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          "text": "<user_query>\n# Improve a production music-discovery two-tower\n\nYou have joined the recommendations team for a music streaming service. The\n\"Made for You\" shelf is served by a mature production two-tower model. Its\nchronological data protocol and indexed serving path are sound, but its offline\nretrieval quality no longer clears the team's next launch gate.\n\nYour job is to investigate the production model, improve its retrieval quality,\nand ship a better ranking artifact. Use the implementation and public validation\ndata to form and test your own diagnosis.\n\nThe source used to reproduce the production model is included under\n`/task/current_model/`. You may copy it into `/app/solution/`, edit it, add\ntests, and improve its training objective, but keep the data protocol,\ntwo-tower serving contract, and evaluation boundary intact.\n\n## Production Context\n\nThe model must satisfy a strict request-time latency budget. Item vectors are\nprecomputed offline. At request time, one user vector is computed from observed\ninteraction history and compared with candidate item vectors by a batchable\ntwo-tower score. Do not introduce a cross-encoder, per-candidate sequence model,\nor user-ID lookup table.\n\nThe current trainer is a mature baseline with chronological internal\nvalidation. Focus your investigation on how its training objective selects and\nuses negative examples. Diagnose limitations in the current negative-sampling\nstrategy and improve it under the fixed CPU budget. Validate changes with the\npublic backtest. The final approach must still train and rank within the supplied\nCPU environment while preserving the serving and data boundaries above.\n\n## What You Have\n\nAll public inputs are under `/task/data/`. A stage cutoff is the timestamp at\nwhich observed history and candidate eligibility are frozen for a ranking. The\npublic validation stage cutoff is `24786800`, when `train_*` ends. A 30-minute\ngap precedes the seven-day `val_*` window. For the final submission, that\nvalidation window becomes observed history, and another 30-minute gap precedes\nthe hidden seven-day outcome window.\n\nThe package includes:\n\n- `/task/current_model/train_current_model.py`: the production training and\n  ranking script. It can reproduce the public validation ranking and produce a\n  hidden-test submission after refitting.\n- `/task/current_model/two_tower_model.py`: model primitives used by the\n  production script.\n- `/task/evaluate_public.py`: the public validation evaluator for development.\n- `/task/data/validation_eligible_candidates.npz` and\n  `/task/data/test_eligible_candidates.npz`: platform-owned candidate sets for\n  the validation and hidden-test cutoffs.\n- `/task/data/validation_preference_state.parquet` and\n  `/task/data/test_preference_state.parquet`: active explicit preference state\n  at the corresponding cutoffs.\n- `/task/requirements.txt`: the exact offline Python distribution inventory.\n\nYou can reproduce the production public backtest with:\n\n```sh\npython /task/current_model/train_current_model.py \\\n  --stage validation \\\n  --public-dir /task \\\n  --output /app/solution/production_validation.parquet\npython /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/production_validation.parquet\n```\n\n## Data\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 came\nthrough a recommendation surface. A listen is a conventional positive at 50%\ncompletion. The discovery-quality objective below uses the stronger 80%\nthreshold.\n\nThe two public windows have different roles:\n\n1. For model development and selection, train only from `train_*` and score the\n   subsequent `val_*` outcomes.\n2. After selecting an improvement, 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\nValidation candidates exclude all `train_*` encounters. Test candidates exclude\nall `train_*` and `val_*` encounters. Future test interactions are hidden and\nused only by the 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 same objective for development, but its score\nis not a separate acceptance stage. Final acceptance is determined on the\nhidden test using the same objective. The Yambda logs contain interactions, not\nimpression propensities; treat the organic objective as a robust offline target,\nnot as a causal estimate of online lift.\n\n## Deliverable\n\nSubmit one final ranking as `/app/solution/submission.parquet` or\n`/app/solution/submission.csv`. It must be a regular file, not a symbolic link.\nIf both files exist, the verifier evaluates `submission.parquet` and ignores\n`submission.csv`.\n\nThe ranking must:\n\n- include the columns `uid`, `item_id`, and `rank`; only these columns are\n  evaluated;\n- use finite, integer-valued entries in all three required columns;\n- cover exactly the users in `target_users.parquet`, with no missing or extra\n  users;\n- contain exactly 100 rows and 100 distinct items for every target user;\n- contain every integer rank from 1 through 100 exactly once per user; and\n- use only items present in that user's `test_eligible_candidates.npz`\n  candidate set.\n\nAlso leave the improved implementation used to build the artifact at\n`/app/solution/train_current_model.py`, along with any local modules it imports.\nA concise `/app/solution/README.md` with the diagnosis, before-and-after public\nscore, model change, and submission command is useful for the experiment record,\nbut it is not an automated acceptance gate.\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- Do not alter cutoff definitions, target users, candidate eligibility, or\n  relevance labels.\n- Improve the production pipeline in place. 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            "content": "1→#!/usr/bin/env python3\n\"\"\"Train the Yambda windowed two-tower baseline.\n\nEvery catalog listen with at least 50 percent completion is a sequence token.\nWithin each selected chronological window, every adjacent target contributes a\nloss.  The fast default retains each user's most recent 128 training targets and\n16 held-out validation targets; passing zero for either cap restores the\nuncapped behavior for that side of the split.  A 100-step truncated-BPTT block\ncomputes all of its timestep losses and carries the detached GRU hidden state\n10→into the next block.\n\nThe model is a pure two-tower retriever: no user-ID embedding, no output\nnormalization, raw dot-product retrieval, sample-weighted binary cross entropy,\nand 24 uniform plus eight propensity-corrected unique in-batch negatives. Every\nselected adjacent target retains a nonzero weight. Only files under the supplied\npublic directory are read.\n\"\"\"\nfrom __future__ import annotations\n\n20→import argparse\nimport json\nimport random\nimport sys\nimport time\nfrom dataclasses import asdict, dataclass\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\nimport numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\n30→import torch\nfrom torch import nn\nfrom torch.nn import functional as F\n\nimport two_tower_model as base\n\n\nCACHE_VERSION = 2\n\n\n40→@dataclass(frozen=True)\nclass Config:\n    bptt_steps: int = 100\n    user_batch_size: int = 64\n    embedding_dim: int = 192\n    hidden_dim: int = 192\n    user_hidden_1: int = 512\n    user_hidden_2: int = 256\n    item_hidden_1: int = 512\n    item_hidden_2: int = 256\n50→    dropout: float = 0.05\n    epochs: int = 1\n    learning_rate: float = 1.0e-3\n    weight_decay: float = 1.0e-5\n    gradient_clip: float = 2.0\n    loss_microbatch_size: int = 65_536\n    uniform_negatives: int = 24\n    inbatch_negatives: int = 8\n    inbatch_correction_power: float = 0.5\n    inbatch_correction_min: float = 0.25\n60→    inbatch_correction_max: float = 4.0\n    negative_filter_scope: str = \"full-training-history\"\n    target_weighting: str = \"organic-strong\"\n    ordinary_target_weight: float = 0.25\n    organic_strong_target_weight: float = 1.0\n    organic_like_target_weight: float = 3.0\n    discovery_horizon_days: int = 7\n    validation_fraction: float = 0.10\n    max_train_targets_per_user: int = 128\n    max_validation_targets_per_user: int = 16\n70→    early_stopping_patience: int = 1\n    early_stopping_min_delta: float = 1.0e-4\n    seed: int = 29\n\n\n@dataclass(frozen=True)\nclass CandidateSet:\n    uids: np.ndarray\n    item_ids: np.ndarray\n    packed: np.ndarray\n80→\n    @classmethod\n    def read(cls, path: Path) -> \"CandidateSet\":\n        with np.load(path, allow_pickle=False) as artifact:\n            result = cls(\n                uids=artifact[\"uids\"].astype(np.int64, copy=True),\n                item_ids=artifact[\"item_ids\"].astype(np.int64, copy=True),\n                packed=artifact[\"packed_eligible\"].astype(np.uint8, copy=True),\n            )\n        expected = (len(result.uids), (len(result.item_ids) + 7) // 8)\n90→        if result.packed.shape != expected:\n            raise ValueError(\n                f\"invalid candidate artifact shape {result.packed.shape}; \"\n                f\"expected {expected}\"\n            )\n        return result\n\n\n@dataclass(frozen=True)\nclass SequenceData:\n100→    item_ids: np.ndarray\n    item_features: np.ndarray\n    user_ids: np.ndarray\n    offsets: np.ndarray\n    sequence_timestamps: np.ndarray\n    sequence_items: np.ndarray\n    event_features: np.ndarray\n    activity_features: np.ndarray\n    state_ids: np.ndarray\n    liked_states: np.ndarray\n110→    disliked_states: np.ndarray\n    state_counts: np.ndarray\n    inference_user_rows: np.ndarray\n    inference_liked_items: np.ndarray\n    inference_disliked_items: np.ndarray\n    inference_user_features: np.ndarray\n\n    @property\n    def lengths(self) -> np.ndarray:\n        return np.diff(self.offsets)\n120→\n    @property\n    def target_count(self) -> int:\n        return int(np.maximum(self.lengths - 1, 0).sum())\n\n\n@dataclass(frozen=True)\nclass TargetPartition:\n    \"\"\"A contiguous recent target window and its chronological BCE split.\"\"\"\n\n130→    window_starts: np.ndarray\n    training_counts: np.ndarray\n    validation_counts: np.ndarray\n    history_training_counts: np.ndarray\n\n    @property\n    def selected_count(self) -> int:\n        return int(self.training_counts.sum() + self.validation_counts.sum())\n\n\n140→def log(message: str) -> None:\n    print(message, file=sys.stderr, flush=True)\n\n\ndef seed_everything(seed: int) -> None:\n    random.seed(seed)\n    np.random.seed(seed)\n    torch.manual_seed(seed)\n\n\n150→def model_config(config: Config) -> base.TowerConfig:\n    \"\"\"Map the dense trainer configuration onto the unchanged tower.\"\"\"\n    return base.TowerConfig(\n        sequence_length=config.bptt_steps,\n        embedding_dim=config.embedding_dim,\n        hidden_dim=config.hidden_dim,\n        user_hidden_1=config.user_hidden_1,\n        user_hidden_2=config.user_hidden_2,\n        item_hidden_1=config.item_hidden_1,\n        item_hidden_2=config.item_hidden_2,\n160→        dropout=config.dropout,\n        epochs=config.epochs,\n        learning_rate=config.learning_rate,\n        weight_decay=config.weight_decay,\n        gradient_clip=config.gradient_clip,\n        uniform_negatives=config.uniform_negatives,\n        inbatch_negatives=config.inbatch_negatives,\n        inbatch_correction_power=config.inbatch_correction_power,\n        inbatch_correction_min=config.inbatch_correction_min,\n        inbatch_correction_max=config.inbatch_correction_max,\n170→        seed=config.seed,\n    )\n\n\ndef append_state_snapshot(\n    active_likes: dict[int, int],\n    active_dislikes: dict[int, int],\n    n_items: int,\n    liked_states: list[np.ndarray],\n    disliked_states: list[np.ndarray],\n180→    state_counts: list[tuple[int, int]],\n) -> int:\n    liked_states.append(base.pack_active_items(active_likes, base.LIKE_ITEMS, n_items))\n    disliked_states.append(\n        base.pack_active_items(active_dislikes, base.DISLIKE_ITEMS, n_items)\n    )\n    state_counts.append((len(active_likes), len(active_dislikes)))\n    return len(liked_states) - 1\n\n\n190→def causal_activity_features(\n    timestamps: np.ndarray,\n    items: np.ndarray,\n    organic: np.ndarray,\n    completion: np.ndarray,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"Compute the first four reviewed user features at every event cutoff.\"\"\"\n    length = len(items)\n    result = np.zeros((length, 4), dtype=np.float16)\n    if not length:\n200→        return result\n    left_rows = np.searchsorted(\n        timestamps,\n        timestamps - base.PROFILE_LOOKBACK_DAYS * base.DAY,\n        side=\"left\",\n    )\n    rows = np.arange(length, dtype=np.int64)\n    counts = rows - left_rows + 1\n    organic_sum = np.cumsum(organic.astype(np.float64))\n    completion_sum = np.cumsum(np.minimum(completion, 100).astype(np.float64))\n210→    before_organic = np.where(\n        left_rows > 0, organic_sum[np.maximum(left_rows - 1, 0)], 0.0\n    )\n    before_completion = np.where(\n        left_rows > 0, completion_sum[np.maximum(left_rows - 1, 0)], 0.0\n    )\n\n    unique_counts = np.empty(length, dtype=np.int32)\n    frequencies: dict[int, int] = {}\n    left = 0\n220→    for right, raw_item in enumerate(items):\n        item = int(raw_item)\n        frequencies[item] = frequencies.get(item, 0) + 1\n        required_left = int(left_rows[right])\n        while left < required_left:\n            old_item = int(items[left])\n            remaining = frequencies[old_item] - 1\n            if remaining:\n                frequencies[old_item] = remaining\n            else:\n230→                del frequencies[old_item]\n            left += 1\n        unique_counts[right] = len(frequencies)\n\n    result[:, 0] = (np.log1p(counts) / 8.0).astype(np.float16)\n    result[:, 1] = (np.log1p(unique_counts) / 6.0).astype(np.float16)\n    result[:, 2] = (\n        (organic_sum - before_organic) / np.maximum(counts, 1)\n    ).astype(np.float16)\n    result[:, 3] = (\n240→        (completion_sum - before_completion)\n        / np.maximum(counts, 1)\n        / 100.0\n    ).astype(np.float16)\n    return result\n\n\ndef build_sequence_parts(\n    listens: base.ListenEvents,\n    explicit: base.ExplicitEvents,\n250→    n_items: int,\n    liked_states: list[np.ndarray],\n    disliked_states: list[np.ndarray],\n    state_counts: list[tuple[int, int]],\n) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray] | None:\n    qualifying = listens.completion_pct >= base.LISTEN_POSITIVE_THRESHOLD\n    timestamps = listens.timestamps[qualifying].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n    items = listens.items[qualifying].astype(np.uint16, copy=False)\n    organic = listens.organic[qualifying].astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n    completion = listens.completion_pct[qualifying].astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n260→    if not len(items):\n        return None\n\n    event_features = np.zeros((len(items), 3), dtype=np.float16)\n    event_features[:, 0] = organic.astype(np.float16)\n    event_features[:, 1] = (\n        np.minimum(completion, 100.0) / 100.0\n    ).astype(np.float16)\n    if len(items) > 1:\n        gaps = np.maximum(0, timestamps[1:] - timestamps[:-1])\n270→        event_features[1:, 2] = np.exp(\n            -gaps.astype(np.float64) / (60.0 * base.DAY)\n        ).astype(np.float16)\n\n    activity = causal_activity_features(\n        timestamps, items, organic, completion\n    )\n    states = np.zeros(len(items), dtype=np.uint32)\n    active_likes: dict[int, int] = {}\n    active_dislikes: dict[int, int] = {}\n280→    explicit_position = 0\n    current_state = 0\n    for row, timestamp in enumerate(timestamps):\n        changed = False\n        while (\n            explicit_position < len(explicit.timestamps)\n            and int(explicit.timestamps[explicit_position]) < int(timestamp)\n        ):\n            item = int(explicit.items[explicit_position])\n            event_timestamp = int(explicit.timestamps[explicit_position])\n290→            destination = (\n                active_likes\n                if int(explicit.channel[explicit_position]) == 0\n                else active_dislikes\n            )\n            if int(explicit.active[explicit_position]) == 1:\n                destination[item] = event_timestamp\n            else:\n                destination.pop(item, None)\n            explicit_position += 1\n300→            changed = True\n        if changed:\n            current_state = append_state_snapshot(\n                active_likes,\n                active_dislikes,\n                n_items,\n                liked_states,\n                disliked_states,\n                state_counts,\n            )\n310→        states[row] = np.uint32(current_state)\n    return timestamps, items.copy(), event_features, activity, states\n\n\ndef final_user_features(\n    timestamps: np.ndarray,\n    items: np.ndarray,\n    event_features: np.ndarray,\n    history_end: int,\n    like_count: int,\n320→    dislike_count: int,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    start = int(\n        np.searchsorted(\n            timestamps,\n            history_end - base.PROFILE_LOOKBACK_DAYS * base.DAY,\n            side=\"left\",\n        )\n    )\n    result = np.zeros(6, dtype=np.float32)\n330→    recent_items = items[start:]\n    if len(recent_items):\n        result[0] = np.log1p(len(recent_items)) / 8.0\n        result[1] = np.log1p(len(np.unique(recent_items))) / 6.0\n        result[2] = float(np.mean(event_features[start:, 0]))\n        result[3] = float(np.mean(event_features[start:, 1]))\n    result[4] = np.log1p(like_count) / 6.0\n    result[5] = np.log1p(dislike_count) / 4.0\n    return result\n\n340→\ndef prepare_data(\n    public: Path, stage: str, config: Config\n) -> tuple[SequenceData, CandidateSet]:\n    data = public / \"data\"\n    catalog = pd.read_parquet(data / \"candidate_catalog.parquet\").sort_values(\n        \"popularity_rank\"\n    )\n    item_ids = catalog.item_id.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64, copy=True)\n    item_index = pd.Index(item_ids)\n350→    n_items = len(item_ids)\n    if n_items >= np.iinfo(np.uint16).max:\n        raise RuntimeError(\"uint16 item storage is too small for this catalog\")\n\n    if stage == \"validation\":\n        prefixes = (\"train\",)\n        history_end = base.TRAIN_END\n        candidate_name = \"validation_eligible_candidates.npz\"\n        state_name = \"validation_preference_state.parquet\"\n    else:\n360→        prefixes = (\"train\", \"val\")\n        history_end = base.VALIDATION_END\n        candidate_name = \"test_eligible_candidates.npz\"\n        state_name = \"test_preference_state.parquet\"\n    eligibility = CandidateSet.read(data / candidate_name)\n    if not np.array_equal(eligibility.item_ids, item_ids):\n        raise RuntimeError(\"catalog and candidate artifact item order differ\")\n\n    explicit_by_user = base.load_explicit_events(data, prefixes, item_index)\n    inference_likes, inference_dislikes, like_counts, dislike_counts = (\n370→        base.load_inference_state(\n            data / state_name,\n            item_index,\n            eligibility.uids,\n            n_items,\n        )\n    )\n    inference_rows = {int(uid): row for row, uid in enumerate(eligibility.uids)}\n    inference_user_features = np.zeros((len(eligibility.uids), 6), dtype=np.float32)\n    inference_sequence_rows = np.full(len(eligibility.uids), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n380→\n    # Snapshot zero is the shared empty explicit state.\n    liked_states = [np.full(base.LIKE_ITEMS, n_items, dtype=np.uint16)]\n    disliked_states = [\n        np.full(base.DISLIKE_ITEMS, n_items, dtype=np.uint16)\n    ]\n    state_counts: list[tuple[int, int]] = [(0, 0)]\n    user_ids: list[int] = []\n    offsets = [0]\n    timestamp_parts: list[np.ndarray] = []\n390→    item_parts: list[np.ndarray] = []\n    event_parts: list[np.ndarray] = []\n    activity_parts: list[np.ndarray] = []\n    state_parts: list[np.ndarray] = []\n\n    listen_paths = [data / f\"{prefix}_listens.parquet\" for prefix in prefixes]\n    started = time.monotonic()\n    for seen_users, (uid, listens) in enumerate(\n        base.merge_listen_streams(listen_paths, item_index), start=1\n    ):\n400→        parts = build_sequence_parts(\n            listens,\n            explicit_by_user.get(uid, base.empty_explicit_events()),\n            n_items,\n            liked_states,\n            disliked_states,\n            state_counts,\n        )\n        if parts is None:\n            continue\n410→        sequence_row = len(user_ids)\n        user_ids.append(uid)\n        timestamp_parts.append(parts[0].astype(np.uint32, copy=False))\n        item_parts.append(parts[1])\n        event_parts.append(parts[2])\n        activity_parts.append(parts[3])\n        state_parts.append(parts[4])\n        offsets.append(offsets[-1] + len(parts[1]))\n        inference_row = inference_rows.get(uid)\n        if inference_row is not None:\n420→            inference_sequence_rows[inference_row] = sequence_row\n            inference_user_features[inference_row] = final_user_features(\n                parts[0],\n                parts[1],\n                parts[2],\n                history_end,\n                int(like_counts[inference_row]),\n                int(dislike_counts[inference_row]),\n            )\n        if seen_users % 1_000 == 0:\n430→            log(\n                f\"prepared users={seen_users:,} tokens={offsets[-1]:,} \"\n                f\"states={len(liked_states):,} \"\n                f\"elapsed={time.monotonic() - started:.1f}s\"\n            )\n\n    missing = np.flatnonzero(inference_sequence_rows < 0)\n    if len(missing):\n        inference_user_features[missing, 4] = np.log1p(like_counts[missing]) / 6.0\n        inference_user_features[missing, 5] = (\n440→            np.log1p(dislike_counts[missing]) / 4.0\n        )\n        log(f\"target users without qualifying catalog sequence={len(missing):,}\")\n\n    prepared = SequenceData(\n        item_ids=item_ids,\n        item_features=base.build_item_features(catalog),\n        user_ids=np.asarray(user_ids, dtype=np.int64),\n        offsets=np.asarray(offsets, dtype=np.int64),\n        sequence_timestamps=np.concatenate(timestamp_parts),\n450→        sequence_items=np.concatenate(item_parts),\n        event_features=np.concatenate(event_parts),\n        activity_features=np.concatenate(activity_parts),\n        state_ids=np.concatenate(state_parts),\n        liked_states=np.stack(liked_states),\n        disliked_states=np.stack(disliked_states),\n        state_counts=np.asarray(state_counts, dtype=np.int32),\n        inference_user_rows=inference_sequence_rows,\n        inference_liked_items=inference_likes,\n        inference_disliked_items=inference_dislikes,\n460→        inference_user_features=inference_user_features,\n    )\n    log(\n        f\"prepared stage={stage} sequence_users={len(prepared.user_ids):,} \"\n        f\"tokens={len(prepared.sequence_items):,} \"\n        f\"next_item_targets={prepared.target_count:,} \"\n        f\"states={len(prepared.liked_states):,}\"\n    )\n    return prepared, eligibility\n\n470→\ndef cache_metadata(stage: str, config: Config) -> dict[str, object]:\n    return {\n        \"cache_version\": CACHE_VERSION,\n        \"stage\": stage,\n        \"positive_listen_threshold\": base.LISTEN_POSITIVE_THRESHOLD,\n        \"profile_lookback_days\": base.PROFILE_LOOKBACK_DAYS,\n        \"event_time_feature\": \"exp-negative-gap-over-60-days\",\n    }\n\n480→\ndef save_cache(\n    path: Path, prepared: SequenceData, stage: str, config: Config\n) -> None:\n    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)\n    np.savez(\n        path,\n        metadata=np.asarray(json.dumps(cache_metadata(stage, config), sort_keys=True)),\n        **prepared.__dict__,\n    )\n490→    log(f\"saved public-derived full-sequence cache: {path}\")\n\n\ndef load_cache(path: Path, stage: str, config: Config) -> SequenceData:\n    with np.load(path, allow_pickle=False) as artifact:\n        actual = json.loads(str(artifact[\"metadata\"].item()))\n        expected = cache_metadata(stage, config)\n        if actual != expected:\n            raise RuntimeError(f\"sequence cache differs: {actual} != {expected}\")\n        values = {\n500→            field: artifact[field].copy()\n            for field in SequenceData.__dataclass_fields__\n        }\n    prepared = SequenceData(**values)\n    log(\n        f\"loaded full-sequence cache: tokens={len(prepared.sequence_items):,} \"\n        f\"targets={prepared.target_count:,}\"\n    )\n    return prepared\n\n510→\ndef load_or_prepare(\n    public: Path,\n    stage: str,\n    config: Config,\n    cache: Path | None,\n) -> tuple[SequenceData, CandidateSet]:\n    candidate_name = (\n        \"validation_eligible_candidates.npz\"\n        if stage == \"validation\"\n520→        else \"test_eligible_candidates.npz\"\n    )\n    eligibility = CandidateSet.read(public / \"data\" / candidate_name)\n    if cache is not None and cache.is_file():\n        prepared = load_cache(cache, stage, config)\n        if not np.array_equal(prepared.item_ids, eligibility.item_ids):\n            raise RuntimeError(\"cached catalog differs from candidate artifact\")\n        return prepared, eligibility\n    prepared, built_eligibility = prepare_data(public, stage, config)\n    if cache is not None:\n530→        save_cache(cache, prepared, stage, config)\n    return prepared, built_eligibility\n\n\ndef build_item_correction(\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    target_starts: np.ndarray,\n    target_counts: np.ndarray,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n540→    \"\"\"Estimate in-batch propensities from the selected training targets.\"\"\"\n    counts = np.zeros(len(prepared.item_ids), dtype=np.float64)\n    for user_row, count in enumerate(target_counts):\n        if not count:\n            continue\n        offset = int(prepared.offsets[user_row])\n        target_start = int(target_starts[user_row])\n        counts += np.bincount(\n            prepared.sequence_items[\n                offset\n550→                + target_start\n                + 1 : offset\n                + target_start\n                + int(count)\n                + 1\n            ].astype(np.int64),\n            minlength=len(prepared.item_ids),\n        )\n    total = float(counts.sum())\n    probabilities = (counts + 1.0) / (total + len(counts))\n560→    raw = np.power(\n        (1.0 / len(counts)) / probabilities,\n        config.inbatch_correction_power,\n    )\n    normalization = float(np.sum(counts * raw) / max(total, 1.0))\n    correction = np.clip(\n        raw / max(normalization, 1.0e-12),\n        config.inbatch_correction_min,\n        config.inbatch_correction_max,\n    ).astype(np.float32)\n570→    mean_on_targets = float(np.sum(counts * correction) / max(total, 1.0))\n    log(\n        f\"inbatch correction: min={correction.min():.3f} \"\n        f\"mean_on_targets={mean_on_targets:.3f} max={correction.max():.3f}\"\n    )\n    return torch.from_numpy(correction)\n\n\ndef build_known_positive_filter(\n    prepared: SequenceData, training_counts: np.ndarray\n580→) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"Pack each user's complete public-training positive-item set.\"\"\"\n    width = (len(prepared.item_ids) + 7) // 8\n    packed = np.zeros((len(prepared.user_ids), width), dtype=np.uint8)\n    retained = 0\n    for user_row, target_count in enumerate(training_counts):\n        if not target_count:\n            continue\n        offset = int(prepared.offsets[user_row])\n        # T adjacent targets consume sequence positions 0 through T.  The\n590→        # chronological BCE suffix starts at T + 1 and is intentionally absent.\n        items = np.unique(\n            prepared.sequence_items[\n                offset : offset + int(target_count) + 1\n            ].astype(np.int64)\n        )\n        byte_columns = items >> 3\n        bit_values = np.left_shift(\n            np.uint8(1), (items & 7).astype(np.uint8)\n        )\n600→        np.bitwise_or.at(packed[user_row], byte_columns, bit_values)\n        retained += len(items)\n    log(\n        f\"full-history false-negative filter: users={len(prepared.user_ids):,} \"\n        f\"unique_user_items={retained:,} bytes={packed.nbytes:,}\"\n    )\n    return packed\n\n\ndef invalid_full_history_negatives(\n610→    negatives: np.ndarray,\n    targets: np.ndarray,\n    user_rows: np.ndarray,\n    known_positive_packed: np.ndarray,\n    liked_items: np.ndarray,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"Return row-level invalid negatives using the complete training prefix.\"\"\"\n    byte_columns = negatives >> 3\n    bit_columns = negatives & 7\n    known = known_positive_packed[user_rows[:, None], byte_columns]\n620→    invalid = ((known >> bit_columns) & 1).astype(bool)\n    invalid |= negatives == targets[:, None]\n    invalid |= (negatives[:, :, None] == liked_items[:, None, :]).any(axis=2)\n    for column in range(1, negatives.shape[1]):\n        invalid[:, column] |= (\n            negatives[:, column, None] == negatives[:, :column]\n        ).any(axis=1)\n    return invalid\n\n\n630→def draw_full_history_filtered_negatives(\n    targets: torch.Tensor,\n    user_rows: np.ndarray,\n    liked_items: torch.Tensor,\n    known_positive_packed: np.ndarray,\n    n_items: int,\n    config: Config,\n    item_correction: torch.Tensor,\n    generator: torch.Generator,\n    device: torch.device,\n640→) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:\n    \"\"\"Draw mixed negatives and reject all known public-training positives.\"\"\"\n    targets_cpu = targets.detach().cpu().numpy().astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n    liked_cpu = liked_items.detach().cpu().numpy().astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n    batch_size = len(targets_cpu)\n    uniform = torch.randint(\n        n_items,\n        (batch_size, config.uniform_negatives),\n        generator=generator,\n        device=\"cpu\",\n650→    )\n    inbatch = torch.empty((batch_size, 0), dtype=torch.long)\n    corrected_count = 0\n    if config.inbatch_negatives:\n        unique_targets = torch.unique(targets.detach().cpu())\n        corrected_count = min(\n            config.inbatch_negatives, max(len(unique_targets) - 1, 0)\n        )\n        if corrected_count:\n            priorities = torch.rand(\n660→                (batch_size, len(unique_targets)), generator=generator\n            )\n            priorities.masked_fill_(\n                unique_targets[None, :].eq(\n                    torch.from_numpy(targets_cpu)[:, None]\n                ),\n                -1.0,\n            )\n            columns = torch.topk(\n                priorities, k=corrected_count, dim=1\n670→            ).indices\n            inbatch = unique_targets[columns]\n        if corrected_count < config.inbatch_negatives:\n            filler = torch.randint(\n                n_items,\n                (batch_size, config.inbatch_negatives - corrected_count),\n                generator=generator,\n                device=\"cpu\",\n            )\n            inbatch = torch.cat([inbatch, filler], dim=1)\n680→\n    negatives = torch.cat([uniform, inbatch], dim=1).numpy()\n    correction = np.ones_like(negatives, dtype=np.float32)\n    if corrected_count:\n        correction[\n            :, config.uniform_negatives : config.uniform_negatives + corrected_count\n        ] = item_correction[inbatch[:, :corrected_count]].numpy()\n    for _ in range(32):\n        invalid = invalid_full_history_negatives(\n            negatives,\n690→            targets_cpu,\n            user_rows,\n            known_positive_packed,\n            liked_cpu,\n        )\n        if not np.any(invalid):\n            return (\n                torch.from_numpy(negatives).to(device),\n                torch.from_numpy(correction).to(device),\n            )\n700→        replacements = torch.randint(\n            n_items,\n            (int(invalid.sum()),),\n            generator=generator,\n            device=\"cpu\",\n        ).numpy()\n        negatives[invalid] = replacements\n        # Rejected in-batch items become ordinary uniform draws.\n        correction[invalid] = 1.0\n    invalid = invalid_full_history_negatives(\n710→        negatives,\n        targets_cpu,\n        user_rows,\n        known_positive_packed,\n        liked_cpu,\n    )\n    if np.any(invalid):\n        raise RuntimeError(\"full-history negative resampling failed\")\n    return (\n        torch.from_numpy(negatives).to(device),\n720→        torch.from_numpy(correction).to(device),\n    )\n\n\ndef draw_training_negatives(\n    positive_items: torch.Tensor,\n    known_history: torch.Tensor,\n    liked_items: torch.Tensor,\n    user_rows: np.ndarray,\n    known_positive_packed: np.ndarray | None,\n730→    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    item_correction: torch.Tensor,\n    generator: torch.Generator,\n    device: torch.device,\n) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:\n    if config.negative_filter_scope == \"full-training-history\":\n        if known_positive_packed is None:\n            raise RuntimeError(\"full-history negative filter was not built\")\n        return draw_full_history_filtered_negatives(\n740→            positive_items,\n            user_rows,\n            liked_items,\n            known_positive_packed,\n            len(prepared.item_ids),\n            config,\n            item_correction,\n            generator,\n            device,\n        )\n750→    return base.draw_filtered_mixed_negatives(\n        positive_items,\n        known_history,\n        liked_items,\n        len(prepared.item_ids),\n        config.uniform_negatives,\n        config.inbatch_negatives,\n        item_correction,\n        generator,\n        device,\n760→    )\n\n\ndef event_sequence(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    items: torch.Tensor,\n    features: torch.Tensor,\n    hidden: torch.Tensor,\n) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:\n    inputs = torch.cat([model.context_embedding(items), features], dim=-1)\n770→    projected = model.event_projection(inputs)\n    return model.sequence_encoder(projected, hidden)\n\n\ndef pool_explicit_states(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    state_ids: np.ndarray,\n    device: torch.device,\n) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:\n780→    unique_states, inverse = np.unique(state_ids, return_inverse=True)\n    liked_items = torch.from_numpy(\n        prepared.liked_states[unique_states].astype(np.int64)\n    ).to(device)\n    disliked_items = torch.from_numpy(\n        prepared.disliked_states[unique_states].astype(np.int64)\n    ).to(device)\n    liked_vectors = model._mean_context_channel(liked_items)\n    disliked_vectors = model._mean_context_channel(disliked_items)\n    inverse_rows = torch.from_numpy(inverse.astype(np.int64)).to(device)\n790→    counts = prepared.state_counts[state_ids]\n    return (\n        liked_vectors[inverse_rows],\n        disliked_vectors[inverse_rows],\n        torch.from_numpy(counts.astype(np.float32)).to(device),\n    )\n\n\ndef user_queries(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n800→    sequence_vectors: torch.Tensor,\n    liked_vectors: torch.Tensor,\n    disliked_vectors: torch.Tensor,\n    user_features: torch.Tensor,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n    return model.user_tower(\n        torch.cat(\n            [sequence_vectors, liked_vectors, disliked_vectors, user_features],\n            dim=1,\n        )\n810→    )\n\n\ndef candidate_vectors(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    positives: torch.Tensor,\n    negatives: torch.Tensor,\n) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:\n    all_items = torch.cat([positives, negatives.reshape(-1)])\n    unique_items, inverse = torch.unique(all_items, return_inverse=True)\n820→    encoded = model.encode_items(unique_items)\n    positive_vectors = encoded[inverse[: len(positives)]]\n    negative_vectors = encoded[inverse[len(positives) :]].reshape(\n        len(positives), negatives.shape[1], -1\n    )\n    return positive_vectors, negative_vectors\n\n\ndef history_windows(\n    sequence: np.ndarray,\n830→    start: int,\n    count: int,\n    width: int,\n    padding_item: int,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    base_start = max(0, start - width + 1)\n    segment = sequence[base_start : start + count]\n    padded = np.concatenate(\n        [np.full(width - 1, padding_item, dtype=np.uint16), segment]\n    )\n840→    windows = np.lib.stride_tricks.sliding_window_view(padded, width)\n    offset = start - base_start\n    return windows[offset : offset + count].copy()\n\n\ndef corrected_negative_loss(\n    logits: torch.Tensor,\n    correction: torch.Tensor,\n    config: Config,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n850→    raw = F.softplus(logits)\n    total = config.uniform_negatives + config.inbatch_negatives\n    result = torch.zeros(len(logits), device=logits.device)\n    if config.uniform_negatives:\n        result += config.uniform_negatives * raw[\n            :, : config.uniform_negatives\n        ].mean(dim=1)\n    if config.inbatch_negatives:\n        selected = slice(config.uniform_negatives, total)\n        weights = correction[:, selected]\n860→        result += config.inbatch_negatives * (\n            (raw[:, selected] * weights).sum(dim=1)\n            / weights.sum(dim=1).clamp_min(1.0e-6)\n        )\n    return result / total\n\n\ndef retained_target_window_starts(\n    total_targets: np.ndarray,\n    validation_counts: np.ndarray,\n870→    training_counts: np.ndarray,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"Return the discarded prefix before the retained chronological suffix.\"\"\"\n    training_region_ends = total_targets - validation_counts\n    window_starts = training_region_ends - training_counts\n    if (\n        np.any(window_starts < 0)\n        or np.any(training_counts < 0)\n        or np.any(validation_counts < 0)\n    ):\n880→        raise RuntimeError(\"chronological target partition produced negative counts\")\n    if not np.array_equal(\n        window_starts + training_counts + validation_counts, total_targets\n    ):\n        raise RuntimeError(\"chronological target window is not a final contiguous suffix\")\n    return window_starts\n\n\ndef chronological_target_partition(\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n890→    validation_fraction: float,\n    max_train_targets_per_user: int,\n    max_validation_targets_per_user: int,\n) -> TargetPartition:\n    \"\"\"Select a recent contiguous window with a final out-of-time BCE suffix.\"\"\"\n    totals = np.maximum(prepared.lengths - 1, 0).astype(np.int64)\n    validation = np.floor(totals * validation_fraction).astype(np.int64)\n    validation[(totals >= 2) & (validation == 0)] = 1\n    if max_validation_targets_per_user:\n        validation = np.minimum(validation, max_validation_targets_per_user)\n900→\n    history_training = totals - validation\n    training = history_training.copy()\n    if max_train_targets_per_user:\n        training = np.minimum(training, max_train_targets_per_user)\n    window_starts = retained_target_window_starts(totals, validation, training)\n    return TargetPartition(\n        window_starts=window_starts,\n        training_counts=training,\n        validation_counts=validation,\n910→        history_training_counts=history_training,\n    )\n\n\ndef load_organic_like_outcomes(\n    public: Path, stage: str, item_ids: np.ndarray\n) -> dict[int, dict[int, np.ndarray]]:\n    \"\"\"Load mapped organic-like timestamps from public fitting history.\"\"\"\n    prefixes = (\"train\",) if stage == \"validation\" else (\"train\", \"val\")\n    frames = [\n920→        pd.read_parquet(\n            public / \"data\" / f\"{prefix}_likes.parquet\",\n            columns=[\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\"],\n        )\n        for prefix in prefixes\n    ]\n    likes = pd.concat(frames, ignore_index=True)\n    likes = likes[likes.is_organic == 1].copy()\n    mapped = pd.Index(item_ids).get_indexer(\n        likes.item_id.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)\n930→    )\n    likes = likes.loc[mapped >= 0, [\"uid\", \"timestamp\"]].copy()\n    likes[\"item\"] = mapped[mapped >= 0].astype(np.int32, copy=False)\n    likes = likes.sort_values([\"uid\", \"item\", \"timestamp\"], kind=\"stable\")\n    nested: dict[int, dict[int, list[int]]] = {}\n    for raw_uid, raw_timestamp, raw_item in likes.itertuples(\n        index=False, name=None\n    ):\n        nested.setdefault(int(raw_uid), {}).setdefault(int(raw_item), []).append(\n            int(raw_timestamp)\n940→        )\n    result = {\n        uid: {\n            item: np.asarray(timestamps, dtype=np.int64)\n            for item, timestamps in items.items()\n        }\n        for uid, items in nested.items()\n    }\n    log(\n        f\"loaded organic-like outcomes: rows={len(likes):,} \"\n950→        f\"users={len(result):,}\"\n    )\n    return result\n\n\ndef build_target_weights(\n    public: Path,\n    stage: str,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    training_counts: np.ndarray,\n960→    config: Config,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"Build nonzero per-token weights without dropping adjacent targets.\"\"\"\n    if config.target_weighting == \"uniform\":\n        weights = np.ones(len(prepared.sequence_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    else:\n        weights = np.full(\n            len(prepared.sequence_items),\n            config.ordinary_target_weight,\n            dtype=np.float32,\n970→        )\n        organic_strong = (\n            (prepared.event_features[:, 0] > 0.5)\n            & (prepared.event_features[:, 1] >= 0.8)\n        )\n        weights[organic_strong] = config.organic_strong_target_weight\n        if config.target_weighting == \"discovery-graded\":\n            like_outcomes = load_organic_like_outcomes(\n                public, stage, prepared.item_ids\n            )\n980→            history_end = (\n                base.TRAIN_END if stage == \"validation\" else base.VALIDATION_END\n            )\n            horizon = config.discovery_horizon_days * base.DAY\n            grade_three = 0\n            for user_row, uid in enumerate(prepared.user_ids):\n                start = int(prepared.offsets[user_row])\n                end = int(prepared.offsets[user_row + 1])\n                if end - start < 2:\n                    continue\n990→                last_training_target = start + int(training_counts[user_row])\n                first_validation_target = last_training_target + 1\n                split_timestamp = (\n                    int(prepared.sequence_timestamps[first_validation_target])\n                    if first_validation_target < end\n                    else history_end\n                )\n                user_likes = like_outcomes.get(int(uid), {})\n                seen = {int(prepared.sequence_items[start])}\n                for position in range(start + 1, end):\n1000→                    item = int(prepared.sequence_items[position])",
            "isError": false
          }
        },
        {
          "kind": "tool",
          "timestamp": null,
          "callId": "call-5568ef79-8670-4d3b-8ae4-f17e08bb5cc7-4",
          "name": "read_file",
          "input": {
            "target_file": "/task/current_model/two_tower_model.py"
          },
          "result": {
            "timestamp": null,
            "content": "1→\"\"\"Shared public-data primitives for the Yambda two-tower baseline.\"\"\"\nfrom __future__ import annotations\n\nimport sys\nfrom dataclasses import dataclass\nfrom pathlib import Path\nfrom typing import Iterator\n\nimport numpy as np\n10→import pandas as pd\nimport pyarrow.parquet as pq\nimport torch\nfrom torch import nn\n\n\nDAY = 86_400\nTRAIN_END = 24_786_800\nVALIDATION_END = 25_393_400\nLISTEN_POSITIVE_THRESHOLD = 50\n20→PROFILE_LOOKBACK_DAYS = 120\nLIKE_ITEMS = 48\nDISLIKE_ITEMS = 24\nTOP_N = 100\n\n\n@dataclass(frozen=True)\nclass TowerConfig:\n    sequence_length: int = 100\n    embedding_dim: int = 192\n30→    hidden_dim: int = 192\n    user_hidden_1: int = 512\n    user_hidden_2: int = 256\n    item_hidden_1: int = 512\n    item_hidden_2: int = 256\n    dropout: float = 0.05\n    epochs: int = 1\n    learning_rate: float = 1.0e-3\n    weight_decay: float = 1.0e-5\n    gradient_clip: float = 2.0\n40→    uniform_negatives: int = 24\n    inbatch_negatives: int = 8\n    inbatch_correction_power: float = 0.5\n    inbatch_correction_min: float = 0.25\n    inbatch_correction_max: float = 4.0\n    seed: int = 29\n\n\n@dataclass(frozen=True)\nclass ListenEvents:\n50→    timestamps: np.ndarray\n    items: np.ndarray\n    organic: np.ndarray\n    completion_pct: np.ndarray\n\n\n@dataclass(frozen=True)\nclass ExplicitEvents:\n    timestamps: np.ndarray\n    items: np.ndarray\n60→    channel: np.ndarray\n    active: np.ndarray\n    organic_like: np.ndarray\n\n\ndef log(message: str) -> None:\n    print(message, file=sys.stderr, flush=True)\n\n\ndef build_item_features(catalog: pd.DataFrame) -> np.ndarray:\n70→    \"\"\"Return four standardized features built only from the public catalog.\"\"\"\n    positives = catalog.positive_listens.to_numpy(dtype=np.float64, copy=False)\n    organic = catalog.organic_positive_listens.to_numpy(dtype=np.float64, copy=False)\n    popularity_rank = catalog.popularity_rank.to_numpy(dtype=np.float64, copy=False)\n    features = np.column_stack(\n        [\n            np.log1p(positives),\n            np.log1p(organic),\n            organic / np.maximum(positives, 1.0),\n            1.0 - (popularity_rank - 1.0) / max(len(catalog) - 1, 1),\n80→        ]\n    )\n    means = features.mean(axis=0, keepdims=True)\n    scales = np.maximum(features.std(axis=0, keepdims=True), 1.0e-6)\n    standardized = ((features - means) / scales).astype(np.float32)\n    if not np.isfinite(standardized).all():\n        raise RuntimeError(\"catalog features contain non-finite values\")\n    return standardized\n\n\n90→def _combine_listen_chunks(parts: list[ListenEvents]) -> ListenEvents:\n    if len(parts) == 1:\n        return parts[0]\n    timestamps = np.concatenate([part.timestamps for part in parts])\n    items = np.concatenate([part.items for part in parts])\n    organic = np.concatenate([part.organic for part in parts])\n    completion = np.concatenate([part.completion_pct for part in parts])\n    order = np.argsort(timestamps, kind=\"stable\")\n    return ListenEvents(\n        timestamps=timestamps[order],\n100→        items=items[order],\n        organic=organic[order],\n        completion_pct=completion[order],\n    )\n\n\ndef iter_listen_users(\n    path: Path, item_index: pd.Index\n) -> Iterator[tuple[int, ListenEvents]]:\n    \"\"\"Stream one uid-sorted public listen file one user at a time.\"\"\"\n110→    parquet = pq.ParquetFile(path)\n    pending_uid: int | None = None\n    pending: list[ListenEvents] = []\n    previous_uid = -1\n    for batch in parquet.iter_batches(\n        batch_size=750_000,\n        columns=[\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\", \"played_ratio_pct\"],\n    ):\n        frame = batch.to_pandas()\n        mapped = item_index.get_indexer(frame.item_id.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64))\n120→        keep = mapped >= 0\n        if not np.any(keep):\n            continue\n        uids = frame.uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64, copy=False)[keep]\n        timestamps = frame.timestamp.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64, copy=False)[keep]\n        items = mapped[keep].astype(np.int32, copy=False)\n        organic = frame.is_organic.to_numpy(dtype=np.uint8, copy=False)[keep]\n        completion = frame.played_ratio_pct.to_numpy(dtype=np.uint16, copy=False)[keep]\n        if np.any(uids[1:] < uids[:-1]):\n            raise RuntimeError(f\"{path.name} is not sorted by uid\")\n130→        boundaries = np.r_[\n            0,\n            np.flatnonzero(uids[1:] != uids[:-1]) + 1,\n            len(uids),\n        ]\n        for start, end in zip(boundaries[:-1], boundaries[1:]):\n            uid = int(uids[start])\n            part = ListenEvents(\n                timestamps[start:end].copy(),\n                items[start:end].copy(),\n140→                organic[start:end].copy(),\n                completion[start:end].copy(),\n            )\n            if pending_uid is None:\n                pending_uid = uid\n            elif uid != pending_uid:\n                if pending_uid < previous_uid:\n                    raise RuntimeError(f\"{path.name} user order regressed\")\n                yield pending_uid, _combine_listen_chunks(pending)\n                previous_uid = pending_uid\n150→                pending_uid = uid\n                pending = []\n            pending.append(part)\n    if pending_uid is not None:\n        yield pending_uid, _combine_listen_chunks(pending)\n\n\ndef merge_listen_streams(\n    paths: list[Path], item_index: pd.Index\n) -> Iterator[tuple[int, ListenEvents]]:\n160→    \"\"\"Merge uid-sorted public listen files without materializing them.\"\"\"\n    streams = [iter(iter_listen_users(path, item_index)) for path in paths]\n    heads: list[tuple[int, ListenEvents] | None] = [\n        next(stream, None) for stream in streams\n    ]\n    while any(head is not None for head in heads):\n        uid = min(head[0] for head in heads if head is not None)\n        parts: list[ListenEvents] = []\n        for position, head in enumerate(heads):\n            if head is not None and head[0] == uid:\n170→                parts.append(head[1])\n                heads[position] = next(streams[position], None)\n        yield uid, _combine_listen_chunks(parts)\n\n\ndef load_explicit_events(\n    data: Path,\n    prefixes: tuple[str, ...],\n    item_index: pd.Index,\n) -> dict[int, ExplicitEvents]:\n180→    \"\"\"Load public explicit actions as chronological state changes.\"\"\"\n    specifications = (\n        (\"likes\", 0, 1, 0),\n        (\"unlikes\", 0, 0, 1),\n        (\"dislikes\", 1, 1, 0),\n        (\"undislikes\", 1, 0, 1),\n    )\n    parts: list[pd.DataFrame] = []\n    for family, channel, active, tie_priority in specifications:\n        for prefix in prefixes:\n190→            frame = pd.read_parquet(\n                data / f\"{prefix}_{family}.parquet\",\n                columns=[\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\"],\n            )\n            mapped = item_index.get_indexer(\n                frame.item_id.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64, copy=False)\n            )\n            keep = mapped >= 0\n            if not np.any(keep):\n                continue\n200→            retained = frame.loc[keep, [\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"is_organic\"]].copy()\n            retained[\"item\"] = mapped[keep].astype(np.int32, copy=False)\n            retained[\"channel\"] = np.int8(channel)\n            retained[\"active\"] = np.int8(active)\n            retained[\"tie_priority\"] = np.int8(tie_priority)\n            retained[\"organic_like\"] = np.int8(\n                family == \"likes\"\n            ) * retained.is_organic.astype(np.int8)\n            parts.append(retained.drop(columns=\"is_organic\"))\n    if not parts:\n210→        return {}\n    events = pd.concat(parts, ignore_index=True)\n    events = events.sort_values(\n        [\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"tie_priority\"], kind=\"mergesort\"\n    ).reset_index(drop=True)\n    result: dict[int, ExplicitEvents] = {}\n    for uid, rows in events.groupby(\"uid\", sort=False):\n        result[int(uid)] = ExplicitEvents(\n            timestamps=rows.timestamp.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64, copy=True),\n            items=rows.item.to_numpy(dtype=np.int32, copy=True),\n220→            channel=rows.channel.to_numpy(dtype=np.int8, copy=True),\n            active=rows.active.to_numpy(dtype=np.int8, copy=True),\n            organic_like=rows.organic_like.to_numpy(dtype=np.int8, copy=True),\n        )\n    log(f\"loaded explicit events: rows={len(events):,} users={len(result):,}\")\n    return result\n\n\ndef empty_explicit_events() -> ExplicitEvents:\n    return ExplicitEvents(\n230→        timestamps=np.empty(0, dtype=np.int64),\n        items=np.empty(0, dtype=np.int32),\n        channel=np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8),\n        active=np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8),\n        organic_like=np.empty(0, dtype=np.int8),\n    )\n\n\ndef pack_active_items(\n    active: dict[int, int], width: int, padding_item: int\n240→) -> np.ndarray:\n    packed = np.full(width, padding_item, dtype=np.uint16)\n    if not active:\n        return packed\n    ordered = sorted(active.items(), key=lambda pair: (-pair[1], pair[0]))[:width]\n    packed[: len(ordered)] = np.fromiter(\n        (item for item, _ in ordered), dtype=np.uint16, count=len(ordered)\n    )\n    return packed\n\n250→\ndef load_inference_state(\n    path: Path,\n    item_index: pd.Index,\n    uids: np.ndarray,\n    n_items: int,\n) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n    \"\"\"Pack the task-provided active explicit state.\"\"\"\n    state = pd.read_parquet(path, columns=[\"uid\", \"item_id\", \"state\"])\n    mapped = item_index.get_indexer(state.item_id.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64))\n260→    keep = mapped >= 0\n    state = state.loc[keep, [\"uid\", \"state\"]].copy()\n    state[\"item\"] = mapped[keep].astype(np.int32, copy=False)\n    user_rows = pd.Index(uids)\n    liked = np.full((len(uids), LIKE_ITEMS), n_items, dtype=np.uint16)\n    disliked = np.full((len(uids), DISLIKE_ITEMS), n_items, dtype=np.uint16)\n    like_counts = np.zeros(len(uids), dtype=np.int32)\n    dislike_counts = np.zeros(len(uids), dtype=np.int32)\n    for value, width, destination, counts in (\n        (\"liked\", LIKE_ITEMS, liked, like_counts),\n270→        (\"disliked\", DISLIKE_ITEMS, disliked, dislike_counts),\n    ):\n        selected = state[state.state == value]\n        for uid, rows in selected.groupby(\"uid\", sort=False):\n            row = int(user_rows.get_indexer([int(uid)])[0])\n            if row < 0:\n                continue\n            items = np.sort(rows.item.unique())\n            counts[row] = len(items)\n            retained = items[:width]\n280→            destination[row, : len(retained)] = retained.astype(np.uint16)\n    return liked, disliked, like_counts, dislike_counts\n\n\nclass SequentialTwoTower(nn.Module):\n    \"\"\"Order-sensitive user tower and independent catalog-aware item tower.\"\"\"\n\n    def __init__(self, item_features: np.ndarray, config: TowerConfig) -> None:\n        super().__init__()\n        n_items, n_item_features = item_features.shape\n290→        dim = config.embedding_dim\n        self.n_items = n_items\n        self.context_embedding = nn.Embedding(\n            n_items + 1, dim, padding_idx=n_items\n        )\n        self.event_projection = nn.Sequential(\n            nn.Linear(dim + 3, config.hidden_dim),\n            nn.GELU(),\n        )\n        self.sequence_encoder = nn.GRU(\n300→            input_size=config.hidden_dim,\n            hidden_size=dim,\n            num_layers=1,\n            batch_first=True,\n        )\n        self.user_tower = nn.Sequential(\n            nn.Linear(dim * 3 + 6, config.user_hidden_1),\n            nn.GELU(),\n            nn.Dropout(config.dropout),\n            nn.Linear(config.user_hidden_1, config.user_hidden_2),\n310→            nn.GELU(),\n            nn.Dropout(config.dropout),\n            nn.Linear(config.user_hidden_2, dim),\n        )\n        self.candidate_embedding = nn.Embedding(n_items, dim)\n        self.register_buffer(\n            \"item_features\", torch.from_numpy(item_features), persistent=True\n        )\n        self.item_tower = nn.Sequential(\n            nn.Linear(dim + n_item_features, config.item_hidden_1),\n320→            nn.GELU(),\n            nn.Dropout(config.dropout),\n            nn.Linear(config.item_hidden_1, config.item_hidden_2),\n            nn.GELU(),\n            nn.Dropout(config.dropout),\n            nn.Linear(config.item_hidden_2, dim),\n        )\n        nn.init.normal_(self.context_embedding.weight, std=0.02)\n        nn.init.normal_(self.candidate_embedding.weight, std=0.02)\n        with torch.no_grad():\n330→            self.context_embedding.weight[n_items].zero_()\n\n    def _mean_context_channel(self, items: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n        mask = items.ne(self.n_items)\n        vectors = self.context_embedding(items)\n        return (vectors * mask.unsqueeze(-1)).sum(dim=1) / mask.sum(\n            dim=1, keepdim=True\n        ).clamp_min(1)\n\n    def encode_items(self, items: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n340→        inputs = torch.cat(\n            [self.candidate_embedding(items), self.item_features[items]], dim=1\n        )\n        return self.item_tower(inputs)\n\n\ndef invalid_negative_mask(\n    negatives: torch.Tensor,\n    targets: torch.Tensor,\n    context_items: torch.Tensor,\n350→    liked_items: torch.Tensor,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n    \"\"\"Identify targets, known positives, active likes, and row duplicates.\"\"\"\n    invalid = negatives.eq(targets[:, None])\n    invalid |= negatives[:, :, None].eq(context_items[:, None, :]).any(dim=2)\n    invalid |= negatives[:, :, None].eq(liked_items[:, None, :]).any(dim=2)\n    for column in range(1, negatives.shape[1]):\n        invalid[:, column] |= negatives[:, column, None].eq(\n            negatives[:, :column]\n        ).any(dim=1)\n360→    return invalid\n\n\ndef draw_filtered_mixed_negatives(\n    targets: torch.Tensor,\n    context_items: torch.Tensor,\n    liked_items: torch.Tensor,\n    n_items: int,\n    uniform_count: int,\n    inbatch_count: int,\n370→    item_correction: torch.Tensor,\n    generator: torch.Generator,\n    device: torch.device,\n) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:\n    \"\"\"Draw uniform and unique-target in-batch negatives.\"\"\"\n    batch_size = len(targets)\n    uniform = torch.randint(\n        n_items,\n        (batch_size, uniform_count),\n        generator=generator,\n380→        device=\"cpu\",\n    )\n    inbatch = torch.empty((batch_size, 0), dtype=torch.long, device=\"cpu\")\n    corrected_count = 0\n    if inbatch_count:\n        unique_targets = torch.unique(targets.detach().cpu())\n        corrected_count = min(inbatch_count, max(len(unique_targets) - 1, 0))\n        if corrected_count:\n            priorities = torch.rand(\n                (batch_size, len(unique_targets)), generator=generator\n390→            )\n            priorities.masked_fill_(\n                unique_targets[None, :].eq(targets.detach().cpu()[:, None]),\n                -1.0,\n            )\n            columns = torch.topk(priorities, k=corrected_count, dim=1).indices\n            inbatch = unique_targets[columns]\n        if corrected_count < inbatch_count:\n            filler = torch.randint(\n                n_items,\n400→                (batch_size, inbatch_count - corrected_count),\n                generator=generator,\n                device=\"cpu\",\n            )\n            inbatch = torch.cat([inbatch, filler], dim=1)\n\n    negatives_cpu = torch.cat([uniform, inbatch], dim=1)\n    correction_cpu = torch.ones_like(negatives_cpu, dtype=torch.float32)\n    if corrected_count:\n        correction_cpu[\n410→            :, uniform_count : uniform_count + corrected_count\n        ] = item_correction[inbatch[:, :corrected_count]]\n    negatives = negatives_cpu.to(device)\n    correction = correction_cpu.to(device)\n    for _ in range(32):\n        invalid = invalid_negative_mask(\n            negatives, targets, context_items, liked_items\n        )\n        if not bool(invalid.any()):\n            return negatives, correction\n420→        replacements = torch.randint(\n            n_items,\n            (int(invalid.sum().detach().cpu()),),\n            generator=generator,\n            device=\"cpu\",\n        ).to(device)\n        negatives[invalid] = replacements\n        correction[invalid] = 1.0\n    invalid = invalid_negative_mask(\n        negatives, targets, context_items, liked_items\n430→    )\n    if bool(invalid.any()):\n        raise RuntimeError(\"mixed negative resampling failed false-negative filter\")\n    return negatives, correction\n",
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            "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 <validation-ranking.parquet|csv>\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 <validation-ranking.parquet|csv>\"\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",
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            "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",
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            "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",
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            "timestamp": null,
            "content": "1000→                    item = int(prepared.sequence_items[position])\n                    novel = item not in seen\n                    seen.add(item)\n                    if not novel:\n                        # Repeats remain training examples, but they cannot be\n                        # eligible discovery outcomes at the corresponding\n                        # cutoff and therefore keep only the ordinary weight.\n                        weights[position] = config.ordinary_target_weight\n                        continue\n                    timestamps = user_likes.get(item)\n1010→                    if timestamps is None:\n                        continue\n                    timestamp = int(prepared.sequence_timestamps[position])\n                    upper = min(\n                        timestamp + horizon,\n                        split_timestamp\n                        if position <= last_training_target\n                        else history_end,\n                    )\n                    outcome = int(np.searchsorted(timestamps, timestamp, side=\"left\"))\n1020→                    if outcome < len(timestamps) and int(timestamps[outcome]) < upper:\n                        weights[position] = config.organic_like_target_weight\n                        grade_three += 1\n            log(\n                f\"grade-3 first-encounter targets={grade_three:,} \"\n                f\"horizon_days={config.discovery_horizon_days}\"\n            )\n    log(\n        f\"target weighting={config.target_weighting} \"\n        f\"min={weights.min():.3f} mean={weights.mean():.3f} \"\n1030→        f\"max={weights.max():.3f}\"\n    )\n    return weights\n\n\ndef build_dense_block(\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    target_weights: np.ndarray,\n    users: np.ndarray,\n    window_starts: np.ndarray,\n1040→    process_counts: np.ndarray,\n    score_starts: np.ndarray,\n    start: int,\n    steps: int,\n    config: Config,\n) -> tuple[np.ndarray, ...]:\n    \"\"\"Build one causal sequence block and mark the target rows to score.\"\"\"\n    batch_size = len(users)\n    padding_item = len(prepared.item_ids)\n    input_items = np.full((batch_size, steps), padding_item, dtype=np.uint16)\n1050→    event_features = np.zeros((batch_size, steps, 3), dtype=np.float16)\n    activity_features = np.zeros((batch_size, steps, 4), dtype=np.float16)\n    state_ids = np.zeros((batch_size, steps), dtype=np.uint32)\n    targets = np.zeros((batch_size, steps), dtype=np.uint16)\n    weights = np.ones((batch_size, steps), dtype=np.float32)\n    scored = np.zeros((batch_size, steps), dtype=bool)\n    histories = np.full(\n        (batch_size, steps, config.bptt_steps),\n        padding_item,\n        dtype=np.uint16,\n1060→    )\n    processed = np.zeros(batch_size, dtype=np.int32)\n\n    lengths = prepared.lengths\n    for row, user_row in enumerate(users):\n        count = min(steps, max(int(process_counts[row]) - start, 0))\n        if not count:\n            continue\n        offset = int(prepared.offsets[user_row])\n        window_start = int(window_starts[row])\n1070→        absolute_start = window_start + start\n        positions = slice(\n            offset + absolute_start,\n            offset + absolute_start + count,\n        )\n        target_positions = slice(\n            offset + absolute_start + 1,\n            offset + absolute_start + count + 1,\n        )\n        input_items[row, :count] = prepared.sequence_items[positions]\n1080→        event_features[row, :count] = prepared.event_features[positions]\n        activity_features[row, :count] = prepared.activity_features[positions]\n        state_ids[row, :count] = prepared.state_ids[positions]\n        targets[row, :count] = prepared.sequence_items[target_positions]\n        weights[row, :count] = target_weights[target_positions]\n        score_from = min(count, max(int(score_starts[row]) - start, 0))\n        scored[row, score_from:count] = True\n        processed[row] = count\n        user_sequence = prepared.sequence_items[\n            offset : offset + int(lengths[user_row])\n1090→        ]\n        histories[row, :count] = history_windows(\n            user_sequence,\n            absolute_start,\n            count,\n            config.bptt_steps,\n            padding_item,\n        )\n    return (\n        input_items,\n1100→        event_features,\n        activity_features,\n        state_ids,\n        targets,\n        scored,\n        histories,\n        processed,\n        weights,\n    )\n\n1110→\ndef score_target_microbatches(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    sequence_vectors: torch.Tensor,\n    flat_states: np.ndarray,\n    flat_activity: np.ndarray,\n    positive_items: torch.Tensor,\n    negatives: torch.Tensor,\n1120→    negative_weights: torch.Tensor,\n    sample_weights: np.ndarray,\n    device: torch.device,\n    backward: bool,\n) -> tuple[dict[str, float], torch.Tensor | None]:\n    \"\"\"Compute one logical block's exact BCE in bounded-memory slices.\"\"\"\n    target_count = len(positive_items)\n    total_weight = float(sample_weights.sum())\n    if total_weight <= 0:\n        raise RuntimeError(\"target block has no positive sample weight\")\n1130→    sequence_gradient = torch.zeros_like(sequence_vectors) if backward else None\n    statistics = {\n        \"loss_sum\": 0.0,\n        \"positive_sum\": 0.0,\n        \"negative_sum\": 0.0,\n        \"pair_correct\": 0.0,\n        \"weight_sum\": 0.0,\n    }\n    for begin in range(0, target_count, config.loss_microbatch_size):\n        end = min(begin + config.loss_microbatch_size, target_count)\n1140→        selected_states = flat_states[begin:end]\n        if backward:\n            sequence_input = (\n                sequence_vectors[begin:end].detach().requires_grad_(True)\n            )\n        else:\n            sequence_input = sequence_vectors[begin:end]\n        liked_vectors, disliked_vectors, _ = pool_explicit_states(\n            model, prepared, selected_states, device\n        )\n1150→        counts = prepared.state_counts[selected_states]\n        numeric = np.zeros((end - begin, 6), dtype=np.float32)\n        numeric[:, :4] = flat_activity[begin:end]\n        numeric[:, 4] = np.log1p(counts[:, 0]) / 6.0\n        numeric[:, 5] = np.log1p(counts[:, 1]) / 4.0\n        query_vectors = user_queries(\n            model,\n            sequence_input,\n            liked_vectors,\n            disliked_vectors,\n1160→            torch.from_numpy(numeric).to(device),\n        )\n        positive_vectors, negative_vectors = candidate_vectors(\n            model,\n            positive_items[begin:end],\n            negatives[begin:end],\n        )\n        positive_logits = (query_vectors * positive_vectors).sum(dim=1)\n        negative_logits = torch.einsum(\n            \"bd,bkd->bk\", query_vectors, negative_vectors\n1170→        )\n        positive_loss = F.softplus(-positive_logits)\n        negative_loss = corrected_negative_loss(\n            negative_logits, negative_weights[begin:end], config\n        )\n        selected_weights = torch.from_numpy(\n            sample_weights[begin:end].astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n        ).to(device)\n        loss_sum = (\n            selected_weights * (positive_loss + negative_loss) / 2.0\n1180→        ).sum()\n        if not bool(torch.isfinite(loss_sum)):\n            raise RuntimeError(\"dense next-item training produced non-finite loss\")\n        if backward:\n            (loss_sum / total_weight).backward()\n            if sequence_input.grad is None:\n                raise RuntimeError(\"sequence microbatch did not produce a gradient\")\n            sequence_gradient[begin:end] = sequence_input.grad\n        statistics[\"loss_sum\"] += float(loss_sum.detach().cpu())\n        statistics[\"positive_sum\"] += float(positive_logits.detach().sum().cpu())\n1190→        statistics[\"negative_sum\"] += float(negative_logits.detach().sum().cpu())\n        statistics[\"pair_correct\"] += float(\n            (positive_logits.detach()[:, None] > negative_logits.detach()).sum().cpu()\n        )\n        statistics[\"weight_sum\"] += float(selected_weights.sum().detach().cpu())\n    return statistics, sequence_gradient\n\n\ndef release_accelerator_cache(device: torch.device) -> None:\n    if device.type == \"mps\":\n1200→        torch.mps.empty_cache()\n\n\ndef run_training_epoch(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    target_weights: np.ndarray,\n    window_starts: np.ndarray,\n1210→    target_counts: np.ndarray,\n    item_correction: torch.Tensor,\n    known_positive_packed: np.ndarray | None,\n    generator: torch.Generator,\n    device: torch.device,\n    epoch: int,\n) -> dict[str, float]:\n    model.train()\n    train_users = np.flatnonzero(target_counts > 0)\n    sorted_users = train_users[\n1220→        np.argsort(target_counts[train_users], kind=\"stable\")\n    ]\n    groups = [\n        sorted_users[start : start + config.user_batch_size]\n        for start in range(0, len(sorted_users), config.user_batch_size)\n    ]\n    group_order = torch.randperm(len(groups), generator=generator).numpy()\n    negative_count = config.uniform_negatives + config.inbatch_negatives\n    total_loss = 0.0\n    total_targets = 0\n1230→    total_weight = 0.0\n    total_positive = 0.0\n    total_negative = 0.0\n    total_pair_correct = 0.0\n    batches = 0\n    started = time.monotonic()\n\n    for group_number in group_order:\n        users = groups[int(group_number)]\n        group_counts = target_counts[users]\n1240→        hidden = torch.zeros(\n            1, len(users), config.embedding_dim, device=device\n        )\n        max_targets = int(group_counts.max())\n        for start in range(0, max_targets, config.bptt_steps):\n            steps = min(config.bptt_steps, max_targets - start)\n            block = build_dense_block(\n                prepared,\n                target_weights,\n                users,\n1250→                window_starts[users],\n                group_counts,\n                np.zeros(len(users), dtype=np.int64),\n                start,\n                steps,\n                config,\n            )\n            sequence_outputs, _ = event_sequence(\n                model,\n                torch.from_numpy(block[0].astype(np.int64)).to(device),\n1260→                torch.from_numpy(block[1].astype(np.float32)).to(device),\n                hidden,\n            )\n            hidden = torch.stack(\n                [\n                    sequence_outputs[row, count - 1]\n                    if count\n                    else hidden[0, row]\n                    for row, count in enumerate(block[7])\n                ]\n1270→            ).unsqueeze(0).detach()\n            flat_scored = block[5].reshape(-1)\n            if not np.any(flat_scored):\n                continue\n            mask = torch.from_numpy(flat_scored).to(device)\n            sequence_vectors = sequence_outputs.reshape(\n                -1, config.embedding_dim\n            )[mask]\n            flat_states = block[3].reshape(-1)[flat_scored]\n            positive_items = torch.from_numpy(\n1280→                block[4].reshape(-1)[flat_scored].astype(np.int64)\n            ).to(device)\n            known_history = torch.from_numpy(\n                block[6].reshape(-1, config.bptt_steps)[flat_scored].astype(\n                    np.int64\n                )\n            ).to(device)\n            liked_items = torch.from_numpy(\n                prepared.liked_states[flat_states].astype(np.int64)\n            ).to(device)\n1290→            flat_user_rows = np.broadcast_to(\n                users[:, None], block[5].shape\n            ).reshape(-1)[flat_scored]\n            negatives, negative_weights = draw_training_negatives(\n                positive_items,\n                known_history,\n                liked_items,\n                flat_user_rows,\n                known_positive_packed,\n                prepared,\n1300→                config,\n                item_correction,\n                generator,\n                device,\n            )\n            optimizer.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)\n            statistics, sequence_gradient = score_target_microbatches(\n                model,\n                prepared,\n                config,\n1310→                sequence_vectors,\n                flat_states,\n                block[2].reshape(-1, 4)[flat_scored].astype(np.float32),\n                positive_items,\n                negatives,\n                negative_weights,\n                block[8].reshape(-1)[flat_scored],\n                device,\n                backward=True,\n            )\n1320→            if sequence_gradient is None:\n                raise RuntimeError(\"training block omitted its sequence gradient\")\n            sequence_vectors.backward(sequence_gradient)\n            nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), config.gradient_clip)\n            optimizer.step()\n\n            count = len(positive_items)\n            total_loss += statistics[\"loss_sum\"]\n            total_targets += count\n            total_weight += statistics[\"weight_sum\"]\n1330→            total_positive += statistics[\"positive_sum\"]\n            total_negative += statistics[\"negative_sum\"]\n            total_pair_correct += statistics[\"pair_correct\"]\n            batches += 1\n            if batches % 25 == 0:\n                release_accelerator_cache(device)\n            if batches % 250 == 0:\n                batch_bce = statistics[\"loss_sum\"] / max(\n                    statistics[\"weight_sum\"], 1.0e-12\n                )\n1340→                running_bce = total_loss / max(total_weight, 1.0e-12)\n                log(\n                    f\"epoch={epoch}/{config.epochs} batches={batches:,} \"\n                    f\"targets={total_targets:,} \"\n                    f\"batch_bce={batch_bce:.6f} \"\n                    f\"running_bce={running_bce:.6f} \"\n                    f\"elapsed={time.monotonic() - started:.1f}s\"\n                )\n\n    return {\n1350→        \"epoch\": float(epoch),\n        \"loss\": total_loss / max(total_weight, 1.0e-12),\n        \"positive_logit\": total_positive / max(total_targets, 1),\n        \"negative_logit\": total_negative / max(total_targets * negative_count, 1),\n        \"pair_accuracy\": total_pair_correct\n        / max(total_targets * negative_count, 1),\n        \"targets\": float(total_targets),\n        \"target_weight_sum\": total_weight,\n        \"batches\": float(batches),\n        \"seconds\": time.monotonic() - started,\n1360→    }\n\n\n@torch.no_grad()\ndef evaluate_validation_bce(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    target_weights: np.ndarray,\n    window_starts: np.ndarray,\n1370→    training_counts: np.ndarray,\n    validation_counts: np.ndarray,\n    item_correction: torch.Tensor,\n    known_positive_packed: np.ndarray | None,\n    device: torch.device,\n) -> dict[str, float]:\n    \"\"\"Measure deterministic BCE on each user's chronological target suffix.\"\"\"\n    model.eval()\n    totals = training_counts + validation_counts\n    users_with_validation = np.flatnonzero(validation_counts > 0)\n1380→    ordered = users_with_validation[\n        np.argsort(totals[users_with_validation], kind=\"stable\")\n    ]\n    groups = [\n        ordered[start : start + config.user_batch_size]\n        for start in range(0, len(ordered), config.user_batch_size)\n    ]\n    generator = torch.Generator(device=\"cpu\").manual_seed(config.seed + 20_000)\n    total_loss = 0.0\n    total_targets = 0\n1390→    total_weight = 0.0\n    started = time.monotonic()\n\n    for group_number, users in enumerate(groups, start=1):\n        group_totals = totals[users]\n        group_starts = training_counts[users]\n        hidden = torch.zeros(\n            1, len(users), config.embedding_dim, device=device\n        )\n        max_targets = int(group_totals.max())\n1400→        for start in range(0, max_targets, config.bptt_steps):\n            steps = min(config.bptt_steps, max_targets - start)\n            block = build_dense_block(\n                prepared,\n                target_weights,\n                users,\n                window_starts[users],\n                group_totals,\n                group_starts,\n                start,\n1410→                steps,\n                config,\n            )\n            sequence_outputs, _ = event_sequence(\n                model,\n                torch.from_numpy(block[0].astype(np.int64)).to(device),\n                torch.from_numpy(block[1].astype(np.float32)).to(device),\n                hidden,\n            )\n            hidden = torch.stack(\n1420→                [\n                    sequence_outputs[row, count - 1]\n                    if count\n                    else hidden[0, row]\n                    for row, count in enumerate(block[7])\n                ]\n            ).unsqueeze(0)\n            flat_scored = block[5].reshape(-1)\n            if not np.any(flat_scored):\n                continue\n1430→            mask = torch.from_numpy(flat_scored).to(device)\n            sequence_vectors = sequence_outputs.reshape(\n                -1, config.embedding_dim\n            )[mask]\n            flat_states = block[3].reshape(-1)[flat_scored]\n            positive_items = torch.from_numpy(\n                block[4].reshape(-1)[flat_scored].astype(np.int64)\n            ).to(device)\n            known_history = torch.from_numpy(\n                block[6].reshape(-1, config.bptt_steps)[flat_scored].astype(\n1440→                    np.int64\n                )\n            ).to(device)\n            liked_items = torch.from_numpy(\n                prepared.liked_states[flat_states].astype(np.int64)\n            ).to(device)\n            flat_user_rows = np.broadcast_to(\n                users[:, None], block[5].shape\n            ).reshape(-1)[flat_scored]\n            negatives, negative_weights = draw_training_negatives(\n1450→                positive_items,\n                known_history,\n                liked_items,\n                flat_user_rows,\n                known_positive_packed,\n                prepared,\n                config,\n                item_correction,\n                generator,\n                device,\n1460→            )\n            statistics, _ = score_target_microbatches(\n                model,\n                prepared,\n                config,\n                sequence_vectors,\n                flat_states,\n                block[2].reshape(-1, 4)[flat_scored].astype(np.float32),\n                positive_items,\n                negatives,\n1470→                negative_weights,\n                block[8].reshape(-1)[flat_scored],\n                device,\n                backward=False,\n            )\n            total_loss += statistics[\"loss_sum\"]\n            total_targets += len(positive_items)\n            total_weight += statistics[\"weight_sum\"]\n        if group_number % 25 == 0:\n            release_accelerator_cache(device)\n1480→    return {\n        \"validation_loss\": total_loss / max(total_weight, 1.0e-12),\n        \"validation_targets\": float(total_targets),\n        \"validation_target_weight_sum\": total_weight,\n        \"validation_seconds\": time.monotonic() - started,\n    }\n\n\ndef snapshot_model(model: nn.Module) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]:\n    return {\n1490→        name: value.detach().cpu().clone()\n        for name, value in model.state_dict().items()\n    }\n\n\ndef save_epoch_checkpoint(\n    checkpoint_dir: Path,\n    epoch: int,\n    model_state: dict[str, torch.Tensor],\n    config: Config,\n1500→    diagnostics: dict[str, float],\n    optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer,\n    generator: torch.Generator,\n) -> Path:\n    checkpoint_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)\n    path = checkpoint_dir / f\"epoch-{epoch:02d}.pt\"\n    torch.save(\n        {\n            \"epoch\": epoch,\n            \"config\": asdict(config),\n1510→            \"diagnostics\": diagnostics,\n            \"model_state\": model_state,\n            \"optimizer_state\": optimizer.state_dict(),\n            \"generator_state\": generator.get_state(),\n        },\n        path,\n    )\n    log(f\"saved epoch checkpoint: {path}\")\n    return path\n\n1520→\ndef train_model(\n    public: Path,\n    stage: str,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    device: torch.device,\n    checkpoint_dir: Path | None,\n    resume_checkpoint: Path | None,\n) -> tuple[base.SequentialTwoTower, list[dict[str, float]]]:\n1530→    partition = chronological_target_partition(\n        prepared,\n        config.validation_fraction,\n        config.max_train_targets_per_user,\n        config.max_validation_targets_per_user,\n    )\n    training_counts = partition.training_counts\n    validation_counts = partition.validation_counts\n    log(\n        f\"chronological BCE window: train={int(training_counts.sum()):,} \"\n1540→        f\"validation={int(validation_counts.sum()):,} \"\n        f\"selected={partition.selected_count:,} \"\n        f\"discarded_old_targets={int(partition.window_starts.sum()):,} \"\n        f\"all={prepared.target_count:,}\"\n    )\n    model = base.SequentialTwoTower(prepared.item_features, model_config(config)).to(\n        device\n    )\n    optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(\n        model.parameters(), lr=config.learning_rate, weight_decay=config.weight_decay\n1550→    )\n    generator = torch.Generator(device=\"cpu\").manual_seed(config.seed + 10_000)\n    item_correction = build_item_correction(\n        prepared,\n        config,\n        partition.window_starts,\n        training_counts,\n    )\n    target_weights = build_target_weights(\n        public,\n1560→        stage,\n        prepared,\n        partition.history_training_counts,\n        config,\n    )\n    known_positive_packed = (\n        build_known_positive_filter(prepared, partition.history_training_counts)\n        if config.negative_filter_scope == \"full-training-history\"\n        else None\n    )\n1570→    history: list[dict[str, float]] = []\n    best_loss = float(\"inf\")\n    best_epoch = 0\n    best_state: dict[str, torch.Tensor] | None = None\n    epochs_without_improvement = 0\n    start_epoch = 0\n\n    if resume_checkpoint is not None:\n        payload = torch.load(\n            resume_checkpoint, map_location=device, weights_only=False\n1580→        )\n        stored_config = payload.get(\"config\", {})\n        architecture_fields = (\n            \"bptt_steps\",\n            \"embedding_dim\",\n            \"hidden_dim\",\n            \"user_hidden_1\",\n            \"user_hidden_2\",\n            \"item_hidden_1\",\n            \"item_hidden_2\",\n1590→        )\n        mismatches = {\n            name: (stored_config.get(name), getattr(config, name))\n            for name in architecture_fields\n            if stored_config.get(name) != getattr(config, name)\n        }\n        if mismatches:\n            raise RuntimeError(\n                f\"resume checkpoint architecture differs: {mismatches}\"\n            )\n1600→        stored_filter_scope = stored_config.get(\n            \"negative_filter_scope\", \"last-100\"\n        )\n        stored_target_weighting = stored_config.get(\n            \"target_weighting\", \"uniform\"\n        )\n        stored_weight_values = (\n            stored_config.get(\"ordinary_target_weight\", 1.0),\n            stored_config.get(\"organic_strong_target_weight\", 1.0),\n            stored_config.get(\"organic_like_target_weight\", 3.0),\n1610→            stored_config.get(\"discovery_horizon_days\", 7),\n        )\n        current_weight_values = (\n            config.ordinary_target_weight,\n            config.organic_strong_target_weight,\n            config.organic_like_target_weight,\n            config.discovery_horizon_days,\n        )\n        stored_window_values = (\n            stored_config.get(\"validation_fraction\", 0.10),\n1620→            stored_config.get(\"max_train_targets_per_user\", 0),\n            stored_config.get(\"max_validation_targets_per_user\", 0),\n        )\n        current_window_values = (\n            config.validation_fraction,\n            config.max_train_targets_per_user,\n            config.max_validation_targets_per_user,\n        )\n        objective_changed = (\n            stored_filter_scope != config.negative_filter_scope\n1630→            or stored_target_weighting != config.target_weighting\n            or stored_weight_values != current_weight_values\n            or stored_window_values != current_window_values\n        )\n        model.load_state_dict(payload[\"model_state\"])\n        if \"optimizer_state\" in payload and not objective_changed:\n            optimizer.load_state_dict(payload[\"optimizer_state\"])\n            for group in optimizer.param_groups:\n                group[\"lr\"] = config.learning_rate\n                group[\"weight_decay\"] = config.weight_decay\n1640→            log(f\"restored optimizer state from {resume_checkpoint}\")\n        else:\n            log(\n                f\"using a fresh AdamW optimizer after loading {resume_checkpoint}\"\n            )\n        if \"generator_state\" in payload and not objective_changed:\n            generator.set_state(payload[\"generator_state\"])\n        start_epoch = int(payload[\"epoch\"])\n        if start_epoch >= config.epochs:\n            raise RuntimeError(\n1650→                f\"resume epoch {start_epoch} must be below --epochs {config.epochs}\"\n            )\n        prior = {\n            str(name): float(value)\n            for name, value in payload.get(\"diagnostics\", {}).items()\n        }\n        if objective_changed:\n            prior.pop(\"validation_loss\", None)\n            log(\n                \"BCE objective changed: filter \"\n1660→                f\"{stored_filter_scope}->{config.negative_filter_scope}, \"\n                \"target weighting \"\n                f\"{stored_target_weighting}->{config.target_weighting}, \"\n                f\"target window {stored_window_values}->{current_window_values}; \"\n                \"recomputing the resume checkpoint's validation BCE\"\n            )\n        if \"validation_loss\" not in prior:\n            prior.update(\n                evaluate_validation_bce(\n                    model,\n1670→                    prepared,\n                    config,\n                    target_weights,\n                    partition.window_starts,\n                    training_counts,\n                    validation_counts,\n                    item_correction,\n                    known_positive_packed,\n                    device,\n                )\n1680→            )\n        history.append(prior)\n        best_loss = float(prior[\"validation_loss\"])\n        best_epoch = start_epoch\n        best_state = snapshot_model(model)\n        log(\n            f\"resumed validation-BCE training: epoch={start_epoch} \"\n            f\"loss={best_loss:.6f}\"\n        )\n\n1690→    for epoch in range(start_epoch + 1, config.epochs + 1):\n        diagnostics = run_training_epoch(\n            model,\n            optimizer,\n            prepared,\n            config,\n            target_weights,\n            partition.window_starts,\n            training_counts,\n            item_correction,\n1700→            known_positive_packed,\n            generator,\n            device,\n            epoch,\n        )\n        validation = evaluate_validation_bce(\n            model,\n            prepared,\n            config,\n            target_weights,\n1710→            partition.window_starts,\n            training_counts,\n            validation_counts,\n            item_correction,\n            known_positive_packed,\n            device,\n        )\n        diagnostics.update(validation)\n        history.append(diagnostics)\n        current_state = snapshot_model(model)\n1720→        if checkpoint_dir is not None:\n            save_epoch_checkpoint(\n                checkpoint_dir,\n                epoch,\n                current_state,\n                config,\n                diagnostics,\n                optimizer,\n                generator,\n            )\n1730→        improved = (\n            diagnostics[\"validation_loss\"]\n            < best_loss - config.early_stopping_min_delta\n        )\n        if improved:\n            best_loss = diagnostics[\"validation_loss\"]\n            best_epoch = epoch\n            best_state = current_state\n            epochs_without_improvement = 0\n            if checkpoint_dir is not None:\n1740→                torch.save(\n                    {\n                        \"epoch\": epoch,\n                        \"config\": asdict(config),\n                        \"diagnostics\": diagnostics,\n                        \"model_state\": current_state,\n                        \"optimizer_state\": optimizer.state_dict(),\n                        \"generator_state\": generator.get_state(),\n                    },\n                    checkpoint_dir / \"best.pt\",\n1750→                )\n        else:\n            epochs_without_improvement += 1\n        log(\n            f\"epoch={epoch}/{config.epochs} train_loss={diagnostics['loss']:.5f} \"\n            f\"validation_loss={diagnostics['validation_loss']:.5f} \"\n            f\"pair_accuracy={diagnostics['pair_accuracy']:.3f} \"\n            f\"train_targets={int(diagnostics['targets']):,} \"\n            f\"validation_targets={int(diagnostics['validation_targets']):,} \"\n            f\"train_seconds={diagnostics['seconds']:.1f} \"\n1760→            f\"validation_seconds={diagnostics['validation_seconds']:.1f}\"\n        )\n        release_accelerator_cache(device)\n        if epochs_without_improvement >= config.early_stopping_patience:\n            log(\n                f\"early stopping after epoch={epoch}; \"\n                f\"best_epoch={best_epoch} best_validation_loss={best_loss:.6f}\"\n            )\n            break\n\n1770→    if best_state is None:\n        raise RuntimeError(\"training did not produce a valid checkpoint\")\n    model.load_state_dict(best_state)\n    model.to(device).eval()\n    log(\n        f\"restored best validation-BCE checkpoint: epoch={best_epoch} \"\n        f\"loss={best_loss:.6f}\"\n    )\n    return model, history\n\n1780→\n@torch.inference_mode()\ndef inference_queries(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    device: torch.device,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n    sequence_rows = prepared.inference_user_rows\n    lengths = np.where(\n1790→        sequence_rows >= 0, prepared.lengths[np.maximum(sequence_rows, 0)], 0\n    )\n    ordered = np.argsort(lengths, kind=\"stable\")\n    result = torch.zeros(\n        len(sequence_rows), config.embedding_dim, dtype=torch.float32\n    )\n    for group_start in range(0, len(ordered), config.user_batch_size):\n        output_rows = ordered[group_start : group_start + config.user_batch_size]\n        rows = sequence_rows[output_rows]\n        group_lengths = lengths[output_rows]\n1800→        hidden = torch.zeros(\n            1, len(output_rows), config.embedding_dim, device=device\n        )\n        for start in range(0, int(group_lengths.max(initial=0)), config.bptt_steps):\n            steps = min(\n                config.bptt_steps,\n                int(group_lengths.max(initial=0)) - start,\n            )\n            items = np.full(\n                (len(output_rows), steps),\n1810→                len(prepared.item_ids),\n                dtype=np.uint16,\n            )\n            features = np.zeros((len(output_rows), steps, 3), dtype=np.float16)\n            counts = np.zeros(len(output_rows), dtype=np.int32)\n            for local_row, sequence_row in enumerate(rows):\n                if sequence_row < 0:\n                    continue\n                count = min(steps, max(int(group_lengths[local_row]) - start, 0))\n                if not count:\n1820→                    continue\n                offset = int(prepared.offsets[sequence_row])\n                selected = slice(offset + start, offset + start + count)\n                items[local_row, :count] = prepared.sequence_items[selected]\n                features[local_row, :count] = prepared.event_features[selected]\n                counts[local_row] = count\n            outputs, _ = event_sequence(\n                model,\n                torch.from_numpy(items.astype(np.int64)).to(device),\n                torch.from_numpy(features.astype(np.float32)).to(device),\n1830→                hidden,\n            )\n            next_rows: list[torch.Tensor] = []\n            for local_row, count in enumerate(counts):\n                next_rows.append(\n                    outputs[local_row, count - 1]\n                    if count\n                    else hidden[0, local_row]\n                )\n            hidden = torch.stack(next_rows).unsqueeze(0)\n1840→\n        liked_items = torch.from_numpy(\n            prepared.inference_liked_items[output_rows].astype(np.int64)\n        ).to(device)\n        disliked_items = torch.from_numpy(\n            prepared.inference_disliked_items[output_rows].astype(np.int64)\n        ).to(device)\n        queries = user_queries(\n            model,\n            hidden.squeeze(0),\n1850→            model._mean_context_channel(liked_items),\n            model._mean_context_channel(disliked_items),\n            torch.from_numpy(\n                prepared.inference_user_features[output_rows].astype(np.float32)\n            ).to(device),\n        )\n        result[torch.from_numpy(output_rows.astype(np.int64))] = queries.cpu()\n    return result\n\n\n1860→@torch.inference_mode()\ndef rank_candidates(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    eligibility: CandidateSet,\n    config: Config,\n    device: torch.device,\n    ranking_batch_size: int,\n) -> tuple[pd.DataFrame, dict[str, float]]:\n    model.eval()\n1870→    queries = inference_queries(model, prepared, config, device)\n    item_parts: list[torch.Tensor] = []\n    for start in range(0, len(prepared.item_ids), 2_048):\n        rows = torch.arange(\n            start,\n            min(start + 2_048, len(prepared.item_ids)),\n            dtype=torch.long,\n            device=device,\n        )\n        item_parts.append(model.encode_items(rows).cpu())\n1880→    items = torch.cat(item_parts)\n    rows: list[tuple[int, int, int]] = []\n    for start in range(0, len(eligibility.uids), ranking_batch_size):\n        end = min(start + ranking_batch_size, len(eligibility.uids))\n        scores = queries[start:end] @ items.T\n        eligible = np.unpackbits(\n            eligibility.packed[start:end],\n            axis=1,\n            count=len(prepared.item_ids),\n            bitorder=\"little\",\n1890→        ).astype(bool, copy=False)\n        scores.masked_fill_(~torch.from_numpy(eligible), -torch.inf)\n        selected = torch.topk(scores, k=base.TOP_N, dim=1).indices.numpy()\n        for local_row, columns in enumerate(selected):\n            uid = int(eligibility.uids[start + local_row])\n            rows.extend(\n                (uid, int(prepared.item_ids[column]), rank)\n                for rank, column in enumerate(columns, start=1)\n            )\n        if end == len(eligibility.uids) or end % 1_024 == 0:\n1900→            log(f\"ranked users={end:,}/{len(eligibility.uids):,}\")\n    query_norm = torch.linalg.vector_norm(queries, dim=1).numpy()\n    item_norm = torch.linalg.vector_norm(items, dim=1).numpy()\n    diagnostics = {\n        \"query_norm_mean\": float(query_norm.mean()),\n        \"query_norm_std\": float(query_norm.std()),\n        \"item_norm_mean\": float(item_norm.mean()),\n        \"item_norm_std\": float(item_norm.std()),\n    }\n    return pd.DataFrame(rows, columns=[\"uid\", \"item_id\", \"rank\"]), diagnostics\n1910→\n\ndef write_ranking(frame: pd.DataFrame, output: Path) -> None:\n    output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)\n    if output.suffix == \".parquet\":\n        frame.to_parquet(output, index=False, compression=\"zstd\")\n    elif output.suffix == \".csv\":\n        frame.to_csv(output, index=False)\n    else:\n        raise ValueError(\"--output must end in .parquet or .csv\")\n1920→\n\ndef main() -> int:\n    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--stage\", choices=(\"validation\", \"submission\"), default=\"validation\"\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\"--output\", type=Path, required=True)\n    parser.add_argument(\"--public-dir\", type=Path, required=True)\n    parser.add_argument(\"--prepared-cache\", type=Path)\n1930→    parser.add_argument(\"--device\", choices=(\"cpu\", \"mps\"), default=\"cpu\")\n    parser.add_argument(\"--threads\", type=int, default=8)\n    parser.add_argument(\"--bptt-steps\", type=int, default=Config.bptt_steps)\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--user-batch-size\", type=int, default=Config.user_batch_size\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\"--epochs\", type=int, default=Config.epochs)\n    parser.add_argument(\"--learning-rate\", type=float, default=Config.learning_rate)\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--loss-microbatch-size\",\n1940→        type=int,\n        default=Config.loss_microbatch_size,\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--negative-filter-scope\",\n        choices=(\"full-training-history\", \"last-100\"),\n        default=Config.negative_filter_scope,\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--target-weighting\",\n1950→        choices=(\"discovery-graded\", \"organic-strong\", \"uniform\"),\n        default=Config.target_weighting,\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--ordinary-target-weight\",\n        type=float,\n        default=Config.ordinary_target_weight,\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--organic-strong-target-weight\",\n1960→        type=float,\n        default=Config.organic_strong_target_weight,\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--organic-like-target-weight\",\n        type=float,\n        default=Config.organic_like_target_weight,\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--discovery-horizon-days\",\n1970→        type=int,\n        default=Config.discovery_horizon_days,\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--validation-fraction\",\n        type=float,\n        default=Config.validation_fraction,\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--max-train-targets-per-user\",\n1980→        type=int,\n        default=Config.max_train_targets_per_user,\n        help=\"retain this many recent pre-validation targets per user; 0 is uncapped\",\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--max-validation-targets-per-user\",\n        type=int,\n        default=Config.max_validation_targets_per_user,\n        help=\"retain this many final validation targets per user; 0 is uncapped\",\n    )\n1990→    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--early-stopping-patience\",\n        type=int,\n        default=Config.early_stopping_patience,\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--early-stopping-min-delta\",\n        type=float,\n        default=Config.early_stopping_min_delta,\n    )",
            "isError": false
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      "id": 8,
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          "input": {
            "target_file": "/task/current_model/train_current_model.py",
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            "timestamp": null,
            "content": "1990→    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--early-stopping-patience\",\n        type=int,\n        default=Config.early_stopping_patience,\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--early-stopping-min-delta\",\n        type=float,\n        default=Config.early_stopping_min_delta,\n    )\n2000→    parser.add_argument(\"--checkpoint-dir\", type=Path)\n    parser.add_argument(\"--resume-checkpoint\", type=Path)\n    parser.add_argument(\"--seed\", type=int, default=Config.seed)\n    parser.add_argument(\"--ranking-batch-size\", type=int, default=64)\n    parser.add_argument(\"--prepare-only\", action=\"store_true\")\n    args = parser.parse_args()\n\n    if args.threads < 1 or args.bptt_steps < 2 or args.user_batch_size < 1:\n        parser.error(\"threads, BPTT steps, and user batch size must be positive\")\n    if (\n2010→        args.epochs < 1\n        or args.learning_rate <= 0\n        or args.loss_microbatch_size < 1\n        or args.early_stopping_patience < 1\n        or args.early_stopping_min_delta < 0\n        or args.ordinary_target_weight <= 0\n        or args.organic_strong_target_weight <= 0\n        or args.organic_like_target_weight <= 0\n        or args.discovery_horizon_days < 1\n        or args.max_train_targets_per_user < 0\n2020→        or args.max_validation_targets_per_user < 0\n    ):\n        parser.error(\"training counts, learning rate, and patience are invalid\")\n    if not 0.0 < args.validation_fraction < 1.0:\n        parser.error(\"validation fraction must be strictly between zero and one\")\n    public = args.public_dir.resolve()\n    if not (public / \"data\" / \"candidate_catalog.parquet\").is_file():\n        parser.error(f\"public task data not found under {public}\")\n    config = Config(\n        bptt_steps=args.bptt_steps,\n2030→        user_batch_size=args.user_batch_size,\n        epochs=args.epochs,\n        learning_rate=args.learning_rate,\n        loss_microbatch_size=args.loss_microbatch_size,\n        negative_filter_scope=args.negative_filter_scope,\n        target_weighting=args.target_weighting,\n        ordinary_target_weight=args.ordinary_target_weight,\n        organic_strong_target_weight=args.organic_strong_target_weight,\n        organic_like_target_weight=args.organic_like_target_weight,\n        discovery_horizon_days=args.discovery_horizon_days,\n2040→        validation_fraction=args.validation_fraction,\n        max_train_targets_per_user=args.max_train_targets_per_user,\n        max_validation_targets_per_user=args.max_validation_targets_per_user,\n        early_stopping_patience=args.early_stopping_patience,\n        early_stopping_min_delta=args.early_stopping_min_delta,\n        seed=args.seed,\n    )\n    torch.set_num_threads(args.threads)\n    torch.set_num_interop_threads(1)\n    seed_everything(config.seed)\n2050→    device = torch.device(args.device)\n    if device.type == \"mps\" and not torch.backends.mps.is_available():\n        parser.error(\"MPS was requested but is unavailable\")\n\n    started = time.monotonic()\n    prepared, eligibility = load_or_prepare(\n        public,\n        args.stage,\n        config,\n        args.prepared_cache.resolve() if args.prepared_cache else None,\n2060→    )\n    target_partition = chronological_target_partition(\n        prepared,\n        config.validation_fraction,\n        config.max_train_targets_per_user,\n        config.max_validation_targets_per_user,\n    )\n    if args.prepare_only:\n        print(\n            json.dumps(\n2070→                {\n                    \"stage\": args.stage,\n                    \"sequence_users\": len(prepared.user_ids),\n                    \"sequence_tokens\": len(prepared.sequence_items),\n                    \"next_item_targets\": prepared.target_count,\n                    \"selected_training_targets\": int(\n                        target_partition.training_counts.sum()\n                    ),\n                    \"selected_validation_targets\": int(\n                        target_partition.validation_counts.sum()\n2080→                    ),\n                    \"discarded_old_targets\": int(\n                        target_partition.window_starts.sum()\n                    ),\n                    \"target_users\": len(eligibility.uids),\n                    \"runtime_seconds\": round(time.monotonic() - started, 3),\n                    \"config\": asdict(config),\n                },\n                indent=2,\n            )\n2090→        )\n        return 0\n\n    model, training_history = train_model(\n        public,\n        args.stage,\n        prepared,\n        config,\n        device,\n        args.checkpoint_dir.resolve() if args.checkpoint_dir else None,\n2100→        args.resume_checkpoint.resolve() if args.resume_checkpoint else None,\n    )\n    ranking, embedding_diagnostics = rank_candidates(\n        model,\n        prepared,\n        eligibility,\n        config,\n        device,\n        args.ranking_batch_size,\n    )\n2110→    write_ranking(ranking, args.output.resolve())\n    print(\n        json.dumps(\n            {\n                \"baseline\": \"yambda-windowed-sequence-two-tower-base\",\n                \"stage\": args.stage,\n                \"output\": str(args.output.resolve()),\n                \"rows\": len(ranking),\n                \"users\": int(ranking.uid.nunique()),\n                \"runtime_seconds\": round(time.monotonic() - started, 3),\n2120→                \"public_inputs_only\": True,\n                \"architecture\": {\n                    \"family\": \"pure-windowed-sequence-two-tower\",\n                    \"sequence_training\": (\n                        \"every-adjacent-target-within-recent-chronological-window\"\n                    ),\n                    \"sequence_encoder\": \"one-layer-GRU-dense-timestep-loss\",\n                    \"bptt_hidden_state\": \"carried-and-detached\",\n                    \"model_selection\": \"chronological-validation-BCE-early-stopping\",\n                    \"loss_execution\": \"gradient-accumulated-microbatches\",\n2130→                    \"user_id_embedding\": False,\n                    \"user_mlp\": \"582-512-256-192\",\n                    \"item_mlp\": \"196-512-256-192\",\n                    \"normalization\": \"none\",\n                    \"score\": \"raw-dot-product\",\n                    \"objective\": \"sample-weighted-BCE-at-every-timestep\",\n                    \"negative_sampling\": (\n                        \"24-uniform-plus-8-propensity-corrected-inbatch\"\n                    ),\n                    \"false_negative_filter\": config.negative_filter_scope,\n2140→                    \"target_weighting\": config.target_weighting,\n                },\n                \"config\": asdict(config),\n                \"sequence_tokens\": len(prepared.sequence_items),\n                \"all_next_item_targets\": prepared.target_count,\n                \"selected_training_targets\": int(\n                    target_partition.training_counts.sum()\n                ),\n                \"selected_validation_targets\": int(\n                    target_partition.validation_counts.sum()\n2150→                ),\n                \"discarded_old_targets\": int(target_partition.window_starts.sum()),\n                \"training_history\": training_history,\n                \"embedding_diagnostics\": embedding_diagnostics,\n                \"torch_version\": torch.__version__,\n                \"device\": str(device),\n            },\n            indent=2,\n        )\n    )\n2160→    return 0\n\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n    raise SystemExit(main())\n",
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      "id": 9,
      "role": "agent",
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          "text": "I am beginning to analyze the production two-tower recommendation model.\n\nThe investigation centers on the training objective's negative sampling strategy. The current pipeline uses 24 uniform negatives, 8 propensity-corrected in-batch negatives, a full-history false-negative filter, and sample-weighted BCE with organic-strong target weighting. I am identifying limitations in this approach to improve retrieval quality under the fixed CPU budget.\n\nUniform negatives from the catalog are too easy. The model learns to distinguish them quickly, so they do not sharpen ranking among competitive candidates. In-batch negatives remain popularity-biased despite propensity correction. For discovery ranking, harder and more relevant negatives are needed."
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          "text": "I’ll inspect data scale and how long a production run takes so the negative-sampling change stays inside the CPU budget."
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          "kind": "tool",
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            "command": "python3 - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nfrom pathlib import Path\ndata = Path('/task/data')\nfor name in [\n    'candidate_catalog.parquet','target_users.parquet',\n    'train_listens.parquet','train_likes.parquet','train_dislikes.parquet',\n    'val_listens.parquet','val_likes.parquet','val_dislikes.parquet',\n    'validation_preference_state.parquet','test_preference_state.parquet',\n]:\n    p = data/name\n    df = pd.read_parquet(p)\n    print(f'{name}: rows={len(df):,} cols={list(df.columns)}')\n    print(df.head(2).to_string())\n    print()\nprint('catalog dtypes', pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet').dtypes)\nprint('target users', pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet').shape)\nimport numpy as np\nfor fname in ['validation_eligible_candidates.npz','test_eligible_candidates.npz']:\n    z = np.load(data/fname)\n    print(fname, {k: z[k].shape for k in z.files})\n    n_items = len(z['item_ids'])\n    packed = z['packed_eligible']\n    counts = []\n    for r in range(min(5, len(z['uids']))):\n        mask = np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=n_items, bitorder='little')\n        counts.append(int(mask.sum()))\n    # average eligible\n    total = 0\n    for r in range(len(z['uids'])):\n        mask = np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=n_items, bitorder='little')\n        total += int(mask.sum())\n    print('  mean eligible', total/len(z['uids']), 'min sample', min(counts), 'n_users', len(z['uids']), 'n_items', n_items)\nPY",
            "description": "Inspect data sizes, schemas, candidate sets"
          },
          "result": {
            "timestamp": null,
            "content": "exit: 1\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<stdin>\", line 1, in <module>\nModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pandas'\n",
            "isError": true
          }
        }
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      "id": 10,
      "role": "agent",
      "timestamp": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "reasoning",
          "representation": "summary",
          "timestamp": null,
          "text": "I need to locate the correct Python environment."
        },
        {
          "kind": "message",
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        },
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          "kind": "tool",
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          "callId": "call-1538228b-2629-4bf5-90fa-2c82ecc20c91-12",
          "name": "run_terminal_command",
          "input": {
            "command": "which python python3; ls /usr/bin/python*; ls /opt 2>/dev/null; echo '---'; cat /task/requirements.txt | head -5; python3 -c \"import sys; print(sys.executable, sys.path)\"",
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          },
          "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\ntask-venv\n---\n# 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/usr/local/bin/python3 ['', '/usr/local/lib/python312.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python3.12', '/usr/local/lib/python3.12/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages']\n",
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          "input": {
            "command": "ls /opt/task-venv/bin/ | head; /opt/task-venv/bin/python -c \"import torch, pandas, numpy; print(torch.__version__, pandas.__version__, numpy.__version__)\"",
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          },
          "result": {
            "timestamp": null,
            "content": "exit: 0\nActivate.ps1\nactivate\nactivate.csh\nactivate.fish\nchardetect\ndotenv\nf2py\nidna\nisympy\njsonschema\n2.8.0+cpu 2.3.3 2.2.6\n",
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          "kind": "reasoning",
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          "text": "I will use the Python interpreter at /opt/task-venv/bin/python."
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          "text": "Beginning to analyze the production two-tower retrieval problem.\n\nThe Yambda two-tower model uses 24 uniform and 8 in-batch negatives with propensity correction. It applies full-history false-negative filtering and sample-weighted BCE. Target weights are set to ordinary=0.25, organic-strong=1.0, and organic-like=3.0. Evaluation uses graded NDCG@10 on organic likes and organic 80%+ listens for previously unseen items. The current negative sampling setup appears to be the main limitation.\n\nUniform negatives are too easy against a 30k catalog. Random items are highly dissimilar, so the model learns coarse pair accuracy without fine-grained ranking among similar tracks. In-batch negatives remain popularity-biased despite inverse-propensity correction, which is too weak to fully counteract. The pipeline also lacks popularity-sampled or mixed negative strategies that would produce harder negatives.\n\nHard negative mining is missing. Dislikes could serve as explicit negatives, and cached hard negatives or similar-item mixing could improve retrieval difficulty.\n\nThe current independent BCE loss also underperforms for retrieval compared to sampled softmax with log-Q correction. Sampled softmax makes negatives compete directly against the positive.\n\nThe full-history false-negative filter is actually correct for discovery. Previously encountered items are ineligible at serving, so excluding them as negatives avoids false positives without hurting retrieval.\n\nIn-batch negatives are drawn from next-item targets. These reflect sequential consumption rather than discovery outcomes, creating a train-eval mismatch because many next-items are non-organic or repeats. The default target weighting is organic-strong, not discovery-graded.\n\nFull in-batch softmax would use all other positives in the batch as negatives instead of just eight unique items. Dynamic hard negative mining could score a larger candidate set and select the hardest examples. The current CPU budget is tight: one epoch, 8456 target users, 43M train listens with only 50%+ completion tokens, 128 max targets per user, 64-user batches, and 100 bptt steps. Training time needs to be estimated before choosing improvements."
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            "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport pyarrow.parquet as pq\nfrom pathlib import Path\ndata = Path('/task/data')\n# unique users\nfor name in ['train_listens.parquet','val_listens.parquet']:\n    pf = pq.ParquetFile(data/name)\n    print(name, 'num_row_groups', pf.num_row_groups, 'metadata rows', pf.metadata.num_rows)\ncat = pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet')\nprint('pop stats', cat.positive_listens.describe(percentiles=[0.5,0.9,0.99]))\nprint('organic ratio', (cat.organic_positive_listens/cat.positive_listens.clip(lower=1)).describe())\nlikes = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_likes.parquet')\nprint('likes organic fraction', likes.is_organic.mean(), 'n', len(likes))\nlistens_sample = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_listens.parquet', columns=['is_organic','played_ratio_pct'])\nprint('listens organic', listens_sample.is_organic.mean())\nprint('listens >=50', (listens_sample.played_ratio_pct>=50).mean())\nprint('listens organic>=80', ((listens_sample.is_organic==1)&(listens_sample.played_ratio_pct>=80)).mean())\nprint('listens rec>=50', ((listens_sample.is_organic==0)&(listens_sample.played_ratio_pct>=50)).mean())\ntargets = pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet')\nprint(targets.describe())\n# val organic discovery\nval_l = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_listens.parquet')\nval_k = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_likes.parquet')\ntset = set(targets.uid)\nprint('val listens target users', val_l.uid.isin(tset).mean(), 'organic>=80 target', ((val_l.uid.isin(tset))&(val_l.is_organic==1)&(val_l.played_ratio_pct>=80)).sum())\nprint('val likes target organic', ((val_k.uid.isin(tset))&(val_k.is_organic==1)).sum())\nPY",
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            "content": "exit: 0\ntrain_listens.parquet num_row_groups 42 metadata rows 43484159\nval_listens.parquet num_row_groups 2 metadata rows 1501697\npop stats count    30000.000000\nmean       668.544300\nstd       1053.389553\nmin        163.000000\n50%        354.000000\n90%       1367.000000\n99%       5052.160000\nmax      26615.000000\nName: positive_listens, dtype: float64\norganic ratio count    30000.000000\nmean         0.459444\nstd          0.217957\nmin          0.000000\n25%          0.301042\n50%          0.456960\n75%          0.610599\nmax          1.000000\ndtype: float64\nlikes organic fraction 0.5667911505576003 n 814831\nlistens organic 0.5169151828370419\nlistens >=50 0.6324315712303417\nlistens organic>=80 0.2800464187429726\nlistens rec>=50 0.3288134191579973\n                  uid  recent_positive_listens  history_positive_listens\ncount     8456.000000              8456.000000               8456.000000\nmean    502289.108325              1251.076750               3236.440752\nstd     287953.395912              1414.340904               3697.575286\nmin        100.000000                20.000000                 20.000000\n25%     254375.000000               281.000000                630.000000\n50%     503850.000000               784.500000               1920.500000\n75%     751725.000000              1706.250000               4494.250000\nmax    1000000.000000             19592.000000              26597.000000\nval listens target users 0.9872517558468852 organic>=80 target 421615\nval likes target organic 20702\n",
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          "text": "Reviewing the Yambda dataset and known two-tower retrieval improvements.\n\nThe current negative sampling has two main flaws. Uniform negatives dominate the batch, and in-batch negatives are too few to provide meaningful contrast.\n\nA single block contains 6400 targets. Yet only eight unique in-batch negatives are sampled per target.\n\nThe current BCE loss treats negatives independently, so it does not force competition between candidates. The plan is to switch to sampled softmax or InfoNCE, mix uniform, popularity-based, and in-batch sampling, increase the negative count, and use dislikes as hard negatives. The first step is copying the production model into /app/solution.\n\nTraining time is the main bottleneck. The production configuration uses one epoch, 128 targets per user, a batch size of 64, and 100-step blocks. The dataset contains roughly 43 million listens across a large user pool. A quick validation run will gauge training speed before committing to a full refit.\n\nTraining on all users with qualifying listens, not just target users, is standard for two-tower models. The dataset likely contains roughly 430,000 users. With 128 targets per user, this yields about 12.8 million training examples. That volume will make CPU training very slow."
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            "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pyarrow.parquet as pq\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\ndata = Path('/task/data')\n# count unique uids from row groups without full load\npf = pq.ParquetFile(data/'train_listens.parquet')\nuids = set()\nn = 0\nfor i, batch in enumerate(pf.iter_batches(batch_size=1_000_000, columns=['uid'])):\n    arr = batch.column('uid').to_numpy()\n    n += len(arr)\n    uids.update(np.unique(arr).tolist())\n    if i % 10 == 0:\n        print('batches', i, 'rows', n, 'unique so far', len(uids), flush=True)\nprint('TOTAL unique train listen users', len(uids), 'rows', n)\n\n# target users\nimport pandas as pd\nt = pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet')\nprint('target users', len(t), 'in train listens', len(set(t.uid)&uids))\nPY",
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            "content": "exit: 0\nbatches 0 rows 1000000 unique so far 218\nbatches 10 rows 11000000 unique so far 2315\nbatches 20 rows 21000000 unique so far 4388\nbatches 30 rows 31000000 unique so far 6566\nbatches 40 rows 41000000 unique so far 8700\nTOTAL unique train listen users 9238 rows 43484159\ntarget users 8456 in train listens 8456\n",
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          "text": "The training data contains 9,238 unique users and 8,456 target users.\n\nEach user has roughly 4,700 listens on average. The training pipeline caps at 128 targets per user, yielding about 1.18 million targets total. Each epoch processes approximately 288 blocks of 6,400 targets each through a GRU over 100-step sequences.\n\nTraining should take roughly 10 to 20 minutes per epoch on CPU. The current negative sampling is too weak: 24 of 32 negatives are uniform random items, which makes pair accuracy easy without learning real music ranking. In-batch negatives are also sparse and poorly corrected.\n\nOnly eight unique in-batch items are sampled from potentially hundreds, wasting hard negatives. The inverse-propensity correction is clipped at square root, so popular tracks remain dominant as both hard and false hard negatives. The pipeline also lacks popularity-aware mixed sampling, which standard two-tower models use to balance tail coverage with retrieval realism. Pointwise binary cross-entropy further weakens learning because each negative is scored independently against the positive rather than competing within a batch.\n\nInfoNCE or sampled softmax would better optimize NDCG@10 by forcing the model to push down competing items. Explicit user dislikes are currently unused as hard negatives; they only feed user-tower features. The false-negative filter is sound, but resampling invalid negatives with uniform draws turns in-batch hard negatives into easy uniforms.\n\nThe plan is to mix uniform, popularity-sampled, in-batch, and explicit dislike negatives. Sampled softmax or InfoNCE with log-Q correction will replace pointwise binary cross-entropy. Thirty-two to sixty-four in-batch negatives can be drawn from the batch by sharing item encodings. Periodic hard negative mining against a subsample is also under consideration.\n\nThe sampled-softmax loss is being mapped out to keep training under 25 minutes on CPU. The current weighted binary logistic formulation will be replaced by a softmax over the positive and sampled negatives.\n\nThe sampled-softmax formulation subtracts log(q(item)) from logits for each sampled negative, while InfoNCE normalizes by temperature. In-batch negatives carry a log-Q correction because their sampling probabilities vary, but uniform negatives do not since their probability is constant.\n\nPopularity-sampled negatives with log-Q correction would provide harder negatives while remaining unbiased. A shared pool of 64 to 256 in-batch items for the entire batch is more efficient than the current eight unique per row. The pipeline already deduplicates and encodes all items together, so this reuse is straightforward.\n\nThe false-negative filter is a concrete CPU bottleneck: it compares 6,400 negatives against 48 liked items per row, and that cost scales with the negative count. In-batch negatives are also drawn only from unique targets within the same training block, which limits their pool.\n\nThe item tower already encodes explicit popularity signals, including log1p(positives), organic plays, and inverse popularity rank. This makes the catalog inherently skewed toward popular tracks. Training with too many easy uniform negatives therefore risks amplifying that bias.\n\nThe sampling plan is now concrete: raise in-batch negatives from eight to sixteen or twenty-four and cut uniform negatives from twenty-four to eight or sixteen. Explicit dislikes will be added as high-weighted hard negatives, since a user’s rejection of a track is a strong signal that the track should not rank highly for them.\n\nTemperature scaling is being considered for the contrastive loss. The existing discovery-graded target weighting option is noted but set aside to keep the focus on negatives.\n\nThe production model already implements mixed negative sampling, so the current baseline is a mature one. The remaining limitations are being enumerated.\n\nThe current in-batch sampling draws eight random unique targets rather than the hardest ones. Resampling invalid in-batch negatives into uniform items destroys their hard negative signal entirely.\n\nPeriodic hard negative mining is being evaluated: score each batch against a random one-thousand-item subset and keep the top-k false positives as negatives. That would cost roughly 350 billion CPU FLOPs across all blocks, which is likely too expensive.\n\nScoring against the full 30,000-item catalog for hard mining is too expensive. A MoCo-style cache of recent item embeddings would be far cheaper. Another option is to pool all unique items in the batch as shared negatives; with roughly 500–2,000 unique tracks per block, this avoids sampling entirely.\n\nShared in-batch negatives would cost roughly 600 million FLOPs per block, which is well within CPU budget. Across 64 users with 100-step sequences, the typical block contains about 1,000 to 3,000 unique items, so the shared pool is large enough to provide hard negatives without sampling.\n\nThe plan is to copy files to /app/solution, implement the improved negative sampling, and run a validation training pass. A full production timing run would consume 15–20 minutes, so the immediate focus is on building and training rather than benchmarking. If the new sampling improves retrieval quality, the model will be refit for submission.\n\nA before-and-after public score is required, so the baseline must be measured first. Data cache preparation will run in parallel with implementation. The sampled-softmax loss is the single most impactful change.\n\nL2 normalization of both towers is being considered to turn raw dot products into cosine similarity, which should sharpen retrieval without breaking the indexed serving contract. Frequency^0.75 sampling is also under consideration for corpus negatives.\n\nL2 normalization of the towers is being set aside to avoid altering the raw dot-product retrieval architecture. The implementation will instead increase the in-batch negative count from eight to sixteen and the uniform negative count from twenty-four to sixteen.\n\nThe concrete config is now set: sixteen popularity-sampled negatives, four explicit dislike negatives, sampled-softmax loss, temperature 0.1 or 1.0, and frequency^0.75 corpus sampling. The log-Q correction is being derived for the mixed negative pool.\n\nThe log-Q correction for mixed negative distributions is proving unwieldy. A simpler alternative is being weighed: InfoNCE with in-batch and random negatives, or harder pointwise BCE, which would stay closer to the production baseline.\n\nThe log-Q correction is being simplified. In-batch negatives will keep the existing frequency-based weighting, while sampled negatives will use their explicit sampling probability for the log-Q term.\n\nThe mixed negative probability is being formalized as a convex combination of uniform and popularity distributions. A simpler recipe is emerging: hard in-batch negatives paired with popularity-sampled negatives under a softmax loss. Dynamic hard negatives were dismissed as too expensive.\n\nA cheap hard-negative mining strategy is being designed. Each block will sample 128 random items, encode them, and score queries against them without gradients to select the top eight as hard negatives. The loss will then be computed with gradients on those selected items. This avoids expensive full-catalog scoring while still injecting harder negatives into the training objective.\n\nThe hard-negative mining idea is being dropped. A simpler approach is to increase the sampled negative pool from thirty-two to one hundred twenty-eight or two hundred fifty-six and use sampled softmax directly over that larger random pool. This avoids gradient-based selection entirely. The extra encoding cost is modest because popularity sampling keeps the effective unique-item count low.\n\nThe larger sampled negative pool is computationally feasible. Encoding ten thousand items and scoring against two hundred fifty-six negatives costs only about three hundred million FLOPs. The false-negative filter is also cheap because full-history negatives are packed into bit arrays, so invalidation scales linearly with batch size rather than the negative count.\n\nThe duplicate check among sampled negatives scales quadratically with the pool size, so a 256-item pool would cost roughly 400 million FLOPs per block. A smaller mixed pool of 64 to 128 negatives is therefore preferable. Dislike items are already stored in prepared.disliked_states and can be injected as guaranteed hard negatives.\n\nDiscovery-graded target weighting will be enabled to align training with the evaluation objective. The negative-sampling strategy remains the primary change. Temperature scaling is being deferred because typical logit scales from production are unknown.\n\nThe sampled-softmax loss is being reconsidered. With raw 192-dimensional embeddings and standard deviations near 0.02, initial dot products are small, so a temperature of 1.0 may be appropriate. However, the plan is shifting toward a safer alternative: keeping the existing BCE loss but increasing the negative pool to harder or more negatives. This avoids the numerical instability risks of softmax while still improving retrieval quality.\n\nThe prompt explicitly directs attention to how the training objective selects and uses negative examples. The current setup—24 uniform negatives plus 8 propensity-corrected in-batch negatives—has three clear limitations: uniform sampling does not match the retrieval distribution, the in-batch pool is too small, and there are no hard negatives.\n\nThe sampled-softmax loss is being re-adopted. The plan now mixes popularity-sampled corpus negatives with uniform tail coverage, increases the in-batch negative count, and optionally injects explicit dislike negatives. This replaces the mean BCE on negatives.\n\nThe in-batch correction uses global training frequency rather than batch frequency. This is acceptable.\n\nStreaming popularity sampling will use a precomputed alias table or cumulative distribution for O(1) sampling.\n\nAll unique in-batch items may be used as shared negatives via a single matrix multiply. This would be more efficient and provide more negatives.\n\nThe implementation plan now includes `draw_mixed_hard_negatives` to combine uniform, popularity, in-batch, and dislike counts. It also includes `sampled_softmax_loss` with log-Q correction. The uniform log-Q term is q_u = 1/n_items.\n\nThe log-Q correction is being applied to the sampled-softmax loss. Each negative logit will be subtracted by its source-specific sampling probability, and the positive logit may also receive a log-Q adjustment.\n\nThe loss will be implemented as InfoNCE with temperature scaling. The training plan is to copy the code, prepare a validation cache from 43 million listens, implement the changes, validate, build the submission cache, train the final model, and write the ranking artifact.\n\nData preparation for all 9238 users and 43 million events will take several minutes. The prepared cache will be written to /app/solution and built in the background while code is being written. Training will include every user rather than only target users to preserve quality. The organic-strong weighting scheme is also being reviewed: recommended listens with 50% or more completion still carry a positive label with weight 0.25.\n\nLow-completion skips are being considered as implicit negatives. They represent items the recommender showed but the user did not finish, which aligns with organic discovery goals better than current positives. This is a strong negative-sampling improvement.\n\nSkip events are true hard negatives because the user was exposed but did not finish. They will be used only as extra negatives, not as sequence tokens, to avoid violating the existing data protocol.\n\nSkip events are being dropped to avoid changing the data-loading pipeline and complicating caching. The negative pool will instead rely on catalog sampling, in-batch items, and explicit dislike negatives.\n\nIn-batch negatives are drawn from liked targets, so they are not true hard negatives for discovery. Popular items the user never played are better candidates because they represent missed recommendations. The production pipeline already mixes in-batch and uniform corpus sampling, matching Google's mixed negative sampling approach.\n\nThe current 24 uniform and 8 in-batch negatives may be too easy. The production pipeline likely needs more hard negatives and fewer easy ones. The in-batch correction is also being questioned: with a power of 0.5 and a floor of 0.25, popular items receive only weak negative weighting.\n\nThe in-batch correction is the wrong tool for this objective. It suppresses popular false positives, but NDCG@10 is dominated by top-K accuracy against those exact distractors. The correction should be removed or reversed.\n\nThe total negative pool is being raised to 48. The log-Q correction will be applied directly to logits rather than as a loss weight, which makes rare items more competitive and popular items less dominant in the softmax.\n\nThe log-Q correction is being reconsidered. It is an unbiased estimator for full retrieval and long-tail embeddings, but it suppresses popular false positives that dominate the top-K. The tension is between learning accurate item embeddings and ranking popular distractors correctly.\n\nThe sampled-softmax loss will use only mild log-Q correction, avoiding aggressive downweighting of popular negatives. The implementation plan is to copy two_tower_model.py largely unchanged and modify train_current_model.py for the new negative mix, a popularity sampler, dislike negatives, sampled softmax loss, and updated negative drawing.\n\nA shared popularity negative pool of 64–128 items will be sampled per block and applied to all queries via a single matrix multiply. This is far more efficient than per-query sampling.\n\nInvalid negatives—known positives and duplicates—will be masked with -inf logits instead of resampled to uniform. This is faster and cleaner than the current approach, which replaces hard in-batch negatives with easy uniform draws.\n\nThe softmax temperature will be configurable, starting near 1.0 or scaled by the embedding dimension. Training will use a single epoch with early stopping after one validation pass to save time. The per-user target limit stays at 128. Discovery-graded weights will be enabled as a secondary alignment signal.\n\nThe training objective will stay organic-strong rather than switching to discovery-graded weights. This isolates the negative-sampling change and avoids confounding factors.\n\nThe shared popularity negative pool will be sampled once per block and applied to all queries, with known positives masked out. Popularity sampling logic will live in the training script rather than the core model to minimize primitive changes. The serving path remains unchanged.\n\nImplementation is starting now. Cache preparation will use the existing script since it is independent of negative sampling changes. Dislike negatives will be drawn from the current disliked_states without altering cache metadata. The author is also considering whether to filter disliked items from the negative pool.\n\nDislikes will be forced into the negative pool rather than treated as invalid. Conflicted items that are both liked and disliked are rare, so filtering them is acceptable. The sampled-softmax loss function signature is being drafted.\n\nThe sampled-softmax loss implementation is now concrete. It subtracts log-Q corrections from both positive and negative logits, masks invalid negatives with -1e9, concatenates the tensors, and passes them to cross-entropy with zero labels. Popularity-sampled negatives will use their catalog probability as the correction term.\n\nThe log-Q correction is being abandoned. Mixing uniform, popularity, and in-batch negatives would require a complex mixture probability that is approximate and hard to maintain consistently. 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          "text": "The environment provides 8 CPUs and 15GB RAM, with 8 default threads configured.\n\nI will copy the current model files to /app/solution and prepare the validation cache in the background using the original code. Then I will implement improved negatives, train and evaluate on validation, and refit for test.\n\nFull in-batch softmax would be too expensive at 6400 positives per block. Shared negatives drawn from a smaller unique-item set should keep the loss numerically stable while improving retrieval quality.\n\nThe loss will use InfoNCE with self and known-positive masking. A shared popularity-sampled set of 64–128 extra items will supplement the in-batch negatives for coverage.\n\nThe candidate set will be roughly 2000 items: about 1500 unique batch items plus 500 extra sampled negatives. Each query will score against this full set, and the loss will be a simple cross-entropy over the target column. Historical positives for each user will be masked to prevent false negative penalties.\n\nThe mask will use packed known-positive lookups to zero out scores for each user’s other historical positives, excluding the true target. This replaces per-row sampling with a single shared softmax over roughly two thousand items, yielding over a thousand negatives per query. The batch items themselves provide high-quality hard negatives.\n\nA log-Q correction will be applied to the softmax scores. This counteracts popularity bias by subtracting the item’s log probability multiplied by a moderate power of 0.0–0.5.\n\nThe log-Q correction power will be 0.0 or 0.25. Temperature will start at 1.0. Sample weights will still multiply the per-row cross-entropy loss. The score matrix is only 51 MB, so memory is not a concern. Validation will use the same new loss for comparability. I need to refactor `score_target_microbatches` and the training loop's negative drawing path.\n\nThe training loop will encode all shared negatives once per block, then compute scores and apply the mask before the cross-entropy loss. Disliked items will be added to the shared candidate pool so they appear as negatives for users who disliked them.\n\nThe gradient flow will preserve the existing memory-efficient pattern. Sequence vectors will be detached and marked requires_grad, then the shared softmax loss is computed and backpropagated through the query and item encoders. The resulting sequence gradient will then be passed back into the GRU layer.\n\nThe optimizer will step after both the query and sequence gradients are applied. Extra negatives will be sampled from a popularity distribution raised to a configurable power, matching the log-Q correction exponent.\n\nThe shared candidate pool will combine unique batch positives, 128 uniform extra items, and 256 popularity-sampled extras. This yields roughly 2000 to 3000 items per block. The cross-entropy target column ensures that when two users share the same next item, it is treated as a true positive for each user rather than a false negative.\n\nThe current production pipeline draws 200,000 random negatives per block from a 30,000-item catalog. Unique items encoded each block likely exceed 20,000. This means the encoder already processes nearly the entire catalog every block. The proposed shared softmax over roughly two thousand items is therefore far more efficient than the existing approach.\n\nThe existing 24 uniform negatives per row are easy and waste compute. The proposed shared softmax over roughly two thousand items is a major speedup.\n\nThe full block can be processed in one microbatch because the shared candidate set is small enough. Pair accuracy will be measured by comparing positive scores against shared negatives. Temperature may be lowered to 0.5 or 1.0, and L2 normalization of embeddings is being considered for numerical stability.\n\nL2 normalization is being skipped to preserve the raw dot-product serving contract. The training plan targets two epochs with early stopping after one, keeping the 1e-3 learning rate.\n\nThe full catalog would require roughly 1e13 FLOPs per epoch, confirming the shared two-thousand-item softmax is the only practical scale. The training loop will now sample extra negatives once per block, gather unique positives, extras, and dislike items into a single shared pool, and pass that set to the scoring function for encoding, masking, and cross-entropy loss.\n\nThe mask will be built with a vectorized bitwise lookup. Each user’s known positives are packed into bytes, and the shared candidate IDs are checked against those packed values to zero out invalid scores in one operation.\n\nThe target column for cross-entropy will be built by mapping each user’s positive item to its index in the shared candidate set. Because every batch positive is included in that set, the lookup is straightforward. The invalid-score mask will also zero out the true target item so it cannot be penalized as a negative.\n\nThe cross-entropy loss will use `reduction='none'` so that per-row sample weights can be applied after masking. Extra negatives will be drawn from a larger popularity-sampled pool and included wholesale rather than mined. The popularity power is fixed at 0.75.\n\nHead-focused sampling at power 1.0 will draw harder negatives for popular tracks. The candidate pool will total roughly 3000 items: about 2500 unique batch positives plus 512 popularity extras and 128 uniform extras. Even the final partial BPTT block with only 1792 positives should yield a manageable candidate set.\n\nThe first training block will use the hidden state at the window start, matching production. The two-tower model script will be copied locally for import, and a small unit test will verify the mask and loss logic. The plan allocates roughly fifteen minutes to implementation, ten minutes to cache preparation, and another ten minutes to training validation. Cache preparation can reuse the existing data because the prepare_data function is unchanged.\n\nThe default configuration will point to the improved objective so that `--stage submission` runs the new loss without extra flags. A separate production mode is optional. After validation training, the pipeline will run `evaluate_public.py` for ranking validation. Over-sampling organic-strong targets was considered but skipped as unnecessary weighting.\n\nThe shared softmax over two thousand items will not be dominated by easy negatives. In a softmax partition function, low-scoring negatives contribute near-zero probability mass, so the gradient is concentrated on harder negatives. This is the core advantage of softmax over binary cross-entropy, which also ignores easy negatives once the model is confident.\n\nThe core fix is now clear: softmax over a shared candidate set focuses gradients on hard negatives, whereas the current binary cross-entropy with 24 uniform negatives wastes capacity early and lacks hard signal later. The implementation plan covers config changes, a new shared-candidate builder, updated scoring and training loops, and validation evaluation using the same softmax loss. The old corrected_negative_loss may become unused.\n\nPair accuracy will be measured as the fraction of shared negatives scored below each positive. Dislike items will be folded into the shared candidate pool, and the known-positive filter will be applied inside the softmax mask. Extra sampled items that accidentally match the target are harmless because unique() merges them with the true positive. A permanent top-100 popular distractor was considered but rejected as too predictable.\n\nEncoding will run on CPU. A fallback will handle oversized shared candidate sets. The new loss scales per-row weights across the cross-entropy terms, replacing the old balanced BCE average. Because the softmax target is one-hot, the gradient magnitude should remain well-scaled, so the existing learning rate and early stopping schedule should carry over.\n\nSoftmax was chosen over a hybrid BCE-on-hard-negatives approach. The two-tower model script will remain largely unchanged, with modifications confined to the training script. A README and a small unit test file covering the invalid-score mask, shared-candidate set integrity, and cross-entropy execution are planned.\n\nThe submission command will run `train_current_model.py` with `--stage submission`, pointing to the public data directory, output parquet, and prepared cache. Extra popularity samples will be drawn once per block rather than per microbatch. The random generator will remain on CPU to match production. The item correction helper is being replaced by a sampling-stats builder that returns both probability weights and optional log-q terms.\n\nThe softmax logits will be adjusted by subtracting the correction term, scaled by the correction power. The default in-batch correction power is being set to 0.0 because the prior diagnosis showed that downweighting popular items hurts NDCG. Without this correction, the model may under-recommend popular tracks.\n\nThe softmax temperature is fixed at 1.0. The shared candidate pool will contain 512 popularity-sampled negatives and 128 uniform negatives, combined with the in-batch positives to form a roughly two-thousand-item softmax. 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          "text": "The cache is building. I will implement the training objective changes.\n\nI will modify train_current_model.py. The plan covers the config dataclass, popularity distribution and shared negative pool helpers, sampled softmax scoring, shared negative construction in training and validation, and CLI updates.\n\nI am designing the new `score_target_microbatches` signature. It will accept shared items, sample weights, and packed positive masks. The function will encode the shared pool once and compute scores via matrix multiplication.\n\nI will compute positive and negative logits for diagnostics. The packed known-positive mask is small enough to build on CPU with NumPy before moving to the device.\n\nThe invalid mask helper will use bitwise operations on the packed positive array to flag known positives and out-of-range items. If no packed history is available, it will fall back to masking only the target item.\n\nThe packed history filter will always be built. Padding items will also be masked.\n\nI realized liked items must be excluded from the shared negative pool even if they are not in the listen sequence. I will add a mask for active likes using `prepared.liked_states[flat_states]`.\n\nA full NumPy broadcast across likes, shared negatives, and batch would require over six hundred million comparisons. That is too expensive. Instead, active likes will be folded into the packed known-positive bitset during filter construction. This avoids the heavy broadcast entirely.\n\nLikes are stateful and change over the sequence. They cannot be pre-merged into the user-level packed filter. Per-timestep like masking is required instead. The full broadcast across likes, shared negatives, and batch would cost roughly 600 million comparisons. That overhead is too expensive. A more efficient approach is needed.\n\nI will build a packed bitset for active likes per batch row. This avoids the heavy broadcast across likes, shared negatives, and batch items.\n\nI will combine the listen-history and active-likes bitsets into a single packed mask per batch row using `np.bitwise_or.at`. Dislikes must remain in the shared negative pool. I am now rewriting the training loop to pass the shared negative pool and its packed mask into the scoring function.\n\nThe training loop will call `build_shared_softmax_items` to construct the shared negative pool, then pass it into `score_target_microbatches` alongside the packed known-positive mask. The old per-row negative draw functions will be left in place as unused dead code to avoid unnecessary churn.\n\nI will add a `build_popularity_probs` helper that computes item weights from training target counts using the configured power. The result is normalized to probabilities and returned as a float64 tensor for multinomial sampling.\n\nPopularity weights will use float32 for speed. Items never targeted in the training window still receive a small mass of one, so tail items are not excluded. The `build_shared_softmax_items` helper is being drafted to assemble the shared negative pool from positive items and optional popularity negatives.\n\nThe `build_shared_softmax_items` helper is now being implemented. It assembles the shared negative pool by concatenating sampled popularity negatives, uniform negatives, and unique disliked items from the current batch state.\n\nThe shared negative pool is deduplicated and sorted before returning. In `score_target_microbatches`, each microbatch will score against the same full shared pool. Positives that fall into other microbatches correctly appear as negatives in those batches.\n\n`torch.searchsorted` will map positive items to their indices in the sorted shared pool. The shared pool must always contain every positive item to prevent lookup errors. It should be moved to the target device for encoding. I am now drafting a `shared_invalid_mask` helper that uses PyTorch.\n\nThe `shared_invalid_mask` helper is being implemented. It extracts byte and bit indices from the shared items, reads the packed known-positive history for each batch row, and checks individual bits to flag known positives. Active likes are fetched from the prepared state array.\n\nThe active-likes mask is built with a packed bitset per batch row. Item indices are broadcast to their rows, kept within bounds, and written into the bitset using `np.bitwise_or.at`. The invalid mask then merges this like-bitset with the listen-history bitset to exclude liked items from the shared negative pool.\n\nThe invalid mask helper now flags out-of-range shared items and excludes the target item from the negative pool. The active-likes bitset is written with `np.bitwise_or.at` using 2D row indexing. Cross-entropy remains valid even if all negatives are masked, because the target is always unmasked. Final logits will be scaled by the configured softmax temperature.\n\nThe softmax temperature will default to 1.0 to avoid division by zero. A per-item log-popularity bias will be subtracted from logits when the correction power is nonzero, making popular items harder to win against and approximating an unbiased sampled softmax. This correction defaults to zero. Positive logits will also be accumulated for diagnostic tracking.\n\nPairwise accuracy will be computed by masking invalid and target scores, then comparing positive logits against the remaining negatives. The optimizer and gradient handling remain unchanged. New config defaults are being set: 24 uniform negatives, 8 in-batch negatives, and an in-batch correction power of 0.5 with a minimum of 0.25.\n\nNew config defaults are being set: 256 shared popularity negatives, 64 shared uniform negatives, and a popularity sampling power of 0.75. The loss type will be sampled-softmax with 2 epochs. If GRU training remains slow, the epoch budget may need to shrink.\n\nThe item tower will be reduced from 30,000 to 2,000 items. This cuts encoding work by roughly fifteenfold.\n\nGRU training is the dominant cost. Each epoch requires about ten to twenty seconds of CPU matmuls plus Python overhead and data loading. Two epochs may therefore be too slow.\n\nTraining will default to one epoch to match production wall-clock, since the GRU dominates cost. A second epoch may be attempted if validation finishes under ten minutes. New configuration fields will be exposed via argparse."
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            "old_string": "    mean_on_targets = float(np.sum(counts * correction) / max(total, 1.0))\n    log(\n        f\"inbatch correction: min={correction.min():.3f} \"\n        f\"mean_on_targets={mean_on_targets:.3f} max={correction.max():.3f}\"\n    )\n    return torch.from_numpy(correction)",
            "new_string": "    mean_on_targets = float(np.sum(counts * correction) / max(total, 1.0))\n    log(\n        f\"inbatch correction: min={correction.min():.3f} \"\n        f\"mean_on_targets={mean_on_targets:.3f} max={correction.max():.3f}\"\n    )\n    return torch.from_numpy(correction)\n\n\ndef count_selected_targets(\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    target_starts: np.ndarray,\n    target_counts: np.ndarray,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"Count how often each catalog item is a selected training target.\"\"\"\n    counts = np.zeros(len(prepared.item_ids), dtype=np.float64)\n    for user_row, count in enumerate(target_counts):\n        if not count:\n            continue\n        offset = int(prepared.offsets[user_row])\n        target_start = int(target_starts[user_row])\n        counts += np.bincount(\n            prepared.sequence_items[\n                offset\n                + target_start\n                + 1 : offset\n                + target_start\n                + int(count)\n                + 1\n            ].astype(np.int64),\n            minlength=len(prepared.item_ids),\n        )\n    return counts\n\n\ndef build_popularity_sampler(\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    target_starts: np.ndarray,\n    target_counts: np.ndarray,\n) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:\n    \"\"\"Return sampling weights and log-Q from selected training targets.\"\"\"\n    counts = count_selected_targets(prepared, target_starts, target_counts)\n    weights = np.power(counts + 1.0, config.popularity_sampling_power)\n    probabilities = weights / max(float(weights.sum()), 1.0e-12)\n    log(\n        f\"popularity sampler: power={config.popularity_sampling_power:.3f} \"\n        f\"min_p={probabilities.min():.3e} max_p={probabilities.max():.3e} \"\n        f\"entropy={float(-(probabilities * np.log(probabilities)).sum()):.1f}\"\n    )\n    probs = torch.from_numpy(probabilities.astype(np.float64))\n    log_q = torch.from_numpy(np.log(np.clip(probabilities, 1.0e-12, 1.0)).astype(np.float32))\n    return probs, log_q\n\n\ndef build_shared_softmax_items(\n    positive_items: torch.Tensor,\n    flat_states: np.ndarray,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    popularity_probs: torch.Tensor,\n    generator: torch.Generator,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n    \"\"\"Build one shared sampled-softmax catalog set for a dense target block.\n\n    The production per-row mix of 24 uniform draws plus 8 unique in-batch items\n    mostly encodes easy catalog noise.  A shared set keeps every in-block\n    positive (true in-batch hard negatives), adds active dislikes, and fills\n    remaining slots with popularity-sampled head items plus a small uniform\n    tail sample.  Unique encoding then stays far smaller than the full catalog.\n    \"\"\"\n    n_items = len(prepared.item_ids)\n    parts: list[torch.Tensor] = []\n    if config.use_batch_items_as_negatives:\n        parts.append(positive_items.detach().cpu())\n    if config.use_dislike_negatives and len(flat_states):\n        disliked = prepared.disliked_states[flat_states].reshape(-1).astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        disliked = np.unique(disliked[disliked < n_items])\n        if len(disliked):\n            parts.append(torch.from_numpy(disliked.copy()))\n    if config.shared_popularity_negatives:\n        k = min(int(config.shared_popularity_negatives), n_items)\n        parts.append(\n            torch.multinomial(\n                popularity_probs,\n                k,\n                replacement=False,\n                generator=generator,\n            )\n        )\n    if config.shared_uniform_negatives:\n        parts.append(\n            torch.randint(\n                n_items,\n                (int(config.shared_uniform_negatives),),\n                generator=generator,\n            )\n        )\n    if not parts:\n        raise RuntimeError(\"sampled-softmax candidate set is empty\")\n    shared = torch.unique(torch.cat(parts), sorted=True)\n    if config.use_batch_items_as_negatives:\n        # Guarantee every block positive remains a class even if unique()\n        # somehow dropped it (it cannot, but the CE index depends on it).\n        missing = positive_items.detach().cpu()\n        if torch.any(torch.searchsorted(shared, missing).clamp_max(len(shared) - 1).ne(0) & False):\n            shared = torch.unique(torch.cat([shared, missing]), sorted=True)\n    return shared\n\n\ndef shared_false_negative_mask(\n    shared_items: np.ndarray,\n    targets: np.ndarray,\n    user_rows: np.ndarray,\n    flat_states: np.ndarray,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    known_positive_packed: np.ndarray | None,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"Mask known listen positives and active likes, keeping the true target.\"\"\"\n    n_items = len(prepared.item_ids)\n    batch_size = len(targets)\n    n_shared = len(shared_items)\n    invalid = np.zeros((batch_size, n_shared), dtype=bool)\n    byte_columns = shared_items >> 3\n    bit_columns = (shared_items & 7).astype(np.uint8)\n    if known_positive_packed is not None:\n        packed = known_positive_packed[user_rows]\n        invalid |= ((packed[:, byte_columns] >> bit_columns) & 1).astype(bool)\n    liked = prepared.liked_states[flat_states].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n    if liked.size:\n        width = (n_items + 7) // 8\n        like_packed = np.zeros((batch_size, width), dtype=np.uint8)\n        like_items = liked.reshape(-1)\n        like_rows = np.repeat(np.arange(batch_size, dtype=np.int32), liked.shape[1])\n        keep = (like_items >= 0) & (like_items < n_items)\n        if np.any(keep):\n            like_items = like_items[keep]\n            like_rows = like_rows[keep]\n            np.bitwise_or.at(\n                like_packed,\n                (like_rows, like_items >> 3),\n                np.left_shift(np.uint8(1), (like_items & 7).astype(np.uint8)),\n            )\n            invalid |= ((like_packed[:, byte_columns] >> bit_columns) & 1).astype(bool)\n    invalid |= shared_items[None, :] >= n_items\n    target_hit = shared_items[None, :] == targets[:, None]\n    invalid &= ~target_hit\n    return invalid"
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          "kind": "reasoning",
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          "timestamp": null,
          "text": "A dead check was accidentally left in `build_shared_softmax_items`.\n\nThe dead check is `& False`, so it never triggers. I will remove it and always include the positive items in the shared set."
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            "old_string": "    n_items = len(prepared.item_ids)\n    parts: list[torch.Tensor] = []\n    if config.use_batch_items_as_negatives:\n        parts.append(positive_items.detach().cpu())\n    if config.use_dislike_negatives and len(flat_states):\n        disliked = prepared.disliked_states[flat_states].reshape(-1).astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        disliked = np.unique(disliked[disliked < n_items])\n        if len(disliked):\n            parts.append(torch.from_numpy(disliked.copy()))\n    if config.shared_popularity_negatives:\n        k = min(int(config.shared_popularity_negatives), n_items)\n        parts.append(\n            torch.multinomial(\n                popularity_probs,\n                k,\n                replacement=False,\n                generator=generator,\n            )\n        )\n    if config.shared_uniform_negatives:\n        parts.append(\n            torch.randint(\n                n_items,\n                (int(config.shared_uniform_negatives),),\n                generator=generator,\n            )\n        )\n    if not parts:\n        raise RuntimeError(\"sampled-softmax candidate set is empty\")\n    shared = torch.unique(torch.cat(parts), sorted=True)\n    if config.use_batch_items_as_negatives:\n        # Guarantee every block positive remains a class even if unique()\n        # somehow dropped it (it cannot, but the CE index depends on it).\n        missing = positive_items.detach().cpu()\n        if torch.any(torch.searchsorted(shared, missing).clamp_max(len(shared) - 1).ne(0) & False):\n            shared = torch.unique(torch.cat([shared, missing]), sorted=True)\n    return shared",
            "new_string": "    n_items = len(prepared.item_ids)\n    # Positives are always class labels in the sampled softmax.\n    parts: list[torch.Tensor] = [positive_items.detach().cpu()]\n    if config.use_dislike_negatives and len(flat_states):\n        disliked = prepared.disliked_states[flat_states].reshape(-1).astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        disliked = np.unique(disliked[disliked < n_items])\n        if len(disliked):\n            parts.append(torch.from_numpy(disliked.copy()))\n    if config.shared_popularity_negatives:\n        k = min(int(config.shared_popularity_negatives), n_items)\n        parts.append(\n            torch.multinomial(\n                popularity_probs,\n                k,\n                replacement=False,\n                generator=generator,\n            )\n        )\n    if config.shared_uniform_negatives:\n        parts.append(\n            torch.randint(\n                n_items,\n                (int(config.shared_uniform_negatives),),\n                generator=generator,\n            )\n        )\n    shared = torch.unique(torch.cat(parts), sorted=True)\n    return shared"
          },
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      "timestamp": null,
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          "timestamp": null,
          "text": "Disabling batch-item negatives still includes other users' positives in the shared set because all positives are added."
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            "old_string": "def score_target_microbatches(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    sequence_vectors: torch.Tensor,\n    flat_states: np.ndarray,\n    flat_activity: np.ndarray,\n    positive_items: torch.Tensor,\n    negatives: torch.Tensor,\n    negative_weights: torch.Tensor,\n    sample_weights: np.ndarray,\n    device: torch.device,\n    backward: bool,\n) -> tuple[dict[str, float], torch.Tensor | None]:\n    \"\"\"Compute one logical block's exact BCE in bounded-memory slices.\"\"\"\n    target_count = len(positive_items)\n    total_weight = float(sample_weights.sum())\n    if total_weight <= 0:\n        raise RuntimeError(\"target block has no positive sample weight\")\n    sequence_gradient = torch.zeros_like(sequence_vectors) if backward else None\n    statistics = {\n        \"loss_sum\": 0.0,\n        \"positive_sum\": 0.0,\n        \"negative_sum\": 0.0,\n        \"pair_correct\": 0.0,\n        \"weight_sum\": 0.0,\n    }\n    for begin in range(0, target_count, config.loss_microbatch_size):\n        end = min(begin + config.loss_microbatch_size, target_count)\n        selected_states = flat_states[begin:end]\n        if backward:\n            sequence_input = (\n                sequence_vectors[begin:end].detach().requires_grad_(True)\n            )\n        else:\n            sequence_input = sequence_vectors[begin:end]\n        liked_vectors, disliked_vectors, _ = pool_explicit_states(\n            model, prepared, selected_states, device\n        )\n        counts = prepared.state_counts[selected_states]\n        numeric = np.zeros((end - begin, 6), dtype=np.float32)\n        numeric[:, :4] = flat_activity[begin:end]\n        numeric[:, 4] = np.log1p(counts[:, 0]) / 6.0\n        numeric[:, 5] = np.log1p(counts[:, 1]) / 4.0\n        query_vectors = user_queries(\n            model,\n            sequence_input,\n            liked_vectors,\n            disliked_vectors,\n            torch.from_numpy(numeric).to(device),\n        )\n        positive_vectors, negative_vectors = candidate_vectors(\n            model,\n            positive_items[begin:end],\n            negatives[begin:end],\n        )\n        positive_logits = (query_vectors * positive_vectors).sum(dim=1)\n        negative_logits = torch.einsum(\n            \"bd,bkd->bk\", query_vectors, negative_vectors\n        )\n        positive_loss = F.softplus(-positive_logits)\n        negative_loss = corrected_negative_loss(\n            negative_logits, negative_weights[begin:end], config\n        )\n        selected_weights = torch.from_numpy(\n            sample_weights[begin:end].astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n        ).to(device)\n        loss_sum = (\n            selected_weights * (positive_loss + negative_loss) / 2.0\n        ).sum()\n        if not bool(torch.isfinite(loss_sum)):\n            raise RuntimeError(\"dense next-item training produced non-finite loss\")\n        if backward:\n            (loss_sum / total_weight).backward()\n            if sequence_input.grad is None:\n                raise RuntimeError(\"sequence microbatch did not produce a gradient\")\n            sequence_gradient[begin:end] = sequence_input.grad\n        statistics[\"loss_sum\"] += float(loss_sum.detach().cpu())\n        statistics[\"positive_sum\"] += float(positive_logits.detach().sum().cpu())\n        statistics[\"negative_sum\"] += float(negative_logits.detach().sum().cpu())\n        statistics[\"pair_correct\"] += float(\n            (positive_logits.detach()[:, None] > negative_logits.detach()).sum().cpu()\n        )\n        statistics[\"weight_sum\"] += float(selected_weights.sum().detach().cpu())\n    return statistics, sequence_gradient",
            "new_string": "def score_target_microbatches(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    sequence_vectors: torch.Tensor,\n    flat_states: np.ndarray,\n    flat_activity: np.ndarray,\n    positive_items: torch.Tensor,\n    shared_items: torch.Tensor,\n    sample_weights: np.ndarray,\n    user_rows: np.ndarray,\n    known_positive_packed: np.ndarray | None,\n    log_item_q: torch.Tensor | None,\n    device: torch.device,\n    backward: bool,\n) -> tuple[dict[str, float], torch.Tensor | None]:\n    \"\"\"Compute one logical block's sampled softmax in bounded-memory slices.\"\"\"\n    target_count = len(positive_items)\n    total_weight = float(sample_weights.sum())\n    if total_weight <= 0:\n        raise RuntimeError(\"target block has no positive sample weight\")\n    if shared_items.ndim != 1 or not len(shared_items):\n        raise RuntimeError(\"sampled-softmax shared item set must be a 1-D catalog list\")\n    sequence_gradient = torch.zeros_like(sequence_vectors) if backward else None\n    statistics = {\n        \"loss_sum\": 0.0,\n        \"positive_sum\": 0.0,\n        \"negative_sum\": 0.0,\n        \"pair_correct\": 0.0,\n        \"pair_total\": 0.0,\n        \"weight_sum\": 0.0,\n        \"shared_items\": float(len(shared_items)),\n    }\n    shared_cpu = shared_items.detach().cpu()\n    encoded_items = model.encode_items(shared_items.to(device))\n    temperature = max(float(config.softmax_temperature), 1.0e-6)\n    log_q_slice = None\n    if log_item_q is not None and config.logit_correction_power:\n        log_q_slice = (\n            config.logit_correction_power * log_item_q[shared_cpu].to(device)\n        )\n    for begin in range(0, target_count, config.loss_microbatch_size):\n        end = min(begin + config.loss_microbatch_size, target_count)\n        selected_states = flat_states[begin:end]\n        if backward:\n            sequence_input = (\n                sequence_vectors[begin:end].detach().requires_grad_(True)\n            )\n        else:\n            sequence_input = sequence_vectors[begin:end]\n        liked_vectors, disliked_vectors, _ = pool_explicit_states(\n            model, prepared, selected_states, device\n        )\n        counts = prepared.state_counts[selected_states]\n        numeric = np.zeros((end - begin, 6), dtype=np.float32)\n        numeric[:, :4] = flat_activity[begin:end]\n        numeric[:, 4] = np.log1p(counts[:, 0]) / 6.0\n        numeric[:, 5] = np.log1p(counts[:, 1]) / 4.0\n        query_vectors = user_queries(\n            model,\n            sequence_input,\n            liked_vectors,\n            disliked_vectors,\n            torch.from_numpy(numeric).to(device),\n        )\n        scores = query_vectors @ encoded_items.T\n        targets_cpu = (\n            positive_items[begin:end].detach().cpu().numpy().astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        )\n        shared_np = shared_cpu.numpy().astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        target_index = torch.searchsorted(shared_cpu, positive_items[begin:end].detach().cpu())\n        if torch.any(shared_cpu[target_index] != positive_items[begin:end].detach().cpu()):\n            raise RuntimeError(\"positive item missing from sampled-softmax class set\")\n        target_index = target_index.to(device)\n        invalid = shared_false_negative_mask(\n            shared_np,\n            targets_cpu,\n            user_rows[begin:end],\n            selected_states,\n            prepared,\n            known_positive_packed,\n        )\n        logits = scores / temperature\n        if log_q_slice is not None:\n            logits = logits - log_q_slice.unsqueeze(0)\n        logits = logits.masked_fill(torch.from_numpy(invalid).to(device), torch.finfo(logits.dtype).min)\n        selected_weights = torch.from_numpy(\n            sample_weights[begin:end].astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n        ).to(device)\n        per_row = F.cross_entropy(logits, target_index, reduction=\"none\")\n        loss_sum = (selected_weights * per_row).sum()\n        if not bool(torch.isfinite(loss_sum)):\n            raise RuntimeError(\"dense next-item training produced non-finite loss\")\n        if backward:\n            (loss_sum / total_weight).backward()\n            if sequence_input.grad is None:\n                raise RuntimeError(\"sequence microbatch did not produce a gradient\")\n            sequence_gradient[begin:end] = sequence_input.grad\n        positive_logits = scores.gather(1, target_index.unsqueeze(1)).squeeze(1)\n        target_hit = torch.from_numpy(\n            shared_np[None, :] == targets_cpu[:, None]\n        ).to(device)\n        comparable = ~torch.from_numpy(invalid).to(device) & ~target_hit\n        statistics[\"loss_sum\"] += float(loss_sum.detach().cpu())\n        statistics[\"positive_sum\"] += float(positive_logits.detach().sum().cpu())\n        if bool(comparable.any()):\n            negative_scores = scores.detach().masked_select(comparable)\n            statistics[\"negative_sum\"] += float(negative_scores.sum().cpu())\n            statistics[\"pair_total\"] += float(comparable.sum().detach().cpu())\n            statistics[\"pair_correct\"] += float(\n                (positive_logits.detach()[:, None] > scores.detach())[comparable].sum().cpu()\n            )\n        statistics[\"weight_sum\"] += float(selected_weights.sum().detach().cpu())\n    return statistics, sequence_gradient"
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      "role": "agent",
      "timestamp": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "reasoning",
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          "timestamp": null,
          "text": "A potential issue was identified: calling backward() in a microbatch loop on a shared tensor that requires gradients will free the computation graph unless retain_graph=True is set.\n\nThe simplest fix is to move item encoding inside each microbatch loop. This avoids graph reuse issues entirely. Encoding two thousand items is cheap."
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            "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py",
            "old_string": "    shared_cpu = shared_items.detach().cpu()\n    encoded_items = model.encode_items(shared_items.to(device))\n    temperature = max(float(config.softmax_temperature), 1.0e-6)\n    log_q_slice = None\n    if log_item_q is not None and config.logit_correction_power:\n        log_q_slice = (\n            config.logit_correction_power * log_item_q[shared_cpu].to(device)\n        )\n    for begin in range(0, target_count, config.loss_microbatch_size):\n        end = min(begin + config.loss_microbatch_size, target_count)\n        selected_states = flat_states[begin:end]\n        if backward:\n            sequence_input = (\n                sequence_vectors[begin:end].detach().requires_grad_(True)\n            )\n        else:\n            sequence_input = sequence_vectors[begin:end]\n        liked_vectors, disliked_vectors, _ = pool_explicit_states(\n            model, prepared, selected_states, device\n        )\n        counts = prepared.state_counts[selected_states]\n        numeric = np.zeros((end - begin, 6), dtype=np.float32)\n        numeric[:, :4] = flat_activity[begin:end]\n        numeric[:, 4] = np.log1p(counts[:, 0]) / 6.0\n        numeric[:, 5] = np.log1p(counts[:, 1]) / 4.0\n        query_vectors = user_queries(\n            model,\n            sequence_input,\n            liked_vectors,\n            disliked_vectors,\n            torch.from_numpy(numeric).to(device),\n        )\n        scores = query_vectors @ encoded_items.T",
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          "timestamp": null,
          "text": "Updating the training epoch to use the new negative construction and score function."
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            "content": "1531→@torch.no_grad()\ndef evaluate_validation_bce(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    target_weights: np.ndarray,\n    window_starts: np.ndarray,\n    training_counts: np.ndarray,\n    validation_counts: np.ndarray,\n1540→    item_correction: torch.Tensor,\n    known_positive_packed: np.ndarray | None,\n    device: torch.device,\n) -> dict[str, float]:\n    \"\"\"Measure deterministic BCE on each user's chronological target suffix.\"\"\"\n    model.eval()\n    totals = training_counts + validation_counts\n    users_with_validation = np.flatnonzero(validation_counts > 0)\n    ordered = users_with_validation[\n        np.argsort(totals[users_with_validation], kind=\"stable\")\n1550→    ]\n    groups = [\n        ordered[start : start + config.user_batch_size]\n        for start in range(0, len(ordered), config.user_batch_size)\n    ]\n    generator = torch.Generator(device=\"cpu\").manual_seed(config.seed + 20_000)\n    total_loss = 0.0\n    total_targets = 0\n    total_weight = 0.0\n    started = time.monotonic()\n1560→\n    for group_number, users in enumerate(groups, start=1):\n        group_totals = totals[users]\n        group_starts = training_counts[users]\n        hidden = torch.zeros(\n            1, len(users), config.embedding_dim, device=device\n        )\n        max_targets = int(group_totals.max())\n        for start in range(0, max_targets, config.bptt_steps):\n            steps = min(config.bptt_steps, max_targets - start)\n1570→            block = build_dense_block(\n                prepared,\n                target_weights,\n                users,\n                window_starts[users],\n                group_totals,\n                group_starts,\n                start,\n                steps,\n                config,\n1580→            )\n            sequence_outputs, _ = event_sequence(\n                model,\n                torch.from_numpy(block[0].astype(np.int64)).to(device),\n                torch.from_numpy(block[1].astype(np.float32)).to(device),\n                hidden,\n            )\n            hidden = torch.stack(\n                [\n                    sequence_outputs[row, count - 1]\n1590→                    if count\n                    else hidden[0, row]\n                    for row, count in enumerate(block[7])\n                ]\n            ).unsqueeze(0)\n            flat_scored = block[5].reshape(-1)\n            if not np.any(flat_scored):\n                continue\n            mask = torch.from_numpy(flat_scored).to(device)\n            sequence_vectors = sequence_outputs.reshape(\n1600→                -1, config.embedding_dim\n            )[mask]\n            flat_states = block[3].reshape(-1)[flat_scored]\n            positive_items = torch.from_numpy(\n                block[4].reshape(-1)[flat_scored].astype(np.int64)\n            ).to(device)\n            known_history = torch.from_numpy(\n                block[6].reshape(-1, config.bptt_steps)[flat_scored].astype(\n                    np.int64\n                )\n1610→            ).to(device)\n            liked_items = torch.from_numpy(\n                prepared.liked_states[flat_states].astype(np.int64)\n            ).to(device)\n            flat_user_rows = np.broadcast_to(\n                users[:, None], block[5].shape\n            ).reshape(-1)[flat_scored]\n            negatives, negative_weights = draw_training_negatives(\n                positive_items,\n                known_history,\n1620→                liked_items,\n                flat_user_rows,\n                known_positive_packed,\n                prepared,\n                config,\n                item_correction,\n                generator,\n                device,\n            )\n            statistics, _ = score_target_microbatches(\n1630→                model,\n                prepared,\n                config,\n                sequence_vectors,\n                flat_states,\n                block[2].reshape(-1, 4)[flat_scored].astype(np.float32),\n                positive_items,\n                negatives,\n                negative_weights,\n                block[8].reshape(-1)[flat_scored],\n1640→                device,\n                backward=False,\n            )\n            total_loss += statistics[\"loss_sum\"]\n            total_targets += len(positive_items)\n            total_weight += statistics[\"weight_sum\"]\n        if group_number % 25 == 0:\n            release_accelerator_cache(device)\n    return {\n        \"validation_loss\": total_loss / max(total_weight, 1.0e-12),\n1650→        \"validation_targets\": float(total_targets),\n        \"validation_target_weight_sum\": total_weight,\n        \"validation_seconds\": time.monotonic() - started,\n    }\n\n\ndef snapshot_model(model: nn.Module) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]:\n    return {\n        name: value.detach().cpu().clone()\n        for name, value in model.state_dict().items()\n1660→    }\n\n\ndef save_epoch_checkpoint(\n    checkpoint_dir: Path,\n    epoch: int,\n    model_state: dict[str, torch.Tensor],\n    config: Config,\n    diagnostics: dict[str, float],\n    optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer,\n1670→    generator: torch.Generator,\n) -> Path:\n    checkpoint_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)\n    path = checkpoint_dir / f\"epoch-{epoch:02d}.pt\"\n    torch.save(\n        {\n            \"epoch\": epoch,\n            \"config\": asdict(config),\n            \"diagnostics\": diagnostics,\n            \"model_state\": model_state,\n1680→            \"optimizer_state\": optimizer.state_dict(),\n            \"generator_state\": generator.get_state(),\n        },\n        path,\n    )\n    log(f\"saved epoch checkpoint: {path}\")\n    return path\n\n\ndef train_model(\n1690→    public: Path,\n    stage: str,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    device: torch.device,\n    checkpoint_dir: Path | None,\n    resume_checkpoint: Path | None,\n) -> tuple[base.SequentialTwoTower, list[dict[str, float]]]:\n    partition = chronological_target_partition(\n        prepared,\n1700→        config.validation_fraction,\n        config.max_train_targets_per_user,\n        config.max_validation_targets_per_user,\n    )\n    training_counts = partition.training_counts\n    validation_counts = partition.validation_counts\n    log(\n        f\"chronological BCE window: train={int(training_counts.sum()):,} \"\n        f\"validation={int(validation_counts.sum()):,} \"\n        f\"selected={partition.selected_count:,} \"\n1710→        f\"discarded_old_targets={int(partition.window_starts.sum()):,} \"",
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            "new_string": "def evaluate_validation_bce(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    target_weights: np.ndarray,\n    window_starts: np.ndarray,\n    training_counts: np.ndarray,\n    validation_counts: np.ndarray,\n    popularity_probs: torch.Tensor,\n    log_item_q: torch.Tensor,\n    known_positive_packed: np.ndarray | None,\n    device: torch.device,\n) -> dict[str, float]:\n    \"\"\"Measure deterministic sampled-softmax on each user's chronological suffix.\"\"\""
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            "old_string": "            positive_items = torch.from_numpy(\n                block[4].reshape(-1)[flat_scored].astype(np.int64)\n            ).to(device)\n            known_history = torch.from_numpy(\n                block[6].reshape(-1, config.bptt_steps)[flat_scored].astype(\n                    np.int64\n                )\n            ).to(device)\n            liked_items = torch.from_numpy(\n                prepared.liked_states[flat_states].astype(np.int64)\n            ).to(device)\n            flat_user_rows = np.broadcast_to(\n                users[:, None], block[5].shape\n            ).reshape(-1)[flat_scored]\n            negatives, negative_weights = draw_training_negatives(\n                positive_items,\n                known_history,\n                liked_items,\n                flat_user_rows,\n                known_positive_packed,\n                prepared,\n                config,\n                item_correction,\n                generator,\n                device,\n            )\n            statistics, _ = score_target_microbatches(\n                model,\n                prepared,\n                config,\n                sequence_vectors,\n                flat_states,\n                block[2].reshape(-1, 4)[flat_scored].astype(np.float32),\n                positive_items,\n                negatives,\n                negative_weights,\n                block[8].reshape(-1)[flat_scored],\n                device,\n                backward=False,\n            )",
            "new_string": "            positive_items = torch.from_numpy(\n                block[4].reshape(-1)[flat_scored].astype(np.int64)\n            ).to(device)\n            flat_user_rows = np.broadcast_to(\n                users[:, None], block[5].shape\n            ).reshape(-1)[flat_scored]\n            shared_items = build_shared_softmax_items(\n                positive_items,\n                flat_states,\n                prepared,\n                config,\n                popularity_probs,\n                generator,\n            )\n            statistics, _ = score_target_microbatches(\n                model,\n                prepared,\n                config,\n                sequence_vectors,\n                flat_states,\n                block[2].reshape(-1, 4)[flat_scored].astype(np.float32),\n                positive_items,\n                shared_items,\n                block[8].reshape(-1)[flat_scored],\n                flat_user_rows,\n                known_positive_packed,\n                log_item_q,\n                device,\n                backward=False,\n            )"
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            "timestamp": null,
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            "content": "1685→    device: torch.device,\n    checkpoint_dir: Path | None,\n    resume_checkpoint: Path | None,\n) -> tuple[base.SequentialTwoTower, list[dict[str, float]]]:\n    partition = chronological_target_partition(\n1690→        prepared,\n        config.validation_fraction,\n        config.max_train_targets_per_user,\n        config.max_validation_targets_per_user,\n    )\n    training_counts = partition.training_counts\n    validation_counts = partition.validation_counts\n    log(\n        f\"chronological BCE window: train={int(training_counts.sum()):,} \"\n        f\"validation={int(validation_counts.sum()):,} \"\n1700→        f\"selected={partition.selected_count:,} \"\n        f\"discarded_old_targets={int(partition.window_starts.sum()):,} \"\n        f\"all={prepared.target_count:,}\"\n    )\n    model = base.SequentialTwoTower(prepared.item_features, model_config(config)).to(\n        device\n    )\n    optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(\n        model.parameters(), lr=config.learning_rate, weight_decay=config.weight_decay\n    )\n1710→    generator = torch.Generator(device=\"cpu\").manual_seed(config.seed + 10_000)\n    item_correction = build_item_correction(\n        prepared,\n        config,\n        partition.window_starts,\n        training_counts,\n    )\n    target_weights = build_target_weights(\n        public,\n        stage,\n1720→        prepared,\n        partition.history_training_counts,\n        config,\n    )\n    known_positive_packed = (\n        build_known_positive_filter(prepared, partition.history_training_counts)\n        if config.negative_filter_scope == \"full-training-history\"\n        else None\n    )\n    history: list[dict[str, float]] = []\n1730→    best_loss = float(\"inf\")\n    best_epoch = 0\n    best_state: dict[str, torch.Tensor] | None = None\n    epochs_without_improvement = 0\n    start_epoch = 0\n\n    if resume_checkpoint is not None:\n        payload = torch.load(\n            resume_checkpoint, map_location=device, weights_only=False\n        )\n1740→        stored_config = payload.get(\"config\", {})\n        architecture_fields = (\n            \"bptt_steps\",\n            \"embedding_dim\",\n            \"hidden_dim\",\n            \"user_hidden_1\",\n            \"user_hidden_2\",\n            \"item_hidden_1\",\n            \"item_hidden_2\",\n        )\n1750→        mismatches = {\n            name: (stored_config.get(name), getattr(config, name))\n            for name in architecture_fields\n            if stored_config.get(name) != getattr(config, name)\n        }\n        if mismatches:\n            raise RuntimeError(\n                f\"resume checkpoint architecture differs: {mismatches}\"\n            )\n        stored_filter_scope = stored_config.get(\n1760→            \"negative_filter_scope\", \"last-100\"\n        )\n        stored_target_weighting = stored_config.get(\n            \"target_weighting\", \"uniform\"\n        )\n        stored_weight_values = (\n            stored_config.get(\"ordinary_target_weight\", 1.0),\n            stored_config.get(\"organic_strong_target_weight\", 1.0),\n            stored_config.get(\"organic_like_target_weight\", 3.0),\n            stored_config.get(\"discovery_horizon_days\", 7),\n1770→        )\n        current_weight_values = (\n            config.ordinary_target_weight,\n            config.organic_strong_target_weight,\n            config.organic_like_target_weight,\n            config.discovery_horizon_days,\n        )\n        stored_window_values = (\n            stored_config.get(\"validation_fraction\", 0.10),\n            stored_config.get(\"max_train_targets_per_user\", 0),\n1780→            stored_config.get(\"max_validation_targets_per_user\", 0),\n        )\n        current_window_values = (\n            config.validation_fraction,\n            config.max_train_targets_per_user,\n            config.max_validation_targets_per_user,\n        )\n        objective_changed = (\n            stored_filter_scope != config.negative_filter_scope\n            or stored_target_weighting != config.target_weighting\n1790→            or stored_weight_values != current_weight_values\n            or stored_window_values != current_window_values\n        )\n        model.load_state_dict(payload[\"model_state\"])\n        if \"optimizer_state\" in payload and not objective_changed:\n            optimizer.load_state_dict(payload[\"optimizer_state\"])\n            for group in optimizer.param_groups:\n                group[\"lr\"] = config.learning_rate\n                group[\"weight_decay\"] = config.weight_decay\n            log(f\"restored optimizer state from {resume_checkpoint}\")\n1800→        else:\n            log(\n                f\"using a fresh AdamW optimizer after loading {resume_checkpoint}\"\n            )\n        if \"generator_state\" in payload and not objective_changed:\n            generator.set_state(payload[\"generator_state\"])\n        start_epoch = int(payload[\"epoch\"])\n        if start_epoch >= config.epochs:\n            raise RuntimeError(\n                f\"resume epoch {start_epoch} must be below --epochs {config.epochs}\"\n1810→            )\n        prior = {\n            str(name): float(value)\n            for name, value in payload.get(\"diagnostics\", {}).items()\n        }\n        if objective_changed:\n            prior.pop(\"validation_loss\", None)\n            log(\n                \"BCE objective changed: filter \"\n                f\"{stored_filter_scope}->{config.negative_filter_scope}, \"\n1820→                \"target weighting \"\n                f\"{stored_target_weighting}->{config.target_weighting}, \"\n                f\"target window {stored_window_values}->{current_window_values}; \"\n                \"recomputing the resume checkpoint's validation BCE\"\n            )\n        if \"validation_loss\" not in prior:\n            prior.update(\n                evaluate_validation_bce(\n                    model,\n                    prepared,\n1830→                    config,\n                    target_weights,\n                    partition.window_starts,\n                    training_counts,\n                    validation_counts,\n                    item_correction,\n                    known_positive_packed,\n                    device,\n                )\n            )\n1840→        history.append(prior)\n        best_loss = float(prior[\"validation_loss\"])\n        best_epoch = start_epoch\n        best_state = snapshot_model(model)\n        log(\n            f\"resumed validation-BCE training: epoch={start_epoch} \"\n            f\"loss={best_loss:.6f}\"\n        )\n\n    for epoch in range(start_epoch + 1, config.epochs + 1):\n1850→        diagnostics = run_training_epoch(\n            model,\n            optimizer,\n            prepared,\n            config,\n            target_weights,\n            partition.window_starts,\n            training_counts,\n            item_correction,\n            known_positive_packed,\n1860→            generator,\n            device,\n            epoch,\n        )\n        validation = evaluate_validation_bce(\n            model,\n            prepared,\n            config,\n            target_weights,\n            partition.window_starts,\n1870→            training_counts,\n            validation_counts,\n            item_correction,\n            known_positive_packed,\n            device,\n        )\n        diagnostics.update(validation)\n        history.append(diagnostics)\n        current_state = snapshot_model(model)\n        if checkpoint_dir is not None:\n1880→            save_epoch_checkpoint(\n                checkpoint_dir,\n                epoch,\n                current_state,\n                config,\n                diagnostics,\n                optimizer,\n                generator,\n            )\n        improved = (\n1890→            diagnostics[\"validation_loss\"]\n            < best_loss - config.early_stopping_min_delta\n        )\n        if improved:\n            best_loss = diagnostics[\"validation_loss\"]\n            best_epoch = epoch\n            best_state = current_state\n            epochs_without_improvement = 0\n            if checkpoint_dir is not None:\n                torch.save(\n1900→                    {\n                        \"epoch\": epoch,\n                        \"config\": asdict(config),\n                        \"diagnostics\": diagnostics,\n                        \"model_state\": current_state,",
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          }
        }
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            "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py",
            "old_string": "        f\"chronological BCE window: train={int(training_counts.sum()):,} \"\n        f\"validation={int(validation_counts.sum()):,} \"\n        f\"selected={partition.selected_count:,} \"\n        f\"discarded_old_targets={int(partition.window_starts.sum()):,} \"\n        f\"all={prepared.target_count:,}\"\n    )\n    model = base.SequentialTwoTower(prepared.item_features, model_config(config)).to(\n        device\n    )\n    optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(\n        model.parameters(), lr=config.learning_rate, weight_decay=config.weight_decay\n    )\n    generator = torch.Generator(device=\"cpu\").manual_seed(config.seed + 10_000)\n    item_correction = build_item_correction(\n        prepared,\n        config,\n        partition.window_starts,\n        training_counts,\n    )",
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          },
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            "old_string": "        objective_changed = (\n            stored_filter_scope != config.negative_filter_scope\n            or stored_target_weighting != config.target_weighting\n            or stored_weight_values != current_weight_values\n            or stored_window_values != current_window_values\n        )",
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            "content": "2140→    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--organic-strong-target-weight\",\n        type=float,\n        default=Config.organic_strong_target_weight,\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--organic-like-target-weight\",\n        type=float,\n        default=Config.organic_like_target_weight,\n    )\n2150→    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--discovery-horizon-days\",\n        type=int,\n        default=Config.discovery_horizon_days,\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--validation-fraction\",\n        type=float,\n        default=Config.validation_fraction,\n    )\n2160→    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--max-train-targets-per-user\",\n        type=int,\n        default=Config.max_train_targets_per_user,\n        help=\"retain this many recent pre-validation targets per user; 0 is uncapped\",\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--max-validation-targets-per-user\",\n        type=int,\n        default=Config.max_validation_targets_per_user,\n2170→        help=\"retain this many final validation targets per user; 0 is uncapped\",\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--early-stopping-patience\",\n        type=int,\n        default=Config.early_stopping_patience,\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\n        \"--early-stopping-min-delta\",\n        type=float,\n2180→        default=Config.early_stopping_min_delta,\n    )\n    parser.add_argument(\"--checkpoint-dir\", type=Path)\n    parser.add_argument(\"--resume-checkpoint\", type=Path)\n    parser.add_argument(\"--seed\", type=int, default=Config.seed)\n    parser.add_argument(\"--ranking-batch-size\", type=int, default=64)\n    parser.add_argument(\"--prepare-only\", action=\"store_true\")\n    args = parser.parse_args()\n\n    if args.threads < 1 or args.bptt_steps < 2 or args.user_batch_size < 1:\n2190→        parser.error(\"threads, BPTT steps, and user batch size must be positive\")\n    if (\n        args.epochs < 1\n        or args.learning_rate <= 0\n        or args.loss_microbatch_size < 1\n        or args.early_stopping_patience < 1\n        or args.early_stopping_min_delta < 0\n        or args.ordinary_target_weight <= 0\n        or args.organic_strong_target_weight <= 0\n        or args.organic_like_target_weight <= 0\n2200→        or args.discovery_horizon_days < 1\n        or args.max_train_targets_per_user < 0\n        or args.max_validation_targets_per_user < 0\n    ):\n        parser.error(\"training counts, learning rate, and patience are invalid\")\n    if not 0.0 < args.validation_fraction < 1.0:\n        parser.error(\"validation fraction must be strictly between zero and one\")\n    public = args.public_dir.resolve()\n    if not (public / \"data\" / \"candidate_catalog.parquet\").is_file():\n        parser.error(f\"public task data not found under {public}\")\n2210→    config = Config(\n        bptt_steps=args.bptt_steps,\n        user_batch_size=args.user_batch_size,\n        epochs=args.epochs,\n        learning_rate=args.learning_rate,\n        loss_microbatch_size=args.loss_microbatch_size,\n        negative_filter_scope=args.negative_filter_scope,\n        target_weighting=args.target_weighting,\n        ordinary_target_weight=args.ordinary_target_weight,\n        organic_strong_target_weight=args.organic_strong_target_weight,\n2220→        organic_like_target_weight=args.organic_like_target_weight,\n        discovery_horizon_days=args.discovery_horizon_days,\n        validation_fraction=args.validation_fraction,\n        max_train_targets_per_user=args.max_train_targets_per_user,\n        max_validation_targets_per_user=args.max_validation_targets_per_user,\n        early_stopping_patience=args.early_stopping_patience,\n        early_stopping_min_delta=args.early_stopping_min_delta,\n        seed=args.seed,\n    )\n    torch.set_num_threads(args.threads)\n2230→    torch.set_num_interop_threads(1)\n    seed_everything(config.seed)\n    device = torch.device(args.device)\n    if device.type == \"mps\" and not torch.backends.mps.is_available():\n        parser.error(\"MPS was requested but is unavailable\")\n\n    started = time.monotonic()\n    prepared, eligibility = load_or_prepare(\n        public,\n        args.stage,\n2240→        config,\n        args.prepared_cache.resolve() if args.prepared_cache else None,\n    )\n    target_partition = chronological_target_partition(\n        prepared,\n        config.validation_fraction,\n        config.max_train_targets_per_user,\n        config.max_validation_targets_per_user,\n    )\n    if args.prepare_only:\n2250→        print(\n            json.dumps(\n                {\n                    \"stage\": args.stage,\n                    \"sequence_users\": len(prepared.user_ids),\n                    \"sequence_tokens\": len(prepared.sequence_items),\n                    \"next_item_targets\": prepared.target_count,\n                    \"selected_training_targets\": int(\n                        target_partition.training_counts.sum()\n                    ),\n2260→                    \"selected_validation_targets\": int(\n                        target_partition.validation_counts.sum()\n                    ),\n                    \"discarded_old_targets\": int(\n                        target_partition.window_starts.sum()\n                    ),\n                    \"target_users\": len(eligibility.uids),\n                    \"runtime_seconds\": round(time.monotonic() - started, 3),\n                    \"config\": asdict(config),\n                },\n2270→                indent=2,\n            )\n        )\n        return 0\n\n    model, training_history = train_model(\n        public,\n        args.stage,\n        prepared,\n        config,\n2280→        device,\n        args.checkpoint_dir.resolve() if args.checkpoint_dir else None,\n        args.resume_checkpoint.resolve() if args.resume_checkpoint else None,\n    )\n    ranking, embedding_diagnostics = rank_candidates(\n        model,\n        prepared,\n        eligibility,\n        config,\n        device,",
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          "text": "The cache was built with the old configuration because prepare-only ran before new fields were added.\n\nThe cache metadata only stores version, stage, and a few scalar fields. It does not include the full Config object, so the new code can still load it.\n\nThe next steps are to syntax-check the new trainer, write a unit test, and start training. I also need to verify that torch.unique with sorted=True works correctly.\n\nThe prepare output contains 1,052,953 training targets across 9,135 users. This yields roughly 288 blocks. The unused `build_item_correction` function is harmless. I am now verifying the Config dataclass and module imports.\n\nPyTorch 2.x still supports the `sorted` argument in `torch.unique`, so that concern is resolved. I will write a small unit test for the mask function before starting training. I plan to begin with one epoch to quickly produce a ranking artifact, then increase epochs if time allows.\n\nA lower softmax temperature could sharpen focus on hard negatives, but that would require tuning. The 256 popularity negatives should suffice alongside in-batch distractors. Discovery-graded weights will be skipped to keep the organic-strong baseline clean."
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            "content": "#!/usr/bin/env python3\n\"\"\"Unit tests for shared sampled-softmax negative construction.\"\"\"\nfrom __future__ import annotations\n\nimport unittest\n\nimport numpy as np\nimport torch\n\nimport train_current_model as tcm\nimport two_tower_model as base\n\n\nclass SharedSoftmaxNegativeTests(unittest.TestCase):\n    def setUp(self) -> None:\n        self.config = tcm.Config()\n        n_items = 32\n        self.n_items = n_items\n        self.prepared = tcm.SequenceData(\n            item_ids=np.arange(n_items, dtype=np.int64),\n            item_features=np.zeros((n_items, 4), dtype=np.float32),\n            user_ids=np.array([10, 20], dtype=np.int64),\n            offsets=np.array([0, 4, 8], dtype=np.int64),\n            sequence_timestamps=np.arange(8, dtype=np.uint32),\n            sequence_items=np.array([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], dtype=np.uint16),\n            event_features=np.zeros((8, 3), dtype=np.float16),\n            activity_features=np.zeros((8, 4), dtype=np.float16),\n            state_ids=np.array([1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2], dtype=np.uint32),\n            liked_states=np.vstack(\n                [\n                    np.full(base.LIKE_ITEMS, n_items, dtype=np.uint16),\n                    np.array([1] + [n_items] * (base.LIKE_ITEMS - 1), dtype=np.uint16),\n                    np.array([5] + [n_items] * (base.LIKE_ITEMS - 1), dtype=np.uint16),\n                ]\n            ),\n            disliked_states=np.vstack(\n                [\n                    np.full(base.DISLIKE_ITEMS, n_items, dtype=np.uint16),\n                    np.array([9] + [n_items] * (base.DISLIKE_ITEMS - 1), dtype=np.uint16),\n                    np.array([11] + [n_items] * (base.DISLIKE_ITEMS - 1), dtype=np.uint16),\n                ]\n            ),\n            state_counts=np.array([[0, 0], [1, 1], [1, 1]], dtype=np.int32),\n            inference_user_rows=np.array([0, 1], dtype=np.int32),\n            inference_liked_items=np.full((2, base.LIKE_ITEMS), n_items, dtype=np.uint16),\n            inference_disliked_items=np.full(\n                (2, base.DISLIKE_ITEMS), n_items, dtype=np.uint16\n            ),\n            inference_user_features=np.zeros((2, 6), dtype=np.float32),\n        )\n\n    def test_shared_set_contains_positives_and_dislikes(self) -> None:\n        positives = torch.tensor([2, 3, 6, 7])\n        states = np.array([1, 1, 2, 2], dtype=np.uint32)\n        generator = torch.Generator().manual_seed(0)\n        popularity = torch.full((self.n_items,), 1.0 / self.n_items)\n        shared = tcm.build_shared_softmax_items(\n            positives, states, self.prepared, self.config, popularity, generator\n        )\n        shared_set = set(shared.tolist())\n        self.assertTrue({2, 3, 6, 7}.issubset(shared_set))\n        self.assertTrue({9, 11}.issubset(shared_set))\n        self.assertGreaterEqual(len(shared), 4)\n\n    def test_false_negative_mask_keeps_targets_and_drops_likes(self) -> None:\n        shared = np.array([1, 2, 3, 5, 6], dtype=np.int64)\n        targets = np.array([2, 6], dtype=np.int64)\n        user_rows = np.array([0, 1], dtype=np.int64)\n        states = np.array([1, 2], dtype=np.uint32)\n        packed = np.zeros((2, (self.n_items + 7) // 8), dtype=np.uint8)\n        packed[0, 3 >> 3] |= np.uint8(1 << (3 & 7))\n        mask = tcm.shared_false_negative_mask(\n            shared, targets, user_rows, states, self.prepared, packed\n        )\n        self.assertFalse(mask[0, 1])  # target 2\n        self.assertFalse(mask[1, 4])  # target 6\n        self.assertTrue(mask[0, 0])  # liked item 1\n        self.assertTrue(mask[1, 3])  # liked item 5\n        self.assertTrue(mask[0, 2])  # historical listen 3\n\n    def test_sampled_softmax_loss_is_finite(self) -> None:\n        model = base.SequentialTwoTower(\n            self.prepared.item_features, tcm.model_config(self.config)\n        )\n        sequence = torch.randn(3, self.config.embedding_dim, requires_grad=True)\n        positives = torch.tensor([2, 3, 6])\n        shared = torch.arange(12, dtype=torch.long)\n        states = np.array([1, 1, 2], dtype=np.uint32)\n        weights = np.ones(3, dtype=np.float32)\n        user_rows = np.array([0, 0, 1], dtype=np.int64)\n        packed = np.zeros((2, (self.n_items + 7) // 8), dtype=np.uint8)\n        log_q = torch.zeros(self.n_items)\n        stats, grad = tcm.score_target_microbatches(\n            model,\n            self.prepared,\n            self.config,\n            sequence,\n            states,\n            np.zeros((3, 4), dtype=np.float32),\n            positives,\n            shared,\n            weights,\n            user_rows,\n            packed,\n            log_q,\n            torch.device(\"cpu\"),\n            True,\n        )\n        self.assertTrue(np.isfinite(stats[\"loss_sum\"]))\n        self.assertIsNotNone(grad)\n        self.assertTrue(torch.isfinite(grad).all())\n        self.assertGreater(stats[\"shared_items\"], 0)\n\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n    unittest.main()\n"
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            "content": "1245→        histories[row, :count] = history_windows(\n            user_sequence,\n            absolute_start,\n            count,\n            config.bptt_steps,\n1250→            padding_item,\n        )\n    return (\n        input_items,\n        event_features,\n        activity_features,\n        state_ids,\n        targets,\n        scored,\n        histories,\n1260→        processed,\n        weights,\n    )\n\n\ndef score_target_microbatches(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    sequence_vectors: torch.Tensor,\n1270→    flat_states: np.ndarray,\n    flat_activity: np.ndarray,\n    positive_items: torch.Tensor,\n    shared_items: torch.Tensor,\n    sample_weights: np.ndarray,\n    user_rows: np.ndarray,\n    known_positive_packed: np.ndarray | None,\n    log_item_q: torch.Tensor | None,\n    device: torch.device,\n    backward: bool,\n1280→) -> tuple[dict[str, float], torch.Tensor | None]:\n    \"\"\"Compute one logical block's sampled softmax in bounded-memory slices.\"\"\"\n    target_count = len(positive_items)\n    total_weight = float(sample_weights.sum())\n    if total_weight <= 0:\n        raise RuntimeError(\"target block has no positive sample weight\")\n    if shared_items.ndim != 1 or not len(shared_items):\n        raise RuntimeError(\"sampled-softmax shared item set must be a 1-D catalog list\")\n    sequence_gradient = torch.zeros_like(sequence_vectors) if backward else None\n    statistics = {\n1290→        \"loss_sum\": 0.0,\n        \"positive_sum\": 0.0,\n        \"negative_sum\": 0.0,\n        \"pair_correct\": 0.0,\n        \"pair_total\": 0.0,\n        \"weight_sum\": 0.0,\n        \"shared_items\": float(len(shared_items)),\n    }\n    shared_cpu = shared_items.detach().cpu()\n    shared_on_device = shared_items.to(device)\n1300→    temperature = max(float(config.softmax_temperature), 1.0e-6)\n    log_q_slice = None\n    if log_item_q is not None and config.logit_correction_power:\n        log_q_slice = (\n            config.logit_correction_power * log_item_q[shared_cpu].to(device)\n        )\n    for begin in range(0, target_count, config.loss_microbatch_size):\n        end = min(begin + config.loss_microbatch_size, target_count)\n        selected_states = flat_states[begin:end]\n        if backward:\n1310→            sequence_input = (\n                sequence_vectors[begin:end].detach().requires_grad_(True)\n            )\n        else:\n            sequence_input = sequence_vectors[begin:end]\n        liked_vectors, disliked_vectors, _ = pool_explicit_states(\n            model, prepared, selected_states, device\n        )\n        counts = prepared.state_counts[selected_states]\n        numeric = np.zeros((end - 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          "text": "I will replace the inner scoring logic.\n\nThe new scoring will concatenate positive and shared logits, apply temperature scaling, and mask shared columns that match the target. The current false-negative mask incorrectly keeps the target valid in the shared part; it must be inverted to mask those duplicate positions."
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          "text": "Updating argparse defaults for shared in-batch negatives, softmax temperature, and epochs.\n\nUpdating unit tests to expect masked targets. Adding shared in-batch negatives to Config construction in main(). encode_items now always L2-normalizes. The sampled softmax test remains valid with the new [pos | shared] layout."
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          "text": "The test cache preparation with two threads should be fine.\n\nTraining will contend with cache preparation across eight threads. The sequential cache step should finish quickly. I can draft the README while waiting. A score of 0.015 seems low for a discovery catalog; typical Yambda two-tower NDCG@10 ranges from 0.02 to 0.10."
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            "content": "exit: 0\npopularity {'quality_ndcg@10': 0.01071, 'quality_users': 4263}\nrandom {'quality_ndcg@10': 0.000241, 'quality_users': 4263}\n",
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            "content": "530→        save_cache(cache, prepared, stage, config)\n    return prepared, built_eligibility\n\n\ndef build_item_correction(\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    target_starts: np.ndarray,\n    target_counts: np.ndarray,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n540→    \"\"\"Estimate in-batch propensities from the selected training targets.\"\"\"\n    counts = np.zeros(len(prepared.item_ids), dtype=np.float64)\n    for user_row, count in enumerate(target_counts):\n        if not count:\n            continue\n        offset = int(prepared.offsets[user_row])\n        target_start = int(target_starts[user_row])\n        counts += np.bincount(\n            prepared.sequence_items[\n                offset\n550→                + target_start\n                + 1 : offset\n                + target_start\n                + int(count)\n                + 1\n            ].astype(np.int64),\n            minlength=len(prepared.item_ids),\n        )\n    total = float(counts.sum())\n    probabilities = (counts + 1.0) / (total + len(counts))\n560→    raw = np.power(\n        (1.0 / len(counts)) / probabilities,\n        config.inbatch_correction_power,\n    )\n    normalization = float(np.sum(counts * raw) / max(total, 1.0))\n    correction = np.clip(\n        raw / max(normalization, 1.0e-12),\n        config.inbatch_correction_min,\n        config.inbatch_correction_max,\n    ).astype(np.float32)\n570→    mean_on_targets = float(np.sum(counts * correction) / max(total, 1.0))\n    log(\n        f\"inbatch correction: min={correction.min():.3f} \"\n        f\"mean_on_targets={mean_on_targets:.3f} max={correction.max():.3f}\"\n    )\n    return torch.from_numpy(correction)\n\n\ndef build_known_positive_filter(\n    prepared: SequenceData, training_counts: np.ndarray",
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            "content": "630→def draw_full_history_filtered_negatives(\n    targets: torch.Tensor,\n    user_rows: np.ndarray,\n    liked_items: torch.Tensor,\n    known_positive_packed: np.ndarray,\n    n_items: int,\n    config: Config,\n    item_correction: torch.Tensor,\n    generator: torch.Generator,\n    device: torch.device,\n640→) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:\n    \"\"\"Draw mixed negatives and reject all known public-training positives.\"\"\"\n    targets_cpu = targets.detach().cpu().numpy().astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n    liked_cpu = liked_items.detach().cpu().numpy().astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n    batch_size = len(targets_cpu)\n    uniform = torch.randint(\n        n_items,\n        (batch_size, config.uniform_negatives),\n        generator=generator,\n        device=\"cpu\",\n650→    )\n    inbatch = torch.empty((batch_size, 0), dtype=torch.long)\n    corrected_count = 0\n    if config.inbatch_negatives:\n        unique_targets = torch.unique(targets.detach().cpu())\n        corrected_count = min(\n            config.inbatch_negatives, max(len(unique_targets) - 1, 0)\n        )\n        if corrected_count:\n            priorities = torch.rand(\n660→                (batch_size, len(unique_targets)), generator=generator\n            )\n            priorities.masked_fill_(\n                unique_targets[None, :].eq(\n                    torch.from_numpy(targets_cpu)[:, None]\n                ),\n                -1.0,\n            )\n            columns = torch.topk(\n                priorities, k=corrected_count, dim=1\n670→            ).indices\n            inbatch = unique_targets[columns]\n        if corrected_count < config.inbatch_negatives:\n            filler = torch.randint(\n                n_items,\n                (batch_size, config.inbatch_negatives - corrected_count),\n                generator=generator,\n                device=\"cpu\",\n            )\n            inbatch = torch.cat([inbatch, filler], dim=1)\n680→\n    negatives = torch.cat([uniform, inbatch], dim=1).numpy()\n    correction = np.ones_like(negatives, dtype=np.float32)\n    if corrected_count:\n        correction[\n            :, config.uniform_negatives : config.uniform_negatives + corrected_count\n        ] = item_correction[inbatch[:, :corrected_count]].numpy()\n    for _ in range(32):\n        invalid = invalid_full_history_negatives(\n            negatives,\n690→            targets_cpu,\n            user_rows,\n            known_positive_packed,\n            liked_cpu,\n        )\n        if not np.any(invalid):\n            return (\n                torch.from_numpy(negatives).to(device),\n                torch.from_numpy(correction).to(device),\n            )\n700→        replacements = torch.randint(\n            n_items,\n            (int(invalid.sum()),),\n            generator=generator,\n            device=\"cpu\",\n        ).numpy()\n        negatives[invalid] = replacements\n        # Rejected in-batch items become ordinary uniform draws.\n        correction[invalid] = 1.0\n    invalid = invalid_full_history_negatives(\n710→        negatives,\n        targets_cpu,\n        user_rows,\n        known_positive_packed,\n        liked_cpu,\n    )\n    if np.any(invalid):\n        raise RuntimeError(\"full-history negative resampling failed\")\n    return (\n        torch.from_numpy(negatives).to(device),\n720→        torch.from_numpy(correction).to(device),\n    )\n\n\ndef draw_training_negatives(\n    positive_items: torch.Tensor,\n    known_history: torch.Tensor,\n    liked_items: torch.Tensor,\n    user_rows: np.ndarray,\n    known_positive_packed: np.ndarray | None,\n730→    prepared: SequenceData,\n    config: Config,\n    item_correction: torch.Tensor,\n    generator: torch.Generator,\n    device: torch.device,\n) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:\n    if config.negative_filter_scope == \"full-training-history\":\n        if known_positive_packed is None:\n            raise RuntimeError(\"full-history negative filter was not built\")\n        return draw_full_history_filtered_negatives(\n740→            positive_items,\n            user_rows,\n            liked_items,\n            known_positive_packed,\n            len(prepared.item_ids),\n            config,\n            item_correction,\n            generator,\n            device,\n        )\n750→    return base.draw_filtered_mixed_negatives(\n        positive_items,\n        known_history,\n        liked_items,\n        len(prepared.item_ids),\n        config.uniform_negatives,\n        config.inbatch_negatives,\n        item_correction,\n        generator,\n        device,\n760→    )\n\n\ndef event_sequence(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    items: torch.Tensor,\n    features: torch.Tensor,\n    hidden: torch.Tensor,\n) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:\n    inputs = torch.cat([model.context_embedding(items), features], dim=-1)\n770→    projected = model.event_projection(inputs)\n    return model.sequence_encoder(projected, hidden)\n\n\ndef pool_explicit_states(\n    model: base.SequentialTwoTower,\n    prepared: SequenceData,\n    state_ids: np.ndarray,\n    device: torch.device,\n) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:\n780→    unique_states, inverse = np.unique(state_ids, return_inverse=True)\n    liked_items = torch.from_numpy(\n        prepared.liked_states[unique_states].astype(np.int64)\n    ).to(device)\n    disliked_items = torch.from_numpy(\n        prepared.disliked_states[unique_states].astype(np.int64)\n    ).to(device)\n    liked_vectors = model._mean_context_channel(liked_items)\n    disliked_vectors = model._mean_context_channel(disliked_items)\n    inverse_rows = torch.from_numpy(inverse.astype(np.int64)).to(device)\n790→    counts = prepared.state_counts[state_ids]\n    return (\n        liked_vectors[inverse_rows],\n        disliked_vectors[inverse_rows],\n        torch.from_numpy(counts.astype(np.float32)).to(device),\n    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          "text": "Planning a focused improvement for the two-tower retrieval model.\n\nProduction negatives are too uniform and easy. Only 8 in-batch hard negatives exist, and collisions with known positives replace them with more uniform samples. Explicit dislikes are never used as negatives, and popularity-sampled harder negatives are missing. The planned mix changes to 12 uniform, 16 in-batch, 8 shared popularity, and 4 dislikes.\n\nThe revised mix totals 36 negatives per batch. Invalid resamples will redraw from their original pools instead of converting hard negatives to uniform samples. Dislike negatives will be weighted twice as heavily in the BCE loss. Training will increase to two epochs, and the unnormalized BCE objective will remain unchanged. Shared popularity negatives will be sampled by unigram^0.75 and broadcast across all rows.\n\nReconsidering the uniform negative strategy. A shared pool of 32 uniform negatives would reduce unique encodings to roughly 200–2000 items, making training much faster than per-row sampling. The same easy negatives for all queries are acceptable for BCE loss.\n\nThe production model's uniform negatives cover almost the entire catalog every batch. This gives the item tower gradients for nearly all items and explains why its embeddings generalize well to 30,000-item retrieval. The softmax baseline only encoded a small fraction of the catalog per batch, so most items never received training updates. That limited training is likely the root cause of the lower NDCG.\n\nA shared uniform pool would leave most catalog items untrained. The better fix is to keep per-row uniform negatives or use a large shared pool of 2048–4096 items, while also increasing in-batch hard negatives and adding dislike negatives.\n\nA shared pool of 512 popularity and 512 uniform negatives would still give the item tower adequate coverage alongside the existing per-row and in-batch samples. However, materializing a [B, 1024, D] tensor for BCE is impractical at roughly 5 GB. The solution is to score these shared negatives with a lightweight query-embedding dot product instead of expanding the full batch dimension.\n\nThe candidate scoring layer must be refactored to support shared negatives without materializing large batch tensors. The revised per-row mix is 16 in-batch, 4 dislikes, and 8 uniform negatives. A shared pool of 256 popularity items will feed into the BCE loss via query-embedding dot products. Dropping per-row uniforms to four would still yield roughly twelve thousand unique encodings. Periodically encoding the entire catalog as shared negatives is also being considered; this would score all items against queries with only fifty-one megabytes of memory.\n\nEncoding all 30,000 items once per block matches production's unique-item cost. Scoring queries against the full catalog with a single matmul is therefore cheap. The remaining challenge is designing the loss: using every item as a negative would be too easy, so hard negative mining or sampled softmax over the full catalog is being considered.\n\nHard negative mining over the full catalog would require encoding all 30,000 items with gradients every block, which is prohibitively expensive. A no-grad scoring pass followed by re-encoding only the top-k hardest negatives would reduce memory and time, but the item tower would still receive gradients for just a small subset of items. This reintroduces the same coverage problem as the smaller shared pools.\n\nA mixed loss combining full-catalog hard negatives with sampled softmax was rejected as too complex. The simpler plan is to keep the production architecture almost unchanged: increase in-batch negatives from eight to sixteen, reduce per-row uniform negatives from twenty-four to sixteen while preserving broad catalog coverage, redraw in-batch samples from unique targets instead of zeroing corrections on collision, add four weighted dislike negatives, train for two epochs, and apply discovery-graded weights.\n\nThe conservative plan is now fixed at 40 negatives per batch: 12 uniform, 8 popularity-sampled, 16 in-batch hard, and 4 dislike. Dislike negatives will be drawn from each user’s disliked states, padded with uniform samples if the list is short. The negative sampler needs a new disliked-state argument to support this.\n\nThe configuration is now fixed at twelve uniform, sixteen in-batch, eight popularity, and four dislike negatives across two epochs. Early stopping will use a patience of two. The first experiment will test organic-strong weights to isolate the impact of the new negative mix; discovery-graded weights may be tried later if time allows. Popularity probabilities will be passed into the sampler so it can draw harder negatives without materializing large tensors.\n\nThe batch layout is now fixed: columns 0–11 are uniform negatives, 12–19 are popularity-sampled, 20–35 are in-batch hard negatives, and 36–39 are dislike negatives. Invalid resamples will be handled per group—uniforms by random draw, popularity by multinomial, and in-batch by unique targets. The corrected negative loss function must be updated to process all four groups, with dislikes weighted at twice the standard rate.\n\nThe loss formula is now concrete: it averages raw scores across each negative group, weights popularity and in-batch by their item corrections, doubles the dislike term, and normalizes by total count. Dislike negatives will be treated as valid even when the user has already listened to them.\n\nDislike negatives will be excluded from the known-positive filter so that items a user listened to before rejecting them remain valid negatives. The invalid filter will apply only to uniform, popularity, and in-batch columns. The negative sampler signature must also accept disliked_items and popularity_probs.\n\nThe training and evaluation call sites need updating to pass popularity probabilities into the sampler. Two epochs of the new configuration will take roughly eighteen minutes, which is a large share of the remaining budget. The elapsed time so far is about forty minutes, leaving only twenty minutes for validation, ranking, and testing.\n\nThe twenty-minute budget is too tight for a full two-epoch training run. One epoch of improved negatives followed by one test refit should fit comfortably in about eighteen minutes. Reducing per-row uniform negatives from twenty-four to four would encode roughly seventeen thousand unique items instead of twenty-seven thousand, cutting item-encoding time without sacrificing coverage.\n\nThe final negative mix is eight uniform, sixteen in-batch, eight popularity, and four dislike negatives, totaling thirty-six per batch. This yields roughly twenty-four thousand unique items and should be faster than the larger pool.\n\nIf the improved model does not beat production’s validation score, I will fall back to training production for one epoch on the submission stage. 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