yambda-discovery-ranking-v01 / grok-1-0-44-basic-r02-61e7dce0-20260929
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## Step 2 · user · Timestamp not recorded

<user_info>
OS Version: linux
Shell: /bin/sh
Workspace Path: /app
Today's date: 2026-09-29
</user_info>

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<user_rule>
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## Step 4 · user · Timestamp not recorded

<user_query>
# Build a music-discovery ranker

Build the strongest ranking model you can for the "Made for You" shelf of a
music streaming service. Per-user candidate eligibility, cutoff-specific
explicit preference state, and a temporal backtest are provided. Candidate
eligibility is platform-owned; all modeling within that candidate boundary is
in scope.

## Data

All inputs are under `/task/data/`. Training data ends at timestamp `24786800`.
A 30-minute gap precedes a seven-day public validation window. The hidden test
is the following seven-day window after another 30-minute gap.

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 listen 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. Build and tune a validation ranker using only `train_*` as history and
   `val_*` as subsequent outcomes.
2. After selecting the approach, 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")`.

The exact available Python distribution inventory is listed in
`/task/requirements.txt`. 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 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 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.

## Public tools

`/task/evaluate_public.py` scores a validation-stage ranking against the public
window. Pass the path to a ranking with the same schema as the final
deliverable:

```sh
python /task/evaluate_public.py solution/validation.parquet
```

Stage-independent evaluation helpers are available in
`/task/ranking_evaluation.py`. The builder installs the same checked-in module
in the public agent image and private verifier image so scoring mechanics cannot
drift. The public copy contains no hidden labels, evaluator-owned data paths, or
pass thresholds.

The public evaluator uses `validation_eligible_candidates.npz`; it is not a
validator for the final artifact. No model, fitted representation, example
submission, or modeling architecture is supplied. Build and tune the best model
you can, then refit the selected approach as described above.

## Deliverable

Write `/app/solution/submission.parquet` or
`/app/solution/submission.csv`, with exactly 100 rows for every target user and
columns `uid`, `item_id`, `rank`. Ranks must be the integers 1-100 with no ties
or duplicate items. Every submitted item must be present in that user's
`test_eligible_candidates.npz` candidate set.

Leave the code that builds the artifact and a concise
`/app/solution/README.md` in `/app/solution/`. Keep the best valid submission
saved throughout the attempt so it survives the deadline.

## 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.
- Do not install packages or use network access except for the model provider
  connection managed by Harbor.
- You have up to 30 minutes. Improve the model as much as possible within that
  limit. Structural validity alone is not sufficient; the final submission is
  also evaluated for ranking quality.
</user_query>

## Step 5 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Thinking unavailable — no text recorded


I'll start by inspecting the data layout, evaluation helpers, and constraints so I can design a ranking model that fits the eligibility rules.

### todo_write · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "todos": [
    {
      "id": "explore",
      "content": "Explore data, evaluation, and constraints",
      "status": "in_progress"
    },
    {
      "id": "val-model",
      "content": "Build and tune validation ranker on train-only history",
      "status": "pending"
    },
    {
      "id": "refit",
      "content": "Refit on train+val and write test submission",
      "status": "pending"
    },
    {
      "id": "docs",
      "content": "Write README and keep best valid artifacts",
      "status": "pending"
    }
  ],
  "merge": false
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
- [in_progress] explore: Explore data, evaluation, and constraints
- [pending] val-model: Build and tune validation ranker on train-only history
- [pending] refit: Refit on train+val and write test submission
- [pending] docs: Write README and keep best valid artifacts


### list_dir · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "target_directory": "/task"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
- /task/
  - data/
    - candidate_catalog.parquet
    - target_users.parquet
    - test_eligible_candidates.npz
    - test_preference_state.parquet
    - train_dislikes.parquet
    - train_likes.parquet
    - train_listens.parquet
    - train_undislikes.parquet
    - train_unlikes.parquet
    - val_dislikes.parquet
    - val_likes.parquet
    - val_listens.parquet
    - val_undislikes.parquet
    - val_unlikes.parquet
    - validation_eligible_candidates.npz
    - validation_preference_state.parquet
  - evaluate_public.py
  - ranking_evaluation.py
  - requirements.txt

### list_dir · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "target_directory": "/app"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
- /app/
  - solution/

### read_file · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "target_file": "/task/requirements.txt"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
1→# Exact third-party distribution inventory for yambda-discovery-ranking-v01.
#
# This is an input to `uv pip sync`, not a list of minimum requirements. A
# conforming task environment contains exactly these third-party Python
# distributions and no others. The same inventory is used for source preparation,
# task building, reference scoring, judging, and solver attempts. Python itself
# is pinned by task.toml and both Harbor image Dockerfiles.
attrs==26.1.0
bleach==6.4.0
10→certifi==2026.7.22
chardet==7.6.0
charset-normalizer==3.5.1
fastjsonschema==2.22.2
idna==3.18
joblib==1.5.3
jsonschema==4.26.0
jsonschema-specifications==2025.9.1
jupyter-core==5.9.1
jupytext==1.19.5
20→kaggle==2.2.4
kagglesdk==0.1.37
markdown-it-py==4.2.0
mdit-py-plugins==0.6.1
mdurl==0.1.2
nbformat==5.11.1
numpy==2.2.6
packaging==26.3
pandas==2.3.3
pillow==12.3.0
30→pip==26.0.1
platformdirs==4.11.3
protobuf==7.35.1
pyarrow==18.1.0
python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
python-dotenv==1.2.3
python-slugify==8.0.4
pytz==2026.3.post1
PyYAML==6.0.3
referencing==0.37.0
40→reportlab==4.2.5
requests==2.34.2
rpds-py==2026.6.3
scikit-learn==1.7.2
scipy==1.15.3
six==1.17.0
text-unidecode==1.3
threadpoolctl==3.6.0
tqdm==4.70.0
traitlets==5.16.1
50→typing-extensions==4.16.0
tzdata==2026.3
urllib3==2.7.0
webencodings==0.6.1


### read_file · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "target_file": "/task/evaluate_public.py"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
1→#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Score a validation-stage ranking against public discovery labels.

``build_task.py`` publishes this module with the solver-visible task files. It
loads target users, validation eligibility, and validation-window events from
the adjacent ``data`` directory, then evaluates one ranking supplied on the
command line. Stage-independent mechanics come from the adjacent public
``ranking_evaluation.py`` module. The builder installs the same checked-in
module in the private judge, so public and private scoring mechanics cannot
10→drift. A relevant candidate receives grade 3 for an organic like or grade 1 for
an organic listen with at least 80 percent completion; a like takes precedence
when both events exist.

Before scoring, the ranking must contain exactly 100 distinct eligible items
for every target user, with integer-valued ``uid``, ``item_id``, and ``rank``
columns and ranks 1 through 100 exactly once per user. Extra columns are
ignored. Quality is graded NDCG@10, averaged only over users who have at least
one eligible relevant item in the validation window.

20→The evaluator prints a JSON object containing the model path and scores. It
does not apply the task's pass threshold; its purpose is model development and
selection. The private judge applies the threshold to the final submission.

Usage::

    python evaluate_public.py <validation-ranking.parquet|csv>
"""
from __future__ import annotations

30→import json
import sys
from pathlib import Path

import pandas as pd

from ranking_evaluation import (
    CandidateSet,
    RankingValidationError,
    ranked_items,
40→    read_ranking,
    score_rankings,
    validate_ranking,
)


HERE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
DATA = HERE / "data"
LISTEN_STRONG = 80

50→
def validation_truth(
    eligibility: CandidateSet, targets: set[int]
) -> dict[int, dict[int, int]]:
    """Build cutoff-correct graded relevance from public validation events.

    Only target-user events for eligible candidates are retained. Organic
    listens completed to at least 80 percent receive grade 1, and organic likes
    receive grade 3. Repeated user-item events are collapsed, and processing
    likes second ensures that grade 3 wins over grade 1.
60→
    Args:
        eligibility: Validation-cutoff candidate membership service.
        targets: Complete set of target user IDs.

    Returns:
        A nested ``uid -> item_id -> grade`` mapping. Users without an eligible
        relevant event are omitted.
    """
    listens = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "val_listens.parquet")
70→    likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "val_likes.parquet")
    strong = listens[
        listens.uid.isin(targets)
        & (listens.is_organic == 1)
        & (listens.played_ratio_pct >= LISTEN_STRONG)
    ][["uid", "item_id"]].drop_duplicates()
    organic_likes = likes[
        likes.uid.isin(targets) & (likes.is_organic == 1)
    ][["uid", "item_id"]].drop_duplicates()

80→    graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]] = {}
    for raw_uid, raw_item in strong.itertuples(index=False, name=None):
        uid, item = int(raw_uid), int(raw_item)
        if eligibility.is_eligible(uid, item):
            graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 1
    for raw_uid, raw_item in organic_likes.itertuples(index=False, name=None):
        uid, item = int(raw_uid), int(raw_item)
        if eligibility.is_eligible(uid, item):
            graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 3
    return graded
90→

def load_submission(
    path: Path, eligibility: CandidateSet, targets: set[int]
) -> dict[int, list[int]]:
    """Load and validate a public validation ranking.

    Files ending in ``.parquet`` are read as parquet; every other suffix is
    read as CSV. The required columns must be integer-valued, cover exactly the
    target-user set, contain 100 rows and ranks 1 through 100 per user, avoid
100→    duplicate user-item pairs, and contain only cutoff-eligible items.

    Args:
        path: Ranking file to read.
        eligibility: Validation-cutoff candidate membership service.
        targets: Exact set of users the ranking must cover.

    Returns:
        A ``uid -> ranked item IDs`` mapping ordered by ascending rank.

110→    Raises:
        ValueError: If the ranking violates the required schema or invariants.
    """
    frame = validate_ranking(read_ranking(path), targets)
    if not all(
        eligibility.is_eligible(uid, item)
        for uid, item in frame[["uid", "item_id"]].itertuples(index=False, name=None)
    ):
        raise RankingValidationError(
            "submission contains an item rejected by eligibility service"
120→        )
    return ranked_items(frame)


def score(
    ranked: dict[int, list[int]],
    graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]],
) -> dict[str, float | int]:
    """Aggregate per-user NDCG@10 over users with public relevance labels.

130→    Args:
        ranked: Ranked item IDs for every target user.
        graded: Eligible validation relevance keyed by user and item.

    Returns:
        The six-decimal ``quality_ndcg@10`` value and number of scored users.
    """
    return score_rankings(ranked, graded)


140→def main() -> None:
    """Run the public evaluator CLI and print its JSON score report."""
    targets_frame = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "target_users.parquet")
    targets = set(targets_frame.uid.astype(int))
    eligibility = CandidateSet(DATA / "validation_eligible_candidates.npz")
    graded = validation_truth(eligibility, targets)

    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        raise SystemExit(
            "usage: evaluate_public.py <validation-ranking.parquet|csv>"
150→        )
    path = Path(sys.argv[1])
    ranked = load_submission(path, eligibility, targets)
    print(json.dumps({"model": str(path), "scores": score(ranked, graded)}, indent=2))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()


### read_file · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "target_file": "/task/ranking_evaluation.py"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
1→"""Shared public primitives for Yambda discovery-ranking evaluation.

Both the solver-visible validation evaluator and the private submission judge
import this module from the generated task's ``public`` directory. It owns the
stage-independent contract: reading a ranking, validating its shape, converting
it to per-user rank order, looking up packed candidate eligibility, and
computing graded NDCG@10.

The module deliberately contains no event-derived labels, private artifact
10→paths, or pass thresholds. Each evaluator supplies its own relevance data and
per-cutoff eligibility checks around these common operations.
"""
from __future__ import annotations

from pathlib import Path

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

20→
__all__ = [
    "CandidateSet",
    "QUALITY_K",
    "RankingValidationError",
    "REQUIRED_COLUMNS",
    "TOP_N",
    "ndcg_at_k",
    "ranked_items",
    "read_ranking",
30→    "score_rankings",
    "validate_ranking",
]

TOP_N = 100
QUALITY_K = 10
REQUIRED_COLUMNS = ("uid", "item_id", "rank")


class RankingValidationError(ValueError):
40→    """Report a ranking-schema or structural-contract violation."""


class CandidateSet:
    """Provide membership lookups over one packed candidate-set archive.

    The archive contains aligned ``uids``, ``item_ids``, and
    ``packed_eligible`` arrays. Candidate column ``c`` is represented by bit
    ``c % 8`` of byte ``c // 8`` using little-endian bit order. Arrays are
    copied into memory so they remain valid after the archive is closed.
50→    """

    def __init__(self, path: Path):
        """Load an eligibility archive and build ID-to-position indexes.

        Args:
            path: Path to a ``.npz`` archive with the candidate-set schema.
        """
        with np.load(path, allow_pickle=False) as artifact:
            self.uids = artifact["uids"].astype(np.int64, copy=True)
60→            self.item_ids = artifact["item_ids"].astype(np.int64, copy=True)
            self.packed = artifact["packed_eligible"].astype(np.uint8, copy=True)
        self.uid_row = {int(uid): row for row, uid in enumerate(self.uids)}
        self.item_column = {
            int(item): column for column, item in enumerate(self.item_ids)
        }

    def is_eligible(self, uid: int, item_id: int) -> bool:
        """Return whether ``item_id`` is eligible for ``uid``.

70→        IDs absent from the target-user or candidate-item arrays are treated as
        ineligible rather than raising an exception.

        Args:
            uid: Target user ID to query.
            item_id: Candidate item ID to query.

        Returns:
            ``True`` only when the corresponding packed eligibility bit is set.
        """
80→        row = self.uid_row.get(int(uid))
        column = self.item_column.get(int(item_id))
        if row is None or column is None:
            return False
        byte, bit = divmod(column, 8)
        return bool((int(self.packed[row, byte]) >> bit) & 1)


def read_ranking(path: Path) -> pd.DataFrame:
    """Read a parquet or CSV ranking into a pandas frame.
90→
    Args:
        path: Input path. A ``.parquet`` suffix selects parquet; every other
            suffix is interpreted as CSV.

    Returns:
        The ranking frame as loaded by pandas.
    """
    return pd.read_parquet(path) if path.suffix == ".parquet" else pd.read_csv(path)

100→
def validate_ranking(
    frame: pd.DataFrame,
    targets: set[int],
) -> pd.DataFrame:
    """Normalize and validate the stage-independent ranking contract.

    Required values must be finite integers. The user set must exactly match
    ``targets``; every user must have 100 rows, distinct items, and each rank
    from 1 through 100 exactly once. Cutoff-specific candidate eligibility is
110→    intentionally left to the calling evaluator.

    Args:
        frame: Raw ranking frame. Extra columns are discarded from an internal
            copy; the caller's frame is not modified.
        targets: Exact set of target user IDs the ranking must cover.

    Returns:
        A normalized frame containing only the required ``int64`` columns.

120→    Raises:
        RankingValidationError: If the ranking violates the shared contract.
    """
    required = list(REQUIRED_COLUMNS)
    if not all(column in frame for column in required):
        raise RankingValidationError(f"submission requires columns {required}")

    normalized = frame[required].copy()
    for column in required:
        numeric = pd.to_numeric(normalized[column], errors="coerce")
130→        values = numeric.to_numpy(dtype=float)
        if numeric.isna().any() or not np.isfinite(values).all():
            raise RankingValidationError(
                f"submission {column} must be finite numeric values"
            )
        if not np.equal(numeric, np.floor(numeric)).all():
            raise RankingValidationError(
                f"submission {column} must contain integers"
            )
        normalized[column] = numeric.astype(np.int64)
140→
    submitted_users = set(map(int, normalized.uid.unique()))
    if submitted_users != targets:
        raise RankingValidationError(
            f"submission user set mismatch: missing={len(targets - submitted_users)} "
            f"extra={len(submitted_users - targets)}"
        )
    counts = normalized.groupby("uid").size()
    if not (counts == TOP_N).all():
        raise RankingValidationError(
150→            f"submission must contain exactly {TOP_N} rows for every target user"
        )
    if normalized.duplicated(["uid", "item_id"]).any():
        raise RankingValidationError(
            "submission contains duplicate (uid, item_id) pairs"
        )
    valid_ranks = set(range(1, TOP_N + 1))
    ranks_are_valid = normalized.groupby("uid")["rank"].apply(
        lambda values: set(map(int, values)) == valid_ranks
    )
160→    if not ranks_are_valid.all():
        raise RankingValidationError(
            f"each user must have every rank from 1 through {TOP_N} exactly once"
        )
    return normalized


def ranked_items(frame: pd.DataFrame) -> dict[int, list[int]]:
    """Convert a validated ranking frame to ordered items keyed by user.

170→    Args:
        frame: Frame that has passed :func:`validate_ranking`.

    Returns:
        A ``uid -> item IDs`` mapping ordered by ascending rank.
    """
    ordered = frame.sort_values(["uid", "rank"])
    return {
        int(uid): list(map(int, values))
        for uid, values in ordered.groupby("uid").item_id
180→    }


def ndcg_at_k(ranked: list[int], gold: dict[int, int], k: int) -> float:
    """Compute graded normalized discounted cumulative gain at ``k``.

    Relevance gain is ``2**grade - 1`` and the discount at one-based rank
    ``r`` is ``1 / log2(r + 1)``. Items absent from ``gold`` have grade zero.

    Args:
190→        ranked: Item IDs in predicted rank order.
        gold: Mapping from relevant item IDs to integer relevance grades.
        k: Maximum number of predicted positions to score.

    Returns:
        For a valid duplicate-free ranking, NDCG in ``[0, 1]``; returns
        ``0.0`` when the ideal gain is zero.
    """
    gains = np.asarray([gold.get(item, 0) for item in ranked[:k]], dtype=np.float64)
    discounts = 1.0 / np.log2(np.arange(2, len(gains) + 2))
200→    dcg = float(np.sum((np.power(2.0, gains) - 1.0) * discounts))
    ideal = np.asarray(sorted(gold.values(), reverse=True)[:k], dtype=np.float64)
    ideal_discounts = 1.0 / np.log2(np.arange(2, len(ideal) + 2))
    idcg = float(np.sum((np.power(2.0, ideal) - 1.0) * ideal_discounts))
    return dcg / idcg if idcg else 0.0


def score_rankings(
    ranked: dict[int, list[int]],
    graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]],
210→) -> dict[str, float | int]:
    """Aggregate per-user NDCG@10 over users with relevance labels.

    Args:
        ranked: Ranked item IDs for every target user.
        graded: Relevant item grades keyed by user and item.

    Returns:
        The six-decimal ``quality_ndcg@10`` value and number of scored users.
    """
220→    quality = float(
        np.mean(
            [
                ndcg_at_k(ranked[uid], gold, QUALITY_K)
                for uid, gold in graded.items()
            ]
        )
    )
    return {
        "quality_ndcg@10": round(quality, 6),
230→        "quality_users": len(graded),
    }


## Step 6 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Thinking unavailable — no text recorded


Next I’ll inspect schemas, sizes, and cutoff stats so the ranker can use eligibility and preference state correctly.

### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "python3 - << 'EOF'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\ndata = Path(\"/task/data\")\n\n# Basic files\nfor name in [\n    \"candidate_catalog.parquet\",\n    \"target_users.parquet\",\n    \"validation_preference_state.parquet\",\n    \"test_preference_state.parquet\",\n]:\n    df = pd.read_parquet(data / name)\n    print(f\"\\n=== {name} ===\")\n    print(\"shape\", df.shape)\n    print(\"columns\", list(df.columns))\n    print(df.head(3))\n    print(df.dtypes)\n\n# Event files\nfor split in [\"train\", \"val\"]:\n    for fam in [\"listens\", \"likes\", \"dislikes\", \"unlikes\", \"undislikes\"]:\n        df = pd.read_parquet(data / f\"{split}_{fam}.parquet\")\n        print(f\"\\n=== {split}_{fam} ===\")\n        print(\"shape\", df.shape)\n        print(\"columns\", list(df.columns))\n        print(\"ts min/max\", int(df.timestamp.min()), int(df.timestamp.max()))\n        print(\"n_users\", df.uid.nunique(), \"n_items\", df.item_id.nunique())\n        if \"is_organic\" in df.columns:\n            print(\"organic mean\", df.is_organic.mean())\n        if \"played_ratio_pct\" in df.columns:\n            print(\"played_ratio describe\", df.played_ratio_pct.describe().to_dict())\n        print(df.head(2))\n\n# Eligibility\nfor name in [\"validation_eligible_candidates.npz\", \"test_eligible_candidates.npz\"]:\n    z = np.load(data / name)\n    print(f\"\\n=== {name} ===\")\n    print(z.files)\n    uids = z[\"uids\"]\n    items = z[\"item_ids\"]\n    packed = z[\"packed_eligible\"]\n    print(\"uids\", uids.shape, uids.dtype, \"unique\", len(np.unique(uids)))\n    print(\"items\", items.shape, items.dtype)\n    print(\"packed\", packed.shape, packed.dtype)\n    # eligible counts\n    n_items = len(items)\n    counts = []\n    for r in range(min(len(uids), 50)):\n        mask = np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=n_items, bitorder=\"little\")\n        counts.append(mask.sum())\n    print(\"eligible counts sample min/mean/max\", min(counts), np.mean(counts), max(counts))\n    # full stats for first file if small enough\n    if len(uids) <= 5000:\n        all_counts = np.array([\n            np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=n_items, bitorder=\"little\").sum()\n            for r in range(len(uids))\n        ])\n        print(\"all eligible: min/p50/mean/max\", all_counts.min(), np.median(all_counts), all_counts.mean(), all_counts.max())\nEOF\n",
  "description": "Inspect data schemas, sizes, and eligibility"
}
### Tool error · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pandas'


## Step 7 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
Pandas is missing despite being listed in requirements.txt.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "which python3; python3 -c \"import sys; print(sys.executable, sys.version)\"; ls /usr/bin/python*; ls /opt 2>/dev/null; find / -name \"pandas\" -type d 2>/dev/null | head; cat /task/requirements.txt | head; echo \"---\"; pip3 show pandas 2>/dev/null | head; uv pip list 2>/dev/null | head; ls /home; echo PATH=$PATH",
  "description": "Locate Python environment with pandas"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
/usr/local/bin/python3
/usr/local/bin/python3 3.12.13 (main, Aug  5 2026, 01:11:46) [GCC 12.2.0]
ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/python*': No such file or directory
task-venv
/opt/task-venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas
# Exact third-party distribution inventory for yambda-discovery-ranking-v01.
#
# This is an input to `uv pip sync`, not a list of minimum requirements. A
# conforming task environment contains exactly these third-party Python
# distributions and no others. The same inventory is used for source preparation,
# task building, reference scoring, judging, and solver attempts. Python itself
# is pinned by task.toml and both Harbor image Dockerfiles.
attrs==26.1.0
bleach==6.4.0
certifi==2026.7.22
---
agent
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/home/agent/.grok/bin:/opt/task-venv/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin


## Step 8 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
A virtual environment is present at /opt/task-venv.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'EOF'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\ndata = Path(\"/task/data\")\n\n# Basic files\nfor name in [\n    \"candidate_catalog.parquet\",\n    \"target_users.parquet\",\n    \"validation_preference_state.parquet\",\n    \"test_preference_state.parquet\",\n]:\n    df = pd.read_parquet(data / name)\n    print(f\"\\n=== {name} ===\")\n    print(\"shape\", df.shape)\n    print(\"columns\", list(df.columns))\n    print(df.head(3))\n    print(df.dtypes)\n\n# Event files\nfor split in [\"train\", \"val\"]:\n    for fam in [\"listens\", \"likes\", \"dislikes\", \"unlikes\", \"undislikes\"]:\n        df = pd.read_parquet(data / f\"{split}_{fam}.parquet\")\n        print(f\"\\n=== {split}_{fam} ===\")\n        print(\"shape\", df.shape)\n        print(\"columns\", list(df.columns))\n        print(\"ts min/max\", int(df.timestamp.min()), int(df.timestamp.max()))\n        print(\"n_users\", df.uid.nunique(), \"n_items\", df.item_id.nunique())\n        if \"is_organic\" in df.columns:\n            print(\"organic mean\", float(df.is_organic.mean()))\n        if \"played_ratio_pct\" in df.columns:\n            print(\"played_ratio describe\", {k: float(v) for k,v in df.played_ratio_pct.describe().to_dict().items()})\n        print(df.head(2).to_string())\n\n# Eligibility\nfor name in [\"validation_eligible_candidates.npz\", \"test_eligible_candidates.npz\"]:\n    z = np.load(data / name)\n    print(f\"\\n=== {name} ===\")\n    print(z.files)\n    uids = z[\"uids\"]\n    items = z[\"item_ids\"]\n    packed = z[\"packed_eligible\"]\n    print(\"uids\", uids.shape, uids.dtype, \"unique\", len(np.unique(uids)))\n    print(\"items\", items.shape, items.dtype)\n    print(\"packed\", packed.shape, packed.dtype)\n    n_items = len(items)\n    all_counts = np.unpackbits(packed, axis=1, bitorder=\"little\")[:, :n_items].sum(axis=1)\n    print(\"all eligible: min/p50/mean/max\", int(all_counts.min()), float(np.median(all_counts)), float(all_counts.mean()), int(all_counts.max()))\nEOF\n",
  "description": "Inspect data with task venv Python"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0

=== candidate_catalog.parquet ===
shape (30000, 4)
columns ['item_id', 'positive_listens', 'organic_positive_listens', 'popularity_rank']
   item_id  positive_listens  organic_positive_listens  popularity_rank
0  5862961             26615                     20620                1
1  6901374             25536                     17347                2
2  5635052             24691                     17194                3
item_id                     uint32
positive_listens             int64
organic_positive_listens    uint64
popularity_rank              int32
dtype: object

=== target_users.parquet ===
shape (8456, 3)
columns ['uid', 'recent_positive_listens', 'history_positive_listens']
   uid  recent_positive_listens  history_positive_listens
0  100                    844.0                      2604
1  200                     50.0                       286
2  300                    168.0                       359
uid                          uint32
recent_positive_listens     float64
history_positive_listens      int64
dtype: object

=== validation_preference_state.parquet ===
shape (469124, 3)
columns ['uid', 'item_id', 'state']
   uid  item_id  state
0  100   410868  liked
1  100   732449  liked
2  100   982903  liked
uid        uint32
item_id    uint32
state      object
dtype: object

=== test_preference_state.parquet ===
shape (484776, 3)
columns ['uid', 'item_id', 'state']
   uid  item_id  state
0  100   410868  liked
1  100   732449  liked
2  100   982903  liked
uid        uint32
item_id    uint32
state      object
dtype: object

=== train_listens ===
shape (43484159, 6)
columns ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic', 'played_ratio_pct', 'track_length_seconds']
ts min/max 0 24786795
n_users 9238 n_items 845395
organic mean 0.5169151828370419
played_ratio describe {'count': 43484159.0, 'mean': 64.65020705586143, 'std': 44.12182686755735, 'min': 0.0, '25%': 7.0, '50%': 100.0, '75%': 100.0, 'max': 159.0}
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic  played_ratio_pct  track_length_seconds
0  100      39420  8326270           0               100                   170
1  100      39420  1441281           0               100                   105

=== train_likes ===
shape (814831, 4)
columns ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
ts min/max 80 24786790
n_users 8144 n_items 172303
organic mean 0.5667911505576003
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  100      44755   732449           1
1  100    1155860  6568592           0

=== train_dislikes ===
shape (101075, 4)
columns ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
ts min/max 75 24786580
n_users 5732 n_items 50876
organic mean 0.5172198862231017
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  100    3087560  9170134           1
1  100    3936560  8661238           1

=== train_unlikes ===
shape (292665, 4)
columns ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
ts min/max 250 24786570
n_users 6197 n_items 113072
organic mean 0.9466967351750295
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  100    3087555  5038504           1
1  100    3087555  9170134           1

=== train_undislikes ===
shape (19960, 4)
columns ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
ts min/max 15950 24785395
n_users 2769 n_items 14725
organic mean 0.8893286573146293
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  100    7895900  9170134           1
1  100    7895900  5038504           1

=== val_listens ===
shape (1501697, 6)
columns ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic', 'played_ratio_pct', 'track_length_seconds']
ts min/max 24788600 25393395
n_users 8196 n_items 191747
organic mean 0.517072352145606
played_ratio describe {'count': 1501697.0, 'mean': 65.68327698596987, 'std': 43.72571955409413, 'min': 0.0, '25%': 9.0, '50%': 100.0, '75%': 100.0, 'max': 159.0}
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic  played_ratio_pct  track_length_seconds
0  100   24943430  9321269           0               100                   195
1  100   24943605  5452713           0               100                   175

=== val_likes ===
shape (37795, 4)
columns ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
ts min/max 24788815 25393390
n_users 4114 n_items 22902
organic mean 0.6662521497552586
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  100   25249855  3526521           1
1  300   25046245  4867327           1

=== val_dislikes ===
shape (3563, 4)
columns ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
ts min/max 24789920 25393280
n_users 955 n_items 3135
organic mean 0.5150154364299747
    uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  1600   25163525  6747257           0
1  1900   24877510  5832822           1

=== val_unlikes ===
shape (9346, 4)
columns ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
ts min/max 24789005 25393385
n_users 1313 n_items 8080
organic mean 0.9528140380911619
    uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  1100   24861880  6901050           1
1  1100   24861880  5421761           1

=== val_undislikes ===
shape (606, 4)
columns ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
ts min/max 24810715 25393035
n_users 205 n_items 579
organic mean 0.8696369636963697
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  900   25364045  6092542           1
1  900   25364045  6501913           1

=== validation_eligible_candidates.npz ===
['uids', 'item_ids', 'packed_eligible']
uids (8456,) uint32 unique 8456
items (30000,) uint32
packed (8456, 3750) uint8
all eligible: min/p50/mean/max 24657 29242.0 29067.306291390727 30000

=== test_eligible_candidates.npz ===
['uids', 'item_ids', 'packed_eligible']
uids (8456,) uint32 unique 8456
items (30000,) uint32
packed (8456, 3750) uint8
all eligible: min/p50/mean/max 24552 29220.0 29041.3178807947 30000


## Step 9 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
This is a large-scale music recommendation ranking problem.

The dataset contains 8,456 users, 30,000 candidates, and roughly 43 million training listens. Eligibility is extremely broad, with nearly all tracks available per user. The target is organic likes and strong listens within the next seven days. The metric is NDCG@10 using grades 3 and 1. A top-100 ranker per user must be built under a strict 30-minute budget.

I am weighing whether to exclude already-liked tracks from discovery, since the cutoff preference state is available. The eligibility boundary filters out roughly one thousand items per user, likely recently played or unavailable catalog entries.

This mirrors the Yandex Music Yambda dataset. I am weighing three sklearn-only approaches: item-item cosine similarity, implicit ALS, and a hybrid of popularity, recency, and history overlap.

Two-stage popularity reranking, Light SVD on implicit feedback, and item2vec are now under consideration. The training data contains 845,000 unique items, but only 30,000 catalog tracks are eligible; filtering to the catalog is essential.

A weighted implicit feedback scheme is taking shape. Likes will carry the highest weight, followed by organic 80%+ listens, then 50%+ listens, with dislikes receiving negative weight. Exponential decay will be applied to recency. Item-item cosine similarity against each user's history will form the core scoring signal, blended with popularity for cold-start cases. Whether already-consumed tracks should be downweighted remains unresolved, since organic re-listening is a valid target.

I’ll analyze overlap, recency, and which signals actually predict organic discovery before locking in a model.

### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'EOF'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\ndata = Path(\"/task/data\")\nCUTOFF = 24786800\nVAL_START = 24788600\n\ncatalog = pd.read_parquet(data / \"candidate_catalog.parquet\")\ntargets = pd.read_parquet(data / \"target_users.parquet\")\nprint(\"catalog items\", len(catalog), \"targets\", len(targets))\nprint(\"catalog popularity_rank min/max\", catalog.popularity_rank.min(), catalog.popularity_rank.max())\nprint(catalog.describe())\n\npref = pd.read_parquet(data / \"validation_preference_state.parquet\")\nprint(\"\\npref states\", pref.state.value_counts().to_dict())\nprint(\"pref unique users\", pref.uid.nunique(), \"pairs\", len(pref))\nprint(\"liked per user\", pref[pref.state=='liked'].groupby('uid').size().describe().to_dict())\nprint(\"disliked per user\", pref[pref.state=='disliked'].groupby('uid').size().describe().to_dict())\n\n# both channels\nboth = pref.groupby(['uid','item_id']).state.nunique()\nprint(\"pairs with both states\", int((both==2).sum()))\n\ntest_pref = pd.read_parquet(data / \"test_preference_state.parquet\")\nprint(\"\\ntest pref states\", test_pref.state.value_counts().to_dict())\nprint(\"test pref unique users\", test_pref.uid.nunique())\n\n# How many catalog items in events\ncat_set = set(catalog.item_id.astype(int))\ntgt_set = set(targets.uid.astype(int))\n\nlistens = pd.read_parquet(data / \"train_listens.parquet\", columns=[\"uid\",\"item_id\",\"is_organic\",\"played_ratio_pct\",\"timestamp\"])\nprint(\"\\ntrain listens catalog frac\", listens.item_id.isin(cat_set).mean())\nprint(\"train listens target-user frac\", listens.uid.isin(tgt_set).mean())\nprint(\"positive (>=50) frac\", (listens.played_ratio_pct>=50).mean())\nprint(\"strong (>=80) frac\", (listens.played_ratio_pct>=80).mean())\nprint(\"organic strong among target\", ((listens.uid.isin(tgt_set))&(listens.is_organic==1)&(listens.played_ratio_pct>=80)).mean())\n\n# recency of last train listen\nprint(\"train ts quantiles\", listens.timestamp.quantile([0,0.1,0.5,0.9,0.99,1]).to_dict())\nprint(\"days of history\", listens.timestamp.max()/86400)\n\nval_listens = pd.read_parquet(data / \"val_listens.parquet\", columns=[\"uid\",\"item_id\",\"is_organic\",\"played_ratio_pct\"])\nval_likes = pd.read_parquet(data / \"val_likes.parquet\", columns=[\"uid\",\"item_id\",\"is_organic\"])\n\n# labels among target users\nvl = val_listens[val_listens.uid.isin(tgt_set)]\nvk = val_likes[val_likes.uid.isin(tgt_set)]\nprint(\"\\nval listens target\", len(vl), \"organic strong\", ((vl.is_organic==1)&(vl.played_ratio_pct>=80)).sum())\nprint(\"val likes target\", len(vk), \"organic\", (vk.is_organic==1).sum())\n\n# unique relevant items\nstrong = vl[(vl.is_organic==1)&(vl.played_ratio_pct>=80)][[\"uid\",\"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\nolikes = vk[vk.is_organic==1][[\"uid\",\"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\nprint(\"unique organic strong pairs\", len(strong), \"users\", strong.uid.nunique())\nprint(\"unique organic like pairs\", len(olikes), \"users\", olikes.uid.nunique())\nprint(\"like items in catalog\", olikes.item_id.isin(cat_set).mean())\nprint(\"strong items in catalog\", strong.item_id.isin(cat_set).mean())\nprint(\"like items catalog count\", olikes.item_id.isin(cat_set).sum(), \"of\", len(olikes))\nprint(\"strong items catalog count\", strong.item_id.isin(cat_set).sum(), \"of\", len(strong))\nEOF\n",
  "description": "Analyze catalog overlap, labels, preference state"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
catalog items 30000 targets 8456
catalog popularity_rank min/max 1 30000
            item_id  ...  popularity_rank
count  3.000000e+04  ...     30000.000000
mean   4.698278e+06  ...     15000.500000
std    2.700274e+06  ...      8660.398374
min    2.060000e+02  ...         1.000000
25%    2.382368e+06  ...      7500.750000
50%    4.687992e+06  ...     15000.500000
75%    7.040711e+06  ...     22500.250000
max    9.390294e+06  ...     30000.000000

[8 rows x 4 columns]

pref states {'liked': 418435, 'disliked': 50689}
pref unique users 7038 pairs 469124
liked per user {'count': 6769.0, 'mean': 61.816368739843405, 'std': 97.98764422093241, 'min': 1.0, '25%': 7.0, '50%': 28.0, '75%': 75.0, 'max': 1327.0}
disliked per user {'count': 4277.0, 'mean': 11.851531447276129, 'std': 54.83849644923854, 'min': 1.0, '25%': 1.0, '50%': 3.0, '75%': 7.0, 'max': 1703.0}
pairs with both states 1710

test pref states {'liked': 432659, 'disliked': 52117}
test pref unique users 7092

train listens catalog frac 0.7186436099638032
train listens target-user frac 0.9939779909276847
positive (>=50) frac 0.6324315712303417
strong (>=80) frac 0.5922891828263254
organic strong among target 0.2787914099936945
train ts quantiles {0.0: 0.0, 0.1: 3325273.999999999, 0.5: 14244610.0, 0.9: 22967785.0, 0.99: 24619235.0, 1.0: 24786795.0}
days of history 286.88420138888887

val listens target 1482553 organic strong 421615
val likes target 33177 organic 20702
unique organic strong pairs 255608 users 6325
unique organic like pairs 17195 users 2714
like items in catalog 0.4959581273626054
strong items in catalog 0.6681754874651811
like items catalog count 8528 of 17195
strong items catalog count 170791 of 255608


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### Recorded reasoning summary
The 30,000-item catalog contains roughly half of organic likes and two-thirds of organic strong listens.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'EOF'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\ndata = Path(\"/task/data\")\ncatalog = pd.read_parquet(data / \"candidate_catalog.parquet\")\ntargets = pd.read_parquet(data / \"target_users.parquet\")\ncat_set = set(catalog.item_id.astype(int))\ntgt = set(targets.uid.astype(int))\n\n# eligibility\nz = np.load(data / \"validation_eligible_candidates.npz\")\nuids = z[\"uids\"].astype(np.int64)\nitems = z[\"item_ids\"].astype(np.int64)\npacked = z[\"packed_eligible\"]\nn_items = len(items)\nitem_col = {int(it): i for i, it in enumerate(items)}\nuid_row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(uids)}\neligible_bits = np.unpackbits(packed, axis=1, bitorder=\"little\")[:, :n_items]\n\ndef is_eligible(u, it):\n    r = uid_row.get(int(u)); c = item_col.get(int(it))\n    if r is None or c is None: return False\n    return bool(eligible_bits[r, c])\n\npref = pd.read_parquet(data / \"validation_preference_state.parquet\")\nliked = set(zip(pref[pref.state=='liked'].uid.astype(int), pref[pref.state=='liked'].item_id.astype(int)))\ndisliked = set(zip(pref[pref.state=='disliked'].uid.astype(int), pref[pref.state=='disliked'].item_id.astype(int)))\n\n# train history of positive listens for target users on catalog\ncols = [\"uid\",\"item_id\",\"is_organic\",\"played_ratio_pct\",\"timestamp\"]\nlistens = pd.read_parquet(data / \"train_listens.parquet\", columns=cols)\nlistens = listens[listens.uid.isin(tgt)]\npos = listens[(listens.played_ratio_pct>=50)][[\"uid\",\"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\npos_set = set(zip(pos.uid.astype(int), pos.item_id.astype(int)))\nstrong_hist = listens[(listens.played_ratio_pct>=80)][[\"uid\",\"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\nstrong_set = set(zip(strong_hist.uid.astype(int), strong_hist.item_id.astype(int)))\nany_hist = listens[[\"uid\",\"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\nany_set = set(zip(any_hist.uid.astype(int), any_hist.item_id.astype(int)))\n\n# last 7 and 30 days of train\nCUTOFF = 24786800\nrecent7 = listens[(listens.timestamp >= CUTOFF - 7*86400) & (listens.played_ratio_pct>=50)][[\"uid\",\"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\nrecent7_set = set(zip(recent7.uid.astype(int), recent7.item_id.astype(int)))\nrecent30 = listens[(listens.timestamp >= CUTOFF - 30*86400) & (listens.played_ratio_pct>=50)][[\"uid\",\"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\nrecent30_set = set(zip(recent30.uid.astype(int), recent30.item_id.astype(int)))\norg_recent7 = listens[(listens.timestamp >= CUTOFF - 7*86400) & (listens.is_organic==1) & (listens.played_ratio_pct>=80)][[\"uid\",\"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\norg_recent7_set = set(zip(org_recent7.uid.astype(int), org_recent7.item_id.astype(int)))\n\nval_listens = pd.read_parquet(data / \"val_listens.parquet\", columns=cols)\nval_likes = pd.read_parquet(data / \"val_likes.parquet\", columns=[\"uid\",\"item_id\",\"is_organic\"])\nvl = val_listens[val_listens.uid.isin(tgt)]\nvk = val_likes[val_likes.uid.isin(tgt)]\n\nstrong = vl[(vl.is_organic==1)&(vl.played_ratio_pct>=80)][[\"uid\",\"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\nolikes = vk[vk.is_organic==1][[\"uid\",\"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\n\ndef stats(name, df):\n    pairs = list(zip(df.uid.astype(int), df.item_id.astype(int)))\n    n = len(pairs)\n    in_cat = sum(it in cat_set for _, it in pairs)\n    elig = sum(is_eligible(u, it) for u, it in pairs)\n    in_pos = sum((u,it) in pos_set for u,it in pairs)\n    in_any = sum((u,it) in any_set for u,it in pairs)\n    in_liked = sum((u,it) in liked for u,it in pairs)\n    in_dis = sum((u,it) in disliked for u,it in pairs)\n    in_r7 = sum((u,it) in recent7_set for u,it in pairs)\n    in_r30 = sum((u,it) in recent30_set for u,it in pairs)\n    in_org7 = sum((u,it) in org_recent7_set for u,it in pairs)\n    print(f\"{name}: n={n} catalog={in_cat} elig={elig} hist_pos={in_pos} hist_any={in_any} liked={in_liked} disliked={in_dis} rec7={in_r7} rec30={in_r30} org_strong7={in_org7}\")\n    # among eligible\n    elig_pairs = [(u,it) for u,it in pairs if is_eligible(u,it)]\n    if elig_pairs:\n        e = len(elig_pairs)\n        print(\"  among eligible: hist_pos\", sum((u,it) in pos_set for u,it in elig_pairs)/e,\n              \"hist_any\", sum((u,it) in any_set for u,it in elig_pairs)/e,\n              \"liked\", sum((u,it) in liked for u,it in elig_pairs)/e,\n              \"rec7\", sum((u,it) in recent7_set for u,it in elig_pairs)/e,\n              \"rec30\", sum((u,it) in recent30_set for u,it in elig_pairs)/e,\n              \"org_strong7\", sum((u,it) in org_recent7_set for u,it in elig_pairs)/e)\n\nstats(\"organic likes\", olikes)\nstats(\"organic strong listens\", strong)\n\n# users with at least one eligible relevant\nelig_rel_users = set()\nfor u, it in zip(olikes.uid.astype(int), olikes.item_id.astype(int)):\n    if is_eligible(u, it):\n        elig_rel_users.add(u)\nfor u, it in zip(strong.uid.astype(int), strong.item_id.astype(int)):\n    if is_eligible(u, it):\n        elig_rel_users.add(u)\nprint(\"users with eligible relevant\", len(elig_rel_users))\n\n# how many eligible relevant items per user\nfrom collections import defaultdict\nrel = defaultdict(set)\nfor u, it in zip(strong.uid.astype(int), strong.item_id.astype(int)):\n    if is_eligible(u, it):\n        rel[u].add(it)\nfor u, it in zip(olikes.uid.astype(int), olikes.item_id.astype(int)):\n    if is_eligible(u, it):\n        rel[u].add(it)\nsizes = np.array([len(s) for s in rel.values()])\nprint(\"eligible relevant per scored user min/p50/mean/max\", sizes.min(), np.median(sizes), sizes.mean(), sizes.max())\n\n# popularity of eligible relevant vs catalog\npop = dict(zip(catalog.item_id.astype(int), catalog.popularity_rank.astype(int)))\nranks = [pop[it] for pairs in rel.values() for it in pairs if it in pop]\nprint(\"relevant item popularity_rank p10/p50/p90\", np.percentile(ranks, [10,50,90]) if ranks else None)\n\n# liked items eligibility\nliked_df = pref[pref.state=='liked']\nn_liked_elig = sum(is_eligible(int(u), int(it)) for u,it in zip(liked_df.uid, liked_df.item_id))\nprint(\"liked pairs\", len(liked_df), \"eligible\", n_liked_elig)\ndis_df = pref[pref.state=='disliked']\nn_dis_elig = sum(is_eligible(int(u), int(it)) for u,it in zip(dis_df.uid, dis_df.item_id))\nprint(\"disliked pairs\", len(dis_df), \"eligible\", n_dis_elig)\nEOF\n",
  "description": "Analyze repeat vs new relevant items and eligibility"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
<task-id>call-0405f9e0-7505-4519-8d97-a909fca675ae-10</task-id>
<task-type>bash</task-type>
<output-file>/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/53ca2435-838f-4426-8d1d-e7c50ff736bb/terminal/call-0405f9e0-7505-4519-8d97-a909fca675ae-10.log</output-file>
<status>running</status>
<summary>Command "Analyze repeat vs new relevant items and eligibility" is still running after 30s (block_until_ms) and has been moved to the background as task call-0405f9e0-7505-4519-8d97-a909fca675ae-10.</summary>
Use get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=["call-0405f9e0-7505-4519-8d97-a909fca675ae-10"] when you need the output.

## Step 11 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

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### get_command_or_subagent_output · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "task_ids": [
    "call-0405f9e0-7505-4519-8d97-a909fca675ae-10"
  ],
  "timeout_ms": 60000
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
=== Task call-0405f9e0-7505-4519-8d97-a909fca675ae-10 ===
Command: /opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'EOF'
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from pathlib import Path

data = Path("/task/data")
catalog = pd.read_parquet(data / "candidate_catalog.parquet")
targets = pd.read_parquet(data / "target_users.parquet")
cat_set = set(catalog.item_id.astype(int))
tgt = set(targets.uid.astype(int))

# eligibility
z = np.load(data / "validation_eligible_candidates.npz")
uids = z["uids"].astype(np.int64)
items = z["item_ids"].astype(np.int64)
packed = z["packed_eligible"]
n_items = len(items)
item_col = {int(it): i for i, it in enumerate(items)}
uid_row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(uids)}
eligible_bits = np.unpackbits(packed, axis=1, bitorder="little")[:, :n_items]

def is_eligible(u, it):
    r = uid_row.get(int(u)); c = item_col.get(int(it))
    if r is None or c is None: return False
    return bool(eligible_bits[r, c])

pref = pd.read_parquet(data / "validation_preference_state.parquet")
liked = set(zip(pref[pref.state=='liked'].uid.astype(int), pref[pref.state=='liked'].item_id.astype(int)))
disliked = set(zip(pref[pref.state=='disliked'].uid.astype(int), pref[pref.state=='disliked'].item_id.astype(int)))

# train history of positive listens for target users on catalog
cols = ["uid","item_id","is_organic","played_ratio_pct","timestamp"]
listens = pd.read_parquet(data / "train_listens.parquet", columns=cols)
listens = listens[listens.uid.isin(tgt)]
pos = listens[(listens.played_ratio_pct>=50)][["uid","item_id"]].drop_duplicates()
pos_set = set(zip(pos.uid.astype(int), pos.item_id.astype(int)))
strong_hist = listens[(listens.played_ratio_pct>=80)][["uid","item_id"]].drop_duplicates()
strong_set = set(zip(strong_hist.uid.astype(int), strong_hist.item_id.astype(int)))
any_hist = listens[["uid","item_id"]].drop_duplicates()
any_set = set(zip(any_hist.uid.astype(int), any_hist.item_id.astype(int)))

# last 7 and 30 days of train
CUTOFF = 24786800
recent7 = listens[(listens.timestamp >= CUTOFF - 7*86400) & (listens.played_ratio_pct>=50)][["uid","item_id"]].drop_duplicates()
recent7_set = set(zip(recent7.uid.astype(int), recent7.item_id.astype(int)))
recent30 = listens[(listens.timestamp >= CUTOFF - 30*86400) & (listens.played_ratio_pct>=50)][["uid","item_id"]].drop_duplicates()
recent30_set = set(zip(recent30.uid.astype(int), recent30.item_id.astype(int)))
org_recent7 = listens[(listens.timestamp >= CUTOFF - 7*86400) & (listens.is_organic==1) & (listens.played_ratio_pct>=80)][["uid","item_id"]].drop_duplicates()
org_recent7_set = set(zip(org_recent7.uid.astype(int), org_recent7.item_id.astype(int)))

val_listens = pd.read_parquet(data / "val_listens.parquet", columns=cols)
val_likes = pd.read_parquet(data / "val_likes.parquet", columns=["uid","item_id","is_organic"])
vl = val_listens[val_listens.uid.isin(tgt)]
vk = val_likes[val_likes.uid.isin(tgt)]

strong = vl[(vl.is_organic==1)&(vl.played_ratio_pct>=80)][["uid","item_id"]].drop_duplicates()
olikes = vk[vk.is_organic==1][["uid","item_id"]].drop_duplicates()

def stats(name, df):
    pairs = list(zip(df.uid.astype(int), df.item_id.astype(int)))
    n = len(pairs)
    in_cat = sum(it in cat_set for _, it in pairs)
    elig = sum(is_eligible(u, it) for u, it in pairs)
    in_pos = sum((u,it) in pos_set for u,it in pairs)
    in_any = sum((u,it) in any_set for u,it in pairs)
    in_liked = sum((u,it) in liked for u,it in pairs)
    in_dis = sum((u,it) in disliked for u,it in pairs)
    in_r7 = sum((u,it) in recent7_set for u,it in pairs)
    in_r30 = sum((u,it) in recent30_set for u,it in pairs)
    in_org7 = sum((u,it) in org_recent7_set for u,it in pairs)
    print(f"{name}: n={n} catalog={in_cat} elig={elig} hist_pos={in_pos} hist_any={in_any} liked={in_liked} disliked={in_dis} rec7={in_r7} rec30={in_r30} org_strong7={in_org7}")
    # among eligible
    elig_pairs = [(u,it) for u,it in pairs if is_eligible(u,it)]
    if elig_pairs:
        e = len(elig_pairs)
        print("  among eligible: hist_pos", sum((u,it) in pos_set for u,it in elig_pairs)/e,
              "hist_any", sum((u,it) in any_set for u,it in elig_pairs)/e,
              "liked", sum((u,it) in liked for u,it in elig_pairs)/e,
              "rec7", sum((u,it) in recent7_set for u,it in elig_pairs)/e,
              "rec30", sum((u,it) in recent30_set for u,it in elig_pairs)/e,
              "org_strong7", sum((u,it) in org_recent7_set for u,it in elig_pairs)/e)

stats("organic likes", olikes)
stats("organic strong listens", strong)

# users with at least one eligible relevant
elig_rel_users = set()
for u, it in zip(olikes.uid.astype(int), olikes.item_id.astype(int)):
    if is_eligible(u, it):
        elig_rel_users.add(u)
for u, it in zip(strong.uid.astype(int), strong.item_id.astype(int)):
    if is_eligible(u, it):
        elig_rel_users.add(u)
print("users with eligible relevant", len(elig_rel_users))

# how many eligible relevant items per user
from collections import defaultdict
rel = defaultdict(set)
for u, it in zip(strong.uid.astype(int), strong.item_id.astype(int)):
    if is_eligible(u, it):
        rel[u].add(it)
for u, it in zip(olikes.uid.astype(int), olikes.item_id.astype(int)):
    if is_eligible(u, it):
        rel[u].add(it)
sizes = np.array([len(s) for s in rel.values()])
print("eligible relevant per scored user min/p50/mean/max", sizes.min(), np.median(sizes), sizes.mean(), sizes.max())

# popularity of eligible relevant vs catalog
pop = dict(zip(catalog.item_id.astype(int), catalog.popularity_rank.astype(int)))
ranks = [pop[it] for pairs in rel.values() for it in pairs if it in pop]
print("relevant item popularity_rank p10/p50/p90", np.percentile(ranks, [10,50,90]) if ranks else None)

# liked items eligibility
liked_df = pref[pref.state=='liked']
n_liked_elig = sum(is_eligible(int(u), int(it)) for u,it in zip(liked_df.uid, liked_df.item_id))
print("liked pairs", len(liked_df), "eligible", n_liked_elig)
dis_df = pref[pref.state=='disliked']
n_dis_elig = sum(is_eligible(int(u), int(it)) for u,it in zip(dis_df.uid, dis_df.item_id))
print("disliked pairs", len(dis_df), "eligible", n_dis_elig)
EOF

Status: completed
Duration: 48.49s
Exit Code: 0
Output File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/53ca2435-838f-4426-8d1d-e7c50ff736bb/terminal/call-0405f9e0-7505-4519-8d97-a909fca675ae-10.log

=== Output ===
organic likes: n=17195 catalog=8528 elig=4417 hist_pos=6552 hist_any=7270 liked=672 disliked=16 rec7=1492 rec30=3884 org_strong7=397
  among eligible: hist_pos 0.0 hist_any 0.0 liked 0.0 rec7 0.0 rec30 0.0 org_strong7 0.0
organic strong listens: n=255608 catalog=170791 elig=35597 hist_pos=174621 hist_any=184156 liked=55440 disliked=427 rec7=74444 rec30=129211 org_strong7=64561
  among eligible: hist_pos 0.0 hist_any 0.0 liked 0.0 rec7 0.0 rec30 0.0 org_strong7 0.0
users with eligible relevant 4263
eligible relevant per scored user min/p50/mean/max 1 4.0 8.859723199624677 442
relevant item popularity_rank p10/p50/p90 [  428.   5622.  21680.2]
liked pairs 418435 eligible 0
disliked pairs 50689 eligible 0


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### Recorded reasoning summary
A critical finding emerged: among eligible relevant items, historical position, any history, and likes are all zero.

Eligibility excludes all previously interacted and liked items. The task is purely discovery: recommending never-seen tracks. Organic likes yield 4,417 eligible candidates. Strong listens yield 35,597. 4,263 users have at least one eligible relevant item. The median is four relevant items per scored user.

Relevant items span a wide popularity range, so the task is not limited to top tracks. Item-item collaborative filtering based on implicit feedback looks most promising, since it can identify similar unheard tracks without relying on history.

A full dense similarity matrix is infeasible at 30,000 items. Sparse top-K neighbors per item are the practical path. TruncatedSVD on the sparse user-item matrix is another strong candidate; it scores all candidates instantly with just a few hundred factors. Blending SVD, item-item CF, and recent organic popularity could yield the best results.

Feedback weights are being refined. Organic likes carry the highest weight, followed by strong listens and repeat listens. Recency decay will favor recent interactions for next-week predictions. Dislikes are excluded since those items are already ineligible.

For matrix factorization, binary implicit values with recency weights may be simpler than confidence scaling. The full user pool of 9,238 is being considered instead of just target users. Whether non-catalog items should be included is also under review.

Non-catalog items will be excluded to keep the catalog-only ranking pipeline fast. The 30-minute window is being allocated to a quick strong model, validation evaluation, tuning, refitting on train-plus-validation, and submission. A full SVD score matrix for all users consumes roughly 1 GB of memory, which is acceptable.

The implementation plan is now concrete. A sparse user-item matrix will be built from recency-weighted implicit feedback. TruncatedSVD with 256 components will provide fast scores for all candidates. Item-item top-K similarity and recent organic popularity will be blended in. Ineligible items will be masked out, and the top 100 candidates selected per user.

EASE, a closed-form item-item model, was considered but rejected. Inverting a 30,000 by 30,000 matrix would require roughly seven gigabytes of memory and take several minutes, which is too slow for this time budget.

UserKNN is now a leading candidate. Cosine similarity across 8,456 users is feasible. Each user’s top neighbors will be scored by their weighted preferences for unseen items. This naturally recommends tracks liked by similar users.

User-user similarity will be computed as X @ X.T, yielding a 286 MB dense matrix. The top-K neighbor scores can be formed by simulating against the sparse user-item matrix. SVD will also serve as a separate signal.

Pure popularity would be weak for NDCG@10 because relevant items span a wide popularity range. Exponential decay with a 30–60 day half-life will weight recent history more heavily, matching the 90-day selection window. Organic likes are assigned a weight of 5.0 and recency-based likes a weight of 3.0.

The feedback weighting scheme is now fully specified. Organic strong listens score 2.0, rec strong listens 1.5, organic positive listens 1.2, and rec positive listens 1.0. Dislikes carry a negative weight of -3.0 to help factor learning even though those items are ineligible. Multiple listens will be aggregated with log1p or capped decayed sums. Item popularity will serve only as a minor tie-breaker for cold items. Consecutive session co-visitation is also being considered as an additional item-item signal.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "free -h; nproc; /opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'EOF'\nimport pandas as pd, numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\ndata = Path(\"/task/data\")\n# unique user-item on catalog, interaction intensity\ncatalog = set(pd.read_parquet(data/\"candidate_catalog.parquet\").item_id.astype(int))\ntargets = pd.read_parquet(data/\"target_users.parquet\")\nprint(targets.describe())\nprint(\"recent_positive quantiles\", targets.recent_positive_listens.quantile([0.1,0.25,0.5,0.75,0.9,0.99]).to_dict())\n\n# likes on catalog\nlikes = pd.read_parquet(data/\"train_likes.parquet\")\nprint(\"train likes catalog frac\", likes.item_id.isin(catalog).mean())\n\n# How many unique catalog pairs in positive listens\ncols=[\"uid\",\"item_id\",\"played_ratio_pct\",\"is_organic\",\"timestamp\"]\n# sample estimate via pyarrow filter? just compute unique\nlistens = pd.read_parquet(data/\"train_listens.parquet\", columns=[\"uid\",\"item_id\",\"played_ratio_pct\"])\nlistens = listens[listens.item_id.isin(catalog)]\nprint(\"catalog listens\", len(listens))\npos = listens[listens.played_ratio_pct>=50]\nprint(\"catalog pos listens\", len(pos), \"unique pairs\", pos.drop_duplicates([\"uid\",\"item_id\"]).shape[0])\nprint(\"unique users in catalog pos\", pos.uid.nunique(), \"items\", pos.item_id.nunique())\nstrong = listens[listens.played_ratio_pct>=80]\nprint(\"catalog strong unique pairs\", strong.drop_duplicates([\"uid\",\"item_id\"]).shape[0])\nEOF\n",
  "description": "Check memory, cores, and interaction density"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            15Gi       935Mi       7.9Gi       3.0Mi       6.8Gi        14Gi
Swap:             0B          0B          0B
8
                  uid  recent_positive_listens  history_positive_listens
count     8456.000000              8456.000000               8456.000000
mean    502289.108325              1251.076750               3236.440752
std     287953.395912              1414.340904               3697.575286
min        100.000000                20.000000                 20.000000
25%     254375.000000               281.000000                630.000000
50%     503850.000000               784.500000               1920.500000
75%     751725.000000              1706.250000               4494.250000
max    1000000.000000             19592.000000              26597.000000
recent_positive quantiles {0.1: 101.0, 0.25: 281.0, 0.5: 784.5, 0.75: 1706.25, 0.9: 3004.0, 0.99: 6541.450000000001}
train likes catalog frac 0.6809068383505291
catalog listens 31249613
catalog pos listens 20056329 unique pairs 5564926
unique users in catalog pos 9135 items 30000
catalog strong unique pairs 5337972


## Step 13 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
The environment provides 15 GB RAM and 8 cores. The catalog contains 5.5 million unique positive user-item pairs.

Heavy users have a median of 784 recent positive listens. Dense EASE would need about 7 GB for a 30k-item gram matrix, so float32 and scipy.linalg.solve are being considered to save memory. Item-item kNN with sparse co-occurrence, TruncatedSVD, and UserKNN are also under review as lighter alternatives. A time-split validation strategy is being planned.

The validation pipeline will train on the training set, rank candidates for eligibility, and evaluate with the public script. A final refit on combined training and validation data will prepare for the test phase.

Collaborative filtering should perform well given the heavy listening histories. The real challenge is predicting organic discovery of new tracks over the next seven days.

Key signals for future discovery include taste similarity to recently liked items, rising popularity within the user's taste cluster, and album or artist completion. Artist and album metadata are unavailable.

The multi-signal model will combine two signals. The first is a weighted SVD with recency decay, preference weights, and organic discovery bonuses. The second is an item-item cosine kNN.

The item-item kNN will use the same weighted matrix, keeping top 200 neighbors per item and scoring by summing similarities to the user's history. A user-user kNN signal will recommend recent organic likes from the top 100 similar users. Co-visitation counts other items that co-occurred in other users' histories, with extra weight for consecutive listens. Recent 30-day organic strong listen counts will serve as a weak popularity fallback. These signals will be blended into the final score.

EASE is the top priority if it can fit in memory. The standard float64 gram matrix and its inverse together would consume roughly 14 GB, leaving no room for the solver workspace. I am now exploring in-place linear algebra tricks to make EASE viable without exceeding the 15 GB limit.

Float32 EASE may fit within the 15 GB limit after all. A lightweight implicit ALS is also being considered for its speed on this scale. ItemKNN with cosine or BM25 similarity is viewed as a strong alternative to ALS for music ranking. The implementation plan will use an L2-normalized CSR matrix.

The item-item co-occurrence matrix is dense rather than sparse, so float32 storage requires only about 3.6 GB. The implementation will build a weighted CSR matrix, reweight it with TF-IDF or BM25, normalize columns, and compute item similarities in batches to keep memory usage low.

P3alpha and RP3beta graph diffusion are being considered as additional discovery signals. The pipeline will load data efficiently, build user-item weights, and train SVD, ItemKNN, UserKNN, and popularity models. Blend weights will be tuned on validation NDCG without leaking labels into features. Final models will be refit on combined training and validation data using the same hyperparameters and tuned weights.

Item-item similarities will be computed from the full history, but scored using only the last 90 days of the user's items. Likes will be heavily weighted as seeds for item-item similarity. The implementation will be a single end-to-end script at `solution/build_ranker.py` to keep runtime tight.

The output will be written to `solution/validation.parquet`, `solution/submission.parquet`, and `solution/README.md`. A fast internal evaluator will replace the subprocess call for tuning speed. BM25 term frequency weighting is being considered for item-item similarity.

BM25 term frequency and inverse document frequency will weight item-item similarities. The final signal stack is ItemKNN cosine or BM25 as primary, TruncatedSVD as secondary, UserKNN as tertiary, popularity as a weak fallback, and a recent co-occurrence boost using the last 50 organic strong listens or likes.

The recency-weighted profile is equivalent to ItemKNN with a recent-history emphasis. I will map users and items to contiguous indices, keeping only catalog interactions for all users who have them. Scoring all 8,456 users against 30,000 items requires roughly 1 GB of memory for the SVD dense score matrix. The item-item similarity matrix will be a sparse top-K graph with about six million entries.

The full model fits comfortably within the 15 GB memory budget. SVD, ItemKNN, UserKNN, and blended scores all stay well under the limit. The user-user similarity matrix for UserKNN is only about 300 MB dense float32, so it can be built directly without sparse tricks.

A lightweight implicit ALS is being drafted with 128 factors, ten iterations, and a regularization parameter of 0.1. The vectorized user-factor update will solve a small dense linear system per user, keeping the workload manageable despite the large matrix.

Implicit ALS is now the primary model choice. It treats missing interactions as negatives and often outperforms SVD on implicit data. The implementation will use 64 factors, 12 iterations, and a confidence parameter of 20.0.

The implicit ALS solver is being implemented with a confidence matrix of 1 plus alpha times the raw counts. It alternates between updating user factors and item factors, using a CSR-based helper that solves a small dense linear system per row.

The implicit ALS solver will use a small dense linear system per user and item. Total training time is estimated at roughly thirty seconds, which is acceptable. Numba is not available in the environment.

A popularity baseline will be computed first to establish a performance floor. Ineligible candidates will receive a score of negative infinity. Ties will be broken by item popularity.

The pipeline will be modular to allow rapid weight tuning. Validation events will be concatenated with training data for the final refit, and test preference states will be used as extra signals. Validation likes will be added to user profiles so they influence test ranking.

Validation events will be included in the item-item similarity matrix. Recency decay will use the training cutoff as its reference point, since validation and test windows follow it.

The test ranking cutoff is fixed at 25395200, exactly 1800 seconds after the validation window ends. A 21-day half-life will weight recent history most heavily.

Event weights are being assigned to each interaction type. Organic likes score 8, recommended likes score 4, dislikes score -4, and undislikes cancel prior likes. Listen events will be binned by played ratio: organic strong listens score 3, recommended strong listens score 2, moderate organic listens score 1.5, moderate recommended listens score 1, and weak or skipped listens score 0.1. The preference state at the cutoff timestamp will serve as the primary like signal, with listen history providing additional context.

Preference state lacks timestamps, so recency decay must be applied to raw like and unlike events. The preference state will still serve as the current liked-disliked signal. Listen events will be weighted and decayed by age, while liked items receive a flat cutoff-time boost and disliked items receive a penalty.

ItemKNN will use only positive interactions, dropping unlike events to avoid messy cosine similarity with negatives. Repeat listens will be aggregated per user-item pair by summing decayed weights and applying a log1p transform to dampen power users and popular tracks. For SVD, items will be treated as terms with TF-IDF weighting using the log of total users divided by document frequency.

Only the needed columns will be loaded from the 43-million-row parquet, and non-catalog items will be filtered out early to keep the item space at 30,000. All 9,135 users with catalog interactions will be used for fitting, but scoring will be restricted to the 8,456 target users. ItemKNN cosine similarity is effectively a one-step walk, so second-order diffusion is not needed. EASE on a reduced item set is also being considered.

Sparse EASE and SANSA are too complex. A dense 30,000-by-30,000 float32 Gram matrix fits in memory. It can be truncated to a top-K graph or used directly as cosine ItemKNN. The diagonal is zeroed to avoid recommending seed items. Float32 EASE is also being considered.

EASE on the full 30,000-item space is infeasible. A dense Cholesky decomposition would require roughly 270 seconds and 7 GB of memory, so it is being dropped.

Sparse item-item similarity will be built via batched matrix multiplication, keeping only the top K neighbors per item. The final score will be a reciprocal-rank fusion across all models, which is robust to scale differences.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'EOF'\nimport pandas as pd, numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\ndata = Path(\"/task/data\")\ncat = pd.read_parquet(data/\"candidate_catalog.parquet\")\nz = np.load(data/\"validation_eligible_candidates.npz\")\nzt = np.load(data/\"test_eligible_candidates.npz\")\nprint(\"val items vs catalog\", np.array_equal(z[\"item_ids\"], cat.item_id.to_numpy()))\nprint(\"test items vs catalog\", np.array_equal(zt[\"item_ids\"], cat.item_id.to_numpy()))\nprint(\"val vs test items\", np.array_equal(z[\"item_ids\"], zt[\"item_ids\"]))\nprint(\"val vs test uids\", np.array_equal(z[\"uids\"], zt[\"uids\"]))\nprint(\"target uids equal val uids\", np.array_equal(pd.read_parquet(data/\"target_users.parquet\").uid.to_numpy(), z[\"uids\"]))\nprint(\"catalog first 5\", cat.item_id.head().tolist())\nprint(\"npz first 5\", z[\"item_ids\"][:5])\n# overlap of eligible between val and test\nvb = np.unpackbits(z[\"packed_eligible\"], axis=1, bitorder=\"little\")[:, :30000]\ntb = np.unpackbits(zt[\"packed_eligible\"], axis=1, bitorder=\"little\")[:, :30000]\nprint(\"eligible overlap mean\", (vb & tb).sum(1).mean(), \"val\", vb.sum(1).mean(), \"test\", tb.sum(1).mean())\nprint(\"val-only mean\", (vb & ~tb).sum(1).mean(), \"test-only\", (tb & ~vb).sum(1).mean())\nEOF\n",
  "description": "Check catalog/eligibility array alignment"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
val items vs catalog True
test items vs catalog True
val vs test items True
val vs test uids True
target uids equal val uids True
catalog first 5 [5862961, 6901374, 5635052, 3542184, 9378983]
npz first 5 [5862961 6901374 5635052 3542184 9378983]
eligible overlap mean 29041.3178807947 val 29067.306291390727 test 29041.3178807947
val-only mean 25.98841059602649 test-only 0.0


## Step 14 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
Test eligible candidates form a subset of validation eligible candidates. The test-only mean is zero.

Validation eligible items include roughly 26 candidates per user that become ineligible at test time, likely due to validation interactions. Catalog order matches the npz file. The planned ranker combines ItemKNN with BM25 or cosine similarity, TruncatedSVD for latent taste, UserKNN for similar users, popularity from recent organic interactions, and co-visitation from recent seeds. Recency-weighted ItemKNN scoring is considered the most important component.

Implicit feedback from all listens, including non-target users, will be used. iALS is the chosen factorization method. The implementation will use float32, scipy sparse matrices, and joblib parallelism for speed. Session-based co-occurrence is a key similarity signal: tracks played close together by many users are treated as similar.

Consecutive listens within 20 minutes of the same user will be counted as session pairs. Item-item co-occurrence counts will be built from these pairs to capture album and artist similarity without metadata. The ranking score for a user will then be computed from the co-visited items of their recent selections.

User profiles will be split into long-term taste and short-term intent. Similarity and SVD will use all history, while ItemKNN queries will use only the last 7 to 30 days of organic likes. This targets recent organic engagement directly.

Validation will be used to grid-search blend weights. NDCG@10 only evaluates the top ten items, so optimization targets that window. Full model scores will be computed once per model and blended into a single float32 accumulator. Ineligible candidates are masked out before argpartitioning to the top one hundred. The implementation will live in `/app/solution/build_ranker.py`.

The ItemKNN implementation will compute top-k cosine similarities by batched matrix multiplication. It will use the transpose of the user-item CSR matrix to avoid dense intermediate arrays.

The ItemKNN batched similarity approach is being refined. Converting a user-item block to dense would consume roughly nine megabytes, so the plan shifts to using a pre-transposed item-user CSR matrix. Dense arrays will be extracted from that transpose in batches for cosine similarity computation.

The ItemKNN batched similarity approach is now concrete. A dense item-user block of shape (256, 9135) will be multiplied against the sparse user-item matrix to produce a dense similarity block of shape (256, 30000). Each row will have its self-similarity zeroed out before argpartitioning to the top k neighbors. These top-k pairs will be assembled into a sparse item-item CSR matrix S. User scores will then be computed by a single dense-sparse matrix multiplication: X_query @ S.

BM25 weighting will be applied to the user-item matrix before cosine similarity. The query vector can use stronger recency than the training matrix used for item-item similarity.

BM25 weighting will be applied to the user-item matrix before L2-normalizing columns for cosine similarity. A popularity score based on decayed organic strong listens and likes will serve as a small additive term or tiebreaker. For blending, a rank-reversal formula will combine top-500 candidates from each model, with raw scores linearly blended as well.

The blending strategy is simplified to a linear combination of four score matrices: SVD, ItemKNN, UserKNN, and log-popularity. Each matrix will be scaled by its standard deviation before weighting. Validation scores will be cached so weights can be retuned without recomputing all models. Intermediate matrices may also be saved to disk.

The SVD matrix will use weighted implicit feedback rather than binary values. ItemKNN query vectors will blend decayed recent items with a fixed long-term component. Likes will receive extra weight as strong seeds.

The build script will follow a three-step plan: produce a quick baseline of SVD, popularity, and ItemKNN; evaluate it; then iterate. Validation labels will be precomputed to avoid repeated file reads. ALS factorization will run in parallel via multiprocessing, and BLAS threads will be capped at eight.

The first run will skip ALS and ship a leaner baseline of SVD plus ItemKNN. A sequential co-occurrence matrix will be added as an extra ItemKNN signal, counting log1p of consecutive plays between items to capture album completion and radio-like discovery. To avoid excessive memory use on the 31 million-row listen history, the implementation will sort data with numpy after loading rather than using pandas.

Consecutive pairs will be detected by checking that the next listen belongs to the same user and occurs within 1200 seconds. Both directions of co-occurrence will be included in the similarity matrix. The pipeline will fit on training data, rank validation candidates to tune blend weights, then refit on combined training and validation data to produce the final test submission.

ItemKNN will be normalized by item popularity to avoid recommending only globally popular tracks. BM25 and IDF already help with this. UserKNN will also incorporate each user's local item popularity as a similarity signal.

RP3beta ItemKNN is being added as a strong discovery baseline. It scales user-item interactions by inverse user-degree and item-degree, then computes item-item similarity via a dense matrix multiplication. The dense similarity matrix will be kept compact by storing only the top-K neighbors per row.

RP3beta will use binary interactions rather than weighted implicit feedback. The query vector will be recency-weighted. Validation evaluation will import the task's ranking module directly and build a graded dictionary once. For each user, ineligible candidates will be masked to negative infinity before argpartitioning to the top one hundred items.

The ranking pipeline will use `np.take_along_axis` to sort the top-100 candidates by score and map their column indices back to item IDs. A stable popularity-based tie-breaker will be added for ties. The script will load the 43-million-row listen history as a Parquet file with only five columns to keep memory usage low.

A lookup table will filter the 43-million-row listen history to catalog items in roughly 38 megabytes. All 9,238 users will be included. The script will use cutoff timestamps of 24,786,800 and 25,395,200, with a 21-day half-life for recency decay.

The event aggregation function will decay timestamps by a 21-day half-life and store interactions as a sparse COO matrix. Organic likes will receive a weight of 10, recommended likes 5, organic plays above 80% 3, recommended plays above 80% 1.5, organic plays above 50% 1.5, and recommended plays above 50% 0.8. Dislikes and low-play events will be excluded from the positive matrix. The played_ratio feature may also be used as an additional multiplier.

A two-matrix split is planned: X_full for learning item-item similarities and factors, and X_query with a shorter half-life for scoring. TruncatedSVD will use 128 components and seven iterations; the factorization should finish in about ten to thirty seconds on the nine-thousand-by-thirty-thousand sparse matrix.

Eligibility excludes known items, so this is true discovery. I’ll save a popularity baseline first, then fit collaborative models on unheard tracks.

### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "mkdir -p /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'EOF'\n# Quick valid popularity baseline so we always have a submission\nimport numpy as np, pandas as pd\nfrom pathlib import Path\ndata = Path(\"/task/data\")\ncat = pd.read_parquet(data/\"candidate_catalog.parquet\")\nz = np.load(data/\"test_eligible_candidates.npz\")\nuids = z[\"uids\"].astype(np.int64)\nitems = z[\"item_ids\"].astype(np.int64)\npacked = z[\"packed_eligible\"]\nelig = np.unpackbits(packed, axis=1, bitorder=\"little\")[:, :len(items)].astype(bool)\n# popularity_rank 1 is most popular; rank by that\npop_order = np.arange(len(items))  # catalog already ordered by popularity\nrows = []\nfor r, uid in enumerate(uids):\n    mask = elig[r]\n    chosen = pop_order[mask][:100]\n    rec_items = items[chosen]\n    rows.append(pd.DataFrame({\n        \"uid\": np.full(100, uid, dtype=np.int64),\n        \"item_id\": rec_items.astype(np.int64),\n        \"rank\": np.arange(1, 101, dtype=np.int64),\n    }))\nout = pd.concat(rows, ignore_index=True)\nout.to_parquet(\"/app/solution/submission.parquet\", index=False)\nprint(out.head(), len(out), out.uid.nunique())\nprint(\"wrote popularity baseline\")\nEOF\n",
  "description": "Write popularity baseline submission as safety net"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
   uid  item_id  rank
0  100  5862961     1
1  100  6901374     2
2  100  5635052     3
3  100  3542184     4
4  100  8213481     5 845600 8456
wrote popularity baseline


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### Recorded reasoning summary
A valid baseline has been established.

The ranking pipeline will combine ItemKNN BM25, iALS, RP3beta, SVD, and sequential co-occurrence models. A Python loop over thirty thousand items is acceptable for training time.

A joblib Parallel chunking strategy is being drafted for the ALS training loop. Each worker will compute latent factors for a batch of users using sparse matrix slicing.

Eight workers should train ALS in roughly twenty to forty seconds. The plan is to run ItemKNN, SVD, RP3beta, and sequential co-occurrence first, then add ALS if time allows. Blended scores will be accumulated in a single matrix to avoid a four-gigabyte dense allocation.

A compromise is being weighed between memory-efficient RRF blending and full-score linear blending. RRF would keep only the top two hundred candidates per model, but that sacrifices tuning flexibility. To enable weight-tuning across all models while staying memory-efficient, each model will instead store its top three hundred items and scores per user.

The plan is to union the top three hundred candidates from each model per user, blend those scores, and rank. A float32 memmap will store the full score matrices on disk so tuning can be rerun without recomputing models.

Sequential co-occurrence will use a 1800-second session gap. Only consecutive item pairs will be weighted, with symmetric similarity and time decay applied to recent sessions. The query vector will also receive extra weight from the user's liked items.

The query vector will use a concrete scoring formula: decayed listen weight plus eight points for liked items and three points for recent organic strong listens. This treats liked items as seeds for ItemKNN expansion, since their neighbors are the best discovery candidates. The script will be executable as `python build_ranker.py` with internal evaluation using the public validation logic.

A simpler first version is being targeted for four minutes of runtime. It will load data, build the feature matrix, train SVD with 128 factors, run ItemKNN cosine on the top two hundred candidates, compute co-visitation, add popularity, blend with heuristic weights, and evaluate. Validation events will be included in the refit to update item similarities. The plan is to write compact code using a single `build_features` function, with training data restricted to the train window and validation data appended for test-phase refitting.

The script will use scipy.sparse.csr_matrix with int32 indices. Randomized TruncatedSVD is preferred for speed. Thread limits for OMP, MKL, and OpenBLAS will be set to eight.



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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "content": "#!/usr/bin/env python3\n\"\"\"Discovery ranker for the Made-for-You shelf.\n\nFits collaborative models on cutoff-correct history, ranks eligible catalog\ntracks, and writes validation + hidden-test submissions.\n\"\"\"\nfrom __future__ import annotations\n\nimport os\nimport sys\nimport time\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\nos.environ.setdefault(\"OMP_NUM_THREADS\", \"8\")\nos.environ.setdefault(\"MKL_NUM_THREADS\", \"8\")\nos.environ.setdefault(\"OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS\", \"8\")\nos.environ.setdefault(\"NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS\", \"8\")\n\nimport numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\nfrom scipy import sparse\nfrom sklearn.decomposition import TruncatedSVD\nfrom sklearn.preprocessing import normalize\n\nsys.path.insert(0, \"/task\")\nfrom ranking_evaluation import ndcg_at_k, QUALITY_K, TOP_N\n\nDATA = Path(\"/task/data\")\nOUT = Path(\"/app/solution\")\nTRAIN_CUTOFF = 24_786_800\nTEST_CUTOFF = 25_395_200\nDAY = 86_400.0\nLISTEN_STRONG = 80\nLISTEN_POS = 50\n\n\ndef log(msg: str) -> None:\n    print(f\"[{time.strftime('%H:%M:%S')}] {msg}\", flush=True)\n\n\ndef load_catalog() -> tuple[np.ndarray, dict[int, int]]:\n    cat = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"candidate_catalog.parquet\")\n    item_ids = cat.item_id.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)\n    item_to_col = {int(i): c for c, i in enumerate(item_ids)}\n    return item_ids, item_to_col\n\n\ndef load_targets() -> np.ndarray:\n    return pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"target_users.parquet\").uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)\n\n\ndef load_eligibility(path: Path, n_items: int) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n    with np.load(path, allow_pickle=False) as z:\n        uids = z[\"uids\"].astype(np.int64, copy=True)\n        packed = z[\"packed_eligible\"]\n        elig = np.unpackbits(packed, axis=1, bitorder=\"little\")[:, :n_items].astype(bool)\n    return uids, elig\n\n\ndef item_index_lookup(item_ids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    vmax = int(item_ids.max()) + 1\n    table = np.full(vmax, -1, dtype=np.int32)\n    table[item_ids] = np.arange(len(item_ids), dtype=np.int32)\n    return table\n\n\ndef map_users(uids: np.ndarray) -> tuple[np.ndarray, dict[int, int], np.ndarray]:\n    uniq = pd.unique(uids)\n    uniq = uniq.astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n    table_max = int(uniq.max()) + 1\n    table = np.full(table_max, -1, dtype=np.int32)\n    table[uniq] = np.arange(len(uniq), dtype=np.int32)\n    return uniq, {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(uniq)}, table\n\n\ndef decay_weights(ts: np.ndarray, now: int, half_life_days: float) -> np.ndarray:\n    age = np.maximum(0.0, (now - ts.astype(np.float64)) / DAY)\n    return np.exp2(-age / half_life_days).astype(np.float32)\n\n\ndef read_parquet(name: str, columns: list[str]) -> pd.DataFrame:\n    return pd.read_parquet(DATA / name, columns=columns)\n\n\ndef collect_positive_matrix(\n    listen_files: list[str],\n    like_files: list[str],\n    now: int,\n    item_table: np.ndarray,\n    n_items: int,\n    half_life: float,\n    query_half_life: float,\n) -> tuple[sparse.csr_matrix, sparse.csr_matrix, np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n    \"\"\"Build full-history and query user-item matrices over catalog items.\"\"\"\n    parts_u = []\n    parts_i = []\n    parts_w = []\n    parts_q = []\n    parts_ts = []\n\n    for name in listen_files:\n        log(f\"  load {name}\")\n        df = read_parquet(\n            name,\n            [\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\", \"played_ratio_pct\"],\n        )\n        items = df.item_id.to_numpy()\n        valid = items < len(item_table)\n        cols = np.full(len(df), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n        cols[valid] = item_table[items[valid]]\n        ratio = df.played_ratio_pct.to_numpy()\n        keep = (cols >= 0) & (ratio >= LISTEN_POS)\n        if not keep.any():\n            continue\n        cols = cols[keep]\n        uids = df.uid.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        ts = df.timestamp.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        organic = df.is_organic.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int8, copy=False)\n        ratio = ratio[keep].astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n        strong = ratio >= LISTEN_STRONG\n        # Stronger organic / completion signal, scaled by play-through.\n        base = np.where(strong, 1.6, 0.7).astype(np.float32)\n        base *= 0.55 + 0.45 * np.minimum(ratio, 100.0) / 100.0\n        base *= np.where(organic == 1, 1.7, 1.0).astype(np.float32)\n        parts_u.append(uids)\n        parts_i.append(cols)\n        parts_w.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, half_life))\n        parts_q.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, query_half_life))\n        parts_ts.append(ts)\n        del df\n\n    for name in like_files:\n        log(f\"  load {name}\")\n        df = read_parquet(name, [\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\"])\n        items = df.item_id.to_numpy()\n        valid = items < len(item_table)\n        cols = np.full(len(df), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n        cols[valid] = item_table[items[valid]]\n        keep = cols >= 0\n        if not keep.any():\n            continue\n        cols = cols[keep]\n        uids = df.uid.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        ts = df.timestamp.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        organic = df.is_organic.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int8, copy=False)\n        base = np.where(organic == 1, 8.0, 4.0).astype(np.float32)\n        parts_u.append(uids)\n        parts_i.append(cols)\n        parts_w.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, half_life))\n        parts_q.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, query_half_life))\n        parts_ts.append(ts)\n        del df\n\n    all_u = np.concatenate(parts_u)\n    all_i = np.concatenate(parts_i)\n    all_w = np.concatenate(parts_w)\n    all_q = np.concatenate(parts_q)\n    all_ts = np.concatenate(parts_ts)\n    user_ids, _, user_table = map_users(all_u)\n    rows = user_table[all_u]\n    n_users = len(user_ids)\n    log(f\"  aggregate {len(all_u):,} events, {n_users} users, {n_items} items\")\n    X = sparse.csr_matrix((all_w, (rows, all_i)), shape=(n_users, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    Q = sparse.csr_matrix((all_q, (rows, all_i)), shape=(n_users, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    X.sum_duplicates()\n    Q.sum_duplicates()\n    X.data = np.maximum(X.data, 0.0)\n    Q.data = np.maximum(Q.data, 0.0)\n    return X, Q, user_ids, rows, all_ts\n\n\ndef apply_preference_state(\n    Q: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    user_ids: np.ndarray,\n    pref_path: Path,\n    item_table: np.ndarray,\n    like_boost: float = 6.0,\n) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    pref = pd.read_parquet(pref_path)\n    liked = pref[pref.state == \"liked\"]\n    if liked.empty:\n        return Q\n    uid_max = int(user_ids.max()) + 1\n    urow = np.full(uid_max, -1, dtype=np.int32)\n    urow[user_ids] = np.arange(len(user_ids), dtype=np.int32)\n    u = liked.uid.to_numpy()\n    it = liked.item_id.to_numpy()\n    valid_u = u < len(urow)\n    rows = np.full(len(liked), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n    rows[valid_u] = urow[u[valid_u]]\n    valid_i = it < len(item_table)\n    cols = np.full(len(liked), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n    cols[valid_i] = item_table[it[valid_i]]\n    keep = (rows >= 0) & (cols >= 0)\n    boost = sparse.csr_matrix(\n        (np.full(int(keep.sum()), like_boost, dtype=np.float32), (rows[keep], cols[keep])),\n        shape=Q.shape,\n        dtype=np.float32,\n    )\n    return Q + boost\n\n\ndef bm25_weight(X: sparse.csr_matrix, k1: float = 1.2, b: float = 0.75) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    X = X.tocoo()\n    n_users = X.shape[0]\n    df = np.bincount(X.col, minlength=X.shape[1]).astype(np.float64)\n    idf = np.log((n_users - df + 0.5) / (df + 0.5) + 1.0).astype(np.float32)\n    row_sums = np.ravel(sparse.csr_matrix((X.data, (X.row, X.col)), shape=X.shape).sum(axis=1))\n    avg_len = float(row_sums.mean()) + 1e-6\n    length_norm = (1.0 - b) + b * row_sums[X.row] / avg_len\n    data = X.data.astype(np.float32, copy=True)\n    data = data * (k1 + 1.0) / (data + k1 * length_norm) * idf[X.col]\n    data = np.maximum(data, 0.0)\n    return sparse.csr_matrix((data, (X.row, X.col)), shape=X.shape, dtype=np.float32)\n\n\ndef item_topk_from_gram(\n    X: sparse.csr_matrix, k: int = 200, batch: int = 256\n) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    \"\"\"Column-cosine item kNN. X is users x items.\"\"\"\n    Xn = normalize(X, norm=\"l2\", axis=0)\n    Xt = Xn.T.tocsr()\n    n_items = X.shape[1]\n    k = min(k, n_items - 1)\n    rows_out: list[np.ndarray] = []\n    cols_out: list[np.ndarray] = []\n    data_out: list[np.ndarray] = []\n    for start in range(0, n_items, batch):\n        end = min(start + batch, n_items)\n        block = Xt[start:end].toarray()\n        sim = block @ Xn  # dense (batch, n_items)\n        bsz = end - start\n        for i in range(bsz):\n            sim[i, start + i] = -np.inf\n        idx = np.argpartition(sim, -k, axis=1)[:, -k:]\n        val = np.take_along_axis(sim, idx, axis=1)\n        order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1)\n        idx = np.take_along_axis(idx, order, axis=1)\n        val = np.take_along_axis(val, order, axis=1)\n        val = np.maximum(val, 0.0)\n        src = np.repeat(np.arange(start, end), k)\n        rows_out.append(src.astype(np.int32))\n        cols_out.append(idx.reshape(-1).astype(np.int32))\n        data_out.append(val.reshape(-1).astype(np.float32))\n        if start % 4096 == 0:\n            log(f\"    item-knn {end}/{n_items}\")\n    S = sparse.csr_matrix(\n        (np.concatenate(data_out), (np.concatenate(rows_out), np.concatenate(cols_out))),\n        shape=(n_items, n_items),\n        dtype=np.float32,\n    )\n    S.eliminate_zeros()\n    return S\n\n\ndef rp3beta_topk(\n    Xbin: sparse.csr_matrix, k: int = 200, alpha: float = 0.5, beta: float = 0.4, batch: int = 256\n) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    user_deg = np.ravel(Xbin.sum(axis=1)).astype(np.float64)\n    item_deg = np.ravel(Xbin.sum(axis=0)).astype(np.float64)\n    user_deg = np.power(np.maximum(user_deg, 1.0), alpha)\n    item_deg = np.power(np.maximum(item_deg, 1.0), beta)\n    Xu = Xbin.astype(np.float32).multiply(1.0 / user_deg[:, None])\n    Xi = Xbin.astype(np.float32).multiply(1.0 / item_deg[None, :])\n    Xt = Xu.T.tocsr()\n    n_items = Xbin.shape[1]\n    k = min(k, n_items - 1)\n    rows_out, cols_out, data_out = [], [], []\n    for start in range(0, n_items, batch):\n        end = min(start + batch, n_items)\n        block = Xt[start:end].toarray()\n        sim = block @ Xi\n        bsz = end - start\n        for i in range(bsz):\n            sim[i, start + i] = -np.inf\n        idx = np.argpartition(sim, -k, axis=1)[:, -k:]\n        val = np.take_along_axis(sim, idx, axis=1)\n        order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1)\n        idx = np.take_along_axis(idx, order, axis=1)\n        val = np.take_along_axis(val, order, axis=1)\n        val = np.maximum(val, 0.0)\n        src = np.repeat(np.arange(start, end), k)\n        rows_out.append(src.astype(np.int32))\n        cols_out.append(idx.reshape(-1).astype(np.int32))\n        data_out.append(val.reshape(-1).astype(np.float32))\n        if start % 4096 == 0:\n            log(f\"    rp3 {end}/{n_items}\")\n    S = sparse.csr_matrix(\n        (np.concatenate(data_out), (np.concatenate(rows_out), np.concatenate(cols_out))),\n        shape=(n_items, n_items),\n        dtype=np.float32,\n    )\n    S.eliminate_zeros()\n    return S\n\n\ndef sequential_item_graph(\n    listen_files: list[str],\n    item_table: np.ndarray,\n    n_items: int,\n    now: int,\n    half_life: float,\n    gap: int = 1800,\n    topk: int = 80,\n) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    src_all = []\n    dst_all = []\n    w_all = []\n    for name in listen_files:\n        log(f\"  sequential load {name}\")\n        df = read_parquet(\n            name, [\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"played_ratio_pct\"]\n        )\n        items = df.item_id.to_numpy()\n        valid = items < len(item_table)\n        cols = np.full(len(df), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n        cols[valid] = item_table[items[valid]]\n        keep = (cols >= 0) & (df.played_ratio_pct.to_numpy() >= LISTEN_POS)\n        u = df.uid.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        ts = df.timestamp.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        it = cols[keep]\n        order = np.lexsort((ts, u))\n        u, ts, it = u[order], ts[order], it[order]\n        same = u[1:] == u[:-1]\n        close = (ts[1:] - ts[:-1]) <= gap\n        mask = same & close & (it[1:] != it[:-1])\n        src = it[:-1][mask]\n        dst = it[1:][mask]\n        w = decay_weights(ts[1:][mask], now, half_life)\n        src_all.append(src)\n        dst_all.append(dst)\n        w_all.append(w)\n        del df\n    src = np.concatenate(src_all)\n    dst = np.concatenate(dst_all)\n    w = np.concatenate(w_all)\n    # Symmetric transitions\n    G = sparse.csr_matrix(\n        (np.concatenate([w, w]), (np.concatenate([src, dst]), np.concatenate([dst, src]))),\n        shape=(n_items, n_items),\n        dtype=np.float32,\n    )\n    G.sum_duplicates()\n    G.data = np.log1p(G.data)\n    # Keep top-k outgoing per item\n    G = G.tocsr()\n    rows, cols, data = [], [], []\n    for i in range(n_items):\n        sl = slice(G.indptr[i], G.indptr[i + 1])\n        if sl.start == sl.stop:\n            continue\n        idx = G.indices[sl]\n        val = G.data[sl]\n        if len(val) > topk:\n            keep = np.argpartition(val, -topk)[-topk:]\n            idx = idx[keep]\n            val = val[keep]\n        rows.append(np.full(len(idx), i, dtype=np.int32))\n        cols.append(idx.astype(np.int32))\n        data.append(val.astype(np.float32))\n    if not rows:\n        return sparse.csr_matrix((n_items, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    S = sparse.csr_matrix(\n        (np.concatenate(data), (np.concatenate(rows), np.concatenate(cols))),\n        shape=(n_items, n_items),\n        dtype=np.float32,\n    )\n    S = normalize(S, norm=\"l2\", axis=1)\n    return S\n\n\ndef popularity_vector(\n    listen_files: list[str],\n    like_files: list[str],\n    item_table: np.ndarray,\n    n_items: int,\n    now: int,\n    half_life: float,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    pop = np.zeros(n_items, dtype=np.float64)\n    for name in listen_files:\n        df = read_parquet(\n            name, [\"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\", \"played_ratio_pct\"]\n        )\n        items = df.item_id.to_numpy()\n        valid = items < len(item_table)\n        cols = np.full(len(df), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n        cols[valid] = item_table[items[valid]]\n        keep = (\n            (cols >= 0)\n            & (df.is_organic.to_numpy() == 1)\n            & (df.played_ratio_pct.to_numpy() >= LISTEN_STRONG)\n        )\n        if keep.any():\n            w = decay_weights(df.timestamp.to_numpy()[keep], now, half_life)\n            np.add.at(pop, cols[keep], w)\n        del df\n    for name in like_files:\n        df = read_parquet(name, [\"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\"])\n        items = df.item_id.to_numpy()\n        valid = items < len(item_table)\n        cols = np.full(len(df), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n        cols[valid] = item_table[items[valid]]\n        keep = (cols >= 0) & (df.is_organic.to_numpy() == 1)\n        if keep.any():\n            w = 3.0 * decay_weights(df.timestamp.to_numpy()[keep], now, half_life)\n            np.add.at(pop, cols[keep], w)\n        del df\n    return np.log1p(pop).astype(np.float32)\n\n\ndef svd_factors(X: sparse.csr_matrix, n_components: int = 192) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n    log(f\"  TruncatedSVD k={n_components}\")\n    svd = TruncatedSVD(n_components=n_components, n_iter=8, random_state=42)\n    user_f = svd.fit_transform(X).astype(np.float32)  # U * S\n    item_f = svd.components_.T.astype(np.float32)\n    log(f\"  explained variance {svd.explained_variance_ratio_.sum():.4f}\")\n    return user_f, item_f\n\n\ndef user_knn_scores(\n    X: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    target_rows: np.ndarray,\n    k: int = 80,\n    batch: int = 256,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"Cosine user-kNN scores for target rows.\"\"\"\n    Xn = normalize(X, norm=\"l2\", axis=1).tocsr()\n    n_tgt = len(target_rows)\n    n_items = X.shape[1]\n    scores = np.zeros((n_tgt, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    Xt = Xn.T.tocsr()\n    k = min(k, X.shape[0] - 1)\n    for start in range(0, n_tgt, batch):\n        end = min(start + batch, n_tgt)\n        rows = target_rows[start:end]\n        Q = Xn[rows].toarray()\n        sim = Q @ Xt  # (batch, n_users)\n        for i, r in enumerate(rows):\n            sim[i, r] = -np.inf\n        idx = np.argpartition(sim, -k, axis=1)[:, -k:]\n        val = np.take_along_axis(sim, idx, axis=1)\n        val = np.maximum(val, 0.0)\n        # weighted sum of neighbor histories\n        for i in range(end - start):\n            neigh = idx[i]\n            w = val[i]\n            s = w @ Xn[neigh].toarray() if False else Xn[neigh].T.dot(w)\n            scores[start + i] = np.asarray(s).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n        if start % 1024 == 0:\n            log(f\"    user-knn {end}/{n_tgt}\")\n    return scores\n\n\ndef zscore_rows(S: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    mean = S.mean(axis=1, keepdims=True)\n    std = S.std(axis=1, keepdims=True)\n    std = np.maximum(std, 1e-6)\n    return ((S - mean) / std).astype(np.float32)\n\n\ndef topn_from_scores(\n    scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray, item_ids: np.ndarray, n: int = TOP_N\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    s = scores.copy()\n    s[~eligible] = -1e30\n    idx = np.argpartition(-s, n, axis=1)[:, :n]\n    val = np.take_along_axis(s, idx, axis=1)\n    order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1, kind=\"stable\")\n    idx = np.take_along_axis(idx, order, axis=1)\n    return item_ids[idx]\n\n\ndef ranking_frame(uids: np.ndarray, top_items: np.ndarray) -> pd.DataFrame:\n    n_users, n = top_items.shape\n    return pd.DataFrame(\n        {\n            \"uid\": np.repeat(uids.astype(np.int64), n),\n            \"item_id\": top_items.reshape(-1).astype(np.int64),\n            \"rank\": np.tile(np.arange(1, n + 1, dtype=np.int64), n_users),\n        }\n    )\n\n\ndef validation_labels(item_ids: np.ndarray, uids: np.ndarray, elig: np.ndarray) -> dict[int, dict[int, int]]:\n    targets = set(map(int, uids))\n    item_col = {int(i): c for c, i in enumerate(item_ids)}\n    uid_row = {int(u): r for r, u in enumerate(uids)}\n    listens = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_listens.parquet\")\n    likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_likes.parquet\")\n    strong = listens[\n        listens.uid.isin(targets)\n        & (listens.is_organic == 1)\n        & (listens.played_ratio_pct >= LISTEN_STRONG)\n    ][[\"uid\", \"item_id\"]].drop_duplicates()\n    olikes = likes[likes.uid.isin(targets) & (likes.is_organic == 1)][\n        [\"uid\", \"item_id\"]\n    ].drop_duplicates()\n    graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]] = {}\n\n    def eligible(uid: int, item: int) -> bool:\n        r = uid_row.get(uid)\n        c = item_col.get(item)\n        if r is None or c is None:\n            return False\n        return bool(elig[r, c])\n\n    for uid, item in strong.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n        uid, item = int(uid), int(item)\n        if eligible(uid, item):\n            graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 1\n    for uid, item in olikes.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n        uid, item = int(uid), int(item)\n        if eligible(uid, item):\n            graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 3\n    return graded\n\n\ndef score_top_items(top_items: np.ndarray, uids: np.ndarray, graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]]) -> float:\n    uid_to_row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(uids)}\n    vals = []\n    for uid, gold in graded.items():\n        row = uid_to_row[uid]\n        ranked = [int(x) for x in top_items[row, :QUALITY_K]]\n        vals.append(ndcg_at_k(ranked, gold, QUALITY_K))\n    return float(np.mean(vals)) if vals else 0.0\n\n\ndef target_row_index(user_ids: np.ndarray, target_uids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    vmax = int(user_ids.max()) + 1\n    table = np.full(vmax, -1, dtype=np.int32)\n    table[user_ids] = np.arange(len(user_ids), dtype=np.int32)\n    rows = np.full(len(target_uids), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n    valid = target_uids < vmax\n    rows[valid] = table[target_uids[valid]]\n    if (rows < 0).any():\n        log(f\"  warning: {(rows < 0).sum()} targets missing from matrix\")\n    return rows\n\n\ndef slice_or_zeros(M: np.ndarray | sparse.spmatrix, rows: np.ndarray, n_items: int) -> np.ndarray | sparse.csr_matrix:\n    n_tgt = len(rows)\n    if sparse.issparse(M):\n        out = sparse.csr_matrix((n_tgt, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n        good = rows >= 0\n        if good.any():\n            out[np.where(good)[0]] = M[rows[good]]\n        return out\n    out = np.zeros((n_tgt, M.shape[1] if M.ndim == 2 else n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    good = rows >= 0\n    if good.any():\n        out[np.where(good)[0]] = M[rows[good]]\n    return out\n\n\ndef fit_and_score(\n    listen_files: list[str],\n    like_files: list[str],\n    pref_path: Path,\n    now: int,\n    item_ids: np.ndarray,\n    item_table: np.ndarray,\n    target_uids: np.ndarray,\n    elig: np.ndarray,\n    knn_k: int = 200,\n) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:\n    n_items = len(item_ids)\n    log(\"building interaction matrices\")\n    X, Q, user_ids, _, _ = collect_positive_matrix(\n        listen_files,\n        like_files,\n        now,\n        item_table,\n        n_items,\n        half_life=28.0,\n        query_half_life=14.0,\n    )\n    Q = apply_preference_state(Q, user_ids, pref_path, item_table, like_boost=7.0)\n    # damp extreme repeaters\n    X = X.tocsr()\n    Q = Q.tocsr()\n    X.data = np.log1p(X.data)\n    Q.data = np.log1p(Q.data)\n\n    trows = target_row_index(user_ids, target_uids)\n    Q_tgt = slice_or_zeros(Q, trows, n_items).tocsr()\n\n    log(\"popularity\")\n    pop = popularity_vector(listen_files, like_files, item_table, n_items, now, half_life=21.0)\n    pop_scores = np.broadcast_to(pop, (len(target_uids), n_items)).copy()\n\n    log(\"BM25 item-kNN\")\n    X_bm25 = bm25_weight(X)\n    S_knn = item_topk_from_gram(X_bm25, k=knn_k, batch=192)\n    knn_scores = Q_tgt @ S_knn\n    if sparse.issparse(knn_scores):\n        knn_scores = knn_scores.toarray()\n    knn_scores = knn_scores.astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n\n    log(\"RP3beta\")\n    Xbin = X.copy()\n    Xbin.data = np.ones_like(Xbin.data)\n    S_rp3 = rp3beta_topk(Xbin, k=knn_k, alpha=0.5, beta=0.35, batch=192)\n    rp3_scores = Q_tgt @ S_rp3\n    if sparse.issparse(rp3_scores):\n        rp3_scores = rp3_scores.toarray()\n    rp3_scores = rp3_scores.astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n\n    log(\"sequential co-visitation\")\n    S_seq = sequential_item_graph(\n        listen_files, item_table, n_items, now, half_life=21.0, gap=1800, topk=60\n    )\n    seq_scores = Q_tgt @ S_seq\n    if sparse.issparse(seq_scores):\n        seq_scores = seq_scores.toarray()\n    seq_scores = seq_scores.astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n\n    log(\"SVD\")\n    X_tfidf = bm25_weight(X, k1=1.5, b=0.4)\n    user_f, item_f = svd_factors(X_tfidf, n_components=160)\n    U_tgt = slice_or_zeros(user_f, trows, n_items)\n    svd_scores = U_tgt @ item_f.T\n\n    log(\"user-kNN\")\n    uknn_scores = user_knn_scores(X_bm25, np.where(trows >= 0, trows, 0), k=70, batch=128)\n    # zero out users missing from matrix\n    missing = trows < 0\n    if missing.any():\n        uknn_scores[missing] = 0.0\n\n    models = {\n        \"knn\": knn_scores,\n        \"rp3\": rp3_scores,\n        \"seq\": seq_scores,\n        \"svd\": svd_scores,\n        \"uknn\": uknn_scores,\n        \"pop\": pop_scores,\n    }\n    return models\n\n\ndef blend_scores(models: dict[str, np.ndarray], weights: dict[str, float]) -> np.ndarray:\n    acc = None\n    for name, w in weights.items():\n        z = zscore_rows(models[name])\n        acc = w * z if acc is None else acc + w * z\n    return acc\n\n\ndef write_ranking(path: Path, uids: np.ndarray, top_items: np.ndarray) -> None:\n    frame = ranking_frame(uids, top_items)\n    frame.to_parquet(path, index=False)\n    log(f\"wrote {path} rows={len(frame)}\")\n\n\ndef main() -> None:\n    t0 = time.time()\n    OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)\n    item_ids, _ = load_catalog()\n    item_table = item_index_lookup(item_ids)\n    target_uids = load_targets()\n    n_items = len(item_ids)\n\n    val_uids, val_elig = load_eligibility(DATA / \"validation_eligible_candidates.npz\", n_items)\n    assert np.array_equal(val_uids, target_uids)\n\n    log(\"=== validation fit (train history only) ===\")\n    models = fit_and_score(\n        listen_files=[\"train_listens.parquet\"],\n        like_files=[\"train_likes.parquet\"],\n        pref_path=DATA / \"validation_preference_state.parquet\",\n        now=TRAIN_CUTOFF,\n        item_ids=item_ids,\n        item_table=item_table,\n        target_uids=target_uids,\n        elig=val_elig,\n    )\n    log(\"building validation labels\")\n    graded = validation_labels(item_ids, target_uids, val_elig)\n    log(f\"scored users with relevance: {len(graded)}\")\n\n    weight_grid = [\n        {\"knn\": 1.2, \"rp3\": 1.0, \"seq\": 0.7, \"svd\": 0.8, \"uknn\": 0.5, \"pop\": 0.15},\n        {\"knn\": 1.4, \"rp3\": 1.1, \"seq\": 0.5, \"svd\": 0.6, \"uknn\": 0.4, \"pop\": 0.1},\n        {\"knn\": 1.0, \"rp3\": 1.2, \"seq\": 0.8, \"svd\": 1.0, \"uknn\": 0.6, \"pop\": 0.2},\n        {\"knn\": 1.3, \"rp3\": 0.8, \"seq\": 1.0, \"svd\": 0.7, \"uknn\": 0.3, \"pop\": 0.1},\n        {\"knn\": 1.5, \"rp3\": 1.3, \"seq\": 0.4, \"svd\": 0.5, \"uknn\": 0.2, \"pop\": 0.05},\n        {\"knn\": 0.9, \"rp3\": 0.9, \"seq\": 0.9, \"svd\": 0.9, \"uknn\": 0.9, \"pop\": 0.2},\n    ]\n    # also score single models\n    best_w = None\n    best_ndcg = -1.0\n    for name, S in models.items():\n        top = topn_from_scores(S, val_elig, item_ids)\n        nd = score_top_items(top, target_uids, graded)\n        log(f\"  single {name}: ndcg@10={nd:.6f}\")\n        if nd > best_ndcg:\n            best_ndcg = nd\n            best_w = {name: 1.0}\n\n    for w in weight_grid:\n        blended = blend_scores(models, w)\n        top = topn_from_scores(blended, val_elig, item_ids)\n        nd = score_top_items(top, target_uids, graded)\n        log(f\"  blend {w}: ndcg@10={nd:.6f}\")\n        if nd > best_ndcg:\n            best_ndcg = nd\n            best_w = w\n\n    log(f\"best validation ndcg@10={best_ndcg:.6f} weights={best_w}\")\n    blended = blend_scores(models, best_w)\n    val_top = topn_from_scores(blended, val_elig, item_ids)\n    write_ranking(OUT / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, val_top)\n\n    # free validation scores before refit\n    del models, blended, val_top\n    log(\"=== test fit (train+val history) ===\")\n    test_uids, test_elig = load_eligibility(DATA / \"test_eligible_candidates.npz\", n_items)\n    assert np.array_equal(test_uids, target_uids)\n    models = fit_and_score(\n        listen_files=[\"train_listens.parquet\", \"val_listens.parquet\"],\n        like_files=[\"train_likes.parquet\", \"val_likes.parquet\"],\n        pref_path=DATA / \"test_preference_state.parquet\",\n        now=TEST_CUTOFF,\n        item_ids=item_ids,\n        item_table=item_table,\n        target_uids=target_uids,\n        elig=test_elig,\n    )\n    blended = blend_scores(models, best_w)\n    test_top = topn_from_scores(blended, test_elig, item_ids)\n    write_ranking(OUT / \"submission.parquet\", target_uids, test_top)\n    log(f\"done in {(time.time() - t0) / 60:.1f} min\")\n\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n    main()\n"
}
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### Recorded reasoning summary
A potential issue with the item_table lookup has been identified.

Item IDs may exceed the catalog size, causing out-of-bounds lookups. User IDs could also be invalid if they fall outside the user table. Both cases need handling.

Sparse matrix assignment via `slice_or_zeros` may be slow or fail. The dense-sparse matrix multiplication in the item-knn batch loop could also behave incorrectly.

The item-knn batch multiplication must use `Xn.T.dot(block.T).T` instead of `block @ Xn`. NumPy arrays cannot be multiplied with scipy sparse matrices directly.

The correct dense-sparse multiplication pattern is `(Xn.T @ block.T).T`. This fix must be applied to `item_topk_from_gram`, `rp3beta`, and `user_knn`. The user-knn batch also needs the same correction.

The user-knn batch can use `Xn[rows] @ Xn.T` directly. This avoids the dense-sparse multiplication issue entirely.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - << 'EOF'\nimport pandas as pd, numpy as np\ncat = pd.read_parquet(\"/task/data/candidate_catalog.parquet\")\nprint(\"catalog item max\", cat.item_id.max())\nfor f in [\"train_listens\",\"train_likes\",\"val_listens\",\"val_likes\"]:\n    df = pd.read_parquet(f\"/task/data/{f}.parquet\", columns=[\"item_id\",\"uid\"])\n    print(f, \"item max\", df.item_id.max(), \"uid max\", df.uid.max())\nprint(\"target uid max\", pd.read_parquet(\"/task/data/target_users.parquet\").uid.max())\nEOF\n",
  "description": "Check max IDs for safe indexing"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
catalog item max 9390294
train_listens item max 9390623 uid max 1000000
train_likes item max 9390522 uid max 1000000
val_listens item max 9390541 uid max 1000000
val_likes item max 9390461 uid max 999900
target uid max 1000000


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### Recorded reasoning summary
Item IDs in listens exceed the catalog maximum. The item table is sized to catalog max plus one. This allows the length check to reject out-of-range items.

Non-catalog items map to -1 in the item table and are filtered out by the keep mask. Next fixes target three bugs: sparse slice assignment, dense-sparse matrix multiplication, and an inefficient user KNN loop.

`collect_positive_matrix` returns unused `rows` and `all_ts`. The sparse `slice_or_zeros` fix uses COO conversion to map valid indices back into a CSR matrix. The user KNN loop is also being optimized.

The user KNN loop is being rewritten to compute dense pairwise similarities and zero self-similarity. Top-k neighbors are selected via argpartition, and scores are aggregated by constructing a sparse CSR weight matrix from the neighbor indices and values. This replaces per-row neighbor summation with a single matrix multiplication.

Item KNN similarity is being computed as dense. Converting a sparse item-user matrix to dense before matrix multiplication is more efficient than keeping it sparse, since cosine similarity across all items is typically dense.

BM25 and RP3beta are confirmed correct. Item KNN will process 157 batches of roughly 5.5 million non-zero entries each, which is the main remaining bottleneck.

Item KNN and RP3beta each cost roughly 8 seconds. User KNN adds about 10–20 seconds. SVD, loading, and sequential fitting add another 30 seconds. Total validation fit is estimated at 2–3 minutes. Test fit should take the same amount.

A second iteration will search finer weights after the initial single-model fit. The user KNN code will drop its ugly conditional and use a sparse weight matrix instead. Organic-only queries are deferred. Boosting recently strong organic candidates is also being considered.

Popularity z-score is constant across users. The blend will use a single model with weight 1.0 if it wins. User table indexing is verified correct. The README will be written during implementation.

A small epsilon will be added to prevent division by zero in cosine normalization. Log1p damping will remain for BM25 to preserve power-user signals. The `slice_or_zeros` helper is being fixed because assigning directly to CSR rows is deprecated and inefficient.

I’ll fix sparse/dense multiplies and a few indexing bugs so the collaborative models can run at full catalog scale.

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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def item_topk_from_gram(\n    X: sparse.csr_matrix, k: int = 200, batch: int = 256\n) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    \"\"\"Column-cosine item kNN. X is users x items.\"\"\"\n    Xn = normalize(X, norm=\"l2\", axis=0)\n    Xt = Xn.T.tocsr()\n    n_items = X.shape[1]\n    k = min(k, n_items - 1)\n    rows_out: list[np.ndarray] = []\n    cols_out: list[np.ndarray] = []\n    data_out: list[np.ndarray] = []\n    for start in range(0, n_items, batch):\n        end = min(start + batch, n_items)\n        block = Xt[start:end].toarray()\n        sim = block @ Xn  # dense (batch, n_items)\n        bsz = end - start\n        for i in range(bsz):\n            sim[i, start + i] = -np.inf\n        idx = np.argpartition(sim, -k, axis=1)[:, -k:]\n        val = np.take_along_axis(sim, idx, axis=1)\n        order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1)\n        idx = np.take_along_axis(idx, order, axis=1)\n        val = np.take_along_axis(val, order, axis=1)\n        val = np.maximum(val, 0.0)\n        src = np.repeat(np.arange(start, end), k)\n        rows_out.append(src.astype(np.int32))\n        cols_out.append(idx.reshape(-1).astype(np.int32))\n        data_out.append(val.reshape(-1).astype(np.float32))\n        if start % 4096 == 0:\n            log(f\"    item-knn {end}/{n_items}\")\n    S = sparse.csr_matrix(\n        (np.concatenate(data_out), (np.concatenate(rows_out), np.concatenate(cols_out))),\n        shape=(n_items, n_items),\n        dtype=np.float32,\n    )\n    S.eliminate_zeros()\n    return S",
  "new_string": "def dense_sim_block(left_csr: sparse.csr_matrix, right_csr: sparse.csr_matrix) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"Compute dense left @ right for a small row-slice of a CSR matrix.\"\"\"\n    block = left_csr.toarray().astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n    return np.ascontiguousarray(right_csr.T.dot(block.T).T)\n\n\ndef item_topk_from_gram(\n    X: sparse.csr_matrix, k: int = 200, batch: int = 256\n) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    \"\"\"Column-cosine item kNN. X is users x items.\"\"\"\n    Xn = normalize(X, norm=\"l2\", axis=0).tocsr()\n    Xt = Xn.T.tocsr()\n    n_items = X.shape[1]\n    k = min(k, n_items - 1)\n    rows_out: list[np.ndarray] = []\n    cols_out: list[np.ndarray] = []\n    data_out: list[np.ndarray] = []\n    for start in range(0, n_items, batch):\n        end = min(start + batch, n_items)\n        sim = dense_sim_block(Xt[start:end], Xn)\n        bsz = end - start\n        sim[np.arange(bsz), np.arange(start, end)] = -np.inf\n        idx = np.argpartition(sim, -k, axis=1)[:, -k:]\n        val = np.take_along_axis(sim, idx, axis=1)\n        order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1)\n        idx = np.take_along_axis(idx, order, axis=1)\n        val = np.take_along_axis(val, order, axis=1)\n        val = np.maximum(val, 0.0)\n        src = np.repeat(np.arange(start, end), k)\n        rows_out.append(src.astype(np.int32))\n        cols_out.append(idx.reshape(-1).astype(np.int32))\n        data_out.append(val.reshape(-1).astype(np.float32))\n        if start % 4096 == 0:\n            log(f\"    item-knn {end}/{n_items}\")\n    S = sparse.csr_matrix(\n        (np.concatenate(data_out), (np.concatenate(rows_out), np.concatenate(cols_out))),\n        shape=(n_items, n_items),\n        dtype=np.float32,\n    )\n    S.eliminate_zeros()\n    return S"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    Xu = Xbin.astype(np.float32).multiply(1.0 / user_deg[:, None])\n    Xi = Xbin.astype(np.float32).multiply(1.0 / item_deg[None, :])\n    Xt = Xu.T.tocsr()\n    n_items = Xbin.shape[1]\n    k = min(k, n_items - 1)\n    rows_out, cols_out, data_out = [], [], []\n    for start in range(0, n_items, batch):\n        end = min(start + batch, n_items)\n        block = Xt[start:end].toarray()\n        sim = block @ Xi\n        bsz = end - start\n        for i in range(bsz):\n            sim[i, start + i] = -np.inf",
  "new_string": "    Xu = Xbin.astype(np.float32).multiply(1.0 / user_deg[:, None]).tocsr()\n    Xi = Xbin.astype(np.float32).multiply(1.0 / item_deg[None, :]).tocsr()\n    Xt = Xu.T.tocsr()\n    n_items = Xbin.shape[1]\n    k = min(k, n_items - 1)\n    rows_out, cols_out, data_out = [], [], []\n    for start in range(0, n_items, batch):\n        end = min(start + batch, n_items)\n        sim = dense_sim_block(Xt[start:end], Xi)\n        bsz = end - start\n        sim[np.arange(bsz), np.arange(start, end)] = -np.inf"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def user_knn_scores(\n    X: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    target_rows: np.ndarray,\n    k: int = 80,\n    batch: int = 256,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"Cosine user-kNN scores for target rows.\"\"\"\n    Xn = normalize(X, norm=\"l2\", axis=1).tocsr()\n    n_tgt = len(target_rows)\n    n_items = X.shape[1]\n    scores = np.zeros((n_tgt, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    Xt = Xn.T.tocsr()\n    k = min(k, X.shape[0] - 1)\n    for start in range(0, n_tgt, batch):\n        end = min(start + batch, n_tgt)\n        rows = target_rows[start:end]\n        Q = Xn[rows].toarray()\n        sim = Q @ Xt  # (batch, n_users)\n        for i, r in enumerate(rows):\n            sim[i, r] = -np.inf\n        idx = np.argpartition(sim, -k, axis=1)[:, -k:]\n        val = np.take_along_axis(sim, idx, axis=1)\n        val = np.maximum(val, 0.0)\n        # weighted sum of neighbor histories\n        for i in range(end - start):\n            neigh = idx[i]\n            w = val[i]\n            s = w @ Xn[neigh].toarray() if False else Xn[neigh].T.dot(w)\n            scores[start + i] = np.asarray(s).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n        if start % 1024 == 0:\n            log(f\"    user-knn {end}/{n_tgt}\")\n    return scores",
  "new_string": "def user_knn_scores(\n    X: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    target_rows: np.ndarray,\n    k: int = 80,\n    batch: int = 256,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"Cosine user-kNN scores for target rows.\"\"\"\n    Xn = normalize(X, norm=\"l2\", axis=1).tocsr()\n    n_tgt = len(target_rows)\n    n_items = X.shape[1]\n    n_users = X.shape[0]\n    scores = np.zeros((n_tgt, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    k = min(k, n_users - 1)\n    for start in range(0, n_tgt, batch):\n        end = min(start + batch, n_tgt)\n        rows = target_rows[start:end]\n        bsz = end - start\n        sim = (Xn[rows] @ Xn.T).toarray().astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n        sim[np.arange(bsz), rows] = -np.inf\n        idx = np.argpartition(sim, -k, axis=1)[:, -k:]\n        val = np.take_along_axis(sim, idx, axis=1)\n        val = np.maximum(val, 0.0)\n        W = sparse.csr_matrix(\n            (val.ravel(), (np.repeat(np.arange(bsz), k), idx.ravel())),\n            shape=(bsz, n_users),\n            dtype=np.float32,\n        )\n        scores[start:end] = (W @ Xn).toarray()\n        if start % 1024 == 0:\n            log(f\"    user-knn {end}/{n_tgt}\")\n    return scores"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def slice_or_zeros(M: np.ndarray | sparse.spmatrix, rows: np.ndarray, n_items: int) -> np.ndarray | sparse.csr_matrix:\n    n_tgt = len(rows)\n    if sparse.issparse(M):\n        out = sparse.csr_matrix((n_tgt, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n        good = rows >= 0\n        if good.any():\n            out[np.where(good)[0]] = M[rows[good]]\n        return out\n    out = np.zeros((n_tgt, M.shape[1] if M.ndim == 2 else n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    good = rows >= 0\n    if good.any():\n        out[np.where(good)[0]] = M[rows[good]]\n    return out",
  "new_string": "def slice_or_zeros(M: np.ndarray | sparse.spmatrix, rows: np.ndarray, n_items: int):\n    n_tgt = len(rows)\n    good = rows >= 0\n    idx = np.where(good)[0]\n    if sparse.issparse(M):\n        if len(idx) == 0:\n            return sparse.csr_matrix((n_tgt, M.shape[1]), dtype=np.float32)\n        sub = M[rows[good]].tocoo()\n        return sparse.csr_matrix(\n            (sub.data.astype(np.float32, copy=False), (idx[sub.row], sub.col)),\n            shape=(n_tgt, M.shape[1]),\n            dtype=np.float32,\n        )\n    out = np.zeros((n_tgt, M.shape[1]), dtype=np.float32)\n    if len(idx):\n        out[idx] = M[rows[good]]\n    return out"
}
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### Recorded reasoning summary
A bug was found in the dense_sim_block.

The dense_sim_block math is correct. RP3 follows the same pattern. Converting Q_tgt @ S to dense is acceptable.

The sequential graph loop over 30,000 items is acceptable. A README will be written and training started. `normalize(X, axis=0)` normalizes columns.

Empty columns are not a concern because every catalog item has positives. The user-knn matrix dimensions check out. Missing users default to row zero. A garbage-collection step between models is optional. The full pipeline will be attempted first before any speedups.



### write · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/README.md",
  "content": "# Made-for-You discovery ranker\n\nRanks 100 eligible catalog tracks per target user for the next-week organic\ndiscovery objective (grade 3 organic like, grade 1 organic 80%+ listen, NDCG@10).\n\nEligibility already removes historically consumed, liked, and disliked items, so\nthe model only scores true unheard catalog candidates.\n\n## Models\n\nHistory is recency-weighted (half-life ~2–4 weeks) with extra mass on organic\nplays, high completion, and likes. Current cutoff likes further seed the query\nprofile. Six signals are z-scored per user and linearly blended:\n\n- BM25 item kNN (cosine, top-200 neighbors)\n- RP3beta graph diffusion\n- Sequential co-visitation (session transitions ≤30 min)\n- Truncated SVD on BM25-weighted interactions\n- User kNN\n- Time-decayed organic popularity\n\nBlend weights are chosen on the public validation window using **train-only**\nhistory. The selected blend is then refit on **train+val** with test-cutoff\npreference state and `test_eligible_candidates.npz`.\n\n## Reproduce\n\n```sh\n/opt/task-venv/bin/python /app/solution/build_ranker.py\npython /task/evaluate_public.py /app/solution/validation.parquet\n```\n\nOutputs: `validation.parquet` (public window) and `submission.parquet` (hidden test).\n"
}
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{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python /app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "description": "Fit validation ranker, tune blend, refit test submission"
}
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<task-id>call-aa4f6965-2ac5-4a56-9ac8-9c0ca00616e6-22</task-id>
<task-type>bash</task-type>
<output-file>/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/53ca2435-838f-4426-8d1d-e7c50ff736bb/terminal/call-aa4f6965-2ac5-4a56-9ac8-9c0ca00616e6-22.log</output-file>
<status>running</status>
<summary>Command "Fit validation ranker, tune blend, refit test submission" is still running after 30s (block_until_ms) and has been moved to the background as task call-aa4f6965-2ac5-4a56-9ac8-9c0ca00616e6-22.</summary>
Use get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=["call-aa4f6965-2ac5-4a56-9ac8-9c0ca00616e6-22"] when you need the output.

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{
  "task_ids": [
    "call-aa4f6965-2ac5-4a56-9ac8-9c0ca00616e6-22"
  ],
  "timeout_ms": 60000
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
=== Task call-aa4f6965-2ac5-4a56-9ac8-9c0ca00616e6-22 ===
Command: /opt/task-venv/bin/python /app/solution/build_ranker.py
Status: running
Duration: 92.04s
Output File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/53ca2435-838f-4426-8d1d-e7c50ff736bb/terminal/call-aa4f6965-2ac5-4a56-9ac8-9c0ca00616e6-22.log

=== Output ===
[16:07:24] === validation fit (train history only) ===
[16:07:24] building interaction matrices
[16:07:24]   load train_listens.parquet
[16:07:27]   load train_likes.parquet
[16:07:27]   aggregate 20,611,153 events, 9910 users, 30000 items
[16:07:29]   warning: 7 targets missing from matrix
[16:07:29] popularity
[16:07:30] BM25 item-kNN
[16:07:31]     item-knn 192/30000
[16:07:46]     item-knn 12480/30000
[16:08:01]     item-knn 24768/30000
[16:08:13] RP3beta
[16:08:13]     rp3 192/30000
[16:08:52]     rp3 12480/30000


Waited the requested 60s. 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.

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{
  "task_ids": [
    "call-aa4f6965-2ac5-4a56-9ac8-9c0ca00616e6-22"
  ],
  "timeout_ms": 180000
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
=== Task call-aa4f6965-2ac5-4a56-9ac8-9c0ca00616e6-22 ===
Command: /opt/task-venv/bin/python /app/solution/build_ranker.py
Status: failed
Duration: 178.24s
Exit Code: 137
Output File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/53ca2435-838f-4426-8d1d-e7c50ff736bb/terminal/call-aa4f6965-2ac5-4a56-9ac8-9c0ca00616e6-22.log

=== Output ===
[16:07:24] === validation fit (train history only) ===
[16:07:24] building interaction matrices
[16:07:24]   load train_listens.parquet
[16:07:27]   load train_likes.parquet
[16:07:27]   aggregate 20,611,153 events, 9910 users, 30000 items
[16:07:29]   warning: 7 targets missing from matrix
[16:07:29] popularity
[16:07:30] BM25 item-kNN
[16:07:31]     item-knn 192/30000
[16:07:46]     item-knn 12480/30000
[16:08:01]     item-knn 24768/30000
[16:08:13] RP3beta
[16:08:13]     rp3 192/30000
[16:08:52]     rp3 12480/30000
[16:09:32]     rp3 24768/30000
[16:09:53] sequential co-visitation
[16:09:53]   sequential load train_listens.parquet
[16:10:01] SVD
[16:10:01]   TruncatedSVD k=160
[16:10:07]   explained variance 0.2387
[16:10:07] user-kNN
[16:10:08]     user-knn 128/8456
[16:10:09]     user-knn 1152/8456
[16:10:11]     user-knn 2176/8456
[16:10:12]     user-knn 3200/8456
[16:10:14]     user-knn 4224/8456
[16:10:15]     user-knn 5248/8456
[16:10:17]     user-knn 6272/8456
[16:10:19]     user-knn 7296/8456
[16:10:20]     user-knn 8320/8456
[16:10:21] building validation labels
[16:10:21] scored users with relevance: 4263
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## Step 21 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
The process was killed by an out-of-memory error. Six dense float32 matrices of size 8456×30000 were likely too large to hold in memory.

The OOM hit during scoring when zscore_rows copied a 1 GB matrix. The plan is to z-score each model in-place immediately after computation, avoid keeping the full pop matrix, and use float16 or memmap for stored scores.

Storing only the top 500 candidates per model as sparse index-value pairs would shrink memory to roughly 170 MB. The blend can then be computed on the union of those candidates. This avoids keeping full dense score matrices in memory during grid search.

NDCG@10 only evaluates the top 10 items, so keeping just the top 400 candidates per model is sufficient for grid search. The plan is to z-score each model in-place immediately after computation, accumulate a default blend as a running sum, and retain only the top-k indices and z-scores for hyperparameter tuning. During scoring, the union of candidates from all models will be reconstructed, missing scores filled with zero, blended, and the top 100 ranked.

Memmap files still consume RAM when accessed, so blending six full matrices during grid search would page. The safer approach is to compute each model, z-score it in-place, write the scores to a memmap file, and delete the in-memory copy. Blending can then stream directly from disk using `np.memmap`, avoiding simultaneous materialization of all score matrices.

Peak memory will stay near 2 GB by blending one memmap at a time. Float16 scores would need only about 3 GB on disk, but float32 memmaps are sufficient. Sequential loading is confirmed to be fast, and the OOM is traced to holding all score matrices in RAM before z-score copying. The next step is to refactor `fit_and_score` so it writes each model’s scores to disk immediately.

A `zscore_inplace` helper will subtract the per-user mean and divide by standard deviation directly into the score array. Each model’s scores are saved to disk as float32, then the in-memory copy is deleted. The pop matrix is stored as a vector; z-scored pop is all zeros, so it can be blended by broadcasting.

The z-scored popularity vector is identical across all users, not zero. It will be stored as a one-dimensional array and broadcast into the blend.

Grid search will load and accumulate models one at a time from disk, keeping peak memory near 2 GB. `fit_and_score` will write each model to a directory and return a list of filenames. The KNN step can temporarily allocate about 1.2 GB when converting sparse scores to dense, but that is acceptable since the matrix is deleted immediately after z-score and save.

`gc.collect()` will be called after large deletions to reclaim memory. To speed up grid search, single-model NDCG can guide the blend weights, but only the top 100 unmasked z-scored candidates should be kept for each model. The main loop will be restructured as a generator that computes and saves one model at a time.

A ScoreStore class will manage per-model score files. The pipeline will delete the intermediate S matrix immediately after computing dense scores to avoid fragmentation. ALS is deferred until the current pipeline is stable.

The run was killed by memory pressure from full score matrices. I’ll stream z-scored models to disk and blend them one at a time.

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{
  "target_file": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "offset": 1,
  "limit": 80
}
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1→#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Discovery ranker for the Made-for-You shelf.

Fits collaborative models on cutoff-correct history, ranks eligible catalog
tracks, and writes validation + hidden-test submissions.
"""
from __future__ import annotations

import os
10→import sys
import time
from pathlib import Path

os.environ.setdefault("OMP_NUM_THREADS", "8")
os.environ.setdefault("MKL_NUM_THREADS", "8")
os.environ.setdefault("OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS", "8")
os.environ.setdefault("NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS", "8")

import numpy as np
20→import pandas as pd
from scipy import sparse
from sklearn.decomposition import TruncatedSVD
from sklearn.preprocessing import normalize

sys.path.insert(0, "/task")
from ranking_evaluation import ndcg_at_k, QUALITY_K, TOP_N

DATA = Path("/task/data")
OUT = Path("/app/solution")
30→TRAIN_CUTOFF = 24_786_800
TEST_CUTOFF = 25_395_200
DAY = 86_400.0
LISTEN_STRONG = 80
LISTEN_POS = 50


def log(msg: str) -> None:
    print(f"[{time.strftime('%H:%M:%S')}] {msg}", flush=True)

40→
def load_catalog() -> tuple[np.ndarray, dict[int, int]]:
    cat = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "candidate_catalog.parquet")
    item_ids = cat.item_id.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)
    item_to_col = {int(i): c for c, i in enumerate(item_ids)}
    return item_ids, item_to_col


def load_targets() -> np.ndarray:
    return pd.read_parquet(DATA / "target_users.parquet").uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)
50→

def load_eligibility(path: Path, n_items: int) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
    with np.load(path, allow_pickle=False) as z:
        uids = z["uids"].astype(np.int64, copy=True)
        packed = z["packed_eligible"]
        elig = np.unpackbits(packed, axis=1, bitorder="little")[:, :n_items].astype(bool)
    return uids, elig


60→def item_index_lookup(item_ids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    vmax = int(item_ids.max()) + 1
    table = np.full(vmax, -1, dtype=np.int32)
    table[item_ids] = np.arange(len(item_ids), dtype=np.int32)
    return table


def map_users(uids: np.ndarray) -> tuple[np.ndarray, dict[int, int], np.ndarray]:
    uniq = pd.unique(uids)
    uniq = uniq.astype(np.int64, copy=False)
70→    table_max = int(uniq.max()) + 1
    table = np.full(table_max, -1, dtype=np.int32)
    table[uniq] = np.arange(len(uniq), dtype=np.int32)
    return uniq, {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(uniq)}, table


def decay_weights(ts: np.ndarray, now: int, half_life_days: float) -> np.ndarray:
    age = np.maximum(0.0, (now - ts.astype(np.float64)) / DAY)
    return np.exp2(-age / half_life_days).astype(np.float32)

80→

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{
  "target_file": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "offset": 430
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
430→    Xn = normalize(X, norm="l2", axis=1).tocsr()
    n_tgt = len(target_rows)
    n_items = X.shape[1]
    n_users = X.shape[0]
    scores = np.zeros((n_tgt, n_items), dtype=np.float32)
    k = min(k, n_users - 1)
    for start in range(0, n_tgt, batch):
        end = min(start + batch, n_tgt)
        rows = target_rows[start:end]
        bsz = end - start
440→        sim = (Xn[rows] @ Xn.T).toarray().astype(np.float32, copy=False)
        sim[np.arange(bsz), rows] = -np.inf
        idx = np.argpartition(sim, -k, axis=1)[:, -k:]
        val = np.take_along_axis(sim, idx, axis=1)
        val = np.maximum(val, 0.0)
        W = sparse.csr_matrix(
            (val.ravel(), (np.repeat(np.arange(bsz), k), idx.ravel())),
            shape=(bsz, n_users),
            dtype=np.float32,
        )
450→        scores[start:end] = (W @ Xn).toarray()
        if start % 1024 == 0:
            log(f"    user-knn {end}/{n_tgt}")
    return scores


def zscore_rows(S: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    mean = S.mean(axis=1, keepdims=True)
    std = S.std(axis=1, keepdims=True)
    std = np.maximum(std, 1e-6)
460→    return ((S - mean) / std).astype(np.float32)


def topn_from_scores(
    scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray, item_ids: np.ndarray, n: int = TOP_N
) -> np.ndarray:
    s = scores.copy()
    s[~eligible] = -1e30
    idx = np.argpartition(-s, n, axis=1)[:, :n]
    val = np.take_along_axis(s, idx, axis=1)
470→    order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1, kind="stable")
    idx = np.take_along_axis(idx, order, axis=1)
    return item_ids[idx]


def ranking_frame(uids: np.ndarray, top_items: np.ndarray) -> pd.DataFrame:
    n_users, n = top_items.shape
    return pd.DataFrame(
        {
            "uid": np.repeat(uids.astype(np.int64), n),
480→            "item_id": top_items.reshape(-1).astype(np.int64),
            "rank": np.tile(np.arange(1, n + 1, dtype=np.int64), n_users),
        }
    )


def validation_labels(item_ids: np.ndarray, uids: np.ndarray, elig: np.ndarray) -> dict[int, dict[int, int]]:
    targets = set(map(int, uids))
    item_col = {int(i): c for c, i in enumerate(item_ids)}
    uid_row = {int(u): r for r, u in enumerate(uids)}
490→    listens = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "val_listens.parquet")
    likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "val_likes.parquet")
    strong = listens[
        listens.uid.isin(targets)
        & (listens.is_organic == 1)
        & (listens.played_ratio_pct >= LISTEN_STRONG)
    ][["uid", "item_id"]].drop_duplicates()
    olikes = likes[likes.uid.isin(targets) & (likes.is_organic == 1)][
        ["uid", "item_id"]
    ].drop_duplicates()
500→    graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]] = {}

    def eligible(uid: int, item: int) -> bool:
        r = uid_row.get(uid)
        c = item_col.get(item)
        if r is None or c is None:
            return False
        return bool(elig[r, c])

    for uid, item in strong.itertuples(index=False, name=None):
510→        uid, item = int(uid), int(item)
        if eligible(uid, item):
            graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 1
    for uid, item in olikes.itertuples(index=False, name=None):
        uid, item = int(uid), int(item)
        if eligible(uid, item):
            graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 3
    return graded


520→def score_top_items(top_items: np.ndarray, uids: np.ndarray, graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]]) -> float:
    uid_to_row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(uids)}
    vals = []
    for uid, gold in graded.items():
        row = uid_to_row[uid]
        ranked = [int(x) for x in top_items[row, :QUALITY_K]]
        vals.append(ndcg_at_k(ranked, gold, QUALITY_K))
    return float(np.mean(vals)) if vals else 0.0


530→def target_row_index(user_ids: np.ndarray, target_uids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    vmax = int(user_ids.max()) + 1
    table = np.full(vmax, -1, dtype=np.int32)
    table[user_ids] = np.arange(len(user_ids), dtype=np.int32)
    rows = np.full(len(target_uids), -1, dtype=np.int32)
    valid = target_uids < vmax
    rows[valid] = table[target_uids[valid]]
    if (rows < 0).any():
        log(f"  warning: {(rows < 0).sum()} targets missing from matrix")
    return rows
540→

def slice_or_zeros(M: np.ndarray | sparse.spmatrix, rows: np.ndarray, n_items: int):
    n_tgt = len(rows)
    good = rows >= 0
    idx = np.where(good)[0]
    if sparse.issparse(M):
        if len(idx) == 0:
            return sparse.csr_matrix((n_tgt, M.shape[1]), dtype=np.float32)
        sub = M[rows[good]].tocoo()
550→        return sparse.csr_matrix(
            (sub.data.astype(np.float32, copy=False), (idx[sub.row], sub.col)),
            shape=(n_tgt, M.shape[1]),
            dtype=np.float32,
        )
    out = np.zeros((n_tgt, M.shape[1]), dtype=np.float32)
    if len(idx):
        out[idx] = M[rows[good]]
    return out

560→
def fit_and_score(
    listen_files: list[str],
    like_files: list[str],
    pref_path: Path,
    now: int,
    item_ids: np.ndarray,
    item_table: np.ndarray,
    target_uids: np.ndarray,
    elig: np.ndarray,
570→    knn_k: int = 200,
) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
    n_items = len(item_ids)
    log("building interaction matrices")
    X, Q, user_ids, _, _ = collect_positive_matrix(
        listen_files,
        like_files,
        now,
        item_table,
        n_items,
580→        half_life=28.0,
        query_half_life=14.0,
    )
    Q = apply_preference_state(Q, user_ids, pref_path, item_table, like_boost=7.0)
    # damp extreme repeaters
    X = X.tocsr()
    Q = Q.tocsr()
    X.data = np.log1p(X.data)
    Q.data = np.log1p(Q.data)

590→    trows = target_row_index(user_ids, target_uids)
    Q_tgt = slice_or_zeros(Q, trows, n_items).tocsr()

    log("popularity")
    pop = popularity_vector(listen_files, like_files, item_table, n_items, now, half_life=21.0)
    pop_scores = np.broadcast_to(pop, (len(target_uids), n_items)).copy()

    log("BM25 item-kNN")
    X_bm25 = bm25_weight(X)
    S_knn = item_topk_from_gram(X_bm25, k=knn_k, batch=192)
600→    knn_scores = Q_tgt @ S_knn
    if sparse.issparse(knn_scores):
        knn_scores = knn_scores.toarray()
    knn_scores = knn_scores.astype(np.float32, copy=False)

    log("RP3beta")
    Xbin = X.copy()
    Xbin.data = np.ones_like(Xbin.data)
    S_rp3 = rp3beta_topk(Xbin, k=knn_k, alpha=0.5, beta=0.35, batch=192)
    rp3_scores = Q_tgt @ S_rp3
610→    if sparse.issparse(rp3_scores):
        rp3_scores = rp3_scores.toarray()
    rp3_scores = rp3_scores.astype(np.float32, copy=False)

    log("sequential co-visitation")
    S_seq = sequential_item_graph(
        listen_files, item_table, n_items, now, half_life=21.0, gap=1800, topk=60
    )
    seq_scores = Q_tgt @ S_seq
    if sparse.issparse(seq_scores):
620→        seq_scores = seq_scores.toarray()
    seq_scores = seq_scores.astype(np.float32, copy=False)

    log("SVD")
    X_tfidf = bm25_weight(X, k1=1.5, b=0.4)
    user_f, item_f = svd_factors(X_tfidf, n_components=160)
    U_tgt = slice_or_zeros(user_f, trows, n_items)
    svd_scores = U_tgt @ item_f.T

    log("user-kNN")
630→    uknn_scores = user_knn_scores(X_bm25, np.where(trows >= 0, trows, 0), k=70, batch=128)
    # zero out users missing from matrix
    missing = trows < 0
    if missing.any():
        uknn_scores[missing] = 0.0

    models = {
        "knn": knn_scores,
        "rp3": rp3_scores,
        "seq": seq_scores,
640→        "svd": svd_scores,
        "uknn": uknn_scores,
        "pop": pop_scores,
    }
    return models


def blend_scores(models: dict[str, np.ndarray], weights: dict[str, float]) -> np.ndarray:
    acc = None
    for name, w in weights.items():
650→        z = zscore_rows(models[name])
        acc = w * z if acc is None else acc + w * z
    return acc


def write_ranking(path: Path, uids: np.ndarray, top_items: np.ndarray) -> None:
    frame = ranking_frame(uids, top_items)
    frame.to_parquet(path, index=False)
    log(f"wrote {path} rows={len(frame)}")

660→
def main() -> None:
    t0 = time.time()
    OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    item_ids, _ = load_catalog()
    item_table = item_index_lookup(item_ids)
    target_uids = load_targets()
    n_items = len(item_ids)

    val_uids, val_elig = load_eligibility(DATA / "validation_eligible_candidates.npz", n_items)
670→    assert np.array_equal(val_uids, target_uids)

    log("=== validation fit (train history only) ===")
    models = fit_and_score(
        listen_files=["train_listens.parquet"],
        like_files=["train_likes.parquet"],
        pref_path=DATA / "validation_preference_state.parquet",
        now=TRAIN_CUTOFF,
        item_ids=item_ids,
        item_table=item_table,
680→        target_uids=target_uids,
        elig=val_elig,
    )
    log("building validation labels")
    graded = validation_labels(item_ids, target_uids, val_elig)
    log(f"scored users with relevance: {len(graded)}")

    weight_grid = [
        {"knn": 1.2, "rp3": 1.0, "seq": 0.7, "svd": 0.8, "uknn": 0.5, "pop": 0.15},
        {"knn": 1.4, "rp3": 1.1, "seq": 0.5, "svd": 0.6, "uknn": 0.4, "pop": 0.1},
690→        {"knn": 1.0, "rp3": 1.2, "seq": 0.8, "svd": 1.0, "uknn": 0.6, "pop": 0.2},
        {"knn": 1.3, "rp3": 0.8, "seq": 1.0, "svd": 0.7, "uknn": 0.3, "pop": 0.1},
        {"knn": 1.5, "rp3": 1.3, "seq": 0.4, "svd": 0.5, "uknn": 0.2, "pop": 0.05},
        {"knn": 0.9, "rp3": 0.9, "seq": 0.9, "svd": 0.9, "uknn": 0.9, "pop": 0.2},
    ]
    # also score single models
    best_w = None
    best_ndcg = -1.0
    for name, S in models.items():
        top = topn_from_scores(S, val_elig, item_ids)
700→        nd = score_top_items(top, target_uids, graded)
        log(f"  single {name}: ndcg@10={nd:.6f}")
        if nd > best_ndcg:
            best_ndcg = nd
            best_w = {name: 1.0}

    for w in weight_grid:
        blended = blend_scores(models, w)
        top = topn_from_scores(blended, val_elig, item_ids)
        nd = score_top_items(top, target_uids, graded)
710→        log(f"  blend {w}: ndcg@10={nd:.6f}")
        if nd > best_ndcg:
            best_ndcg = nd
            best_w = w

    log(f"best validation ndcg@10={best_ndcg:.6f} weights={best_w}")
    blended = blend_scores(models, best_w)
    val_top = topn_from_scores(blended, val_elig, item_ids)
    write_ranking(OUT / "validation.parquet", target_uids, val_top)

720→    # free validation scores before refit
    del models, blended, val_top
    log("=== test fit (train+val history) ===")
    test_uids, test_elig = load_eligibility(DATA / "test_eligible_candidates.npz", n_items)
    assert np.array_equal(test_uids, target_uids)
    models = fit_and_score(
        listen_files=["train_listens.parquet", "val_listens.parquet"],
        like_files=["train_likes.parquet", "val_likes.parquet"],
        pref_path=DATA / "test_preference_state.parquet",
        now=TEST_CUTOFF,
730→        item_ids=item_ids,
        item_table=item_table,
        target_uids=target_uids,
        elig=test_elig,
    )
    blended = blend_scores(models, best_w)
    test_top = topn_from_scores(blended, test_elig, item_ids)
    write_ranking(OUT / "submission.parquet", target_uids, test_top)
    log(f"done in {(time.time() - t0) / 60:.1f} min")

740→
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()


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### Recorded reasoning summary
I will rewrite the scoring pipeline.

I will save z-scored scores to memmap files one at a time. I will avoid copying the full score matrix when computing top-N by masking in-place or setting ineligible candidates to negative infinity. I will vectorize validation labels using boolean eligibility arrays and add garbage collection. I may skip UKNN if memory is tight.

I will avoid copying the full score matrix for top-N ranking. A temporary float32 array with -1e30 for ineligible candidates adds roughly one gigabyte of peak memory. That is acceptable if only one model is loaded at a time.

I will store z-scored scores on disk so blending can accumulate them in-place without copying full matrices. I will also save the popularity baseline as a one-dimensional z-score array and load it directly for scoring.

I will keep UKNN because it fits in only 13 seconds. I will rewrite the bottom of the file from fit_and_score onward. I considered storing scores only for eligible items, but that would save almost nothing since 97% of candidates are eligible. I will also replace Python validation labels with numpy arrays for speed. If time allows after the working collaborative filtering model, I may add an iALS component.

I will implement `zscore_inplace` to compute z-scores in-place using `np.subtract` and `np.divide` with `out` parameters, avoiding temporary arrays. I will also add a `sparse_to_dense` helper to convert sparse matrices into contiguous float32 arrays before scoring.

I will define a `dump_model` helper that z-scores scores in-place and saves them to disk. The `fit_and_score` function will return a dictionary mapping model names to their saved file paths, plus the path for the one-dimensional popularity vector.

I will keep the BM25 feature matrix for UKNN but delete it after use. To minimize peak memory, I will compute and save models sequentially: first BM25, then RP3, then sequential, then SVD, then user KNN, deleting each score matrix immediately after saving.



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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "import os\nimport sys\nimport time\nfrom pathlib import Path",
  "new_string": "import gc\nimport json\nimport os\nimport shutil\nimport sys\nimport time\nfrom pathlib import Path"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def zscore_rows(S: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    mean = S.mean(axis=1, keepdims=True)\n    std = S.std(axis=1, keepdims=True)\n    std = np.maximum(std, 1e-6)\n    return ((S - mean) / std).astype(np.float32)\n\n\ndef topn_from_scores(\n    scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray, item_ids: np.ndarray, n: int = TOP_N\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    s = scores.copy()\n    s[~eligible] = -1e30\n    idx = np.argpartition(-s, n, axis=1)[:, :n]\n    val = np.take_along_axis(s, idx, axis=1)\n    order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1, kind=\"stable\")\n    idx = np.take_along_axis(idx, order, axis=1)\n    return item_ids[idx]",
  "new_string": "def zscore_inplace(S: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    mean = S.mean(axis=1, keepdims=True)\n    std = np.maximum(S.std(axis=1, keepdims=True), 1e-6)\n    np.subtract(S, mean, out=S)\n    np.divide(S, std, out=S)\n    return S\n\n\ndef query_dense_scores(Q: sparse.csr_matrix, S: sparse.spmatrix, batch: int = 512) -> np.ndarray:\n    n_users, n_items = Q.shape[0], S.shape[1]\n    out = np.zeros((n_users, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    for start in range(0, n_users, batch):\n        end = min(start + batch, n_users)\n        block = Q[start:end] @ S\n        out[start:end] = block.toarray() if sparse.issparse(block) else np.asarray(block)\n    return out\n\n\ndef topn_from_scores(\n    scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray, item_ids: np.ndarray, n: int = TOP_N\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    scores = np.array(scores, dtype=np.float32, copy=True)\n    scores[~eligible] = -1e30\n    idx = np.argpartition(-scores, n, axis=1)[:, :n]\n    val = np.take_along_axis(scores, idx, axis=1)\n    order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1, kind=\"stable\")\n    idx = np.take_along_axis(idx, order, axis=1)\n    return item_ids[idx]\n\n\ndef dump_zscored(score_dir: Path, name: str, scores: np.ndarray) -> Path:\n    zscore_inplace(scores)\n    path = score_dir / f\"{name}.npy\"\n    np.save(path, scores)\n    log(f\"  saved {name} mean_abs={np.mean(np.abs(scores)):.4f}\")\n    return path"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def fit_and_score(\n    listen_files: list[str],\n    like_files: list[str],\n    pref_path: Path,\n    now: int,\n    item_ids: np.ndarray,\n    item_table: np.ndarray,\n    target_uids: np.ndarray,\n    elig: np.ndarray,\n    knn_k: int = 200,\n) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:\n    n_items = len(item_ids)\n    log(\"building interaction matrices\")\n    X, Q, user_ids, _, _ = collect_positive_matrix(\n        listen_files,\n        like_files,\n        now,\n        item_table,\n        n_items,\n        half_life=28.0,\n        query_half_life=14.0,\n    )\n    Q = apply_preference_state(Q, user_ids, pref_path, item_table, like_boost=7.0)\n    # damp extreme repeaters\n    X = X.tocsr()\n    Q = Q.tocsr()\n    X.data = np.log1p(X.data)\n    Q.data = np.log1p(Q.data)\n\n    trows = target_row_index(user_ids, target_uids)\n    Q_tgt = slice_or_zeros(Q, trows, n_items).tocsr()\n\n    log(\"popularity\")\n    pop = popularity_vector(listen_files, like_files, item_table, n_items, now, half_life=21.0)\n    pop_scores = np.broadcast_to(pop, (len(target_uids), n_items)).copy()\n\n    log(\"BM25 item-kNN\")\n    X_bm25 = bm25_weight(X)\n    S_knn = item_topk_from_gram(X_bm25, k=knn_k, batch=192)\n    knn_scores = Q_tgt @ S_knn\n    if sparse.issparse(knn_scores):\n        knn_scores = knn_scores.toarray()\n    knn_scores = knn_scores.astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n\n    log(\"RP3beta\")\n    Xbin = X.copy()\n    Xbin.data = np.ones_like(Xbin.data)\n    S_rp3 = rp3beta_topk(Xbin, k=knn_k, alpha=0.5, beta=0.35, batch=192)\n    rp3_scores = Q_tgt @ S_rp3\n    if sparse.issparse(rp3_scores):\n        rp3_scores = rp3_scores.toarray()\n    rp3_scores = rp3_scores.astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n\n    log(\"sequential co-visitation\")\n    S_seq = sequential_item_graph(\n        listen_files, item_table, n_items, now, half_life=21.0, gap=1800, topk=60\n    )\n    seq_scores = Q_tgt @ S_seq\n    if sparse.issparse(seq_scores):\n        seq_scores = seq_scores.toarray()\n    seq_scores = seq_scores.astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n\n    log(\"SVD\")\n    X_tfidf = bm25_weight(X, k1=1.5, b=0.4)\n    user_f, item_f = svd_factors(X_tfidf, n_components=160)\n    U_tgt = slice_or_zeros(user_f, trows, n_items)\n    svd_scores = U_tgt @ item_f.T\n\n    log(\"user-kNN\")\n    uknn_scores = user_knn_scores(X_bm25, np.where(trows >= 0, trows, 0), k=70, batch=128)\n    # zero out users missing from matrix\n    missing = trows < 0\n    if missing.any():\n        uknn_scores[missing] = 0.0\n\n    models = {\n        \"knn\": knn_scores,\n        \"rp3\": rp3_scores,\n        \"seq\": seq_scores,\n        \"svd\": svd_scores,\n        \"uknn\": uknn_scores,\n        \"pop\": pop_scores,\n    }\n    return models\n\n\ndef blend_scores(models: dict[str, np.ndarray], weights: dict[str, float]) -> np.ndarray:\n    acc = None\n    for name, w in weights.items():\n        z = zscore_rows(models[name])\n        acc = w * z if acc is None else acc + w * z\n    return acc",
  "new_string": "def fit_and_score(\n    listen_files: list[str],\n    like_files: list[str],\n    pref_path: Path,\n    now: int,\n    item_ids: np.ndarray,\n    item_table: np.ndarray,\n    target_uids: np.ndarray,\n    score_dir: Path,\n    knn_k: int = 200,\n) -> dict[str, Path]:\n    n_items = len(item_ids)\n    score_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)\n    log(\"building interaction matrices\")\n    X, Q, user_ids, _, _ = collect_positive_matrix(\n        listen_files,\n        like_files,\n        now,\n        item_table,\n        n_items,\n        half_life=28.0,\n        query_half_life=14.0,\n    )\n    Q = apply_preference_state(Q, user_ids, pref_path, item_table, like_boost=7.0)\n    X = X.tocsr()\n    Q = Q.tocsr()\n    X.data = np.log1p(X.data)\n    Q.data = np.log1p(Q.data)\n\n    trows = target_row_index(user_ids, target_uids)\n    Q_tgt = slice_or_zeros(Q, trows, n_items).tocsr()\n    del Q\n    gc.collect()\n\n    paths: dict[str, Path] = {}\n\n    log(\"popularity\")\n    pop = popularity_vector(listen_files, like_files, item_table, n_items, now, half_life=21.0)\n    pop_z = pop.copy()\n    pop_std = float(pop_z.std()) + 1e-6\n    pop_z = (pop_z - float(pop_z.mean())) / pop_std\n    np.save(score_dir / \"pop.npy\", pop_z.astype(np.float32))\n    paths[\"pop\"] = score_dir / \"pop.npy\"\n    del pop, pop_z\n\n    log(\"BM25 item-kNN\")\n    X_bm25 = bm25_weight(X)\n    S_knn = item_topk_from_gram(X_bm25, k=knn_k, batch=192)\n    knn_scores = query_dense_scores(Q_tgt, S_knn)\n    del S_knn\n    paths[\"knn\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"knn\", knn_scores)\n    del knn_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"RP3beta\")\n    Xbin = X.copy()\n    Xbin.data = np.ones_like(Xbin.data)\n    S_rp3 = rp3beta_topk(Xbin, k=knn_k, alpha=0.5, beta=0.35, batch=192)\n    del Xbin\n    rp3_scores = query_dense_scores(Q_tgt, S_rp3)\n    del S_rp3\n    paths[\"rp3\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"rp3\", rp3_scores)\n    del rp3_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"sequential co-visitation\")\n    S_seq = sequential_item_graph(\n        listen_files, item_table, n_items, now, half_life=21.0, gap=1800, topk=60\n    )\n    seq_scores = query_dense_scores(Q_tgt, S_seq)\n    del S_seq\n    paths[\"seq\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"seq\", seq_scores)\n    del seq_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"SVD\")\n    X_tfidf = bm25_weight(X, k1=1.5, b=0.4)\n    del X\n    user_f, item_f = svd_factors(X_tfidf, n_components=160)\n    del X_tfidf\n    U_tgt = slice_or_zeros(user_f, trows, n_items)\n    del user_f\n    svd_scores = np.ascontiguousarray(U_tgt @ item_f.T, dtype=np.float32)\n    del U_tgt, item_f\n    paths[\"svd\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"svd\", svd_scores)\n    del svd_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"user-kNN\")\n    uknn_scores = user_knn_scores(X_bm25, np.where(trows >= 0, trows, 0), k=70, batch=128)\n    del X_bm25, Q_tgt\n    missing = trows < 0\n    if missing.any():\n        uknn_scores[missing] = 0.0\n    paths[\"uknn\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"uknn\", uknn_scores)\n    del uknn_scores\n    gc.collect()\n    return paths\n\n\ndef load_model_scores(paths: dict[str, Path], name: str, n_users: int) -> np.ndarray:\n    arr = np.load(paths[name], mmap_mode=\"r\")\n    if arr.ndim == 1:\n        return np.broadcast_to(arr.astype(np.float32, copy=False), (n_users, arr.shape[0]))\n    return arr\n\n\ndef blend_from_disk(paths: dict[str, Path], weights: dict[str, float], n_users: int, n_items: int) -> np.ndarray:\n    acc = np.zeros((n_users, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    for name, w in weights.items():\n        if w == 0:\n            continue\n        arr = np.load(paths[name])\n        if arr.ndim == 1:\n            acc += np.float32(w) * arr.reshape(1, -1)\n        else:\n            acc += np.float32(w) * arr\n        del arr\n    return acc"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    log(\"=== validation fit (train history only) ===\")\n    models = fit_and_score(\n        listen_files=[\"train_listens.parquet\"],\n        like_files=[\"train_likes.parquet\"],\n        pref_path=DATA / \"validation_preference_state.parquet\",\n        now=TRAIN_CUTOFF,\n        item_ids=item_ids,\n        item_table=item_table,\n        target_uids=target_uids,\n        elig=val_elig,\n    )\n    log(\"building validation labels\")\n    graded = validation_labels(item_ids, target_uids, val_elig)\n    log(f\"scored users with relevance: {len(graded)}\")\n\n    weight_grid = [\n        {\"knn\": 1.2, \"rp3\": 1.0, \"seq\": 0.7, \"svd\": 0.8, \"uknn\": 0.5, \"pop\": 0.15},\n        {\"knn\": 1.4, \"rp3\": 1.1, \"seq\": 0.5, \"svd\": 0.6, \"uknn\": 0.4, \"pop\": 0.1},\n        {\"knn\": 1.0, \"rp3\": 1.2, \"seq\": 0.8, \"svd\": 1.0, \"uknn\": 0.6, \"pop\": 0.2},\n        {\"knn\": 1.3, \"rp3\": 0.8, \"seq\": 1.0, \"svd\": 0.7, \"uknn\": 0.3, \"pop\": 0.1},\n        {\"knn\": 1.5, \"rp3\": 1.3, \"seq\": 0.4, \"svd\": 0.5, \"uknn\": 0.2, \"pop\": 0.05},\n        {\"knn\": 0.9, \"rp3\": 0.9, \"seq\": 0.9, \"svd\": 0.9, \"uknn\": 0.9, \"pop\": 0.2},\n    ]\n    # also score single models\n    best_w = None\n    best_ndcg = -1.0\n    for name, S in models.items():\n        top = topn_from_scores(S, val_elig, item_ids)\n        nd = score_top_items(top, target_uids, graded)\n        log(f\"  single {name}: ndcg@10={nd:.6f}\")\n        if nd > best_ndcg:\n            best_ndcg = nd\n            best_w = {name: 1.0}\n\n    for w in weight_grid:\n        blended = blend_from_disk(models, w)\n        top = topn_from_scores(blended, val_elig, item_ids)\n        nd = score_top_items(top, target_uids, graded)\n        log(f\"  blend {w}: ndcg@10={nd:.6f}\")\n        if nd > best_ndcg:\n            best_ndcg = nd\n            best_w = w\n\n    log(f\"best validation ndcg@10={best_ndcg:.6f} weights={best_w}\")\n    blended = blend_from_disk(models, best_w)\n    val_top = topn_from_scores(blended, val_elig, item_ids)\n    write_ranking(OUT / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, val_top)\n\n    # free validation scores before refit\n    del models, blended, val_top\n    log(\"=== test fit (train+val history) ===\")\n    test_uids, test_elig = load_eligibility(DATA / \"test_eligible_candidates.npz\", n_items)\n    assert np.array_equal(test_uids, target_uids)\n    models = fit_and_score(\n        listen_files=[\"train_listens.parquet\", \"val_listens.parquet\"],\n        like_files=[\"train_likes.parquet\", \"val_likes.parquet\"],\n        pref_path=DATA / \"test_preference_state.parquet\",\n        now=TEST_CUTOFF,\n        item_ids=item_ids,\n        item_table=item_table,\n        target_uids=target_uids,\n        elig=test_elig,\n    )\n    blended = blend_from_disk(models, best_w)\n    test_top = topn_from_scores(blended, test_elig, item_ids)\n    write_ranking(OUT / \"submission.parquet\", target_uids, test_top)\n    log(f\"done in {(time.time() - t0) / 60:.1f} min\")",
  "new_string": "    val_score_dir = OUT / \"_scores_val\"\n    test_score_dir = OUT / \"_scores_test\"\n\n    log(\"=== validation fit (train history only) ===\")\n    paths = fit_and_score(\n        listen_files=[\"train_listens.parquet\"],\n        like_files=[\"train_likes.parquet\"],\n        pref_path=DATA / \"validation_preference_state.parquet\",\n        now=TRAIN_CUTOFF,\n        item_ids=item_ids,\n        item_table=item_table,\n        target_uids=target_uids,\n        score_dir=val_score_dir,\n    )\n    log(\"building validation labels\")\n    graded = validation_labels(item_ids, target_uids, val_elig)\n    log(f\"scored users with relevance: {len(graded)}\")\n\n    weight_grid = [\n        {\"knn\": 1.2, \"rp3\": 1.0, \"seq\": 0.7, \"svd\": 0.8, \"uknn\": 0.5, \"pop\": 0.15},\n        {\"knn\": 1.4, \"rp3\": 1.1, \"seq\": 0.5, \"svd\": 0.6, \"uknn\": 0.4, \"pop\": 0.1},\n        {\"knn\": 1.0, \"rp3\": 1.2, \"seq\": 0.8, \"svd\": 1.0, \"uknn\": 0.6, \"pop\": 0.2},\n        {\"knn\": 1.3, \"rp3\": 0.8, \"seq\": 1.0, \"svd\": 0.7, \"uknn\": 0.3, \"pop\": 0.1},\n        {\"knn\": 1.5, \"rp3\": 1.3, \"seq\": 0.4, \"svd\": 0.5, \"uknn\": 0.2, \"pop\": 0.05},\n        {\"knn\": 0.9, \"rp3\": 0.9, \"seq\": 0.9, \"svd\": 0.9, \"uknn\": 0.9, \"pop\": 0.2},\n        {\"knn\": 1.6, \"rp3\": 1.0, \"seq\": 0.6, \"svd\": 0.4, \"uknn\": 0.25, \"pop\": 0.08},\n        {\"knn\": 1.1, \"rp3\": 1.4, \"seq\": 0.6, \"svd\": 0.9, \"uknn\": 0.35, \"pop\": 0.12},\n    ]\n    best_w: dict[str, float] | None = None\n    best_ndcg = -1.0\n    n_users = len(target_uids)\n    for name in paths:\n        S = np.load(paths[name])\n        if S.ndim == 1:\n            S = np.broadcast_to(S.astype(np.float32), (n_users, S.shape[0]))\n        top = topn_from_scores(S, val_elig, item_ids)\n        nd = score_top_items(top, target_uids, graded)\n        log(f\"  single {name}: ndcg@10={nd:.6f}\")\n        if nd > best_ndcg:\n            best_ndcg = nd\n            best_w = {name: 1.0}\n        del S, top\n        gc.collect()\n\n    for w in weight_grid:\n        blended = blend_from_disk(paths, w, n_users, n_items)\n        top = topn_from_scores(blended, val_elig, item_ids)\n        nd = score_top_items(top, target_uids, graded)\n        log(f\"  blend {w}: ndcg@10={nd:.6f}\")\n        if nd > best_ndcg:\n            best_ndcg = nd\n            best_w = w\n        del blended, top\n        gc.collect()\n\n    log(f\"best validation ndcg@10={best_ndcg:.6f} weights={best_w}\")\n    (OUT / \"blend_weights.json\").write_text(json.dumps({\"ndcg\": best_ndcg, \"weights\": best_w}, indent=2))\n    blended = blend_from_disk(paths, best_w or {\"knn\": 1.0}, n_users, n_items)\n    val_top = topn_from_scores(blended, val_elig, item_ids)\n    write_ranking(OUT / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, val_top)\n    del blended, val_top, paths, val_elig, graded\n    gc.collect()\n    shutil.rmtree(val_score_dir, ignore_errors=True)\n\n    log(\"=== test fit (train+val history) ===\")\n    test_uids, test_elig = load_eligibility(DATA / \"test_eligible_candidates.npz\", n_items)\n    assert np.array_equal(test_uids, target_uids)\n    paths = fit_and_score(\n        listen_files=[\"train_listens.parquet\", \"val_listens.parquet\"],\n        like_files=[\"train_likes.parquet\", \"val_likes.parquet\"],\n        pref_path=DATA / \"test_preference_state.parquet\",\n        now=TEST_CUTOFF,\n        item_ids=item_ids,\n        item_table=item_table,\n        target_uids=target_uids,\n        score_dir=test_score_dir,\n    )\n    blended = blend_from_disk(paths, best_w or {\"knn\": 1.0}, n_users, n_items)\n    test_top = topn_from_scores(blended, test_elig, item_ids)\n    write_ranking(OUT / \"submission.parquet\", target_uids, test_top)\n    del blended, test_top, paths\n    shutil.rmtree(test_score_dir, ignore_errors=True)\n    log(f\"done in {(time.time() - t0) / 60:.1f} min\")"
}
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Nearest match: line 5: tracks, and writes validation + hidden-test submissions.

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{
  "target_file": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "offset": 700
}
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700→        del arr
    return acc


def write_ranking(path: Path, uids: np.ndarray, top_items: np.ndarray) -> None:
    frame = ranking_frame(uids, top_items)
    frame.to_parquet(path, index=False)
    log(f"wrote {path} rows={len(frame)}")


710→def main() -> None:
    t0 = time.time()
    OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    item_ids, _ = load_catalog()
    item_table = item_index_lookup(item_ids)
    target_uids = load_targets()
    n_items = len(item_ids)

    val_uids, val_elig = load_eligibility(DATA / "validation_eligible_candidates.npz", n_items)
    assert np.array_equal(val_uids, target_uids)
720→
    log("=== validation fit (train history only) ===")
    models = fit_and_score(
        listen_files=["train_listens.parquet"],
        like_files=["train_likes.parquet"],
        pref_path=DATA / "validation_preference_state.parquet",
        now=TRAIN_CUTOFF,
        item_ids=item_ids,
        item_table=item_table,
        target_uids=target_uids,
730→        elig=val_elig,
    )
    log("building validation labels")
    graded = validation_labels(item_ids, target_uids, val_elig)
    log(f"scored users with relevance: {len(graded)}")

    weight_grid = [
        {"knn": 1.2, "rp3": 1.0, "seq": 0.7, "svd": 0.8, "uknn": 0.5, "pop": 0.15},
        {"knn": 1.4, "rp3": 1.1, "seq": 0.5, "svd": 0.6, "uknn": 0.4, "pop": 0.1},
        {"knn": 1.0, "rp3": 1.2, "seq": 0.8, "svd": 1.0, "uknn": 0.6, "pop": 0.2},
740→        {"knn": 1.3, "rp3": 0.8, "seq": 1.0, "svd": 0.7, "uknn": 0.3, "pop": 0.1},
        {"knn": 1.5, "rp3": 1.3, "seq": 0.4, "svd": 0.5, "uknn": 0.2, "pop": 0.05},
        {"knn": 0.9, "rp3": 0.9, "seq": 0.9, "svd": 0.9, "uknn": 0.9, "pop": 0.2},
    ]
    # also score single models
    best_w = None
    best_ndcg = -1.0
    for name, S in models.items():
        top = topn_from_scores(S, val_elig, item_ids)
        nd = score_top_items(top, target_uids, graded)
750→        log(f"  single {name}: ndcg@10={nd:.6f}")
        if nd > best_ndcg:
            best_ndcg = nd
            best_w = {name: 1.0}

    for w in weight_grid:
        blended = blend_scores(models, w)
        top = topn_from_scores(blended, val_elig, item_ids)
        nd = score_top_items(top, target_uids, graded)
        log(f"  blend {w}: ndcg@10={nd:.6f}")
760→        if nd > best_ndcg:
            best_ndcg = nd
            best_w = w

    log(f"best validation ndcg@10={best_ndcg:.6f} weights={best_w}")
    blended = blend_scores(models, best_w)
    val_top = topn_from_scores(blended, val_elig, item_ids)
    write_ranking(OUT / "validation.parquet", target_uids, val_top)

    # free validation scores before refit
770→    del models, blended, val_top
    log("=== test fit (train+val history) ===")
    test_uids, test_elig = load_eligibility(DATA / "test_eligible_candidates.npz", n_items)
    assert np.array_equal(test_uids, target_uids)
    models = fit_and_score(
        listen_files=["train_listens.parquet", "val_listens.parquet"],
        like_files=["train_likes.parquet", "val_likes.parquet"],
        pref_path=DATA / "test_preference_state.parquet",
        now=TEST_CUTOFF,
        item_ids=item_ids,
780→        item_table=item_table,
        target_uids=target_uids,
        elig=test_elig,
    )
    blended = blend_scores(models, best_w)
    test_top = topn_from_scores(blended, test_elig, item_ids)
    write_ranking(OUT / "submission.parquet", target_uids, test_top)
    log(f"done in {(time.time() - t0) / 60:.1f} min")


790→if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()


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### Recorded reasoning summary
`fit_and_score` was updated to accept `score_dir` instead of `elig`, but `main()` still calls the old API.



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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def main() -> None:\n    t0 = time.time()\n    OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)\n    item_ids, _ = load_catalog()\n    item_table = item_index_lookup(item_ids)\n    target_uids = load_targets()\n    n_items = len(item_ids)\n\n    val_uids, val_elig = load_eligibility(DATA / \"validation_eligible_candidates.npz\", n_items)\n    assert np.array_equal(val_uids, target_uids)\n\n    log(\"=== validation fit (train history only) ===\")\n    models = fit_and_score(\n        listen_files=[\"train_listens.parquet\"],\n        like_files=[\"train_likes.parquet\"],\n        pref_path=DATA / \"validation_preference_state.parquet\",\n        now=TRAIN_CUTOFF,\n        item_ids=item_ids,\n        item_table=item_table,\n        target_uids=target_uids,\n        elig=val_elig,\n    )\n    log(\"building validation labels\")\n    graded = validation_labels(item_ids, target_uids, val_elig)\n    log(f\"scored users with relevance: {len(graded)}\")\n\n    weight_grid = [\n        {\"knn\": 1.2, \"rp3\": 1.0, \"seq\": 0.7, \"svd\": 0.8, \"uknn\": 0.5, \"pop\": 0.15},\n        {\"knn\": 1.4, \"rp3\": 1.1, \"seq\": 0.5, \"svd\": 0.6, \"uknn\": 0.4, \"pop\": 0.1},\n        {\"knn\": 1.0, \"rp3\": 1.2, \"seq\": 0.8, \"svd\": 1.0, \"uknn\": 0.6, \"pop\": 0.2},\n        {\"knn\": 1.3, \"rp3\": 0.8, \"seq\": 1.0, \"svd\": 0.7, \"uknn\": 0.3, \"pop\": 0.1},\n        {\"knn\": 1.5, \"rp3\": 1.3, \"seq\": 0.4, \"svd\": 0.5, \"uknn\": 0.2, \"pop\": 0.05},\n        {\"knn\": 0.9, \"rp3\": 0.9, \"seq\": 0.9, \"svd\": 0.9, \"uknn\": 0.9, \"pop\": 0.2},\n    ]\n    # also score single models\n    best_w = None\n    best_ndcg = -1.0\n    for name, S in models.items():\n        top = topn_from_scores(S, val_elig, item_ids)\n        nd = score_top_items(top, target_uids, graded)\n        log(f\"  single {name}: ndcg@10={nd:.6f}\")\n        if nd > best_ndcg:\n            best_ndcg = nd\n            best_w = {name: 1.0}\n\n    for w in weight_grid:\n        blended = blend_scores(models, w)\n        top = topn_from_scores(blended, val_elig, item_ids)\n        nd = score_top_items(top, target_uids, graded)\n        log(f\"  blend {w}: ndcg@10={nd:.6f}\")\n        if nd > best_ndcg:\n            best_ndcg = nd\n            best_w = w\n\n    log(f\"best validation ndcg@10={best_ndcg:.6f} weights={best_w}\")\n    blended = blend_scores(models, best_w)\n    val_top = topn_from_scores(blended, val_elig, item_ids)\n    write_ranking(OUT / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, val_top)\n\n    # free validation scores before refit\n    del models, blended, val_top\n    log(\"=== test fit (train+val history) ===\")\n    test_uids, test_elig = load_eligibility(DATA / \"test_eligible_candidates.npz\", n_items)\n    assert np.array_equal(test_uids, target_uids)\n    models = fit_and_score(\n        listen_files=[\"train_listens.parquet\", \"val_listens.parquet\"],\n        like_files=[\"train_likes.parquet\", \"val_likes.parquet\"],\n        pref_path=DATA / \"test_preference_state.parquet\",\n        now=TEST_CUTOFF,\n        item_ids=item_ids,\n        item_table=item_table,\n        target_uids=target_uids,\n        elig=test_elig,\n    )\n    blended = blend_scores(models, best_w)\n    test_top = topn_from_scores(blended, test_elig, item_ids)\n    write_ranking(OUT / \"submission.parquet\", target_uids, test_top)\n    log(f\"done in {(time.time() - t0) / 60:.1f} min\")",
  "new_string": "def main() -> None:\n    t0 = time.time()\n    OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)\n    item_ids, _ = load_catalog()\n    item_table = item_index_lookup(item_ids)\n    target_uids = load_targets()\n    n_items = len(item_ids)\n    n_users = len(target_uids)\n\n    val_uids, val_elig = load_eligibility(DATA / \"validation_eligible_candidates.npz\", n_items)\n    assert np.array_equal(val_uids, target_uids)\n\n    val_score_dir = OUT / \"_scores_val\"\n    test_score_dir = OUT / \"_scores_test\"\n\n    log(\"=== validation fit (train history only) ===\")\n    paths = fit_and_score(\n        listen_files=[\"train_listens.parquet\"],\n        like_files=[\"train_likes.parquet\"],\n        pref_path=DATA / \"validation_preference_state.parquet\",\n        now=TRAIN_CUTOFF,\n        item_ids=item_ids,\n        item_table=item_table,\n        target_uids=target_uids,\n        score_dir=val_score_dir,\n    )\n    log(\"building validation labels\")\n    graded = validation_labels(item_ids, target_uids, val_elig)\n    log(f\"scored users with relevance: {len(graded)}\")\n\n    weight_grid = [\n        {\"knn\": 1.2, \"rp3\": 1.0, \"seq\": 0.7, \"svd\": 0.8, \"uknn\": 0.5, \"pop\": 0.15},\n        {\"knn\": 1.4, \"rp3\": 1.1, \"seq\": 0.5, \"svd\": 0.6, \"uknn\": 0.4, \"pop\": 0.1},\n        {\"knn\": 1.0, \"rp3\": 1.2, \"seq\": 0.8, \"svd\": 1.0, \"uknn\": 0.6, \"pop\": 0.2},\n        {\"knn\": 1.3, \"rp3\": 0.8, \"seq\": 1.0, \"svd\": 0.7, \"uknn\": 0.3, \"pop\": 0.1},\n        {\"knn\": 1.5, \"rp3\": 1.3, \"seq\": 0.4, \"svd\": 0.5, \"uknn\": 0.2, \"pop\": 0.05},\n        {\"knn\": 0.9, \"rp3\": 0.9, \"seq\": 0.9, \"svd\": 0.9, \"uknn\": 0.9, \"pop\": 0.2},\n        {\"knn\": 1.6, \"rp3\": 1.0, \"seq\": 0.6, \"svd\": 0.4, \"uknn\": 0.25, \"pop\": 0.08},\n        {\"knn\": 1.1, \"rp3\": 1.4, \"seq\": 0.6, \"svd\": 0.9, \"uknn\": 0.35, \"pop\": 0.12},\n    ]\n    best_w: dict[str, float] | None = None\n    best_ndcg = -1.0\n    for name in paths:\n        S = np.load(paths[name])\n        if S.ndim == 1:\n            S = np.broadcast_to(S.astype(np.float32), (n_users, S.shape[0]))\n        top = topn_from_scores(S, val_elig, item_ids)\n        nd = score_top_items(top, target_uids, graded)\n        log(f\"  single {name}: ndcg@10={nd:.6f}\")\n        if nd > best_ndcg:\n            best_ndcg = nd\n            best_w = {name: 1.0}\n        del S, top\n        gc.collect()\n\n    for w in weight_grid:\n        blended = blend_from_disk(paths, w, n_users, n_items)\n        top = topn_from_scores(blended, val_elig, item_ids)\n        nd = score_top_items(top, target_uids, graded)\n        log(f\"  blend {w}: ndcg@10={nd:.6f}\")\n        if nd > best_ndcg:\n            best_ndcg = nd\n            best_w = w\n        del blended, top\n        gc.collect()\n\n    log(f\"best validation ndcg@10={best_ndcg:.6f} weights={best_w}\")\n    (OUT / \"blend_weights.json\").write_text(\n        json.dumps({\"ndcg\": best_ndcg, \"weights\": best_w}, indent=2)\n    )\n    blended = blend_from_disk(paths, best_w or {\"knn\": 1.0}, n_users, n_items)\n    val_top = topn_from_scores(blended, val_elig, item_ids)\n    write_ranking(OUT / \"validation.parquet\", target_uids, val_top)\n    del blended, val_top, paths, val_elig, graded\n    gc.collect()\n    shutil.rmtree(val_score_dir, ignore_errors=True)\n\n    log(\"=== test fit (train+val history) ===\")\n    test_uids, test_elig = load_eligibility(DATA / \"test_eligible_candidates.npz\", n_items)\n    assert np.array_equal(test_uids, target_uids)\n    paths = fit_and_score(\n        listen_files=[\"train_listens.parquet\", \"val_listens.parquet\"],\n        like_files=[\"train_likes.parquet\", \"val_likes.parquet\"],\n        pref_path=DATA / \"test_preference_state.parquet\",\n        now=TEST_CUTOFF,\n        item_ids=item_ids,\n        item_table=item_table,\n        target_uids=target_uids,\n        score_dir=test_score_dir,\n    )\n    blended = blend_from_disk(paths, best_w or {\"knn\": 1.0}, n_users, n_items)\n    test_top = topn_from_scores(blended, test_elig, item_ids)\n    write_ranking(OUT / \"submission.parquet\", target_uids, test_top)\n    del blended, test_top, paths\n    shutil.rmtree(test_score_dir, ignore_errors=True)\n    log(f\"done in {(time.time() - t0) / 60:.1f} min\")"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
The file /app/solution/build_ranker.py has been updated successfully.

## Step 25 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
`load_model_scores` is unused but harmless.

Memory copies from `broadcast_to` and mmap arrays are acceptable for single-model evaluation. The updated `fit_and_score` signature needs verification. Next I will check compilation and unused imports before running.

The 1GB score arrays are deleted after saving, keeping disk usage manageable. Pop scores are handled correctly as 1D arrays. I am now running a syntax check and preparing to execute.

RP3 was slower because `csr.multiply` with a dense 2D array broadcast to `(n_users, 1)` densified the matrix. I will fix it by using a sparse diagonal matrix instead.

The fix replaces the dense `csr.multiply` with sparse diagonal matrix multiplication: `sparse.diags(1.0 / user_deg).dot(Xbin)` and `Xbin.dot(sparse.diags(1.0 / item_deg))`. This preserves sparsity and avoids densification overhead.



### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    user_deg = np.ravel(Xbin.sum(axis=1)).astype(np.float64)\n    item_deg = np.ravel(Xbin.sum(axis=0)).astype(np.float64)\n    user_deg = np.power(np.maximum(user_deg, 1.0), alpha)\n    item_deg = np.power(np.maximum(item_deg, 1.0), beta)\n    Xu = Xbin.astype(np.float32).multiply(1.0 / user_deg[:, None]).tocsr()\n    Xi = Xbin.astype(np.float32).multiply(1.0 / item_deg[None, :]).tocsr()",
  "new_string": "    user_deg = np.ravel(Xbin.sum(axis=1)).astype(np.float64)\n    item_deg = np.ravel(Xbin.sum(axis=0)).astype(np.float64)\n    user_deg = np.power(np.maximum(user_deg, 1.0), alpha)\n    item_deg = np.power(np.maximum(item_deg, 1.0), beta)\n    Xu = sparse.diags(1.0 / user_deg).dot(Xbin).astype(np.float32).tocsr()\n    Xi = Xbin.dot(sparse.diags(1.0 / item_deg)).astype(np.float32).tocsr()"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
The file /app/solution/build_ranker.py has been updated successfully.

### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python -m py_compile /app/solution/build_ranker.py && echo OK",
  "description": "Syntax-check the ranker script"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
OK


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### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python /app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "description": "Run memory-safe ranker training and submission"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
<task-id>call-ee5a00cf-5d90-4e88-bad7-9ca0a1c61a61-35</task-id>
<task-type>bash</task-type>
<output-file>/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/53ca2435-838f-4426-8d1d-e7c50ff736bb/terminal/call-ee5a00cf-5d90-4e88-bad7-9ca0a1c61a61-35.log</output-file>
<status>running</status>
<summary>Command "Run memory-safe ranker training and submission" is still running after 30s (block_until_ms) and has been moved to the background as task call-ee5a00cf-5d90-4e88-bad7-9ca0a1c61a61-35.</summary>
Use get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=["call-ee5a00cf-5d90-4e88-bad7-9ca0a1c61a61-35"] when you need the output.

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### get_command_or_subagent_output · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "task_ids": [
    "call-ee5a00cf-5d90-4e88-bad7-9ca0a1c61a61-35"
  ],
  "timeout_ms": 180000
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
=== Task call-ee5a00cf-5d90-4e88-bad7-9ca0a1c61a61-35 ===
Command: /opt/task-venv/bin/python /app/solution/build_ranker.py
Status: running
Duration: 212.39s
Output File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/53ca2435-838f-4426-8d1d-e7c50ff736bb/terminal/call-ee5a00cf-5d90-4e88-bad7-9ca0a1c61a61-35.log

=== Output ===
[16:13:40] === validation fit (train history only) ===
[16:13:40] building interaction matrices
[16:13:40]   load train_listens.parquet
[16:13:42]   load train_likes.parquet
[16:13:42]   aggregate 20,611,153 events, 9910 users, 30000 items
[16:13:44]   warning: 7 targets missing from matrix
[16:13:44] popularity
[16:13:45] BM25 item-kNN
[16:13:46]     item-knn 192/30000
[16:14:01]     item-knn 12480/30000
[16:14:16]     item-knn 24768/30000
[16:14:28]   saved knn mean_abs=0.3685
[16:14:29] RP3beta
[16:14:29]     rp3 192/30000
[16:14:44]     rp3 12480/30000
[16:14:59]     rp3 24768/30000
[16:15:11]   saved rp3 mean_abs=0.2634
[16:15:11] sequential co-visitation
[16:15:11]   sequential load train_listens.parquet
[16:15:20]   saved seq mean_abs=0.3570
[16:15:20] SVD
[16:15:20]   TruncatedSVD k=160
[16:15:26]   explained variance 0.2387
[16:15:28]   saved svd mean_abs=0.5423
[16:15:28] user-kNN
[16:15:28]     user-knn 128/8456
[16:15:29]     user-knn 1152/8456
[16:15:31]     user-knn 2176/8456
[16:15:32]     user-knn 3200/8456
[16:15:34]     user-knn 4224/8456
[16:15:35]     user-knn 5248/8456
[16:15:37]     user-knn 6272/8456
[16:15:39]     user-knn 7296/8456
[16:15:40]     user-knn 8320/8456
[16:15:41]   saved uknn mean_abs=0.4964
[16:15:41] building validation labels
[16:15:42] scored users with relevance: 4263
[16:15:44]   single pop: ndcg@10=0.016868
[16:15:56]   single knn: ndcg@10=0.023035
[16:16:04]   single rp3: ndcg@10=0.015773
[16:16:12]   single seq: ndcg@10=0.028086
[16:16:16]   single svd: ndcg@10=0.032087
[16:16:18]   single uknn: ndcg@10=0.031350
[16:16:46]   blend {'knn': 1.2, 'rp3': 1.0, 'seq': 0.7, 'svd': 0.8, 'uknn': 0.5, 'pop': 0.15}: ndcg@10=0.027774


Waited 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.

## Step 28 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
The popularity baseline achieved a score of 0.0169.

SVD reached 0.0321, the best single model. Sequence scored 0.0281 and UKNN 0.0314. KNN scored 0.0230. RP3 scored 0.0158, worse than popularity. The first blend fell to 0.0278 because weak models dragged it down. The grid search for better blends is still running.

The current blend grid is being refined with equal weights for the strong models and a low weight for popularity. A post-hoc search will run if SVD remains the best result. NDCG@10 of 0.032 seems surprisingly low given the median of four relevant items out of twenty-nine thousand eligible candidates.

Organic discovery of unheard tracks is inherently difficult. Users may find music through search or social channels, which collaborative filtering from listening history cannot easily capture.

Several improvement directions are being considered:
- Increase SVD components and adjust weighting
- Weight recent listening history more heavily
- Try iALS with missing ratings treated as negatives
- Fix ItemKNN issues with BM25, log1p, and query mismatch

Per-user z-score normalization is correct. ItemKNN's weakness likely stems from query vectors built from recency-weighted log1p history while similarity is computed via BM25 on long-term data. Cosine similarity on BM25 may not suit music well, and popular neighbors can dominate when the query contains many items. Using only the user's top seed tracks as the query vector should improve ItemKNN performance.



### get_command_or_subagent_output · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "task_ids": [
    "call-ee5a00cf-5d90-4e88-bad7-9ca0a1c61a61-35"
  ],
  "timeout_ms": 240000
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
=== Task call-ee5a00cf-5d90-4e88-bad7-9ca0a1c61a61-35 ===
Command: /opt/task-venv/bin/python /app/solution/build_ranker.py
Status: running
Duration: 469.18s
Output File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/53ca2435-838f-4426-8d1d-e7c50ff736bb/terminal/call-ee5a00cf-5d90-4e88-bad7-9ca0a1c61a61-35.log

=== Output ===
[16:13:40] === validation fit (train history only) ===
[16:13:40] building interaction matrices
[16:13:40]   load train_listens.parquet
[16:13:42]   load train_likes.parquet
[16:13:42]   aggregate 20,611,153 events, 9910 users, 30000 items
[16:13:44]   warning: 7 targets missing from matrix
[16:13:44] popularity
[16:13:45] BM25 item-kNN
[16:13:46]     item-knn 192/30000
[16:14:01]     item-knn 12480/30000
[16:14:16]     item-knn 24768/30000
[16:14:28]   saved knn mean_abs=0.3685
[16:14:29] RP3beta
[16:14:29]     rp3 192/30000
[16:14:44]     rp3 12480/30000
[16:14:59]     rp3 24768/30000
[16:15:11]   saved rp3 mean_abs=0.2634
[16:15:11] sequential co-visitation
[16:15:11]   sequential load train_listens.parquet
[16:15:20]   saved seq mean_abs=0.3570
[16:15:20] SVD
[16:15:20]   TruncatedSVD k=160
[16:15:26]   explained variance 0.2387
[16:15:28]   saved svd mean_abs=0.5423
[16:15:28] user-kNN
[16:15:28]     user-knn 128/8456
[16:15:29]     user-knn 1152/8456
[16:15:31]     user-knn 2176/8456
[16:15:32]     user-knn 3200/8456
[16:15:34]     user-knn 4224/8456
[16:15:35]     user-knn 5248/8456
[16:15:37]     user-knn 6272/8456
[16:15:39]     user-knn 7296/8456
[16:15:40]     user-knn 8320/8456
[16:15:41]   saved uknn mean_abs=0.4964
[16:15:41] building validation labels
[16:15:42] scored users with relevance: 4263
[16:15:44]   single pop: ndcg@10=0.016868
[16:15:56]   single knn: ndcg@10=0.023035
[16:16:04]   single rp3: ndcg@10=0.015773
[16:16:12]   single seq: ndcg@10=0.028086
[16:16:16]   single svd: ndcg@10=0.032087
[16:16:18]   single uknn: ndcg@10=0.031350
[16:16:46]   blend {'knn': 1.2, 'rp3': 1.0, 'seq': 0.7, 'svd': 0.8, 'uknn': 0.5, 'pop': 0.15}: ndcg@10=0.027774
[16:17:16]   blend {'knn': 1.4, 'rp3': 1.1, 'seq': 0.5, 'svd': 0.6, 'uknn': 0.4, 'pop': 0.1}: ndcg@10=0.026284
[16:17:44]   blend {'knn': 1.0, 'rp3': 1.2, 'seq': 0.8, 'svd': 1.0, 'uknn': 0.6, 'pop': 0.2}: ndcg@10=0.027943
[16:18:11]   blend {'knn': 1.3, 'rp3': 0.8, 'seq': 1.0, 'svd': 0.7, 'uknn': 0.3, 'pop': 0.1}: ndcg@10=0.028237
[16:18:39]   blend {'knn': 1.5, 'rp3': 1.3, 'seq': 0.4, 'svd': 0.5, 'uknn': 0.2, 'pop': 0.05}: ndcg@10=0.024146
[16:19:07]   blend {'knn': 0.9, 'rp3': 0.9, 'seq': 0.9, 'svd': 0.9, 'uknn': 0.9, 'pop': 0.2}: ndcg@10=0.029595
[16:19:34]   blend {'knn': 1.6, 'rp3': 1.0, 'seq': 0.6, 'svd': 0.4, 'uknn': 0.25, 'pop': 0.08}: ndcg@10=0.025966
[16:20:02]   blend {'knn': 1.1, 'rp3': 1.4, 'seq': 0.6, 'svd': 0.9, 'uknn': 0.35, 'pop': 0.12}: ndcg@10=0.026143
[16:20:02] best validation ndcg@10=0.032087 weights={'svd': 1.0}
[16:20:07] wrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600
[16:20:07] === test fit (train+val history) ===
[16:20:07] building interaction matrices
[16:20:07]   load train_listens.parquet
[16:20:09]   load val_listens.parquet
[16:20:09]   load train_likes.parquet
[16:20:09]   load val_likes.parquet
[16:20:09]   aggregate 21,288,850 events, 9924 users, 30000 items
[16:20:11]   warning: 6 targets missing from matrix
[16:20:11] popularity
[16:20:13] BM25 item-kNN
[16:20:13]     item-knn 192/30000
[16:20:29]     item-knn 12480/30000
[16:20:44]     item-knn 24768/30000
[16:20:58]   saved knn mean_abs=0.3705
[16:20:58] RP3beta
[16:20:58]     rp3 192/30000
[16:21:13]     rp3 12480/30000


Waited 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.

## Step 29 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
SVD achieved a score of 0.032. The test fit is currently running.

The test fit will finish to ensure a valid SVD submission. Next steps include trying iALS, a stronger SVD with more components and different weighting, seed-restricted ItemKNN, and blending SVD with UKNN and sequence models at higher weight.

The next model will blend SVD at 1.0, UKNN at 0.7, and sequence at 0.5. It will also use stronger recency weights and binary implicit feedback with confidence. A fast iALS implementation is planned.

Z-score normalization is only needed for blended models; single-model rankings are identical to raw SVD scores. iALS will outperform PureSVD because it handles missing feedback as negatives more effectively. The planned configuration uses 128 factors, 12 iterations, alpha 20, and regularization 0.1 with joblib parallelization.

The user-item matrix will be restricted to the last 90 days to reduce noise. The recency half-life is being halved from 28 to 14 days. Asymmetric SVD folding-in with a short-term query vector is also being considered.

The current SVD folds in the short-term query vector into long-term item factors. The better approach is to fold in the query into the long-term item space instead, using the query profile as the user vector and computing scores as q_f @ item_f.T. This is a simple but promising improvement.

The asymmetric SVD approach will use the query profile as a recency-weighted user embedding in the long-term item space. Log1p transformation before SVD is being dropped since decayed weights already provide sufficient damping. IDF weighting will be applied to downweight globally popular items and improve personalization.



### get_command_or_subagent_output · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "task_ids": [
    "call-ee5a00cf-5d90-4e88-bad7-9ca0a1c61a61-35"
  ],
  "timeout_ms": 180000
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
=== Task call-ee5a00cf-5d90-4e88-bad7-9ca0a1c61a61-35 ===
Command: /opt/task-venv/bin/python /app/solution/build_ranker.py
Status: completed
Duration: 520.58s
Exit Code: 0
Output File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/53ca2435-838f-4426-8d1d-e7c50ff736bb/terminal/call-ee5a00cf-5d90-4e88-bad7-9ca0a1c61a61-35.log

=== Output ===
[16:13:40] === validation fit (train history only) ===
[16:13:40] building interaction matrices
[16:13:40]   load train_listens.parquet
[16:13:42]   load train_likes.parquet
[16:13:42]   aggregate 20,611,153 events, 9910 users, 30000 items
[16:13:44]   warning: 7 targets missing from matrix
[16:13:44] popularity
[16:13:45] BM25 item-kNN
[16:13:46]     item-knn 192/30000
[16:14:01]     item-knn 12480/30000
[16:14:16]     item-knn 24768/30000
[16:14:28]   saved knn mean_abs=0.3685
[16:14:29] RP3beta
[16:14:29]     rp3 192/30000
[16:14:44]     rp3 12480/30000
[16:14:59]     rp3 24768/30000
[16:15:11]   saved rp3 mean_abs=0.2634
[16:15:11] sequential co-visitation
[16:15:11]   sequential load train_listens.parquet
[16:15:20]   saved seq mean_abs=0.3570
[16:15:20] SVD
[16:15:20]   TruncatedSVD k=160
[16:15:26]   explained variance 0.2387
[16:15:28]   saved svd mean_abs=0.5423
[16:15:28] user-kNN
[16:15:28]     user-knn 128/8456
[16:15:29]     user-knn 1152/8456
[16:15:31]     user-knn 2176/8456
[16:15:32]     user-knn 3200/8456
[16:15:34]     user-knn 4224/8456
[16:15:35]     user-knn 5248/8456
[16:15:37]     user-knn 6272/8456
[16:15:39]     user-knn 7296/8456
[16:15:40]     user-knn 8320/8456
[16:15:41]   saved uknn mean_abs=0.4964
[16:15:41] building validation labels
[16:15:42] scored users with relevance: 4263
[16:15:44]   single pop: ndcg@10=0.016868
[16:15:56]   single knn: ndcg@10=0.023035
[16:16:04]   single rp3: ndcg@10=0.015773
[16:16:12]   single seq: ndcg@10=0.028086
[16:16:16]   single svd: ndcg@10=0.032087
[16:16:18]   single uknn: ndcg@10=0.031350
[16:16:46]   blend {'knn': 1.2, 'rp3': 1.0, 'seq': 0.7, 'svd': 0.8, 'uknn': 0.5, 'pop': 0.15}: ndcg@10=0.027774
[16:17:16]   blend {'knn': 1.4, 'rp3': 1.1, 'seq': 0.5, 'svd': 0.6, 'uknn': 0.4, 'pop': 0.1}: ndcg@10=0.026284
[16:17:44]   blend {'knn': 1.0, 'rp3': 1.2, 'seq': 0.8, 'svd': 1.0, 'uknn': 0.6, 'pop': 0.2}: ndcg@10=0.027943
[16:18:11]   blend {'knn': 1.3, 'rp3': 0.8, 'seq': 1.0, 'svd': 0.7, 'uknn': 0.3, 'pop': 0.1}: ndcg@10=0.028237
[16:18:39]   blend {'knn': 1.5, 'rp3': 1.3, 'seq': 0.4, 'svd': 0.5, 'uknn': 0.2, 'pop': 0.05}: ndcg@10=0.024146
[16:19:07]   blend {'knn': 0.9, 'rp3': 0.9, 'seq': 0.9, 'svd': 0.9, 'uknn': 0.9, 'pop': 0.2}: ndcg@10=0.029595
[16:19:34]   blend {'knn': 1.6, 'rp3': 1.0, 'seq': 0.6, 'svd': 0.4, 'uknn': 0.25, 'pop': 0.08}: ndcg@10=0.025966
[16:20:02]   blend {'knn': 1.1, 'rp3': 1.4, 'seq': 0.6, 'svd': 0.9, 'uknn': 0.35, 'pop': 0.12}: ndcg@10=0.026143
[16:20:02] best validation ndcg@10=0.032087 weights={'svd': 1.0}
[16:20:07] wrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600
[16:20:07] === test fit (train+val history) ===
[16:20:07] building interaction matrices
[16:20:07]   load train_listens.parquet
[16:20:09]   load val_listens.parquet
[16:20:09]   load train_likes.parquet
[16:20:09]   load val_likes.parquet
[16:20:09]   aggregate 21,288,850 events, 9924 users, 30000 items
[16:20:11]   warning: 6 targets missing from matrix
[16:20:11] popularity
[16:20:13] BM25 item-kNN
[16:20:13]     item-knn 192/30000
[16:20:29]     item-knn 12480/30000
[16:20:44]     item-knn 24768/30000
[16:20:58]   saved knn mean_abs=0.3705
[16:20:58] RP3beta
[16:20:58]     rp3 192/30000
[16:21:13]     rp3 12480/30000
[16:21:28]     rp3 24768/30000
[16:21:40]   saved rp3 mean_abs=0.2643
[16:21:40] sequential co-visitation
[16:21:40]   sequential load train_listens.parquet
[16:21:44]   sequential load val_listens.parquet
[16:21:50]   saved seq mean_abs=0.3602
[16:21:50] SVD
[16:21:50]   TruncatedSVD k=160
[16:21:56]   explained variance 0.2388
[16:22:02]   saved svd mean_abs=0.5430
[16:22:02] user-kNN
[16:22:02]     user-knn 128/8456
[16:22:04]     user-knn 1152/8456
[16:22:05]     user-knn 2176/8456
[16:22:07]     user-knn 3200/8456
[16:22:09]     user-knn 4224/8456
[16:22:10]     user-knn 5248/8456
[16:22:12]     user-knn 6272/8456
[16:22:13]     user-knn 7296/8456
[16:22:15]     user-knn 8320/8456
[16:22:16]   saved uknn mean_abs=0.4988
[16:22:18] wrote /app/solution/submission.parquet rows=845600
[16:22:18] done in 8.6 min


## Step 30 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
A valid SVD submission has been prepared.

The current validation NDCG of 0.032 is too weak. Several stronger modeling approaches are being considered: short-term SVD fold-in, iALS, sparse ItemKNN using recent organic interactions, more SVD components, and binary interaction weighting.

A 90-day recent-window matrix and co-occurrence of likes are being considered. RP3 and full-history KNN may be dropped. The low NDCG is being analyzed by computing ideal DCG for users with multiple relevant items.

The 0.032 NDCG means most users have no relevant item in the top 10. A simple two-thirds split of users explains this. Better signals for organic discovery are being identified: sequential co-visitation, similar-user organic picks, and cluster-level trends.

UserKNN is being restructured to use only recent organic positives as the recommendation source. This targets neighbors' recently discovered tracks rather than their entire listening history, which may include old catalog staples the target has already heard.

The next ensemble will combine recent-neighbor popularity, iALS, SVD query fold-in, sequential co-visitation, and like-based item-item similarity. The UserKNN implementation will use a binary or weighted 21-day organic history for scoring while keeping long-term taste similarity.

The 30-minute window is nearly exhausted. The next script will be a lean ensemble: iALS, SVD fold-in, recent-neighbor UserKNN, sequential co-visitation, and seeded itemKNN using likes plus recent organic history. Only strong signals will be blended with a small popularity prior. RP3 and full-history KNN are being dropped.

iALS is being implemented with joblib for parallel user updates. The block function computes each user's latent factors by solving a regularized least-squares problem using the item-item similarity matrix and the user's weighted interactions.

OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 will be set during ALS to prevent thread oversubscription. The iALS solver will use log1p decayed weights rather than binary interactions. SVD fold-in is being implemented by projecting the target query vector onto the item feature space.

Long-term SVD scores will be blended with the new query fold-in. The recent-neighbor UserKNN will use a binary 21-day organic history for scoring. Seeded item KNN is being refined to use only likes plus the last 14 days of organic strong interactions as a much sparser, higher-precision seed vector. A 256-component SVD is also being considered.

A focused blend grid will weight SVD, iALS, recent UserKNN, and sequential signals. Unused models will be skipped on test to save time. Scores will be written to disk to manage memory. A small popularity prior will be added.

A quick analysis of sequential overlap will measure how often relevant items are one-hop neighbors of a user's recent listens. Item-level popularity among users who share the target's top picks is also being considered as a lightweight signal.

The seeded item KNN will use the top 50 query-weighted items per user as sparse seeds, then score against the full similarity matrix. A binary user-vector dot product with IDF was considered but rejected as a user-user signal. The improved pipeline is being written now, with validation to be scored by the public evaluator at the end. iALS latent dimensions are small enough to handle users with thousands of interactions.

iALS regularization will be set to 0.1 with alpha at 20, and user factors will not be normalized before scoring. A popularity penalty scaling item scores by the inverse of their log-popularity raised to the power of 0.15 is being added to promote discovery of less popular tracks.

The inverse-popularity penalty will be exposed as a blendable SVD-IDF variant. A 256-component SVD with BM25 and fold-in is being considered. The next step is a validation-only pass of iALS, SVD, UserKNN, and sequential signals to print scores before refitting on test. Only about ten to twelve minutes remain.

The improved validation run will be capped at five to six minutes. Item-KNN and RP3 are being skipped to save roughly three minutes per fit. The focused ensemble now includes iALS, long-term SVD, short-term SVD fold-in, full UserKNN, recent-organic UserKNN, sequential co-visitation, and popularity. Score matrices will be written to disk to manage memory.

The data collection step will be updated to build a recent organic matrix with a 21-day cutoff and shorter half-life. Rather than a full rewrite, the existing file will be modified to add this matrix and the iALS solver. Joblib will parallelize user updates, and threadpoolctl will restrict OpenMP threads to one during ALS to prevent oversubscription.

The recent-organic matrix will be built from the same listen load to avoid a second pass over 43 million rows. Consolidating the data pipeline would require more refactoring than time allows.

A 21-day recent organic matrix will be built during the same listen pass, using only organic strong interactions. The blend grid is being set with specific weights: iALS at 1.2, SVD at 1.0, SVD query fold-in at 0.8, recent UserKNN at 1.0, sequential at 0.6, and popularity at 0.1. A second ensemble will weight iALS at 1.5 and recent UserKNN at 1.2. Single-model scores will be evaluated before testing the full grid.

SVD is the current leader at 0.032 NDCG. Next I’ll add iALS, short-term fold-in, and neighbor scores from recent organic plays, and drop the weak signals.

### read_file · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "target_file": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "offset": 80,
  "limit": 180
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
80→    age = np.maximum(0.0, (now - ts.astype(np.float64)) / DAY)
    return np.exp2(-age / half_life_days).astype(np.float32)


def read_parquet(name: str, columns: list[str]) -> pd.DataFrame:
    return pd.read_parquet(DATA / name, columns=columns)


def collect_positive_matrix(
    listen_files: list[str],
90→    like_files: list[str],
    now: int,
    item_table: np.ndarray,
    n_items: int,
    half_life: float,
    query_half_life: float,
) -> tuple[sparse.csr_matrix, sparse.csr_matrix, np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
    """Build full-history and query user-item matrices over catalog items."""
    parts_u = []
    parts_i = []
100→    parts_w = []
    parts_q = []
    parts_ts = []

    for name in listen_files:
        log(f"  load {name}")
        df = read_parquet(
            name,
            ["uid", "timestamp", "item_id", "is_organic", "played_ratio_pct"],
        )
110→        items = df.item_id.to_numpy()
        valid = items < len(item_table)
        cols = np.full(len(df), -1, dtype=np.int32)
        cols[valid] = item_table[items[valid]]
        ratio = df.played_ratio_pct.to_numpy()
        keep = (cols >= 0) & (ratio >= LISTEN_POS)
        if not keep.any():
            continue
        cols = cols[keep]
        uids = df.uid.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)
120→        ts = df.timestamp.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)
        organic = df.is_organic.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int8, copy=False)
        ratio = ratio[keep].astype(np.float32, copy=False)
        strong = ratio >= LISTEN_STRONG
        # Stronger organic / completion signal, scaled by play-through.
        base = np.where(strong, 1.6, 0.7).astype(np.float32)
        base *= 0.55 + 0.45 * np.minimum(ratio, 100.0) / 100.0
        base *= np.where(organic == 1, 1.7, 1.0).astype(np.float32)
        parts_u.append(uids)
        parts_i.append(cols)
130→        parts_w.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, half_life))
        parts_q.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, query_half_life))
        parts_ts.append(ts)
        del df

    for name in like_files:
        log(f"  load {name}")
        df = read_parquet(name, ["uid", "timestamp", "item_id", "is_organic"])
        items = df.item_id.to_numpy()
        valid = items < len(item_table)
140→        cols = np.full(len(df), -1, dtype=np.int32)
        cols[valid] = item_table[items[valid]]
        keep = cols >= 0
        if not keep.any():
            continue
        cols = cols[keep]
        uids = df.uid.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)
        ts = df.timestamp.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)
        organic = df.is_organic.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int8, copy=False)
        base = np.where(organic == 1, 8.0, 4.0).astype(np.float32)
150→        parts_u.append(uids)
        parts_i.append(cols)
        parts_w.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, half_life))
        parts_q.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, query_half_life))
        parts_ts.append(ts)
        del df

    all_u = np.concatenate(parts_u)
    all_i = np.concatenate(parts_i)
    all_w = np.concatenate(parts_w)
160→    all_q = np.concatenate(parts_q)
    all_ts = np.concatenate(parts_ts)
    user_ids, _, user_table = map_users(all_u)
    rows = user_table[all_u]
    n_users = len(user_ids)
    log(f"  aggregate {len(all_u):,} events, {n_users} users, {n_items} items")
    X = sparse.csr_matrix((all_w, (rows, all_i)), shape=(n_users, n_items), dtype=np.float32)
    Q = sparse.csr_matrix((all_q, (rows, all_i)), shape=(n_users, n_items), dtype=np.float32)
    X.sum_duplicates()
    Q.sum_duplicates()
170→    X.data = np.maximum(X.data, 0.0)
    Q.data = np.maximum(Q.data, 0.0)
    return X, Q, user_ids, rows, all_ts


def apply_preference_state(
    Q: sparse.csr_matrix,
    user_ids: np.ndarray,
    pref_path: Path,
    item_table: np.ndarray,
180→    like_boost: float = 6.0,
) -> sparse.csr_matrix:
    pref = pd.read_parquet(pref_path)
    liked = pref[pref.state == "liked"]
    if liked.empty:
        return Q
    uid_max = int(user_ids.max()) + 1
    urow = np.full(uid_max, -1, dtype=np.int32)
    urow[user_ids] = np.arange(len(user_ids), dtype=np.int32)
    u = liked.uid.to_numpy()
190→    it = liked.item_id.to_numpy()
    valid_u = u < len(urow)
    rows = np.full(len(liked), -1, dtype=np.int32)
    rows[valid_u] = urow[u[valid_u]]
    valid_i = it < len(item_table)
    cols = np.full(len(liked), -1, dtype=np.int32)
    cols[valid_i] = item_table[it[valid_i]]
    keep = (rows >= 0) & (cols >= 0)
    boost = sparse.csr_matrix(
        (np.full(int(keep.sum()), like_boost, dtype=np.float32), (rows[keep], cols[keep])),
200→        shape=Q.shape,
        dtype=np.float32,
    )
    return Q + boost


def bm25_weight(X: sparse.csr_matrix, k1: float = 1.2, b: float = 0.75) -> sparse.csr_matrix:
    X = X.tocoo()
    n_users = X.shape[0]
    df = np.bincount(X.col, minlength=X.shape[1]).astype(np.float64)
210→    idf = np.log((n_users - df + 0.5) / (df + 0.5) + 1.0).astype(np.float32)
    row_sums = np.ravel(sparse.csr_matrix((X.data, (X.row, X.col)), shape=X.shape).sum(axis=1))
    avg_len = float(row_sums.mean()) + 1e-6
    length_norm = (1.0 - b) + b * row_sums[X.row] / avg_len
    data = X.data.astype(np.float32, copy=True)
    data = data * (k1 + 1.0) / (data + k1 * length_norm) * idf[X.col]
    data = np.maximum(data, 0.0)
    return sparse.csr_matrix((data, (X.row, X.col)), shape=X.shape, dtype=np.float32)


220→def dense_sim_block(left_csr: sparse.csr_matrix, right_csr: sparse.csr_matrix) -> np.ndarray:
    """Compute dense left @ right for a small row-slice of a CSR matrix."""
    block = left_csr.toarray().astype(np.float32, copy=False)
    return np.ascontiguousarray(right_csr.T.dot(block.T).T)


def item_topk_from_gram(
    X: sparse.csr_matrix, k: int = 200, batch: int = 256
) -> sparse.csr_matrix:
    """Column-cosine item kNN. X is users x items."""
230→    Xn = normalize(X, norm="l2", axis=0).tocsr()
    Xt = Xn.T.tocsr()
    n_items = X.shape[1]
    k = min(k, n_items - 1)
    rows_out: list[np.ndarray] = []
    cols_out: list[np.ndarray] = []
    data_out: list[np.ndarray] = []
    for start in range(0, n_items, batch):
        end = min(start + batch, n_items)
        sim = dense_sim_block(Xt[start:end], Xn)
240→        bsz = end - start
        sim[np.arange(bsz), np.arange(start, end)] = -np.inf
        idx = np.argpartition(sim, -k, axis=1)[:, -k:]
        val = np.take_along_axis(sim, idx, axis=1)
        order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1)
        idx = np.take_along_axis(idx, order, axis=1)
        val = np.take_along_axis(val, order, axis=1)
        val = np.maximum(val, 0.0)
        src = np.repeat(np.arange(start, end), k)
        rows_out.append(src.astype(np.int32))
250→        cols_out.append(idx.reshape(-1).astype(np.int32))
        data_out.append(val.reshape(-1).astype(np.float32))
        if start % 4096 == 0:
            log(f"    item-knn {end}/{n_items}")
    S = sparse.csr_matrix(
        (np.concatenate(data_out), (np.concatenate(rows_out), np.concatenate(cols_out))),
        shape=(n_items, n_items),
        dtype=np.float32,
    )
    S.eliminate_zeros()

## Step 31 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
The plan is to modify `collect_positive_matrix` to build a recent organic matrix, add iALS, and update `fit_and_score` to skip knn and rp3 while using the new models.



### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
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  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    parts_u = []\n    parts_i = []\n    parts_w = []\n    parts_q = []\n    parts_ts = []\n\n    for name in listen_files:\n        log(f\"  load {name}\")\n        df = read_parquet(\n            name,\n            [\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\", \"played_ratio_pct\"],\n        )\n        items = df.item_id.to_numpy()\n        valid = items < len(item_table)\n        cols = np.full(len(df), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n        cols[valid] = item_table[items[valid]]\n        ratio = df.played_ratio_pct.to_numpy()\n        keep = (cols >= 0) & (ratio >= LISTEN_POS)\n        if not keep.any():\n            continue\n        cols = cols[keep]\n        uids = df.uid.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        ts = df.timestamp.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        organic = df.is_organic.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int8, copy=False)\n        ratio = ratio[keep].astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n        strong = ratio >= LISTEN_STRONG\n        # Stronger organic / completion signal, scaled by play-through.\n        base = np.where(strong, 1.6, 0.7).astype(np.float32)\n        base *= 0.55 + 0.45 * np.minimum(ratio, 100.0) / 100.0\n        base *= np.where(organic == 1, 1.7, 1.0).astype(np.float32)\n        parts_u.append(uids)\n        parts_i.append(cols)\n        parts_w.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, half_life))\n        parts_q.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, query_half_life))\n        parts_ts.append(ts)\n        del df\n\n    for name in like_files:\n        log(f\"  load {name}\")\n        df = read_parquet(name, [\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\"])\n        items = df.item_id.to_numpy()\n        valid = items < len(item_table)\n        cols = np.full(len(df), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n        cols[valid] = item_table[items[valid]]\n        keep = cols >= 0\n        if not keep.any():\n            continue\n        cols = cols[keep]\n        uids = df.uid.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        ts = df.timestamp.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        organic = df.is_organic.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int8, copy=False)\n        base = np.where(organic == 1, 8.0, 4.0).astype(np.float32)\n        parts_u.append(uids)\n        parts_i.append(cols)\n        parts_w.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, half_life))\n        parts_q.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, query_half_life))\n        parts_ts.append(ts)\n        del df\n\n    all_u = np.concatenate(parts_u)\n    all_i = np.concatenate(parts_i)\n    all_w = np.concatenate(parts_w)\n    all_q = np.concatenate(parts_q)\n    all_ts = np.concatenate(parts_ts)\n    user_ids, _, user_table = map_users(all_u)\n    rows = user_table[all_u]\n    n_users = len(user_ids)\n    log(f\"  aggregate {len(all_u):,} events, {n_users} users, {n_items} items\")\n    X = sparse.csr_matrix((all_w, (rows, all_i)), shape=(n_users, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    Q = sparse.csr_matrix((all_q, (rows, all_i)), shape=(n_users, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    X.sum_duplicates()\n    Q.sum_duplicates()\n    X.data = np.maximum(X.data, 0.0)\n    Q.data = np.maximum(Q.data, 0.0)\n    return X, Q, user_ids, rows, all_ts",
  "new_string": "    parts_u = []\n    parts_i = []\n    parts_w = []\n    parts_q = []\n    parts_r_u = []\n    parts_r_i = []\n    parts_r_w = []\n    recent_cut = now - int(21 * DAY)\n\n    for name in listen_files:\n        log(f\"  load {name}\")\n        df = read_parquet(\n            name,\n            [\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\", \"played_ratio_pct\"],\n        )\n        items = df.item_id.to_numpy()\n        valid = items < len(item_table)\n        cols = np.full(len(df), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n        cols[valid] = item_table[items[valid]]\n        ratio = df.played_ratio_pct.to_numpy()\n        keep = (cols >= 0) & (ratio >= LISTEN_POS)\n        if not keep.any():\n            continue\n        cols = cols[keep]\n        uids = df.uid.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        ts = df.timestamp.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        organic = df.is_organic.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int8, copy=False)\n        ratio = ratio[keep].astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n        strong = ratio >= LISTEN_STRONG\n        base = np.where(strong, 1.6, 0.7).astype(np.float32)\n        base *= 0.55 + 0.45 * np.minimum(ratio, 100.0) / 100.0\n        base *= np.where(organic == 1, 1.7, 1.0).astype(np.float32)\n        parts_u.append(uids)\n        parts_i.append(cols)\n        parts_w.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, half_life))\n        parts_q.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, query_half_life))\n        rec = (ts >= recent_cut) & (organic == 1) & strong\n        if rec.any():\n            parts_r_u.append(uids[rec])\n            parts_r_i.append(cols[rec])\n            parts_r_w.append(decay_weights(ts[rec], now, 7.0) * np.float32(2.0))\n        del df\n\n    for name in like_files:\n        log(f\"  load {name}\")\n        df = read_parquet(name, [\"uid\", \"timestamp\", \"item_id\", \"is_organic\"])\n        items = df.item_id.to_numpy()\n        valid = items < len(item_table)\n        cols = np.full(len(df), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n        cols[valid] = item_table[items[valid]]\n        keep = cols >= 0\n        if not keep.any():\n            continue\n        cols = cols[keep]\n        uids = df.uid.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        ts = df.timestamp.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int64, copy=False)\n        organic = df.is_organic.to_numpy()[keep].astype(np.int8, copy=False)\n        base = np.where(organic == 1, 8.0, 4.0).astype(np.float32)\n        parts_u.append(uids)\n        parts_i.append(cols)\n        parts_w.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, half_life))\n        parts_q.append(base * decay_weights(ts, now, query_half_life))\n        rec = (ts >= recent_cut) & (organic == 1)\n        if rec.any():\n            parts_r_u.append(uids[rec])\n            parts_r_i.append(cols[rec])\n            parts_r_w.append(decay_weights(ts[rec], now, 7.0) * np.float32(6.0))\n        del df\n\n    all_u = np.concatenate(parts_u)\n    all_i = np.concatenate(parts_i)\n    all_w = np.concatenate(parts_w)\n    all_q = np.concatenate(parts_q)\n    user_ids, _, user_table = map_users(all_u)\n    rows = user_table[all_u]\n    n_users = len(user_ids)\n    log(f\"  aggregate {len(all_u):,} events, {n_users} users, {n_items} items\")\n    X = sparse.csr_matrix((all_w, (rows, all_i)), shape=(n_users, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    Q = sparse.csr_matrix((all_q, (rows, all_i)), shape=(n_users, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    X.sum_duplicates()\n    Q.sum_duplicates()\n    X.data = np.maximum(X.data, 0.0)\n    Q.data = np.maximum(Q.data, 0.0)\n    if parts_r_u:\n        ru = user_table[np.concatenate(parts_r_u)]\n        ri = np.concatenate(parts_r_i)\n        rw = np.concatenate(parts_r_w)\n        R = sparse.csr_matrix((rw, (ru, ri)), shape=(n_users, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n        R.sum_duplicates()\n        R.data = np.maximum(R.data, 0.0)\n    else:\n        R = sparse.csr_matrix((n_users, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    return X, Q, R, user_ids"
}
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### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "from sklearn.decomposition import TruncatedSVD\nfrom sklearn.preprocessing import normalize",
  "new_string": "from joblib import Parallel, delayed\nfrom sklearn.decomposition import TruncatedSVD\nfrom sklearn.preprocessing import normalize\nfrom threadpoolctl import threadpool_limits"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def svd_factors(X: sparse.csr_matrix, n_components: int = 192) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n    log(f\"  TruncatedSVD k={n_components}\")\n    svd = TruncatedSVD(n_components=n_components, n_iter=8, random_state=42)\n    user_f = svd.fit_transform(X).astype(np.float32)  # U * S\n    item_f = svd.components_.T.astype(np.float32)\n    log(f\"  explained variance {svd.explained_variance_ratio_.sum():.4f}\")\n    return user_f, item_f",
  "new_string": "def svd_factors(X: sparse.csr_matrix, n_components: int = 192) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n    log(f\"  TruncatedSVD k={n_components}\")\n    svd = TruncatedSVD(n_components=n_components, n_iter=8, random_state=42)\n    user_f = svd.fit_transform(X).astype(np.float32)  # U * S\n    item_f = svd.components_.T.astype(np.float32)\n    log(f\"  explained variance {svd.explained_variance_ratio_.sum():.4f}\")\n    return user_f, item_f\n\n\ndef _als_block(start, end, indptr, indices, data, Y, YtY, reg):\n    k = Y.shape[1]\n    out = np.zeros((end - start, k), dtype=np.float64)\n    regI = np.eye(k, dtype=np.float64) * reg\n    for u in range(start, end):\n        sl = slice(indptr[u], indptr[u + 1])\n        idx = indices[sl]\n        if idx.size == 0:\n            continue\n        cu = data[sl]\n        Yu = Y[idx]\n        A = YtY + Yu.T @ (Yu * (cu - 1.0)[:, None]) + regI\n        b = Yu.T @ cu\n        out[u - start] = np.linalg.solve(A, b)\n    return out\n\n\ndef implicit_als(\n    R: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    k: int = 80,\n    n_iters: int = 8,\n    reg: float = 0.12,\n    alpha: float = 20.0,\n    n_jobs: int = 8,\n) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n    n_u, n_i = R.shape\n    rng = np.random.RandomState(42)\n    X = rng.normal(0.0, 0.01, size=(n_u, k)).astype(np.float64)\n    Y = rng.normal(0.0, 0.01, size=(n_i, k)).astype(np.float64)\n    C = R.tocsr().copy()\n    C.data = (1.0 + alpha * np.log1p(np.maximum(C.data, 0.0))).astype(np.float64)\n    Ct = C.T.tocsr()\n\n    def step(Cmat, other, n_rows):\n        YtY = other.T @ other\n        block = max(400, int(np.ceil(n_rows / (n_jobs * 3))))\n        starts = list(range(0, n_rows, block))\n        parts = Parallel(n_jobs=n_jobs, prefer=\"threads\")(\n            delayed(_als_block)(\n                s,\n                min(s + block, n_rows),\n                Cmat.indptr,\n                Cmat.indices,\n                Cmat.data,\n                other,\n                YtY,\n                reg,\n            )\n            for s in starts\n        )\n        return np.vstack(parts)\n\n    with threadpool_limits(limits=1, user_api=\"blas\"):\n        for it in range(n_iters):\n            X = step(C, Y, n_u)\n            Y = step(Ct, X, n_i)\n            log(f\"  iALS iter {it + 1}/{n_iters}\")\n    return X.astype(np.float32), Y.astype(np.float32)"
}
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## Step 32 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
Updating `fit_and_score` to match the new `collect` return signature. Adding the new models while skipping KNN and RP3.



### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    log(\"building interaction matrices\")\n    X, Q, user_ids, _, _ = collect_positive_matrix(\n        listen_files,\n        like_files,\n        now,\n        item_table,\n        n_items,\n        half_life=28.0,\n        query_half_life=14.0,\n    )\n    Q = apply_preference_state(Q, user_ids, pref_path, item_table, like_boost=7.0)\n    X = X.tocsr()\n    Q = Q.tocsr()\n    X.data = np.log1p(X.data)\n    Q.data = np.log1p(Q.data)\n\n    trows = target_row_index(user_ids, target_uids)\n    Q_tgt = slice_or_zeros(Q, trows, n_items).tocsr()\n    del Q\n    gc.collect()\n\n    paths: dict[str, Path] = {}\n\n    log(\"popularity\")\n    pop = popularity_vector(listen_files, like_files, item_table, n_items, now, half_life=21.0)\n    pop_z = pop.copy()\n    pop_std = float(pop_z.std()) + 1e-6\n    pop_z = (pop_z - float(pop_z.mean())) / pop_std\n    np.save(score_dir / \"pop.npy\", pop_z.astype(np.float32))\n    paths[\"pop\"] = score_dir / \"pop.npy\"\n    del pop, pop_z\n\n    log(\"BM25 item-kNN\")\n    X_bm25 = bm25_weight(X)\n    S_knn = item_topk_from_gram(X_bm25, k=knn_k, batch=192)\n    knn_scores = query_dense_scores(Q_tgt, S_knn)\n    del S_knn\n    paths[\"knn\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"knn\", knn_scores)\n    del knn_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"RP3beta\")\n    Xbin = X.copy()\n    Xbin.data = np.ones_like(Xbin.data)\n    S_rp3 = rp3beta_topk(Xbin, k=knn_k, alpha=0.5, beta=0.35, batch=192)\n    del Xbin\n    rp3_scores = query_dense_scores(Q_tgt, S_rp3)\n    del S_rp3\n    paths[\"rp3\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"rp3\", rp3_scores)\n    del rp3_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"sequential co-visitation\")\n    S_seq = sequential_item_graph(\n        listen_files, item_table, n_items, now, half_life=21.0, gap=1800, topk=60\n    )\n    seq_scores = query_dense_scores(Q_tgt, S_seq)\n    del S_seq\n    paths[\"seq\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"seq\", seq_scores)\n    del seq_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"SVD\")\n    X_tfidf = bm25_weight(X, k1=1.5, b=0.4)\n    del X\n    user_f, item_f = svd_factors(X_tfidf, n_components=160)\n    del X_tfidf\n    U_tgt = slice_or_zeros(user_f, trows, n_items)\n    del user_f\n    svd_scores = np.ascontiguousarray(U_tgt @ item_f.T, dtype=np.float32)\n    del U_tgt, item_f\n    paths[\"svd\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"svd\", svd_scores)\n    del svd_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"user-kNN\")\n    uknn_scores = user_knn_scores(X_bm25, np.where(trows >= 0, trows, 0), k=70, batch=128)\n    del X_bm25, Q_tgt\n    missing = trows < 0\n    if missing.any():\n        uknn_scores[missing] = 0.0\n    paths[\"uknn\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"uknn\", uknn_scores)\n    del uknn_scores\n    gc.collect()\n    return paths",
  "new_string": "    log(\"building interaction matrices\")\n    X, Q, R_recent, user_ids = collect_positive_matrix(\n        listen_files,\n        like_files,\n        now,\n        item_table,\n        n_items,\n        half_life=21.0,\n        query_half_life=10.0,\n    )\n    Q = apply_preference_state(Q, user_ids, pref_path, item_table, like_boost=8.0)\n    X = X.tocsr()\n    Q = Q.tocsr()\n    R_recent = R_recent.tocsr()\n    X.data = np.log1p(X.data)\n    Q.data = np.log1p(Q.data)\n\n    trows = target_row_index(user_ids, target_uids)\n    Q_tgt = slice_or_zeros(Q, trows, n_items).tocsr()\n    R_tgt_idx = np.where(trows >= 0, trows, 0)\n    del Q\n    gc.collect()\n\n    paths: dict[str, Path] = {}\n    missing = trows < 0\n\n    log(\"popularity\")\n    pop = popularity_vector(listen_files, like_files, item_table, n_items, now, half_life=14.0)\n    pop_z = (pop - float(pop.mean())) / (float(pop.std()) + 1e-6)\n    np.save(score_dir / \"pop.npy\", pop_z.astype(np.float32))\n    paths[\"pop\"] = score_dir / \"pop.npy\"\n    del pop, pop_z\n\n    log(\"sequential co-visitation\")\n    S_seq = sequential_item_graph(\n        listen_files, item_table, n_items, now, half_life=14.0, gap=1800, topk=80\n    )\n    seq_scores = query_dense_scores(Q_tgt, S_seq)\n    del S_seq\n    paths[\"seq\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"seq\", seq_scores)\n    del seq_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"SVD + short-term fold-in\")\n    X_bm25 = bm25_weight(X, k1=1.4, b=0.35)\n    user_f, item_f = svd_factors(X_bm25, n_components=256)\n    U_tgt = slice_or_zeros(user_f, trows, n_items)\n    del user_f\n    svd_scores = np.ascontiguousarray(U_tgt @ item_f.T, dtype=np.float32)\n    del U_tgt\n    paths[\"svd\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"svd\", svd_scores)\n    del svd_scores\n    qf = Q_tgt @ item_f\n    svd_q = np.ascontiguousarray(qf @ item_f.T, dtype=np.float32)\n    del qf, item_f\n    paths[\"svd_q\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"svd_q\", svd_q)\n    del svd_q\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"iALS\")\n    ials_u, ials_i = implicit_als(X, k=80, n_iters=8, reg=0.12, alpha=25.0)\n    U_ials = slice_or_zeros(ials_u, trows, n_items)\n    del ials_u\n    ials_scores = np.ascontiguousarray(U_ials @ ials_i.T, dtype=np.float32)\n    del U_ials, ials_i\n    if missing.any():\n        ials_scores[missing] = 0.0\n    paths[\"ials\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"ials\", ials_scores)\n    del ials_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"user-kNN (full + recent organic)\")\n    uknn_scores = user_knn_scores(X_bm25, R_tgt_idx, k=80, batch=128)\n    if missing.any():\n        uknn_scores[missing] = 0.0\n    paths[\"uknn\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"uknn\", uknn_scores)\n    del uknn_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    # Neighbor transfer of recent organic positives\n    Xn = normalize(X_bm25, norm=\"l2\", axis=1).tocsr()\n    Rn = R_recent.copy()\n    Rn.data = np.log1p(Rn.data)\n    n_tgt = len(target_uids)\n    recent_scores = np.zeros((n_tgt, n_items), dtype=np.float32)\n    k_n = min(90, Xn.shape[0] - 1)\n    for start in range(0, n_tgt, 128):\n        end = min(start + 128, n_tgt)\n        rows = R_tgt_idx[start:end]\n        bsz = end - start\n        sim = (Xn[rows] @ Xn.T).toarray().astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n        sim[np.arange(bsz), rows] = -np.inf\n        idx = np.argpartition(sim, -k_n, axis=1)[:, -k_n:]\n        val = np.maximum(np.take_along_axis(sim, idx, axis=1), 0.0)\n        W = sparse.csr_matrix(\n            (val.ravel(), (np.repeat(np.arange(bsz), k_n), idx.ravel())),\n            shape=(bsz, Xn.shape[0]),\n            dtype=np.float32,\n        )\n        recent_scores[start:end] = (W @ Rn).toarray()\n    if missing.any():\n        recent_scores[missing] = 0.0\n    paths[\"uknn_recent\"] = dump_zscored(score_dir, \"uknn_recent\", recent_scores)\n    del recent_scores, Xn, Rn, X_bm25, Q_tgt, X, R_recent\n    gc.collect()\n    return paths"
}
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## Step 33 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
Updating the weight grid in main() to use the new model names.



### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    weight_grid = [\n        {\"knn\": 1.2, \"rp3\": 1.0, \"seq\": 0.7, \"svd\": 0.8, \"uknn\": 0.5, \"pop\": 0.15},\n        {\"knn\": 1.4, \"rp3\": 1.1, \"seq\": 0.5, \"svd\": 0.6, \"uknn\": 0.4, \"pop\": 0.1},\n        {\"knn\": 1.0, \"rp3\": 1.2, \"seq\": 0.8, \"svd\": 1.0, \"uknn\": 0.6, \"pop\": 0.2},\n        {\"knn\": 1.3, \"rp3\": 0.8, \"seq\": 1.0, \"svd\": 0.7, \"uknn\": 0.3, \"pop\": 0.1},\n        {\"knn\": 1.5, \"rp3\": 1.3, \"seq\": 0.4, \"svd\": 0.5, \"uknn\": 0.2, \"pop\": 0.05},\n        {\"knn\": 0.9, \"rp3\": 0.9, \"seq\": 0.9, \"svd\": 0.9, \"uknn\": 0.9, \"pop\": 0.2},\n        {\"knn\": 1.6, \"rp3\": 1.0, \"seq\": 0.6, \"svd\": 0.4, \"uknn\": 0.25, \"pop\": 0.08},\n        {\"knn\": 1.1, \"rp3\": 1.4, \"seq\": 0.6, \"svd\": 0.9, \"uknn\": 0.35, \"pop\": 0.12},\n    ]",
  "new_string": "    weight_grid = [\n        {\"ials\": 1.2, \"svd\": 0.8, \"svd_q\": 1.0, \"uknn\": 0.6, \"uknn_recent\": 1.1, \"seq\": 0.7, \"pop\": 0.08},\n        {\"ials\": 1.5, \"svd\": 0.4, \"svd_q\": 1.1, \"uknn\": 0.3, \"uknn_recent\": 1.3, \"seq\": 0.8, \"pop\": 0.05},\n        {\"ials\": 1.0, \"svd_q\": 1.0, \"uknn\": 0.7, \"uknn_recent\": 1.0, \"seq\": 0.6},\n        {\"svd\": 1.0, \"svd_q\": 1.0, \"uknn\": 0.8, \"seq\": 0.5},\n        {\"ials\": 1.3, \"svd_q\": 0.9, \"uknn_recent\": 1.2, \"seq\": 0.9},\n        {\"svd_q\": 1.2, \"uknn\": 0.9, \"uknn_recent\": 0.8, \"seq\": 0.7, \"pop\": 0.1},\n        {\"ials\": 1.0, \"svd\": 1.0, \"uknn\": 1.0, \"seq\": 0.8},\n        {\"ials\": 0.8, \"svd_q\": 1.3, \"uknn_recent\": 1.4, \"seq\": 1.0, \"uknn\": 0.4},\n    ]"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
The file /app/solution/build_ranker.py has been updated successfully.

### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python -m py_compile /app/solution/build_ranker.py && echo OK",
  "description": "Syntax-check improved ranker"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
OK


## Step 34 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
The current submission is SVD-only and valid.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python /app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "description": "Train improved iALS/SVD/recent-neighbor ranker"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
<task-id>call-986225fa-baad-440f-ae82-d1e6bbb6a867-46</task-id>
<task-type>bash</task-type>
<output-file>/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/53ca2435-838f-4426-8d1d-e7c50ff736bb/terminal/call-986225fa-baad-440f-ae82-d1e6bbb6a867-46.log</output-file>
<status>running</status>
<summary>Command "Train improved iALS/SVD/recent-neighbor ranker" is still running after 30s (block_until_ms) and has been moved to the background as task call-986225fa-baad-440f-ae82-d1e6bbb6a867-46.</summary>
Use get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=["call-986225fa-baad-440f-ae82-d1e6bbb6a867-46"] when you need the output.

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### get_command_or_subagent_output · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "task_ids": [
    "call-986225fa-baad-440f-ae82-d1e6bbb6a867-46"
  ],
  "timeout_ms": 180000
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
No response recorded.