{ "schemaVersion": 1, "taskId": "yambda-discovery-ranking-two-tower-case-1", "attemptId": "grok-1-0-44-case1-r03-61e7dce0-20260929", "taskChecksum": "8404d794ce8e18d154cd225cfe6b12bf6b4ee02aaefba1d315aa215c1175a013", "source": { "format": "grok-build-session", "timestamps": "not-recorded", "sha256": "76d9d80bf393f356da97a5b8806336b08313414ae1371e9915a40f15daf64cfb", "records": 212, "eventsSha256": "7d40936006f9ea2b6337cf40aa154252f61bb0ba2b9a8f16a94caf0c3e72f896", "eventsRecords": 4098, "missingToolResults": [ "call-27af3faf-4a9f-4252-8b64-da60ac01a212-88" ] }, "sessionId": "0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec", "agentVersion": "1.0.44", "requestedModel": "grok-4.6", "model": "grok-4.6-build", "steps": [ { "id": 1, "role": "system", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "You are Grok 4.6 released by xAI. You are an autonomous agent that completes software engineering tasks. There is no human operator in this session. 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It's about Y.\"\n\nNever fabricate a person’s name or infer it from a username, handle, email address, or initials. Use a person’s name only when the conversation or tool results explicitly establish it for that person; otherwise use the exact handle or a neutral description.\n\n\n\nYour text output is rendered as GitHub-flavored markdown (CommonMark). Use markdown actively when it aids the reader: bullet lists for parallel items, **bold** for emphasis, `inline code` for identifiers/paths/commands, and tables for short enumerable facts (file/line/status, before/after, quantitative data). For nesting markdown fences, NEVER nest equal-length fences - make the outer fence longer than every inner fence.\n\n\n\nWhen your work changes anything a user sees or interacts with in a web app (UI components, layout, styling, routing, or the state and data that pages render), you MUST verify your work in the browser before finishing, whenever browser tools are available.\n\nVerifying means more than confirming that the changed screen renders:\n1. Exercise the feature you changed end to end, interacting with it the way a user would.\n2. Visit every page and route that shares the state, data, or components you touched, and confirm the application still behaves consistently everywhere.\n3. Actively hunt for regressions in existing behavior; do not stop at the happy path.\n4. When layout or styling changed, check both desktop and mobile viewport sizes.\n\nIf verification reveals a problem, fix it and verify again before ending your turn.\n" } ] }, { "id": 2, "role": "user", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "\nOS Version: linux\nShell: /bin/sh\nWorkspace Path: /app\nToday's date: 2026-09-29\n\n\n\nThe rules section has a number of possible rules/memories/context that you should consider. In each subsection, we provide instructions about what information the subsection contains and how you should consider/follow the contents of the subsection.\n\n\n\n\nState points directly in affirmative language. Avoid unnecessary contrastive negation such as “X, not Y,” especially clarifications about alternatives the user did not mention.\n\n\n\nWhen implementing or fixing anything in a web application (UI, layout, styling, routing, client state, or rendered data), verify your work in the browser before declaring the task complete.\n\n**Use this verification workflow:**\n- Open the app with the available browser tools and exercise the changed feature end to end the way a real user would: click, type, submit, navigate.\n- A single render screenshot of the changed screen is NOT verification. Confirm behavior, not just appearance.\n- Check every page and route that shares the state, data, or components you touched. Application state must stay consistent across pages: if you changed how state is written or derived, verify the other surfaces that read it.\n- Hunt for regressions. The most common failure mode is a change that works in isolation but breaks existing behavior elsewhere in the app. Navigate the surrounding flows and look for what broke.\n- Verify the paths and edge states your change touches (empty states, error states, route and flag variants), not only the main path.\n- When layout or styling changed, check both desktop and mobile viewports.\n- If verification finds a problem, fix it and re-verify. Do not finish with unverified UI work.\n\nIf no browser tools are available, verify through the closest available substitute (tests, curl against the dev server, rendering scripts) and say what you could not verify.\n\n\n" } ] }, { "id": 3, "role": "user", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "\nThe following workflows are available:\n\n- deep-research: Research a query with bounded parallelism, cross-check the evidence, and write a cited report\n Use when: Compare, investigate, or research a question that needs sourced claims. /deep-research, research this, write a cited report.\n Absolute path: /runner/_work/xai/xai/crates/codegen/xai-grok-shell/src/session/workflows/deep_research.rhai\n" } ] }, { "id": 4, "role": "user", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "\n# 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. Do not substitute an unrelated\n model family or evade the indexed two-tower serving constraint.\n- The environment includes CPU PyTorch 2.8.0. No accelerator is available.\n- You have up to 60 minutes. Prioritize measured validation improvements, a\n correct final refit, and a valid submission over broad architecture search.\n- Keep the best valid submission saved throughout the attempt so it survives\n the deadline.\n" } ] }, { "id": 5, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "I'll start by inspecting the production two-tower, its training objective, and the public validation setup so I can diagnose the negative-sampling issue before changing anything." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-70425d23-2e29-40e7-a10e-da34486161a8-0", "name": "todo_write", "input": { "todos": [ { "id": "1", "content": "Explore current model, data protocol, and evaluation", "status": "in_progress" }, { "id": "2", "content": "Diagnose negative-sampling limitations", "status": "pending" }, { "id": "3", "content": "Implement improved training objective", "status": "pending" }, { "id": "4", "content": "Validate on public backtest", "status": "pending" }, { "id": "5", "content": "Refit on train+val and produce submission", "status": "pending" } ], "merge": false }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "- [in_progress] 1: Explore current model, data protocol, and evaluation\n- [pending] 2: Diagnose negative-sampling limitations\n- [pending] 3: Implement improved training objective\n- [pending] 4: Validate on public backtest\n- [pending] 5: Refit on train+val and produce submission\n", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-70425d23-2e29-40e7-a10e-da34486161a8-1", "name": "list_dir", "input": { "target_directory": "/task" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "- /task/\n - current_model/\n - train_current_model.py\n - two_tower_model.py\n - data/\n - candidate_catalog.parquet\n - target_users.parquet\n - test_eligible_candidates.npz\n - test_preference_state.parquet\n - train_dislikes.parquet\n - train_likes.parquet\n - train_listens.parquet\n - train_undislikes.parquet\n - train_unlikes.parquet\n - val_dislikes.parquet\n - val_likes.parquet\n - val_listens.parquet\n - val_undislikes.parquet\n - val_unlikes.parquet\n - validation_eligible_candidates.npz\n - validation_preference_state.parquet\n - evaluate_public.py\n - ranking_evaluation.py\n - requirements.txt", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-70425d23-2e29-40e7-a10e-da34486161a8-2", "name": "list_dir", "input": { "target_directory": "/app" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "- /app/\n - solution/", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 6, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-ad6b2800-4216-43e1-983a-669d7fca3f8e-3", "name": "read_file", "input": { "target_file": "/task/current_model/train_current_model.py" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "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-ad6b2800-4216-43e1-983a-669d7fca3f8e-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", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-ad6b2800-4216-43e1-983a-669d7fca3f8e-5", "name": "read_file", "input": { "target_file": "/task/evaluate_public.py" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "1→#!/usr/bin/env python3\n\"\"\"Score a validation-stage ranking against public discovery labels.\n\n``build_task.py`` publishes this module with the solver-visible task files. It\nloads target users, validation eligibility, and validation-window events from\nthe adjacent ``data`` directory, then evaluates one ranking supplied on the\ncommand line. Stage-independent mechanics come from the adjacent public\n``ranking_evaluation.py`` module. The builder installs the same checked-in\nmodule in the private judge, so public and private scoring mechanics cannot\n10→drift. A relevant candidate receives grade 3 for an organic like or grade 1 for\nan organic listen with at least 80 percent completion; a like takes precedence\nwhen both events exist.\n\nBefore scoring, the ranking must contain exactly 100 distinct eligible items\nfor every target user, with integer-valued ``uid``, ``item_id``, and ``rank``\ncolumns and ranks 1 through 100 exactly once per user. Extra columns are\nignored. Quality is graded NDCG@10, averaged only over users who have at least\none eligible relevant item in the validation window.\n\n20→The evaluator prints a JSON object containing the model path and scores. It\ndoes not apply the task's pass threshold; its purpose is model development and\nselection. The private judge applies the threshold to the final submission.\n\nUsage::\n\n python evaluate_public.py \n\"\"\"\nfrom __future__ import annotations\n\n30→import json\nimport sys\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\nimport pandas as pd\n\nfrom ranking_evaluation import (\n CandidateSet,\n RankingValidationError,\n ranked_items,\n40→ read_ranking,\n score_rankings,\n validate_ranking,\n)\n\n\nHERE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent\nDATA = HERE / \"data\"\nLISTEN_STRONG = 80\n\n50→\ndef validation_truth(\n eligibility: CandidateSet, targets: set[int]\n) -> dict[int, dict[int, int]]:\n \"\"\"Build cutoff-correct graded relevance from public validation events.\n\n Only target-user events for eligible candidates are retained. Organic\n listens completed to at least 80 percent receive grade 1, and organic likes\n receive grade 3. Repeated user-item events are collapsed, and processing\n likes second ensures that grade 3 wins over grade 1.\n60→\n Args:\n eligibility: Validation-cutoff candidate membership service.\n targets: Complete set of target user IDs.\n\n Returns:\n A nested ``uid -> item_id -> grade`` mapping. Users without an eligible\n relevant event are omitted.\n \"\"\"\n listens = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_listens.parquet\")\n70→ likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_likes.parquet\")\n strong = listens[\n listens.uid.isin(targets)\n & (listens.is_organic == 1)\n & (listens.played_ratio_pct >= LISTEN_STRONG)\n ][[\"uid\", \"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\n organic_likes = likes[\n likes.uid.isin(targets) & (likes.is_organic == 1)\n ][[\"uid\", \"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\n\n80→ graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]] = {}\n for raw_uid, raw_item in strong.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n uid, item = int(raw_uid), int(raw_item)\n if eligibility.is_eligible(uid, item):\n graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 1\n for raw_uid, raw_item in organic_likes.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n uid, item = int(raw_uid), int(raw_item)\n if eligibility.is_eligible(uid, item):\n graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 3\n return graded\n90→\n\ndef load_submission(\n path: Path, eligibility: CandidateSet, targets: set[int]\n) -> dict[int, list[int]]:\n \"\"\"Load and validate a public validation ranking.\n\n Files ending in ``.parquet`` are read as parquet; every other suffix is\n read as CSV. The required columns must be integer-valued, cover exactly the\n target-user set, contain 100 rows and ranks 1 through 100 per user, avoid\n100→ duplicate user-item pairs, and contain only cutoff-eligible items.\n\n Args:\n path: Ranking file to read.\n eligibility: Validation-cutoff candidate membership service.\n targets: Exact set of users the ranking must cover.\n\n Returns:\n A ``uid -> ranked item IDs`` mapping ordered by ascending rank.\n\n110→ Raises:\n ValueError: If the ranking violates the required schema or invariants.\n \"\"\"\n frame = validate_ranking(read_ranking(path), targets)\n if not all(\n eligibility.is_eligible(uid, item)\n for uid, item in frame[[\"uid\", \"item_id\"]].itertuples(index=False, name=None)\n ):\n raise RankingValidationError(\n \"submission contains an item rejected by eligibility service\"\n120→ )\n return ranked_items(frame)\n\n\ndef score(\n ranked: dict[int, list[int]],\n graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]],\n) -> dict[str, float | int]:\n \"\"\"Aggregate per-user NDCG@10 over users with public relevance labels.\n\n130→ Args:\n ranked: Ranked item IDs for every target user.\n graded: Eligible validation relevance keyed by user and item.\n\n Returns:\n The six-decimal ``quality_ndcg@10`` value and number of scored users.\n \"\"\"\n return score_rankings(ranked, graded)\n\n\n140→def main() -> None:\n \"\"\"Run the public evaluator CLI and print its JSON score report.\"\"\"\n targets_frame = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"target_users.parquet\")\n targets = set(targets_frame.uid.astype(int))\n eligibility = CandidateSet(DATA / \"validation_eligible_candidates.npz\")\n graded = validation_truth(eligibility, targets)\n\n if len(sys.argv) != 2:\n raise SystemExit(\n \"usage: evaluate_public.py \"\n150→ )\n path = Path(sys.argv[1])\n ranked = load_submission(path, eligibility, targets)\n print(json.dumps({\"model\": str(path), \"scores\": score(ranked, graded)}, indent=2))\n\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n main()\n", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-ad6b2800-4216-43e1-983a-669d7fca3f8e-6", "name": "read_file", "input": { "target_file": "/task/ranking_evaluation.py" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "1→\"\"\"Shared public primitives for Yambda discovery-ranking evaluation.\n\nBoth the solver-visible validation evaluator and the private submission judge\nimport this module from the generated task's ``public`` directory. It owns the\nstage-independent contract: reading a ranking, validating its shape, converting\nit to per-user rank order, looking up packed candidate eligibility, and\ncomputing graded NDCG@10.\n\nThe module deliberately contains no event-derived labels, private artifact\n10→paths, or pass thresholds. Each evaluator supplies its own relevance data and\nper-cutoff eligibility checks around these common operations.\n\"\"\"\nfrom __future__ import annotations\n\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\nimport numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\n\n20→\n__all__ = [\n \"CandidateSet\",\n \"QUALITY_K\",\n \"RankingValidationError\",\n \"REQUIRED_COLUMNS\",\n \"TOP_N\",\n \"ndcg_at_k\",\n \"ranked_items\",\n \"read_ranking\",\n30→ \"score_rankings\",\n \"validate_ranking\",\n]\n\nTOP_N = 100\nQUALITY_K = 10\nREQUIRED_COLUMNS = (\"uid\", \"item_id\", \"rank\")\n\n\nclass RankingValidationError(ValueError):\n40→ \"\"\"Report a ranking-schema or structural-contract violation.\"\"\"\n\n\nclass CandidateSet:\n \"\"\"Provide membership lookups over one packed candidate-set archive.\n\n The archive contains aligned ``uids``, ``item_ids``, and\n ``packed_eligible`` arrays. Candidate column ``c`` is represented by bit\n ``c % 8`` of byte ``c // 8`` using little-endian bit order. Arrays are\n copied into memory so they remain valid after the archive is closed.\n50→ \"\"\"\n\n def __init__(self, path: Path):\n \"\"\"Load an eligibility archive and build ID-to-position indexes.\n\n Args:\n path: Path to a ``.npz`` archive with the candidate-set schema.\n \"\"\"\n with np.load(path, allow_pickle=False) as artifact:\n self.uids = artifact[\"uids\"].astype(np.int64, copy=True)\n60→ self.item_ids = artifact[\"item_ids\"].astype(np.int64, copy=True)\n self.packed = artifact[\"packed_eligible\"].astype(np.uint8, copy=True)\n self.uid_row = {int(uid): row for row, uid in enumerate(self.uids)}\n self.item_column = {\n int(item): column for column, item in enumerate(self.item_ids)\n }\n\n def is_eligible(self, uid: int, item_id: int) -> bool:\n \"\"\"Return whether ``item_id`` is eligible for ``uid``.\n\n70→ IDs absent from the target-user or candidate-item arrays are treated as\n ineligible rather than raising an exception.\n\n Args:\n uid: Target user ID to query.\n item_id: Candidate item ID to query.\n\n Returns:\n ``True`` only when the corresponding packed eligibility bit is set.\n \"\"\"\n80→ row = self.uid_row.get(int(uid))\n column = self.item_column.get(int(item_id))\n if row is None or column is None:\n return False\n byte, bit = divmod(column, 8)\n return bool((int(self.packed[row, byte]) >> bit) & 1)\n\n\ndef read_ranking(path: Path) -> pd.DataFrame:\n \"\"\"Read a parquet or CSV ranking into a pandas frame.\n90→\n Args:\n path: Input path. A ``.parquet`` suffix selects parquet; every other\n suffix is interpreted as CSV.\n\n Returns:\n The ranking frame as loaded by pandas.\n \"\"\"\n return pd.read_parquet(path) if path.suffix == \".parquet\" else pd.read_csv(path)\n\n100→\ndef validate_ranking(\n frame: pd.DataFrame,\n targets: set[int],\n) -> pd.DataFrame:\n \"\"\"Normalize and validate the stage-independent ranking contract.\n\n Required values must be finite integers. The user set must exactly match\n ``targets``; every user must have 100 rows, distinct items, and each rank\n from 1 through 100 exactly once. Cutoff-specific candidate eligibility is\n110→ intentionally left to the calling evaluator.\n\n Args:\n frame: Raw ranking frame. Extra columns are discarded from an internal\n copy; the caller's frame is not modified.\n targets: Exact set of target user IDs the ranking must cover.\n\n Returns:\n A normalized frame containing only the required ``int64`` columns.\n\n120→ Raises:\n RankingValidationError: If the ranking violates the shared contract.\n \"\"\"\n required = list(REQUIRED_COLUMNS)\n if not all(column in frame for column in required):\n raise RankingValidationError(f\"submission requires columns {required}\")\n\n normalized = frame[required].copy()\n for column in required:\n numeric = pd.to_numeric(normalized[column], errors=\"coerce\")\n130→ values = numeric.to_numpy(dtype=float)\n if numeric.isna().any() or not np.isfinite(values).all():\n raise RankingValidationError(\n f\"submission {column} must be finite numeric values\"\n )\n if not np.equal(numeric, np.floor(numeric)).all():\n raise RankingValidationError(\n f\"submission {column} must contain integers\"\n )\n normalized[column] = numeric.astype(np.int64)\n140→\n submitted_users = set(map(int, normalized.uid.unique()))\n if submitted_users != targets:\n raise RankingValidationError(\n f\"submission user set mismatch: missing={len(targets - submitted_users)} \"\n f\"extra={len(submitted_users - targets)}\"\n )\n counts = normalized.groupby(\"uid\").size()\n if not (counts == TOP_N).all():\n raise RankingValidationError(\n150→ f\"submission must contain exactly {TOP_N} rows for every target user\"\n )\n if normalized.duplicated([\"uid\", \"item_id\"]).any():\n raise RankingValidationError(\n \"submission contains duplicate (uid, item_id) pairs\"\n )\n valid_ranks = set(range(1, TOP_N + 1))\n ranks_are_valid = normalized.groupby(\"uid\")[\"rank\"].apply(\n lambda values: set(map(int, values)) == valid_ranks\n )\n160→ if not ranks_are_valid.all():\n raise RankingValidationError(\n f\"each user must have every rank from 1 through {TOP_N} exactly once\"\n )\n return normalized\n\n\ndef ranked_items(frame: pd.DataFrame) -> dict[int, list[int]]:\n \"\"\"Convert a validated ranking frame to ordered items keyed by user.\n\n170→ Args:\n frame: Frame that has passed :func:`validate_ranking`.\n\n Returns:\n A ``uid -> item IDs`` mapping ordered by ascending rank.\n \"\"\"\n ordered = frame.sort_values([\"uid\", \"rank\"])\n return {\n int(uid): list(map(int, values))\n for uid, values in ordered.groupby(\"uid\").item_id\n180→ }\n\n\ndef ndcg_at_k(ranked: list[int], gold: dict[int, int], k: int) -> float:\n \"\"\"Compute graded normalized discounted cumulative gain at ``k``.\n\n Relevance gain is ``2**grade - 1`` and the discount at one-based rank\n ``r`` is ``1 / log2(r + 1)``. Items absent from ``gold`` have grade zero.\n\n Args:\n190→ ranked: Item IDs in predicted rank order.\n gold: Mapping from relevant item IDs to integer relevance grades.\n k: Maximum number of predicted positions to score.\n\n Returns:\n For a valid duplicate-free ranking, NDCG in ``[0, 1]``; returns\n ``0.0`` when the ideal gain is zero.\n \"\"\"\n gains = np.asarray([gold.get(item, 0) for item in ranked[:k]], dtype=np.float64)\n discounts = 1.0 / np.log2(np.arange(2, len(gains) + 2))\n200→ dcg = float(np.sum((np.power(2.0, gains) - 1.0) * discounts))\n ideal = np.asarray(sorted(gold.values(), reverse=True)[:k], dtype=np.float64)\n ideal_discounts = 1.0 / np.log2(np.arange(2, len(ideal) + 2))\n idcg = float(np.sum((np.power(2.0, ideal) - 1.0) * ideal_discounts))\n return dcg / idcg if idcg else 0.0\n\n\ndef score_rankings(\n ranked: dict[int, list[int]],\n graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]],\n210→) -> dict[str, float | int]:\n \"\"\"Aggregate per-user NDCG@10 over users with relevance labels.\n\n Args:\n ranked: Ranked item IDs for every target user.\n graded: Relevant item grades keyed by user and item.\n\n Returns:\n The six-decimal ``quality_ndcg@10`` value and number of scored users.\n \"\"\"\n220→ quality = float(\n np.mean(\n [\n ndcg_at_k(ranked[uid], gold, QUALITY_K)\n for uid, gold in graded.items()\n ]\n )\n )\n return {\n \"quality_ndcg@10\": round(quality, 6),\n230→ \"quality_users\": len(graded),\n }\n", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-ad6b2800-4216-43e1-983a-669d7fca3f8e-7", "name": "read_file", "input": { "target_file": "/task/requirements.txt" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "1→# Exact distribution inventory for the Yambda two-tower task family.\n#\n# This is an input to `uv pip sync`, not a list of minimum requirements. A\n# conforming task environment contains exactly these third-party Python\n# distributions and no others. Python itself is pinned by task.toml and both\n# Harbor image Dockerfiles.\nattrs==26.1.0\nbleach==6.4.0\ncertifi==2026.7.22\n10→chardet==7.6.0\ncharset-normalizer==3.5.1\nfastjsonschema==2.22.2\nfilelock==3.32.3\nfsspec==2026.7.0\nidna==3.18\nJinja2==3.1.6\njoblib==1.5.3\njsonschema==4.26.0\njsonschema-specifications==2025.9.1\n20→jupyter-core==5.9.1\njupytext==1.19.5\nkaggle==2.2.4\nkagglesdk==0.1.37\nmarkdown-it-py==4.2.0\nMarkupSafe==3.0.3\nmdit-py-plugins==0.6.1\nmdurl==0.1.2\nmpmath==1.3.0\nnbformat==5.11.1\n30→networkx==3.6.1\nnumpy==2.2.6\npackaging==26.3\npandas==2.3.3\npillow==12.3.0\npip==26.0.1\nplatformdirs==4.11.3\nprotobuf==7.35.1\npyarrow==18.1.0\npython-dateutil==2.9.0.post0\n40→python-dotenv==1.2.3\npython-slugify==8.0.4\npytz==2026.3.post1\nPyYAML==6.0.3\nreferencing==0.37.0\nreportlab==4.2.5\nrequests==2.34.2\nrpds-py==2026.6.3\nscikit-learn==1.7.2\nscipy==1.15.3\n50→setuptools==84.0.0\nsix==1.17.0\nsympy==1.14.0\ntext-unidecode==1.3\nthreadpoolctl==3.6.0\ntorch==2.8.0\ntqdm==4.70.0\ntraitlets==5.16.1\ntyping-extensions==4.16.0\ntzdata==2026.3\n60→urllib3==2.7.0\nwebencodings==0.6.1\n", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-ad6b2800-4216-43e1-983a-669d7fca3f8e-8", "name": "list_dir", "input": { "target_directory": "/app/solution" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "- /app/solution/\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 7, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "The trainer file was truncated; I’ll read the rest of the training loop and scoring path next." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-29661526-d5d8-4ce3-acfa-4ce193fc1d31-9", "name": "read_file", "input": { "target_file": "/task/current_model/train_current_model.py", "offset": 1000, "limit": 800 }, "result": { "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]", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 8, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-2d7de996-7960-4197-904f-a230a284adc9-10", "name": "read_file", "input": { "target_file": "/task/current_model/train_current_model.py", "offset": 1790, "limit": 400 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "1790→ 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 )\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", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 9, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The production two-tower model is well-structured.\n\nThe investigation centers on the training objective's negative-sampling strategy. The current setup uses 24 uniform negatives plus 8 in-batch negatives, filters out items from the user's full training history, and applies BCE with softplus.\n\nThe current negative sampling has two main limitations. Uniform negatives from the full catalog are too easy to reject, so the model learns coarse separation rather than fine-grained ranking among similar items. In-batch negatives remain popularity-biased despite propensity correction.\n\nHard negatives are missing. The model never samples items similar to the positive, which hurts retrieval quality because it cannot rank nearby embeddings. Popularity-sampled negatives are also absent; uniform sampling makes negatives too easy.\n\nSampled softmax or InfoNCE would outperform independent BCE for retrieval because it normalizes the positive against the sampled negatives. Explicit dislikes could serve as hard negatives. A mixed strategy combining uniform, popularity-weighted, and in-batch sampling is also promising." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "I’ll inspect data scale, catalog popularity, and how negatives currently interact with the loss so the diagnosis is grounded in this pipeline." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-ce822b1f-ff6a-4710-a08d-131c1b1bb68f-11", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "python3 - << 'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\ndata = Path('/task/data')\nfor name in ['candidate_catalog.parquet','target_users.parquet','validation_preference_state.parquet','test_preference_state.parquet']:\n df = pd.read_parquet(data/name)\n print('===', name, '===')\n print('rows', len(df), 'cols', list(df.columns))\n print(df.head(3).to_string())\n print()\n\n# sizes of event files\nimport os\nfor f in sorted(data.glob('*.parquet')):\n print(f.name, os.path.getsize(f)//1024, 'KB')\nprint()\n# npz\nfor f in sorted(data.glob('*.npz')):\n z = np.load(f)\n print(f.name, {k: z[k].shape for k in z.files})\nPY", "description": "Inspect data files and catalog schema" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 1\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File \"\", line 1, in \nModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pandas'\n", "isError": true } } ] }, { "id": 10, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "I need to locate the correct Python environment." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-a69362db-969f-4f6f-b4b9-623f64e383bd-12", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "which python python3; ls /usr/bin/python*; echo '---'; cat /task/requirements.txt | head -5; python3 -c 'import sys; print(sys.executable, sys.path)'", "description": "Find Python environment with packages" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\n/usr/local/bin/python\n/usr/local/bin/python3\nls: cannot access '/usr/bin/python*': No such file or directory\n---\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", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 11, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Pandas is listed in requirements but may not be installed in this environment." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-be9245d0-39a4-4d61-b8f4-26fa4128df84-13", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "python3 -c 'import sys; print(sys.version); import torch; print(\"torch\", torch.__version__); import numpy; print(\"numpy\", numpy.__version__)'\nls /usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages | head -80\necho '---'\nfind / -name 'pandas' -type d 2>/dev/null | head\necho '---'\nls /opt 2>/dev/null; ls /venv 2>/dev/null; ls /home 2>/dev/null", "description": "Locate installed scientific Python packages" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File \"\", line 1, in \nModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'torch'\n3.12.13 (main, Aug 5 2026, 01:11:46) [GCC 12.2.0]\nREADME.txt\npip\npip-25.0.1.dist-info\n---\n/opt/task-venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas\n---\ntask-venv\nagent\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 12, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-91d041cb-14f3-4305-8e61-34ab8f026fe0-14", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python -c 'import torch, pandas, numpy; print(torch.__version__, pandas.__version__, numpy.__version__); print(torch.get_num_threads())'\nls /opt/task-venv/bin | head", "description": "Verify task venv packages" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\n2.8.0+cpu 2.3.3 2.2.6\n4\nActivate.ps1\nactivate\nactivate.csh\nactivate.fish\nchardetect\ndotenv\nf2py\nidna\nisympy\njsonschema\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 13, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "I will inspect the data more thoroughly." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-32a35a38-eddc-4a6c-84ef-2421dd55fdac-15", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\ndata = Path('/task/data')\nfor name in ['candidate_catalog.parquet','target_users.parquet','validation_preference_state.parquet','test_preference_state.parquet']:\n df = pd.read_parquet(data/name)\n print('===', name, '===')\n print('rows', len(df), 'cols', list(df.columns))\n print(df.head(3).to_string())\n print(df.dtypes)\n print()\n\nimport os\nfor f in sorted(data.glob('*.parquet')):\n print(f.name, os.path.getsize(f)//1024, 'KB')\nprint()\nfor f in sorted(data.glob('*.npz')):\n z = np.load(f)\n print(f.name, {k: z[k].shape for k in z.files})\nPY", "description": "Inspect catalog, users, candidates, and file sizes" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\n=== candidate_catalog.parquet ===\nrows 30000 cols ['item_id', 'positive_listens', 'organic_positive_listens', 'popularity_rank']\n item_id positive_listens organic_positive_listens popularity_rank\n0 5862961 26615 20620 1\n1 6901374 25536 17347 2\n2 5635052 24691 17194 3\nitem_id uint32\npositive_listens int64\norganic_positive_listens uint64\npopularity_rank int32\ndtype: object\n\n=== target_users.parquet ===\nrows 8456 cols ['uid', 'recent_positive_listens', 'history_positive_listens']\n uid recent_positive_listens history_positive_listens\n0 100 844.0 2604\n1 200 50.0 286\n2 300 168.0 359\nuid uint32\nrecent_positive_listens float64\nhistory_positive_listens int64\ndtype: object\n\n=== validation_preference_state.parquet ===\nrows 469124 cols ['uid', 'item_id', 'state']\n uid item_id state\n0 100 410868 liked\n1 100 732449 liked\n2 100 982903 liked\nuid uint32\nitem_id uint32\nstate object\ndtype: object\n\n=== test_preference_state.parquet ===\nrows 484776 cols ['uid', 'item_id', 'state']\n uid item_id state\n0 100 410868 liked\n1 100 732449 liked\n2 100 982903 liked\nuid uint32\nitem_id uint32\nstate object\ndtype: object\n\ncandidate_catalog.parquet 341 KB\ntarget_users.parquet 82 KB\ntest_preference_state.parquet 1066 KB\ntrain_dislikes.parquet 837 KB\ntrain_likes.parquet 5248 KB\ntrain_listens.parquet 311702 KB\ntrain_undislikes.parquet 152 KB\ntrain_unlikes.parquet 1812 KB\nval_dislikes.parquet 35 KB\nval_likes.parquet 291 KB\nval_listens.parquet 9714 KB\nval_undislikes.parquet 7 KB\nval_unlikes.parquet 70 KB\nvalidation_preference_state.parquet 1036 KB\n\ntest_eligible_candidates.npz {'uids': (8456,), 'item_ids': (30000,), 'packed_eligible': (8456, 3750)}\nvalidation_eligible_candidates.npz {'uids': (8456,), 'item_ids': (30000,), 'packed_eligible': (8456, 3750)}\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 14, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "I am examining the data distribution to understand popularity, organic versus recommended tracks, dislikes, and eligible candidate counts per user.\n\nThe current negative sampling strategy is too easy for retrieval ranking. Uniform negatives from the full catalog mostly draw items far from the user's taste. Pair accuracy remains high, but NDCG@10 among eligible candidates suffers because those candidates are more similar and competitive.\n\nIn-batch negatives are other users' popular tracks. The square-root propensity correction downweights these items, so popular songs contribute less to the negative loss. This is counterproductive for discovery ranking because popular items still dominate retrieval.\n\nThe square-root correction is standard logQ unbiasing for sampled softmax. It downweights popular in-batch negatives to correct for sampling bias. For retrieval, however, stronger negative pressure on popular items is needed to counteract popularity bias.\n\nIndependent BCE does not force the positive to outrank negatives as strongly as sampled softmax or InfoNCE. The model also never trains on hard negatives that look like positives, since serving only ranks eligible candidates. Explicit dislikes are currently used only as user features, not as supervised negative labels.\n\nThirty-two negatives per user is too few for a thirty-thousand-item catalog. Mixed sampling could help, but CPU budget limits expansion.\n\nThe training objective predicts the next listen from history. Most next-listens are repeats or short-term continuations. The evaluation metric instead targets organic discovery of new songs the user will like within seven days. The default target weighting favors organic strong over discovery graded.\n\nThe investigation will focus on the training objective's negative sampling rather than architecture changes. The plan is to replace independent BCE with sampled softmax or InfoNCE, increase the negative count, and introduce popularity-sampled or mixed negatives. Hard negative mining is also under consideration.\n\nA concrete mixed negative strategy is taking shape: uniform easy negatives, popularity-sampled medium negatives, in-batch correlated negatives, and dynamically mined hard negatives. Explicit dislikes will be used as hard negatives.\n\nThe CPU budget is the main constraint. Training currently processes 8456 users with up to 128 targets each, a batch size of 64, 100 BPTT steps, and 32 negatives per user across one epoch. The loss microbatch is not the bottleneck. The real costs are GRU sequence encoding and CPU numpy rejection sampling loops.\n\nItem encoding and the user tower MLP are also CPU costs. Sampling more negatives is cheap if done efficiently with unique items. In-batch softmax with InfoNCE is a proven pattern from YouTube and Spotify, where all other positives in the batch serve as negatives alongside random draws. The current setup already uses eight in-batch and twenty-four uniform negatives under independent BCE.\n\nThe concrete plan is to replace independent BCE with sampled softmax or InfoNCE so the positive competes directly against the negatives. Popularity-sampled negatives will use a power of 0.75 to draw harder candidates. The total negative count should rise to sixty-four or one hundred twenty-eight mixed samples. Explicit dislikes will be added as hard negatives.\n\nActive dislikes will be weighted more heavily as negatives. The in-batch propensity correction will be removed or reduced so popular items serve as stronger negatives. Hard negative mining will select the hardest candidates from the sampled pool. Temperature-scaled sampled softmax is also being considered to sharpen the positive-negative contrast.\n\nA mixed negative strategy can drop the log-Q correction entirely and treat the loss as a ranking objective rather than an unbiased softmax approximation. The current `corrected_negative_loss` function actually computes standard BCE via softplus on logits, confirming that negatives are trained independently.\n\nHigh pair accuracy from easy negatives causes negative gradients to vanish. The current in-batch sampling draws only eight random unique targets, but a single block can contain up to six thousand next-items. Selecting the hardest in-batch items instead of random ones would provide stronger negative pressure.\n\nThe trainer already materializes thousands of in-batch positives, yet only eight unique in-batch negatives are drawn. Reusing those pre-encoded vectors for a larger negative pool is essentially free, because the candidate encoder collapses duplicates with `torch.unique` and reuses the same item embeddings.\n\nA full in-batch sampled softmax is feasible on CPU. A 6400-by-2000 matrix multiply is trivial, and the same item vectors can serve as negatives for every row. This is standard two-tower practice from YouTube and DSSM.\n\nIn-batch negatives risk being false negatives when similar-tasting users both play the same song, though known positives are already filtered per user. Pushing down popular items in in-batch softmax may actually help discovery by reducing popularity bias, even if it sometimes hurts rankings for genuinely good recommendations.\n\nData statistics on popularity distribution and organic discovery rates need review. Existing production validation notes should be checked. CPU training is estimated at ten to thirty minutes per epoch, so the full cycle of training, ranking, evaluation, and refitting must fit within the sixty-minute budget." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-6af6c5a6-8831-4489-bbf3-dd23538e4c12-16", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\ndata = Path('/task/data')\ncat = pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet')\nprint('catalog n', len(cat))\nprint(cat[['positive_listens','organic_positive_listens']].describe())\nprint('top10 share of positives', cat.positive_listens.head(10).sum()/cat.positive_listens.sum())\nprint('top100 share', cat.positive_listens.head(100).sum()/cat.positive_listens.sum())\nprint('top1000 share', cat.positive_listens.head(1000).sum()/cat.positive_listens.sum())\nprint('median/mean', cat.positive_listens.median(), cat.positive_listens.mean())\n\n# popularity power-law\np = cat.positive_listens.to_numpy(dtype=np.float64)\np = p / p.sum()\n# entropy\nent = -(p*np.log(p+1e-12)).sum()\nprint('popularity entropy', ent, 'uniform would be', np.log(len(p)))\n\n# eligible candidate counts\nfor name in ['validation_eligible_candidates.npz','test_eligible_candidates.npz']:\n z = np.load(data/name)\n packed = z['packed_eligible']\n n_items = len(z['item_ids'])\n counts = np.unpackbits(packed, axis=1, count=n_items, bitorder='little').sum(axis=1)\n print(name, 'users', len(z['uids']), 'eligible mean/min/max/median', counts.mean(), counts.min(), counts.max(), np.median(counts))\n\n# event stats\nlikes = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_likes.parquet')\nprint('train likes', len(likes), 'organic', (likes.is_organic==1).mean(), 'users', likes.uid.nunique())\ndislikes = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_dislikes.parquet')\nprint('train dislikes', len(dislikes), 'organic', (dislikes.is_organic==1).mean(), 'users', dislikes.uid.nunique())\nval_likes = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_likes.parquet')\nprint('val likes', len(val_likes), 'organic', (val_likes.is_organic==1).mean())\nval_listens = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','is_organic','played_ratio_pct','item_id'])\nprint('val listens', len(val_listens), 'organic', (val_listens.is_organic==1).mean(), 'ge80', ((val_listens.is_organic==1)&(val_listens.played_ratio_pct>=80)).mean())\n\n# ncpu\nimport os\nprint('cpu count', os.cpu_count())\nPY", "description": "Analyze popularity, eligibility, and event stats" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\ncatalog n 30000\n positive_listens organic_positive_listens\ncount 30000.000000 30000.000000\nmean 668.544300 313.926433\nstd 1053.389553 636.039902\nmin 163.000000 0.000000\n25% 228.000000 93.000000\n50% 354.000000 162.000000\n75% 669.250000 309.000000\nmax 26615.000000 20620.000000\ntop10 share of positives 0.011343252297067922\ntop100 share 0.059048592591395964\ntop1000 share 0.24406295887946394\nmedian/mean 354.0 668.5443\npopularity entropy 9.754842998715421 uniform would be 10.308952660644293\nvalidation_eligible_candidates.npz users 8456 eligible mean/min/max/median 29067.306291390727 24657 30000 29242.0\ntest_eligible_candidates.npz users 8456 eligible mean/min/max/median 29041.3178807947 24552 30000 29220.0\ntrain likes 814831 organic 0.5667911505576003 users 8144\ntrain dislikes 101075 organic 0.5172198862231017 users 5732\nval likes 37795 organic 0.6662521497552586\nval listens 1501697 organic 0.517072352145606 ge80 0.28377562184648436\ncpu count 8\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 15, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Almost all 30,000 catalog items are eligible for each user. The eligibility filter is effectively empty.\n\nRanking against 29,000 candidates is a hard retrieval problem. Popularity is not extremely skewed, so uniform and popularity sampling may differ little. The main training issues are easy uniform negatives, only eight in-batch negatives, and independent BCE loss saturating on easy negatives.\n\nThe current setup lacks temperature scaling and softmax competition. Training runs only one epoch with 128 recent targets. The next-item prediction loss is also skewed toward popular songs.\n\nEasy negatives let the model rank popular songs highly and dominate the top-10, hiding personalized discoveries. The fix is to sample negatives from other users' in-batch items so the model learns why one user liked a song versus another. Popularity-sampled negatives will reduce popularity bias, and explicit dislikes should serve as hard negatives.\n\nThe training pipeline should be copied and tested with a short diagnostic. The `discovery-graded` target weighting is more aligned with the evaluation objective than `organic-strong`, but the focus remains on negatives. The concrete plan is to replace BCE with sampled softmax (InfoNCE) using temperature scaling.\n\nA concrete negative sampling plan is taking shape: 64 uniform negatives plus 32 in-batch negatives, with the rest drawn from a popularity-weighted distribution using YouTube-style p^0.75. Hard negatives could also be mined from a larger candidate pool by keeping the top-K items ranked lowest by current scores. In-batch negatives alone may reach hundreds of thousands of unique items across a 64-user block.\n\nThe full in-batch block is the most efficient hard-negative source. A 64-user, 100-step block scores up to 6,400 targets against roughly 1,000–3,000 unique positives. This matches the standard batch softmax pattern used by DSSM and YouTube retrieval models. The implementation will use a single matrix multiplication across all queries and unique items.\n\nThe softmax loss will mask out the user's history items to avoid false negatives, then concatenate random negatives. In-batch frequency approximates item popularity, so logQ correction is likely unnecessary. L2 normalization or cosine similarity should replace the current raw dot product.\n\nThe raw dot-product retrieval will remain unchanged. Switching to cosine similarity would alter the core scoring architecture, and the task prioritizes negative sampling over scoring modifications.\n\nThe current model already uses mixed negative sampling, but with only eight in-batch negatives and a propensity correction that downweights popular items. This limits the hard-negative signal and may backfire by suppressing useful signals.\n\nYang et al. recommend sampled softmax for mixed negative sampling. The current setup uses 24 uniform negatives drawn from 30,000 items, so most are trivially easy. Independent BCE saturates on these easy negatives, leaving almost no learning signal for ranking among competitive items.\n\nThe concrete plan is to keep some easy uniform negatives alongside 32–64 in-batch negatives and a popularity-sampled tail. The downweighting of popular in-batch items should be reduced or removed entirely. Hard negative mining and explicit dislike negatives remain optional. On CPU, the extra cost is encoding at most 128 additional random items; using existing in-batch items is essentially free.\n\nA concrete config is taking shape: 32 uniform negatives, 32 in-batch negatives, and 32 popularity-sampled negatives, plus sampled softmax loss, temperature scaling, and explicit dislike negatives. Dynamic hard negatives would require an extra forward pass. The data protocol, model architecture, and serving path will remain unchanged.\n\nUnnormalized embeddings can produce logits in the hundreds, so temperature scaling is essential to prevent numerical instability and vanishing gradients. The exact logit scale from a production run is still unknown.\n\nThe current independent BCE loss is fundamentally different from the proposed softmax objective. It trains each negative to be below zero and each positive above zero, using absolute thresholds rather than relative margins. BPR pairwise ranking would instead enforce that every negative score stays below the positive score, creating a competitive margin. Softmax training would require the positive to outrank all negatives jointly in a shared partition function. These three formulations differ in their ranking semantics.\n\nBPR would already improve over the current independent BCE loss, but softmax is the stronger formulation. Weighted softmax remains compatible with target weights. The 128-target limit per user is a speed trade-off; adding more training data or epochs is not feasible under time constraints. A rough FLOP estimate for the GRU encoder is being computed to gauge training duration." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-8d0877c3-21a1-4b13-94b9-a7e64ca6da1e-17", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "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# listen file metadata\nfor name in ['train_listens.parquet','val_listens.parquet']:\n pf = pq.ParquetFile(data/name)\n print(name, 'rows', pf.metadata.num_rows, 'row_groups', pf.num_row_groups)\n # unique users via first column stats? let's sample\n cols = pf.schema_arrow.names\n print(' cols', cols)\n\n# quick unique uid count from likes/listens using row groups\nimport numpy as np\n# stream unique uids from train listens\npf = pq.ParquetFile(data/'train_listens.parquet')\nuids = set()\nn = 0\norganic = 0\nstrong = 0\npos50 = 0\nfor i, batch in enumerate(pf.iter_batches(batch_size=1_000_000, columns=['uid','is_organic','played_ratio_pct'])):\n df = batch.to_pandas()\n uids.update(df.uid.unique().tolist())\n n += len(df)\n organic += int((df.is_organic==1).sum())\n pos50 += int((df.played_ratio_pct>=50).sum())\n strong += int(((df.is_organic==1)&(df.played_ratio_pct>=80)).sum())\n if i % 10 == 0:\n print(' batch', i, 'rows', n)\nprint('train listens rows', n, 'users', len(uids), 'organic_frac', organic/n, 'pos50', pos50, 'organic80', strong)\n\n# val organic likes among target users\ntargets = set(pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet').uid.astype(int))\nval_likes = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_likes.parquet')\nval_listens = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','item_id','is_organic','played_ratio_pct'])\nol = val_likes[(val_likes.uid.isin(targets))&(val_likes.is_organic==1)]\nsl = val_listens[(val_listens.uid.isin(targets))&(val_listens.is_organic==1)&(val_listens.played_ratio_pct>=80)]\nprint('target val organic likes', len(ol), 'users', ol.uid.nunique(), 'items', ol.item_id.nunique())\nprint('target val organic80', len(sl), 'users', sl.uid.nunique(), 'items', sl.item_id.nunique())\nprint('likes per user', ol.groupby('uid').size().describe())\nprint('strong listens per user', sl.groupby('uid').size().describe())\nPY", "description": "Count train users and validation relevance volume" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\ntrain_listens.parquet rows 43484159 row_groups 42\n cols ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic', 'played_ratio_pct', 'track_length_seconds']\nval_listens.parquet rows 1501697 row_groups 2\n cols ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic', 'played_ratio_pct', 'track_length_seconds']\n batch 0 rows 1000000\n batch 10 rows 11000000\n batch 20 rows 21000000\n batch 30 rows 31000000\n batch 40 rows 41000000\ntrain listens rows 43484159 users 9238 organic_frac 0.5169151828370419 pos50 27500755 organic80 12177583\ntarget val organic likes 20702 users 2714 items 13921\ntarget val organic80 421615 users 6325 items 86668\nlikes per user count 2714.000000\nmean 7.627856\nstd 145.809827\nmin 1.000000\n25% 1.000000\n50% 2.000000\n75% 4.000000\nmax 7088.000000\ndtype: float64\nstrong listens per user count 6325.000000\nmean 66.658498\nstd 92.394135\nmin 1.000000\n25% 12.000000\n50% 36.000000\n75% 84.000000\nmax 1443.000000\ndtype: float64\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 16, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The training data contains roughly 9,238 sequence users and 8,456 target users.\n\nTraining yields about one million examples per epoch. Validation tracks organic 80% listens and likes from the validation window, excluding all training encounters. The task is discovery: recommend unseen tracks.\n\nMany strong listens may be ineligible if they repeat known tracks. I will check the true number of eligible relevant items and whether popular tracks dominate labels. Preparing data streams for 43 million listens could take a few minutes, so I will copy the code to /app/solution and start caching while implementing improvements.\n\nThe diagnosis centers on the training objective's use of negative examples. Uniform negatives are too easy: with thirty thousand items, random negatives are almost always irrelevant, so BCE gradients vanish. In-batch sampling also wastes natural hard negatives by limiting each batch to only eight unique items.\n\nIndependent BCE does not create competition between negatives. The full-history false-negative filter is correct for discovery and should be kept. The current in-batch propensity correction clips weights to [0.25, 4], which downweights popular items. For tail discovery, popular tracks should instead be harder negatives. There is no popularity-aware negative sampling.\n\nDislikes are rare but high-quality signals that currently receive no negative supervision. The 32-item sample size is too small for a thirty-thousand-item catalog; larger samples would improve sampled softmax. The planned fix mixes uniform negatives with frequency-weighted negatives at p^0.75, following YouTube's approach to focus learning on popular items.\n\nThe plan now includes active dislikes as true hard negatives and a log-Q correction on negative logits to upweight rare items in the softmax. Hard-negative mining will sample four times the batch size and keep only the hardest negatives.\n\nThe log-Q correction for sampled softmax is being reconsidered. The standard correction would actually reduce the contribution of popular items as competitors, which may not improve retrieval quality. Empirical evidence suggests that skipping this correction or mixing uniform negatives often works better for ranking metrics. The approach is shifting away from the log-Q adjustment.\n\nUsing all thirty thousand catalog items as negatives was considered, but the full matrix multiplication would cost roughly 377 billion FLOPs per microbatch. That is too expensive for CPU training, so sampling remains necessary.\n\nFull softmax over all thirty thousand items would cost roughly ten trillion FLOPs per epoch, so sampling is mandatory. A block of six thousand queries with two hundred fifty-six negatives consumes only three hundred fourteen million FLOPs, which is trivial on CPU. The real bottleneck is the GRU and user tower, not negative sampling. This means the negative budget can be increased substantially without hurting training speed.\n\nA full cache of all thirty thousand item embeddings would be too expensive without FAISS, so that approach is abandoned. Periodic hard mining across the entire catalog is also too complex. The chosen compromise is to sample five hundred twelve popularity-mixed negatives per target and keep only the sixty-four hardest by current logits. This adds roughly six hundred twenty-nine million FLOPs per block, which is trivial on CPU.\n\nThe hard-negative mining strategy is being simplified. Rather than sampling five hundred twelve candidates and keeping only the hardest sixty-four, the plan now samples three hundred twenty negatives per target—uniform, popularity-weighted, and in-batch—and feeds the entire set directly into sampled softmax. Dislike items will be added as guaranteed hard negatives. A frequency distribution over all thirty thousand items is required for the popularity-weighted sampling.\n\nThe popularity distribution will reuse the same counts as `build_item_correction`. Sampling thirty thousand items with `torch.multinomial` is feasible on CPU for the batch size. Invalid negatives—known positives, likes, the target track itself, and duplicates—will be filtered out.\n\nThe existing resampling loop can still handle the larger negative budget. In-batch sampling will be expanded to draw up to sixty-four unique items from each user's history, rather than the current uniform random selection. The loss function is being rewritten from independent BCE into a single sampled softmax objective.\n\nThe sampled softmax loss will concatenate positive and negative logits, apply a temperature scaling, and use log-softmax over the combined vector. The positive loss is taken from index zero. A clamped temperature around 0.05–0.2 is being considered to keep logits in a stable range.\n\nPairwise BPR was considered as a simpler alternative, but sampled softmax is preferred for NDCG@10. Discovery-graded target weighting will be combined with the improved negative sampling to align training objectives with the evaluation metric.\n\nThe last-100 history filter may be the real problem. It risks using old positives as negatives, which would corrupt the negative pool. Full-history filtering is more correct for discovery. Target weighting will stay minimal since the task focuses on negatives.\n\nA shared softmax across the entire microbatch is being considered. With six thousand queries, each example would have roughly six thousand in-batch negatives from one matrix multiplication. This would naturally replace the current uniform and popularity sampling with a much richer negative pool.\n\nShared items in the catalog create a false-negative risk in shared softmax. If two users both played item X, user A's query matching item X is correct, but the off-diagonal copy of X would be wrongly penalized as a negative. The fix masks logits where item_j equals the positive for row i, except the diagonal, and also masks any item already in that user's history.\n\nThe implementation will encode only unique positive items per microbatch, then compute logits with a [B, U] matrix multiplication where U is roughly 1500–4000. The loss targets are mapped back to the original batch indices via inverse. Random and popularity negatives are encoded separately and concatenated to this in-batch pool. This hybrid approach is standard and efficient.\n\nThe logits matrix will consume only about one hundred two megabytes, so memory is not a concern. The final negative pool will be built by mixing in-batch items, sixty-four popularity-sampled negatives, thirty-two uniform negatives, and up to eight active dislikes. This guarantees the model learns to rank tail and random items alongside popular ones.\n\nThe in-batch negative pool is being capped at forty-eight unique items per target. This avoids variable batch sizes and complex masking when the number of unique positives is small. The final negative budget is now fixed at one hundred forty-four: forty-eight uniform, forty-eight in-batch, and forty-eight popularity-sampled negatives.\n\nThe popularity distribution will use a power of 0.75 on training target counts. The log-Q correction for sampled negatives will be optional and default to off, since uniform negatives have no known sampling probability.\n\nThe mixed negative sampling strategy is being validated against prior research. In-batch negatives alone suppress popular items too aggressively, which explains why the current model’s eight in-batch negatives are insufficient. The temperature will be exposed as a tunable hyperparameter around 0.5, and raw dot products will be used instead of cosine similarity to avoid altering the serving path.\n\nTraining will run for two epochs with early stopping at one. The learning rate stays at 1e-3. Easy negatives may inflate pair accuracy, so a diagnostic check is deferred until full data preparation finishes. Data preparation will begin in the background while implementation proceeds. Files are being copied to /app/solution first.\n\nValidation BCE will be replaced by the new sampled softmax loss for early stopping. With only one training epoch, early stopping cannot trigger, so two epochs with patience one are required instead. Data preparation is estimated at two to five minutes for forty-three million rows. The GRU training time is being estimated for eight CPUs.\n\nThe training window is only 128 recent targets plus 16 validation items, not the full sequence. The GRU processes this truncated window during training, while inference runs the complete history. This means roughly 1.2 million GRU steps are required per epoch with batch size 64.\n\nThe GRU forward pass is negligible, requiring only about 288 batched sequences per epoch. The real bottleneck is the loss computation: roughly 1.17 million targets, each with user tower and item encoding and thirty-two negatives, totaling approximately 550 billion FLOPs. On an eight-core CPU this could take ten to thirty seconds, though PyTorch CPU overhead may extend that.\n\nThe full block of roughly six thousand targets fits into a single microbatch of sixty-five thousand, so the optimizer will take about two hundred eighty-eight steps per epoch. Item encoding covers only about two thousand unique items per block. One training run is estimated at five to fifteen minutes, and two full validations would total twenty to forty minutes, leaving room for one validation experiment within the sixty-minute window. The plan is to implement the approach correctly and run the full validation rather than using a smaller subset.\n\nDiscovery-graded target weighting is being considered. It assigns higher gain to organic likes received within seven days of the listen, which better matches the NDCG objective than the current organic-strong scheme. The default organic-strong weighting will be kept unless discovery-graded proves superior.\n\nDiscovery-graded target weighting was rejected to keep the experiment clean. Non-completed listens were considered as weak negatives but dismissed as too noisy. The implementation is beginning.\n\nHard-k selection from an oversampled pool was considered but rejected. In-batch softmax already draws more negatives than the current model, so oversampling would not improve the expected hardest negative.\n\nThe final negative budget is fixed at 192: 64 uniform, 64 in-batch, 64 popularity-sampled negatives with a power of 0.75, and 8 active dislikes. The softmax temperature will be exposed as a tunable hyperparameter. Implementation requires updating the Config schema, the negative sampling logic, and the loss function to support this mixed pool.\n\nDislike negatives will be packed with padding_item = n_items and padded to eight per user with uniform items. They will not receive extra softmax weight. Validation BCE will be renamed to validation_loss to match the new loss. CLI flags for the new hyperparameters will be added. The data cache is unaffected by negative sampling changes. InfoNCE with cosine similarity was considered but rejected.\n\nThe current in-batch negatives are sampled uniformly from unique targets rather than the hardest. Computing logits for all unique in-batch items and selecting the top-k hardest would be more effective, though it requires encoding those items first.\n\nThe cleanest implementation is to encode the unique positives once and score them with in-batch softmax, then append the mixed extra negatives as additional columns. This avoids encoding the same items multiple times.\n\nThe implementation will encode unique in-batch positives once and score them against queries. Extra negatives are encoded separately and appended as additional columns. The true target class is the index of the positive within the unique set, with known false-negatives masked to negative infinity.\n\nThe current `score_target_microbatches` encodes positives and negatives independently per microbatch, so the loss computation must be restructured to share unique positive encodings across the batch. Known positives in history will be masked to negative infinity. Variable unique-positive counts across microbatches are acceptable, and training and validation will use the same path.\n\nThe in-batch softmax logic is confirmed correct: shared positive items across users remain as the true target class, while other users' next items are treated as negatives unless they appear in that user's history. The unique-positive count U is expected to be modest, around five hundred to two thousand, because many targets repeat within a batch.\n\nThe in-batch softmax risk of being too hard or popularity-biased is mitigated by mixing uniform, popularity-sampled, and dislike negatives. Extra columns are never the target class, so labels remain valid at index inv. The sampler already masks any extra negatives that are known positives. The core change is to draw these mixed negatives first, then encode shared in-batch positives once and score them against queries, appending the mixed negatives as additional columns. This restructures `score_target_microbatches` to avoid redundant encodings while preserving backward gradients through sequence vectors.\n\nPopularity sampling will use item target counts raised to the power of 0.75, normalized to probabilities. The sampler draws these items via `torch.multinomial` with replacement.\n\nThe 8 in-batch negatives are dropped entirely. Every unique positive in the batch becomes a softmax class, so only uniform and popularity-sampled negatives remain. The old sampling code path is preserved for structure while the loss function is rewritten. A fixed softmax temperature of 1.0 is chosen over a learnable parameter.\n\nEmbedding growth could make the softmax peaky, but existing dropout and weight decay should mitigate this. Label smoothing is skipped. The implementation will copy the current model into /app/solution and modify train_current_model.py to apply the new negative sampling and loss. Invalid logits will be masked to -1e9 while preserving the true positive.\n\nThe implementation will keep two_tower_model.py mostly unchanged and copy it into the solution directory so the training script can import it. The loss function will be renamed from `corrected_negative_loss` to `sampled_softmax_loss`. Dislike negatives will be drawn from `disliked_states`.\n\nDislike negatives will be drawn from `disliked_states` and padded with uniform samples to fill the eight-item slot, since padding uses the item index `n_items`. All extra negatives will be pooled into the softmax. Default configuration values are being finalized.\n\nThe final configuration uses 48 uniform negatives, 48 popularity-sampled negatives, and 8 dislike negatives. In-batch negatives are removed entirely; all unique positives in the batch serve as softmax classes. The softmax temperature is fixed at 0.75. Even with a large block size, the maximum number of unique positives remains bounded by the batch dimension.\n\nThe microbatch size will remain high so the entire block fits in a single microbatch, ensuring every unique positive is included in the softmax. A simpler alternative is also being considered: keep per-row sampled negatives, increase their counts, add popularity sampling, and switch from BCE to sampled softmax. This approach is less invasive and carries less risk of bugs while still addressing the core retrieval issue.\n\nThe simpler, less invasive approach is selected. The existing negative sampler will be extended to draw uniform, popularity-weighted, and dislike negatives, while the loss switches to sampled softmax with temperature. Correction weights may be applied as logit offsets. The existing invalid filter remains unchanged.\n\nHard-negative mining will be added by oversampling the negative pool and keeping the hardest items plus remaining random samples. The total extra negatives are small enough to include all in the softmax. The conversion from multiplicative BCE correction weights into logit offsets for the sampled softmax is being verified.\n\nThe multiplicative correction from BCE is dropped entirely. Sampling probabilities differ across mixed negative sources, so the implementation will skip importance-sampling corrections for simplicity. A margin on the softmax is also rejected. The next code changes are adding new configuration fields and a `build_item_sampling_probs()` helper.\n\nThe concrete implementation plan is now set. The negative sampler will be rewritten for mixed sources, the loss function renamed to `sampled_softmax_loss`, and `score_target_microbatches` updated to concatenate positive logits with negatives and apply the softmax temperature. Item probabilities and disliked items will be passed through the scoring path. The remaining work covers CLI integration and a JSON architecture description.\n\nThe sampled softmax will use a logit bias derived from correction weights, subtracted from the concatenated logits before cross-entropy. Pair accuracy will remain unchanged. A hybrid BCE-plus-softmax loss was considered but rejected as overkill; the implementation will use pure sampled softmax.\n\nInitial dot products between 192-dimensional embeddings are tiny, so temperature 1.0 is safe. If embedding norms grow during training, the softmax could become one-hot and gradients would vanish. To prevent this, logits will be normalized by the square root of the embedding dimension, following a scaled-dot-product style.\n\nA learnable temperature parameter was considered but rejected to avoid altering the serving path. The final formula scales raw dot products by `1/sqrt(dim)` and divides by a fixed softmax temperature of 1.0.\n\nThe `1/sqrt(dim)` logit scaling was abandoned because it would flatten the initial softmax too much. A pairwise softplus loss was considered but rejected. The final choice is sampled softmax with temperature 2.0 to prevent peakiness, paired with many mixed negatives.\n\nFocal loss on negatives was considered but rejected as unnecessary complexity. The implementation will proceed with sampled softmax, which typically outperforms BPR for top-k retrieval. Invalid items drawn from popularity sampling will be resampled uniformly. The CPU generator is well-suited for multinomial draws. Popularity probabilities can be built directly from the existing count estimation without constructing a separate correction tensor.\n\nHard negative mining was considered but deferred. The immediate priority is the full in-batch unique softmax combined with a larger pool of mixed negatives, which is the most impactful structural change.\n\nThe loss function is being refactored into a single `retrieval_loss` signature. It will accept query vectors, positive vectors, negative vectors, and an optional in-batch pool of unique positives with their labels and invalid-item masks. This replaces the previous separate logits-and-loss pattern.\n\nThe `retrieval_loss` implementation computes positive logits with a broadcast sum and negative logits via einsum. In-batch unique positives are scored against queries, then masked to negative infinity for invalid items and the true positive label.\n\nThe in-batch unique positives are appended to the logits and masked to negative infinity for invalid items and the true positive label, which is placed in column zero to avoid double-counting. The `inbatch_invalid` mask is built by checking packed known histories against the unique item pool.\n\nThe liked-items invalid mask is being vectorized to avoid loops. A full broadcast comparison across batch, liked items, and unique items would require roughly 614 million comparisons, which is acceptable. The packed-history byte and bit columns are also being prepared for the invalid-item filter.\n\nThe packed-history invalid mask is now implemented with a bitwise lookup. The true positive target will be masked only in the in-batch section, not in column zero, to avoid double-counting. The existing known-positive filter includes sequence items from offset through offset+target_count+1.\n\nThe known-positive filter covers the entire training window, including future items, not just causal history. This means the current target is already in the known-positive set, so the true positive must be masked only in the in-batch section and left untouched in column zero.\n\nThe full-window invalid mask correctly prevents future training items from being treated as negatives without leaking labels into features. Inference will remain unchanged. Training target frequencies are preferred over catalog popularity for the popularity-weighted negative sampler because they align more closely with the retrieval loss.\n\nPopularity probabilities will use a 0.9/0.1 epsilon mix of item counts raised to the 0.75 power and uniform distribution to cover tail items. The author is starting to write code and prepare caches. They are weighing whether to run the full production baseline first, since that would consume too much time for both baseline and final submission.\n\nThe author decided to skip a full baseline re-run. Running both models would require three trainings, which is too slow. Instead, they will validate the improved model and submit it directly. The README will describe the production configuration as the baseline and report the measured improvement. If time allows, they may attempt a short baseline run.\n\nA strict timeline is now set: copy the code, prepare caches, validate the improved model, evaluate, and submit. A full baseline run is impossible because the deadline is too tight; the production model will serve as the reference instead.\n\nA single training epoch on the improved model may suffice for validation, since it overfits less than the full run. The submission stage will use train-plus-validation data with the same token budget and 128 targets per sequence.\n\nFull-sequence inference is feasible despite longer histories, requiring roughly four thousand GRU chunks. The default target weighting of organic-strong is acceptable. A remaining sampling issue is that uniform negatives from the 30k catalog still include seen items and rare popular ones.\n\nPopularity sampling fixes the tail coverage problem. The author realized that including all unique in-batch items would dominate the negative pool, making the loss almost pure in-batch softmax and over-suppressing popular items per the MNS paper. The plan is to limit the in-batch pool to roughly 64–128 items.\n\nThe author settled on a fixed 192-item negative pool: 64 uniform, 64 popularity-weighted, and 64 in-batch unique items. This replaces the previous all-in-batch approach and prevents the loss from becoming nearly pure in-batch softmax.\n\nThe in-batch negatives will be the hardest 64 items from the unique positive pool. After scoring queries against encoded unique positives, the true positive and false-negative masks are applied, and the top-k indices are gathered to form the hard negative vectors.\n\nHard in-batch mining must be deferred until after query vectors are computed, since it requires current model scores. The existing code draws negatives before scoring, so the hard negative selection will be inserted inside the loss function.\n\nThe `score_target_microbatches` function will be restructured to compute queries, encode unique positives, sample extra negatives, mine hard in-batch items, and then compute the loss. Hard selection via top-k indices is discrete, so gradients will flow through the selected negative scores rather than through the selection itself. The author is now ready to write the code using the virtual environment Python and the default eight CPU threads.\n\nDislikes from user state will be added as true negatives inside the loss. The serving contract and chronological data protocol remain unchanged. The author will set CPU thread limits to eight and begin copying files and writing focused changes.\n\nThe log-Q correction for popularity-sampled items is deferred to a later version. The final configuration sets 64 uniform negatives, 64 hardest in-batch negatives, 64 popularity negatives, and 8 dislike negatives. Popularity sampling will use a power of 0.75, and the softmax temperature will remain at 1.0.\n\nThe author added `loss_type` and `inbatch_selection` configuration flags, keeping BCE as a fallback for debugging. Pair accuracy will be monitored as the mean of positive-versus-negative comparisons. Item-to-probability lookup for popularity sampling will run on CPU. The resampling loop with 136 columns and 32 retries is expected to remain efficient. Duplicate checks across the expanded negative pool are being verified.\n\nThe duplicate check across 136 negative columns is O(K²) but remains efficient at batch size 6400. Unit tests are skipped to save time. The author is now starting implementation and cache preparation.\n\nMore negatives per step should improve signal in a single epoch. The learning rate will stay at 1e-3 for now, but the gradient clip may rise to 5.0 or the loss scaled by log(1+K) to handle the larger sampled-softmax gradients.\n\nThe gradient clip will stay at 2.0 for now. The author is writing the code and fixing `candidate_vectors` to reuse encoded unique positives for hard in-batch mining, then encoding all negatives into a single batch.\n\nThe author realized that hard in-batch negatives can reuse the same query-positive dot products already computed for the loss, avoiding redundant encoding. Invalid items will be masked to negative infinity before the top-k selection.\n\nInvalid items will be masked to negative infinity before the top-k selection so they are excluded from the softmax. The author also needs to pass disliked items into the negative sampler, since currently only liked items are used for filtering.\n\nDislikes sampled as uniform negatives are valid true negatives, so they do not need to be filtered out. The author is drafting a `take_dislike_negatives` helper that draws random indices and backfills them with actual disliked items where available, skipping padding tokens.\n\nDislike negatives will be drawn by taking the first available slots from each user's disliked list and replacing any padding with uniform random indices. Items that equal the target will be filtered out of the negative pool. The author is now beginning implementation and will also return item sampling probabilities from the correction builder.\n\nPopularity sampling will use `(counts + 1)^0.75` probabilities normalized to sum to one for `torch.multinomial`. The author decided against log-uniform or rank-based alternatives. Only the trainer code will be modified; the core two-tower model will remain unchanged." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "The production setup uses easy uniform negatives and independent BCE, so I’ll copy the trainer, add mixed/harder negatives with a competitive sampled-softmax loss, and start the validation cache while that lands." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-2d1bf700-659a-4b0d-9c0c-8c25208ab089-18", "name": "todo_write", "input": { "todos": [ { "id": "1", "content": "Explore current model, data protocol, and evaluation", "status": "completed" }, { "id": "2", "content": "Diagnose negative-sampling limitations", "status": "completed" }, { "id": "3", "content": "Implement improved training objective", "status": "in_progress" } ], "merge": true }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "- [completed] 1: Explore current model, data protocol, and evaluation\n- [completed] 2: Diagnose negative-sampling limitations\n- [in_progress] 3: Implement improved training objective\n- [pending] 4: Validate on public backtest\n- [pending] 5: Refit on train+val and produce submission\n", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-2d1bf700-659a-4b0d-9c0c-8c25208ab089-19", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cp /task/current_model/train_current_model.py /app/solution/train_current_model.py && cp /task/current_model/two_tower_model.py /app/solution/two_tower_model.py && ls -la /app/solution/", "description": "Copy production model files into solution" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\ntotal 108\ndrwxr-xr-x 1 agent agent 4096 Sep 29 23:35 .\ndrwxr-xr-x 1 agent agent 4096 Sep 29 23:26 ..\n-r--r--r-- 1 agent agent 80058 Sep 29 23:35 train_current_model.py\n-r--r--r-- 1 agent agent 15985 Sep 29 23:35 two_tower_model.py\n", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-2d1bf700-659a-4b0d-9c0c-8c25208ab089-20", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "mkdir -p /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python /task/current_model/train_current_model.py --stage validation --prepare-only --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_validation.npz --public-dir /task --output /app/solution/_prepare_dummy.parquet --threads 8", "description": "Build validation sequence cache in background", "block_until_ms": 0 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "01a0ef86-0356-7cc2-8a56-0025f66f89d3\nbash\n/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-2d1bf700-659a-4b0d-9c0c-8c25208ab089-20.log\nrunning\nBackground task 01a0ef86-0356-7cc2-8a56-0025f66f89d3 started\nUse get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=[\"01a0ef86-0356-7cc2-8a56-0025f66f89d3\"] when you need the output.\n\n\nNote: 1 other background task is still running:\n- \"01a0ef86-034d-73b2-b9e9-ae08a6ef0b30\" (running for 0s): Copy production model files into solution\nConsider killing duplicate tasks with kill_command_or_subagent before launching new ones.\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 17, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-9f492341-6e3d-4509-b88d-57772d7ab7fe-21", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "chmod u+w /app/solution/train_current_model.py /app/solution/two_tower_model.py && ls -la /app/solution/", "description": "Make copied solution files writable" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\ntotal 108\ndrwxr-xr-x 1 agent agent 4096 Sep 29 23:35 .\ndrwxr-xr-x 1 agent agent 4096 Sep 29 23:26 ..\n-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 80058 Sep 29 23:35 train_current_model.py\n-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 15985 Sep 29 23:35 two_tower_model.py\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 18, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Proceeding to implement changes in train_current_model.py.\n\nPlanning surgical edits to train_current_model.py. Will update the docstring and Config, add popularity_negatives fields, adjust model_config mappings, and modify build_item_correction to compute sampling probabilities.\n\nExpanding the implementation plan to cover the remaining components. Will rewrite the negative sampling function, switch the loss to sampled softmax, and update scoring for hard in-batch negatives with softmax. Also need to thread popularity probabilities and disliked items through training, plus add CLI arguments and update the architecture JSON.\n\nRefining the scoring function signature to accept user_rows and known_positive_packed for hard in-batch mining. Disliked items will be drawn inside draw_training_negatives, and item_sampling_probs will be threaded through the pipeline. The negative sampling function is being renamed to draw_mixed_filtered_negatives.\n\nThe negative sampling function will return three tensors: negatives, correction weights, and source flags. The negative pool is structured as uniform, popularity, and dislike items concatenated together. Hard in-batch logits will be merged into the loss computation.\n\nSkipping logit correction for simplicity. The sampled softmax loss will concatenate positive and negative logits, apply temperature scaling, and compute cross-entropy against a zero target.\n\nHard in-batch negatives will be masked with -1e9 logits so they contribute almost nothing after softmax. A numerical cap will prevent infinite logits from bugs. Inside score_target_microbatches, unique positive items are encoded once and mapped back to their original positions before scoring.\n\nThe scoring function will encode unique negative items once and map them back to the original batch layout. Positive logits are computed by dot product, while sampled negative logits use einsum. Hard in-batch negatives are scored via a query-item matrix multiplication, with positive items masked to negative infinity.\n\nHard in-batch negatives are filtered against known positives using a packed bitset lookup. The query-item matrix is masked to negative infinity for items the user has already interacted with. The final hard negative count is capped at one less than the unique positive count.\n\nHard in-batch negatives are extracted via top-k on the query-item similarity matrix. These logits are concatenated with sampled negative logits. The liked-items mask is built by comparing unique items against the microbatch's liked states and filling those positions with negative infinity.\n\nGradients flow through the top-k selection of hard in-batch negatives. Negative infinity logits are safe for softmax and cross-entropy.\n\nDrafting the `draw_mixed_filtered_negatives` implementation. It will draw uniform negatives with `randint`, then begin handling popularity negatives.\n\nPopularity negatives are drawn via multinomial sampling from the item sampling probabilities. Dislike negatives are padded with uniform random items when a user has fewer disliked items than requested.\n\nThe dislike negative tensor is padded with uniform random items wherever entries are invalid. All negative parts are concatenated into a single numpy array, and correction weights are initialized to ones. The item sampling probabilities must remain on CPU for multinomial sampling.\n\nThe default loss will switch to sampled-softmax. Pair accuracy and statistics will be updated for the new loss format, with negative counts computed dynamically from the combined sampled and hard in-batch pools.\n\nThe old random in-batch sampling will be removed entirely. Hard in-batch negatives will be computed only inside the loss function, so the negative sampler must no longer include them. New CLI arguments for popularity negatives, dislike negatives, softmax temperature, and popularity sample power are being added. The training epoch runner, validation evaluator, and model builder all need updates to pass the new parameters and build item sampling probabilities.\n\nThe sampled-softmax loss will treat all negative columns equally, so the old tensor-splitting logic in `corrected_negative_loss` is no longer needed. The `uniform_negatives` and `inbatch_negatives` fields in `model_config` are unused by the training module and can remain. A `loss_name` field will be added to the config, and the module docstring will be updated to describe the new negative sampling behavior.\n\nThe softmax temperature will default to 1.0. The combined negative pool contains 200 items, yielding a random baseline loss near 5.3. Item vectors for hard in-batch negatives will remain trainable rather than detached. Proceeding to apply the planned edits via search_replace operations.\n\nUsing `torch.nn.functional.cross_entropy` for numerical stability. Extra negatives that collide with hard in-batch items do not need masking. The packed bitset lookup is fast enough at 6400 by 2000. A `packed_item_mask` helper will handle the last-100 mode by falling back to known_history when the packed bitset is absent.\n\nThe packed bitset helper converts GPU item IDs to numpy for byte-level lookup. Margin and focal weighting on hard negatives were considered and skipped. The 64/64/64/8 negative pool may be slower due to extra unique items encoded in the item tower.\n\nThe negative pool is being set to 48 uniform, 48 popularity, 48 hard in-batch, and 8 dislike negatives for a total of 152. The item tower will encode roughly 15,000 unique items per block, costing about 3 billion FLOPs. A smaller 32/32/32/8 configuration is kept as a fallback if training becomes too slow.\n\nThe hardest in-batch negatives risk being too difficult. They may be items the user would actually like, creating false negatives that hurt retrieval quality. Mixing random in-batch samples will help prevent this.\n\nThe false negative problem of hard negative mining is being mitigated by sampling from a top-M pool with softmax rather than using the absolute hardest negatives. The plan also includes mixing easy, medium, and hard negatives and relying on popularity-sampled moderately hard items instead of the most difficult ones.\n\nThe hardest in-batch negatives are the most similar users' items. For a discovery model, these are the worst false negatives because they are exactly the things we want to recommend. The plan is shifting away from hardest in-batch sampling entirely. Instead, random in-batch samples will be used as a statistical sample of the item distribution, combined with popularity-sampled and uniform negatives.\n\nThe key realization is that batch softmax naturally focuses on hard negatives through the exponential term, so random in-batch sampling is sufficient. Explicit dislike items will serve as true hard negatives.\n\nThe softmax will be computed over the full pool of positives, random uniform negatives, popularity-sampled negatives, random in-batch negatives, and explicit dislike items. This avoids the top-k hard selection and its false-negative risk.\n\nThe random in-batch pool is being expanded from 8 to 64 items. A full-softmax over all unique in-batch negatives risks popularity bias because popular items appear across many batches and dominate the partition function. To prevent this, the in-batch count will be capped at 64 random unique items, or temperature and correction weights will be applied.\n\nThe final negative pool will be a balanced mix of 48 to 64 items drawn from each sampling source. Explicit dislike items will serve as true hard negatives, while low-completion organic recommendations were rejected as too noisy. The implementation will proceed with this conservative mixed sampling and sampled softmax.\n\nThe negative pool is now fixed at 200 items: 64 uniform, 64 popularity-sampled, 64 random in-batch, and 8 explicit dislike negatives. This addresses easy-negative saturation, sparse in-batch coverage, missing popularity-aware sampling, and unused dislike supervision. The implementation will extend the existing negative sampler with popularity and dislike branches while switching the loss to sampled softmax.\n\nThe negative sampler will accept disliked items and item sampling probabilities. In-batch correction will be skipped for the sampled softmax path. The loss function will be consolidated into a single place that computes the full loss directly.\n\nThe loss function is being consolidated into a single `target_retrieval_loss` that branches on `config.loss_type`. For sampled-softmax, it concatenates positive logits with negative logits, scales by temperature, and computes cross-entropy against a zero target. The original BCE path remains for backward compatibility.\n\nThe BCE loss path is being dropped entirely. Only sampled softmax will be used for training, which removes the need to maintain the old uniform-versus-in-batch split logic. The softmax temperature will default to 1.0.\n\nLabel smoothing and sqrt(dim) scaling were considered and skipped. The training epoch runner will extract disliked items from the prepared batch and pass them into the negative sampler. The last-100 fallback path currently uses `draw_filtered_mixed_negatives`, which does not yet support popularity or dislike sampling, so that helper also needs updating.\n\nThe last-100 fallback will keep its old behavior rather than adopting the new drawer. The full-history path is the default. `item_sampling_probs` must thread through `train_model`, `run_training_epoch`, `evaluate_validation_bce`, and `draw_training_negatives`. The helper will return both `item_correction` and `item_sampling_probs`.\n\n`build_item_correction` will return both correction weights and sampling probabilities. Popularity concentration will be logged. New CLI arguments for the sampling configuration will be wired into Config, and the architecture JSON will be updated. Short factual comments will be added to explain the rationale. Target weighting will remain organic-strong by default; discovery-graded was considered but rejected because it would use future outcome information.\n\nThe module docstring will be updated. `TowerConfig` in the model file does not need changes because the trainer Config is separate. The next step is to write the file edits and consider whether more epochs are needed." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "I’ll keep the serving path and change the objective: mixed uniform, popularity, in-batch, and dislike negatives under sampled softmax." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-6c082095-d88c-4fd1-a6d2-1e379bf221e4-22", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": "The 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.", "new_string": "The model is a pure two-tower retriever: no user-ID embedding, no output\nnormalization, raw dot-product retrieval, sample-weighted sampled softmax, and a\nmixed negative pool of uniform, popularity-weighted, unique in-batch, and\nexplicit-dislike items. Every selected adjacent target retains a nonzero weight.\nOnly files under the supplied public directory are read." }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-6c082095-d88c-4fd1-a6d2-1e379bf221e4-23", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " 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\n inbatch_correction_max: float = 4.0\n negative_filter_scope: str = \"full-training-history\"", "new_string": " loss_microbatch_size: int = 65_536\n uniform_negatives: int = 48\n inbatch_negatives: int = 48\n popularity_negatives: int = 48\n dislike_negatives: int = 8\n popularity_sample_power: float = 0.75\n softmax_temperature: float = 1.0\n loss_type: str = \"sampled-softmax\"\n inbatch_correction_power: float = 0.5\n inbatch_correction_min: float = 0.25\n inbatch_correction_max: float = 4.0\n negative_filter_scope: str = \"full-training-history\"" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 19, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The TowerConfig class needs new fields added to model_config." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-d2a967bb-30f6-4def-8e3d-c7c4b7a4dd7a-24", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": "def build_item_correction(\n prepared: SequenceData,\n config: Config,\n target_starts: np.ndarray,\n target_counts: np.ndarray,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n \"\"\"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\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 total = float(counts.sum())\n probabilities = (counts + 1.0) / (total + len(counts))\n 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)\n 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": "def build_item_sampling(\n prepared: SequenceData,\n config: Config,\n target_starts: np.ndarray,\n target_counts: np.ndarray,\n) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:\n \"\"\"Estimate target-item frequencies for mixed negative sampling.\"\"\"\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 total = float(counts.sum())\n probabilities = (counts + 1.0) / (total + len(counts))\n 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)\n mean_on_targets = float(np.sum(counts * correction) / max(total, 1.0))\n popularity = np.power(counts + 1.0, config.popularity_sample_power)\n popularity_probs = (popularity / popularity.sum()).astype(np.float64)\n top = np.argsort(counts)[::-1]\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 log(\n f\"popularity sampling p^{config.popularity_sample_power:g}: \"\n f\"top10_mass={popularity_probs[top[:10]].sum():.4f} \"\n f\"top100_mass={popularity_probs[top[:100]].sum():.4f} \"\n f\"entropy={float(-(popularity_probs * np.log(popularity_probs)).sum()):.3f}\"\n )\n return torch.from_numpy(correction), torch.from_numpy(popularity_probs)" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 20, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The next step is to refactor the negative sampling logic to support mixed sources. This requires updating the full-history filtered negative sampler, the training negative sampler, the loss function, and all call sites." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-b2f29eac-03e2-424a-b122-b97d2b3a3b29-25", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": "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,\n) -> 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\",\n )\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(\n (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\n ).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)\n\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,\n 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 )\n 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(\n 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),\n torch.from_numpy(correction).to(device),\n )", "new_string": "def _randint_matrix(\n n_items: int,\n shape: tuple[int, int],\n generator: torch.Generator,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n rows, columns = shape\n if columns <= 0:\n return torch.empty((rows, 0), dtype=torch.long)\n return torch.randint(\n n_items, (rows, columns), generator=generator, device=\"cpu\"\n )\n\n\ndef draw_full_history_filtered_negatives(\n targets: torch.Tensor,\n user_rows: np.ndarray,\n liked_items: torch.Tensor,\n disliked_items: torch.Tensor,\n known_positive_packed: np.ndarray,\n n_items: int,\n config: Config,\n item_correction: torch.Tensor,\n item_sampling_probs: torch.Tensor,\n generator: torch.Generator,\n device: torch.device,\n) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:\n \"\"\"Draw mixed negatives and reject all known public-training positives.\n\n Uniform draws cover the catalog tail. Popularity-weighted draws concentrate\n on head items that otherwise dominate retrieval. Unique in-batch items are\n other positives from the same dense block. Active dislikes are true\n explicit negatives. All four sources share the full-history false-negative\n filter so previously accepted training items are never treated as negatives.\n \"\"\"\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 = _randint_matrix(\n n_items, (batch_size, config.uniform_negatives), generator\n )\n popularity = torch.empty((batch_size, 0), dtype=torch.long)\n if config.popularity_negatives:\n popularity = torch.multinomial(\n item_sampling_probs.double(),\n batch_size * config.popularity_negatives,\n replacement=True,\n generator=generator,\n ).view(batch_size, config.popularity_negatives)\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(\n (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\n ).indices\n inbatch = unique_targets[columns]\n if corrected_count < config.inbatch_negatives:\n filler = _randint_matrix(\n n_items,\n (batch_size, config.inbatch_negatives - corrected_count),\n generator,\n )\n inbatch = torch.cat([inbatch, filler], dim=1)\n dislike = torch.empty((batch_size, 0), dtype=torch.long)\n if config.dislike_negatives:\n dislike_cpu = disliked_items.detach().cpu().to(dtype=torch.long)\n if dislike_cpu.numel() == 0:\n dislike = _randint_matrix(\n n_items, (batch_size, config.dislike_negatives), generator\n )\n else:\n width = dislike_cpu.shape[1]\n if width >= config.dislike_negatives:\n dislike = dislike_cpu[:, : config.dislike_negatives].clone()\n else:\n filler = _randint_matrix(\n n_items,\n (batch_size, config.dislike_negatives - width),\n generator,\n )\n dislike = torch.cat([dislike_cpu, filler], dim=1)\n padding = dislike.eq(n_items) | dislike.lt(0) | dislike.ge(n_items)\n if bool(padding.any()):\n dislike[padding] = torch.randint(\n n_items,\n (int(padding.sum().item()),),\n generator=generator,\n device=\"cpu\",\n )\n\n negatives = torch.cat(\n [uniform, popularity, inbatch, dislike], dim=1\n ).numpy()\n correction = np.ones_like(negatives, dtype=np.float32)\n inbatch_start = config.uniform_negatives + config.popularity_negatives\n if corrected_count:\n correction[:, inbatch_start : inbatch_start + corrected_count] = (\n item_correction[inbatch[:, :corrected_count]].numpy()\n )\n for _ in range(32):\n invalid = invalid_full_history_negatives(\n negatives,\n 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 )\n replacements = torch.randint(\n n_items,\n (int(invalid.sum()),),\n generator=generator,\n device=\"cpu\",\n ).numpy()\n negatives[invalid] = replacements\n # Rejected specialized negatives become ordinary uniform draws.\n correction[invalid] = 1.0\n invalid = invalid_full_history_negatives(\n 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),\n torch.from_numpy(correction).to(device),\n )" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 21, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Updating `draw_training_negatives` to pass the new arguments." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-fe81ad75-3a75-4001-ab5e-91b42e938f30-26", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": "def 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,\n 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(\n 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 )\n 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,\n )", "new_string": "def draw_training_negatives(\n positive_items: torch.Tensor,\n known_history: torch.Tensor,\n liked_items: torch.Tensor,\n disliked_items: torch.Tensor,\n user_rows: np.ndarray,\n known_positive_packed: np.ndarray | None,\n prepared: SequenceData,\n config: Config,\n item_correction: torch.Tensor,\n item_sampling_probs: 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(\n positive_items,\n user_rows,\n liked_items,\n disliked_items,\n known_positive_packed,\n len(prepared.item_ids),\n config,\n item_correction,\n item_sampling_probs,\n generator,\n device,\n )\n 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,\n )" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 22, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Updating the corrected negative loss and adding a sampled softmax loss." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-1faee780-0c80-438f-ac05-c8e12284e31c-27", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": "def corrected_negative_loss(\n logits: torch.Tensor,\n correction: torch.Tensor,\n config: Config,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n 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]\n 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", "new_string": "def corrected_negative_loss(\n logits: torch.Tensor,\n correction: torch.Tensor,\n config: Config,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n raw = F.softplus(logits)\n total = max(int(logits.shape[1]), 1)\n inbatch_start = config.uniform_negatives + config.popularity_negatives\n inbatch_end = inbatch_start + config.inbatch_negatives\n result = torch.zeros(len(logits), device=logits.device)\n if inbatch_start:\n result += inbatch_start * raw[:, :inbatch_start].mean(dim=1)\n if config.inbatch_negatives and inbatch_end <= logits.shape[1]:\n selected = slice(inbatch_start, inbatch_end)\n weights = correction[:, selected]\n result += config.inbatch_negatives * (\n (raw[:, selected] * weights).sum(dim=1)\n / weights.sum(dim=1).clamp_min(1.0e-6)\n )\n if logits.shape[1] > inbatch_end:\n result += (logits.shape[1] - inbatch_end) * raw[:, inbatch_end:].mean(\n dim=1\n )\n return result / total\n\n\ndef target_retrieval_loss(\n positive_logits: torch.Tensor,\n negative_logits: torch.Tensor,\n correction: torch.Tensor,\n config: Config,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n \"\"\"Score one positive against the mixed negative pool.\"\"\"\n if config.loss_type == \"sampled-softmax\":\n logits = torch.cat(\n [positive_logits.unsqueeze(1), negative_logits], dim=1\n )\n logits = logits / max(config.softmax_temperature, 1.0e-6)\n labels = torch.zeros(\n len(logits), dtype=torch.long, device=logits.device\n )\n return F.cross_entropy(logits, labels, reduction=\"none\")\n positive_loss = F.softplus(-positive_logits)\n negative_loss = corrected_negative_loss(\n negative_logits, correction, config\n )\n return (positive_loss + negative_loss) / 2.0" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 23, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Updating score_target_microbatches to use target_retrieval_loss." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-643f2a0a-8d3c-4243-87cf-bf3a2a74c406-28", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " 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()", "new_string": " positive_logits = (query_vectors * positive_vectors).sum(dim=1)\n negative_logits = torch.einsum(\n \"bd,bkd->bk\", query_vectors, negative_vectors\n )\n per_target_loss = target_retrieval_loss(\n positive_logits,\n negative_logits,\n negative_weights[begin:end],\n config,\n )\n selected_weights = torch.from_numpy(\n sample_weights[begin:end].astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n ).to(device)\n loss_sum = (selected_weights * per_target_loss).sum()" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 24, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The training epoch and validation evaluation functions need to be updated to pass the disliked items and item sampling probabilities." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-60f104a9-5290-4bd7-804f-f44c8e4db5bf-29", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": "def 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,\n 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]:", "new_string": "def 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,\n target_counts: np.ndarray,\n item_correction: torch.Tensor,\n item_sampling_probs: torch.Tensor,\n known_positive_packed: np.ndarray | None,\n generator: torch.Generator,\n device: torch.device,\n epoch: int,\n) -> dict[str, float]:" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-60f104a9-5290-4bd7-804f-f44c8e4db5bf-30", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " group_order = torch.randperm(len(groups), generator=generator).numpy()\n negative_count = config.uniform_negatives + config.inbatch_negatives", "new_string": " group_order = torch.randperm(len(groups), generator=generator).numpy()\n negative_count = (\n config.uniform_negatives\n + config.popularity_negatives\n + config.inbatch_negatives\n + config.dislike_negatives\n )" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-60f104a9-5290-4bd7-804f-f44c8e4db5bf-31", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " 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 )", "new_string": " liked_items = torch.from_numpy(\n prepared.liked_states[flat_states].astype(np.int64)\n ).to(device)\n disliked_items = torch.from_numpy(\n prepared.disliked_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 disliked_items,\n flat_user_rows,\n known_positive_packed,\n prepared,\n config,\n item_correction,\n item_sampling_probs,\n generator,\n device,\n )" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The string to replace was found multiple times in the file. Use replace_all to replace all occurrences, or include more context to only edit one occurrence.", "isError": true } } ] }, { "id": 25, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The liked_items and draw_training_negatives block appears in both training and validation." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-828b16cb-20f9-42e1-afba-b7e3e3be21ff-32", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " 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 )", "new_string": " liked_items = torch.from_numpy(\n prepared.liked_states[flat_states].astype(np.int64)\n ).to(device)\n disliked_items = torch.from_numpy(\n prepared.disliked_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 disliked_items,\n flat_user_rows,\n known_positive_packed,\n prepared,\n config,\n item_correction,\n item_sampling_probs,\n generator,\n device,\n )", "replace_all": true }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated. All occurrences were successfully replaced.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 26, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Updating the validation evaluation signature and training loop to use build_item_sampling and pass item_sampling_probs." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-dd164f3d-4a00-4860-8562-d8b42b4fd947-33", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_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 item_correction: torch.Tensor,\n known_positive_packed: np.ndarray | None,\n device: torch.device,\n) -> dict[str, float]:", "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 item_correction: torch.Tensor,\n item_sampling_probs: torch.Tensor,\n known_positive_packed: np.ndarray | None,\n device: torch.device,\n) -> dict[str, float]:" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-dd164f3d-4a00-4860-8562-d8b42b4fd947-34", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " item_correction = build_item_correction(\n prepared,\n config,\n partition.window_starts,\n training_counts,\n )", "new_string": " item_correction, item_sampling_probs = build_item_sampling(\n prepared,\n config,\n partition.window_starts,\n training_counts,\n )" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-dd164f3d-4a00-4860-8562-d8b42b4fd947-35", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " 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,\n generator,\n device,\n epoch,\n )\n validation = evaluate_validation_bce(\n model,\n 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 )", "new_string": " 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 item_sampling_probs,\n known_positive_packed,\n generator,\n device,\n epoch,\n )\n validation = evaluate_validation_bce(\n model,\n prepared,\n config,\n target_weights,\n partition.window_starts,\n training_counts,\n validation_counts,\n item_correction,\n item_sampling_probs,\n known_positive_packed,\n device,\n )" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 27, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-453f4e2e-a206-4436-a7f7-3b77820d37c1-36", "name": "grep", "input": { "pattern": "evaluate_validation_bce|item_correction|item_sampling_probs|build_item_correction", "glob": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "\nNo matches found\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 28, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-62123896-e38b-45b3-855a-069457a2adcd-37", "name": "grep", "input": { "pattern": "evaluate_validation_bce", "path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "\nFound 3 matching lines\n/app/solution/train_current_model.py\n1475:def evaluate_validation_bce(\n1785: evaluate_validation_bce(\n1823: validation = evaluate_validation_bce(\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 29, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-afc17da8-4a9a-4c94-b252-9c3729976b22-38", "name": "read_file", "input": { "target_file": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "offset": 1770, "limit": 60 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "1770→ 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}, \"\n \"target weighting \"\n f\"{stored_target_weighting}->{config.target_weighting}, \"\n1780→ 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,\n config,\n target_weights,\n1790→ partition.window_starts,\n training_counts,\n validation_counts,\n item_correction,\n known_positive_packed,\n device,\n )\n )\n history.append(prior)\n best_loss = float(prior[\"validation_loss\"])\n1800→ 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):\n diagnostics = run_training_epoch(\n model,\n1810→ optimizer,\n prepared,\n config,\n target_weights,\n partition.window_starts,\n training_counts,\n item_correction,\n item_sampling_probs,\n known_positive_packed,\n generator,\n1820→ device,\n epoch,\n )\n validation = evaluate_validation_bce(\n model,\n prepared,\n config,\n target_weights,\n partition.window_starts,\n training_counts,", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 30, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The resume path needs a fix for the evaluate_validation_bce call." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-d02e41d9-1080-4f88-bcba-7f122597b7a8-39", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " prior.update(\n evaluate_validation_bce(\n model,\n 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 )\n )", "new_string": " prior.update(\n evaluate_validation_bce(\n model,\n prepared,\n config,\n target_weights,\n partition.window_starts,\n training_counts,\n validation_counts,\n item_correction,\n item_sampling_probs,\n known_positive_packed,\n device,\n )\n )" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-d02e41d9-1080-4f88-bcba-7f122597b7a8-40", "name": "read_file", "input": { "target_file": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "offset": 1823, "limit": 25 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "1823→ )\n validation = evaluate_validation_bce(\n model,\n prepared,\n config,\n target_weights,\n partition.window_starts,\n1830→ training_counts,\n validation_counts,\n item_correction,\n item_sampling_probs,\n known_positive_packed,\n device,\n )\n diagnostics.update(validation)\n history.append(diagnostics)\n current_state = snapshot_model(model)\n1840→ if checkpoint_dir is not None:\n save_epoch_checkpoint(\n checkpoint_dir,\n epoch,\n current_state,\n config,\n diagnostics,\n optimizer,", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 31, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "I will add CLI arguments and configure the pipeline.\n\nI will update the architecture JSON and wire the new CLI arguments into the config. Sampling probabilities stay on CPU for multinomial sampling. I also need to handle empty disliked items and skip multinomial when no popularity negatives exist." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-761da162-d9ae-4091-9cb4-b83ee49dccee-41", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " parser.add_argument(\n \"--loss-microbatch-size\",\n 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 )", "new_string": " parser.add_argument(\n \"--loss-microbatch-size\",\n type=int,\n default=Config.loss_microbatch_size,\n )\n parser.add_argument(\n \"--uniform-negatives\",\n type=int,\n default=Config.uniform_negatives,\n )\n parser.add_argument(\n \"--inbatch-negatives\",\n type=int,\n default=Config.inbatch_negatives,\n )\n parser.add_argument(\n \"--popularity-negatives\",\n type=int,\n default=Config.popularity_negatives,\n )\n parser.add_argument(\n \"--dislike-negatives\",\n type=int,\n default=Config.dislike_negatives,\n )\n parser.add_argument(\n \"--popularity-sample-power\",\n type=float,\n default=Config.popularity_sample_power,\n )\n parser.add_argument(\n \"--softmax-temperature\",\n type=float,\n default=Config.softmax_temperature,\n )\n parser.add_argument(\n \"--loss-type\",\n choices=(\"sampled-softmax\", \"bce\"),\n default=Config.loss_type,\n )\n parser.add_argument(\n \"--negative-filter-scope\",\n choices=(\"full-training-history\", \"last-100\"),\n default=Config.negative_filter_scope,\n )" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-761da162-d9ae-4091-9cb4-b83ee49dccee-42", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " 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\")", "new_string": " or args.max_train_targets_per_user < 0\n or args.max_validation_targets_per_user < 0\n or args.uniform_negatives < 0\n or args.inbatch_negatives < 0\n or args.popularity_negatives < 0\n or args.dislike_negatives < 0\n or args.popularity_sample_power <= 0\n or args.softmax_temperature <= 0\n ):\n parser.error(\"training counts, learning rate, and patience are invalid\")\n if (\n args.uniform_negatives\n + args.inbatch_negatives\n + args.popularity_negatives\n + args.dislike_negatives\n < 1\n ):\n parser.error(\"at least one negative source must be positive\")" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-761da162-d9ae-4091-9cb4-b83ee49dccee-43", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " loss_microbatch_size=args.loss_microbatch_size,\n negative_filter_scope=args.negative_filter_scope,", "new_string": " loss_microbatch_size=args.loss_microbatch_size,\n uniform_negatives=args.uniform_negatives,\n inbatch_negatives=args.inbatch_negatives,\n popularity_negatives=args.popularity_negatives,\n dislike_negatives=args.dislike_negatives,\n popularity_sample_power=args.popularity_sample_power,\n softmax_temperature=args.softmax_temperature,\n loss_type=args.loss_type,\n negative_filter_scope=args.negative_filter_scope," }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-761da162-d9ae-4091-9cb4-b83ee49dccee-44", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " \"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,\n \"target_weighting\": config.target_weighting,", "new_string": " \"objective\": (\n \"sample-weighted-sampled-softmax-at-every-timestep\"\n if config.loss_type == \"sampled-softmax\"\n else \"sample-weighted-BCE-at-every-timestep\"\n ),\n \"negative_sampling\": (\n f\"{config.uniform_negatives}-uniform-\"\n f\"{config.popularity_negatives}-popularity-\"\n f\"{config.inbatch_negatives}-inbatch-\"\n f\"{config.dislike_negatives}-dislike\"\n ),\n \"false_negative_filter\": config.negative_filter_scope,\n \"target_weighting\": config.target_weighting," }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 32, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Updating model_config to pass new negative counts if TowerConfig supports those fields.\n\nConfirmed TowerConfig's negative fields map correctly. Adding objective_changed detection for new loss fields to support resume. Verified torch.multinomial handles double() tensors properly.\n\nConfirmed padding indexing works with boolean tensors. Verified item_sampling_probs stays on CPU. Adding loss_type to objective_changed checks. Planning a syntax compilation check. Spotted a potential bug in item_correction indexing.\n\nPlanning a lightweight unit test for negative sampling to validate without full training. The 152 negative samples across ~15,000 items per block looks manageable. Confirmed multinomial uses replacement=True and avoids zero-probability categories." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-11480153-3085-4488-9c22-dc0a5f397ae7-45", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python -m py_compile /app/solution/train_current_model.py /app/solution/two_tower_model.py && echo COMPILE_OK", "description": "Compile updated trainer for syntax errors" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\nCOMPILE_OK\n", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-11480153-3085-4488-9c22-dc0a5f397ae7-46", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ef86-0356-7cc2-8a56-0025f66f89d3" ], "timeout_ms": 0 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0ef86-0356-7cc2-8a56-0025f66f89d3 ===\nCommand: mkdir -p /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python /task/current_model/train_current_model.py --stage validation --prepare-only --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_validation.npz --public-dir /task --output /app/solution/_prepare_dummy.parquet --threads 8\nStatus: completed\nDuration: 54.81s\nExit Code: 0\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-2d1bf700-659a-4b0d-9c0c-8c25208ab089-20.log\n\n=== Output ===\nloaded explicit events: rows=720,270 users=8,220\nprepared users=1,000 tokens=2,090,746 states=35,727 elapsed=4.9s\nprepared users=2,000 tokens=4,301,266 states=71,242 elapsed=9.9s\nprepared users=3,000 tokens=6,486,146 states=109,471 elapsed=15.0s\nprepared users=4,000 tokens=8,793,043 states=148,210 elapsed=20.5s\nprepared users=5,000 tokens=10,992,205 states=182,596 elapsed=25.3s\nprepared users=6,000 tokens=13,061,727 states=217,148 elapsed=30.1s\nprepared users=7,000 tokens=15,334,418 states=256,914 elapsed=35.6s\nprepared users=8,000 tokens=17,462,672 states=296,703 elapsed=40.9s\nprepared users=9,000 tokens=19,568,405 states=331,551 elapsed=45.6s\ntarget users without qualifying catalog sequence=7\nprepared stage=validation sequence_users=9,135 tokens=20,056,329 next_item_targets=20,047,194 states=339,133\nsaved public-derived full-sequence cache: /app/solution/cache_validation.npz\n{\n \"stage\": \"validation\",\n \"sequence_users\": 9135,\n \"sequence_tokens\": 20056329,\n \"next_item_targets\": 20047194,\n \"selected_training_targets\": 1052953,\n \"selected_validation_targets\": 130103,\n \"discarded_old_targets\": 18864138,\n \"target_users\": 8456,\n \"runtime_seconds\": 50.797,\n \"config\": {\n \"bptt_steps\": 100,\n \"user_batch_size\": 64,\n \"embedding_dim\": 192,\n \"hidden_dim\": 192,\n \"user_hidden_1\": 512,\n \"user_hidden_2\": 256,\n \"item_hidden_1\": 512,\n \"item_hidden_2\": 256,\n \"dropout\": 0.05,\n \"epochs\": 1,\n \"learning_rate\": 0.001,\n \"weight_decay\": 1e-05,\n \"gradient_clip\": 2.0,\n \"loss_microbatch_size\": 65536,\n \"uniform_negatives\": 24,\n \"inbatch_negatives\": 8,\n \"inbatch_correction_power\": 0.5,\n \"inbatch_correction_min\": 0.25,\n \"inbatch_correction_max\": 4.0,\n \"negative_filter_scope\": \"full-training-history\",\n \"target_weighting\": \"organic-strong\",\n \"ordinary_target_weight\": 0.25,\n \"organic_strong_target_weight\": 1.0,\n \"organic_like_target_weight\": 3.0,\n \"discovery_horizon_days\": 7,\n \"validation_fraction\": 0.1,\n \"max_train_targets_per_user\": 128,\n \"max_validation_targets_per_user\": 16,\n \"early_stopping_patience\": 1,\n \"early_stopping_min_delta\": 0.0001,\n \"seed\": 29\n }\n}\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 33, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The cache is ready after about 51 seconds.\n\nI will write a quick unit test for the negative sampler before starting validation training. The 152 negatives per block should not slow training too much. I estimate roughly 286 BPTT blocks and about 5.7 million item tower forwards.\n\nTraining may take 10–20 minutes with 152 negatives. I will start with the current batch size and reduce if needed. I also plan to add a self-test for the draw function, consider discovery-graded weighting, and evaluate whether to increase epochs. A key insight is that the current model trains on next-item targets including repeats, while discovery evaluation only scores unseen items.\n\nI will add logging to track how many dislike negatives are genuine versus filler. I also need to verify the Config is passed correctly by importing it.\n\nI verified the CPU multinomial sampler and confirmed that packing the first eight dislikes yields the most recent ones. I am starting training now and will draft a README later.\n\nI will run a tiny synthetic test of the draw function first to catch crashes before the 15-minute training run. I also verified that the cache metadata omits negative sampling parameters, so the existing cache remains compatible with the new script." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-7899b8e0-067e-4b51-aa8a-1b17641152f7-47", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'PY'\nimport numpy as np\nimport torch\nimport train_current_model as t\ncfg = t.Config()\nprint('negatives', cfg.uniform_negatives, cfg.popularity_negatives, cfg.inbatch_negatives, cfg.dislike_negatives)\nprint('loss', cfg.loss_type, 'temp', cfg.softmax_temperature)\nn_items = 30000\nB = 128\ntargets = torch.randint(n_items, (B,))\nuser_rows = np.arange(B) % 32\nliked = torch.randint(n_items, (B, 48))\ndisliked = torch.full((B, 24), n_items)\ndisliked[:, :3] = torch.randint(n_items, (B, 3))\nwidth = (n_items + 7)//8\npacked = np.zeros((32, width), np.uint8)\n# mark a few known positives\nfor u in range(32):\n items = np.array([u, u+10, u+20], np.int64)\n packed[u, items>>3] |= np.left_shift(np.uint8(1), (items&7).astype(np.uint8))\nprobs = torch.full((n_items,), 1.0/n_items, dtype=torch.float64)\ncorr = torch.ones(n_items)\ngen = torch.Generator().manual_seed(0)\nnegs, correction = t.draw_full_history_filtered_negatives(\n targets, user_rows, liked, disliked, packed, n_items, cfg, corr, probs, gen, torch.device('cpu')\n)\nprint('neg shape', tuple(negs.shape), 'corr', tuple(correction.shape))\nprint('unique/row mean', float(torch.tensor([len(torch.unique(row)) for row in negs]).float().mean()))\n# ensure no target collision\nassert not (negs == targets[:, None]).any()\nprint('no target collisions')\n# softmax loss smoke\npos = torch.randn(B)\nneg_logits = torch.randn(B, negs.shape[1])\nloss = t.target_retrieval_loss(pos, neg_logits, correction, cfg)\nprint('loss mean', float(loss.mean()), 'finite', bool(torch.isfinite(loss).all()))\nprint('OK')\nPY", "description": "Smoke-test mixed negative sampler and softmax loss" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\nnegatives 48 48 48 8\nloss sampled-softmax temp 1.0\nneg shape (128, 152) corr (128, 152)\nunique/row mean 152.0\nno target collisions\nloss mean 5.577395439147949 finite True\nOK\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 34, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The sampler is working correctly. The loss is approximately 5." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "Negative sampling checks out. Next I’ll train the validation ranker on the cached sequences and score it on the public backtest." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-01a3e1c9-b0ed-4c66-95dd-010d23858062-48", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python train_current_model.py \\\n --stage validation \\\n --public-dir /task \\\n --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_validation.npz \\\n --output /app/solution/validation_ranking.parquet \\\n --checkpoint-dir /app/solution/checkpoints_validation \\\n --threads 8 \\\n --ranking-batch-size 64", "description": "Train improved two-tower and rank validation", "block_until_ms": 0 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "01a0ef89-c271-7db2-9122-170fe3e600ca\nbash\n/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-01a3e1c9-b0ed-4c66-95dd-010d23858062-48.log\nrunning\nBackground task 01a0ef89-c271-7db2-9122-170fe3e600ca started\nUse get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=[\"01a0ef89-c271-7db2-9122-170fe3e600ca\"] when you need the output.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 35, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Waiting briefly to check progress." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-5db2f90f-cbac-49f2-b4c1-6247bf36017d-49", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ef89-c271-7db2-9122-170fe3e600ca" ], "timeout_ms": 90000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0ef89-c271-7db2-9122-170fe3e600ca ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python train_current_model.py \\\n --stage validation \\\n --public-dir /task \\\n --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_validation.npz \\\n --output /app/solution/validation_ranking.parquet \\\n --checkpoint-dir /app/solution/checkpoints_validation \\\n --threads 8 \\\n --ranking-batch-size 64\nStatus: running\nDuration: 92.19s\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-01a3e1c9-b0ed-4c66-95dd-010d23858062-48.log\n\n=== Output ===\nloaded full-sequence cache: tokens=20,056,329 targets=20,047,194\nchronological BCE window: train=1,052,953 validation=130,103 selected=1,183,056 discarded_old_targets=18,864,138 all=20,047,194\ninbatch correction: min=0.250 mean_on_targets=1.001 max=4.000\npopularity sampling p^0.75: top10_mass=0.0067 top100_mass=0.0374 entropy=9.947\ntarget weighting=organic-strong min=0.250 mean=0.575 max=1.000\nfull-history false-negative filter: users=9,135 unique_user_items=5,524,275 bytes=34,256,250\n\n\nWaited the requested 90s. Unless the user specified, do not kill this task just because this wait returned. It is still working. You will be notified automatically when it completes. Do other work, or wait again with a longer timeout_ms.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 36, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Training has started after loading the cache." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-5b99ed2d-5ac1-4469-8123-bc8868e96308-50", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ef89-c271-7db2-9122-170fe3e600ca" ], "timeout_ms": 180000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0ef89-c271-7db2-9122-170fe3e600ca ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python train_current_model.py \\\n --stage validation \\\n --public-dir /task \\\n --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_validation.npz \\\n --output /app/solution/validation_ranking.parquet \\\n --checkpoint-dir /app/solution/checkpoints_validation \\\n --threads 8 \\\n --ranking-batch-size 64\nStatus: running\nDuration: 275.28s\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-01a3e1c9-b0ed-4c66-95dd-010d23858062-48.log\n\n=== Output ===\nloaded full-sequence cache: tokens=20,056,329 targets=20,047,194\nchronological BCE window: train=1,052,953 validation=130,103 selected=1,183,056 discarded_old_targets=18,864,138 all=20,047,194\ninbatch correction: min=0.250 mean_on_targets=1.001 max=4.000\npopularity sampling p^0.75: top10_mass=0.0067 top100_mass=0.0374 entropy=9.947\ntarget weighting=organic-strong min=0.250 mean=0.575 max=1.000\nfull-history false-negative filter: users=9,135 unique_user_items=5,524,275 bytes=34,256,250\n\n\nWaited the requested 180s. Unless the user specified, do not kill this task just because this wait returned. It is still working. You will be notified automatically when it completes. Do other work, or wait again with a longer timeout_ms.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 37, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "No batch logs have appeared after 4.5 minutes.\n\nThe first log is expected at batch 250. With roughly 286 total batches, that delay is plausible if each BPTT block takes several seconds.\n\nNegative sampling is the suspected bottleneck. The 6400 negative candidates are checked against 152 columns for duplicates in a Python loop. Resampling may require many retries because each user has roughly 605 known positives.\n\nCollision probability is low enough that 32 retries should clear invalid negatives. The column-wise duplicate check is also inexpensive. The real bottleneck may be GRU encoding of 15,000 items, initial compilation overhead, or the resampling loop itself." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-ecb4187c-b006-4172-a990-9dfc5e360cd0-51", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "ps -eo pid,pcpu,pmem,etime,cmd | grep -E 'train_current_model|python' | grep -v grep; echo '---'; ls -la /proc/$(pgrep -f train_current_model.py | head -1)/fd 2>/dev/null | wc -l; echo 'threads'; ls /proc/$(pgrep -f train_current_model.py | head -1)/task 2>/dev/null | wc -l", "description": "Check training process CPU usage" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\n 5366 0.3 0.7 15:19 grok --no-auto-update --single # Improve a production music-discovery two-tower You have joined the recommendations team for a music streaming service. The \"Made for You\" shelf is served by a mature production two-tower model. Its chronological data protocol and indexed serving path are sound, but its offline retrieval quality no longer clears the team's next launch gate. Your job is to investigate the production model, improve its retrieval quality, and ship a better ranking artifact. Use the implementation and public validation data to form and test your own diagnosis. The source used to reproduce the production model is included under `/task/current_model/`. You may copy it into `/app/solution/`, edit it, add tests, and improve its training objective, but keep the data protocol, two-tower serving contract, and evaluation boundary intact. ## Production Context The model must satisfy a strict request-time latency budget. Item vectors are precomputed offline. At request time, one user vector is computed from observed interaction history and compared with candidate item vectors by a batchable two-tower score. Do not introduce a cross-encoder, per-candidate sequence model, or user-ID lookup table. The current trainer is a mature baseline with chronological internal validation. Focus your investigation on how its training objective selects and uses negative examples. Diagnose limitations in the current negative-sampling strategy and improve it under the fixed CPU budget. Validate changes with the public backtest. The final approach must still train and rank within the supplied CPU environment while preserving the serving and data boundaries above. ## What You Have All public inputs are under `/task/data/`. A stage cutoff is the timestamp at which observed history and candidate eligibility are frozen for a ranking. The public validation stage cutoff is `24786800`, when `train_*` ends. A 30-minute gap precedes the seven-day `val_*` w\nindow. For the final submission, that validation window becomes observed history, and another 30-minute gap precedes the hidden seven-day outcome window. The package includes: - `/task/current_model/train_current_model.py`: the production training and ranking script. It can reproduce the public validation ranking and produce a hidden-test submission after refitting. - `/task/current_model/two_tower_model.py`: model primitives used by the production script. - `/task/evaluate_public.py`: the public validation evaluator for development. - `/task/data/validation_eligible_candidates.npz` and `/task/data/test_eligible_candidates.npz`: platform-owned candidate sets for the validation and hidden-test cutoffs. - `/task/data/validation_preference_state.parquet` and `/task/data/test_preference_state.parquet`: active explicit preference state at the corresponding cutoffs. - `/task/requirements.txt`: the exact offline Python distribution inventory. You can reproduce the production public backtest with: ```sh python /task/current_model/train_current_model.py \\ --stage validation \\ --public-dir /task \\ --output /app/solution/production_validation.parquet python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/production_validation.parquet ``` ## Data For each event family there is a `train_*.parquet` and `val_*.parquet` file: | Family | Meaning | Columns | | --- | --- | --- | | `listens` | Playback events | `uid`, `timestamp`, `item_id`, `is_organic`, `played_ratio_pct`, `track_length_seconds` | | `likes` | Explicit positive actions | `uid`, `timestamp`, `item_id`, `is_organic` | | `dislikes` | Explicit negative actions | `uid`, `timestamp`, `item_id`, `is_organic` | | `unlikes` | Reversal of a prior like | `uid`, `timestamp`, `item_id`, `is_organic` | | `undislikes` | Reversal of a prior dislike | `uid`, `timestamp`, `item_id`, `is_organic` | `is_organic=1` means the listener sought out the track; `0` means the action came through a recommendation surface. A lis\nten is a conventional positive at 50% completion. The discovery-quality objective below uses the stronger 80% threshold. The two public windows have different roles: 1. For model development and selection, train only from `train_*` and score the subsequent `val_*` outcomes. 2. After selecting an improvement, refit it on `train_* + val_*`. At hidden-test time the validation events are observed history, not recommendable outcomes. Do not use `val_*` events as features when measuring a validation ranking. They may and should be used when refitting the final hidden-test ranker. Additional files under `/task/data/`: - `candidate_catalog.parquet`: the 30,000 retrieval-catalog tracks, ordered by training positive-listen popularity. - `target_users.parquet`: users with at least 20 positive listens in the 90 days before the training cutoff, selected without future labels. - `validation_preference_state.parquet`: active explicit state at the training cutoff, for validation ranking. - `test_preference_state.parquet`: active explicit state after validation, for the final hidden-test ranking. State is `liked` or `disliked`; a pair may have both active channels. - `validation_eligible_candidates.npz` and `test_eligible_candidates.npz`: cutoff-correct candidate sets for every target user. Each contains aligned arrays `uids`, `item_ids`, and `packed_eligible`. For user row `r`, recover the Boolean item mask with `np.unpackbits(packed_eligible[r], count=len(item_ids), bitorder=\"little\")`. Validation candidates exclude all `train_*` encounters. Test candidates exclude all `train_*` and `val_*` encounters. Future test interactions are hidden and used only by the separate Harbor verifier. ## Discovery Objective Rank only the candidates returned for the relevant cutoff. Relevance is based on organic behavior in the immediately following window: - grade 3: the user organically likes the track; - grade 1: the user organically listens to at least 80% of the\n track; - grade 0: otherwise. If both positive events occur, grade 3 wins. Ranking quality is measured with graded NDCG@10. DCG uses gain `2^grade - 1` and discount `1/log2(rank + 1)`, then averages per-user NDCG over users with at least one relevant item. The public evaluator reports this same objective for development, but its score is not a separate acceptance stage. Final acceptance is determined on the hidden test using the same objective. The Yambda logs contain interactions, not impression propensities; treat the organic objective as a robust offline target, not as a causal estimate of online lift. ## Deliverable Submit one final ranking as `/app/solution/submission.parquet` or `/app/solution/submission.csv`. It must be a regular file, not a symbolic link. If both files exist, the verifier evaluates `submission.parquet` and ignores `submission.csv`. The ranking must: - include the columns `uid`, `item_id`, and `rank`; only these columns are evaluated; - use finite, integer-valued entries in all three required columns; - cover exactly the users in `target_users.parquet`, with no missing or extra users; - contain exactly 100 rows and 100 distinct items for every target user; - contain every integer rank from 1 through 100 exactly once per user; and - use only items present in that user's `test_eligible_candidates.npz` candidate set. Also leave the improved implementation used to build the artifact at `/app/solution/train_current_model.py`, along with any local modules it imports. A concise `/app/solution/README.md` with the diagnosis, before-and-after public score, model change, and submission command is useful for the experiment record, but it is not an automated acceptance gate. ## Constraints - Write deliverables and intermediate artifacts only under `/app/solution/`. - Treat `/task/` and the installed Python environment as read-only. - Do not invoke nested agents or attempt to access verifier files, credentials, other trials, or host paths.\n - Do not install packages or use network access except for the model-provider connection managed by Harbor. - Do not alter cutoff definitions, target users, candidate eligibility, or relevance labels. - Improve the production pipeline in place. Do not substitute an unrelated model family or evade the indexed two-tower serving constraint. - The environment includes CPU PyTorch 2.8.0. No accelerator is available. - You have up to 60 minutes. Prioritize measured validation improvements, a correct final refit, and a valid submission over broad architecture search. - Keep the best valid submission saved throughout the attempt so it survives the deadline. --always-approve --output-format streaming-json --session-id 0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec --model grok-4.6 --background-wait-timeout 600 --reasoning-effort high\n 6394 416 23.7 04:48 /opt/task-venv/bin/python train_current_model.py --stage validation --public-dir /task --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_validation.npz --output /app/solution/validation_ranking.parquet --checkpoint-dir /app/solution/checkpoints_validation --threads 8 --ranking-batch-size 64\n---\n6\nthreads\n1\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 38, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Training is using 416% CPU across about four cores." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-4de21c27-14f4-46ec-9cdf-9818f819e9c5-52", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ef89-c271-7db2-9122-170fe3e600ca" ], "timeout_ms": 240000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0ef89-c271-7db2-9122-170fe3e600ca ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python train_current_model.py \\\n --stage validation \\\n --public-dir /task \\\n --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_validation.npz \\\n --output /app/solution/validation_ranking.parquet \\\n --checkpoint-dir /app/solution/checkpoints_validation \\\n --threads 8 \\\n --ranking-batch-size 64\nStatus: running\nDuration: 532.69s\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-01a3e1c9-b0ed-4c66-95dd-010d23858062-48.log\n\n=== Output ===\nloaded full-sequence cache: tokens=20,056,329 targets=20,047,194\nchronological BCE window: train=1,052,953 validation=130,103 selected=1,183,056 discarded_old_targets=18,864,138 all=20,047,194\ninbatch correction: min=0.250 mean_on_targets=1.001 max=4.000\npopularity sampling p^0.75: top10_mass=0.0067 top100_mass=0.0374 entropy=9.947\ntarget weighting=organic-strong min=0.250 mean=0.575 max=1.000\nfull-history false-negative filter: users=9,135 unique_user_items=5,524,275 bytes=34,256,250\nepoch=1/1 batches=250 targets=987,417 batch_bce=4.506759 running_bce=4.576412 elapsed=398.9s\nsaved epoch checkpoint: /app/solution/checkpoints_validation/epoch-01.pt\nepoch=1/1 train_loss=4.56292 validation_loss=4.26499 pair_accuracy=0.717 train_targets=1,052,953 validation_targets=130,103 train_seconds=425.2 validation_seconds=38.4\nrestored best validation-BCE checkpoint: epoch=1 loss=4.264993\n\n\nWaited the requested 240s. Unless the user specified, do not kill this task just because this wait returned. It is still working. You will be notified automatically when it completes. Do other work, or wait again with a longer timeout_ms.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 39, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Training finished in about 7 minutes and 38 seconds.\n\nPair accuracy of 0.717 and loss of 4.56 look solid against random baselines. Ranking inference on 20 million tokens is underway for 9,135 users. The evaluation and submission are next." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-de03abc1-79b6-49ad-836d-ad4042056a27-53", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ef89-c271-7db2-9122-170fe3e600ca" ], "timeout_ms": 300000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0ef89-c271-7db2-9122-170fe3e600ca ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python train_current_model.py \\\n --stage validation \\\n --public-dir /task \\\n --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_validation.npz \\\n --output /app/solution/validation_ranking.parquet \\\n --checkpoint-dir /app/solution/checkpoints_validation \\\n --threads 8 \\\n --ranking-batch-size 64\nStatus: completed\nDuration: 552.83s\nExit Code: 0\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-01a3e1c9-b0ed-4c66-95dd-010d23858062-48.log\n\n=== Output ===\nloaded full-sequence cache: tokens=20,056,329 targets=20,047,194\nchronological BCE window: train=1,052,953 validation=130,103 selected=1,183,056 discarded_old_targets=18,864,138 all=20,047,194\ninbatch correction: min=0.250 mean_on_targets=1.001 max=4.000\npopularity sampling p^0.75: top10_mass=0.0067 top100_mass=0.0374 entropy=9.947\ntarget weighting=organic-strong min=0.250 mean=0.575 max=1.000\nfull-history false-negative filter: users=9,135 unique_user_items=5,524,275 bytes=34,256,250\nepoch=1/1 batches=250 targets=987,417 batch_bce=4.506759 running_bce=4.576412 elapsed=398.9s\nsaved epoch checkpoint: /app/solution/checkpoints_validation/epoch-01.pt\nepoch=1/1 train_loss=4.56292 validation_loss=4.26499 pair_accuracy=0.717 train_targets=1,052,953 validation_targets=130,103 train_seconds=425.2 validation_seconds=38.4\nrestored best validation-BCE checkpoint: epoch=1 loss=4.264993\nranked users=1,024/8,456\nranked users=2,048/8,456\nranked users=3,072/8,456\nranked users=4,096/8,456\nranked users=5,120/8,456\nranked users=6,144/8,456\nranked users=7,168/8,456\nranked users=8,192/8,456\nranked users=8,456/8,456\n{\n \"baseline\": \"yambda-windowed-sequence-two-tower-base\",\n \"stage\": \"validation\",\n \"output\": \"/app/solution/validation_ranking.parquet\",\n \"rows\": 845600,\n \"users\": 8456,\n \"runtime_seconds\": 548.462,\n \"public_inputs_only\": true,\n \"architecture\": {\n \"family\": \"pure-windowed-sequence-two-tower\",\n \"sequence_training\": \"every-adjacent-target-within-recent-chronological-window\",\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\",\n \"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\": 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\"target_weighting\": \"organic-strong\",\n \"ordinary_target_weight\": 0.25,\n \"organic_strong_target_weight\": 1.0,\n \"organic_like_target_weight\": 3.0,\n \"discovery_horizon_days\": 7,\n \"validation_fraction\": 0.1,\n \"max_train_targets_per_user\": 128,\n \"max_validation_targets_per_user\": 16,\n \"early_stopping_patience\": 1,\n \"early_stopping_min_delta\": 0.0001,\n \"seed\": 29\n },\n \"sequence_tokens\": 20056329,\n \"all_next_item_targets\": 20047194,\n \"selected_training_targets\": 1052953,\n \"selected_validation_targets\": 130103,\n \"discarded_old_targets\": 18864138,\n \"training_history\": [\n {\n \"epoch\": 1.0,\n \"loss\": 4.562916984354209,\n \"positive_logit\": 0.7590864455158315,\n \"negative_logit\": -0.1787703091734108,\n \"pair_accuracy\": 0.7173740935705283,\n \"targets\": 1052953.0,\n \"target_weight_sum\": 632551.0,\n \"batches\": 266.0,\n \"seconds\": 425.2351367240001,\n \"validation_loss\": 4.26499250578897,\n \"validation_targets\": 130103.0,\n \"validation_target_weight_sum\": 78769.25,\n \"validation_seconds\": 38.444113574000085\n }\n ],\n \"embedding_diagnostics\": {\n \"query_norm_mean\": 1.4149270057678223,\n \"query_norm_std\": 0.5578652024269104,\n \"item_norm_mean\": 1.6180378198623657,\n \"item_norm_std\": 0.7641843557357788\n },\n \"torch_version\": \"2.8.0+cpu\",\n \"device\": \"cpu\"\n}\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 40, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Training and ranking completed in 548 seconds." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-626c8011-2898-4304-8df5-b4745ba9b305-54", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/validation_ranking.parquet", "description": "Evaluate public validation NDCG@10" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\n{\n \"model\": \"/app/solution/validation_ranking.parquet\",\n \"scores\": {\n \"quality_ndcg@10\": 0.012852,\n \"quality_users\": 4263\n }\n}\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 41, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The current NDCG@10 score is only 0.012852, which is very low.\n\nNo production baseline is available. I will compute random and popularity baselines to judge the 0.0128 score. I also need to check for popularity bias and hit rate." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "Public NDCG@10 is 0.0129. I’ll compare that to popularity and inspect the ranking before deciding whether to refit or change the objective." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-40283a95-fc3e-4d8e-a632-483f2c987620-55", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'PY'\nimport numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\nfrom pathlib import Path\nimport sys\nsys.path.insert(0, '/task')\nfrom ranking_evaluation import CandidateSet, ndcg_at_k, QUALITY_K, ranked_items\nfrom evaluate_public import validation_truth\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\ntargets = set(pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet').uid.astype(int))\nelig = CandidateSet(data/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\ngraded = validation_truth(elig, targets)\nranking = pd.read_parquet('/app/solution/validation_ranking.parquet')\nranked = ranked_items(ranking)\n\ncatalog = pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet').sort_values('popularity_rank')\nitem_ids = catalog.item_id.to_numpy()\npop_rank = {int(i): r for r, i in enumerate(item_ids, start=1)}\n\n# popularity baseline: eligible items in catalog order\npop_ranked = {}\nfor uid in graded:\n row = elig.uid_row[int(uid)]\n mask = np.unpackbits(elig.packed[row], count=len(elig.item_ids), bitorder='little').astype(bool)\n items = elig.item_ids[mask]\n pop_ranked[int(uid)] = list(map(int, items[:100])) # catalog already popularity-ordered; but mask may not preserve order\n # actually elig.item_ids is catalog order, unpackbits mask over that order, items = item_ids[mask] preserves order\n # so items is already popularity order among eligible\n\ndef mean_ndcg(ranked_map, graded_map):\n return float(np.mean([ndcg_at_k(ranked_map[uid], gold, QUALITY_K) for uid, gold in graded_map.items()]))\n\nprint('model ndcg', round(mean_ndcg(ranked, graded), 6))\nprint('popularity ndcg', round(mean_ndcg(pop_ranked, graded), 6))\n\n# hit rates\ndef hits(ranked_map, k=10):\n h1=h3=n1=n3=0\n for uid, gold in graded.items():\n top=set(ranked_map[uid][:k])\n g1={i for i,g in gold.items() if g>=1}\n g3={i for i,g in gold.items() if g>=3}\n if g1:\n n1+=1\n h1+=int(len(top&g1)>0)\n if g3:\n n3+=1\n h3+=int(len(top&g3)>0)\n return h1/max(n1,1), h3/max(n3,1), n1, n3\n\nprint('model hit@10 any/grade3', hits(ranked))\nprint('pop hit@10 any/grade3', hits(pop_ranked))\n\n# how popular are model top10\nranks=[]\nfor uid, items in list(ranked.items())[:8456]:\n for it in items[:10]:\n ranks.append(pop_rank.get(it, -1))\nprint('model top10 mean pop-rank', float(np.mean(ranks)), 'median', float(np.median(ranks)))\n\npranks=[]\nfor uid, items in pop_ranked.items():\n for it in items[:10]:\n pranks.append(pop_rank.get(it, -1))\nprint('pop top10 mean pop-rank', float(np.mean(pranks)), 'median', float(np.median(pranks)))\n\n# relevant item popularity\nrel_ranks=[]\ng3_ranks=[]\nfor uid, gold in graded.items():\n for it,g in gold.items():\n rel_ranks.append(pop_rank.get(it, -1))\n if g>=3:\n g3_ranks.append(pop_rank.get(it, -1))\nprint('relevant mean pop-rank', float(np.mean(rel_ranks)), 'median', float(np.median(rel_ranks)), 'n', len(rel_ranks))\nprint('grade3 mean pop-rank', float(np.mean(g3_ranks)), 'median', float(np.median(g3_ranks)), 'n', len(g3_ranks))\nprint('relevant per user', np.mean([len(g) for g in graded.values()]))\n\n# unique items in model top10\nfrom collections import Counter\nc=Counter()\nfor uid, items in ranked.items():\n c.update(items[:10])\nprint('unique items in all top10', len(c), 'most common', c.most_common(10))\nprint('users', len(ranked), 'quality users', len(graded))\nPY", "description": "Compare model ranking to popularity baseline" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\nmodel ndcg 0.012852\npopularity ndcg 0.01071\nmodel hit@10 any/grade3 (0.06755805770584096, 0.027253668763102725, 4263, 1431)\npop hit@10 any/grade3 (0.053718038939713816, 0.019566736547868623, 4263, 1431)\nmodel top10 mean pop-rank 1808.5558183538317 median 312.0\npop top10 mean pop-rank 18.956837907576823 median 12.0\nrelevant mean pop-rank 8463.087743916969 median 5622.0 n 37769\ngrade3 mean pop-rank 8891.975322617162 median 6371.0 n 4417\nrelevant per user 8.859723199624677\nunique items in all top10 948 most common [(5436843, 1142), (8743390, 1031), (5927996, 1027), (3542184, 910), (8213481, 860), (5252571, 858), (2185191, 846), (4502257, 772), (6896222, 726), (8351511, 713)]\nusers 8456 quality users 4263\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 42, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Model NDCG is 0.01285, well below the popularity baseline.\n\nHit@10 improved modestly to 6.8% versus 5.4%. The top-10 median popularity rank is 312, while relevant items sit in the tail at median rank 5622. Only 948 unique items appear across all top-10s, indicating strong head-item concentration. To improve discovery NDCG, the model needs more personalization and less popularity bias.\n\nThe median popularity rank of 312 is still in the head. The item tower likely uses its own features—log1p(positives), log1p(organic), and organic ratio—to rank popular items high. Next-item prediction on recent listens may also favor popular continuations. The sampled softmax with popularity negatives probably needed more epochs, or the hard negative pool was too small.\n\nThe item tower may be learning high-norm vectors for popular items, which dominate dot products. Stronger popularity-based negatives, lower temperature, more epochs, discovery-graded positive weighting, downweighting popular positives, and hard negative mining are being considered to force the model to learn sequential user taste instead of shortcut popularity signals.\n\nThe production baseline is likely near 0.01, so the current lift may already clear the gate. A quick production baseline run is being considered to verify this. Roughly 20–25 minutes have been spent so far, leaving about 40 minutes for training and validation.\n\nThree paths are being weighed. A production baseline run would take about eight minutes. Another validation pass would take nine. The current model could be refit immediately.\n\nProduction's uniform and in-batch negatives likely create more popularity bias than the current model. The 0.0128 NDCG should therefore outperform production. It still seems too low for a mature model that nearly clears a gate, so the launch threshold may sit near 0.015–0.02.\n\nDiscovery-graded target weighting is being considered to prioritize organic likes. Temperature could be lowered to 0.2–0.5, and training could be extended to two epochs. A popularity-adjusted score at inference—subtracting lambda times log(popularity) from the dot product—is also under review as a batchable exploration trick.\n\nBaking popularity debiasing into the item tower during inference preserves the pure two-tower dot product. The item vector can absorb a constant popularity term, and the user vector can append a fixed bias, so the serving contract remains unchanged.\n\nThe popularity debiasing is a ranking tweak rather than a cross-encoder, so it satisfies the two-tower constraint. The task also directs focus on how the training objective selects and uses negative examples.\n\nPopularity debiasing at inference is not a negative sampling change, so the improvement should stay in the training objective. More aggressive popularity negatives are being considered to force the model to distinguish among popular items using user history rather than ranking all head items high for everyone. In-batch softmax over all unique positives would also increase competition. Using only organic-strong or first-occurrence items as positives is another option under review.\n\nUniform negatives are almost useless in sampled softmax because their logits are too low to generate meaningful gradients. The effective negative pool is therefore the hard negatives: popularity negatives, in-batch negatives, and dislikes. The next step is to increase the hard negative count while reducing uniform negatives.\n\nPair accuracy is 0.717, confirming that 28% of negatives outrank the positive and carry useful signal. Validation loss sits at 4.26 against training loss of 4.56, leaving clear room for improvement. The next step is to resume from the existing checkpoint and train for a second epoch, adding discovery-graded weighting, lowering temperature to 0.5, and increasing in-batch and popularity negatives while reducing uniform ones.\n\nResuming from the checkpoint with discovery-graded weighting will reinitialize the optimizer, so the run is effectively fine-tuning. The plan is to load the existing weights and train for one more epoch with this objective change. This tests both deeper learning and better alignment between training targets and the evaluation metric.\n\nA fresh run with discovery-graded targets would take about seven minutes. The deeper issue may be next-item prediction on recent listens, which naturally favors popular tracks. Discovery-graded weighting downweights repeats and upweights organic likes within seven days, better aligning the objective with the evaluation metric.\n\nResuming from the checkpoint with discovery-graded weighting would be a one-epoch transfer fine-tune, which may be too shallow. A fresh one-epoch run with discovery-graded targets is being considered instead for cleaner convergence.\n\nA fresh one-epoch run with discovery-graded targets is planned to test the improvement without checkpoint overhead. If it underperforms, the current ranking will be submitted instead. An inference-time popularity penalty is also being considered as a quick re-ranking experiment using only the saved model checkpoint.\n\nA quick inference-time popularity penalty is being tested as a post-processing step on the existing checkpoint. The penalty can be folded into item vectors or subtracted from dot products, preserving the two-tower serving contract. A short ranking script will load the saved model and re-rank candidates with the adjusted scores.\n\nThe existing validation ranking only covers the top 100 candidates, so it cannot be used for a full-catalog popularity debias test. Loading the saved checkpoint and re-ranking the entire catalog with a popularity penalty would take roughly one to two minutes, since inference queries on full user histories are the dominant cost.\n\nA standalone script will test popularity debiasing at inference by loading the saved checkpoint and re-ranking candidates with a log-popularity penalty. This avoids retraining, but it is treated as a fallback if negative sampling alone cannot fix retrieval quality." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "The model beats a popularity baseline, but top ranks are still head-heavy. I’ll try a cheap checkpoint re-rank with a popularity penalty, then decide whether another training run is worth it." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-6431717a-7f1a-470d-83b4-7fd77527a9d7-56", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'PY'\n\"\"\"Re-rank validation from the saved checkpoint with a popularity penalty.\"\"\"\nfrom pathlib import Path\nimport numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\nimport torch\nimport sys\nsys.path.insert(0, '/app/solution')\nsys.path.insert(0, '/task')\nimport train_current_model as t\nimport two_tower_model as base\nfrom ranking_evaluation import CandidateSet, ndcg_at_k, QUALITY_K, ranked_items, validate_ranking\nfrom evaluate_public import validation_truth\n\npublic = Path('/task')\ncache = Path('/app/solution/cache_validation.npz')\nckpt = Path('/app/solution/checkpoints_validation/epoch-01.pt')\nconfig = t.Config()\ndevice = torch.device('cpu')\ntorch.set_num_threads(8)\nprepared, eligibility = t.load_or_prepare(public, 'validation', config, cache)\npayload = torch.load(ckpt, map_location=device, weights_only=False)\nmodel = base.SequentialTwoTower(prepared.item_features, t.model_config(config)).to(device)\nmodel.load_state_dict(payload['model_state'])\nmodel.eval()\nprint('encoding queries...')\nqueries = t.inference_queries(model, prepared, config, device)\nprint('encoding items...')\nitem_parts=[]\nfor start in range(0, len(prepared.item_ids), 2048):\n rows = torch.arange(start, min(start+2048, len(prepared.item_ids)))\n item_parts.append(model.encode_items(rows).cpu())\nitems = torch.cat(item_parts)\ncatalog = pd.read_parquet(public/'data'/'candidate_catalog.parquet').sort_values('popularity_rank')\nassert np.array_equal(catalog.item_id.to_numpy(), prepared.item_ids)\nlog_pop = torch.from_numpy(np.log1p(catalog.positive_listens.to_numpy(dtype=np.float32)))\nlog_pop = (log_pop - log_pop.mean()) / log_pop.std().clamp_min(1e-6)\n\ntargets = set(pd.read_parquet(public/'data'/'target_users.parquet').uid.astype(int))\nelig = CandidateSet(public/'data'/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\ngraded = validation_truth(elig, targets)\n\ndef rank_with_lambda(lam):\n rows=[]\n for start in range(0, len(eligibility.uids), 64):\n end=min(start+64, len(eligibility.uids))\n scores = queries[start:end] @ items.T\n if lam:\n scores = scores - lam * log_pop\n eligible = np.unpackbits(eligibility.packed[start:end], axis=1, count=len(prepared.item_ids), bitorder='little').astype(bool)\n scores.masked_fill_(~torch.from_numpy(eligible), -torch.inf)\n selected = torch.topk(scores, k=100, dim=1).indices.numpy()\n for local, cols in enumerate(selected):\n uid=int(eligibility.uids[start+local])\n rows.extend((uid, int(prepared.item_ids[c]), r) for r,c in enumerate(cols,1))\n frame=pd.DataFrame(rows, columns=['uid','item_id','rank'])\n ranked=ranked_items(frame)\n ndcg=float(np.mean([ndcg_at_k(ranked[uid], gold, QUALITY_K) for uid,gold in graded.items()]))\n return ndcg, frame\n\nfor lam in [0.0, 0.15, 0.3, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 1.5]:\n ndcg, frame = rank_with_lambda(lam)\n print(f'lambda={lam:.2f} ndcg={ndcg:.6f}')\n if lam==0.5:\n frame.to_parquet('/app/solution/validation_ranking_poppen.parquet', index=False)\nprint('done')\nPY", "description": "Sweep popularity-penalty re-ranking on validation", "block_until_ms": 180000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 1\nloaded full-sequence cache: tokens=20,056,329 targets=20,047,194\nencoding queries...\nencoding items...\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File \"\", line 61, in \n File \"\", line 46, in rank_with_lambda\nRuntimeError: Inference tensors cannot be saved for backward. To work around you can make a clone to get a normal tensor and use it in autograd.\n", "isError": true } } ] }, { "id": 43, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "A graph issue may stem from log_pop subtraction. Queries and items might need no_grad." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-1c75be24-7fe9-45fb-90aa-b24b321ca731-57", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'PY'\nfrom pathlib import Path\nimport numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\nimport torch\nimport sys\nsys.path.insert(0, '/app/solution')\nsys.path.insert(0, '/task')\nimport train_current_model as t\nimport two_tower_model as base\nfrom ranking_evaluation import CandidateSet, ndcg_at_k, QUALITY_K, ranked_items\nfrom evaluate_public import validation_truth\n\npublic = Path('/task')\ncache = Path('/app/solution/cache_validation.npz')\nckpt = Path('/app/solution/checkpoints_validation/epoch-01.pt')\nconfig = t.Config()\ndevice = torch.device('cpu')\ntorch.set_num_threads(8)\nprepared, eligibility = t.load_or_prepare(public, 'validation', config, cache)\npayload = torch.load(ckpt, map_location=device, weights_only=False)\nmodel = base.SequentialTwoTower(prepared.item_features, t.model_config(config)).to(device)\nmodel.load_state_dict(payload['model_state'])\nmodel.eval()\nprint('encoding queries...')\nwith torch.inference_mode():\n queries = t.inference_queries(model, prepared, config, device)\n print('encoding items...')\n item_parts=[]\n for start in range(0, len(prepared.item_ids), 2048):\n rows = torch.arange(start, min(start+2048, len(prepared.item_ids)))\n item_parts.append(model.encode_items(rows).cpu())\n items = torch.cat(item_parts)\nqueries = queries.detach()\nitems = items.detach()\ncatalog = pd.read_parquet(public/'data'/'candidate_catalog.parquet').sort_values('popularity_rank')\nassert np.array_equal(catalog.item_id.to_numpy(), prepared.item_ids)\nlog_pop = torch.from_numpy(np.log1p(catalog.positive_listens.to_numpy(dtype=np.float32)))\nlog_pop = (log_pop - log_pop.mean()) / log_pop.std().clamp_min(1e-6)\n\ntargets = set(pd.read_parquet(public/'data'/'target_users.parquet').uid.astype(int))\nelig = CandidateSet(public/'data'/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\ngraded = validation_truth(elig, targets)\n\ndef rank_with_lambda(lam):\n rows=[]\n with torch.inference_mode():\n for start in range(0, len(eligibility.uids), 64):\n end=min(start+64, len(eligibility.uids))\n scores = queries[start:end] @ items.T\n if lam:\n scores = scores - lam * log_pop\n eligible = np.unpackbits(eligibility.packed[start:end], axis=1, count=len(prepared.item_ids), bitorder='little').astype(bool)\n scores = scores.masked_fill(~torch.from_numpy(eligible), -torch.inf)\n selected = torch.topk(scores, k=100, dim=1).indices.numpy()\n for local, cols in enumerate(selected):\n uid=int(eligibility.uids[start+local])\n rows.extend((uid, int(prepared.item_ids[c]), r) for r,c in enumerate(cols,1))\n frame=pd.DataFrame(rows, columns=['uid','item_id','rank'])\n ranked=ranked_items(frame)\n ndcg=float(np.mean([ndcg_at_k(ranked[uid], gold, QUALITY_K) for uid,gold in graded.items()]))\n return ndcg, frame\n\nbest_lam, best_ndcg, best_frame = None, -1, None\nfor lam in [0.0, 0.15, 0.3, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0]:\n ndcg, frame = rank_with_lambda(lam)\n print(f'lambda={lam:.2f} ndcg={ndcg:.6f}', flush=True)\n if ndcg > best_ndcg:\n best_lam, best_ndcg, best_frame = lam, ndcg, frame\nprint('best', best_lam, best_ndcg)\nbest_frame.to_parquet('/app/solution/validation_ranking_bestpen.parquet', index=False)\nPY", "description": "Re-rank validation with popularity penalty sweep", "block_until_ms": 180000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\nloaded full-sequence cache: tokens=20,056,329 targets=20,047,194\nencoding queries...\nencoding items...\nlambda=0.00 ndcg=0.012852\nlambda=0.15 ndcg=0.015101\nlambda=0.30 ndcg=0.013548\nlambda=0.50 ndcg=0.007347\nlambda=0.75 ndcg=0.004245\nlambda=1.00 ndcg=0.003361\nlambda=1.50 ndcg=0.002892\nlambda=2.00 ndcg=0.002302\nbest 0.15 0.015100823078559701\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 44, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "A popularity penalty of 0.15 improved NDCG.\n\nThe gain was about 17% relative. The better fix is stronger popularity negatives during training so the model debiases internally.\n\nA clean two-tower fix is to append popularity features directly into the item and user vectors. This preserves the dot-product serving contract while adding debiasing pressure during training.\n\nThe 0.15 score-time penalty is too strong. I will try a stronger training objective instead: 96 popularity negatives, power 1.0, discovery-graded positives, and two epochs. This should push the model to internally debias popular items.\n\nI will resume from the first epoch checkpoint and train for a second epoch with the same negative configuration. This should sharpen personalization before I re-tune the score-time popularity penalty.\n\nThe score-time penalty is confirmed as the production fix. I will bake popularity calibration directly into the item vectors so the model learns to use it during training. The current best NDCG already exceeds the production baseline, so I am proceeding with this training path.\n\nInverse-propensity weighting of positives is another way to reduce head bias during training. I will run epoch 2 while baking in a mild score-time calibration. I must avoid overfitting the popularity penalty on the public validation set.\n\nThe penalty will be fixed at 0.15, the best value found in the grid search. I will add `popularity_logit_penalty` to the config and apply it at inference time by subtracting standardized log-popularity from the dot-product scores. This calibration will be combined with the stronger negative sampling." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "A 0.15 popularity penalty lifts NDCG to 0.0151. I’ll bake that calibration into ranking and train a second epoch from the checkpoint." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-154dd1e2-2f02-4be2-b38a-f611bfa12407-58", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " softmax_temperature: float = 1.0\n loss_type: str = \"sampled-softmax\"", "new_string": " softmax_temperature: float = 1.0\n loss_type: str = \"sampled-softmax\"\n popularity_logit_penalty: float = 0.15" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-154dd1e2-2f02-4be2-b38a-f611bfa12407-59", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " 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\",\n ).astype(bool, copy=False)\n scores.masked_fill_(~torch.from_numpy(eligible), -torch.inf)", "new_string": " items = torch.cat(item_parts)\n popularity_shift = None\n if config.popularity_logit_penalty:\n # Catalog popularity is already an item-tower input, but mixed negatives\n # still leave a residual head bias. Subtracting a standardized log-count\n # term is equivalent to appending a constant 1 to the user vector and\n # -penalty * log_pop to each precomputed item vector.\n log_pop = np.log1p(prepared.item_features.new_tensor)\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 if popularity_shift is not None:\n scores = scores - popularity_shift\n eligible = np.unpackbits(\n eligibility.packed[start:end],\n axis=1,\n count=len(prepared.item_ids),\n bitorder=\"little\",\n ).astype(bool, copy=False)\n scores.masked_fill_(~torch.from_numpy(eligible), -torch.inf)" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 45, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "A broken placeholder was left in the prepared data.\n\nThe ranking code needs fixing. Standardized item features already contain the log-popularity signal in their first column, so it can be extracted directly without messy reconstruction or extra catalog data." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-b360df6e-b0b7-40cb-82e5-83507ac07730-60", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " items = torch.cat(item_parts)\n popularity_shift = None\n if config.popularity_logit_penalty:\n # Catalog popularity is already an item-tower input, but mixed negatives\n # still leave a residual head bias. Subtracting a standardized log-count\n # term is equivalent to appending a constant 1 to the user vector and\n # -penalty * log_pop to each precomputed item vector.\n log_pop = np.log1p(prepared.item_features.new_tensor)\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 if popularity_shift is not None:\n scores = scores - popularity_shift", "new_string": " items = torch.cat(item_parts)\n popularity_shift = None\n if config.popularity_logit_penalty:\n # Item feature 0 is z-scored log1p(positive listens). Subtracting it\n # from the two-tower score is equivalent to appending a constant 1 to\n # the user vector and -penalty * log_pop to each precomputed item vector.\n popularity_shift = config.popularity_logit_penalty * torch.from_numpy(\n prepared.item_features[:, 0].astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n )\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 if popularity_shift is not None:\n scores = scores - popularity_shift" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-b360df6e-b0b7-40cb-82e5-83507ac07730-61", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " parser.add_argument(\n \"--loss-type\",\n choices=(\"sampled-softmax\", \"bce\"),\n default=Config.loss_type,\n )", "new_string": " parser.add_argument(\n \"--loss-type\",\n choices=(\"sampled-softmax\", \"bce\"),\n default=Config.loss_type,\n )\n parser.add_argument(\n \"--popularity-logit-penalty\",\n type=float,\n default=Config.popularity_logit_penalty,\n )" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-b360df6e-b0b7-40cb-82e5-83507ac07730-62", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " or args.softmax_temperature <= 0\n ):", "new_string": " or args.softmax_temperature <= 0\n or args.popularity_logit_penalty < 0\n ):" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-b360df6e-b0b7-40cb-82e5-83507ac07730-63", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " loss_type=args.loss_type,\n negative_filter_scope=args.negative_filter_scope,", "new_string": " loss_type=args.loss_type,\n popularity_logit_penalty=args.popularity_logit_penalty,\n negative_filter_scope=args.negative_filter_scope," }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 46, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Verifying that the first item feature column is standardized log1p(positives).\n\nConfirmed the first item feature column matches the catalog z-scored log1p(positives). Compiling and saving the 0.15 penalty ranking as a validation artifact, then starting epoch 2 training.\n\nConsidering whether discovery-graded labels would improve retrieval quality. The penalty term does not affect training, so resuming epoch 2 from checkpoint is straightforward. A quick local check will confirm the baked-in penalty matches the computed item features." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-6d6c518a-bf27-4286-8b0e-05bd62903a44-64", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python -m py_compile /app/solution/train_current_model.py && echo COMPILE_OK\n# keep the best measured validation ranking handy\ncp /app/solution/validation_ranking_bestpen.parquet /app/solution/validation_ranking_penalty.parquet\nls -lh /app/solution/*.parquet /app/solution/checkpoints_validation/", "description": "Compile trainer and preserve best validation ranking" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\nCOMPILE_OK\n-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 1.3M Sep 29 23:48 /app/solution/validation_ranking.parquet\n-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 1.5M Sep 29 23:53 /app/solution/validation_ranking_bestpen.parquet\n-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 1.5M Sep 29 23:54 /app/solution/validation_ranking_penalty.parquet\n\n/app/solution/checkpoints_validation/:\ntotal 289M\n-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 145M Sep 29 23:47 best.pt\n-rw-r--r-- 1 agent agent 145M Sep 29 23:47 epoch-01.pt\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 47, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Resuming training from checkpoint at epoch 2." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-a7b6fc52-7661-4bdc-ac85-5746dc4aa399-65", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python train_current_model.py \\\n --stage validation \\\n --public-dir /task \\\n --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_validation.npz \\\n --output /app/solution/validation_ranking_epoch2.parquet \\\n --checkpoint-dir /app/solution/checkpoints_validation \\\n --resume-checkpoint /app/solution/checkpoints_validation/epoch-01.pt \\\n --epochs 2 \\\n --threads 8 \\\n --ranking-batch-size 64", "description": "Train second epoch from checkpoint and re-rank", "block_until_ms": 0 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "01a0ef97-ad61-7482-a9f7-d5bc724dd0be\nbash\n/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-a7b6fc52-7661-4bdc-ac85-5746dc4aa399-65.log\nrunning\nBackground task 01a0ef97-ad61-7482-a9f7-d5bc724dd0be started\nUse get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=[\"01a0ef97-ad61-7482-a9f7-d5bc724dd0be\"] when you need the output.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 48, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "While epoch 2 trains, I will draft the README.\n\nThe CPU-only environment blocks submission cache preparation. In-batch correction is harmless because softmax ignores it. The sampled softmax temperature appears appropriately peaked for the current embedding norms. A fallback submission derived from validation rankings is invalid, since those candidates are not test-eligible." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-9abd0874-fa5f-4b58-a535-1e890a847f38-66", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ef97-ad61-7482-a9f7-d5bc724dd0be" ], "timeout_ms": 180000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0ef97-ad61-7482-a9f7-d5bc724dd0be ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python train_current_model.py \\\n --stage validation \\\n --public-dir /task \\\n --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_validation.npz \\\n --output /app/solution/validation_ranking_epoch2.parquet \\\n --checkpoint-dir /app/solution/checkpoints_validation \\\n --resume-checkpoint /app/solution/checkpoints_validation/epoch-01.pt \\\n --epochs 2 \\\n --threads 8 \\\n --ranking-batch-size 64\nStatus: running\nDuration: 185.26s\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-a7b6fc52-7661-4bdc-ac85-5746dc4aa399-65.log\n\n=== Output ===\nloaded full-sequence cache: tokens=20,056,329 targets=20,047,194\nchronological BCE window: train=1,052,953 validation=130,103 selected=1,183,056 discarded_old_targets=18,864,138 all=20,047,194\ninbatch correction: min=0.250 mean_on_targets=1.001 max=4.000\npopularity sampling p^0.75: top10_mass=0.0067 top100_mass=0.0374 entropy=9.947\ntarget weighting=organic-strong min=0.250 mean=0.575 max=1.000\nfull-history false-negative filter: users=9,135 unique_user_items=5,524,275 bytes=34,256,250\nrestored optimizer state from /app/solution/checkpoints_validation/epoch-01.pt\nresumed validation-BCE training: epoch=1 loss=4.264993\n\n\nWaited the requested 180s. Unless the user specified, do not kill this task just because this wait returned. It is still working. You will be notified automatically when it completes. Do other work, or wait again with a longer timeout_ms.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 49, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-270efd41-6cd0-4cc3-accc-4ea94af0c9e5-67", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0ef97-ad61-7482-a9f7-d5bc724dd0be" ], "timeout_ms": 420000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0ef97-ad61-7482-a9f7-d5bc724dd0be ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python train_current_model.py \\\n --stage validation \\\n --public-dir /task \\\n --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_validation.npz \\\n --output /app/solution/validation_ranking_epoch2.parquet \\\n --checkpoint-dir /app/solution/checkpoints_validation \\\n --resume-checkpoint /app/solution/checkpoints_validation/epoch-01.pt \\\n --epochs 2 \\\n --threads 8 \\\n --ranking-batch-size 64\nStatus: completed\nDuration: 552.60s\nExit Code: 0\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-a7b6fc52-7661-4bdc-ac85-5746dc4aa399-65.log\n\n=== Output ===\nloaded full-sequence cache: tokens=20,056,329 targets=20,047,194\nchronological BCE window: train=1,052,953 validation=130,103 selected=1,183,056 discarded_old_targets=18,864,138 all=20,047,194\ninbatch correction: min=0.250 mean_on_targets=1.001 max=4.000\npopularity sampling p^0.75: top10_mass=0.0067 top100_mass=0.0374 entropy=9.947\ntarget weighting=organic-strong min=0.250 mean=0.575 max=1.000\nfull-history false-negative filter: users=9,135 unique_user_items=5,524,275 bytes=34,256,250\nrestored optimizer state from /app/solution/checkpoints_validation/epoch-01.pt\nresumed validation-BCE training: epoch=1 loss=4.264993\nepoch=2/2 batches=250 targets=991,532 batch_bce=4.082749 running_bce=4.070262 elapsed=399.5s\nsaved epoch checkpoint: /app/solution/checkpoints_validation/epoch-02.pt\nepoch=2/2 train_loss=4.06319 validation_loss=3.96310 pair_accuracy=0.823 train_targets=1,052,953 validation_targets=130,103 train_seconds=425.0 validation_seconds=37.5\nrestored best validation-BCE checkpoint: epoch=2 loss=3.963100\nranked users=1,024/8,456\nranked users=2,048/8,456\nranked users=3,072/8,456\nranked users=4,096/8,456\nranked users=5,120/8,456\nranked users=6,144/8,456\nranked users=7,168/8,456\nranked users=8,192/8,456\nranked users=8,456/8,456\n{\n \"baseline\": \"yambda-windowed-sequence-two-tower-base\",\n \"stage\": \"validation\",\n \"output\": \"/app/solution/validation_ranking_epoch2.parquet\",\n \"rows\": 845600,\n \"users\": 8456,\n \"runtime_seconds\": 548.23,\n \"public_inputs_only\": true,\n \"architecture\": {\n \"family\": \"pure-windowed-sequence-two-tower\",\n \"sequence_training\": \"every-adjacent-target-within-recent-chronological-window\",\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\",\n \"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-sampled-softmax-at-every-timestep\",\n \"negative_sampling\": \"48-uniform-48-popularity-48-inbatch-8-dislike\",\n \"false_negative_filter\": \"full-training-history\",\n \"target_weighting\": \"organic-strong\"\n },\n \"config\": {\n \"bptt_steps\": 100,\n \"user_batch_size\": 64,\n \"embedding_dim\": 192,\n \"hidden_dim\": 192,\n \"user_hidden_1\": 512,\n \"user_hidden_2\": 256,\n \"item_hidden_1\": 512,\n \"item_hidden_2\": 256,\n \"dropout\": 0.05,\n \"epochs\": 2,\n \"learning_rate\": 0.001,\n \"weight_decay\": 1e-05,\n \"gradient_clip\": 2.0,\n \"loss_microbatch_size\": 65536,\n \"uniform_negatives\": 48,\n \"inbatch_negatives\": 48,\n \"popularity_negatives\": 48,\n \"dislike_negatives\": 8,\n \"popularity_sample_power\": 0.75,\n \"softmax_temperature\": 1.0,\n \"loss_type\": \"sampled-softmax\",\n \"popularity_logit_penalty\": 0.15,\n \"inbatch_correction_power\": 0.5,\n \"inbatch_correction_min\": 0.25,\n \"inbatch_correction_max\": 4.0,\n \"negative_filter_scope\": \"full-training-history\",\n \"target_weighting\": \"organic-strong\",\n \"ordinary_target_weight\": 0.25,\n \"organic_strong_target_weight\": 1.0,\n \"organic_like_target_weight\": 3.0,\n \"discovery_horizon_days\": 7,\n \"validation_fraction\": 0.1,\n \"max_train_targets_per_user\": 128,\n \"max_validation_targets_per_user\": 16,\n \"early_stopping_patience\": 1,\n \"early_stopping_min_delta\": 0.0001,\n \"seed\": 29\n },\n \"sequence_tokens\": 20056329,\n \"all_next_item_targets\": 20047194,\n \"selected_training_targets\": 1052953,\n \"selected_validation_targets\": 130103,\n \"discarded_old_targets\": 18864138,\n \"training_history\": [\n {\n \"epoch\": 1.0,\n \"loss\": 4.562916984354209,\n \"positive_logit\": 0.7590864455158315,\n \"negative_logit\": -0.1787703091734108,\n \"pair_accuracy\": 0.7173740935705283,\n \"targets\": 1052953.0,\n \"target_weight_sum\": 632551.0,\n \"batches\": 266.0,\n \"seconds\": 425.2351367240001,\n \"validation_loss\": 4.26499250578897,\n \"validation_targets\": 130103.0,\n \"validation_target_weight_sum\": 78769.25,\n \"validation_seconds\": 38.444113574000085\n },\n {\n \"epoch\": 2.0,\n \"loss\": 4.063189315432853,\n \"positive_logit\": 1.3363776756272194,\n \"negative_logit\": -1.088519279506411,\n \"pair_accuracy\": 0.8225506779005031,\n \"targets\": 1052953.0,\n \"target_weight_sum\": 632551.0,\n \"batches\": 266.0,\n \"seconds\": 425.02274883500013,\n \"validation_loss\": 3.963100147197675,\n \"validation_targets\": 130103.0,\n \"validation_target_weight_sum\": 78769.25,\n \"validation_seconds\": 37.45530144800023\n }\n ],\n \"embedding_diagnostics\": {\n \"query_norm_mean\": 1.6059610843658447,\n \"query_norm_std\": 0.5699992775917053,\n \"item_norm_mean\": 3.046328067779541,\n \"item_norm_std\": 1.4449408054351807\n },\n \"torch_version\": \"2.8.0+cpu\",\n \"device\": \"cpu\"\n}\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 50, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Validation softmax loss improved in epoch 2." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-37a6b37f-208e-467b-8bac-e1660ac5ce1c-68", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/validation_ranking_epoch2.parquet\n/opt/task-venv/bin/python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/validation_ranking.parquet\n/opt/task-venv/bin/python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/validation_ranking_bestpen.parquet", "description": "Compare epoch1, penalty, and epoch2 public NDCG" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\n{\n \"model\": \"/app/solution/validation_ranking_epoch2.parquet\",\n \"scores\": {\n \"quality_ndcg@10\": 0.012745,\n \"quality_users\": 4263\n }\n}\n{\n \"model\": \"/app/solution/validation_ranking.parquet\",\n \"scores\": {\n \"quality_ndcg@10\": 0.012852,\n \"quality_users\": 4263\n }\n}\n{\n \"model\": \"/app/solution/validation_ranking_bestpen.parquet\",\n \"scores\": {\n \"quality_ndcg@10\": 0.015101,\n \"quality_users\": 4263\n }\n}\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 51, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Epoch 2 with a 0.15 penalty scored zero." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "Epoch 2 lowered next-item loss but hurt NDCG; item norms grew, so I’ll retune the popularity penalty on that checkpoint." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-94dc2534-edc2-4079-9da2-2a4f885d7084-69", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'PY'\nfrom pathlib import Path\nimport numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\nimport torch\nimport sys\nsys.path.insert(0, '/app/solution')\nsys.path.insert(0, '/task')\nimport train_current_model as t\nimport two_tower_model as base\nfrom ranking_evaluation import CandidateSet, ndcg_at_k, QUALITY_K, ranked_items\nfrom evaluate_public import validation_truth\n\npublic = Path('/task')\ncache = Path('/app/solution/cache_validation.npz')\nconfig = t.Config()\ndevice = torch.device('cpu')\ntorch.set_num_threads(8)\nprepared, eligibility = t.load_or_prepare(public, 'validation', config, cache)\npayload = torch.load(Path('/app/solution/checkpoints_validation/epoch-02.pt'), map_location=device, weights_only=False)\nmodel = base.SequentialTwoTower(prepared.item_features, t.model_config(config)).to(device)\nmodel.load_state_dict(payload['model_state'])\nmodel.eval()\nwith torch.inference_mode():\n queries = t.inference_queries(model, prepared, config, device).detach()\n item_parts=[]\n for start in range(0, len(prepared.item_ids), 2048):\n rows = torch.arange(start, min(start+2048, len(prepared.item_ids)))\n item_parts.append(model.encode_items(rows).cpu())\n items = torch.cat(item_parts).detach()\nlog_pop = torch.from_numpy(prepared.item_features[:, 0].astype(np.float32, copy=False))\nprint('query_norm', float(torch.linalg.vector_norm(queries, dim=1).mean()), 'item_norm', float(torch.linalg.vector_norm(items, dim=1).mean()))\nprint('score_std_sample', float((queries[:256] @ items.T).std()))\n\ntargets = set(pd.read_parquet(public/'data'/'target_users.parquet').uid.astype(int))\nelig = CandidateSet(public/'data'/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\ngraded = validation_truth(elig, targets)\n\ndef rank_with_lambda(lam):\n rows=[]\n with torch.inference_mode():\n for start in range(0, len(eligibility.uids), 64):\n end=min(start+64, len(eligibility.uids))\n scores = queries[start:end] @ items.T\n if lam:\n scores = scores - lam * log_pop\n eligible = np.unpackbits(eligibility.packed[start:end], axis=1, count=len(prepared.item_ids), bitorder='little').astype(bool)\n scores = scores.masked_fill(~torch.from_numpy(eligible), -torch.inf)\n selected = torch.topk(scores, k=100, dim=1).indices.numpy()\n for local, cols in enumerate(selected):\n uid=int(eligibility.uids[start+local])\n rows.extend((uid, int(prepared.item_ids[c]), r) for r,c in enumerate(cols,1))\n frame=pd.DataFrame(rows, columns=['uid','item_id','rank'])\n ranked=ranked_items(frame)\n ndcg=float(np.mean([ndcg_at_k(ranked[uid], gold, QUALITY_K) for uid,gold in graded.items()]))\n return ndcg, frame\n\nbest_lam, best_ndcg, best_frame = None, -1, None\nfor lam in [0.0, 0.15, 0.3, 0.45, 0.6, 0.9, 1.2, 1.8]:\n ndcg, frame = rank_with_lambda(lam)\n print(f'epoch2 lambda={lam:.2f} ndcg={ndcg:.6f}', flush=True)\n if ndcg > best_ndcg:\n best_lam, best_ndcg, best_frame = lam, ndcg, frame\nprint('best', best_lam, best_ndcg)\nbest_frame.to_parquet('/app/solution/validation_ranking_epoch2_bestpen.parquet', index=False)\nPY", "description": "Sweep popularity penalty on epoch-2 checkpoint", "block_until_ms": 180000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\nloaded full-sequence cache: tokens=20,056,329 targets=20,047,194\nquery_norm 1.6059612035751343 item_norm 3.046328067779541\nscore_std_sample 2.4588510990142822\nepoch2 lambda=0.00 ndcg=0.013257\nepoch2 lambda=0.15 ndcg=0.012745\nepoch2 lambda=0.30 ndcg=0.010664\nepoch2 lambda=0.45 ndcg=0.008403\nepoch2 lambda=0.60 ndcg=0.006689\nepoch2 lambda=0.90 ndcg=0.004889\nepoch2 lambda=1.20 ndcg=0.003936\nepoch2 lambda=1.80 ndcg=0.003116\nbest 0.0 0.013256544318090773\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 52, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Epoch 2 without penalty is 0.013257, up from 0 in epoch 1.\n\nThe 0.15 penalty remains the best configuration at 0.015101. Epoch 2 without penalty is slightly worse, suggesting the penalty no longer helps. I will ship one epoch with the 0.15 penalty and mixed negatives. I am skipping a production baseline to prioritize submission.\n\nA quick re-rank of epoch 1 around lambda 0.12 or 0.18 would need query re-encoding and likely only marginally improve the score. A fresh one-epoch discovery-graded run is another option, but it carries risk of underperforming.\n\nThe submission pipeline is now mapped out. It requires roughly ten minutes: cache preparation, one epoch training, ranking, and writing the parquet file. The output must be a regular file, not a symlink, along with a README. Chronological validation still holds out ten percent of train and validation data internally.\n\nThe penalty of 0.15 is kept as a mild calibration even though validation events are included in the submission history. Item features are rebuilt from the same static catalog, so candidate encoding stays consistent. The one-epoch default and submission cache preparation are now ready to begin." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-160e6bc9-e81b-44bb-836f-f82941b802dd-70", "name": "todo_write", "input": { "todos": [ { "id": "3", "content": "Implement improved training objective", "status": "completed" }, { "id": "4", "content": "Validate on public backtest", "status": "completed" }, { "id": "5", "content": "Refit on train+val and produce submission", "status": "in_progress" } ], "merge": true }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "- [completed] 1: Explore current model, data protocol, and evaluation\n- [completed] 2: Diagnose negative-sampling limitations\n- [completed] 3: Implement improved training objective\n- [completed] 4: Validate on public backtest\n- [in_progress] 5: Refit on train+val and produce submission\n", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-160e6bc9-e81b-44bb-836f-f82941b802dd-71", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python train_current_model.py \\\n --stage submission \\\n --public-dir /task \\\n --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_submission.npz \\\n --output /app/solution/submission.parquet \\\n --checkpoint-dir /app/solution/checkpoints_submission \\\n --epochs 1 \\\n --threads 8 \\\n --ranking-batch-size 64", "description": "Refit improved model on train+val and write submission", "block_until_ms": 0 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "01a0efa2-6299-75b1-a7f1-403f6e63de85\nbash\n/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-160e6bc9-e81b-44bb-836f-f82941b802dd-71.log\nrunning\nBackground task 01a0efa2-6299-75b1-a7f1-403f6e63de85 started\nUse get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=[\"01a0efa2-6299-75b1-a7f1-403f6e63de85\"] when you need the output.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 53, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Planning next steps while the submission trains.\n\nWriting the README and verifying rank_candidates correctness. Checking trainer integrity and Config defaults. A full production baseline will be trained after submission." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-972b5254-7614-4271-84c9-0c6d3598dff9-72", "name": "read_file", "input": { "target_file": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "offset": 1985, "limit": 50 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "1985→ eligibility: CandidateSet,\n config: Config,\n device: torch.device,\n ranking_batch_size: int,\n) -> tuple[pd.DataFrame, dict[str, float]]:\n1990→ model.eval()\n 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 )\n2000→ item_parts.append(model.encode_items(rows).cpu())\n items = torch.cat(item_parts)\n popularity_shift = None\n if config.popularity_logit_penalty:\n # Item feature 0 is z-scored log1p(positive listens). Subtracting it\n # from the two-tower score is equivalent to appending a constant 1 to\n # the user vector and -penalty * log_pop to each precomputed item vector.\n popularity_shift = config.popularity_logit_penalty * torch.from_numpy(\n prepared.item_features[:, 0].astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n )\n2010→ 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 if popularity_shift is not None:\n scores = scores - popularity_shift\n eligible = np.unpackbits(\n eligibility.packed[start:end],\n axis=1,\n count=len(prepared.item_ids),\n2020→ bitorder=\"little\",\n ).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 )\n2030→ if end == len(eligibility.uids) or end % 1_024 == 0:\n 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 = {", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-972b5254-7614-4271-84c9-0c6d3598dff9-73", "name": "read_file", "input": { "target_file": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "offset": 40, "limit": 40 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "40→@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 = 48\n inbatch_negatives: int = 48\n popularity_negatives: int = 48\n dislike_negatives: int = 8\n60→ popularity_sample_power: float = 0.75\n softmax_temperature: float = 1.0\n loss_type: str = \"sampled-softmax\"\n popularity_logit_penalty: float = 0.15\n inbatch_correction_power: float = 0.5\n inbatch_correction_min: float = 0.25\n 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\n70→ 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\n early_stopping_patience: int = 1\n early_stopping_min_delta: float = 1.0e-4\n seed: int = 29\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 54, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "A potential bug was spotted in the scores.\n\nThe masked_fill_ penalty works correctly under inference mode. The bug is in the score computation sequence: scores are computed, shifted by popularity, then masked.\n\nThe 0.15 popularity penalty is a reasonable one-dimensional calibration. I will write the README and add an architecture JSON noting the penalty. The production baseline will be run after submission if time allows." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-03f91250-cb9b-443d-a363-9e62846d2409-74", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/README.md", "old_string": "", "new_string": "# Mixed-negative two-tower for discovery ranking\n\n## Diagnosis\n\nThe production trainer is a sound chronological two-tower: GRU user history,\ncatalog item tower, no user-ID table, and precomputed item vectors at serving.\nThe retrieval gap is in **how negatives are selected and scored**.\n\nThe published objective draws **24 uniform catalog items plus 8 unique in-batch\nitems** and trains **independent BCE** (softplus on the positive and on each\nnegative separately). On a 30k catalog that mix is too easy:\n\n- Uniform draws are almost always obvious non-plays, so BCE saturates and the\n towers can rank by popularity using the catalog features.\n- A training block already contains hundreds of other users' positives (harder,\n popularity-correlated items) but only eight of them are used.\n- Explicit dislikes are pooled as a user feature and never used as supervised\n negatives.\n- Independent BCE does not force the positive to win a shared partition against\n the negative pool, which is what NDCG@10 requires at serving.\n\nPublic discovery labels are also **unseen mid-tail tracks** (median catalog rank\n~5600). A popularity ranking of eligible items only reaches **0.010710**\ngraded NDCG@10, and a model that still dumps head titles into top-10 cannot\nclear a discovery gate.\n\n## Model change\n\nKeep the data protocol, GRU two-tower, raw dot-product serving path, and\nfull-history false-negative filter. Change only the objective and a residual\nscore calibration:\n\n1. **Mixed negatives (152 per target):** 48 uniform + 48 popularity-weighted\n (`p^0.75` on training-target frequency) + 48 unique in-batch + 8 active\n dislikes, still rejecting known training positives and likes.\n2. **Sampled softmax** with temperature 1.0, so the positive competes with the\n whole mixed pool instead of getting a separate logistic loss.\n3. **One epoch** on the recent 128 targets/user. A second epoch improved\n next-item softmax loss but **hurt** public NDCG.\n4. **Residual head-bias calibration at ranking:** subtract `0.15 * z-scored\n log1p(positive listens)` from the two-tower score. This is equivalent to\n appending a constant 1 to the user vector and a popularity coordinate to\n each precomputed item vector.\n\n## Public backtest (cutoff 24786800)\n\n| Ranker | graded NDCG@10 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Eligible-catalog popularity | 0.010710 |\n| Production objective (24 uniform + 8 in-batch, BCE), 1 epoch | see note |\n| Mixed negatives + sampled softmax, 1 epoch | 0.012852 |\n| + popularity logit penalty 0.15 | **0.015101** |\n| Mixed negatives, 2 epochs (with 0.15 penalty) | 0.012745 |\n\nThe production script was not fully re-scored in this time window; the\npublished configuration is 24 uniform + 8 in-batch BCE. The improved 1-epoch\nmodel already beats popularity, and the 0.15 calibration is the selected\nvalidation ranking.\n\n## Submission command\n\n```sh\npython /app/solution/train_current_model.py \\\n --stage submission \\\n --public-dir /task \\\n --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_submission.npz \\\n --output /app/solution/submission.parquet \\\n --epochs 1 \\\n --threads 8\n```\n\nRefit uses `train_* + val_*` as observed history and ranks\n`test_eligible_candidates.npz`.\n" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/README.md has been created successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 55, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-86b67e77-1ebd-4ba0-b724-739356a4920f-75", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0efa2-6299-75b1-a7f1-403f6e63de85" ], "timeout_ms": 120000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0efa2-6299-75b1-a7f1-403f6e63de85 ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python train_current_model.py \\\n --stage submission \\\n --public-dir /task \\\n --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_submission.npz \\\n --output /app/solution/submission.parquet \\\n --checkpoint-dir /app/solution/checkpoints_submission \\\n --epochs 1 \\\n --threads 8 \\\n --ranking-batch-size 64\nStatus: running\nDuration: 150.37s\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-160e6bc9-e81b-44bb-836f-f82941b802dd-71.log\n\n=== Output ===\nloaded explicit events: rows=746,504 users=8,307\nprepared users=1,000 tokens=2,167,338 states=37,073 elapsed=5.1s\nprepared users=2,000 tokens=4,450,246 states=73,784 elapsed=10.3s\nprepared users=3,000 tokens=6,703,970 states=113,190 elapsed=15.6s\nprepared users=4,000 tokens=9,087,187 states=153,283 elapsed=21.3s\nprepared users=5,000 tokens=11,354,844 states=188,776 elapsed=26.3s\nprepared users=6,000 tokens=13,485,786 states=224,384 elapsed=31.3s\nprepared users=7,000 tokens=15,826,114 states=265,318 elapsed=37.0s\nprepared users=8,000 tokens=18,028,622 states=306,474 elapsed=42.5s\nprepared users=9,000 tokens=20,195,749 states=342,272 elapsed=47.4s\ntarget users without qualifying catalog sequence=6\nprepared stage=submission sequence_users=9,153 tokens=20,712,971 next_item_targets=20,703,818 states=350,322\nsaved public-derived full-sequence cache: /app/solution/cache_submission.npz\nchronological BCE window: train=1,067,606 validation=131,997 selected=1,199,603 discarded_old_targets=19,504,215 all=20,703,818\ninbatch correction: min=0.250 mean_on_targets=1.001 max=4.000\npopularity sampling p^0.75: top10_mass=0.0067 top100_mass=0.0373 entropy=9.947\ntarget weighting=organic-strong min=0.250 mean=0.576 max=1.000\nfull-history false-negative filter: users=9,153 unique_user_items=5,682,910 bytes=34,323,750\n\n\nWaited the requested 120s. Unless the user specified, do not kill this task just because this wait returned. It is still working. You will be notified automatically when it completes. Do other work, or wait again with a longer timeout_ms.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 56, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-5d488f7f-716d-45b8-939e-7fb36c073f35-76", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0efa2-6299-75b1-a7f1-403f6e63de85" ], "timeout_ms": 600000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0efa2-6299-75b1-a7f1-403f6e63de85 ===\nCommand: cd /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python train_current_model.py \\\n --stage submission \\\n --public-dir /task \\\n --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_submission.npz \\\n --output /app/solution/submission.parquet \\\n --checkpoint-dir /app/solution/checkpoints_submission \\\n --epochs 1 \\\n --threads 8 \\\n --ranking-batch-size 64\nStatus: completed\nDuration: 614.95s\nExit Code: 0\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-160e6bc9-e81b-44bb-836f-f82941b802dd-71.log\n\n=== Output ===\nloaded explicit events: rows=746,504 users=8,307\nprepared users=1,000 tokens=2,167,338 states=37,073 elapsed=5.1s\nprepared users=2,000 tokens=4,450,246 states=73,784 elapsed=10.3s\nprepared users=3,000 tokens=6,703,970 states=113,190 elapsed=15.6s\nprepared users=4,000 tokens=9,087,187 states=153,283 elapsed=21.3s\nprepared users=5,000 tokens=11,354,844 states=188,776 elapsed=26.3s\nprepared users=6,000 tokens=13,485,786 states=224,384 elapsed=31.3s\nprepared users=7,000 tokens=15,826,114 states=265,318 elapsed=37.0s\nprepared users=8,000 tokens=18,028,622 states=306,474 elapsed=42.5s\nprepared users=9,000 tokens=20,195,749 states=342,272 elapsed=47.4s\ntarget users without qualifying catalog sequence=6\nprepared stage=submission sequence_users=9,153 tokens=20,712,971 next_item_targets=20,703,818 states=350,322\nsaved public-derived full-sequence cache: /app/solution/cache_submission.npz\nchronological BCE window: train=1,067,606 validation=131,997 selected=1,199,603 discarded_old_targets=19,504,215 all=20,703,818\ninbatch correction: min=0.250 mean_on_targets=1.001 max=4.000\npopularity sampling p^0.75: top10_mass=0.0067 top100_mass=0.0373 entropy=9.947\ntarget weighting=organic-strong min=0.250 mean=0.576 max=1.000\nfull-history false-negative filter: users=9,153 unique_user_items=5,682,910 bytes=34,323,750\nepoch=1/1 batches=250 targets=994,228 batch_bce=4.165160 running_bce=4.579495 elapsed=402.0s\nsaved epoch checkpoint: /app/solution/checkpoints_submission/epoch-01.pt\nepoch=1/1 train_loss=4.55737 validation_loss=4.27517 pair_accuracy=0.717 train_targets=1,067,606 validation_targets=131,997 train_seconds=432.0 validation_seconds=38.5\nrestored best validation-BCE checkpoint: epoch=1 loss=4.275174\nranked users=1,024/8,456\nranked users=2,048/8,456\nranked users=3,072/8,456\nranked users=4,096/8,456\nranked users=5,120/8,456\nranked users=6,144/8,456\nranked users=7,168/8,456\nranked users=8,192/8,456\nranked users=8,456/8,456\n{\n \"baseline\": \"yambda-windowed-sequence-two-tower-base\",\n \"stage\": \"submission\",\n \"output\": \"/app/solution/submission.parquet\",\n \"rows\": 845600,\n \"users\": 8456,\n \"runtime_seconds\": 610.512,\n \"public_inputs_only\": true,\n \"architecture\": {\n \"family\": \"pure-windowed-sequence-two-tower\",\n \"sequence_training\": \"every-adjacent-target-within-recent-chronological-window\",\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\",\n \"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-sampled-softmax-at-every-timestep\",\n \"negative_sampling\": \"48-uniform-48-popularity-48-inbatch-8-dislike\",\n \"false_negative_filter\": \"full-training-history\",\n \"target_weighting\": \"organic-strong\"\n },\n \"config\": {\n \"bptt_steps\": 100,\n \"user_batch_size\": 64,\n \"embedding_dim\": 192,\n \"hidden_dim\": 192,\n \"user_hidden_1\": 512,\n \"user_hidden_2\": 256,\n \"item_hidden_1\": 512,\n \"item_hidden_2\": 256,\n \"dropout\": 0.05,\n \"epochs\": 1,\n \"learning_rate\": 0.001,\n \"weight_decay\": 1e-05,\n \"gradient_clip\": 2.0,\n \"loss_microbatch_size\": 65536,\n \"uniform_negatives\": 48,\n \"inbatch_negatives\": 48,\n \"popularity_negatives\": 48,\n \"dislike_negatives\": 8,\n \"popularity_sample_power\": 0.75,\n \"softmax_temperature\": 1.0,\n \"loss_type\": \"sampled-softmax\",\n \"popularity_logit_penalty\": 0.15,\n \"inbatch_correction_power\": 0.5,\n \"inbatch_correction_min\": 0.25,\n \"inbatch_correction_max\": 4.0,\n \"negative_filter_scope\": \"full-training-history\",\n \"target_weighting\": \"organic-strong\",\n \"ordinary_target_weight\": 0.25,\n \"organic_strong_target_weight\": 1.0,\n \"organic_like_target_weight\": 3.0,\n \"discovery_horizon_days\": 7,\n \"validation_fraction\": 0.1,\n \"max_train_targets_per_user\": 128,\n \"max_validation_targets_per_user\": 16,\n \"early_stopping_patience\": 1,\n \"early_stopping_min_delta\": 0.0001,\n \"seed\": 29\n },\n \"sequence_tokens\": 20712971,\n \"all_next_item_targets\": 20703818,\n \"selected_training_targets\": 1067606,\n \"selected_validation_targets\": 131997,\n \"discarded_old_targets\": 19504215,\n \"training_history\": [\n {\n \"epoch\": 1.0,\n \"loss\": 4.557368813211748,\n \"positive_logit\": 0.7308618992877646,\n \"negative_logit\": -0.21995554701101666,\n \"pair_accuracy\": 0.716675655872258,\n \"targets\": 1067606.0,\n \"target_weight_sum\": 641383.25,\n \"batches\": 270.0,\n \"seconds\": 432.0435946729999,\n \"validation_loss\": 4.275173678893126,\n \"validation_targets\": 131997.0,\n \"validation_target_weight_sum\": 80328.75,\n \"validation_seconds\": 38.45847142499997\n }\n ],\n \"embedding_diagnostics\": {\n \"query_norm_mean\": 1.600743055343628,\n \"query_norm_std\": 0.5964846014976501,\n \"item_norm_mean\": 1.6530369520187378,\n \"item_norm_std\": 0.7426420450210571\n },\n \"torch_version\": \"2.8.0+cpu\",\n \"device\": \"cpu\"\n}\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 57, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The submission is complete. Validation is next." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "Submission is written. I’ll check the ranking contract against test eligibility, then fill in the production baseline score if time remains." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-f097540e-4124-4349-bebc-a03cd4f99af3-77", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'PY'\nfrom pathlib import Path\nimport os\nimport numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\nimport sys\nsys.path.insert(0, '/task')\nfrom ranking_evaluation import CandidateSet, validate_ranking, RankingValidationError, TOP_N\n\npath = Path('/app/solution/submission.parquet')\nprint('is_symlink', path.is_symlink())\nprint('is_file', path.is_file())\nprint('size', path.stat().st_size)\nst = os.stat(path)\nprint('mode', oct(st.st_mode))\n\nframe = pd.read_parquet(path)\nprint('columns', list(frame.columns), 'rows', len(frame))\nprint(frame.head(3))\nprint(frame.dtypes)\n\ntargets = set(pd.read_parquet('/task/data/target_users.parquet').uid.astype(int))\ntry:\n normalized = validate_ranking(frame, targets)\n print('schema OK', len(normalized))\nexcept RankingValidationError as e:\n print('SCHEMA ERROR', e)\n raise\n\nelig = CandidateSet(Path('/task/data/test_eligible_candidates.npz'))\nbad = 0\nfor uid, item in normalized[['uid','item_id']].itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n if not elig.is_eligible(int(uid), int(item)):\n bad += 1\n if bad <= 5:\n print('ineligible', uid, item)\nprint('ineligible_pairs', bad)\nprint('users', normalized.uid.nunique(), 'expected', len(targets))\nprint('ranks per user', normalized.groupby('uid')['rank'].nunique().min(), normalized.groupby('uid')['rank'].nunique().max())\nprint('items per user', normalized.groupby('uid')['item_id'].nunique().min(), normalized.groupby('uid')['item_id'].nunique().max())\nprint('OK')\nPY", "description": "Validate submission schema and test eligibility" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\nis_symlink False\nis_file True\nsize 1398071\nmode 0o100644\ncolumns ['uid', 'item_id', 'rank'] rows 845600\n uid item_id rank\n0 100 2695716 1\n1 100 4948220 2\n2 100 1572165 3\nuid int64\nitem_id int64\nrank int64\ndtype: object\nschema OK 845600\nineligible_pairs 0\nusers 8456 expected 8456\nranks per user 100 100\nitems per user 100 100\nOK\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 58, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The submission is fully valid. The next step is to retrieve the production baseline score for the README.\n\nRunning production validation with the existing cache to establish a true before score. This confirms the improvement and provides the requested baseline for the README." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-30457746-a579-4667-adfd-9d6474edf2b9-78", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "cd /task/current_model && /opt/task-venv/bin/python train_current_model.py \\\n --stage validation \\\n --public-dir /task \\\n --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_validation.npz \\\n --output /app/solution/production_validation.parquet \\\n --epochs 1 \\\n --threads 8 \\\n --ranking-batch-size 64", "description": "Reproduce production validation ranking for before-score", "block_until_ms": 0 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "01a0efac-1558-79e2-86a6-dc90a96105ce\nbash\n/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-30457746-a579-4667-adfd-9d6474edf2b9-78.log\nrunning\nBackground task 01a0efac-1558-79e2-86a6-dc90a96105ce started\nUse get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=[\"01a0efac-1558-79e2-86a6-dc90a96105ce\"] when you need the output.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 59, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The trainer JSON README should be updated to mention the popularity penalty." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-52b14a18-9de2-41ba-9999-b6576746845e-79", "name": "get_command_or_subagent_output", "input": { "task_ids": [ "01a0efac-1558-79e2-86a6-dc90a96105ce" ], "timeout_ms": 600000 }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "=== Task 01a0efac-1558-79e2-86a6-dc90a96105ce ===\nCommand: cd /task/current_model && /opt/task-venv/bin/python train_current_model.py \\\n --stage validation \\\n --public-dir /task \\\n --prepared-cache /app/solution/cache_validation.npz \\\n --output /app/solution/production_validation.parquet \\\n --epochs 1 \\\n --threads 8 \\\n --ranking-batch-size 64\nStatus: completed\nDuration: 317.74s\nExit Code: 0\nOutput File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/0af95e38-77ac-460e-9fc8-91b33dcf35ec/terminal/call-30457746-a579-4667-adfd-9d6474edf2b9-78.log\n\n=== Output ===\nloaded full-sequence cache: tokens=20,056,329 targets=20,047,194\nchronological BCE window: train=1,052,953 validation=130,103 selected=1,183,056 discarded_old_targets=18,864,138 all=20,047,194\ninbatch correction: min=0.250 mean_on_targets=1.001 max=4.000\ntarget weighting=organic-strong min=0.250 mean=0.575 max=1.000\nfull-history false-negative filter: users=9,135 unique_user_items=5,524,275 bytes=34,256,250\nepoch=1/1 batches=250 targets=987,417 batch_bce=0.547529 running_bce=0.541614 elapsed=197.4s\nepoch=1/1 train_loss=0.53984 validation_loss=0.49664 pair_accuracy=0.755 train_targets=1,052,953 validation_targets=130,103 train_seconds=210.4 validation_seconds=17.4\nrestored best validation-BCE checkpoint: epoch=1 loss=0.496636\nranked users=1,024/8,456\nranked users=2,048/8,456\nranked users=3,072/8,456\nranked users=4,096/8,456\nranked users=5,120/8,456\nranked users=6,144/8,456\nranked users=7,168/8,456\nranked users=8,192/8,456\nranked users=8,456/8,456\n{\n \"baseline\": \"yambda-windowed-sequence-two-tower-base\",\n \"stage\": \"validation\",\n \"output\": \"/app/solution/production_validation.parquet\",\n \"rows\": 845600,\n \"users\": 8456,\n \"runtime_seconds\": 313.344,\n \"public_inputs_only\": true,\n \"architecture\": {\n \"family\": \"pure-windowed-sequence-two-tower\",\n \"sequence_training\": \"every-adjacent-target-within-recent-chronological-window\",\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\",\n \"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\": \"24-uniform-plus-8-propensity-corrected-inbatch\",\n \"false_negative_filter\": \"full-training-history\",\n \"target_weighting\": \"organic-strong\"\n },\n \"config\": {\n \"bptt_steps\": 100,\n \"user_batch_size\": 64,\n \"embedding_dim\": 192,\n \"hidden_dim\": 192,\n \"user_hidden_1\": 512,\n \"user_hidden_2\": 256,\n \"item_hidden_1\": 512,\n \"item_hidden_2\": 256,\n \"dropout\": 0.05,\n \"epochs\": 1,\n \"learning_rate\": 0.001,\n \"weight_decay\": 1e-05,\n \"gradient_clip\": 2.0,\n \"loss_microbatch_size\": 65536,\n \"uniform_negatives\": 24,\n \"inbatch_negatives\": 8,\n \"inbatch_correction_power\": 0.5,\n \"inbatch_correction_min\": 0.25,\n \"inbatch_correction_max\": 4.0,\n \"negative_filter_scope\": \"full-training-history\",\n \"target_weighting\": \"organic-strong\",\n \"ordinary_target_weight\": 0.25,\n \"organic_strong_target_weight\": 1.0,\n \"organic_like_target_weight\": 3.0,\n \"discovery_horizon_days\": 7,\n \"validation_fraction\": 0.1,\n \"max_train_targets_per_user\": 128,\n \"max_validation_targets_per_user\": 16,\n \"early_stopping_patience\": 1,\n \"early_stopping_min_delta\": 0.0001,\n \"seed\": 29\n },\n \"sequence_tokens\": 20056329,\n \"all_next_item_targets\": 20047194,\n \"selected_training_targets\": 1052953,\n \"selected_validation_targets\": 130103,\n \"discarded_old_targets\": 18864138,\n \"training_history\": [\n {\n \"epoch\": 1.0,\n \"loss\": 0.5398380473710036,\n \"positive_logit\": 0.7427799581672242,\n \"negative_logit\": -0.6222247064342367,\n \"pair_accuracy\": 0.7547733612041563,\n \"targets\": 1052953.0,\n \"target_weight_sum\": 632551.0,\n \"batches\": 266.0,\n \"seconds\": 210.41108704499993,\n \"validation_loss\": 0.49663621978320394,\n \"validation_targets\": 130103.0,\n \"validation_target_weight_sum\": 78769.25,\n \"validation_seconds\": 17.44564621499967\n }\n ],\n \"embedding_diagnostics\": {\n \"query_norm_mean\": 1.603016972541809,\n \"query_norm_std\": 0.7697497010231018,\n \"item_norm_mean\": 1.7570281028747559,\n \"item_norm_std\": 0.8279485702514648\n },\n \"torch_version\": \"2.8.0+cpu\",\n \"device\": \"cpu\"\n}\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 60, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Production training finished. Pair accuracy is zero." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-56db1f06-32ce-4083-8ade-b86545f0356c-80", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/production_validation.parquet\n/opt/task-venv/bin/python /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/validation_ranking_bestpen.parquet", "description": "Score production vs improved public rankings" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\n{\n \"model\": \"/app/solution/production_validation.parquet\",\n \"scores\": {\n \"quality_ndcg@10\": 0.02128,\n \"quality_users\": 4263\n }\n}\n{\n \"model\": \"/app/solution/validation_ranking_bestpen.parquet\",\n \"scores\": {\n \"quality_ndcg@10\": 0.015101,\n \"quality_users\": 4263\n }\n}\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 61, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Production scored 0.02128, while the current run scored zero.\n\nThe mixed negatives and sampled softmax hurt retrieval quality. Popular items may be over-suppressed by hard negatives.\n\nThe 0.15 penalty worsened results, but the mixed softmax itself is the main culprit. Too-hard negatives hurt two-tower retrieval. BCE with easy mixed negatives outperforms sampled softmax with hard negatives here. Production pair accuracy is 0.755 with 32 negatives versus 0.717 with 152.\n\nThe goal is to improve on production's 0.02128 rather than replace the current BCE setup. The current pipeline uses only eight in-batch negatives and lacks popularity sampling and dislike negatives. The sampled softmax strategy over-corrected by adding too many hard negatives." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-1c7ba131-a170-4602-a10b-18a4d7ad6ae9-81", "name": "run_terminal_command", "input": { "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'PY'\nimport numpy as np, pandas as pd, sys\nfrom pathlib import Path\nsys.path.insert(0,'/task')\nfrom ranking_evaluation import CandidateSet, ndcg_at_k, QUALITY_K, ranked_items\nfrom evaluate_public import validation_truth\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\ntargets = set(pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet').uid.astype(int))\nelig = CandidateSet(data/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\ngraded = validation_truth(elig, targets)\nprod = ranked_items(pd.read_parquet('/app/solution/production_validation.parquet'))\nours = ranked_items(pd.read_parquet('/app/solution/validation_ranking.parquet'))\nours_pen = ranked_items(pd.read_parquet('/app/solution/validation_ranking_bestpen.parquet'))\ncatalog = pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet').sort_values('popularity_rank')\npop_rank = {int(i): r for r,i in enumerate(catalog.item_id, start=1)}\n\ndef stats(name, ranked):\n nd = float(np.mean([ndcg_at_k(ranked[uid], gold, QUALITY_K) for uid,gold in graded.items()]))\n hits=0; h3=0; n3=0\n ranks=[]\n from collections import Counter\n c=Counter()\n for uid, gold in graded.items():\n top=set(ranked[uid][:10])\n if top & set(gold): hits += 1\n g3={i for i,g in gold.items() if g>=3}\n if g3:\n n3+=1\n h3 += int(bool(top & g3))\n c.update(ranked[uid][:10])\n ranks.extend(pop_rank.get(it, -1) for it in ranked[uid][:10])\n print(name, 'ndcg', round(nd,6), 'hit@10', round(hits/len(graded),4), 'g3hit', round(h3/max(n3,1),4),\n 'top10 mean/median pop-rank', round(float(np.mean(ranks)),1), float(np.median(ranks)),\n 'unique top10 items', len(c))\n\nstats('production', prod)\nstats('ours no pen', ours)\nstats('ours pen', ours_pen)\nPY", "description": "Compare production vs improved ranking statistics" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "exit: 0\nproduction ndcg 0.02128 hit@10 0.0887 g3hit 0.0475 top10 mean/median pop-rank 2254.7 105.0 unique top10 items 549\nours no pen ndcg 0.012852 hit@10 0.0676 g3hit 0.0273 top10 mean/median pop-rank 1656.0 282.0 unique top10 items 854\nours pen ndcg 0.015101 hit@10 0.0741 g3hit 0.0342 top10 mean/median pop-rank 3834.0 1447.0 unique top10 items 960\n", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 62, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "Production tracks have a median pop-rank of 105, well above the 282 seen in our data.\n\nProduction's top-10 is more head-heavy with only 549 unique items versus 854. Its NDCG@10 is 0.02128, nearly double our 0.01285. The higher metric likely comes from relevant items overlapping with the popular head, since NDCG@10 only needs to rank some relevant tracks well.\n\nHit@10 is 8.87% in production versus 6.76% here, confirming production retrieves more relevant items overall.\n\nThe sampled softmax with popularity negatives penalizes popular tracks, pushing them from median rank 105 down to 1447. That hurt retrieval because the relevant items that actually appear in top-10 are the more popular ones.\n\nThe real issue is not popularity bias itself, but the small negative pool. Only 32 negatives are sampled per query, so tail tracks are too hard to retrieve. A larger uniform and in-batch negative set with BCE should improve contrast without over-suppressing popular items.\n\nThe current setup uses 48 popularity negatives and 48 in-batch negatives, which over-suppresses popular tracks. The production model already mixes 24 uniform with 8 in-batch negatives, and the MNS paper shows that mixing uniform and in-batch prevents over-suppression of popular items. A better fix would keep the existing uniform and in-batch mix but add more in-batch negatives rather than adding popularity-weighted ones.\n\nThe plan is to keep the original BCE loss and the existing uniform negative mix. I will increase the in-batch pool to 16 or 24 negatives, add 8 true dislike negatives, and remove all popularity-weighted sampling and penalties. This conservative adjustment should improve retrieval contrast without over-suppressing popular tracks.\n\nThe in-batch correction that downweights popular negatives is actually a useful signal. Production uses this correction, but the sampled softmax ignored it. The revised plan keeps the original BCE loss with 24 uniform, 16 in-batch, and 8 dislike negatives, retains the in-batch correction, and removes all popularity sampling and penalties.\n\nThe revised plan now targets 32 in-batch negatives instead of 16. Uniform negatives are less critical for BCE, so the focus is on stronger in-batch contrast without softmax over-correction.\n\nBPR/pairwise loss is being considered as a replacement for the current BCE. It ranks items relatively rather than using absolute thresholds, which may improve ranking without the over-suppression seen in softmax. The same 24 uniform and 8 in-batch negative mix would be used. This is another quick experiment to test before time runs out.\n\nThe current submission is still below production's 0.02128 NDCG. Only one or two experiments plus a final refit remain before the deadline.\n\nThe fastest path is to test the same 24 uniform and 8 in-batch negative mix with BPR loss, which should take about three and a half minutes. A second quick experiment would use BCE with 24 uniform, 24 in-batch, and 8 dislike negatives. Sampled softmax may outperform BCE when negatives are not too hard.\n\nProduction's pair accuracy of 0.755 confirms that 32 negatives still carry useful signal. The revised diagnosis points to three specific gaps: independent BCE lacks listwise competition, the 8 in-batch negatives underutilize the batch, and true dislikes are not used as negatives.\n\nThe final plan is to keep the original BCE loss. It will use 24 uniform negatives, 16 in-batch negatives, and 8 true dislike negatives. Popularity sampling and penalties are removed entirely.\n\nA single sampled-softmax run with the original 24 uniform and 8 in-batch negatives will isolate whether softmax itself is the regression source. If that run beats production, the next step is to combine the most promising conservative changes into one training run.\n\nThe sampled-softmax temperature idea was dropped to avoid changing too many variables at once. The plan is now to keep the original BCE loss exactly, raise in-batch negatives from 8 to 24, add 8 true dislike negatives, and leave uniform negatives at 24. This directly fixes the underutilized in-batch pool and the unused dislike signal without altering the proven loss family.\n\nThe corrected_negative_loss function is being updated to handle the new layout: 24 uniform negatives, 0 popularity negatives, 24 in-batch negatives, and 8 dislike negatives. The in-batch start index is set to 24, so the loss correctly averages the uniform and in-batch pools while leaving the dislike negatives untouched.\n\nThe plan is now to retrain with 32 uniform negatives, 24 in-batch negatives, and 8 true dislike negatives under BCE. This yields 64 total negatives. The production checkpoint is unavailable, so a fresh conservative refit is required.\n\nThe current submission will be preserved until a better model is ready. If the conservative refit fails to beat production, the plan is to submit a production-equivalent checkpoint rather than a worse one. The immediate priority is a quick validation run, followed by either a submission refit or a fallback production run.\n\nThe sampled-softmax idea was reconsidered: a 32-class pool is much milder than 152, so it might actually help rather than hurt. The plan is now to test sampled softmax with 32 uniform, 16 in-batch, and 8 dislike negatives at temperature 1.0, dropping popularity sampling entirely. This would be a clean loss change that keeps the negative pool size closer to production's original 32. The researcher is pausing to review two-tower literature on negative-sampling limitations before finalizing the experiment.\n\nThe plan is now to test sampled softmax with 48 uniform, 24 in-batch, and 8 dislike negatives at temperature 1.0. If this over-suppresses popular tracks, the fallback is BCE with the same mix. Only one validation experiment remains before time runs out.\n\nThe plan is now to test a BPR-style pairwise loss on the mixed negative pool. This replaces the independent BCE objective, which was identified as the core weakness. The setup uses 24 uniform negatives, 24 in-batch negatives, and 8 true dislike negatives." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "Production scored 0.0213 NDCG@10; sampled softmax with popularity negatives over-suppressed the head. I’ll switch to pairwise BPR, keep uniform draws, add in-batch and dislike negatives, and drop the popularity penalty." }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-df46991f-c829-40e8-91bb-cfaf48434701-82", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " uniform_negatives: int = 48\n inbatch_negatives: int = 48\n popularity_negatives: int = 48\n dislike_negatives: int = 8\n popularity_sample_power: float = 0.75\n softmax_temperature: float = 1.0\n loss_type: str = \"sampled-softmax\"\n popularity_logit_penalty: float = 0.15", "new_string": " uniform_negatives: int = 32\n inbatch_negatives: int = 24\n popularity_negatives: int = 0\n dislike_negatives: int = 8\n popularity_sample_power: float = 0.75\n softmax_temperature: float = 1.0\n loss_type: str = \"bpr\"\n popularity_logit_penalty: float = 0.0" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-df46991f-c829-40e8-91bb-cfaf48434701-83", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": "def target_retrieval_loss(\n positive_logits: torch.Tensor,\n negative_logits: torch.Tensor,\n correction: torch.Tensor,\n config: Config,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n \"\"\"Score one positive against the mixed negative pool.\"\"\"\n if config.loss_type == \"sampled-softmax\":\n logits = torch.cat(\n [positive_logits.unsqueeze(1), negative_logits], dim=1\n )\n logits = logits / max(config.softmax_temperature, 1.0e-6)\n labels = torch.zeros(\n len(logits), dtype=torch.long, device=logits.device\n )\n return F.cross_entropy(logits, labels, reduction=\"none\")\n positive_loss = F.softplus(-positive_logits)\n negative_loss = corrected_negative_loss(\n negative_logits, correction, config\n )\n return (positive_loss + negative_loss) / 2.0", "new_string": "def target_retrieval_loss(\n positive_logits: torch.Tensor,\n negative_logits: torch.Tensor,\n correction: torch.Tensor,\n config: Config,\n) -> torch.Tensor:\n \"\"\"Score one positive against the mixed negative pool.\"\"\"\n temperature = max(config.softmax_temperature, 1.0e-6)\n if config.loss_type == \"sampled-softmax\":\n logits = torch.cat(\n [positive_logits.unsqueeze(1), negative_logits], dim=1\n )\n logits = logits / temperature\n labels = torch.zeros(\n len(logits), dtype=torch.long, device=logits.device\n )\n return F.cross_entropy(logits, labels, reduction=\"none\")\n if config.loss_type == \"bpr\":\n return F.softplus(\n (negative_logits - positive_logits.unsqueeze(1)) / temperature\n ).mean(dim=1)\n positive_loss = F.softplus(-positive_logits)\n negative_loss = corrected_negative_loss(\n negative_logits, correction, config\n )\n return (positive_loss + negative_loss) / 2.0" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-df46991f-c829-40e8-91bb-cfaf48434701-84", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " \"--loss-type\",\n choices=(\"sampled-softmax\", \"bce\"),\n default=Config.loss_type,\n )", "new_string": " \"--loss-type\",\n choices=(\"sampled-softmax\", \"bpr\", \"bce\"),\n default=Config.loss_type,\n )" }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-df46991f-c829-40e8-91bb-cfaf48434701-85", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": " \"objective\": (\n \"sample-weighted-sampled-softmax-at-every-timestep\"\n if config.loss_type == \"sampled-softmax\"\n else \"sample-weighted-BCE-at-every-timestep\"\n ),", "new_string": " \"objective\": (\n \"sample-weighted-sampled-softmax-at-every-timestep\"\n if config.loss_type == \"sampled-softmax\"\n else \"sample-weighted-BPR-at-every-timestep\"\n if config.loss_type == \"bpr\"\n else \"sample-weighted-BCE-at-every-timestep\"\n )," }, "result": { "timestamp": null, "content": "The file /app/solution/train_current_model.py has been updated successfully.", "isError": false } } ] }, { "id": 63, "role": "agent", "timestamp": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "reasoning", "representation": "summary", "timestamp": null, "text": "The top docstring also needs updating." }, { "kind": "message", "timestamp": null, "text": "" }, { "kind": "tool", "timestamp": null, "callId": "call-5b8ae900-dbae-42ba-88ef-eda0759cf180-86", "name": "search_replace", "input": { "file_path": "/app/solution/train_current_model.py", "old_string": "The model is a pure two-tower retriever: no user-ID embedding, no output\nnormalization, raw dot-product retrieval, sample-weighted sampled softmax, and a\nmixed negative pool of uniform, popularity-weighted, unique in-batch, and\nexplicit-dislike items. Every selected adjacent target retains a nonzero weight.\nOnly files under the supplied public directory are read.", "new_string": "The model is a pure two-tower retriever: no user-ID embedding, no output\nnormalization, raw dot-product retrieval, sample-weighted BPR, and a mixed\nnegative pool of uniform, unique in-batch, and explicit-dislike items. Every\nselected adjacent target retains a nonzero weight. 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