items)\n profiles_tv = build_profiles(tables_tv, target_uids, idf_tv, now_tv, args.profile_len)\n ranked_test = rank_all(model, profiles_tv, target_uids, catalog_ids, test_mask, device)\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"submission.parquet\", target_uids, ranked_test)\n\n if args.stage in (\"test\", \"all\"):\n warmup = CKPT_DIR / \"best_val.pt\"\n events_tv = None\n model, profiles_tv = fit(\n [\"train\", \"val\"],\n args.test_epochs,\n \"final_test.pt\",\n warmup if warmup.exists() else None,\n None,\n )\n ranked_test = rank_all(model, profiles_tv, target_uids, catalog_ids, test_mask, device)\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"submission.parquet\", target_uids, ranked_test)\n\n log(f\"done in {time.time() - t_all:.1f}s\")\n\n\ndef parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:\n p = argparse.ArgumentParser()\n p.add_argument(\"--stage\", choices=[\"val\", \"test\", \"all\"], default=\"all\")\n p.add_argument(\"--seed\", type=int, default=42)\n p.add_argument(\"--d\", type=int, default=80)\n p.add_argument(\"--batch-size\", type=int, default=1024)\n p.add_argument(\"--lr\", type=float, default=2e-3)\n p.add_argument(\"--weight-decay\", type=float, default=1e-4)\n p.add_argument(\"--val-epochs\", type=int, default=4)\n p.add_argument(\"--test-epochs\", type=int, default=3)\n p.add_argument(\"--profile-len\", type=int, default=256)\n p.add_argument(\"--max-pos-per-user\", type=int, default=64)\n p.add_argument(\"--min-hist\", type=int, default=5)\n p.add_argument(\"--n-extra-neg\", type=int, default=512)\n return p.parse_args()\n\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n run(parse_args())\n" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "Wrote file successfully to /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 28, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The collate function captures `profiles` and `device` through a lambda, which may cause issues.\n\nThe closure capture is valid. I will run a quick validation pass to check NDCG and latency.\n\nValidation stage logic and recency cutoff are correct. Edge cases in the collate function and empty LOO masks are handled safely." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-bf951313-e026-49ed-8f5a-6714826f1382-36", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --val-epochs 1 --batch-size 512 --max-pos-per-user 24", "description": "Smoke-test leave-one-out two-tower for 1 epoch", "block_until_ms": 180000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\ncatalog=30000 target_users=8456\nvalidation graded users=4263 pairs=37769\npopularity baseline NDCG@10=0.010710\nwrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600\nwrote /app/solution/submission.parquet rows=845600\n=== load events ['train'] ===\nevents=20676474 now=24786800\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=195.5 targets_mapped=8449\ntraining examples: 225938\n--- epoch 1/1 examples=225938 ---\n step 50 loss=38409.3853 tau=0.371 pop_gate=1.273 1.6s\n step 100 loss=128836.1962 tau=0.385 pop_gate=1.253 3.1s\n step 150 loss=101914.3821 tau=0.394 pop_gate=1.243 4.7s\n step 200 loss=105639.4209 tau=0.406 pop_gate=1.230 6.2s\n step 250 loss=98257.3796 tau=0.418 pop_gate=1.221 7.8s\n step 300 loss=89529.7835 tau=0.434 pop_gate=1.211 9.3s\n step 350 loss=84142.7991 tau=0.446 pop_gate=1.204 10.9s\n step 400 loss=83617.9630 tau=0.458 pop_gate=1.195 13.9s\nepoch 1 mean_loss=84434.9997\npublic val NDCG@10=0.010243\nwrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600\nnew best 0.010243\n=== backup test ranking (val weights, train+val history) ===\nprofiles: users=9927 mean_len=198.6 targets_mapped=8450\nwrote /app/solution/submission.parquet rows=845600\ndone in 37.2s\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 29, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Loss values are exploding above 38,000 because the scores are too large.\n\nThe residual MLP and embeddings are growing without bound because InfoNCE maximizes the positive-negative gap. NDCG is slightly worse than the pop baseline. I will try L2-normalizing content dimensions, clipping scores, switching to BPR with sigmoid, or scaling embeddings more aggressively.\n\nThe chosen fix is to L2-normalize the content embeddings and keep the popularity channel as a small additive term. This keeps taste scores in [-1, 1] and pop scores near [-0.2, 0.2], preventing unbounded growth.\n\nThe score will be a single dot product between normalized taste vectors plus a learned gamma-weighted popularity term. Gamma starts at 1.0 so the initial ranking is almost purely popularity-based, letting collaborative filtering act as a small perturbation that grows as embeddings learn.\n\nThe residual MLP with GELU can amplify gradients, but L2-normalizing the content embeddings prevents this. I will initialize the popularity gate so that softplus(pop_gate) starts at 1.0.\n\nThe residual MLP will be L2-normalized after addition. Popularity will be scaled by 0.5 so collaborative filtering has enough capacity to compete with the initial popularity bias.\n\nI will keep the cosine InfoNCE loss with L2-normalized content vectors rather than switching to BPR. I will also avoid overwriting validation.parquet with a model that underperforms the popularity baseline.\n\nI realized the best NDCG was initialized to -1, so the worse model overwrote the pop baseline. I will initialize it to the pop score and only save models that beat the current best. The loss of 38,409 at step 50 confirms embeddings are exploding without L2 normalization.\n\nI will scale the residual MLP by 0.1 before L2-normalizing the content vector. I will also raise training to four to six epochs with 64 positive samples per user.\n\nA simpler alternative is to concatenate the content embedding with a scaled popularity vector, then L2-normalize the full vector. This yields pure cosine similarity where the popularity dimension acts as a shared direction, keeping scores stable without separate gating terms.\n\nI will concatenate the L2-normalized content vectors with a scalar popularity term and a learned gate, then compute cosine similarity plus gate times popularity. This keeps the relative scale of collaborative filtering versus popularity explicit and prevents logits from exploding. I will also fix the data collator to remove any training bottleneck." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-fc6e7947-635e-4f84-a352-75b02fe32e50-37", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " self.pop_gate = nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(1.0))\n self.log_tau = nn.Parameter(torch.log(torch.tensor(0.35)))\n\n def item_vectors(self, idx: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.emb(idx)\n feats = self.item_feats[idx]\n h = e + self.item_mlp(torch.cat([e, feats], dim=-1))\n pop = self.pop[idx].unsqueeze(-1)\n return torch.cat([h, pop], dim=-1)\n\n def user_vectors(\n self,\n hist_idx: torch.Tensor,\n hist_w: torch.Tensor,\n hist_mask: torch.Tensor,\n hist_type: torch.Tensor,\n ) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.emb(hist_idx)\n mask_f = hist_mask.float()\n w = hist_w * mask_f\n den = w.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-6)\n pooled = (e * w.unsqueeze(-1)).sum(dim=1) / den\n hlen = mask_f.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1.0)\n frac_like = ((hist_type == LIKE) & hist_mask).float().sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n mean_pop = (self.pop[hist_idx] * mask_f).sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n stats = torch.cat(\n [torch.log1p(hlen) / 5.0, frac_like, mean_pop, torch.log1p(den) / 5.0], dim=1\n )\n h = pooled + self.user_mlp(torch.cat([pooled, stats], dim=-1))\n gate = F.softplus(self.pop_gate).expand(h.size(0), 1)\n return torch.cat([h, gate], dim=-1)", "new_string": " # softplus(0.541) ≈ 1.0 so the popularity channel starts at unit scale.\n self.pop_gate = nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(0.5413))\n self.log_tau = nn.Parameter(torch.log(torch.tensor(0.25)))\n\n def item_vectors(self, idx: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.emb(idx)\n feats = self.item_feats[idx]\n h = e + 0.25 * self.item_mlp(torch.cat([e, feats], dim=-1))\n h = F.normalize(h, dim=-1, eps=1e-8)\n pop = self.pop[idx].unsqueeze(-1)\n return torch.cat([h, pop], dim=-1)\n\n def user_vectors(\n self,\n hist_idx: torch.Tensor,\n hist_w: torch.Tensor,\n hist_mask: torch.Tensor,\n hist_type: torch.Tensor,\n ) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.emb(hist_idx)\n mask_f = hist_mask.float()\n w = hist_w * mask_f\n if self.training:\n keep = (torch.rand_like(w) > 0.15).float()\n keep[:, 0] = 1.0\n w = w * keep\n den = w.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-6)\n pooled = (e * w.unsqueeze(-1)).sum(dim=1) / den\n hlen = mask_f.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1.0)\n frac_like = ((hist_type == LIKE) & hist_mask).float().sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n mean_pop = (self.pop[hist_idx] * mask_f).sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n stats = torch.cat(\n [torch.log1p(hlen) / 5.0, frac_like, mean_pop, torch.log1p(den) / 5.0], dim=1\n )\n h = pooled + 0.25 * self.user_mlp(torch.cat([pooled, stats], dim=-1))\n h = F.normalize(h, dim=-1, eps=1e-8)\n gate = F.softplus(self.pop_gate).expand(h.size(0), 1)\n return torch.cat([h, gate], dim=-1)" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-fc6e7947-635e-4f84-a352-75b02fe32e50-38", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " opt = make_optimizer(model, args.lr, args.weight_decay)\n best_ndcg = -1.0\n best_state = None\n is_val_stage = \"val\" not in splits", "new_string": " opt = make_optimizer(model, args.lr, args.weight_decay)\n best_ndcg = float(pop_scores[\"quality_ndcg@10\"]) if \"val\" not in splits else -1.0\n best_state = None\n is_val_stage = \"val\" not in splits" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 30, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "`pop_scores` is accessible inside `fit()` through closure from `run()`.\n\nPop rankings will be restored before training begins. Validation runs with 5 epochs and max_pos 64 are next. The initial score is almost pure popularity because the cosine term has low variance while the pop channel is standard normal.\n\nCosine similarity can only add about 2 points. Popularity differences between head and tail items are roughly 5 points. Pop will always dominate if the gate stays at 1.\n\nScaling the pop channel by 0.15 should let cosine similarity compete with popularity. The next step is to verify that the head-to-median pop gap is large enough for this scaling.\n\nThe pop channel will be scaled by 0.2 and its gate will be learned via softplus. Removing the pop vector entirely is an alternative, but that would reintroduce selection bias because popular items already appear more as positives. To improve discovery of mid-pop items, IDF weighting in the loss or uniform item sampling as positives may be needed.\n\nA log(rank) tie-break of 0.05 will be added to the score. If the initial NDCG stays near 0.0107 after one epoch, the collaborative filtering training strategy needs adjustment." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-c5b90743-78eb-42db-a1da-05ad7a607b82-39", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " pop = self.pop[idx].unsqueeze(-1)\n return torch.cat([h, pop], dim=-1)", "new_string": " pop = 0.2 * self.pop[idx].unsqueeze(-1)\n return torch.cat([h, pop], dim=-1)" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 31, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Adding an evaluation at epoch 0 to confirm the baseline pop-like NDCG." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-62f0e02e-7023-4518-9d18-5c933b0401ed-40", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --val-epochs 5 --batch-size 1024 --max-pos-per-user 64 --n-extra-neg 512 --d 80", "description": "Train L2-normalized two-tower for 5 val epochs", "block_until_ms": 0 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "01a0ee09-2ad3-7531-8e6e-99da7fa7273b\nbash\n/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-62f0e02e-7023-4518-9d18-5c933b0401ed-40.log\nrunning\nBackground task 01a0ee09-2ad3-7531-8e6e-99da7fa7273b started\nUse get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=[\"01a0ee09-2ad3-7531-8e6e-99da7fa7273b\"] when you need the output.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 32, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-f5916037-eddc-4c94-9438-34fe233b929c-41", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ee09-2ad3-7531-8e6e-99da7fa7273b" ], "timeout_ms": 180000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0ee09-2ad3-7531-8e6e-99da7fa7273b ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --val-epochs 5 --batch-size 1024 --max-pos-per-user 64 --n-extra-neg 512 --d 80\nStatus: running\nDuration: 181.48s\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-62f0e02e-7023-4518-9d18-5c933b0401ed-40.log\n\n=== Output ===\ncatalog=30000 target_users=8456\nvalidation graded users=4263 pairs=37769\npopularity baseline NDCG@10=0.010710\nwrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600\nwrote /app/solution/submission.parquet rows=845600\n=== load events ['train'] ===\nevents=20676474 now=24786800\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=195.5 targets_mapped=8449\ntraining examples: 572047\n--- epoch 1/5 examples=572047 ---\n step 50 loss=8.7472 tau=0.258 pop_gate=0.949 6.3s\n step 100 loss=8.5414 tau=0.227 pop_gate=0.886 10.0s\n step 150 loss=8.4064 tau=0.201 pop_gate=0.828 13.6s\n step 200 loss=8.3098 tau=0.180 pop_gate=0.779 17.3s\n step 250 loss=8.2336 tau=0.164 pop_gate=0.738 21.0s\n step 300 loss=8.1678 tau=0.151 pop_gate=0.700 24.6s\n step 350 loss=8.1117 tau=0.140 pop_gate=0.669 28.3s\n step 400 loss=8.0644 tau=0.132 pop_gate=0.643 32.1s\n step 450 loss=8.0204 tau=0.125 pop_gate=0.619 37.2s\n step 500 loss=7.9807 tau=0.119 pop_gate=0.597 40.9s\n step 550 loss=7.9462 tau=0.114 pop_gate=0.579 44.8s\nepoch 1 mean_loss=7.9412\npublic val NDCG@10=0.014253\nwrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600\nnew best 0.014253\n--- epoch 2/5 examples=572047 ---\n step 50 loss=6.7065 tau=0.092 pop_gate=0.535 3.7s\n step 100 loss=6.7349 tau=0.084 pop_gate=0.508 7.4s\n step 150 loss=6.7689 tau=0.081 pop_gate=0.489 11.1s\n step 200 loss=6.8016 tau=0.079 pop_gate=0.475 14.8s\n step 250 loss=6.8314 tau=0.077 pop_gate=0.464 19.8s\n step 300 loss=6.8574 tau=0.077 pop_gate=0.453 23.7s\n step 350 loss=6.8809 tau=0.076 pop_gate=0.444 27.4s\n step 400 loss=6.9006 tau=0.075 pop_gate=0.436 31.2s\n step 450 loss=6.9200 tau=0.075 pop_gate=0.431 34.9s\n step 500 loss=6.9334 tau=0.075 pop_gate=0.425 38.7s\n step 550 loss=6.9466 tau=0.075 pop_gate=0.420 42.5s\nepoch 2 mean_loss=6.9483\npublic val NDCG@10=0.010680\n--- epoch 3/5 examples=572047 ---\n step 50 loss=5.8889 tau=0.063 pop_gate=0.403 3.8s\n step 100 loss=5.9475 tau=0.061 pop_gate=0.392 9.0s\n step 150 loss=6.0152 tau=0.060 pop_gate=0.384 12.8s\n step 200 loss=6.0784 tau=0.060 pop_gate=0.378 16.5s\n step 250 loss=6.1374 tau=0.061 pop_gate=0.374 20.1s\n step 300 loss=6.1886 tau=0.061 pop_gate=0.370 23.8s\n step 350 loss=6.2326 tau=0.061 pop_gate=0.365 27.6s\n step 400 loss=6.2722 tau=0.061 pop_gate=0.361 31.2s\n step 450 loss=6.3064 tau=0.062 pop_gate=0.358 34.9s\n step 500 loss=6.3360 tau=0.062 pop_gate=0.354 40.1s\n step 550 loss=6.3628 tau=0.062 pop_gate=0.350 43.8s\nepoch 3 mean_loss=6.3672\npublic val NDCG@10=0.010730\n--- epoch 4/5 examples=572047 ---\n step 50 loss=5.5337 tau=0.054 pop_gate=0.345 3.8s\n step 100 loss=5.6073 tau=0.053 pop_gate=0.340 7.5s\n step 150 loss=5.6859 tau=0.053 pop_gate=0.337 11.2s\n step 200 loss=5.7505 tau=0.054 pop_gate=0.335 14.9s\n step 250 loss=5.8076 tau=0.054 pop_gate=0.331 18.6s\n step 300 loss=5.8585 tau=0.054 pop_gate=0.329 22.3s\n step 350 loss=5.9032 tau=0.055 pop_gate=0.326 27.4s\n\n\nWaited the requested 180s. Unless the user specified, do not kill this task just because this wait returned. It is still working. You will be notified automatically when it completes. Do other work, or wait again with a longer timeout_ms.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 33, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The first training epoch achieved zero NDCG.\n\nThe best checkpoint is epoch 1. Tau is collapsing from 0.25 to 0.05, causing overfitting to reconstruction and hurting generalization. I will freeze tau, early stop at the first epoch, and add stronger regularization.\n\nThe reconstruction loss rises within each epoch as tau shrinks, confirming overfitting. The real problem is that leave-one-out training teaches the model to memorize consumed pairs rather than learn general item similarity. A better approach is needed to rank unseen items.\n\nThe user history bag may be too unique to act as a general similarity fingerprint. It could instead memorize the exact consumed items, causing the model to rank held-out seen items rather than unseen similar ones. History dropout should prevent this by breaking the fingerprint.\n\nShorter profiles should force item similarity. I will sample only 32 history items during training and apply stronger dropout. Weight decay on embeddings is also planned. The most promising new idea is skip-gram item2vec with small context windows to learn local item similarity for unseen ranking.\n\nThe user MLP may be harmful by transforming the pooled history vector out of item embedding space. Removing or severely shrinking it would keep the user representation in item space, matching a simple item-item similarity model. Hard negative mining is also being considered for later.\n\nThe user MLP will be removed entirely. The user vector will become a normalized weighted mean of history embeddings with a gating mechanism. Items will use a small residual MLP on their own embeddings. This preserves the inner-product similarity interpretation and avoids transforming the user representation out of item space." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-cf68f431-afa3-4b1e-8a0a-453760c8f0dd-42", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ee09-2ad3-7531-8e6e-99da7fa7273b" ], "timeout_ms": 180000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0ee09-2ad3-7531-8e6e-99da7fa7273b ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --val-epochs 5 --batch-size 1024 --max-pos-per-user 64 --n-extra-neg 512 --d 80\nStatus: completed\nDuration: 250.04s\nExit Code: 0\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-62f0e02e-7023-4518-9d18-5c933b0401ed-40.log\n\n=== Output ===\ncatalog=30000 target_users=8456\nvalidation graded users=4263 pairs=37769\npopularity baseline NDCG@10=0.010710\nwrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600\nwrote /app/solution/submission.parquet rows=845600\n=== load events ['train'] ===\nevents=20676474 now=24786800\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=195.5 targets_mapped=8449\ntraining examples: 572047\n--- epoch 1/5 examples=572047 ---\n step 50 loss=8.7472 tau=0.258 pop_gate=0.949 6.3s\n step 100 loss=8.5414 tau=0.227 pop_gate=0.886 10.0s\n step 150 loss=8.4064 tau=0.201 pop_gate=0.828 13.6s\n step 200 loss=8.3098 tau=0.180 pop_gate=0.779 17.3s\n step 250 loss=8.2336 tau=0.164 pop_gate=0.738 21.0s\n step 300 loss=8.1678 tau=0.151 pop_gate=0.700 24.6s\n step 350 loss=8.1117 tau=0.140 pop_gate=0.669 28.3s\n step 400 loss=8.0644 tau=0.132 pop_gate=0.643 32.1s\n step 450 loss=8.0204 tau=0.125 pop_gate=0.619 37.2s\n step 500 loss=7.9807 tau=0.119 pop_gate=0.597 40.9s\n step 550 loss=7.9462 tau=0.114 pop_gate=0.579 44.8s\nepoch 1 mean_loss=7.9412\npublic val NDCG@10=0.014253\nwrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600\nnew best 0.014253\n--- epoch 2/5 examples=572047 ---\n step 50 loss=6.7065 tau=0.092 pop_gate=0.535 3.7s\n step 100 loss=6.7349 tau=0.084 pop_gate=0.508 7.4s\n step 150 loss=6.7689 tau=0.081 pop_gate=0.489 11.1s\n step 200 loss=6.8016 tau=0.079 pop_gate=0.475 14.8s\n step 250 loss=6.8314 tau=0.077 pop_gate=0.464 19.8s\n step 300 loss=6.8574 tau=0.077 pop_gate=0.453 23.7s\n step 350 loss=6.8809 tau=0.076 pop_gate=0.444 27.4s\n step 400 loss=6.9006 tau=0.075 pop_gate=0.436 31.2s\n step 450 loss=6.9200 tau=0.075 pop_gate=0.431 34.9s\n step 500 loss=6.9334 tau=0.075 pop_gate=0.425 38.7s\n step 550 loss=6.9466 tau=0.075 pop_gate=0.420 42.5s\nepoch 2 mean_loss=6.9483\npublic val NDCG@10=0.010680\n--- epoch 3/5 examples=572047 ---\n step 50 loss=5.8889 tau=0.063 pop_gate=0.403 3.8s\n step 100 loss=5.9475 tau=0.061 pop_gate=0.392 9.0s\n step 150 loss=6.0152 tau=0.060 pop_gate=0.384 12.8s\n step 200 loss=6.0784 tau=0.060 pop_gate=0.378 16.5s\n step 250 loss=6.1374 tau=0.061 pop_gate=0.374 20.1s\n step 300 loss=6.1886 tau=0.061 pop_gate=0.370 23.8s\n step 350 loss=6.2326 tau=0.061 pop_gate=0.365 27.6s\n step 400 loss=6.2722 tau=0.061 pop_gate=0.361 31.2s\n step 450 loss=6.3064 tau=0.062 pop_gate=0.358 34.9s\n step 500 loss=6.3360 tau=0.062 pop_gate=0.354 40.1s\n step 550 loss=6.3628 tau=0.062 pop_gate=0.350 43.8s\nepoch 3 mean_loss=6.3672\npublic val NDCG@10=0.010730\n--- epoch 4/5 examples=572047 ---\n step 50 loss=5.5337 tau=0.054 pop_gate=0.345 3.8s\n step 100 loss=5.6073 tau=0.053 pop_gate=0.340 7.5s\n step 150 loss=5.6859 tau=0.053 pop_gate=0.337 11.2s\n step 200 loss=5.7505 tau=0.054 pop_gate=0.335 14.9s\n step 250 loss=5.8076 tau=0.054 pop_gate=0.331 18.6s\n step 300 loss=5.8585 tau=0.054 pop_gate=0.329 22.3s\n step 350 loss=5.9032 tau=0.055 pop_gate=0.326 27.4s\n step 400 loss=5.9451 tau=0.055 pop_gate=0.323 31.2s\n step 450 loss=5.9822 tau=0.055 pop_gate=0.321 35.0s\n step 500 loss=6.0175 tau=0.056 pop_gate=0.317 38.7s\n step 550 loss=6.0497 tau=0.056 pop_gate=0.316 42.4s\nepoch 4 mean_loss=6.0542\npublic val NDCG@10=0.010625\n--- epoch 5/5 examples=572047 ---\n step 50 loss=5.3586 tau=0.050 pop_gate=0.313 3.7s\n step 100 loss=5.4205 tau=0.050 pop_gate=0.311 7.3s\n step 150 loss=5.4875 tau=0.050 pop_gate=0.309 11.0s\n step 200 loss=5.5495 tau=0.050 pop_gate=0.307 17.4s\n step 250 loss=5.6099 tau=0.050 pop_gate=0.305 21.2s\n step 300 loss=5.6624 tau=0.050 pop_gate=0.302 24.9s\n step 350 loss=5.7086 tau=0.050 pop_gate=0.301 28.6s\n step 400 loss=5.7496 tau=0.050 pop_gate=0.299 32.3s\n step 450 loss=5.7841 tau=0.050 pop_gate=0.297 36.0s\n step 500 loss=5.8221 tau=0.050 pop_gate=0.295 39.7s\n step 550 loss=5.8558 tau=0.050 pop_gate=0.294 43.5s\nepoch 5 mean_loss=5.8606\npublic val NDCG@10=0.009003\n=== backup test ranking (val weights, train+val history) ===\nprofiles: users=9927 mean_len=198.6 targets_mapped=8450\nwrote /app/solution/submission.parquet rows=845600\ndone in 245.9s\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 34, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The best validation NDCG is 0.014253 at epoch 1.\n\nThe best checkpoint was restored for backup testing. Several improvements are planned: fixing tau, removing the user MLP, training with random history subsets, using higher dimensions, and sampling better positives and hard negatives.\n\nA session-level skip-gram approach is being considered to learn item similarity from chronological history. User embeddings would be computed as an IDF-weighted mean of their items. This captures both session-level and long-term taste, unlike SASRec which predicts next-item continuation and often produces ineligible repeats.\n\nThe small NDCG gain is likely just reranking popular items rather than retrieving similar ones. To reach 0.05+ NDCG, the model must actually retrieve semantically similar items. The next step is to subsample user histories to 16 items during training so the network learns item-item similarity.\n\nUser vectors will be a weighted mean of aligned item tower outputs. Tau is fixed at 0.2 and pop_gate will be frozen or trained with a very low learning rate to prevent overfitting. The plan is to train for one or two epochs using only strong positives and a larger embedding dimension of 128.\n\nThe user MLP is suspected of breaking the shared embedding space, which would explain the weak collaborative filtering signal. The item tower will apply an MLP followed by L2 normalization, and the user vector will be a mean of those aligned item vectors rather than raw embeddings.\n\nThe user vector will be a weighted mean of the item tower outputs for that user's history. The user embedding will be a simple average of those aligned item vectors, so the score becomes a direct similarity between the query item and each candidate.\n\nThe pooled user vector will be a weighted average of item vectors, yielding both mean content and mean history-popularity. The pop term is scaled down to 0.04. Content vectors are not L2-normalized after pooling, so the pooled user norm will fall below one.\n\nThe item tower will apply an MLP with residual connections and L2 normalization. The user vector will be a mean of these aligned item vectors without L2 normalization, so users with more consistent histories naturally receive higher norms.\n\nThe item tower will append a scaled popularity dimension to each embedding. During training, user histories will be subsampled to a random subset of tokens before pooling. The user vector is computed as a masked weighted sum of these aligned item vectors, and L2 normalization may be applied afterward.\n\nThe global pop_gate will be frozen at 0.6, replacing the mean-history-popularity term. Content vectors will be L2-normalized after pooling, while the popularity dimension remains unscaled. During training, user histories will be subsampled to roughly twenty items before scoring.\n\nMultinomial sampling for history subsampling was rejected as fragile. A fixed dropout of 0.8 will be used instead to keep roughly twenty-four items per user.\n\nThe learning rate will be lowered to 5e-4. Training will generate 1.1 million skip-gram examples per epoch from 128 random context-target pairs per user, using 16-item contexts. The user tower and training subsampling will be rewritten, tau will be frozen as a buffer, and the model will be trained for two epochs with evaluation after each. Checkpoints will also be taken at steps 200 and 400 within the first epoch.\n\nThe script must not overwrite the existing test submission with a weaker popularity baseline when restarting training. The two-tower model from epoch 1 is already better than that baseline, so it should be preserved.\n\nThe submission logic will be updated so the popularity baseline is written to a separate file and only overwrites the existing two-tower result when a stronger ranking is actually produced.\n\nThe item tower will be asymmetric: it normalizes the raw embedding, passes it through an MLP, and re-normalizes the sum. A type embedding will be added to each history item before the MLP so that likes shift the user vector.\n\nType embeddings will be excluded from the shared embedding space because candidates have no type label. They will only affect pooling weights via item strength. The user tower and training subsampling logic are being rewritten.\n\nThe aligned item tower will be applied to history items during training, which is fast enough despite the extra MLP. The training loop will be refactored so evaluation runs after every epoch and again at step 300 of the first epoch. Non-normalized means were considered but rejected because IDF weights already control item dominance.\n\nA potential bug was found in the profile-weight aggregation: if a user both listened to and disliked an item, the net weight could be negative. Disliked items with negative weights would not appear in the top-k by argpartition, but if fewer than max_items remain, those negative-weighted items could still enter the weighted mean and distort the user vector." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "Epoch 1 reached 0.014 NDCG, then later epochs overfit as tau collapsed. I’ll freeze temperature, pool item-tower vectors directly, and train on history subsets so the model learns item similarity." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-d7e79142-f99b-49c6-9e9d-cc9160c7279d-43", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " if len(uniq) > max_items:\n keep = np.argpartition(-wsum, max_items - 1)[:max_items]\n # Keep high-weight items; sort by weight desc for stable padding.\n keep = keep[np.argsort(-wsum[keep])]\n uniq, tmax, wsum = uniq[keep], tmax[keep], wsum[keep]\n else:\n keep = np.argsort(-wsum)\n uniq, tmax, wsum = uniq[keep], tmax[keep], wsum[keep]\n return uniq.astype(np.int32), tmax, wsum.astype(np.float32)", "new_string": " posw = wsum > 0\n uniq, tmax, wsum = uniq[posw], tmax[posw], wsum[posw]\n if len(uniq) == 0:\n z = np.zeros(0, dtype=np.int32)\n return z, np.zeros(0, dtype=np.int8), np.zeros(0, dtype=np.float32)\n if len(uniq) > max_items:\n keep = np.argpartition(-wsum, max_items - 1)[:max_items]\n keep = keep[np.argsort(-wsum[keep])]\n uniq, tmax, wsum = uniq[keep], tmax[keep], wsum[keep]\n else:\n keep = np.argsort(-wsum)\n uniq, tmax, wsum = uniq[keep], tmax[keep], wsum[keep]\n return uniq.astype(np.int32), tmax, wsum.astype(np.float32)" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-d7e79142-f99b-49c6-9e9d-cc9160c7279d-44", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " # Item tower: residual MLP over ID embedding + popularity features.\n self.item_mlp = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Linear(d + 4, d),\n nn.GELU(),\n nn.Linear(d, d),\n )\n for m in self.item_mlp.modules():\n if isinstance(m, nn.Linear):\n nn.init.xavier_uniform_(m.weight, gain=0.3)\n nn.init.zeros_(m.bias)\n # User tower: residual MLP over pooled history embeddings + stats.\n self.user_mlp = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Linear(d + 4, d),\n nn.GELU(),\n nn.Linear(d, d),\n )\n for m in self.user_mlp.modules():\n if isinstance(m, nn.Linear):\n nn.init.xavier_uniform_(m.weight, gain=0.3)\n nn.init.zeros_(m.bias)\n # softplus(0.541) ≈ 1.0 so the popularity channel starts at unit scale.\n self.pop_gate = nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(0.5413))\n self.log_tau = nn.Parameter(torch.log(torch.tensor(0.25)))\n\n def item_vectors(self, idx: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.emb(idx)\n feats = self.item_feats[idx]\n h = e + 0.25 * self.item_mlp(torch.cat([e, feats], dim=-1))\n h = F.normalize(h, dim=-1, eps=1e-8)\n pop = 0.2 * self.pop[idx].unsqueeze(-1)\n return torch.cat([h, pop], dim=-1)\n\n def user_vectors(\n self,\n hist_idx: torch.Tensor,\n hist_w: torch.Tensor,\n hist_mask: torch.Tensor,\n hist_type: torch.Tensor,\n ) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.emb(hist_idx)\n mask_f = hist_mask.float()\n w = hist_w * mask_f\n if self.training:\n keep = (torch.rand_like(w) > 0.15).float()\n keep[:, 0] = 1.0\n w = w * keep\n den = w.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-6)\n pooled = (e * w.unsqueeze(-1)).sum(dim=1) / den\n hlen = mask_f.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1.0)\n frac_like = ((hist_type == LIKE) & hist_mask).float().sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n mean_pop = (self.pop[hist_idx] * mask_f).sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n stats = torch.cat(\n [torch.log1p(hlen) / 5.0, frac_like, mean_pop, torch.log1p(den) / 5.0], dim=1\n )\n h = pooled + 0.25 * self.user_mlp(torch.cat([pooled, stats], dim=-1))\n h = F.normalize(h, dim=-1, eps=1e-8)\n gate = F.softplus(self.pop_gate).expand(h.size(0), 1)\n return torch.cat([h, gate], dim=-1)\n\n def tau(self) -> torch.Tensor:\n return self.log_tau.exp().clamp(0.05, 2.0)", "new_string": " # Item tower: residual MLP over ID embedding + popularity features.\n self.item_mlp = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Linear(d + 4, d),\n nn.GELU(),\n nn.Linear(d, d),\n )\n for m in self.item_mlp.modules():\n if isinstance(m, nn.Linear):\n nn.init.xavier_uniform_(m.weight, gain=0.25)\n nn.init.zeros_(m.bias)\n # User tower: small residual on the pooled item-tower vectors.\n self.user_mlp = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Linear(d + 4, d),\n nn.GELU(),\n nn.Linear(d, d),\n )\n for m in self.user_mlp.modules():\n if isinstance(m, nn.Linear):\n nn.init.xavier_uniform_(m.weight, gain=0.1)\n nn.init.zeros_(m.bias)\n self.pop_gate = nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(0.0)) # softplus(0) ≈ 0.693\n self.register_buffer(\"tau_const\", torch.tensor(0.20))\n\n def item_content(self, idx: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.emb(idx)\n feats = self.item_feats[idx]\n h = e + 0.35 * self.item_mlp(torch.cat([e, feats], dim=-1))\n return F.normalize(h, dim=-1, eps=1e-8)\n\n def item_vectors(self, idx: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n h = self.item_content(idx)\n pop = 0.18 * self.pop[idx].unsqueeze(-1)\n return torch.cat([h, pop], dim=-1)\n\n def user_vectors(\n self,\n hist_idx: torch.Tensor,\n hist_w: torch.Tensor,\n hist_mask: torch.Tensor,\n hist_type: torch.Tensor,\n ) -> torch.Tensor:\n mask_f = hist_mask.float()\n w = hist_w * mask_f\n if self.training:\n keep = (torch.rand_like(w) > 0.65).float()\n keep[:, 0] = 1.0\n w = w * keep\n iv = self.item_content(hist_idx)\n den = w.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-6)\n pooled = (iv * w.unsqueeze(-1)).sum(dim=1) / den\n hlen = mask_f.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1.0)\n frac_like = ((hist_type == LIKE) & hist_mask).float().sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n mean_pop = (self.pop[hist_idx] * mask_f).sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n stats = torch.cat(\n [torch.log1p(hlen) / 5.0, frac_like, mean_pop, torch.log1p(den) / 5.0], dim=1\n )\n h = F.normalize(pooled + 0.15 * self.user_mlp(torch.cat([pooled, stats], dim=-1)), dim=-1, eps=1e-8)\n gate = F.softplus(self.pop_gate).expand(h.size(0), 1)\n return torch.cat([h, gate], dim=-1)\n\n def tau(self) -> torch.Tensor:\n return self.tau_const" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-d7e79142-f99b-49c6-9e9d-cc9160c7279d-45", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " f\"tau={float(model.tau().detach()):.3f} \"\n f\"pop_gate={float(F.softplus(model.pop_gate).detach()):.3f} \"", "new_string": " f\"tau={float(model.tau()):.3f} \"\n f\"pop_gate={float(F.softplus(model.pop_gate).detach()):.3f} \"" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-d7e79142-f99b-49c6-9e9d-cc9160c7279d-46", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " # Always persist a popularity ranking so a valid artifact exists early.\n pop_val = pop_ranking(target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask)\n pop_test = pop_ranking(target_uids, catalog_ids, test_mask)\n pop_scores = score_ranked(target_uids, pop_val, graded)\n log(f\"popularity baseline NDCG@10={pop_scores['quality_ndcg@10']:.6f}\")\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, pop_val)\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"submission.parquet\", target_uids, pop_test)\n with open(SOLUTION / \"val_score.json\", \"w\") as f:\n json.dump({\"quality_ndcg@10\": pop_scores[\"quality_ndcg@10\"], \"model\": \"popularity\"}, f)", "new_string": " pop_val = pop_ranking(target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask)\n pop_test = pop_ranking(target_uids, catalog_ids, test_mask)\n pop_scores = score_ranked(target_uids, pop_val, graded)\n log(f\"popularity baseline NDCG@10={pop_scores['quality_ndcg@10']:.6f}\")\n best_public = float(pop_scores[\"quality_ndcg@10\"])\n if (SOLUTION / \"val_score.json\").exists():\n try:\n prev = json.loads((SOLUTION / \"val_score.json\").read_text())\n best_public = max(best_public, float(prev.get(\"quality_ndcg@10\", 0.0)))\n except Exception:\n pass\n if not (SOLUTION / \"validation.parquet\").exists():\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, pop_val)\n if not (SOLUTION / \"submission.parquet\").exists():\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"submission.parquet\", target_uids, pop_test)" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 35, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The `fit()` function should initialize `best_ndcg` from `best_public`.\n\nValidation results will only be written when they beat `best_public`. The closure variable must be updated whenever a better model is found. Mid-epoch evaluation will be added to `train_one_epoch` via an optional callback.\n\nOnly two epochs will be trained. Mid-epoch evaluation will run every 250 steps. The eval callback must switch the model to eval mode and back without corrupting optimizer state." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-b3e88976-8d8a-41e8-80a2-f0250b5e6889-47", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " opt = make_optimizer(model, args.lr, args.weight_decay)\n best_ndcg = float(pop_scores[\"quality_ndcg@10\"]) if \"val\" not in splits else -1.0\n best_state = None\n is_val_stage = \"val\" not in splits", "new_string": " opt = make_optimizer(model, args.lr, args.weight_decay)\n is_val_stage = \"val\" not in splits\n best_ndcg = best_public if is_val_stage else -1.0\n best_state = None" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-b3e88976-8d8a-41e8-80a2-f0250b5e6889-48", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " if ndcg > best_ndcg:\n best_ndcg = ndcg\n best_state = {k: v.detach().cpu().clone() for k, v in model.state_dict().items()}\n torch.save(best_state, CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name)\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, ranked)\n with open(SOLUTION / \"val_score.json\", \"w\") as f:\n json.dump({\"quality_ndcg@10\": ndcg, \"epoch\": epoch, \"model\": \"two_tower\"}, f)\n log(f\"new best {ndcg:.6f}\")", "new_string": " if ndcg > best_ndcg:\n best_ndcg = ndcg\n nonlocal best_public\n best_public = ndcg\n best_state = {k: v.detach().cpu().clone() for k, v in model.state_dict().items()}\n torch.save(best_state, CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name)\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, ranked)\n with open(SOLUTION / \"val_score.json\", \"w\") as f:\n json.dump({\"quality_ndcg@10\": ndcg, \"epoch\": epoch, \"model\": \"two_tower\"}, f)\n log(f\"new best {ndcg:.6f}\")" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 36, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The `nonlocal best_public` declaration must appear at the start of `fit` or before its assignment.\n\n`nonlocal` must appear before any read of the variable in the function. Placing it inside a nested `if` block risks a SyntaxError because Python requires the declaration at the start of the function scope." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-397ad967-992c-41a7-815d-fc20d661dbd9-49", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " def fit(splits: list[str], epochs: int, ckpt_name: str, warmup: Path | None, now_override: int | None):\n log(f\"=== load events {splits} ===\")", "new_string": " def fit(splits: list[str], epochs: int, ckpt_name: str, warmup: Path | None, now_override: int | None):\n nonlocal best_public\n log(f\"=== load events {splits} ===\")" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-397ad967-992c-41a7-815d-fc20d661dbd9-50", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " best_ndcg = ndcg\n nonlocal best_public\n best_public = ndcg", "new_string": " best_ndcg = ndcg\n best_public = ndcg" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 37, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The training logic has a bug: if the current epoch does not beat the best metric, the code may return the last epoch's model instead of preserving the best state.\n\nThe fix loads the previous best checkpoint when validation does not improve, ensuring the backup test ranking uses the best available model." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-8792e2c2-357f-4279-80de-ae1abecda37b-51", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " else:\n torch.save(model.state_dict(), CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name)\n if best_state is not None:\n model.load_state_dict(best_state)\n return model, profiles", "new_string": " else:\n torch.save(model.state_dict(), CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name)\n ckpt_path = CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name\n if best_state is not None:\n model.load_state_dict(best_state)\n elif ckpt_path.exists():\n log(f\"reloading previous best {ckpt_path}\")\n model.load_state_dict(torch.load(ckpt_path, map_location=\"cpu\"))\n return model, profiles" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 38, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "A bug was found in the test stage: the checkpoint name is incorrectly set to final_test.\n\nWarmup loads best_val.pt at the start of test training. If validation fails to beat 0.014, the system reloads best_val.pt from a prior run. The backup submission will only be written when the current validation score is the best.\n\nRewriting the backup submission with the same checkpoint is acceptable because it retains the prior training history. The next validation run will use 3 epochs, d=96, lr=1e-3, and max_pos=80. Evaluation frequency will increase to every 200 steps." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-80cb5c67-8a7b-44f7-af43-42920e6c3e4d-52", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": "def train_one_epoch(\n model: TwoTower,\n loader: DataLoader,\n opt: torch.optim.Optimizer,\n n_items: int,\n n_extra: int,\n device: torch.device,\n) -> float:\n model.train()\n total, n = 0.0, 0\n t0 = time.time()\n for step, batch in enumerate(loader, 1):\n hist_idx, hist_w, hist_mask, hist_type, pos, pos_w = batch\n opt.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)\n user = model.user_vectors(hist_idx, hist_w, hist_mask, hist_type)\n item = model.item_vectors(pos)\n extra = model.item_vectors(torch.randint(1, n_items, (n_extra,), device=device))\n loss = info_nce(user, item, extra, pos_w, model.tau())\n loss.backward()\n nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), 2.0)\n opt.step()\n total += float(loss.detach())\n n += 1\n if step % 50 == 0:\n log(\n f\" step {step:4d} loss={total / n:.4f} \"\n f\"tau={float(model.tau()):.3f} \"\n f\"pop_gate={float(F.softplus(model.pop_gate).detach()):.3f} \"\n f\"{time.time() - t0:.1f}s\"\n )\n return total / max(n, 1)", "new_string": "def train_one_epoch(\n model: TwoTower,\n loader: DataLoader,\n opt: torch.optim.Optimizer,\n n_items: int,\n n_extra: int,\n device: torch.device,\n eval_fn=None,\n eval_every: int = 0,\n) -> float:\n model.train()\n total, n = 0.0, 0\n t0 = time.time()\n for step, batch in enumerate(loader, 1):\n hist_idx, hist_w, hist_mask, hist_type, pos, pos_w = batch\n opt.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)\n user = model.user_vectors(hist_idx, hist_w, hist_mask, hist_type)\n item = model.item_vectors(pos)\n extra = model.item_vectors(torch.randint(1, n_items, (n_extra,), device=device))\n loss = info_nce(user, item, extra, pos_w, model.tau())\n loss.backward()\n nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), 2.0)\n opt.step()\n total += float(loss.detach())\n n += 1\n if step % 50 == 0:\n log(\n f\" step {step:4d} loss={total / n:.4f} \"\n f\"tau={float(model.tau()):.3f} \"\n f\"pop_gate={float(F.softplus(model.pop_gate).detach()):.3f} \"\n f\"{time.time() - t0:.1f}s\"\n )\n if eval_fn is not None and eval_every > 0 and step % eval_every == 0:\n eval_fn(f\"step{step}\")\n model.train()\n return total / max(n, 1)" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-80cb5c67-8a7b-44f7-af43-42920e6c3e4d-53", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " for epoch in range(1, epochs + 1):\n log(f\"--- epoch {epoch}/{epochs} examples={len(ds)} ---\")\n loss = train_one_epoch(model, loader, opt, n_items, args.n_extra_neg, device)\n log(f\"epoch {epoch} mean_loss={loss:.4f}\")\n if is_val_stage:\n ranked = rank_all(model, profiles, target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask, device)\n scores = score_ranked(target_uids, ranked, graded)\n ndcg = float(scores[\"quality_ndcg@10\"])\n log(f\"public val NDCG@10={ndcg:.6f}\")\n if ndcg > best_ndcg:\n best_ndcg = ndcg\n best_public = ndcg\n best_state = {k: v.detach().cpu().clone() for k, v in model.state_dict().items()}\n torch.save(best_state, CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name)\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, ranked)\n with open(SOLUTION / \"val_score.json\", \"w\") as f:\n json.dump({\"quality_ndcg@10\": ndcg, \"epoch\": epoch, \"model\": \"two_tower\"}, f)\n log(f\"new best {ndcg:.6f}\")\n else:\n torch.save(model.state_dict(), CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name)", "new_string": " def maybe_eval(tag: str) -> None:\n nonlocal best_ndcg, best_state, best_public\n if not is_val_stage:\n return\n ranked = rank_all(model, profiles, target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask, device)\n scores = score_ranked(target_uids, ranked, graded)\n ndcg = float(scores[\"quality_ndcg@10\"])\n log(f\"public val NDCG@10={ndcg:.6f} ({tag})\")\n if ndcg > best_ndcg:\n best_ndcg = ndcg\n best_public = ndcg\n best_state = {k: v.detach().cpu().clone() for k, v in model.state_dict().items()}\n torch.save(best_state, CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name)\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, ranked)\n with open(SOLUTION / \"val_score.json\", \"w\") as f:\n json.dump({\"quality_ndcg@10\": ndcg, \"tag\": tag, \"model\": \"two_tower\"}, f)\n log(f\"new best {ndcg:.6f}\")\n\n for epoch in range(1, epochs + 1):\n log(f\"--- epoch {epoch}/{epochs} examples={len(ds)} ---\")\n loss = train_one_epoch(\n model,\n loader,\n opt,\n n_items,\n args.n_extra_neg,\n device,\n eval_fn=maybe_eval if is_val_stage else None,\n eval_every=250 if is_val_stage else 0,\n )\n log(f\"epoch {epoch} mean_loss={loss:.4f}\")\n if is_val_stage:\n maybe_eval(f\"epoch{epoch}\")\n else:\n torch.save(model.state_dict(), CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name)" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 39, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Confirmed that item_content, item_mlp, and normalization all operate correctly on the last dimension of the [B, L] history index tensor." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-b9648c0c-e44c-48a9-90fd-8f0dad4afadf-54", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cp -a /app/solution/checkpoints/best_val.pt /app/solution/checkpoints/best_val_014.pt && cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --val-epochs 3 --batch-size 768 --max-pos-per-user 80 --n-extra-neg 384 --d 96 --lr 1.2e-3", "description": "Train improved two-tower with frozen tau", "block_until_ms": 0 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "01a0ee0e-f99a-7792-ae38-6c643bb3ee15\nbash\n/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-b9648c0c-e44c-48a9-90fd-8f0dad4afadf-54.log\nrunning\nBackground task 01a0ee0e-f99a-7792-ae38-6c643bb3ee15 started\nUse get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=[\"01a0ee0e-f99a-7792-ae38-6c643bb3ee15\"] when you need the output.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 40, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-c43b0b61-080f-4d9f-92b2-93dde767c1d6-55", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ee0e-f99a-7792-ae38-6c643bb3ee15" ], "timeout_ms": 180000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0ee0e-f99a-7792-ae38-6c643bb3ee15 ===\nCommand: cp -a /app/solution/checkpoints/best_val.pt /app/solution/checkpoints/best_val_014.pt && cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --val-epochs 3 --batch-size 768 --max-pos-per-user 80 --n-extra-neg 384 --d 96 --lr 1.2e-3\nStatus: running\nDuration: 185.69s\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-b9648c0c-e44c-48a9-90fd-8f0dad4afadf-54.log\n\n=== Output ===\ncatalog=30000 target_users=8456\nvalidation graded users=4263 pairs=37769\npopularity baseline NDCG@10=0.010710\n=== load events ['train'] ===\nevents=20676474 now=24786800\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=194.6 targets_mapped=8449\ntraining examples: 702533\n--- epoch 1/3 examples=702533 ---\n step 50 loss=8.5963 tau=0.200 pop_gate=0.674 25.6s\n step 100 loss=8.4699 tau=0.200 pop_gate=0.666 51.3s\n step 150 loss=8.3497 tau=0.200 pop_gate=0.648 75.8s\n step 200 loss=8.2528 tau=0.200 pop_gate=0.630 99.4s\n step 250 loss=8.1742 tau=0.200 pop_gate=0.611 124.1s\npublic val NDCG@10=0.009944 (step250)\n step 300 loss=8.1083 tau=0.200 pop_gate=0.595 152.7s\n\n\nWaited the requested 180s. Unless the user specified, do not kill this task just because this wait returned. It is still working. You will be notified automatically when it completes. Do other work, or wait again with a longer timeout_ms.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 41, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The current approach is slower than expected, taking roughly 0.5 seconds per training step.\n\nThe aligned pooling approach is slower and underperforms the previous model. The earlier architecture achieved 0.014253 NDCG at epoch one with a learnable tau of 0.114 and a pop gate of 0.579. I will revert to that design.\n\nThe plan is to freeze tau near 0.12, train for one epoch, and evaluate mid-epoch. The final test run will warm-start from that checkpoint and train briefly on combined training and validation data. A skip-gram loss using single context items may also be added to accelerate item similarity learning.\n\nThe current slow run will be terminated. The baseline model will use 15% history dropout and a dimension of 80. A second run with skip-gram mixing will follow.\n\nI will also test a 128-dimensional embedding. Extra negatives will be sampled from the full catalog, and I will raise the batch size to 2048 so in-batch negatives dominate. The original 0.014 model ran at batch 1024 with 512 extra negatives and took about 0.08 seconds per step." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "The aligned-pooling run is slower and weaker, so I’m reverting to the epoch-1 architecture, freezing tau, and adding a skip-gram term for item similarity." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-343ec95f-89fc-4bfa-913c-f7f4ce15c8a9-56", "name": "kill_command_or_subagent", "input": { "task_id": "01a0ee0e-f99a-7792-ae38-6c643bb3ee15" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "killed: Task was terminated successfully", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 42, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Restoring a hybrid model near the 0 baseline." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-0d9851e1-909a-4c18-ac1e-1df6001f8c2f-57", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " self.pop_gate = nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(0.0)) # softplus(0) ≈ 0.693\n self.register_buffer(\"tau_const\", torch.tensor(0.20))\n\n def item_content(self, idx: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.emb(idx)\n feats = self.item_feats[idx]\n h = e + 0.35 * self.item_mlp(torch.cat([e, feats], dim=-1))\n return F.normalize(h, dim=-1, eps=1e-8)\n\n def item_vectors(self, idx: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n h = self.item_content(idx)\n pop = 0.18 * self.pop[idx].unsqueeze(-1)\n return torch.cat([h, pop], dim=-1)\n\n def user_vectors(\n self,\n hist_idx: torch.Tensor,\n hist_w: torch.Tensor,\n hist_mask: torch.Tensor,\n hist_type: torch.Tensor,\n ) -> torch.Tensor:\n mask_f = hist_mask.float()\n w = hist_w * mask_f\n if self.training:\n keep = (torch.rand_like(w) > 0.65).float()\n keep[:, 0] = 1.0\n w = w * keep\n iv = self.item_content(hist_idx)\n den = w.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-6)\n pooled = (iv * w.unsqueeze(-1)).sum(dim=1) / den\n hlen = mask_f.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1.0)\n frac_like = ((hist_type == LIKE) & hist_mask).float().sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n mean_pop = (self.pop[hist_idx] * mask_f).sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n stats = torch.cat(\n [torch.log1p(hlen) / 5.0, frac_like, mean_pop, torch.log1p(den) / 5.0], dim=1\n )\n h = F.normalize(pooled + 0.15 * self.user_mlp(torch.cat([pooled, stats], dim=-1)), dim=-1, eps=1e-8)\n gate = F.softplus(self.pop_gate).expand(h.size(0), 1)\n return torch.cat([h, gate], dim=-1)\n\n def tau(self) -> torch.Tensor:\n return self.tau_const", "new_string": " self.pop_gate = nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(-0.2)) # softplus ≈ 0.60\n self.register_buffer(\"tau_const\", torch.tensor(0.12))\n\n def item_vectors(self, idx: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.emb(idx)\n feats = self.item_feats[idx]\n h = e + 0.25 * self.item_mlp(torch.cat([e, feats], dim=-1))\n h = F.normalize(h, dim=-1, eps=1e-8)\n pop = 0.2 * self.pop[idx].unsqueeze(-1)\n return torch.cat([h, pop], dim=-1)\n\n def user_vectors(\n self,\n hist_idx: torch.Tensor,\n hist_w: torch.Tensor,\n hist_mask: torch.Tensor,\n hist_type: torch.Tensor,\n ) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.emb(hist_idx)\n mask_f = hist_mask.float()\n w = hist_w * mask_f\n if self.training:\n keep = (torch.rand_like(w) > 0.2).float()\n keep[:, 0] = 1.0\n w = w * keep\n den = w.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-6)\n pooled = (e * w.unsqueeze(-1)).sum(dim=1) / den\n hlen = mask_f.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1.0)\n frac_like = ((hist_type == LIKE) & hist_mask).float().sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n mean_pop = (self.pop[hist_idx] * mask_f).sum(dim=1, keepdim=True) / hlen\n stats = torch.cat(\n [torch.log1p(hlen) / 5.0, frac_like, mean_pop, torch.log1p(den) / 5.0], dim=1\n )\n h = F.normalize(pooled + 0.25 * self.user_mlp(torch.cat([pooled, stats], dim=-1)), dim=-1, eps=1e-8)\n gate = F.softplus(self.pop_gate).expand(h.size(0), 1)\n return torch.cat([h, gate], dim=-1)\n\n def tau(self) -> torch.Tensor:\n return self.tau_const" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-0d9851e1-909a-4c18-ac1e-1df6001f8c2f-58", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " extra = model.item_vectors(torch.randint(1, n_items, (n_extra,), device=device))\n loss = info_nce(user, item, extra, pos_w, model.tau())\n loss.backward()", "new_string": " extra = model.item_vectors(torch.randint(1, n_items, (n_extra,), device=device))\n loss = info_nce(user, item, extra, pos_w, model.tau())\n # Skip-gram auxiliary: a single history item should still retrieve the positive.\n with torch.no_grad():\n # Pick the highest-weight unmasked history item as context.\n ctx_idx = hist_idx.gather(1, hist_w.argmax(dim=1, keepdim=True)).squeeze(1)\n ctx = model.item_vectors(ctx_idx)\n loss = loss + 0.25 * info_nce(ctx, item, extra, pos_w, model.tau())\n loss.backward()" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 43, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "A dimension mismatch was found: the context, user, and item vectors all have size d+1.\n\nInfoNCE is confirmed to work. The skip-gram loss trains the item tower to group co-occurring items. Reusing the extra tensor across both losses is safe because gradients accumulate.\n\nRunning with d=80, batch size 1024, and two epochs. The checkpoint save will only overwrite best_val.pt if the new NDCG beats the prior 0.014253. A state dict mismatch exists because the old checkpoint stores `log_tau` as a parameter while the current code uses `tau_const` as a buffer.\n\nThe old checkpoint will be skipped if it fails to load into the new architecture. The final model will only be written when the new run beats the prior best." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-393b1bd7-d1c1-4843-93f9-5896e094133e-59", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " if args.stage in (\"val\", \"all\"):\n model, _ = fit([\"train\"], args.val_epochs, \"best_val.pt\", None, TRAIN_CUTOFF)\n log(\"=== backup test ranking (val weights, train+val history) ===\")\n events_tv = load_events([\"train\", \"val\"], mapper)\n now_tv = int(events_tv[\"ts\"].max()) + 1\n tables_tv = build_user_tables(events_tv)\n del events_tv\n idf_tv = compute_idf(tables_tv, n_items)\n profiles_tv = build_profiles(tables_tv, target_uids, idf_tv, now_tv, args.profile_len)\n ranked_test = rank_all(model, profiles_tv, target_uids, catalog_ids, test_mask, device)\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"submission.parquet\", target_uids, ranked_test)", "new_string": " start_best = best_public\n if args.stage in (\"val\", \"all\"):\n model, _ = fit([\"train\"], args.val_epochs, \"best_val.pt\", None, TRAIN_CUTOFF)\n if best_public > start_best + 1e-9:\n log(\"=== backup test ranking (val weights, train+val history) ===\")\n events_tv = load_events([\"train\", \"val\"], mapper)\n now_tv = int(events_tv[\"ts\"].max()) + 1\n tables_tv = build_user_tables(events_tv)\n del events_tv\n idf_tv = compute_idf(tables_tv, n_items)\n profiles_tv = build_profiles(tables_tv, target_uids, idf_tv, now_tv, args.profile_len)\n ranked_test = rank_all(model, profiles_tv, target_uids, catalog_ids, test_mask, device)\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"submission.parquet\", target_uids, ranked_test)\n else:\n log(\"no val improvement; keeping previous submission\")" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-393b1bd7-d1c1-4843-93f9-5896e094133e-60", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " ckpt_path = CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name\n if best_state is not None:\n model.load_state_dict(best_state)\n elif ckpt_path.exists():\n log(f\"reloading previous best {ckpt_path}\")\n model.load_state_dict(torch.load(ckpt_path, map_location=\"cpu\"))\n return model, profiles", "new_string": " ckpt_path = CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name\n if best_state is not None:\n model.load_state_dict(best_state)\n elif ckpt_path.exists():\n try:\n model.load_state_dict(torch.load(ckpt_path, map_location=\"cpu\"))\n log(f\"reloading previous best {ckpt_path}\")\n except Exception as exc:\n log(f\"could not reload {ckpt_path}: {exc}\")\n return model, profiles" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 44, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The old checkpoint uses a 80-dimensional embedding." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-df81264c-48c5-4fa9-b0e6-5f3dcea1b8d2-61", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --val-epochs 2 --batch-size 1024 --max-pos-per-user 64 --n-extra-neg 512 --d 80 --lr 2e-3", "description": "Train frozen-tau two-tower with skip-gram aux", "block_until_ms": 0 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "01a0ee12-bf01-73c0-b266-030261d34ef4\nbash\n/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-df81264c-48c5-4fa9-b0e6-5f3dcea1b8d2-61.log\nrunning\nBackground task 01a0ee12-bf01-73c0-b266-030261d34ef4 started\nUse get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=[\"01a0ee12-bf01-73c0-b266-030261d34ef4\"] when you need the output.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 45, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-5eef454e-9c70-474e-911e-09033a29f787-62", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ee12-bf01-73c0-b266-030261d34ef4" ], "timeout_ms": 150000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0ee12-bf01-73c0-b266-030261d34ef4 ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --val-epochs 2 --batch-size 1024 --max-pos-per-user 64 --n-extra-neg 512 --d 80 --lr 2e-3\nStatus: completed\nDuration: 134.81s\nExit Code: 0\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-df81264c-48c5-4fa9-b0e6-5f3dcea1b8d2-61.log\n\n=== Output ===\ncatalog=30000 target_users=8456\nvalidation graded users=4263 pairs=37769\npopularity baseline NDCG@10=0.010710\n=== load events ['train'] ===\nevents=20676474 now=24786800\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=194.6 targets_mapped=8449\ntraining examples: 571970\n--- epoch 1/2 examples=571970 ---\n step 50 loss=11.2282 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.556 4.7s\n step 100 loss=10.8877 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.517 9.3s\n step 150 loss=10.6929 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.485 13.9s\n step 200 loss=10.5590 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.458 21.5s\n step 250 loss=10.4632 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.433 26.1s\npublic val NDCG@10=0.010593 (step250)\n step 300 loss=10.3841 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.410 31.6s\n step 350 loss=10.3172 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.389 36.3s\n step 400 loss=10.2604 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.370 41.0s\n step 450 loss=10.2128 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.352 45.8s\n step 500 loss=10.1697 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.336 52.1s\npublic val NDCG@10=0.013790 (step500)\n step 550 loss=10.1302 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.321 57.6s\nepoch 1 mean_loss=10.1241\npublic val NDCG@10=0.013618 (epoch1)\n--- epoch 2/2 examples=571970 ---\n step 50 loss=8.7305 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.296 4.8s\n step 100 loss=8.7850 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.274 9.5s\n step 150 loss=8.8337 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.257 14.2s\n step 200 loss=8.8764 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.243 18.9s\n step 250 loss=8.9102 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.232 25.1s\npublic val NDCG@10=0.012371 (step250)\n step 300 loss=8.9459 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.222 31.0s\n step 350 loss=8.9730 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.213 35.7s\n step 400 loss=8.9958 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.205 40.5s\n step 450 loss=9.0180 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.199 45.2s\n step 500 loss=9.0371 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.193 49.9s\npublic val NDCG@10=0.014112 (step500)\n step 550 loss=9.0523 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.188 56.9s\nepoch 2 mean_loss=9.0551\npublic val NDCG@10=0.014242 (epoch2)\ncould not reload /app/solution/checkpoints/best_val.pt: Error(s) in loading state_dict for TwoTower:\n\tMissing key(s) in state_dict: \"tau_const\". \n\tUnexpected key(s) in state_dict: \"log_tau\". \nno val improvement; keeping previous submission\ndone in 130.6s\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 46, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The loss dropped to 0.014242 at epoch 2.\n\nThe 0.014 loss plateaued. The two-tower approach is near its ceiling. A larger architectural change is needed to improve ranking quality.\n\nThe candidate pool is extremely sparse: roughly 29,000 tracks with only about 9 relevant per user and a median rank near 5,000. This extreme sparsity sets a hard ceiling on ranking quality. Even placing one relevant item at the top of every user's list would yield an NDCG of only about 0.39.\n\nCurrent recall is only 0.97% of gold items. A dedicated item2vec pretraining phase with longer training should improve embedding quality before freezing item embeddings and tuning user projections.\n\nSession skip-gram will model \"played together\" similarity by training on chronological user sequences with a local context window. User profiles will be IDF-weighted averages of item embeddings. A fast numpy and PyTorch trainer will iterate user slices over the 20 million events.\n\nThe skip-gram model will use separate input and output embeddings. The user tower will pool the input embeddings of a user's history. The item tower will use the output embeddings. This asymmetric two-tower design creates a single shared embedding space.\n\nThe skip-gram model will use a leave-one-out objective: each history item is scored against the remaining items in that sequence. A fast pair generator will build context-target pairs from 8-event windows.\n\nGenerating pairs for all 20 million events would produce roughly 200 million context-target pairs, which is too large. The plan is to subsample aggressively: for each event, sample only two random context items from within the window, or use a sliding window of the last 500 events. This should yield about three million pairs. A combined trainer will also mix skip-gram data with other objectives.\n\nThe skip-gram embedding dimension will increase to 128. L2 normalization will be applied to both towers for numerical stability. Frequency-based negative sampling will be used. The dataset will support two example types: skip-gram pairs and leave-one-out profile pairs. A dedicated fast training loop using InfoNCE loss on normalized embeddings is being considered.\n\nThe skip-gram pretraining will run for two epochs on three million pairs, taking roughly one to two minutes. User profiles will be built by averaging the input embeddings of each user's history. If this improves results, MLP towers will be added on top. The existing training script will be extended to include this pretrain step. A small evaluation script will also be kept to generate test rankings from the old checkpoint.\n\nThe architecture will be split into two independent embedding tables: `hist_emb` for the user tower and `item_emb` for the item tower. Both will be initialized randomly. During evaluation, the user profile will pool `hist_emb` vectors and the item score will combine `item_emb` with popularity features.\n\nThe existing TwoTower class will be rewritten to use asymmetric embeddings. A dedicated skip-gram dataset builder is being drafted to generate context-target pairs from each user's chronological history, sampling up to 80 pairs per user within a 12-event window.\n\nThe single-item skip-gram context will be padded to a 16-item window so the user profile can pool over a small local history. The dataset will alternate between skip-gram pairs and leave-one-out profile examples. Averaging the old 0.014 model with popularity features is not viable because the existing pop channel already handles that.\n\nThe existing file is becoming too cluttered. A new `train.py` script will handle skip-gram pretraining, leave-one-out fine-tuning, and final ranking generation in a clean pipeline. Reusing the data loader from the old module requires care to avoid unintended execution." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "I’ll add an asymmetric skip-gram phase so item embeddings capture co-occurrence, which is what discovery ranking actually needs." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-ec50bc91-92cb-4363-b35e-61c55819d321-63", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " self.d = d\n self.emb = nn.Embedding(n_items, d, padding_idx=PAD)\n nn.init.normal_(self.emb.weight, mean=0.0, std=0.01)\n with torch.no_grad():\n self.emb.weight[PAD].zero_()", "new_string": " self.d = d\n self.hist_emb = nn.Embedding(n_items, d, padding_idx=PAD)\n self.item_emb = nn.Embedding(n_items, d, padding_idx=PAD)\n nn.init.normal_(self.hist_emb.weight, mean=0.0, std=0.02)\n nn.init.normal_(self.item_emb.weight, mean=0.0, std=0.02)\n with torch.no_grad():\n self.hist_emb.weight[PAD].zero_()\n self.item_emb.weight[PAD].zero_()\n # Keep a shared alias so older helper code that looks for \"emb\" still works.\n self.emb = self.hist_emb" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-ec50bc91-92cb-4363-b35e-61c55819d321-64", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " def item_vectors(self, idx: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.emb(idx)\n feats = self.item_feats[idx]\n h = e + 0.25 * self.item_mlp(torch.cat([e, feats], dim=-1))\n h = F.normalize(h, dim=-1, eps=1e-8)\n pop = 0.2 * self.pop[idx].unsqueeze(-1)\n return torch.cat([h, pop], dim=-1)\n\n def user_vectors(\n self,\n hist_idx: torch.Tensor,\n hist_w: torch.Tensor,\n hist_mask: torch.Tensor,\n hist_type: torch.Tensor,\n ) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.emb(hist_idx)", "new_string": " def item_vectors(self, idx: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.item_emb(idx)\n feats = self.item_feats[idx]\n h = e + 0.25 * self.item_mlp(torch.cat([e, feats], dim=-1))\n h = F.normalize(h, dim=-1, eps=1e-8)\n pop = 0.2 * self.pop[idx].unsqueeze(-1)\n return torch.cat([h, pop], dim=-1)\n\n def user_vectors(\n self,\n hist_idx: torch.Tensor,\n hist_w: torch.Tensor,\n hist_mask: torch.Tensor,\n hist_type: torch.Tensor,\n ) -> torch.Tensor:\n e = self.hist_emb(hist_idx)" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-ec50bc91-92cb-4363-b35e-61c55819d321-65", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": "def make_optimizer(model: TwoTower, lr: float, wd: float) -> torch.optim.Optimizer:\n emb, other = [], []\n for name, p in model.named_parameters():\n if not p.requires_grad:\n continue\n (emb if \"emb.weight\" in name else other).append(p)", "new_string": "def make_optimizer(model: TwoTower, lr: float, wd: float) -> torch.optim.Optimizer:\n emb, other = [], []\n for name, p in model.named_parameters():\n if not p.requires_grad:\n continue\n (emb if name.endswith(\"emb.weight\") or \"hist_emb\" in name or \"item_emb\" in name else other).append(p)" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 47, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Adding skip-gram pair building and the training phase." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-f838b04a-6c08-4650-a64c-5164f8b1b1fa-66", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " extra = model.item_vectors(torch.randint(1, n_items, (n_extra,), device=device))\n loss = info_nce(user, item, extra, pos_w, model.tau())\n # Skip-gram auxiliary: a single history item should still retrieve the positive.\n with torch.no_grad():\n # Pick the highest-weight unmasked history item as context.\n ctx_idx = hist_idx.gather(1, hist_w.argmax(dim=1, keepdim=True)).squeeze(1)\n ctx = model.item_vectors(ctx_idx)\n loss = loss + 0.25 * info_nce(ctx, item, extra, pos_w, model.tau())\n loss.backward()", "new_string": " extra = model.item_vectors(torch.randint(1, n_items, (n_extra,), device=device))\n loss = info_nce(user, item, extra, pos_w, model.tau())\n loss.backward()" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-f838b04a-6c08-4650-a64c-5164f8b1b1fa-67", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": "def build_examples(", "new_string": "def build_sg_pairs(\n tables: UserTables, rng: np.random.Generator, pairs_per_user: int = 120, window: int = 16\n) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n ctx_l, tgt_l = [], []\n for i in range(len(tables.uids)):\n st = tables.strength[i]\n seq = tables.items[i][st > 0]\n L = int(seq.shape[0])\n if L < 8:\n continue\n n = min(pairs_per_user, L)\n t_idx = rng.integers(0, L, size=n)\n for t in t_idx:\n left = max(0, int(t) - window)\n right = min(L, int(t) + window + 1)\n if right - left <= 1:\n continue\n c = int(rng.integers(left, right))\n if c == int(t):\n if c + 1 < right:\n c += 1\n elif c - 1 >= left:\n c -= 1\n else:\n continue\n ctx_l.append(int(seq[c]))\n tgt_l.append(int(seq[t]))\n ctx = np.asarray(ctx_l, dtype=np.int32)\n tgt = np.asarray(tgt_l, dtype=np.int32)\n log(f\"skip-gram pairs: {len(ctx)}\")\n return ctx, tgt\n\n\ndef train_sg_epoch(\n model: TwoTower,\n ctx: np.ndarray,\n tgt: np.ndarray,\n opt: torch.optim.Optimizer,\n n_items: int,\n n_extra: int,\n batch_size: int,\n device: torch.device,\n) -> float:\n model.train()\n order = np.random.permutation(len(ctx))\n total, n = 0.0, 0\n t0 = time.time()\n ones = None\n for s in range(0, len(order) - batch_size + 1, batch_size):\n ix = order[s : s + batch_size]\n c = torch.from_numpy(ctx[ix]).long().to(device)\n t = torch.from_numpy(tgt[ix]).long().to(device)\n hist = c.unsqueeze(1)\n w = torch.ones((batch_size, 1), device=device)\n mask = torch.ones((batch_size, 1), dtype=torch.bool, device=device)\n typ = torch.zeros((batch_size, 1), dtype=torch.long, device=device)\n opt.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)\n user = model.user_vectors(hist, w, mask, typ)\n item = model.item_vectors(t)\n extra = model.item_vectors(torch.randint(1, n_items, (n_extra,), device=device))\n pos_w = torch.ones(batch_size, device=device)\n loss = info_nce(user, item, extra, pos_w, model.tau())\n loss.backward()\n nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), 2.0)\n opt.step()\n total += float(loss.detach())\n n += 1\n if n % 80 == 0:\n log(f\" sg step {n:4d} loss={total / n:.4f} {time.time() - t0:.1f}s\")\n return total / max(n, 1)\n\n\ndef build_examples(" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 48, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The inner skip-gram loop over 20 million events and 9,000 users generates roughly one million Python iterations. This loop is a major bottleneck for CPU latency." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-cb35bcd0-9c99-4b7e-80bc-7240c8f52861-68", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " opt = make_optimizer(model, args.lr, args.weight_decay)\n is_val_stage = \"val\" not in splits\n best_ndcg = best_public if is_val_stage else -1.0\n best_state = None", "new_string": " opt = make_optimizer(model, args.lr, args.weight_decay)\n is_val_stage = \"val\" not in splits\n best_ndcg = best_public if is_val_stage else -1.0\n best_state = None\n if args.sg_epochs > 0:\n ctx, tgt = build_sg_pairs(tables, rng, pairs_per_user=args.sg_pairs, window=args.sg_window)\n for sg_epoch in range(1, args.sg_epochs + 1):\n log(f\"--- skip-gram epoch {sg_epoch}/{args.sg_epochs} ---\")\n sloss = train_sg_epoch(\n model, ctx, tgt, opt, n_items, args.n_extra_neg, args.batch_size, device\n )\n log(f\"skip-gram epoch {sg_epoch} loss={sloss:.4f}\")\n if is_val_stage:\n ranked = rank_all(model, profiles, target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask, device)\n scores = score_ranked(target_uids, ranked, graded)\n ndcg = float(scores[\"quality_ndcg@10\"])\n log(f\"public val NDCG@10={ndcg:.6f} (sg{sg_epoch})\")\n if ndcg > best_ndcg:\n best_ndcg = ndcg\n best_public = ndcg\n best_state = {k: v.detach().cpu().clone() for k, v in model.state_dict().items()}\n torch.save(best_state, CKPT_DIR / ckpt_name)\n write_ranking(SOLUTION / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, ranked)\n with open(SOLUTION / \"val_score.json\", \"w\") as f:\n json.dump({\"quality_ndcg@10\": ndcg, \"tag\": f\"sg{sg_epoch}\", \"model\": \"two_tower\"}, f)\n log(f\"new best {ndcg:.6f}\")" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-cb35bcd0-9c99-4b7e-80bc-7240c8f52861-69", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " p.add_argument(\"--n-extra-neg\", type=int, default=512)\n return p.parse_args()", "new_string": " p.add_argument(\"--n-extra-neg\", type=int, default=512)\n p.add_argument(\"--sg-epochs\", type=int, default=2)\n p.add_argument(\"--sg-pairs\", type=int, default=160)\n p.add_argument(\"--sg-window\", type=int, default=20)\n return p.parse_args()" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 49, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "A bug was found: the SG phase calls `maybe_eval` before it is defined in `fit`." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-5199acb6-a774-4287-adce-906a78baa13d-70", "name": 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"timestamp": null, "callId": "call-0898551c-518f-4077-8f5c-3285b94b6c0b-71", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ee16-138e-7ac0-a52e-6a416cd71404" ], "timeout_ms": 180000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0ee16-138e-7ac0-a52e-6a416cd71404 ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --sg-epochs 3 --val-epochs 1 --batch-size 1024 --max-pos-per-user 48 --n-extra-neg 512 --d 96 --lr 2e-3 --sg-pairs 200 --sg-window 24\nStatus: running\nDuration: 181.88s\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-5199acb6-a774-4287-adce-906a78baa13d-70.log\n\n=== Output ===\ncatalog=30000 target_users=8456\nvalidation graded users=4263 pairs=37769\npopularity baseline NDCG@10=0.010710\n=== load events ['train'] ===\nevents=20676474 now=24786800\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=194.6 targets_mapped=8449\ntraining examples: 437236\nskip-gram pairs: 1674535\n--- skip-gram epoch 1/3 ---\n sg step 80 loss=9.2217 2.6s\n sg step 160 loss=9.0866 5.1s\n sg step 240 loss=9.0231 7.6s\n sg step 320 loss=8.9788 10.1s\n sg step 400 loss=8.9407 12.6s\n sg step 480 loss=8.9030 15.1s\n sg step 560 loss=8.8680 17.6s\n sg step 640 loss=8.8336 21.6s\n sg step 720 loss=8.7991 24.0s\n sg step 800 loss=8.7668 26.5s\n sg step 880 loss=8.7362 29.0s\n sg step 960 loss=8.7059 31.6s\n sg step 1040 loss=8.6782 34.2s\n sg step 1120 loss=8.6520 36.8s\n sg step 1200 loss=8.6268 39.4s\n sg step 1280 loss=8.6037 42.0s\n sg step 1360 loss=8.5811 44.6s\n sg step 1440 loss=8.5596 47.2s\n sg step 1520 loss=8.5396 49.8s\n sg step 1600 loss=8.5201 53.7s\nskip-gram epoch 1 loss=8.5121\npublic val NDCG@10=0.003650 (sg1)\n--- skip-gram epoch 2/3 ---\n sg step 80 loss=7.4659 2.5s\n sg step 160 loss=7.4709 5.0s\n sg step 240 loss=7.4980 7.4s\n sg step 320 loss=7.5245 10.0s\n sg step 400 loss=7.5461 12.4s\n sg step 480 loss=7.5641 14.9s\n sg step 560 loss=7.5812 17.4s\n sg step 640 loss=7.5956 19.9s\n sg step 720 loss=7.6062 22.3s\n sg step 800 loss=7.6170 24.9s\n sg step 880 loss=7.6255 28.8s\n sg step 960 loss=7.6323 31.3s\n sg step 1040 loss=7.6398 33.8s\n sg step 1120 loss=7.6461 36.3s\n sg step 1200 loss=7.6507 38.8s\n sg step 1280 loss=7.6558 41.3s\n sg step 1360 loss=7.6592 43.7s\n sg step 1440 loss=7.6633 46.2s\n sg step 1520 loss=7.6666 48.7s\n sg step 1600 loss=7.6694 51.2s\nskip-gram epoch 2 loss=7.6710\npublic val NDCG@10=0.009471 (sg2)\n--- skip-gram epoch 3/3 ---\n sg step 80 loss=6.8892 2.6s\n sg step 160 loss=6.9235 6.6s\n sg step 240 loss=6.9509 9.1s\n sg step 320 loss=6.9798 11.6s\n sg step 400 loss=7.0095 14.2s\n sg step 480 loss=7.0341 16.8s\n sg step 560 loss=7.0571 19.5s\n sg step 640 loss=7.0802 22.0s\n sg step 720 loss=7.1001 24.5s\n sg step 800 loss=7.1175 27.0s\n sg step 880 loss=7.1347 29.6s\n sg step 960 loss=7.1502 32.2s\n sg step 1040 loss=7.1639 34.7s\n sg step 1120 loss=7.1769 38.7s\n sg step 1200 loss=7.1897 41.2s\n sg step 1280 loss=7.2016 43.7s\n sg step 1360 loss=7.2135 46.2s\n sg step 1440 loss=7.2252 48.8s\n\n\nWaited the requested 180s. Unless the user specified, do not kill this task just because this wait returned. It is still working. You will be notified automatically when it completes. Do other work, or wait again with a longer timeout_ms.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 51, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "SG1 scored 0.0036. That is worse than random and worse than popularity baseline." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-9fbbc422-4a0a-4944-8686-5cce7cebcb08-72", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ee16-138e-7ac0-a52e-6a416cd71404" ], "timeout_ms": 180000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0ee16-138e-7ac0-a52e-6a416cd71404 ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --sg-epochs 3 --val-epochs 1 --batch-size 1024 --max-pos-per-user 48 --n-extra-neg 512 --d 96 --lr 2e-3 --sg-pairs 200 --sg-window 24\nStatus: completed\nDuration: 248.88s\nExit Code: 0\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-5199acb6-a774-4287-adce-906a78baa13d-70.log\n\n=== Output ===\ncatalog=30000 target_users=8456\nvalidation graded users=4263 pairs=37769\npopularity baseline NDCG@10=0.010710\n=== load events ['train'] ===\nevents=20676474 now=24786800\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=194.6 targets_mapped=8449\ntraining examples: 437236\nskip-gram pairs: 1674535\n--- skip-gram epoch 1/3 ---\n sg step 80 loss=9.2217 2.6s\n sg step 160 loss=9.0866 5.1s\n sg step 240 loss=9.0231 7.6s\n sg step 320 loss=8.9788 10.1s\n sg step 400 loss=8.9407 12.6s\n sg step 480 loss=8.9030 15.1s\n sg step 560 loss=8.8680 17.6s\n sg step 640 loss=8.8336 21.6s\n sg step 720 loss=8.7991 24.0s\n sg step 800 loss=8.7668 26.5s\n sg step 880 loss=8.7362 29.0s\n sg step 960 loss=8.7059 31.6s\n sg step 1040 loss=8.6782 34.2s\n sg step 1120 loss=8.6520 36.8s\n sg step 1200 loss=8.6268 39.4s\n sg step 1280 loss=8.6037 42.0s\n sg step 1360 loss=8.5811 44.6s\n sg step 1440 loss=8.5596 47.2s\n sg step 1520 loss=8.5396 49.8s\n sg step 1600 loss=8.5201 53.7s\nskip-gram epoch 1 loss=8.5121\npublic val NDCG@10=0.003650 (sg1)\n--- skip-gram epoch 2/3 ---\n sg step 80 loss=7.4659 2.5s\n sg step 160 loss=7.4709 5.0s\n sg step 240 loss=7.4980 7.4s\n sg step 320 loss=7.5245 10.0s\n sg step 400 loss=7.5461 12.4s\n sg step 480 loss=7.5641 14.9s\n sg step 560 loss=7.5812 17.4s\n sg step 640 loss=7.5956 19.9s\n sg step 720 loss=7.6062 22.3s\n sg step 800 loss=7.6170 24.9s\n sg step 880 loss=7.6255 28.8s\n sg step 960 loss=7.6323 31.3s\n sg step 1040 loss=7.6398 33.8s\n sg step 1120 loss=7.6461 36.3s\n sg step 1200 loss=7.6507 38.8s\n sg step 1280 loss=7.6558 41.3s\n sg step 1360 loss=7.6592 43.7s\n sg step 1440 loss=7.6633 46.2s\n sg step 1520 loss=7.6666 48.7s\n sg step 1600 loss=7.6694 51.2s\nskip-gram epoch 2 loss=7.6710\npublic val NDCG@10=0.009471 (sg2)\n--- skip-gram epoch 3/3 ---\n sg step 80 loss=6.8892 2.6s\n sg step 160 loss=6.9235 6.6s\n sg step 240 loss=6.9509 9.1s\n sg step 320 loss=6.9798 11.6s\n sg step 400 loss=7.0095 14.2s\n sg step 480 loss=7.0341 16.8s\n sg step 560 loss=7.0571 19.5s\n sg step 640 loss=7.0802 22.0s\n sg step 720 loss=7.1001 24.5s\n sg step 800 loss=7.1175 27.0s\n sg step 880 loss=7.1347 29.6s\n sg step 960 loss=7.1502 32.2s\n sg step 1040 loss=7.1639 34.7s\n sg step 1120 loss=7.1769 38.7s\n sg step 1200 loss=7.1897 41.2s\n sg step 1280 loss=7.2016 43.7s\n sg step 1360 loss=7.2135 46.2s\n sg step 1440 loss=7.2252 48.8s\n sg step 1520 loss=7.2359 51.3s\n sg step 1600 loss=7.2460 53.8s\nskip-gram epoch 3 loss=7.2503\npublic val NDCG@10=0.011383 (sg3)\n--- epoch 1/1 examples=437236 ---\n step 50 loss=7.7185 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.114 5.4s\n step 100 loss=7.6752 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.116 10.7s\n step 150 loss=7.6509 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.119 18.8s\n step 200 loss=7.6320 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.122 24.2s\n step 250 loss=7.6131 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.125 29.6s\npublic val NDCG@10=0.016229 (step250)\nwrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600\nnew best 0.016229\n step 300 loss=7.5974 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.128 36.2s\n step 350 loss=7.5829 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.129 41.5s\n step 400 loss=7.5710 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.132 48.3s\nepoch 1 mean_loss=7.5646\npublic val NDCG@10=0.017407 (epoch1)\nwrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600\nnew best 0.017407\n=== backup test ranking (val weights, train+val history) ===\nprofiles: users=9927 mean_len=197.6 targets_mapped=8450\nwrote /app/solution/submission.parquet rows=845600\ndone in 244.7s\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 52, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The new best NDCG improved to 0.017407.\n\nSkip-gram pretraining plus leave-one-out fine-tuning is working well. The validation NDCG improved throughout the single LOO epoch, so more epochs are needed. I will warm-start from best_val.pt and add warmup to the validation stage." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-f407fb1b-9c8e-49c7-9aeb-693211abd1bd-73", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " p.add_argument(\"--sg-window\", type=int, default=20)\n return p.parse_args()", "new_string": " p.add_argument(\"--sg-window\", type=int, default=20)\n p.add_argument(\"--warmup\", type=str, default=\"\")\n return p.parse_args()" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-f407fb1b-9c8e-49c7-9aeb-693211abd1bd-74", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " start_best = best_public\n if args.stage in (\"val\", \"all\"):\n model, _ = fit([\"train\"], args.val_epochs, \"best_val.pt\", None, TRAIN_CUTOFF)", "new_string": " start_best = best_public\n val_warmup = Path(args.warmup) if args.warmup else None\n if args.stage in (\"val\", \"all\"):\n model, _ = fit([\"train\"], args.val_epochs, \"best_val.pt\", val_warmup, TRAIN_CUTOFF)" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 53, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Training resumes from the best validation checkpoint with a warmup phase." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-f6b17fa4-9ea4-40fa-9460-0ff17eced025-75", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --sg-epochs 0 --val-epochs 3 --batch-size 1024 --max-pos-per-user 64 --n-extra-neg 512 --d 96 --lr 8e-4 --warmup /app/solution/checkpoints/best_val.pt", "description": "Fine-tune best checkpoint for 3 more LOO epochs", "block_until_ms": 0 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "01a0ee1a-1f90-7140-9980-0a6742bf7d7e\nbash\n/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-f6b17fa4-9ea4-40fa-9460-0ff17eced025-75.log\nrunning\nBackground task 01a0ee1a-1f90-7140-9980-0a6742bf7d7e started\nUse get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=[\"01a0ee1a-1f90-7140-9980-0a6742bf7d7e\"] when you need the output.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 54, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-ad417939-e8aa-4c25-82d2-30325344c8dc-76", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ee1a-1f90-7140-9980-0a6742bf7d7e" ], "timeout_ms": 240000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0ee1a-1f90-7140-9980-0a6742bf7d7e ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage val --sg-epochs 0 --val-epochs 3 --batch-size 1024 --max-pos-per-user 64 --n-extra-neg 512 --d 96 --lr 8e-4 --warmup /app/solution/checkpoints/best_val.pt\nStatus: completed\nDuration: 225.42s\nExit Code: 0\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-f6b17fa4-9ea4-40fa-9460-0ff17eced025-75.log\n\n=== Output ===\ncatalog=30000 target_users=8456\nvalidation graded users=4263 pairs=37769\npopularity baseline NDCG@10=0.010710\n=== load events ['train'] ===\nevents=20676474 now=24786800\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=194.6 targets_mapped=8449\ntraining examples: 571970\nwarm-start /app/solution/checkpoints/best_val.pt\n--- epoch 1/3 examples=571970 ---\n step 50 loss=7.1984 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.135 5.4s\n step 100 loss=7.1901 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.136 10.8s\n step 150 loss=7.1867 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.137 17.4s\n step 200 loss=7.1844 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.138 24.2s\n step 250 loss=7.1825 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.139 29.6s\npublic val NDCG@10=0.016728 (step250)\n step 300 loss=7.1787 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.139 36.1s\n step 350 loss=7.1756 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.140 41.4s\n step 400 loss=7.1753 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.141 46.8s\n step 450 loss=7.1739 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.141 53.5s\n step 500 loss=7.1727 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.142 58.9s\npublic val NDCG@10=0.016707 (step500)\n step 550 loss=7.1702 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.143 65.3s\nepoch 1 mean_loss=7.1698\npublic val NDCG@10=0.017747 (epoch1)\nwrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600\nnew best 0.017747\n--- epoch 2/3 examples=571970 ---\n step 50 loss=6.8302 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.144 5.4s\n step 100 loss=6.8430 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.144 10.7s\n step 150 loss=6.8538 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.145 17.4s\n step 200 loss=6.8603 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.145 22.7s\n step 250 loss=6.8646 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.146 28.1s\npublic val NDCG@10=0.017165 (step250)\n step 300 loss=6.8738 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.147 34.6s\n step 350 loss=6.8752 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.147 40.0s\n step 400 loss=6.8791 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.147 46.0s\n step 450 loss=6.8808 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.147 52.2s\n step 500 loss=6.8828 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.148 57.5s\npublic val NDCG@10=0.016820 (step500)\n step 550 loss=6.8858 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.148 63.9s\nepoch 2 mean_loss=6.8866\npublic val NDCG@10=0.016138 (epoch2)\n--- epoch 3/3 examples=571970 ---\n step 50 loss=6.6062 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.148 5.4s\n step 100 loss=6.6181 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.148 10.7s\n step 150 loss=6.6282 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.148 17.5s\n step 200 loss=6.6333 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.148 23.0s\n step 250 loss=6.6390 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.147 28.4s\npublic val NDCG@10=0.016481 (step250)\n step 300 loss=6.6468 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.147 34.8s\n step 350 loss=6.6535 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.147 40.3s\n step 400 loss=6.6605 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.148 47.0s\n step 450 loss=6.6675 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.149 52.3s\n step 500 loss=6.6735 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.149 57.8s\npublic val NDCG@10=0.016364 (step500)\n step 550 loss=6.6770 tau=0.120 pop_gate=0.148 64.4s\nepoch 3 mean_loss=6.6783\npublic val NDCG@10=0.016742 (epoch3)\n=== backup test ranking (val weights, train+val history) ===\nprofiles: users=9927 mean_len=197.6 targets_mapped=8450\nwrote /app/solution/submission.parquet rows=845600\ndone in 221.1s\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 55, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Fine-tuning achieved a new best loss of 0.017747 at epoch 1, then performance declined slightly.\n\nThe best checkpoint was restored for the backup test. Next steps include training more skip-gram epochs from scratch, using harder negatives and a larger embedding dimension, and refitting on combined train-validation data.\n\nThe test refit will warm-start from the best validation checkpoint and run one skip-gram epoch plus one leave-one-out epoch at a lower learning rate. The official evaluator will be run on the validation data, and a hybrid ensemble of popularity and collaborative filtering will be tested.\n\nThe current ensemble weights popularity at only 0.028, so the model is almost purely collaborative filtering. Raising the popularity scale would require retraining. The next validation experiment will add two more skip-gram epochs to the current best checkpoint, though zero leave-one-out epochs may cause training issues.\n\nConfirmed that zero validation epochs still allow skip-gram training and checkpoint restoration. The winning architecture uses d=96 with asymmetric history and item embeddings. Next steps are to verify the public evaluator score, apply the winning recipe for test refitting, and write the README.\n\nThe winning recipe is now fixed: three skip-gram epochs with 200 pairs per user and a window of 24, one leave-one-out epoch at 2e-3, and another at 8e-4. Temperature tau is frozen at 0.12, the popularity gate is learned, and InfoNCE uses in-batch sampling with 512 uniform negatives. The best checkpoint will be copied to a safe name before running the public evaluator.\n\nThe test refit will warm-start from the best validation checkpoint and run two skip-gram epochs plus one leave-one-out epoch at 8e-4. The combined training-validation fit will rebuild examples to include validation first-time positives. The submission must contain exactly 845,600 rows with ranks 1 through 100. The README will be updated with the architecture and final score." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "0.0177 is the best so far. I’ll confirm it with the public evaluator, then try inference-only profile tweaks before the train+val refit." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-445bc34a-ed46-47ca-948d-bace2386d0b9-77", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/validation.parquet && cp -a /app/solution/checkpoints/best_val.pt /app/solution/checkpoints/best_val_0177.pt && cat /app/solution/val_score.json", "description": "Score validation ranking with public evaluator" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\n{\n \"model\": \"/app/solution/validation.parquet\",\n \"scores\": {\n \"quality_ndcg@10\": 0.017747,\n \"quality_users\": 4263\n }\n}\n{\"quality_ndcg@10\": 0.017747, \"tag\": \"epoch1\", \"model\": \"two_tower\"}", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 56, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Confirmed the baseline score of 0.017747. Now running an inference ablation for half-life and profile length." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-487576f4-761a-4f87-8c90-19c6ef33737b-78", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport sys, math, json\nfrom pathlib import Path\nimport numpy as np\nimport torch\nimport torch.nn.functional as F\nsys.path.insert(0, '/app/solution')\nsys.path.insert(0, '/task')\nimport two_tower_ranker as ttr\n\n# monkeypatch half life via recency_weights by passing through aggregate via HALF_LIFE\nDATA = ttr.DATA\ndevice = torch.device('cpu')\ncatalog_ids, item_feats_np, pop_np = ttr.load_catalog()\nn_cat = len(catalog_ids)\nn_items = n_cat + 1\nmapper = ttr.make_mapper(catalog_ids)\ntarget_uids = __import__('pandas').read_parquet(DATA/'target_users.parquet').uid.to_numpy('int64')\nval_eu, val_ei, val_pm = ttr.load_eligibility(DATA/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nval_mask = ttr.align_eligibility(target_uids, val_eu, val_pm)\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(target_uids)}\nitem_col = {int(it):i for i,it in enumerate(catalog_ids)}\ngraded = ttr.validation_graded(set(map(int,target_uids)), uid_row, item_col, val_mask)\n\nevents = ttr.load_events(['train'], mapper)\ntables = ttr.build_user_tables(events)\nidf = ttr.compute_idf(tables, n_items)\nnow = ttr.TRAIN_CUTOFF\n\nmodel = ttr.TwoTower(n_items, torch.from_numpy(item_feats_np), torch.from_numpy(pop_np), d=96)\nstate = torch.load('/app/solution/checkpoints/best_val_0177.pt', map_location='cpu')\nmodel.load_state_dict(state)\nmodel.eval()\n\norig_rec = ttr.recency_weights\n\ndef make_rec(half):\n def recency_weights(ts, now, half_life=half):\n age_days = np.clip(now - ts.astype(np.int64), 0, None).astype(np.float32) / ttr.DAY\n return np.exp(-math.log(2.0) * age_days / half_life).astype(np.float32)\n return recency_weights\n\nresults = []\nfor half in [10, 14, 21, 28, 45, 90]:\n for plen in [128, 192, 256, 384]:\n ttr.recency_weights = make_rec(half)\n profiles = ttr.build_profiles(tables, target_uids, idf, now, plen)\n ranked = ttr.rank_all(model, profiles, target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask, device)\n scores = ttr.score_ranked(target_uids, ranked, graded)\n nd = scores['quality_ndcg@10']\n results.append((nd, half, plen))\n print(f'half={half:5.1f} plen={plen:3d} ndcg={nd:.6f}', flush=True)\n\nresults.sort(reverse=True)\nprint('TOP', results[:8])\nttr.recency_weights = orig_rec\nPY\n", "description": "Ablate inference half-life and profile length" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "call-487576f4-761a-4f87-8c90-19c6ef33737b-78\nbash\n/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-487576f4-761a-4f87-8c90-19c6ef33737b-78.log\nrunning\nCommand \"Ablate inference half-life and profile length\" is still running after 30s (block_until_ms) and has been moved to the background as task call-487576f4-761a-4f87-8c90-19c6ef33737b-78.\nUse get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=[\"call-487576f4-761a-4f87-8c90-19c6ef33737b-78\"] when you need the output.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 57, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-47fd2d35-7f21-4e1d-8831-3ead81f14961-79", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "call-487576f4-761a-4f87-8c90-19c6ef33737b-78" ], "timeout_ms": 300000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task call-487576f4-761a-4f87-8c90-19c6ef33737b-78 ===\nCommand: /opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport sys, math, json\nfrom pathlib import Path\nimport numpy as np\nimport torch\nimport torch.nn.functional as F\nsys.path.insert(0, '/app/solution')\nsys.path.insert(0, '/task')\nimport two_tower_ranker as ttr\n\n# monkeypatch half life via recency_weights by passing through aggregate via HALF_LIFE\nDATA = ttr.DATA\ndevice = torch.device('cpu')\ncatalog_ids, item_feats_np, pop_np = ttr.load_catalog()\nn_cat = len(catalog_ids)\nn_items = n_cat + 1\nmapper = ttr.make_mapper(catalog_ids)\ntarget_uids = __import__('pandas').read_parquet(DATA/'target_users.parquet').uid.to_numpy('int64')\nval_eu, val_ei, val_pm = ttr.load_eligibility(DATA/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nval_mask = ttr.align_eligibility(target_uids, val_eu, val_pm)\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(target_uids)}\nitem_col = {int(it):i for i,it in enumerate(catalog_ids)}\ngraded = ttr.validation_graded(set(map(int,target_uids)), uid_row, item_col, val_mask)\n\nevents = ttr.load_events(['train'], mapper)\ntables = ttr.build_user_tables(events)\nidf = ttr.compute_idf(tables, n_items)\nnow = ttr.TRAIN_CUTOFF\n\nmodel = ttr.TwoTower(n_items, torch.from_numpy(item_feats_np), torch.from_numpy(pop_np), d=96)\nstate = torch.load('/app/solution/checkpoints/best_val_0177.pt', map_location='cpu')\nmodel.load_state_dict(state)\nmodel.eval()\n\norig_rec = ttr.recency_weights\n\ndef make_rec(half):\n def recency_weights(ts, now, half_life=half):\n age_days = np.clip(now - ts.astype(np.int64), 0, None).astype(np.float32) / ttr.DAY\n return np.exp(-math.log(2.0) * age_days / half_life).astype(np.float32)\n return recency_weights\n\nresults = []\nfor half in [10, 14, 21, 28, 45, 90]:\n for plen in [128, 192, 256, 384]:\n ttr.recency_weights = make_rec(half)\n profiles = ttr.build_profiles(tables, target_uids, idf, now, plen)\n ranked = ttr.rank_all(model, profiles, target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask, device)\n scores = ttr.score_ranked(target_uids, ranked, graded)\n nd = scores['quality_ndcg@10']\n results.append((nd, half, plen))\n print(f'half={half:5.1f} plen={plen:3d} ndcg={nd:.6f}', flush=True)\n\nresults.sort(reverse=True)\nprint('TOP', results[:8])\nttr.recency_weights = orig_rec\nPY\n\nStatus: completed\nDuration: 85.59s\nExit Code: 0\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-487576f4-761a-4f87-8c90-19c6ef33737b-78.log\n\n=== Output ===\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=108.1 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 10.0 plen=128 ndcg=0.015340\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=153.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 10.0 plen=192 ndcg=0.016092\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=194.6 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 10.0 plen=256 ndcg=0.016510\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=266.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 10.0 plen=384 ndcg=0.016752\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=108.2 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 14.0 plen=128 ndcg=0.015924\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=153.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 14.0 plen=192 ndcg=0.016599\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=194.6 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 14.0 plen=256 ndcg=0.017014\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=266.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 14.0 plen=384 ndcg=0.017158\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=108.2 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 21.0 plen=128 ndcg=0.016186\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=153.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 21.0 plen=192 ndcg=0.016968\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=194.6 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 21.0 plen=256 ndcg=0.017276\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=266.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 21.0 plen=384 ndcg=0.017488\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=108.2 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 28.0 plen=128 ndcg=0.016326\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=153.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 28.0 plen=192 ndcg=0.017213\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=194.6 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 28.0 plen=256 ndcg=0.017747\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=266.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 28.0 plen=384 ndcg=0.018222\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=108.2 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 45.0 plen=128 ndcg=0.016333\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=153.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 45.0 plen=192 ndcg=0.017236\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=194.6 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 45.0 plen=256 ndcg=0.017565\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=266.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 45.0 plen=384 ndcg=0.018069\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=108.2 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 90.0 plen=128 ndcg=0.016002\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=153.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 90.0 plen=192 ndcg=0.016812\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=194.6 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 90.0 plen=256 ndcg=0.017019\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=266.6 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf= 90.0 plen=384 ndcg=0.017807\nTOP [(0.018222, 28, 384), (0.018069, 45, 384), (0.017807, 90, 384), (0.017747, 28, 256), (0.017565, 45, 256), (0.017488, 21, 384), (0.017276, 21, 256), (0.017236, 45, 192)]\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 58, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Longer profiles improve performance. A half-length of 28 and profile length of 384 yields zero." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-41066ce2-9e25-4f41-9a43-bd04524aaba0-80", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport sys, math\nimport numpy as np\nimport torch\nsys.path.insert(0, '/app/solution')\nsys.path.insert(0, '/task')\nimport two_tower_ranker as ttr\nimport pandas as pd\n\ndevice = torch.device('cpu')\ncatalog_ids, item_feats_np, pop_np = ttr.load_catalog()\nn_items = len(catalog_ids) + 1\nmapper = ttr.make_mapper(catalog_ids)\ntarget_uids = pd.read_parquet(ttr.DATA/'target_users.parquet').uid.to_numpy('int64')\nval_eu, val_ei, val_pm = ttr.load_eligibility(ttr.DATA/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nval_mask = ttr.align_eligibility(target_uids, val_eu, val_pm)\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(target_uids)}\nitem_col = {int(it):i for i,it in enumerate(catalog_ids)}\ngraded = ttr.validation_graded(set(map(int,target_uids)), uid_row, item_col, val_mask)\nevents = ttr.load_events(['train'], mapper)\ntables = ttr.build_user_tables(events)\nidf = ttr.compute_idf(tables, n_items)\nnow = ttr.TRAIN_CUTOFF\nmodel = ttr.TwoTower(n_items, torch.from_numpy(item_feats_np), torch.from_numpy(pop_np), d=96)\nmodel.load_state_dict(torch.load('/app/solution/checkpoints/best_val_0177.pt', map_location='cpu'))\nmodel.eval()\n\ndef make_rec(half):\n def recency_weights(ts, now, half_life=half):\n age_days = np.clip(now - ts.astype(np.int64), 0, None).astype(np.float32) / ttr.DAY\n return np.exp(-math.log(2.0) * age_days / half_life).astype(np.float32)\n return recency_weights\n\nfor half in [24, 28, 32, 36]:\n ttr.recency_weights = make_rec(half)\n for plen in [320, 384, 512, 640, 768]:\n profiles = ttr.build_profiles(tables, target_uids, idf, now, plen)\n ranked = ttr.rank_all(model, profiles, target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask, device)\n nd = ttr.score_ranked(target_uids, ranked, graded)['quality_ndcg@10']\n print(f'half={half} plen={plen} ndcg={nd:.6f}', flush=True)\nPY\n", "description": "Ablate longer inference profiles and half-lives" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "call-41066ce2-9e25-4f41-9a43-bd04524aaba0-80\nbash\n/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-41066ce2-9e25-4f41-9a43-bd04524aaba0-80.log\nrunning\nCommand \"Ablate longer inference profiles and half-lives\" is still running after 30s (block_until_ms) and has been moved to the background as task call-41066ce2-9e25-4f41-9a43-bd04524aaba0-80.\nUse get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=[\"call-41066ce2-9e25-4f41-9a43-bd04524aaba0-80\"] when you need the output.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 59, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-2f31abe2-b53a-4e08-874e-82e5cc5674eb-81", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "call-41066ce2-9e25-4f41-9a43-bd04524aaba0-80" ], "timeout_ms": 180000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task call-41066ce2-9e25-4f41-9a43-bd04524aaba0-80 ===\nCommand: /opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport sys, math\nimport numpy as np\nimport torch\nsys.path.insert(0, '/app/solution')\nsys.path.insert(0, '/task')\nimport two_tower_ranker as ttr\nimport pandas as pd\n\ndevice = torch.device('cpu')\ncatalog_ids, item_feats_np, pop_np = ttr.load_catalog()\nn_items = len(catalog_ids) + 1\nmapper = ttr.make_mapper(catalog_ids)\ntarget_uids = pd.read_parquet(ttr.DATA/'target_users.parquet').uid.to_numpy('int64')\nval_eu, val_ei, val_pm = ttr.load_eligibility(ttr.DATA/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nval_mask = ttr.align_eligibility(target_uids, val_eu, val_pm)\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(target_uids)}\nitem_col = {int(it):i for i,it in enumerate(catalog_ids)}\ngraded = ttr.validation_graded(set(map(int,target_uids)), uid_row, item_col, val_mask)\nevents = ttr.load_events(['train'], mapper)\ntables = ttr.build_user_tables(events)\nidf = ttr.compute_idf(tables, n_items)\nnow = ttr.TRAIN_CUTOFF\nmodel = ttr.TwoTower(n_items, torch.from_numpy(item_feats_np), torch.from_numpy(pop_np), d=96)\nmodel.load_state_dict(torch.load('/app/solution/checkpoints/best_val_0177.pt', map_location='cpu'))\nmodel.eval()\n\ndef make_rec(half):\n def recency_weights(ts, now, half_life=half):\n age_days = np.clip(now - ts.astype(np.int64), 0, None).astype(np.float32) / ttr.DAY\n return np.exp(-math.log(2.0) * age_days / half_life).astype(np.float32)\n return recency_weights\n\nfor half in [24, 28, 32, 36]:\n ttr.recency_weights = make_rec(half)\n for plen in [320, 384, 512, 640, 768]:\n profiles = ttr.build_profiles(tables, target_uids, idf, now, plen)\n ranked = ttr.rank_all(model, profiles, target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask, device)\n nd = ttr.score_ranked(target_uids, ranked, graded)['quality_ndcg@10']\n print(f'half={half} plen={plen} ndcg={nd:.6f}', flush=True)\nPY\n\nStatus: completed\nDuration: 81.47s\nExit Code: 0\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-41066ce2-9e25-4f41-9a43-bd04524aaba0-80.log\n\n=== Output ===\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=232.2 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=24 plen=320 ndcg=0.017484\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=266.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=24 plen=384 ndcg=0.017859\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=325.7 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=24 plen=512 ndcg=0.018099\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=373.8 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=24 plen=640 ndcg=0.018286\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=412.8 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=24 plen=768 ndcg=0.018395\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=232.2 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=28 plen=320 ndcg=0.017623\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=266.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=28 plen=384 ndcg=0.018222\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=325.7 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=28 plen=512 ndcg=0.018330\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=373.8 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=28 plen=640 ndcg=0.018621\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=412.8 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=28 plen=768 ndcg=0.018591\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=232.2 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=32 plen=320 ndcg=0.017861\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=266.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=32 plen=384 ndcg=0.018257\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=325.7 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=32 plen=512 ndcg=0.018305\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=373.8 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=32 plen=640 ndcg=0.018458\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=412.8 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=32 plen=768 ndcg=0.018535\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=232.2 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=36 plen=320 ndcg=0.017667\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=266.5 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=36 plen=384 ndcg=0.017967\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=325.7 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=36 plen=512 ndcg=0.018024\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=373.8 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=36 plen=640 ndcg=0.018234\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=412.8 targets_mapped=8449\nhalf=36 plen=768 ndcg=0.018410\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 60, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The best configuration so far uses half=28 and plen=640, with an NDCG of 0." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-0691e9d9-4a30-4d2a-a4fd-14221080e820-82", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport sys, math\nimport numpy as np\nimport torch\nimport pandas as pd\nsys.path.insert(0, '/app/solution')\nsys.path.insert(0, '/task')\nimport two_tower_ranker as ttr\n\ndevice = torch.device('cpu')\ncatalog_ids, item_feats_np, pop_np = ttr.load_catalog()\nn_items = len(catalog_ids) + 1\nmapper = ttr.make_mapper(catalog_ids)\ntarget_uids = pd.read_parquet(ttr.DATA/'target_users.parquet').uid.to_numpy('int64')\nval_eu, val_ei, val_pm = ttr.load_eligibility(ttr.DATA/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nval_mask = ttr.align_eligibility(target_uids, val_eu, val_pm)\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(target_uids)}\nitem_col = {int(it):i for i,it in enumerate(catalog_ids)}\ngraded = ttr.validation_graded(set(map(int,target_uids)), uid_row, item_col, val_mask)\nevents = ttr.load_events(['train'], mapper)\ntables = ttr.build_user_tables(events)\nidf = ttr.compute_idf(tables, n_items)\nnow = ttr.TRAIN_CUTOFF\nmodel = ttr.TwoTower(n_items, torch.from_numpy(item_feats_np), torch.from_numpy(pop_np), d=96)\nmodel.load_state_dict(torch.load('/app/solution/checkpoints/best_val_0177.pt', map_location='cpu'))\nmodel.eval()\n\nbest = (0, None, None, None)\nfor plen in [600, 640, 700, 800, 1024, 1500, 2500]:\n profiles = ttr.build_profiles(tables, target_uids, idf, now, plen)\n ranked = ttr.rank_all(model, profiles, target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask, device)\n nd = ttr.score_ranked(target_uids, ranked, graded)['quality_ndcg@10']\n print(f'plen={plen} mean_len={float(profiles.lengths.mean()):.1f} ndcg={nd:.6f}', flush=True)\n if nd > best[0]:\n best = (nd, plen, ranked, profiles)\nprint('BEST', best[0], best[1])\nif best[0] > 0.017747:\n ttr.write_ranking(ttr.SOLUTION/'validation.parquet', target_uids, best[2])\n import json\n json.dump({'quality_ndcg@10': best[0], 'tag': f'infer_plen{best[1]}', 'model': 'two_tower'}, open(ttr.SOLUTION/'val_score.json','w'))\n print('updated validation.parquet')\nPY\n", "description": "Find best inference profile length and save ranking" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "call-0691e9d9-4a30-4d2a-a4fd-14221080e820-82\nbash\n/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-0691e9d9-4a30-4d2a-a4fd-14221080e820-82.log\nrunning\nCommand \"Find best inference profile length and save ranking\" is still running after 30s (block_until_ms) and has been moved to the background as task call-0691e9d9-4a30-4d2a-a4fd-14221080e820-82.\nUse get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=[\"call-0691e9d9-4a30-4d2a-a4fd-14221080e820-82\"] when you need the output.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 61, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-c8b3983a-2765-4267-9e07-4e35c14d8199-83", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "call-0691e9d9-4a30-4d2a-a4fd-14221080e820-82" ], "timeout_ms": 180000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task call-0691e9d9-4a30-4d2a-a4fd-14221080e820-82 ===\nCommand: /opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport sys, math\nimport numpy as np\nimport torch\nimport pandas as pd\nsys.path.insert(0, '/app/solution')\nsys.path.insert(0, '/task')\nimport two_tower_ranker as ttr\n\ndevice = torch.device('cpu')\ncatalog_ids, item_feats_np, pop_np = ttr.load_catalog()\nn_items = len(catalog_ids) + 1\nmapper = ttr.make_mapper(catalog_ids)\ntarget_uids = pd.read_parquet(ttr.DATA/'target_users.parquet').uid.to_numpy('int64')\nval_eu, val_ei, val_pm = ttr.load_eligibility(ttr.DATA/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nval_mask = ttr.align_eligibility(target_uids, val_eu, val_pm)\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(target_uids)}\nitem_col = {int(it):i for i,it in enumerate(catalog_ids)}\ngraded = ttr.validation_graded(set(map(int,target_uids)), uid_row, item_col, val_mask)\nevents = ttr.load_events(['train'], mapper)\ntables = ttr.build_user_tables(events)\nidf = ttr.compute_idf(tables, n_items)\nnow = ttr.TRAIN_CUTOFF\nmodel = ttr.TwoTower(n_items, torch.from_numpy(item_feats_np), torch.from_numpy(pop_np), d=96)\nmodel.load_state_dict(torch.load('/app/solution/checkpoints/best_val_0177.pt', map_location='cpu'))\nmodel.eval()\n\nbest = (0, None, None, None)\nfor plen in [600, 640, 700, 800, 1024, 1500, 2500]:\n profiles = ttr.build_profiles(tables, target_uids, idf, now, plen)\n ranked = ttr.rank_all(model, profiles, target_uids, catalog_ids, val_mask, device)\n nd = ttr.score_ranked(target_uids, ranked, graded)['quality_ndcg@10']\n print(f'plen={plen} mean_len={float(profiles.lengths.mean()):.1f} ndcg={nd:.6f}', flush=True)\n if nd > best[0]:\n best = (nd, plen, ranked, profiles)\nprint('BEST', best[0], best[1])\nif best[0] > 0.017747:\n ttr.write_ranking(ttr.SOLUTION/'validation.parquet', target_uids, best[2])\n import json\n json.dump({'quality_ndcg@10': best[0], 'tag': f'infer_plen{best[1]}', 'model': 'two_tower'}, open(ttr.SOLUTION/'val_score.json','w'))\n print('updated validation.parquet')\nPY\n\nStatus: completed\nDuration: 41.53s\nExit Code: 0\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-0691e9d9-4a30-4d2a-a4fd-14221080e820-82.log\n\n=== Output ===\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=359.9 targets_mapped=8449\nplen=600 mean_len=359.9 ndcg=0.018545\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=373.8 targets_mapped=8449\nplen=640 mean_len=373.8 ndcg=0.018621\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=393.0 targets_mapped=8449\nplen=700 mean_len=393.0 ndcg=0.018548\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=421.3 targets_mapped=8449\nplen=800 mean_len=421.3 ndcg=0.018686\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=470.0 targets_mapped=8449\nplen=1024 mean_len=470.0 ndcg=0.018874\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=528.1 targets_mapped=8449\nplen=1500 mean_len=528.1 ndcg=0.018797\nprofiles: users=9913 mean_len=565.4 targets_mapped=8449\nplen=2500 mean_len=565.4 ndcg=0.018775\nBEST 0.018874 1024\nwrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600\nupdated validation.parquet\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 62, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Profile length 1024 achieved zero NDCG on inference.\n\nProfile length is fixed at 1024. The next steps are to refit the winning recipe on train and validation data, produce test rankings with this setting, update the README, and rerun the public evaluator. The test stage will warm-start from the best validation checkpoint, adapt for two epochs on validation co-occurrences, then one epoch using leave-one-out evaluation." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-81a7020e-48f3-4efd-b7af-67e437c46868-84", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " p.add_argument(\"--profile-len\", type=int, default=256)", "new_string": " p.add_argument(\"--profile-len\", type=int, default=1024)" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-81a7020e-48f3-4efd-b7af-67e437c46868-85", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\n\"\"\"Write test submission from the best val checkpoint with train+val history.\"\"\"\nimport sys\nimport numpy as np\nimport torch\nimport pandas as pd\nsys.path.insert(0, '/app/solution')\nsys.path.insert(0, '/task')\nimport two_tower_ranker as ttr\n\ndevice = torch.device('cpu')\ncatalog_ids, item_feats_np, pop_np = ttr.load_catalog()\nn_items = len(catalog_ids) + 1\nmapper = ttr.make_mapper(catalog_ids)\ntarget_uids = pd.read_parquet(ttr.DATA/'target_users.parquet').uid.to_numpy('int64')\ntest_eu, test_ei, test_pm = ttr.load_eligibility(ttr.DATA/'test_eligible_candidates.npz')\ntest_mask = ttr.align_eligibility(target_uids, test_eu, test_pm)\nprint('loading train+val events', flush=True)\nevents = ttr.load_events(['train', 'val'], mapper)\nnow = int(events['ts'].max()) + 1\ntables = ttr.build_user_tables(events)\ndel events\nidf = ttr.compute_idf(tables, n_items)\nprofiles = ttr.build_profiles(tables, target_uids, idf, now, 1024)\nmodel = ttr.TwoTower(n_items, torch.from_numpy(item_feats_np), torch.from_numpy(pop_np), d=96)\nmodel.load_state_dict(torch.load('/app/solution/checkpoints/best_val_0177.pt', map_location='cpu'))\nmodel.eval()\nranked = ttr.rank_all(model, profiles, target_uids, catalog_ids, test_mask, device)\nttr.write_ranking(ttr.SOLUTION/'submission.parquet', target_uids, ranked)\nprint('test ranking written', ranked.shape, flush=True)\n# sanity: all eligible\nfor i in range(0, len(target_uids), 500):\n items = ranked[i]\n cols = [int(np.where(catalog_ids==x)[0][0]) for x in items[:5]]\n assert test_mask[i, cols].all()\nprint('spot-check eligibility ok')\nPY\n", "description": "Write test submission from best val model with long profiles" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\nloading train+val events\nprofiles: users=9927 mean_len=480.3 targets_mapped=8450\nwrote /app/solution/submission.parquet rows=845600\ntest ranking written (8456, 100)\nspot-check eligibility ok\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 63, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The best validation model produced a valid test submission.\n\nThe next step is a final refit on combined train and validation data. This should improve ranking quality by treating validation events as training history.\n\nThe final refit will use best_val.pt as its warmup checkpoint. That file was saved at epoch 1 with the best validation loss of 0.017747, and best_val_0177.pt is just a copy of it.\n\nThe test stage hardcodes best_val.pt as its warmup checkpoint, ignoring any --warmup argument. Training will use 1024-length profiles for leave-one-out evaluation, which is slower than the 256-length validation profiles.\n\nMemory and speed impact of 1024-length profiles is negligible. The test refit will run next, followed by a public evaluation on the updated validation parquet." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-6ea64ba4-d8b7-4ca7-ba65-2a560ff998ae-86", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py", "old_string": " if args.stage in (\"test\", \"all\"):\n warmup = CKPT_DIR / \"best_val.pt\"\n events_tv = None\n model, profiles_tv = fit(\n [\"train\", \"val\"],\n args.test_epochs,\n \"final_test.pt\",\n warmup if warmup.exists() else None,\n None,\n )", "new_string": " if args.stage in (\"test\", \"all\"):\n warmup = Path(args.warmup) if args.warmup else CKPT_DIR / \"best_val.pt\"\n model, profiles_tv = fit(\n [\"train\", \"val\"],\n args.test_epochs,\n \"final_test.pt\",\n warmup if warmup.exists() else None,\n None,\n )" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/two_tower_ranker.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-6ea64ba4-d8b7-4ca7-ba65-2a560ff998ae-87", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/validation.parquet", "description": "Confirm public NDCG for best validation ranking" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\n{\n \"model\": \"/app/solution/validation.parquet\",\n \"scores\": {\n \"quality_ndcg@10\": 0.018874,\n \"quality_users\": 4263\n }\n}\n", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-6ea64ba4-d8b7-4ca7-ba65-2a560ff998ae-88", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python two_tower_ranker.py --stage test --sg-epochs 2 --test-epochs 1 --batch-size 1024 --max-pos-per-user 48 --n-extra-neg 512 --d 96 --lr 8e-4 --profile-len 1024 --warmup /app/solution/checkpoints/best_val_0177.pt --sg-pairs 160 --sg-window 24", "description": "Refit two-tower on train+val for hidden test", "block_until_ms": 0 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "01a0ee22-6fe5-72b1-828b-b66085553a3d\nbash\n/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/d51a89a4-9f58-42a9-b03a-1cb41c0dda38/terminal/call-6ea64ba4-d8b7-4ca7-ba65-2a560ff998ae-88.log\nrunning\nBackground task 01a0ee22-6fe5-72b1-828b-b66085553a3d started\nUse get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=[\"01a0ee22-6fe5-72b1-828b-b66085553a3d\"] when you need the output.\n\n\nNote: 1 other background task is still running:\n- \"01a0ee22-6fdc-7dd0-a5f0-654d724bd455\" (running for 0s): Confirm public NDCG for best validation ranking\nConsider killing duplicate tasks with kill_command_or_subagent before launching new ones.\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 64, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-eccfd750-6a8e-4fe8-ae4f-b2022a57790a-89", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ee22-6fe5-72b1-828b-b66085553a3d" ], "timeout_ms": 300000 }, "result": null } ] } ] }