yambda-discovery-ranking-v01 / grok-1-0-44-basic-r05-61e7dce0-20260929
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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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## 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 candidate format so the ranker stays inside the eligibility and cutoff rules.

### todo_write · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "todos": [
    {
      "id": "1",
      "content": "Explore data, evaluation, and constraints",
      "status": "in_progress"
    },
    {
      "id": "2",
      "content": "Build validation-stage ranker and tune",
      "status": "pending"
    },
    {
      "id": "3",
      "content": "Refit on train+val and write test submission",
      "status": "pending"
    },
    {
      "id": "4",
      "content": "Write README and keep best artifacts",
      "status": "pending"
    }
  ],
  "merge": false
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
- [in_progress] 1: Explore data, evaluation, and constraints
- [pending] 2: Build validation-stage ranker and tune
- [pending] 3: Refit on train+val and write test submission
- [pending] 4: Write README and keep best 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),
    }


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Next I’ll inspect schemas, sizes, and cutoffs so the features and ranking pipeline match the actual event logs.

### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "python3 - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\nfiles = sorted(data.glob('*'))\nfor f in files:\n    print(f.name, f.stat().st_size)\n\nprint('\\n=== schemas ===')\nfor name in ['train_listens.parquet','train_likes.parquet','train_dislikes.parquet','train_unlikes.parquet','train_undislikes.parquet',\n             'val_listens.parquet','val_likes.parquet','val_dislikes.parquet','candidate_catalog.parquet','target_users.parquet',\n             'validation_preference_state.parquet','test_preference_state.parquet']:\n    df = pd.read_parquet(data/name)\n    print('\\n', name, df.shape)\n    print(df.dtypes)\n    print(df.head(2))\n    if 'timestamp' in df.columns:\n        print('ts min/max', df.timestamp.min(), df.timestamp.max())\nPY\n",
  "description": "Inspect data files, schemas, timestamps"
}
### Tool error · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pandas'


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### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "which python python3; ls /usr/bin/python*; cat /task/requirements.txt | head -5; echo '---'; ls /opt 2>/dev/null; ls /usr/local 2>/dev/null; echo PATH=$PATH; type python3; python3 -c 'import sys; print(sys.executable, sys.path)'",
  "description": "Find Python with installed packages"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
/usr/local/bin/python
/usr/local/bin/python3
ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/python*': No such file or directory
# 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-venv
bin
etc
games
include
lib
man
sbin
share
src
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
python3 is /usr/local/bin/python3
/usr/local/bin/python3 ['', '/usr/local/lib/python312.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python3.12', '/usr/local/lib/python3.12/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages']


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### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python -c 'import pandas, numpy, sklearn, scipy, pyarrow; print(\"ok\", pandas.__version__, numpy.__version__, sklearn.__version__)'",
  "description": "Verify task venv packages"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
ok 2.3.3 2.2.6 1.7.2


## Step 9 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
I am inspecting the data thoroughly.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\nfiles = sorted(data.glob('*'))\nfor f in files:\n    print(f'{f.name:45} {f.stat().st_size/1e6:8.2f} MB')\n\nprint('\\n=== schemas ===')\nfor name in ['train_listens.parquet','train_likes.parquet','train_dislikes.parquet','train_unlikes.parquet','train_undislikes.parquet',\n             'val_listens.parquet','val_likes.parquet','val_dislikes.parquet','val_unlikes.parquet','val_undislikes.parquet',\n             'candidate_catalog.parquet','target_users.parquet',\n             'validation_preference_state.parquet','test_preference_state.parquet']:\n    df = pd.read_parquet(data/name)\n    print('\\n', name, df.shape, list(df.columns))\n    print(df.head(3).to_string())\n    if 'timestamp' in df.columns:\n        print('ts min/max', int(df.timestamp.min()), int(df.timestamp.max()))\n    if 'uid' in df.columns:\n        print('n_uid', df.uid.nunique())\n    if 'item_id' in df.columns:\n        print('n_item', df.item_id.nunique())\nPY\n",
  "description": "Inspect parquet schemas and sizes"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
candidate_catalog.parquet                         0.35 MB
target_users.parquet                              0.08 MB
test_eligible_candidates.npz                      7.74 MB
test_preference_state.parquet                     1.09 MB
train_dislikes.parquet                            0.86 MB
train_likes.parquet                               5.37 MB
train_listens.parquet                           319.18 MB
train_undislikes.parquet                          0.16 MB
train_unlikes.parquet                             1.86 MB
val_dislikes.parquet                              0.04 MB
val_likes.parquet                                 0.30 MB
val_listens.parquet                               9.95 MB
val_undislikes.parquet                            0.01 MB
val_unlikes.parquet                               0.07 MB
validation_eligible_candidates.npz                7.57 MB
validation_preference_state.parquet               1.06 MB

=== schemas ===

 train_listens.parquet (43484159, 6) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic', 'played_ratio_pct', 'track_length_seconds']
   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
2  100      39625   286361           0               100                   185
ts min/max 0 24786795
n_uid 9238
n_item 845395

 train_likes.parquet (814831, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  100      44755   732449           1
1  100    1155860  6568592           0
2  100    1259125  5411243           1
ts min/max 80 24786790
n_uid 8144
n_item 172303

 train_dislikes.parquet (101075, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  100    3087560  9170134           1
1  100    3936560  8661238           1
2  100   20432825  4927727           1
ts min/max 75 24786580
n_uid 5732
n_item 50876

 train_unlikes.parquet (292665, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  100    3087555  5038504           1
1  100    3087555  9170134           1
2  100    4012270  7833676           0
ts min/max 250 24786570
n_uid 6197
n_item 113072

 train_undislikes.parquet (19960, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
    uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0   100    7895900  9170134           1
1   100    7895900  5038504           1
2  1400    8317355  6175319           1
ts min/max 15950 24785395
n_uid 2769
n_item 14725

 val_listens.parquet (1501697, 6) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic', 'played_ratio_pct', 'track_length_seconds']
   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
2  100   24943765  6448777           0               100                   160
ts min/max 24788600 25393395
n_uid 8196
n_item 191747

 val_likes.parquet (37795, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  100   25249855  3526521           1
1  300   25046245  4867327           1
2  300   25046970  2674136           1
ts min/max 24788815 25393390
n_uid 4114
n_item 22902

 val_dislikes.parquet (3563, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
    uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  1600   25163525  6747257           0
1  1900   24877510  5832822           1
2  4900   25081160  3237642           0
ts min/max 24789920 25393280
n_uid 955
n_item 3135

 val_unlikes.parquet (9346, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
    uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  1100   24861880  6901050           1
1  1100   24861880  5421761           1
2  1100   24861880  4400472           1
ts min/max 24789005 25393385
n_uid 1313
n_item 8080

 val_undislikes.parquet (606, 4) ['uid', 'timestamp', 'item_id', 'is_organic']
   uid  timestamp  item_id  is_organic
0  900   25364045  6092542           1
1  900   25364045  6501913           1
2  900   25364045  3628099           1
ts min/max 24810715 25393035
n_uid 205
n_item 579

 candidate_catalog.parquet (30000, 4) ['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
n_item 30000

 target_users.parquet (8456, 3) ['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
n_uid 8456

 validation_preference_state.parquet (469124, 3) ['uid', 'item_id', 'state']
   uid  item_id  state
0  100   410868  liked
1  100   732449  liked
2  100   982903  liked
n_uid 7038
n_item 28814

 test_preference_state.parquet (484776, 3) ['uid', 'item_id', 'state']
   uid  item_id  state
0  100   410868  liked
1  100   732449  liked
2  100   982903  liked
n_uid 7092
n_item 28863


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### Recorded reasoning summary
I am examining the data to understand the task structure.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\n\n# eligibility\nfor name in ['validation_eligible_candidates.npz','test_eligible_candidates.npz']:\n    z = np.load(data/name)\n    print(name, list(z.keys()))\n    uids, items, packed = z['uids'], z['item_ids'], z['packed_eligible']\n    print('  uids', uids.shape, uids.dtype, 'unique', len(np.unique(uids)))\n    print('  items', items.shape, items.dtype, 'unique', len(np.unique(items)))\n    print('  packed', packed.shape, packed.dtype)\n    # unpack a few users\n    counts = []\n    for r in range(min(len(uids), 200)):\n        mask = np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=len(items), bitorder='little')\n        counts.append(int(mask.sum()))\n    print('  eligible counts sample mean/min/max', np.mean(counts), min(counts), max(counts))\n    # full counts\n    all_counts = []\n    for r in range(len(uids)):\n        mask = np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=len(items), bitorder='little')\n        all_counts.append(int(mask.sum()))\n    all_counts = np.array(all_counts)\n    print('  all eligible mean/median/min/max/p10/p90', all_counts.mean(), np.median(all_counts), all_counts.min(), all_counts.max(), np.percentile(all_counts,10), np.percentile(all_counts,90))\n    print('  users with <100 eligible', (all_counts<100).sum())\n\n# preference state\nfor name in ['validation_preference_state.parquet','test_preference_state.parquet']:\n    df = pd.read_parquet(data/name)\n    print('\\n', name)\n    print(df.state.value_counts())\n    print('pairs with both', df.groupby(['uid','item_id']).size().value_counts())\n\n# catalog vs eligibility items\ncat = pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet')\nprint('\\ncatalog ranks 1-5', cat.head())\nprint('catalog item unique', cat.item_id.nunique())\n\ntargets = pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet')\nprint('\\ntargets', targets.describe())\nprint('recent vs history corr', targets.recent_positive_listens.corr(targets.history_positive_listens))\nPY\n",
  "description": "Inspect eligibility, preference state, targets"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
validation_eligible_candidates.npz ['uids', 'item_ids', 'packed_eligible']
  uids (8456,) uint32 unique 8456
  items (30000,) uint32 unique 30000
  packed (8456, 3750) uint8
  eligible counts sample mean/min/max 29058.78 25547 29991
  all eligible mean/median/min/max/p10/p90 29067.306291390727 29242.0 24657 30000 28038.5 29852.0
  users with <100 eligible 0
test_eligible_candidates.npz ['uids', 'item_ids', 'packed_eligible']
  uids (8456,) uint32 unique 8456
  items (30000,) uint32 unique 30000
  packed (8456, 3750) uint8
  eligible counts sample mean/min/max 29032.415 25511 29991
  all eligible mean/median/min/max/p10/p90 29041.3178807947 29220.0 24552 30000 28001.0 29835.0
  users with <100 eligible 0

 validation_preference_state.parquet
state
liked       418435
disliked     50689
Name: count, dtype: int64
pairs with both 1    465704
2      1710
Name: count, dtype: int64

 test_preference_state.parquet
state
liked       432659
disliked     52117
Name: count, dtype: int64
pairs with both 1    481224
2      1776
Name: count, dtype: int64

catalog ranks 1-5    item_id  positive_listens  organic_positive_listens  popularity_rank
0  5862961             26615                     20620                1
1  6901374             25536                     17347                2
2  5635052             24691                     17194                3
3  3542184             24075                     17699                4
4  9378983             24036                     18195                5
catalog item unique 30000

targets                   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 vs history corr 0.8431019383427039


## Step 11 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
Most catalog items are eligible for each user.

Only about 1,000 items per user are ineligible. These likely include previously consumed or explicitly rated tracks. The plan is a classic recommendation system using only sklearn: ALS-like SVD for collaborative filtering and popularity with recency decay.

Content features are unavailable beyond track length. EASE is the leading candidate for implicit recommendation, and it can be implemented with numpy and scipy.

EASE is infeasible for a 30,000-item catalog because inverting a 30,000×30,000 matrix would take too long. sklearn also lacks an implicit ALS implementation.

TruncatedSVD on the user-item matrix is a strong baseline. Item-item kNN via cosine similarity between items is feasible because the 30,000×30,000 similarity matrix requires only about 3.6 GB of memory. Time-decayed item-item collaborative filtering is another classic option. SLIM is too expensive for this catalog size.

The discovery objective targets organic likes and 80%+ listens in the next seven days among eligible candidates. Whether previously consumed tracks remain eligible is unclear, which affects how discovery should be defined.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\ntargets = set(pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet').uid.astype(int))\nLISTEN_STRONG = 80\n\n# val relevance\nlistens = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_listens.parquet')\nlikes = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_likes.parquet')\nstrong = listens[(listens.uid.isin(targets)) & (listens.is_organic==1) & (listens.played_ratio_pct>=LISTEN_STRONG)][['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates()\nolikes = likes[(likes.uid.isin(targets)) & (likes.is_organic==1)][['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates()\nprint('val strong organic listens pairs', len(strong), 'users', strong.uid.nunique())\nprint('val organic likes pairs', len(olikes), 'users', olikes.uid.nunique())\n\n# catalog\ncat = set(pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet').item_id.astype(int))\nprint('strong in catalog', strong.item_id.isin(cat).mean(), 'likes in catalog', olikes.item_id.isin(cat).mean())\n\n# eligibility\nz = np.load(data/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nuids, items, packed = z['uids'], z['item_ids'], z['packed_eligible']\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(uids)}\nitem_col = {int(it):i for i,it in enumerate(items)}\n\ndef is_el(u,i):\n    r = uid_row.get(int(u)); c = item_col.get(int(i))\n    if r is None or c is None: return False\n    byte, bit = divmod(c,8)\n    return bool((int(packed[r,byte]) >> bit) & 1)\n\n# sample check how many relevant are eligible\ndef frac_el(df):\n    n=0; e=0\n    for u,i in df.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n        n+=1\n        if is_el(u,i): e+=1\n    return e,n,e/n\n\nprint('strong eligible', frac_el(strong))\nprint('likes eligible', frac_el(olikes))\n\n# overlap with train history\ntrain_l = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','item_id','is_organic','played_ratio_pct','timestamp'])\ntrain_pos = train_l[(train_l.played_ratio_pct>=50)][['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates()\ntrain_pos['seen']=1\nm = strong.merge(train_pos, on=['uid','item_id'], how='left')\nprint('strong already positive-listened in train', m.seen.notna().mean())\nm2 = olikes.merge(train_pos, on=['uid','item_id'], how='left')\nprint('likes already positive-listened in train', m2.seen.notna().mean())\n\n# liked already?\ntrain_likes = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_likes.parquet', columns=['uid','item_id'])\ntrain_likes = train_likes.drop_duplicates()\ntrain_likes['liked']=1\nm3 = olikes.merge(train_likes, on=['uid','item_id'], how='left')\nprint('val organic likes already liked in train events', m3.liked.notna().mean())\n\n# preference state\npref = pd.read_parquet(data/'validation_preference_state.parquet')\nliked_state = pref[pref.state=='liked'][['uid','item_id']].assign(st=1)\ndis_state = pref[pref.state=='disliked'][['uid','item_id']].assign(st=1)\nprint('val likes in liked state', olikes.merge(liked_state,on=['uid','item_id'],how='left').st.notna().mean())\nprint('val strong in liked state', strong.merge(liked_state,on=['uid','item_id'],how='left').st.notna().mean())\nprint('val strong in disliked state', strong.merge(dis_state,on=['uid','item_id'],how='left').st.notna().mean())\nprint('val likes in disliked state', olikes.merge(dis_state,on=['uid','item_id'],how='left').st.notna().mean())\n\n# per user relevant counts among eligible\n# build graded\nfrom collections import defaultdict\ngraded = defaultdict(dict)\nfor u,i in strong.itertuples(index=False,name=None):\n    if is_el(u,i):\n        graded[int(u)][int(i)] = 1\nfor u,i in olikes.itertuples(index=False,name=None):\n    if is_el(u,i):\n        graded[int(u)][int(i)] = 3\nnrel = np.array([len(v) for v in graded.values()])\nprint('users with relevant', len(graded), 'of', len(targets))\nprint('nrel mean/median/max/p90', nrel.mean(), np.median(nrel), nrel.max(), np.percentile(nrel,90))\nprint('grade3 items', sum(1 for d in graded.values() for g in d.values() if g==3))\nprint('grade1 items', sum(1 for d in graded.values() for g in d.values() if g==1))\nprint('grade3 users', sum(1 for d in graded.values() if any(g==3 for g in d.values())))\nPY\n",
  "description": "Analyze validation relevance vs history and eligibility"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
val strong organic listens pairs 255608 users 6325
val organic likes pairs 17195 users 2714
strong in catalog 0.6681754874651811 likes in catalog 0.4959581273626054
strong eligible (35597, 255608, 0.13926402929485776)
likes eligible (4417, 17195, 0.2568769991276534)
strong already positive-listened in train 0.683159369033833
likes already positive-listened in train 0.3810410002907822
val organic likes already liked in train events 0.08688572259377726
val likes in liked state 0.03908112823495202
val strong in liked state 0.2168946198867015
val strong in disliked state 0.0016705267440768677
val likes in disliked state 0.0009305030532131434
users with relevant 4263 of 8456
nrel mean/median/max/p90 8.859723199624677 4.0 442 21.0
grade3 items 4417
grade1 items 33352
grade3 users 1431


## Step 12 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
Only about 14% of organic strong listens are eligible after applying catalog and eligibility filters.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\ntargets = pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet')\ntarget_set = set(targets.uid.astype(int))\ncat = pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet')\ncat_items = set(cat.item_id.astype(int))\n\nz = np.load(data/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nuids, items, packed = z['uids'], z['item_ids'], z['packed_eligible']\nprint('item_ids equal catalog order?', np.array_equal(items, cat.item_id.to_numpy()))\nprint('catalog popularity_rank sorted?', cat.popularity_rank.is_monotonic_increasing)\n\n# pick 3 users and see why items ineligible\npref = pd.read_parquet(data/'validation_preference_state.parquet')\ntrain_l = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','item_id','timestamp','played_ratio_pct','is_organic'])\ntrain_likes = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_likes.parquet')\ntrain_dis = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_dislikes.parquet')\n\n# last interaction time\nCUTOFF = 24786800\nDAY = 86400\n\n# For a sample of users, correlate ineligibility with:\n# - liked/disliked\n# - recently listened\n# - ever listened\n\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(uids)}\nitem_ids = items.astype(np.int64)\n\ndef mask_for(u):\n    r = uid_row[int(u)]\n    return np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=len(items), bitorder='little').astype(bool)\n\nsample_uids = targets.uid.sample(20, random_state=0).tolist()\n# also include heavy users\nsample_uids += targets.nlargest(5, 'history_positive_listens').uid.tolist()\n\nfor u in sample_uids[:8]:\n    el = mask_for(u)\n    inel_items = item_ids[~el]\n    el_items = item_ids[el]\n    upref = pref[pref.uid==u]\n    liked = set(upref[upref.state=='liked'].item_id)\n    disliked = set(upref[upref.state=='disliked'].item_id)\n    ul = train_l[train_l.uid==u]\n    ever = set(ul.item_id)\n    recent7 = set(ul[ul.timestamp >= CUTOFF-7*DAY].item_id)\n    recent30 = set(ul[ul.timestamp >= CUTOFF-30*DAY].item_id)\n    recent90 = set(ul[ul.timestamp >= CUTOFF-90*DAY].item_id)\n    pos = set(ul[ul.played_ratio_pct>=50].item_id)\n    inel = set(inel_items.tolist())\n    print(f'\\nuid {u} ineligible {len(inel)} liked {len(liked)} disliked {len(disliked)} ever_listen {len(ever)} pos {len(pos)}')\n    print('  inel in liked', len(inel & liked), 'inel in disliked', len(inel & disliked), 'inel ever', len(inel & ever), 'inel recent7', len(inel & recent7), 'inel recent30', len(inel & recent30), 'inel recent90', len(inel & recent90), 'inel pos', len(inel & pos))\n    print('  liked in catalog', len(liked & cat_items), 'disliked in catalog', len(disliked & cat_items))\n    print('  liked ineligible frac of liked-in-catalog', (len((liked & cat_items) - set(el_items.tolist())) / max(1,len(liked & cat_items))))\n    print('  recent7 in catalog ineligible', len(recent7 & cat_items & inel), 'of', len(recent7 & cat_items))\n\n# more systematic: fraction of ineligible explained by preference state\nprint('\\n=== systematic over 200 users ===')\nrng = np.random.default_rng(1)\nsamp = rng.choice(uids, size=200, replace=False)\npref_idx = pref.set_index(['uid','item_id'])\n# build per-user last listen\ntl = train_l[train_l.uid.isin(samp) & train_l.item_id.isin(cat_items)]\nlast_ts = tl.groupby(['uid','item_id']).timestamp.max()\n\nstats = dict(n_inel=0, liked=0, disliked=0, ever=0, rec7=0, rec30=0, rec90=0, unexplained=0)\nfor u in samp:\n    el = mask_for(int(u))\n    inel_items = item_ids[~el]\n    stats['n_inel'] += len(inel_items)\n    upref = pref[pref.uid==int(u)]\n    liked = set(upref[upref.state=='liked'].item_id.astype(int))\n    disliked = set(upref[upref.state=='disliked'].item_id.astype(int))\n    ul = tl[tl.uid==int(u)]\n    ever = set(ul.item_id.astype(int))\n    rec7 = set(ul[ul.timestamp>=CUTOFF-7*DAY].item_id.astype(int))\n    rec30 = set(ul[ul.timestamp>=CUTOFF-30*DAY].item_id.astype(int))\n    rec90 = set(ul[ul.timestamp>=CUTOFF-90*DAY].item_id.astype(int))\n    for it in inel_items.tolist():\n        it=int(it)\n        flags=[]\n        if it in liked: stats['liked']+=1; flags.append(1)\n        if it in disliked: stats['disliked']+=1; flags.append(1)\n        if it in ever: stats['ever']+=1; flags.append(1)\n        if it in rec7: stats['rec7']+=1\n        if it in rec30: stats['rec30']+=1\n        if it in rec90: stats['rec90']+=1\n        if it not in liked and it not in disliked and it not in ever:\n            stats['unexplained']+=1\nprint(stats)\nprint('frac unexplained', stats['unexplained']/stats['n_inel'])\nprint('frac liked or disliked or ever', 1-stats['unexplained']/stats['n_inel'])\nPY\n",
  "description": "Analyze what makes candidates ineligible"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
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item_ids equal catalog order? True
catalog popularity_rank sorted? True

uid 814900 ineligible 766 liked 2 disliked 36 ever_listen 852 pos 697
  inel in liked 2 inel in disliked 36 inel ever 765 inel recent7 40 inel recent30 41 inel recent90 377 inel pos 650
  liked in catalog 2 disliked in catalog 36
  liked ineligible frac of liked-in-catalog 1.0
  recent7 in catalog ineligible 40 of 40

uid 274200 ineligible 1066 liked 10 disliked 0 ever_listen 1143 pos 562
  inel in liked 10 inel in disliked 0 inel ever 1066 inel recent7 152 inel recent30 475 inel recent90 679 inel pos 551
  liked in catalog 10 disliked in catalog 0
  liked ineligible frac of liked-in-catalog 1.0
  recent7 in catalog ineligible 152 of 152

uid 29400 ineligible 205 liked 25 disliked 1 ever_listen 313 pos 24
  inel in liked 25 inel in disliked 1 inel ever 205 inel recent7 101 inel recent30 205 inel recent90 205 inel pos 19
  liked in catalog 25 disliked in catalog 1
  liked ineligible frac of liked-in-catalog 1.0
  recent7 in catalog ineligible 101 of 101

uid 381300 ineligible 647 liked 10 disliked 1 ever_listen 903 pos 689
  inel in liked 10 inel in disliked 1 inel ever 647 inel recent7 64 inel recent30 180 inel recent90 348 inel pos 489
  liked in catalog 10 disliked in catalog 1
  liked ineligible frac of liked-in-catalog 1.0
  recent7 in catalog ineligible 64 of 64

uid 766400 ineligible 633 liked 28 disliked 1 ever_listen 847 pos 420
  inel in liked 28 inel in disliked 1 inel ever 632 inel recent7 279 inel recent30 632 inel recent90 632 inel pos 328
  liked in catalog 28 disliked in catalog 1
  liked ineligible frac of liked-in-catalog 1.0
  recent7 in catalog ineligible 279 of 279

uid 896500 ineligible 914 liked 8 disliked 0 ever_listen 1080 pos 842
  inel in liked 8 inel in disliked 0 inel ever 914 inel recent7 218 inel recent30 914 inel recent90 914 inel pos 737
  liked in catalog 8 disliked in catalog 0
  liked ineligible frac of liked-in-catalog 1.0
  recent7 in catalog ineligible 218 of 218

uid 773600 ineligible 1422 liked 29 disliked 0 ever_listen 1573 pos 1212
  inel in liked 29 inel in disliked 0 inel ever 1419 inel recent7 0 inel recent30 315 inel recent90 1419 inel pos 1098
  liked in catalog 29 disliked in catalog 0
  liked ineligible frac of liked-in-catalog 1.0
  recent7 in catalog ineligible 0 of 0

uid 996100 ineligible 469 liked 96 disliked 0 ever_listen 737 pos 652
  inel in liked 96 inel in disliked 0 inel ever 460 inel recent7 24 inel recent30 163 inel recent90 346 inel pos 406
  liked in catalog 96 disliked in catalog 0
  liked ineligible frac of liked-in-catalog 1.0
  recent7 in catalog ineligible 24 of 24

=== systematic over 200 users ===
{'n_inel': 190557, 'liked': 11231, 'disliked': 1545, 'ever': 190309, 'rec7': 16372, 'rec30': 48954, 'rec90': 104367, 'unexplained': 190}
frac unexplained 0.0009970769900869555
frac liked or disliked or ever 0.999002923009913


## Step 13 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
Candidate ineligibility is driven by two factors: items the user has ever listened to and items they have explicitly liked or disliked.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\nfrom collections import defaultdict\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\ntargets = set(pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet').uid.astype(int))\ncat_items = set(pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet').item_id.astype(int))\nLISTEN_STRONG = 80\nCUTOFF = 24786800\nDAY = 86400\n\nz = np.load(data/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nuids, items, packed = z['uids'], z['item_ids'], z['packed_eligible']\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(uids)}\nitem_col = {int(it):i for i,it in enumerate(items)}\n\ndef is_el(u,i):\n    r = uid_row.get(int(u)); c = item_col.get(int(i))\n    if r is None or c is None: return False\n    byte, bit = divmod(c,8)\n    return bool((int(packed[r,byte]) >> bit) & 1)\n\nlistens = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_listens.parquet')\nlikes = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_likes.parquet')\nstrong = listens[(listens.uid.isin(targets)) & (listens.is_organic==1) & (listens.played_ratio_pct>=LISTEN_STRONG)][['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates()\nolikes = likes[(likes.uid.isin(targets)) & (likes.is_organic==1)][['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates()\n\nel_strong = [(int(u),int(i)) for u,i in strong.itertuples(index=False,name=None) if is_el(u,i)]\nel_likes = [(int(u),int(i)) for u,i in olikes.itertuples(index=False,name=None) if is_el(u,i)]\nprint('el strong', len(el_strong), 'el likes', len(el_likes))\n\n# train interactions\ntrain_l = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','item_id','timestamp','played_ratio_pct','is_organic'])\n# restrict to target users and catalog to save mem\ntrain_l = train_l[train_l.uid.isin(targets)]\npairs_ever = set(zip(train_l.uid.astype(int), train_l.item_id.astype(int)))\nprint('train listen pairs', len(pairs_ever))\n\nn_seen = sum((u,i) in pairs_ever for u,i in el_strong)\nprint('el strong previously listened', n_seen, n_seen/len(el_strong))\nn_seen_l = sum((u,i) in pairs_ever for u,i in el_likes)\nprint('el likes previously listened', n_seen_l, n_seen_l/max(1,len(el_likes)))\n\n# organic vs rec val listens among eligible\nval_all = listens[(listens.uid.isin(targets))]\nprint('val listens organic frac', val_all.is_organic.mean())\nprint('val listens 80pct frac', (val_all.played_ratio_pct>=80).mean())\n\n# popularity of relevant eligible items\ncat = pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet')\npop = dict(zip(cat.item_id.astype(int), cat.popularity_rank.astype(int)))\nranks_s = [pop.get(i, -1) for u,i in el_strong]\nranks_l = [pop.get(i, -1) for u,i in el_likes]\nprint('el strong pop rank mean/median', np.mean(ranks_s), np.median(ranks_s))\nprint('el likes pop rank mean/median', np.mean(ranks_l), np.median(ranks_l))\nprint('el strong in top1000 pop', np.mean(np.array(ranks_s)<=1000), 'top5000', np.mean(np.array(ranks_s)<=5000), 'top10000', np.mean(np.array(ranks_s)<=10000))\nprint('el likes in top1000 pop', np.mean(np.array(ranks_l)<=1000), 'top5000', np.mean(np.array(ranks_l)<=5000))\n\n# recency of user last activity\nlast = train_l.groupby('uid').timestamp.max()\nprint('last activity days before cutoff', ((CUTOFF-last)/DAY).describe())\n\n# time of val relevant events\nvs = listens[(listens.uid.isin(targets)) & (listens.is_organic==1) & (listens.played_ratio_pct>=LISTEN_STRONG)]\nprint('val strong event days after val start', ((vs.timestamp-24788600)/DAY).describe())\nPY\n",
  "description": "Analyze eligible relevance: novelty, popularity, recency"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
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el strong 35597 el likes 4417
train listen pairs 12305820
el strong previously listened 0 0.0
el likes previously listened 0 0.0
val listens organic frac 0.5165144180342962
val listens 80pct frac 0.6043014988334312
el strong pop rank mean/median 8410.543950332893 5591.0
el likes pop rank mean/median 8891.975322617162 6371.0
el strong in top1000 pop 0.1773464055959772 top5000 0.4734668651852684 top10000 0.6620220805124027
el likes in top1000 pop 0.14421553090332806 top5000 0.4369481548562373
last activity days before cutoff count    8456.000000
mean        3.661372
std         8.828299
min         0.000058
25%         0.198018
50%         0.571238
75%         2.640422
max        87.281366
Name: timestamp, dtype: float64
val strong event days after val start count    421615.000000
mean          3.541112
std           2.047711
min           0.000000
25%           1.696644
50%           3.542766
75%           5.428530
max           6.999942
Name: timestamp, dtype: float64


## Step 14 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
Eligible relevant items have never been listened to by the user.

This is a true discovery task. A popularity baseline would miss most relevant items. I am planning an item-item kNN model with cosine or BM25 similarity.

I will build an implicit user-item matrix with time decay and score candidates by summing similarity to the user's history. PureSVD factorization and a recency popularity fallback are also on the table. I will blend these into a single model.

Item-item CF with inverse item frequency and recency-weighted profiles should be strong for music discovery. User-user kNN is viable given 8,456 users. The catalog matrix is 8,456 by 30,000 sparse items. I will use all 9,238 training users for item-item similarity rather than only the 8,456 target users. EASE factorization is also being considered.

A full 30,000 by 30,000 matrix inversion is impossible. EASE on a subset of items would not cover enough candidates. Sparse item-item similarity via sklearn NearestNeighbors is now the leading alternative. A custom implicit ALS implementation with numpy is also being considered.

PureSVD is the fastest option for this implicit data. Item-item cosine similarity would require a 30,000 by 30,000 dense matrix, which is too large for memory. I will keep only the top 100 to 200 neighbors per item as a sparse similarity matrix instead. Scoring will be a fast matrix-vector multiply followed by masking ineligible and already-seen items. The next step is loading the training listens, likes, and dislikes.

I will filter listens to catalog items and assign implicit weights: high for organic listens over 80% of track duration, medium for 50%, likes as very high, and dislikes as negative. Recency decays by half-life. The final model blends item-item cosine kNN, PureSVD, and popularity. I am also considering a lightweight feature-based learning-to-rank model trained on train history features with validation labels.

I am weighing two ways to apply a supervised ranker. The first keeps the item-item and SVD scores as an unsupervised baseline. The second trains on validation organic events, then applies the same weights to test features drawn from the longer history window. The latter risks a feature distribution shift but is a standard practice.

I have settled on an unsupervised baseline of item-kNN, SVD, popularity, recency-popularity, and organic-popularity. Blend weights will be tuned on validation NDCG and then applied to test features drawn from the longer history window. Session-based or time-windowed co-occurrence is also being considered, since artist IDs are unavailable and item-item co-occurrence captures similar-taste signals.

Asymmetric cosine and Tversky similarity are now being considered as stronger alternatives to plain cosine for item-item CF. BM25 normalization on items is also under review. The implementation plan is taking shape: a sparse user-item matrix with time decay, using all training users for item-item similarity. Listen weights will scale by played ratio multiplied by decay and organic multipliers; likes will use higher decay-adjusted weights. Dislikes will be excluded from the preference state.

Dislikes from other users may be used to downweight items in item-item similarity. Normalization will be applied column-wise on the user-item matrix. The top-K neighbor graph can be built without forming a dense 30,000 by 30,000 similarity matrix, either by blocking or using sklearn NearestNeighbors.

I will compute the item-item similarity matrix in 1,000-row chunks to keep memory usage low. Each item will retain only its top 200 neighbors.

PureSVD will be run with 128 components on the user-item matrix. Scores will come from a dot product of user factors and item factor transposes.

Popularity features will include global organic counts, recent 7-day, 30-day, and 90-day organic listen rates, and recent like counts.

Artist diversity and repeat artists are unavailable without artist IDs. Co-occurrence within recent user windows will capture session-based signals. Non-catalog items in history can still inform user factors by including them in the SVD factorization, then scoring only catalog candidates.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\ncat = set(pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet').item_id.astype(int))\ntargets = set(pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet').uid.astype(int))\nCUTOFF=24786800\nDAY=86400\n\n# memory efficient: compute catalog frac\ntl = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_listens.parquet', columns=['uid','item_id','played_ratio_pct','is_organic','timestamp'])\nprint('all listens', len(tl))\nprint('catalog frac listens', tl.item_id.isin(cat).mean())\npos = tl[tl.played_ratio_pct>=50]\nprint('catalog frac pos listens', pos.item_id.isin(cat).mean())\norg = pos[pos.is_organic==1]\nprint('catalog frac organic pos', org.item_id.isin(cat).mean())\nprint('catalog frac organic 80', tl[(tl.played_ratio_pct>=80)&(tl.is_organic==1)].item_id.isin(cat).mean())\n\n# recency catalog frac\nfor d in [7,30,90]:\n    sl = tl[tl.timestamp>=CUTOFF-d*DAY]\n    print(f'last {d}d catalog frac', sl.item_id.isin(cat).mean(), 'n', len(sl))\n\nlikes = pd.read_parquet(data/'train_likes.parquet')\nprint('likes catalog frac', likes.item_id.isin(cat).mean(), 'organic likes catalog', likes[likes.is_organic==1].item_id.isin(cat).mean())\n\n# unique items per user on catalog\ntpos = pos[pos.uid.isin(targets)]\nprint('target pos listens', len(tpos), 'catalog', tpos.item_id.isin(cat).mean())\n# user catalog unique\nuc = tpos[tpos.item_id.isin(cat)].groupby('uid').item_id.nunique()\nprint('target unique catalog pos items', uc.describe())\n\n# played_ratio distribution\nprint('played_ratio pct value counts top', tl.played_ratio_pct.value_counts().head())\nprint('played_ratio mean', tl.played_ratio_pct.mean())\n\n# timestamps: is it seconds? range 0 to 24786800 ~ 287 days\nprint('train span days', CUTOFF/DAY)\n\n# item co-occurrence density: avg users per catalog item\niu = tpos[tpos.item_id.isin(cat)].groupby('item_id').uid.nunique()\nprint('users per catalog item (from target pos)', iu.describe())\nPY\n",
  "description": "Catalog coverage and user history stats"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
all listens 43484159
catalog frac listens 0.7186436099638032
catalog frac pos listens 0.7293010319171237
catalog frac organic pos 0.7133297431259648
catalog frac organic 80 0.714358506117347
last 7d catalog frac 0.7037083218531353 n 1491699
last 30d catalog frac 0.7098610650196381 n 6126103
last 90d catalog frac 0.7226290774424701 n 16769274
likes catalog frac 0.6809068383505291 organic likes catalog 0.6528833641160664
target pos listens 27367343 catalog 0.7293310497844091
target unique catalog pos items count    8449.000000
mean      652.681382
std       600.182058
min         1.000000
25%       205.000000
50%       489.000000
75%       915.000000
max      4947.000000
Name: item_id, dtype: float64
played_ratio pct value counts top played_ratio_pct
100    23121854
1       3524047
0       3256388
2       1590033
99      1252449
Name: count, dtype: int64
played_ratio mean 64.65020705586143
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users per catalog item (from target pos) count    30000.000000
mean       183.816833
std        235.996129
min          1.000000
25%         68.000000
50%        108.000000
75%        197.000000
max       3835.000000
Name: uid, dtype: float64


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### Recorded reasoning summary
The catalog covers roughly 72% of listens.

The dataset contains 30,000 items and 8,500 users. Users have a median of 489 unique catalog positives.

A blended ranker will combine item-kNN with BM25/TF-IDF and time decay, PureSVD, recent co-visitation, and popularity. A linear combination will merge these signals.

The plan is to build a fast popularity baseline first, then improve with collaborative filtering while always keeping the best submission saved.

RP3beta graph-based item-item similarity is being added to the blend. It will use sparse matrix operations for speed. Time decay half-lives of 7, 14, and 30 days are under consideration.

Item-item similarity will use TF-IDF on the user-item matrix rather than raw counts. User vectors will be time-decayed instead of binary. Organic items and likes will receive stronger weights. A supervised blend will be trained using validation labels.



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{
  "command": "free -h; nproc; df -h /app /tmp",
  "description": "Check memory, CPU, disk resources"
}
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exit: 0
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### Recorded reasoning summary
The environment provides 15GB RAM and 8 cores. A dense 30,000 × 30,000 float32 matrix consumes roughly 3GB.

A full item-item similarity matrix would consume too much memory. Instead, scores can be computed directly from user vectors using X_targets @ Xi.T @ Xi, yielding a 312MB dense intermediate and a 1GB final score matrix.

L2-normalizing item vectors makes the direct score formula equivalent to item-item cosine similarity. User-user k-nearest-neighbor and a lightweight PureSVD with 128–256 factors are also viable. A hybrid approach inspired by RP3beta is being sketched, combining binary user-item matrices with column-normalized item popularity and row-normalized users. The plan is to write a well-structured script that implements these methods.

The plan is to first dump a popularity baseline ranked by organic positive listens filtered by eligibility. Collaborative filtering models will be built next, tuned on the validation set, and then refit for the final test submission.

A time-split item co-occurrence signal is also being explored. Consecutive listens within the same session or day are expected to capture taste clusters such as albums, artists, and playlists. Pair counts will be computed from each user's unique items in the last 30 days.

A full pairwise co-occurrence matrix for all users would require roughly one billion pairs, which is too expensive. The plan now favors computing X.T @ X directly on the sparse binary user-item matrix instead. Popular items are expected to appear with many users, so the resulting item-item count matrix will likely be dense.

The co-occurrence matrix can be scored without materialization by computing user-user similarity via X_user @ X.T @ X. Three score generators are planned: a log1p popularity baseline, a TruncatedSVD model, and an item TF-IDF k-nearest-neighbor signal. A pointwise supervised model will also be trained on the validation set to rank eligible items per user.

The supervised model will use eligible relevant items as positives and sample 50 eligible negatives per user. Features include the knn score, svd score, pop rank, recent pop, like pop, max similarity to the last 20 organic tracks, cosine to the user average, and a trending flag. HistGradientBoostingClassifier is the leading candidate for this pointwise ranking task.

Predicting on all 245 million eligible candidates with a gradient-boosted model would be too slow. The plan is to blend six unsupervised scores—item TF-IDF k-nearest-neighbor, SVD, cosine collaborative filtering, recency-weighted k-nearest-neighbor, global and recent popularity, and like-based collaborative filtering—into a single linear combination. A gradient-boosted reranker will then refine the top 300 candidates.

A time-decayed user profile will weight recent listens more heavily than older ones. Item similarity will be computed via BM25 on the binary user-item matrix, using standard parameters K1=1.2 and B=0.8.

The BM25 formula is being written out as a sparse matrix multiply. A popularity baseline will be saved first so the submission is valid immediately. The validation protocol fits on training data, evaluates on the validation set, and refits on both for the final test submission. Explicit preference state will be used to downrank liked and disliked items even if they remain eligible.

Skip patterns and frequently skipped items will be used as negative signals to penalize rec-influenced listens. Organic history will be weighted more heavily than recommended-play history to avoid popularity bias.

Organic listens will be weighted 3 for 80%+ organic history, 2 for 50%+, and non-organic listens will be weighted 1. Likes will carry higher weights: 5 for organic likes and 3 for non-organic likes. User profiles will decay with a 14–21 day half-life, while item similarity may use a 60–90 day window. Temporal popularity will compare recent spikes against the previous period. The script will be modular and fast, with expected runtimes of seconds to minutes for matrix construction and SVD.

Item k-nearest-neighbor scoring will take one to two minutes. Ranking evaluation will be run internally via the ranking_evaluation module for faster iteration. Randomized TruncatedSVD is fast enough. A few iterations of implicit ALS may outperform PureSVD on this binary data.

A full implicit ALS would require roughly 8 billion operations per iteration, so a vectorized numpy implementation is being considered instead. A faster proven approach is also being sought.

Recency-weighted item k-nearest-neighbor is favored as a strong baseline for next-basket prediction. EASER was dismissed. Joblib will parallelize scoring across the eight cores. The plan is to write a pragmatic, modular solution under `/app/solution/` with a main script, README, and separate validation and submission parquet files. A popularity baseline will be produced first for immediate validity, followed by the full model.

A rank-relevance fusion approach is being considered as a robust alternative to learned blend weights. It would combine multiple candidate lists using a reciprocal rank formula with k=60, avoiding the need for validation-set tuning.

Another music-specific idea is to expand each user's most recent 50 organic tracks through item-item similarity. Exponential decay with a 7-day half-life and IDF weighting would prevent popular items from dominating the expansion.

A user-user cosine similarity matrix will be built from the full history of all 8456 users. This yields a 286 MB dense matrix, and scoring only catalog items against it is straightforward. The top 200 neighbors will be used for user-kNN. Implicit ALS is being implemented directly because sklearn NMF is too slow.

The final ensemble will blend five unsupervised signals: log-organic popularity, item-item TF-IDF cosine, user-kNN cosine, PureSVD 128, and recency-weighted item-item similarity. Blend weights will be tuned on the validation set. Item-item similarity will be computed without materializing a full 30,000×30,000 matrix by normalizing item columns in user space and scoring via X_profile @ (X_item_norm.T @ X_item_norm).

The item-item similarity matrix will be built from the full training user set and then projected onto target users via a 8456×9238 profile matrix. Memory usage for loading the 43 million listens is estimated at two to three gigabytes.

Only the uid, timestamp, item_id, is_organic, and played_ratio_pct columns will be loaded to keep memory usage low. Filtering to catalog items will use a numpy set for speed. A recent-trending signal comparing 7-day and 90-day popularity will be added. The final cutoff for refitting on both training and validation data is being determined.

Validation ranking will use the training cutoff of 24786800. Test ranking will use the validation cutoff of 25393400, with both training and validation events included. Items listened to during validation will be excluded from test eligibility. A helper function will build sparse matrices from event dataframes and cutoff timestamps. The 30-minute gap between training and validation contains no events and will be ignored.

The pipeline will be written as a single optimized script with intermediate artifacts saved at each stage. The gradient-boosted reranker will train on 4263 validation users, using graded relevant items as positives and top-200 or randomly sampled non-relevant eligible items as negatives. Features will include the six unsupervised scores, rank features, item popularity, and user statistics. At inference, the top 200 blended candidates will be reranked down to the final 100. This risks underperforming if the blend’s recall at 200 is too low.

The unsupervised model will be built and evaluated first, with the reranker added afterward. NDCG will be computed internally to avoid subprocess overhead during tuning. For the linear blend, per-user z-score or rank normalization is being considered; rank-based fusion is preferred as more robust.

Per-user z-score normalization will use nanmean and nanstd on the 8456×30000 score matrix, masking ineligible items with NaN. An asymmetric item-item signal is also being considered: conditional probability P(j|i) = count(i,j)/count(i), decayed by user history length, similar to RP3beta.

The asymmetric item-item signal will use standard RP3beta: row-normalize the binary listen matrix to get user-to-item transitions, transpose it for item-to-user transitions, multiply them to obtain conditional probabilities P(j|i), and then scale by item popularity raised to a negative power.

The RP3beta asymmetric item-item signal will be implemented with beta values of 0.3, 0.5, and 0.7. To guard against timeout, a quick popularity baseline will be written first as the submission file, and the full model will overwrite it only if it outperforms.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\nfrom collections import defaultdict\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\ntargets = set(pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet').uid.astype(int))\ncat = pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet')\npop = dict(zip(cat.item_id.astype(int), cat.popularity_rank.astype(int)))\nLISTEN_STRONG=80\n\nz = np.load(data/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nuids, items, packed = z['uids'], z['item_ids'], z['packed_eligible']\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(uids)}\nitem_col = {int(it):i for i,it in enumerate(items)}\n\ndef is_el(u,i):\n    r = uid_row.get(int(u)); c = item_col.get(int(i))\n    if r is None or c is None: return False\n    byte, bit = divmod(c,8)\n    return bool((int(packed[r,byte]) >> bit) & 1)\n\nlistens = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_listens.parquet')\nlikes = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_likes.parquet')\nstrong = listens[(listens.uid.isin(targets)) & (listens.is_organic==1) & (listens.played_ratio_pct>=LISTEN_STRONG)][['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates()\nolikes = likes[(likes.uid.isin(targets)) & (likes.is_organic==1)][['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates()\n\ngraded=defaultdict(dict)\nfor u,i in strong.itertuples(index=False,name=None):\n    if is_el(u,i): graded[int(u)][int(i)]=1\nfor u,i in olikes.itertuples(index=False,name=None):\n    if is_el(u,i): graded[int(u)][int(i)]=3\n\n# recall of global pop top k among relevant\nfor k in [10,50,100,200,500,1000]:\n    top=set(cat.item_id.head(k).astype(int))\n    hits=sum(1 for d in graded.values() for i in d if i in top)\n    users_hit=sum(1 for d in graded.values() if any(i in top for i in d))\n    print(f'top{k} item-recall {hits/sum(len(d) for d in graded.values()):.4f} user-recall {users_hit/len(graded):.4f}')\n\n# estimate pop ndcg: rank eligible by pop\n# take 200 users sample\nfrom ranking_evaluation import ndcg_at_k\nimport sys\nsys.path.append('/task')\nfrom ranking_evaluation import ndcg_at_k\n\nitem_by_pop = cat.item_id.astype(int).to_numpy()  # already pop order\n# for each user mask ineligible\nsample_ndcg=[]\n# do all users with labels\nfor u, gold in graded.items():\n    r = uid_row[u]\n    mask = np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=len(items), bitorder='little').astype(bool)\n    # items array is catalog order = pop order\n    ranked = items[mask][:100]\n    sample_ndcg.append(ndcg_at_k(list(map(int,ranked)), gold, 10))\nprint('pop ndcg@10', round(float(np.mean(sample_ndcg)),6), 'n', len(sample_ndcg))\nPY\n",
  "description": "Estimate popularity baseline NDCG and recall"
}
### Tool error · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 1
top10 item-recall 0.0050 user-recall 0.0300
top50 item-recall 0.0179 user-recall 0.0793
top100 item-recall 0.0319 user-recall 0.1321
top200 item-recall 0.0544 user-recall 0.1954
top500 item-recall 0.1113 user-recall 0.3258
top1000 item-recall 0.1754 user-recall 0.4370
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 43, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ranking_evaluation'


## Step 17 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
Popularity is a weak signal. The top 100 candidates only capture 13% of user recall.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport sys\nsys.path.append('/task')\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\nfrom collections import defaultdict\nfrom ranking_evaluation import ndcg_at_k\n\ndata = Path('/task/data')\ntargets = set(pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet').uid.astype(int))\ncat = pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet')\nLISTEN_STRONG=80\n\nz = np.load(data/'validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\nuids, items, packed = z['uids'], z['item_ids'], z['packed_eligible']\nuid_row = {int(u):i for i,u in enumerate(uids)}\n\ndef is_el(u,i):\n    r = uid_row.get(int(u)); c = item_col.get(int(i)) if False else None\nitem_col = {int(it):i for i,it in enumerate(items)}\n\ndef is_el(u,i):\n    r = uid_row.get(int(u)); c = item_col.get(int(i))\n    if r is None or c is None: return False\n    byte, bit = divmod(c,8)\n    return bool((int(packed[r,byte]) >> bit) & 1)\n\nlistens = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_listens.parquet')\nlikes = pd.read_parquet(data/'val_likes.parquet')\nstrong = listens[(listens.uid.isin(targets)) & (listens.is_organic==1) & (listens.played_ratio_pct>=LISTEN_STRONG)][['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates()\nolikes = likes[(likes.uid.isin(targets)) & (likes.is_organic==1)][['uid','item_id']].drop_duplicates()\n\ngraded=defaultdict(dict)\nfor u,i in strong.itertuples(index=False,name=None):\n    if is_el(u,i): graded[int(u)][int(i)]=1\nfor u,i in olikes.itertuples(index=False,name=None):\n    if is_el(u,i): graded[int(u)][int(i)]=3\n\nndcgs=[]\nfor u, gold in graded.items():\n    r = uid_row[u]\n    mask = np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=len(items), bitorder='little').astype(bool)\n    ranked = items[mask][:100]\n    ndcgs.append(ndcg_at_k(list(map(int,ranked)), gold, 10))\nprint('pop ndcg@10', round(float(np.mean(ndcgs)),6), 'n', len(ndcgs))\n\n# random eligible ndcg roughly 0\nprint('avg relevant', np.mean([len(g) for g in graded.values()]))\nPY\n",
  "description": "Compute popularity NDCG@10 on validation"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
pop ndcg@10 0.01071 n 4263
avg relevant 8.859723199624677


## Step 18 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
Popularity baseline NDCG@10 is only 0.0107.

A hybrid ranker is planned to lift discovery NDCG@10 above the popularity baseline. It will combine item-item collaborative filtering, user k-nearest neighbors, PureSVD, recency-weighted profiles, and a linear blend with RRF. The build script will be memory-efficient and include all training users for richer item representations.

The build will use a single `build_scores` function. Eligibility masks will be unpacked into an 8456-by-30000 boolean matrix, consuming roughly 253 MB.

Eligibility masks will be unpacked with `np.unpackbits` and masked scores set to negative infinity before top-100 selection. A compact implicit ALS implementation is being added, using binary confidence values with alpha=20 and factor dimension 64.

The implicit ALS solver is being implemented with a per-user conjugate gradient step. It builds the confidence matrix from binary play counts, transposes the rating matrix, and for each user solves a regularized least-squares problem using only their observed items.

The implicit ALS solver is too slow. Twelve iterations across 8,456 users and 30,000 items would take roughly four minutes. A faster batch ALS or standard SVD will be used instead.

The implicit ALS solver is being dropped in favor of SVD and k-nearest-neighbor models. Music taste is assumed to be well captured by item-item co-listening patterns.

Duplicate listens will be aggregated into a single score per user-item pair. The formula weights each event by its recency decay, the played ratio, and an organic versus non-organic multiplier. Organic listens receive a 2.0 weight while non-organic ones receive 0.7. Likes carry a 5.0 weight for organic events and 2.0 for non-organic ones.

Two matrices will be built. A binary organic matrix will drive item similarity and reduce popularity bias. A time-decayed weighted matrix will drive user profile scoring. k-NN scores will be computed as the weighted matrix multiplied by the binary similarity matrix. sklearn TfidfTransformer with L2 normalization and sublinear TF-IDF is being considered for the similarity computation.

BM25 item-item similarity is being added alongside the TF-IDF approach. The implementation will follow the implicit library's BM25 formula with K1=1.2 and B=0.8.

A simpler IDF-weighted cosine similarity is being used instead of the full BM25 formula. The script will run validation first to print NDCG, then refit on the full training set. Blend weights will be learned by generating four to six ranking lists and comparing RRF against simple weighted score sums.

Storing full score matrices for six methods would require roughly six gigabytes of memory. To stay within limits, only the top five hundred candidates per method will be retained and fused over their union. SVD and k-nearest-neighbor scores can be computed across all items cheaply.

Per-user z-scores for eligible items will be computed and saved to disk as float32 memmaps. Five methods will use roughly five gigabytes of storage, leaving room for grid-searching blend weights in memory.

A tighter memory strategy is being adopted. Each method will retain only the top two hundred scored items per user. The blend will be computed over the union of these candidates plus all eligible items, trading a small approximation for NDCG@10 against a full ranking.

A recent-item expansion will be added. Only the last one hundred items per user will be used for a heavily decayed profile, since short-term history often predicts next-week discovery better than full history. Two item-kNN scores will be computed: one from the full history and one from the recent window. The full pipeline is estimated at eight to twelve minutes, leaving headroom for a GBDT reranker or extra experiments.

The code will be written in one pass to save time. Scikit-learn's `normalize` on sparse matrices is inefficient; the implementation will use scipy.sparse directly. NumPy thread count will be capped at eight. Organic likes are seven times more valuable than grade-1 listens, so they will be heavily weighted in both the collaborative filtering model and the blend tuning.



### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\nz=np.load('/task/data/validation_eligible_candidates.npz')\npacked=z['packed_eligible']\nitems=z['item_ids']\nprint(packed.shape)\nb=np.unpackbits(packed[:3], axis=1, bitorder='little')\nprint(b.shape, b[:,:len(items)].sum(axis=1))\n# compare to per-row\nfor r in range(3):\n    m=np.unpackbits(packed[r], count=len(items), bitorder='little')\n    print(r, m.sum(), np.array_equal(m, b[r,:len(items)]))\nPY\n",
  "description": "Verify vectorized unpackbits for eligibility"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
(8456, 3750)
(3, 30000) [29318 29832 29931]
0 29318 True
1 29832 True
2 29931 True


## Step 19 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
I am now writing a comprehensive, efficient ranker.

iALS is the leading candidate for this music discovery task. I am optimizing it with vectorized operations and conjugate gradient solves to handle per-user factor updates efficiently.

I estimated the ALS training cost. Each iteration requires roughly four billion FLOPs. The Python loop over eight thousand users adds significant overhead. This suggests a single iteration may take several seconds.

I will parallelize the ALS solver across user chunks with joblib. Numba is unavailable, so the implementation will rely on pure NumPy. I am also designing a time-decayed SVD that weights recent interactions more heavily, using half-lives of 14 to 21 days.

I will compare two half-life values directly rather than grid-searching. The ranker will be a single script that loads data, builds the validation model, evaluates it, and refits for the test set. I will blend the base models with a sklearn Ridge regressor. Training rows will use each labeled user's relevant items plus thirty random eligible negatives and thirty top-pop eligible candidates.

I will train the blend weights directly on the full score matrices rather than sampling millions of rows. The Ridge regressor will learn global linear coefficients from a small sampled training set, and these weights will be applied to every item globally. I am also planning to normalize features with per-user ranks or z-scores so the coefficients remain comparable across users.

I am defining the feature vector for each candidate as seven normalized scores from kNN, SVD, user-kNN, RP3, popularity, recent-popularity, and like-kNN. I will train a linear blend with Ridge on this sampled data. I am also considering a second-stage HistGradientBoosting reranker on the top three hundred candidates per user to refine the final ordering.

I realized that training a supervised model on validation labels would cause overfitting. I will instead use the last seven days of the training data as a pseudo-validation set. This allows honest tuning while preserving the public validation window for final evaluation.

I am reconsidering the pseudo-validation approach. The eligibility boundary for the final seven days is not provided, and explicit preference state at the cutoff timestamp is unavailable. I will likely skip supervised tuning entirely and instead tune the unsupervised blend directly on the true validation set. I may then refit the base models on the combined training and validation data.

I will train a light supervised model on the validation labels for the final test submission. The public validation score will be overfit, but the evaluator is only for development and the hidden test is what matters. I will also keep the unsupervised ranking as a sanity check.

I will keep the supervised model simple. A lightweight Ridge regressor on a few core collaborative-filtering scores should generalize better than a heavy gradient-boosted model. I am now writing the code.

I will add item popularity and recency popularity as features. The preference_state files already contain net like state at the cutoff, so I will use that instead of raw like events to reduce noise in the collaborative filtering model. I am also precomputing the catalog index and keeping the script fast.

I will use the preference_state files directly as the user profile. Current liked items serve as strong positives, and disliked items act as negatives. The validation state at the training cutoff is ideal for validation ranking, while the test state after that window is ideal for test ranking. I am now writing the script with progress output and calculating time-decay weights from timestamps in seconds.

I am defining the time-decay formula as an exponential decay with a configurable half-life. To avoid slow pandas groupby on thirty million rows, I will filter catalog items with vectorized NumPy operations and use a fast ID mapping helper.

I am optimizing the data-loading pipeline. A pandas groupby on user and item pairs would take ten to twenty seconds, so I will use a NumPy inverse-index approach instead. This avoids slow set membership checks on forty-three million items by mapping item IDs directly into a fixed-size array.

I will write the full script to `/app/solution/build_ranker.py`. I am also adding a session co-visitation signal: consecutive listens within twenty minutes will be counted as item pairs, and users will be scored by their recent items' session neighbors. This captures album and artist clusters without needing artist IDs.

I will build a sparse 30,000-by-30,000 session co-occurrence matrix from consecutive listens within twenty minutes. The user profile will be the last two hundred catalog items with time decay. Scores will combine this profile with the session similarity matrix. I will use bidirectional item pairs and BM25 or inverse-popularity weighting.

I will use float32 throughout to keep memory usage low. For top-k selection, I will mask ineligible items with negative infinity and use argpartition to quickly extract the highest-scoring candidates per user. I will then sort those k items within each row to break ties. To ensure stable rankings when scores are equal, I will add a tiny popularity-based jitter as a tiebreaker.

The script will write a fast popularity baseline immediately so the best valid submission is preserved if execution times out. Collaborative filtering results will overwrite it once ready. SANSA and other complex methods were considered but rejected.

I rejected SLIM because coordinate descent on thirty thousand items is too slow. I will also add a normalized user-user cosine similarity model with shrinkage, using the top fifty neighbors per user to score candidates.

I will zero the diagonal of the user-user similarity matrix to prevent recommending already-heard items. I am also setting up the script constants, including the training cutoff timestamp and the validation-to-test gap boundary.

I will use the latest observed timestamp as the decay origin. I am adding a skip-pop penalty so items with high skip rates score slightly lower. I will write a helper to load and concatenate events, and I will make the script verbose with timing output.

I briefly considered replacing the implicit ALS with sklearn's TruncatedSVD on a tf-idf matrix and kNN neighbors to reduce complexity, but then decided to implement ALS after all because it is typically the strongest classic method for this task.

I am now writing the implicit ALS implementation. I will use a simple conjugate-gradient loop over users, precomputing Y transpose Y and a regularized identity matrix to solve for each user factor vector.

I am finalizing the implicit ALS solver. Each user factor vector is updated by solving a regularized least-squares problem with time-decayed confidence weights. I will use 64 factors, eight iterations, alpha 15, and regularization 0.1, then parallelize the per-user updates.

I am parallelizing the implicit ALS solver into eight chunks using a block helper that solves for a subset of user factors at once. I will also build a unified user index mapping all users from both target and event data to avoid index mismatches.

Target user rows will follow the eligibility uid order for clean masking. The script will write a popularity baseline first, then compute the full model. I will add a `__main__` guard and a brief README. Preference state already encodes net likes and unlikes, so no extra negative feedback is needed.

The preference state file covers 7,038 target users rather than all 8,456, so it likely reflects explicit preferences for the target population. Processing unlikes in chronological order to net them out would be too complex; instead, likes will serve as positive events with time decay, and unlikes will either be ignored or treated as weak negatives.

I am finalizing the ensemble. The ranker will blend six signals: implicit ALS, item-item cosine TF-IDF with recency-weighted profiles, RP3beta, user k-nearest-neighbor, session co-visitation, and time-decayed popularity. Ridge regression will fuse per-user z-scores. If the ALS solver exceeds the timeout, it will be skipped.

I will compute ALS last so the ranker still has k-nearest-neighbor scores if it runs out of time. The full pipeline is: write the popularity baseline, build matrices, item-item cosine, RP3beta, user-kNN, SVD, session co-visitation, ALS, blend and evaluate, then refit for test. I will also use a sparse top-200 neighbor graph per item instead of full cosine similarity to reduce noise.

I am checking whether the item-item similarity matrix will be too dense. Computing X.T @ X on a sparse user-item matrix could produce a dense intermediate, so I will estimate its sparsity before proceeding.

I will compute item-item scores via the user-space identity (P @ Xn.T) @ Xn. This avoids building a dense 30,000-by-30,000 similarity matrix. The intermediate dense matrix is only 8,456-by-9,238 and about 312 MB.

I will compute item-item scores by converting the user-item matrix to a dense float32 array and using scipy's sparse-dense matrix multiplication, which is memory-efficient. The same approach will be used for RP3beta. To stay within memory limits, each signal will be computed, z-scored, saved as a numpy file, and then discarded before the next method.

I am replacing the per-user z-score with a masked version. Instead of using nanmean and nanstd on the full matrix, I will zero out ineligible scores and compute means and standard deviations directly from the eligible subset. This avoids the memory and time cost of nan operations across all thirty thousand items.

I will keep the script under five hundred lines and use memory mapping for saved scores if needed. Ridge regression will be fit on sampled z-score features, with a fallback equal-weight blend in case training is too slow. I am now beginning to write the session co-occurrence matrix from the thirty-one million events.

I am building the session co-occurrence matrix by scanning the sorted event stream for consecutive items within two minutes for the same user. Valid pairs are stored as a sparse symmetric adjacency matrix, and per-user scores are computed as the recency-weighted profile multiplied by this matrix.

I will add a directional next-item signal that only counts forward in time pairs, capturing what listeners play after a track. I am writing the complete script now and starting execution immediately to maximize the thirty-minute budget.

I am switching to TruncatedSVD instead of ALS for the first version because it is faster and more reliable. I will keep ALS as a possible second iteration if validation results are poor. The ensemble now includes recency-weighted item-item TF-IDF cosine, RP3beta with beta 0.5, user k-nearest-neighbor using the top eighty neighbors, PureSVD on time-weighted TF, session sequential co-visitation, and recent organic popularity over seven and thirty days. User profiles will be weighted toward organic plays and likes. I am writing the code to be as vectorized as possible.

I will compute user k-nearest-neighbor scores by taking the top eighty dense cosine similarities for each target user, zeroing diagonal entries to avoid self-similarity, and building a sparse neighbor graph to score all items. I am now writing the full script and preparing directories.

I will use played_ratio as the implicit confidence weight and apply log1p to term frequencies to reduce heavy user and item domination. The protocol fits on training data, tunes the blend on validation, then refits the factorization on combined train and validation. I am also adding a compact ALS variant with 32 factors and five iterations as an extra signal.

I will add epsilon to denominators for numerical stability. Seven target users lack catalog history, so I will fall back to popularity for them. I will reuse the same item-item similarity matrix across multiple recency profiles—recent and full history—by computing P_7d @ S and P_all @ S, saving redundant computation.

The dense user-item GEMM is roughly eleven seconds on eight cores, so it is acceptable to run it once per method. Forming the full item-item similarity matrix would require about fifty-four billion FLOPs, which is far too expensive.

Eligibility is true cold-start discovery, so I’m implementing neighborhood, factorization, and session co-visitation and blending them on validation.

### todo_write · Timestamp not recorded
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  "todos": [
    {
      "id": "1",
      "status": "completed"
    },
    {
      "id": "2",
      "status": "in_progress"
    }
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  "merge": true
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- [completed] 1: Explore data, evaluation, and constraints
- [in_progress] 2: Build validation-stage ranker and tune
- [pending] 3: Refit on train+val and write test submission
- [pending] 4: Write README and keep best artifacts


### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "mkdir -p /app/solution && /opt/task-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport pandas as pd\nimport numpy as np\nfrom pathlib import Path\ndata=Path('/task/data')\nfor name in ['train_listens.parquet','train_likes.parquet']:\n    df=pd.read_parquet(data/name, columns=['uid','item_id'])\n    print(name, 'max uid', df.uid.max(), 'max item', df.item_id.max(), 'min item', df.item_id.min())\nprint('catalog max', pd.read_parquet(data/'candidate_catalog.parquet').item_id.max())\nprint('target max uid', pd.read_parquet(data/'target_users.parquet').uid.max())\nPY\n",
  "description": "Check ID ranges for mapping arrays"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
train_listens.parquet max uid 1000000 max item 9390623 min item 22
train_likes.parquet max uid 1000000 max item 9390522 min item 26
catalog max 9390294
target max uid 1000000


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### Recorded reasoning summary
A dense array mapping one million UIDs would be too memory-intensive. I will use a sparse representation instead.

Memory constraints are manageable. A one-million-entry array needs only four megabytes, and a 9.4-million-item array needs about thirty-seven megabytes. I will write a clean, efficient ranker script with careful memory cleanup.

A batched numpy ALS will speed up training. For the ensemble, I will compare four blending strategies on validation NDCG: equal z-score, ridge, NDCG-weighted, and RRF. Grid search over six weights is too expensive.

Ridge blending will use five-fold user cross-validation to select the regularization parameter. Coefficients will be fit on all validation users. The script will also handle session co-visitation scoring without a dense thirty-thousand-by-thirty-thousand matrix.

A full session co-visitation matrix would be too dense for efficient sparse multiplication. I will instead keep only the top one hundred nearest neighbors per item, keeping the session matrix sparse and avoiding a dense intermediate.

I’m writing a full ranking pipeline: a popularity fallback first, then CF methods and a validation-tuned blend.

### write · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "content": "#!/usr/bin/env python3\n\"\"\"Made-for-You discovery ranker.\n\nUnsupervised collaborative-filtering scores are fit on history at a cutoff,\nblended on public validation labels, then refit on train+val for the hidden test.\n\"\"\"\nfrom __future__ import annotations\n\nimport gc\nimport sys\nimport time\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\nimport numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\nfrom scipy import sparse\nfrom sklearn.decomposition import TruncatedSVD\nfrom sklearn.linear_model import Ridge\nfrom sklearn.preprocessing import normalize\n\nsys.path.append(\"/task\")\nfrom ranking_evaluation import QUALITY_K, ndcg_at_k  # noqa: E402\n\nDATA = Path(\"/task/data\")\nOUT = Path(\"/app/solution\")\nOUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)\n\nTRAIN_CUTOFF = 24_786_800\nVAL_END = 25_393_400\nLISTEN_POS = 50\nLISTEN_STRONG = 80\nTOP_N = 100\nDAY = 86_400.0\n\nCATALOG = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"candidate_catalog.parquet\")\nITEM_IDS = CATALOG.item_id.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)\nN_ITEMS = len(ITEM_IDS)\nPOP_RANK = CATALOG.popularity_rank.to_numpy(dtype=np.int32)\nPOP_SCORE = np.log1p(CATALOG.organic_positive_listens.to_numpy(dtype=np.float32))\n\nTARGETS = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"target_users.parquet\")\nTARGET_UIDS = TARGETS.uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)\nN_TGT = len(TARGET_UIDS)\n\n\ndef log(msg: str) -> None:\n    print(f\"[{time.strftime('%H:%M:%S')}] {msg}\", flush=True)\n\n\ndef item_mapper(item_ids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    inv = np.full(int(item_ids.max()) + 1, -1, dtype=np.int32)\n    inv[item_ids] = np.arange(len(item_ids), dtype=np.int32)\n    return inv\n\n\nITEM_INV = item_mapper(ITEM_IDS)\n\n\ndef map_items(raw: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    out = np.full(len(raw), -1, dtype=np.int32)\n    ok = (raw >= 0) & (raw < len(ITEM_INV))\n    out[ok] = ITEM_INV[raw[ok]]\n    return out\n\n\ndef load_eligibility(path: Path, target_uids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    z = np.load(path)\n    uids = z[\"uids\"].astype(np.int64)\n    packed = z[\"packed_eligible\"]\n    items = z[\"item_ids\"].astype(np.int64)\n    if not np.array_equal(items, ITEM_IDS):\n        raise RuntimeError(f\"eligibility item order mismatch in {path}\")\n    row_of = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(uids)}\n    order = np.array([row_of[int(u)] for u in target_uids], dtype=np.int32)\n    bits = np.unpackbits(packed[order], axis=1, bitorder=\"little\")[:, :N_ITEMS]\n    return bits.astype(bool)\n\n\ndef load_pref_sets(path: Path) -> tuple[dict[int, set[int]], dict[int, set[int]]]:\n    df = pd.read_parquet(path)\n    liked: dict[int, set[int]] = {}\n    disliked: dict[int, set[int]] = {}\n    for uid, item, state in df.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n        uid = int(uid)\n        item = int(item)\n        bucket = liked if state == \"liked\" else disliked\n        bucket.setdefault(uid, set()).add(item)\n    return liked, disliked\n\n\ndef read_events(split: str) -> dict[str, pd.DataFrame]:\n    frames = {}\n    for fam in (\"listens\", \"likes\", \"dislikes\", \"unlikes\", \"undislikes\"):\n        frames[fam] = pd.read_parquet(DATA / f\"{split}_{fam}.parquet\")\n    return frames\n\n\ndef concat_splits(names: list[str]) -> dict[str, pd.DataFrame]:\n    parts = [read_events(n) for n in names]\n    return {k: pd.concat([p[k] for p in parts], ignore_index=True) for k in parts[0]}\n\n\ndef decay_from_age(age_sec: np.ndarray, half_life_days: float) -> np.ndarray:\n    return np.exp(-np.log(2.0) * np.clip(age_sec, 0, None) / (half_life_days * DAY)).astype(\n        np.float32\n    )\n\n\ndef collect_listen_triples(\n    listens: pd.DataFrame, cutoff: int, min_ratio: int\n) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n    uid = listens.uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)\n    ts = listens.timestamp.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)\n    item = listens.item_id.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)\n    organic = listens.is_organic.to_numpy(dtype=np.int8)\n    ratio = listens.played_ratio_pct.to_numpy(dtype=np.int16)\n    cols = map_items(item)\n    keep = (ts <= cutoff) & (cols >= 0) & (ratio >= min_ratio)\n    return uid[keep], ts[keep], cols[keep], organic[keep], ratio[keep]\n\n\ndef collect_flag_triples(\n    frame: pd.DataFrame, cutoff: int\n) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n    uid = frame.uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)\n    ts = frame.timestamp.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)\n    cols = map_items(frame.item_id.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64))\n    organic = frame.is_organic.to_numpy(dtype=np.int8)\n    keep = (ts <= cutoff) & (cols >= 0)\n    return uid[keep], ts[keep], cols[keep], organic[keep]\n\n\ndef unique_sorted_uids(*arrays: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    return np.unique(np.concatenate(arrays))\n\n\ndef uid_mapper(uids: np.ndarray) -> dict[int, int]:\n    return {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(uids.tolist())}\n\n\ndef aggregate_pairs(\n    rows: np.ndarray,\n    cols: np.ndarray,\n    weights: np.ndarray,\n    n_rows: int,\n    n_cols: int,\n) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    if len(rows) == 0:\n        return sparse.csr_matrix((n_rows, n_cols), dtype=np.float32)\n    coo = sparse.coo_matrix((weights.astype(np.float32), (rows, cols)), shape=(n_rows, n_cols))\n    return coo.tocsr().astype(np.float32)\n\n\ndef build_matrices(\n    events: dict[str, pd.DataFrame],\n    cutoff: int,\n    all_uids: np.ndarray,\n) -> dict[str, sparse.csr_matrix | np.ndarray]:\n    umap = uid_mapper(all_uids)\n    n_users = len(all_uids)\n\n    lu, lts, lc, lo, lr = collect_listen_triples(events[\"listens\"], cutoff, min_ratio=1)\n    pu, pts, pc, po, pr = collect_listen_triples(events[\"listens\"], cutoff, min_ratio=LISTEN_POS)\n    su, sts, sc, so, sr = collect_listen_triples(events[\"listens\"], cutoff, min_ratio=LISTEN_STRONG)\n    ku, kts, kc, ko = collect_flag_triples(events[\"likes\"], cutoff)\n    du, dts, dc, do = collect_flag_triples(events[\"dislikes\"], cutoff)\n\n    def rows_of(uids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n        return np.fromiter((umap[int(u)] for u in uids), dtype=np.int32, count=len(uids))\n\n    def w_listen(ts, organic, ratio, half, org_boost: float, min_ratio: int) -> np.ndarray:\n        dec = decay_from_age(cutoff - ts, half)\n        org = np.where(organic == 1, org_boost, 1.0).astype(np.float32)\n        strength = np.clip(ratio.astype(np.float32) / 100.0, 0.05, 1.0)\n        strength = np.where(ratio >= min_ratio, strength, 0.1 * strength)\n        return (dec * org * strength).astype(np.float32)\n\n    lu_rows = rows_of(lu)\n    pu_rows = rows_of(pu)\n    su_rows = rows_of(su)\n    ku_rows = rows_of(ku)\n    du_rows = rows_of(du)\n\n    X_bin = aggregate_pairs(pu_rows, pc, np.ones(len(pc), dtype=np.float32), n_users, N_ITEMS)\n    X_bin.data = np.minimum(X_bin.data, 1.0)\n\n    X_org_bin = aggregate_pairs(\n        pu_rows[po == 1],\n        pc[po == 1],\n        np.ones((po == 1).sum(), dtype=np.float32),\n        n_users,\n        N_ITEMS,\n    )\n    X_org_bin.data = np.minimum(X_org_bin.data, 1.0)\n\n    X_strong_org = aggregate_pairs(\n        su_rows[so == 1],\n        sc[so == 1],\n        np.ones((so == 1).sum(), dtype=np.float32),\n        n_users,\n        N_ITEMS,\n    )\n    X_strong_org.data = np.minimum(X_strong_org.data, 1.0)\n\n    X_w14 = aggregate_pairs(\n        pu_rows, pc, w_listen(pts, po, pr, 14.0, 2.5, LISTEN_POS), n_users, N_ITEMS\n    )\n    X_w30 = aggregate_pairs(\n        pu_rows, pc, w_listen(pts, po, pr, 30.0, 2.0, LISTEN_POS), n_users, N_ITEMS\n    )\n    X_w7 = aggregate_pairs(\n        pu_rows, pc, w_listen(pts, po, pr, 7.0, 3.0, LISTEN_POS), n_users, N_ITEMS\n    )\n    X_org_w = aggregate_pairs(\n        pu_rows[po == 1],\n        pc[po == 1],\n        w_listen(pts[po == 1], po[po == 1], pr[po == 1], 21.0, 1.0, LISTEN_POS),\n        n_users,\n        N_ITEMS,\n    )\n\n    like_w = (\n        decay_from_age(cutoff - kts, 45.0)\n        * np.where(ko == 1, 6.0, 3.0).astype(np.float32)\n    )\n    X_like = aggregate_pairs(ku_rows, kc, like_w, n_users, N_ITEMS)\n    X_like_bin = aggregate_pairs(ku_rows, kc, np.ones(len(kc), dtype=np.float32), n_users, N_ITEMS)\n    X_like_bin.data = np.minimum(X_like_bin.data, 1.0)\n\n    X_org_like = aggregate_pairs(\n        ku_rows[ko == 1],\n        kc[ko == 1],\n        np.ones((ko == 1).sum(), dtype=np.float32),\n        n_users,\n        N_ITEMS,\n    )\n    X_org_like.data = np.minimum(X_org_like.data, 1.0)\n\n    # Boost likes into weighted profiles.\n    X_w14 = X_w14 + X_like\n    X_w30 = X_w30 + X_like\n    X_w7 = X_w7 + sparse.csr_matrix(\n        (\n            decay_from_age(cutoff - kts, 14.0) * np.where(ko == 1, 8.0, 3.5).astype(np.float32),\n            (ku_rows, kc),\n        ),\n        shape=(n_users, N_ITEMS),\n        dtype=np.float32,\n    )\n    X_org_w = X_org_w + X_org_like.multiply(4.0)\n\n    skip_mask = lr <= 20\n    X_skip = aggregate_pairs(\n        lu_rows[skip_mask],\n        lc[skip_mask],\n        decay_from_age(cutoff - lts[skip_mask], 30.0),\n        n_users,\n        N_ITEMS,\n    )\n\n    X_dis = aggregate_pairs(\n        du_rows, dc, decay_from_age(cutoff - dts, 60.0), n_users, N_ITEMS\n    )\n\n    # Session / sequential co-visitation on positive catalog listens.\n    session = _session_matrix(pu_rows, pts, pc, po, n_users)\n\n    pop7, pop30, pop_like, pop_org_strong = _popularity_vectors(\n        pts, pc, po, pr, kts, kc, ko, cutoff\n    )\n\n    return {\n        \"X_bin\": X_bin,\n        \"X_org_bin\": X_org_bin,\n        \"X_strong_org\": X_strong_org,\n        \"X_w7\": X_w7.tocsr(),\n        \"X_w14\": X_w14.tocsr(),\n        \"X_w30\": X_w30.tocsr(),\n        \"X_org_w\": X_org_w.tocsr(),\n        \"X_like_bin\": X_like_bin,\n        \"X_org_like\": X_org_like,\n        \"X_skip\": X_skip,\n        \"X_dis\": X_dis,\n        \"session\": session,\n        \"pop7\": pop7,\n        \"pop30\": pop30,\n        \"pop_like\": pop_like,\n        \"pop_org_strong\": pop_org_strong,\n    }\n\n\ndef _popularity_vectors(pts, pc, po, pr, kts, kc, ko, cutoff):\n    pop7 = np.zeros(N_ITEMS, dtype=np.float32)\n    pop30 = np.zeros(N_ITEMS, dtype=np.float32)\n    pop_org_strong = np.zeros(N_ITEMS, dtype=np.float32)\n    pop_like = np.zeros(N_ITEMS, dtype=np.float32)\n    rec7 = pts >= cutoff - 7 * DAY\n    rec30 = pts >= cutoff - 30 * DAY\n    strong_org = (po == 1) & (pr >= LISTEN_STRONG)\n    np.add.at(pop7, pc[rec7 & strong_org], 1.0)\n    np.add.at(pop30, pc[rec30 & strong_org], 1.0)\n    np.add.at(pop_org_strong, pc[strong_org], 1.0)\n    rec_like = (kts >= cutoff - 30 * DAY) & (ko == 1)\n    np.add.at(pop_like, kc[rec_like], 1.0)\n    return (\n        np.log1p(pop7),\n        np.log1p(pop30),\n        np.log1p(pop_like),\n        np.log1p(pop_org_strong),\n    )\n\n\ndef _session_matrix(rows, ts, cols, organic, n_users) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    order = np.lexsort((ts, rows))\n    rows, ts, cols, organic = rows[order], ts[order], cols[order], organic[order]\n    same = rows[1:] == rows[:-1]\n    dt = ts[1:] - ts[:-1]\n    close = (dt >= 0) & (dt <= 1800)\n    mask = same & close\n    src, dst = cols[:-1][mask], cols[1:][mask]\n    org_pair = ((organic[:-1] == 1) | (organic[1:] == 1))[mask]\n    w = np.where(org_pair, 1.5, 0.75).astype(np.float32)\n    w *= (1.0 / (1.0 + dt[mask] / 300.0)).astype(np.float32)\n    keep = src != dst\n    src, dst, w = src[keep], dst[keep], w[keep]\n    fwd = sparse.coo_matrix((w, (src, dst)), shape=(N_ITEMS, N_ITEMS))\n    # Symmetric short-window co-listen (album/artist clusters).\n    close2 = same & (dt >= 0) & (dt <= 240)\n    src2, dst2 = cols[:-1][close2], cols[1:][close2]\n    keep2 = src2 != dst2\n    w2 = np.ones(keep2.sum(), dtype=np.float32)\n    sym = sparse.coo_matrix((w2, (src2[keep2], dst2[keep2])), shape=(N_ITEMS, N_ITEMS))\n    S = (fwd + fwd.T.multiply(0.35) + (sym + sym.T)).tocsr()\n    S = _topk_sparse_rows(S, 150)\n    S = normalize(S, norm=\"l1\", axis=1, copy=False)\n    return S.astype(np.float32)\n\n\ndef _topk_sparse_rows(mat: sparse.csr_matrix, k: int) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    mat = mat.tocsr()\n    indptr = [0]\n    indices = []\n    data = []\n    for r in range(mat.shape[0]):\n        sl = slice(mat.indptr[r], mat.indptr[r + 1])\n        idx = mat.indices[sl]\n        val = mat.data[sl]\n        if idx.size == 0:\n            indptr.append(len(indices))\n            continue\n        if idx.size > k:\n            take = np.argpartition(val, -k)[-k:]\n            idx, val = idx[take], val[take]\n        indices.append(idx)\n        data.append(val)\n        indptr.append(len(indices) if not indices else indptr[-1] + idx.size)\n    # rebuild more carefully\n    indptr = [0]\n    indices_cat = []\n    data_cat = []\n    for r in range(mat.shape[0]):\n        sl = slice(mat.indptr[r], mat.indptr[r + 1])\n        idx = mat.indices[sl]\n        val = mat.data[sl]\n        if idx.size > k:\n            take = np.argpartition(val, -k)[-k:]\n            idx, val = idx[take], val[take]\n        indices_cat.append(idx)\n        data_cat.append(val)\n        indptr.append(indptr[-1] + idx.size)\n    if not indices_cat:\n        return sparse.csr_matrix(mat.shape, dtype=np.float32)\n    return sparse.csr_matrix(\n        (np.concatenate(data_cat), np.concatenate(indices_cat), np.asarray(indptr)),\n        shape=mat.shape,\n        dtype=np.float32,\n    )\n\n\ndef idf_weights(X: sparse.csr_matrix) -> np.ndarray:\n    df = np.asarray((X > 0).sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    n = X.shape[0]\n    return np.log((n + 1.0) / (df + 1.0)).astype(np.float32) + 1.0\n\n\ndef bm25_weight(X: sparse.csr_matrix, k1: float = 1.2, b: float = 0.75) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    \"\"\"BM25-weight a user-item CSR matrix (users as documents).\"\"\"\n    X = X.tocsr().astype(np.float32)\n    n_users, n_items = X.shape\n    dl = np.asarray(X.sum(axis=1)).ravel()\n    avgdl = float(dl.mean()) + 1e-6\n    df = np.bincount(X.indices, minlength=n_items).astype(np.float32)\n    idf = np.log((n_users - df + 0.5) / (df + 0.5) + 1.0).astype(np.float32)\n    X = X.copy()\n    for u in range(n_users):\n        sl = slice(X.indptr[u], X.indptr[u + 1])\n        tf = X.data[sl]\n        denom = tf + k1 * (1.0 - b + b * dl[u] / avgdl)\n        X.data[sl] = ((k1 + 1.0) * tf / denom) * idf[X.indices[sl]]\n    return X\n\n\ndef l2_normalize_columns(X: sparse.csr_matrix) -> np.ndarray:\n    Xc = X.tocsc().astype(np.float32)\n    norms = np.sqrt(np.asarray(Xc.power(2).sum(axis=0))).ravel()\n    norms = np.maximum(norms, 1e-8)\n    Xc = Xc.multiply(1.0 / norms)\n    return np.ascontiguousarray(Xc.toarray().T.astype(np.float32).T)  # users x items C-order\n\n\ndef column_normalized_dense(X: sparse.csr_matrix) -> np.ndarray:\n    dense = np.ascontiguousarray(X.astype(np.float32).toarray())\n    norms = np.sqrt((dense * dense).sum(axis=0, keepdims=True))\n    norms = np.maximum(norms, 1e-8)\n    dense /= norms\n    return dense\n\n\ndef score_item_cosine(profile: sparse.csr_matrix, item_user: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"profile: n_tgt x n_items, item_user: n_users x n_items with L2 columns.\"\"\"\n    mid = profile @ item_user.T\n    return np.ascontiguousarray(mid @ item_user, dtype=np.float32)\n\n\ndef score_rp3beta(\n    profile: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    X: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    beta: float,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"P3 * pop^{-beta} via user space: (p @ X_item_norm.T) @ X_user_norm.\"\"\"\n    X = X.tocsr().astype(np.float32)\n    item_pop = np.asarray(X.sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    user_deg = np.asarray(X.sum(axis=1)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    Xu = normalize(X, norm=\"l1\", axis=1)  # user -> item\n    Xi = X.multiply(1.0 / np.maximum(item_pop, 1e-8))  # item -> user (col L1)\n    Xi = Xi.tocsr()\n    # p @ Xi.T : n_tgt x n_users  (profile lives on items)\n    # Xi is users x items, columns scale 1/pop, so Xi.T is items x users\n    mid = profile @ Xi.T  # tgt x users\n    scores = mid @ Xu  # tgt x items\n    scores = np.ascontiguousarray(scores, dtype=np.float32)\n    scores *= np.power(np.maximum(item_pop, 1.0), -beta).astype(np.float32)\n    return scores\n\n\ndef score_user_knn(\n    profile: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    X: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    target_rows: np.ndarray,\n    k: int = 80,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    Xn = normalize(X.astype(np.float32), norm=\"l2\", axis=1)\n    Pn = normalize(profile.astype(np.float32), norm=\"l2\", axis=1)\n    sim = Pn @ Xn.T  # tgt x users\n    if sparse.issparse(sim):\n        sim = sim.toarray()\n    sim = np.ascontiguousarray(sim, dtype=np.float32)\n    sim[np.arange(len(target_rows)), target_rows] = -1.0\n    k = min(k, sim.shape[1] - 1)\n    idx = np.argpartition(-sim, k, axis=1)[:, :k]\n    rows = np.repeat(np.arange(sim.shape[0]), k)\n    cols = idx.ravel()\n    vals = sim[np.arange(sim.shape[0])[:, None], idx].ravel()\n    vals = np.clip(vals, 0.0, None)\n    Sk = sparse.csr_matrix((vals, (rows, cols)), shape=sim.shape, dtype=np.float32)\n    scores = Sk @ X.astype(np.float32)\n    if sparse.issparse(scores):\n        scores = scores.toarray()\n    return np.ascontiguousarray(scores, dtype=np.float32)\n\n\ndef score_svd(X: sparse.csr_matrix, target_rows: np.ndarray, n_comp: int = 128) -> np.ndarray:\n    n_comp = min(n_comp, min(X.shape) - 1)\n    svd = TruncatedSVD(n_components=n_comp, random_state=42, n_iter=7)\n    user_f = svd.fit_transform(X.astype(np.float32))  # n_users x f  (U * S)\n    item_f = svd.components_.astype(np.float32)  # f x n_items\n    scores = user_f[target_rows] @ item_f\n    return np.ascontiguousarray(scores, dtype=np.float32)\n\n\ndef implicit_als(\n    R: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    target_rows: np.ndarray,\n    factors: int = 64,\n    iterations: int = 8,\n    alpha: float = 20.0,\n    reg: float = 0.15,\n    seed: int = 0,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    R = R.tocsr().astype(np.float32)\n    Rt = R.T.tocsr()\n    n_users, n_items = R.shape\n    rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)\n    X = rng.normal(0.0, 0.01, size=(n_users, factors)).astype(np.float64)\n    Y = rng.normal(0.0, 0.01, size=(n_items, factors)).astype(np.float64)\n\n    def _update(factors_out, other, mat, n_entity):\n        YtY = other.T @ other\n        eye = np.eye(factors, dtype=np.float64) * reg\n        for i in range(n_entity):\n            sl = slice(mat.indptr[i], mat.indptr[i + 1])\n            idx = mat.indices[sl]\n            if idx.size == 0:\n                factors_out[i] = 0.0\n                continue\n            data = mat.data[sl].astype(np.float64)\n            c = 1.0 + alpha * data\n            Y_i = other[idx]\n            A = YtY + Y_i.T @ ((c - 1.0)[:, None] * Y_i) + eye\n            b = Y_i.T @ c\n            try:\n                factors_out[i] = np.linalg.solve(A, b)\n            except np.linalg.LinAlgError:\n                factors_out[i] = np.linalg.lstsq(A, b, rcond=None)[0]\n\n    t0 = time.time()\n    for it in range(iterations):\n        _update(X, Y, R, n_users)\n        _update(Y, X, Rt, n_items)\n        log(f\"  ALS iter {it + 1}/{iterations} ({time.time() - t0:.1f}s)\")\n    scores = X[target_rows] @ Y.T\n    return np.ascontiguousarray(scores, dtype=np.float32)\n\n\ndef zscore_masked(scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    scores = scores.astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n    el = eligible\n    cnt = el.sum(axis=1, keepdims=True).astype(np.float32)\n    cnt = np.maximum(cnt, 1.0)\n    mean = np.where(el, scores, 0.0).sum(axis=1, keepdims=True) / cnt\n    diff = np.where(el, scores - mean, 0.0)\n    std = np.sqrt((diff * diff).sum(axis=1, keepdims=True) / cnt)\n    z = np.where(el, (scores - mean) / (std + 1e-6), 0.0)\n    return z.astype(np.float32)\n\n\ndef apply_ineligible(scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    out = scores.astype(np.float32, copy=True)\n    out[~eligible] = -1e9\n    # tiny popularity tie-break\n    out += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)\n    return out\n\n\ndef topk_indices(scores: np.ndarray, k: int = TOP_N) -> np.ndarray:\n    idx = np.argpartition(-scores, kth=k - 1, axis=1)[:, :k]\n    row = np.arange(scores.shape[0])[:, None]\n    part = scores[row, idx]\n    order = np.argsort(-part, axis=1)\n    return idx[row, order]\n\n\ndef ranking_frame(uids: np.ndarray, item_idx: np.ndarray) -> pd.DataFrame:\n    n_users, k = item_idx.shape\n    return pd.DataFrame(\n        {\n            \"uid\": np.repeat(uids, k).astype(np.int64),\n            \"item_id\": ITEM_IDS[item_idx.reshape(-1)].astype(np.int64),\n            \"rank\": np.tile(np.arange(1, k + 1, dtype=np.int64), n_users),\n        }\n    )\n\n\ndef save_ranking(df: pd.DataFrame, path: Path) -> None:\n    df.to_parquet(path, index=False)\n    log(f\"wrote {path} rows={len(df)}\")\n\n\ndef validation_graded(eligible: np.ndarray) -> dict[int, dict[int, int]]:\n    uid_row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(TARGET_UIDS)}\n    listens = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_listens.parquet\")\n    likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / \"val_likes.parquet\")\n    targets = set(map(int, TARGET_UIDS))\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    for uid, item in strong.itertuples(index=False, name=None):\n        uid, item = int(uid), int(item)\n        r = uid_row.get(uid)\n        c = ITEM_INV[item] if 0 <= item < len(ITEM_INV) else -1\n        if r is None or c < 0 or not eligible[r, c]:\n            continue\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        r = uid_row.get(uid)\n        c = ITEM_INV[item] if 0 <= item < len(ITEM_INV) else -1\n        if r is None or c < 0 or not eligible[r, c]:\n            continue\n        graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 3\n    return graded\n\n\ndef ndcg_from_indices(item_idx: np.ndarray, graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]]) -> float:\n    uid_row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(TARGET_UIDS)}\n    scores = []\n    for uid, gold in graded.items():\n        ranked = ITEM_IDS[item_idx[uid_row[uid]]].tolist()\n        scores.append(ndcg_at_k(ranked, gold, QUALITY_K))\n    return float(np.mean(scores)) if scores else 0.0\n\n\ndef write_pop_ranking(eligible: np.ndarray, path: Path, uids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    scores = np.broadcast_to(POP_SCORE, (len(uids), N_ITEMS)).copy()\n    scores = apply_ineligible(scores, eligible)\n    idx = topk_indices(scores, TOP_N)\n    save_ranking(ranking_frame(uids, idx), path)\n    return idx\n\n\ndef target_slice(mat: sparse.csr_matrix, target_rows: np.ndarray) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    return mat[target_rows]\n\n\ndef scale_profile_idf(P: sparse.csr_matrix, idf: np.ndarray) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    return P.multiply(idf).tocsr()\n\n\ndef build_score_bank(\n    mats: dict,\n    target_rows: np.ndarray,\n    eligible: np.ndarray,\n    als: bool = True,\n) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:\n    X_bin = mats[\"X_bin\"]\n    X_org = mats[\"X_org_bin\"]\n    X_strong = mats[\"X_strong_org\"]\n    X_w7 = mats[\"X_w7\"]\n    X_w14 = mats[\"X_w14\"]\n    X_w30 = mats[\"X_w30\"]\n    X_org_w = mats[\"X_org_w\"]\n    X_like = mats[\"X_like_bin\"]\n    session = mats[\"session\"]\n\n    P14 = target_slice(X_w14, target_rows)\n    P7 = target_slice(X_w7, target_rows)\n    P30 = target_slice(X_w30, target_rows)\n    Porg = target_slice(X_org_w, target_rows)\n    Plike = target_slice(X_like, target_rows)\n\n    bank: dict[str, np.ndarray] = {}\n\n    log(\"column-normalize binary / organic matrices\")\n    Xn_bin = column_normalized_dense(X_bin)\n    log(\"item-cosine full profile\")\n    idf_bin = idf_weights(X_bin)\n    scores = score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P14, idf_bin), Xn_bin)\n    bank[\"knn14\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores\n    log(\"item-cosine recent profile\")\n    scores = score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P7, idf_bin), Xn_bin)\n    bank[\"knn7\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores\n    log(\"item-cosine 30d profile\")\n    scores = score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P30, idf_bin), Xn_bin)\n    bank[\"knn30\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores, Xn_bin\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"organic item-cosine\")\n    Xn_org = column_normalized_dense(X_org + X_like)\n    idf_org = idf_weights(X_org + X_like)\n    scores = score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(Porg, idf_org), Xn_org)\n    bank[\"knn_org\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores, Xn_org\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"BM25 item-cosine\")\n    X_bm = bm25_weight(X_bin + X_like.multiply(2.0))\n    Xn_bm = column_normalized_dense(X_bm)\n    scores = score_item_cosine(P14, Xn_bm)\n    bank[\"bm25\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores, Xn_bm, X_bm\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"RP3beta\")\n    scores = score_rp3beta(P14, X_bin + X_like, beta=0.4)\n    bank[\"rp3\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores\n    scores = score_rp3beta(Porg, X_org + X_like, beta=0.55)\n    bank[\"rp3_org\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"user-kNN\")\n    scores = score_user_knn(P14, X_bin + X_like.multiply(1.5), target_rows, k=90)\n    bank[\"uknn\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"SVD\")\n    X_svd = bm25_weight(X_w30 + X_like.multiply(2.0))\n    scores = score_svd(X_svd, target_rows, n_comp=128)\n    bank[\"svd\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores\n    scores = score_svd(bm25_weight(X_org_w + X_like.multiply(3.0)), target_rows, n_comp=96)\n    bank[\"svd_org\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores, X_svd\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"session expansion\")\n    sess_scores = P7 @ session\n    if sparse.issparse(sess_scores):\n        sess_scores = sess_scores.toarray()\n    bank[\"session\"] = zscore_masked(np.ascontiguousarray(sess_scores, dtype=np.float32), eligible)\n    del sess_scores\n    sess_scores = P14 @ session\n    if sparse.issparse(sess_scores):\n        sess_scores = sess_scores.toarray()\n    bank[\"session14\"] = zscore_masked(np.ascontiguousarray(sess_scores, dtype=np.float32), eligible)\n    del sess_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"like-knn\")\n    if X_like.nnz > 0:\n        Xn_like = column_normalized_dense(X_like + X_strong.multiply(0.25))\n        scores = score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(Plike + Porg.multiply(0.15), idf_weights(X_like + 1e-6)), Xn_like)\n        bank[\"like_knn\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n        del scores, Xn_like\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"popularity features\")\n    bank[\"pop\"] = zscore_masked(np.broadcast_to(POP_SCORE, (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n    bank[\"pop7\"] = zscore_masked(np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop7\"], (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n    bank[\"pop30\"] = zscore_masked(np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop30\"], (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n    bank[\"pop_like\"] = zscore_masked(\n        np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop_like\"], (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible\n    )\n    bank[\"pop_org\"] = zscore_masked(\n        np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop_org_strong\"], (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible\n    )\n\n    skip_item = np.asarray(mats[\"X_skip\"].sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    listen_item = np.asarray(X_bin.sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    skip_rate = skip_item / np.maximum(skip_item + listen_item, 1.0)\n    bank[\"skip_pen\"] = zscore_masked(\n        np.broadcast_to(-skip_rate, (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible\n    )\n\n    if als:\n        log(\"implicit ALS\")\n        R = (X_w14 + X_like.multiply(2.0) + X_org_w.multiply(0.5)).tocsr()\n        R.data = np.maximum(R.data, 0.0)\n        try:\n            scores = implicit_als(R, target_rows, factors=48, iterations=7, alpha=25.0, reg=0.2)\n            bank[\"als\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n            del scores\n        except Exception as exc:\n            log(f\"ALS failed: {exc}\")\n        del R\n        gc.collect()\n\n    return bank\n\n\ndef blend_equal(bank: dict[str, np.ndarray], keys: list[str], weights: list[float] | None = None) -> np.ndarray:\n    acc = None\n    if weights is None:\n        weights = [1.0] * len(keys)\n    for k, w in zip(keys, weights):\n        if k not in bank or w == 0:\n            continue\n        acc = bank[k] * w if acc is None else acc + bank[k] * w\n    return acc\n\n\ndef sample_ridge_dataset(\n    bank: dict[str, np.ndarray],\n    keys: list[str],\n    graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]],\n    eligible: np.ndarray,\n    rng: np.random.Generator,\n    n_neg: int = 60,\n) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n    uid_row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(TARGET_UIDS)}\n    xs = []\n    ys = []\n    ws = []\n    for uid, gold in graded.items():\n        r = uid_row[uid]\n        pos_cols = []\n        pos_grades = []\n        for item, grade in gold.items():\n            c = int(ITEM_INV[item]) if item < len(ITEM_INV) else -1\n            if c >= 0 and eligible[r, c]:\n                pos_cols.append(c)\n                pos_grades.append(grade)\n        if not pos_cols:\n            continue\n        el_idx = np.flatnonzero(eligible[r])\n        pos_set = set(pos_cols)\n        neg_pool = el_idx[np.fromiter((c not in pos_set for c in el_idx), dtype=bool, count=len(el_idx))]\n        if len(neg_pool) == 0:\n            continue\n        take = min(n_neg, len(neg_pool))\n        # mix random and hard (high knn) negatives\n        n_rand = take // 2\n        n_hard = take - n_rand\n        rand_cols = rng.choice(neg_pool, size=n_rand, replace=False)\n        knn_key = \"knn14\" if \"knn14\" in bank else keys[0]\n        hard_scores = bank[knn_key][r, neg_pool]\n        hard_idx = np.argpartition(-hard_scores, min(n_hard, len(neg_pool) - 1))[:n_hard]\n        hard_cols = neg_pool[hard_idx]\n        cols = np.concatenate([np.asarray(pos_cols, dtype=np.int32), rand_cols.astype(np.int32), hard_cols.astype(np.int32)])\n        grades = np.concatenate(\n            [np.asarray(pos_grades, dtype=np.float32), np.zeros(len(rand_cols) + len(hard_cols), dtype=np.float32)]\n        )\n        feat = np.stack([bank[k][r, cols] for k in keys], axis=1)\n        xs.append(feat)\n        ys.append(grades)\n        wrow = np.where(grades >= 3, 4.0, np.where(grades >= 1, 1.5, 1.0)).astype(np.float32)\n        ws.append(wrow)\n    X = np.concatenate(xs, axis=0)\n    y = np.concatenate(ys, axis=0)\n    w = np.concatenate(ws, axis=0)\n    return X, y, w\n\n\ndef ridge_weights(bank, keys, graded, eligible) -> np.ndarray:\n    rng = np.random.default_rng(42)\n    X, y, w = sample_ridge_dataset(bank, keys, graded, eligible, rng)\n    y_bin = (y > 0).astype(np.float32)\n    y_gain = np.where(y >= 3, 7.0, y).astype(np.float32)\n    model = Ridge(alpha=15.0, random_state=42)\n    model.fit(X, y_gain, sample_weight=w)\n    coef = model.coef_.astype(np.float64)\n    log(f\"ridge coefs: {list(zip(keys, np.round(coef, 4)))} intercept={model.intercept_:.4f}\")\n    return coef\n\n\ndef scores_to_ranking(scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    return topk_indices(apply_ineligible(scores, eligible), TOP_N)\n\n\ndef rrf_from_bank(bank: dict[str, np.ndarray], keys: list[str], eligible: np.ndarray, k: int = 60, topm: int = 400) -> np.ndarray:\n    n = next(iter(bank.values())).shape[0]\n    acc = np.zeros((n, N_ITEMS), dtype=np.float32)\n    for key in keys:\n        s = apply_ineligible(bank[key], eligible)\n        idx = np.argpartition(-s, kth=topm - 1, axis=1)[:, :topm]\n        row = np.arange(n)[:, None]\n        order = np.argsort(-s[row, idx], axis=1)\n        ranked = idx[row, order]\n        ranks = np.empty_like(ranked)\n        ranks[row, ranked.argsort(axis=1)] = np.arange(topm, dtype=np.int32)\n        # only the topm get rrf credit; reconstruct via scatter\n        contrib = 1.0 / (k + 1.0 + np.arange(topm, dtype=np.float32))\n        for i in range(n):\n            acc[i, ranked[i]] += contrib\n    return acc\n\n\ndef main() -> None:\n    t_all = time.time()\n    log(\"loading eligibility + preference\")\n    val_el = load_eligibility(DATA / \"validation_eligible_candidates.npz\", TARGET_UIDS)\n    test_el = load_eligibility(DATA / \"test_eligible_candidates.npz\", TARGET_UIDS)\n\n    log(\"writing popularity fallback submissions\")\n    write_pop_ranking(test_el, OUT / \"submission.parquet\", TARGET_UIDS)\n    pop_val_idx = write_pop_ranking(val_el, OUT / \"validation.parquet\", TARGET_UIDS)\n\n    log(\"loading train events\")\n    train_events = read_events(\"train\")\n    log(\"building validation-cutoff matrices\")\n    all_uids = unique_sorted_uids(\n        TARGET_UIDS,\n        train_events[\"listens\"].uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64),\n        train_events[\"likes\"].uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64),\n    )\n    uid_index = uid_mapper(all_uids)\n    target_rows = np.array([uid_index[int(u)] for u in TARGET_UIDS], dtype=np.int32)\n    mats = build_matrices(train_events, TRAIN_CUTOFF, all_uids)\n    log(\"score bank (validation cutoff)\")\n    bank = build_score_bank(mats, target_rows, val_el, als=True)\n\n    graded = validation_graded(val_el)\n    log(f\"validation users with relevance: {len(graded)}\")\n    pop_ndcg = ndcg_from_indices(pop_val_idx, graded)\n    log(f\"popularity NDCG@10={pop_ndcg:.6f}\")\n\n    method_ndcg = {}\n    for key in bank:\n        idx = scores_to_ranking(bank[key], val_el)\n        method_ndcg[key] = ndcg_from_indices(idx, graded)\n        log(f\"  {key:12s} NDCG@10={method_ndcg[key]:.6f}\")\n\n    cf_keys = [\n        k\n        for k in [\n            \"knn14\",\n            \"knn7\",\n            \"knn30\",\n            \"knn_org\",\n            \"bm25\",\n            \"rp3\",\n            \"rp3_org\",\n            \"uknn\",\n            \"svd\",\n            \"svd_org\",\n            \"session\",\n            \"session14\",\n            \"like_knn\",\n            \"als\",\n        ]\n        if k in bank\n    ]\n    pop_keys = [k for k in [\"pop7\", \"pop30\", \"pop_like\", \"pop_org\", \"skip_pen\", \"pop\"] if k in bank]\n    keys = cf_keys + pop_keys\n\n    # NDCG-weighted z blend (unsupervised, honest)\n    ndcgs = np.array([method_ndcg[k] for k in keys], dtype=np.float64)\n    w_ndcg = np.clip(ndcgs - pop_ndcg, 0, None)\n    w_ndcg = w_ndcg / (w_ndcg.sum() + 1e-9)\n    # boost methods clearly above median\n    med = np.median(ndcgs)\n    w_ndcg = w_ndcg * (1.0 + 1.5 * (ndcgs > med))\n    w_ndcg = w_ndcg / (w_ndcg.sum() + 1e-9)\n    log(f\"ndcg weights: {list(zip(keys, np.round(w_ndcg, 4)))}\")\n    blend_ndcg_scores = blend_equal(bank, keys, w_ndcg.tolist())\n    idx_ndcg = scores_to_ranking(blend_ndcg_scores, val_el)\n    ndcg_w = ndcg_from_indices(idx_ndcg, graded)\n    log(f\"ndcg-weighted blend NDCG@10={ndcg_w:.6f}\")\n\n    # equal top methods\n    top_methods = [k for k, _ in sorted(method_ndcg.items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1])[:8]]\n    idx_eq = scores_to_ranking(blend_equal(bank, top_methods), val_el)\n    ndcg_eq = ndcg_from_indices(idx_eq, graded)\n    log(f\"equal top8 {top_methods} NDCG@10={ndcg_eq:.6f}\")\n\n    # ridge on val labels\n    coef = ridge_weights(bank, keys, graded, val_el)\n    blend_ridge = blend_equal(bank, keys, coef.tolist())\n    idx_ridge = scores_to_ranking(blend_ridge, val_el)\n    ndcg_ridge = ndcg_from_indices(idx_ridge, graded)\n    log(f\"ridge blend NDCG@10={ndcg_ridge:.6f}\")\n\n    # RRF of strongest methods\n    rrf_keys = [k for k, _ in sorted(method_ndcg.items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1])[:10]]\n    rrf_scores = rrf_from_bank(bank, rrf_keys, val_el)\n    idx_rrf = scores_to_ranking(rrf_scores, val_el)\n    ndcg_rrf = ndcg_from_indices(idx_rrf, graded)\n    log(f\"RRF top10 NDCG@10={ndcg_rrf:.6f}\")\n\n    # hybrid: ridge + small ndcg-weighted\n    hybrid = blend_ridge + 0.35 * blend_ndcg_scores\n    idx_hyb = scores_to_ranking(hybrid, val_el)\n    ndcg_hyb = ndcg_from_indices(idx_hyb, graded)\n    log(f\"hybrid ridge+ndcg NDCG@10={ndcg_hyb:.6f}\")\n\n    candidates = {\n        \"ndcg_w\": (ndcg_w, idx_ndcg, \"ndcg\", w_ndcg, keys),\n        \"equal\": (ndcg_eq, idx_eq, \"equal\", np.ones(len(top_methods)), top_methods),\n        \"ridge\": (ndcg_ridge, idx_ridge, \"ridge\", coef, keys),\n        \"rrf\": (ndcg_rrf, idx_rrf, \"rrf\", None, rrf_keys),\n        \"hybrid\": (ndcg_hyb, idx_hyb, \"hybrid\", coef, keys),\n    }\n    best_name, (best_ndcg, best_idx, best_kind, best_coef, best_keys) = max(\n        candidates.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[1][0]\n    )\n    log(f\"selected validation blend={best_name} NDCG@10={best_ndcg:.6f}\")\n    save_ranking(ranking_frame(TARGET_UIDS, best_idx), OUT / \"validation.parquet\")\n\n    # Free validation bank before refit\n    del bank, mats, blend_ndcg_scores, blend_ridge, hybrid, rrf_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"loading val events for refit\")\n    all_events = concat_splits([\"train\", \"val\"])\n    all_uids2 = unique_sorted_uids(\n        TARGET_UIDS,\n        all_events[\"listens\"].uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64),\n        all_events[\"likes\"].uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64),\n    )\n    uid_index2 = uid_mapper(all_uids2)\n    target_rows2 = np.array([uid_index2[int(u)] for u in TARGET_UIDS], dtype=np.int32)\n    log(\"building test-cutoff matrices (train+val)\")\n    mats2 = build_matrices(all_events, VAL_END, all_uids2)\n    log(\"score bank (test cutoff)\")\n    bank2 = build_score_bank(mats2, target_rows2, test_el, als=True)\n\n    if best_kind == \"rrf\":\n        test_scores = rrf_from_bank(bank2, best_keys, test_el)\n    elif best_kind == \"hybrid\":\n        test_scores = blend_equal(bank2, keys, coef.tolist()) + 0.35 * blend_equal(\n            bank2, keys, w_ndcg.tolist()\n        )\n    elif best_kind == \"equal\":\n        test_scores = blend_equal(bank2, best_keys)\n    elif best_kind == \"ndcg\":\n        test_scores = blend_equal(bank2, best_keys, np.asarray(best_coef).tolist())\n    else:\n        test_scores = blend_equal(bank2, best_keys, np.asarray(best_coef).tolist())\n\n    # extra insurance: if a method is missing after refit, skip\n    test_idx = scores_to_ranking(test_scores, test_el)\n    save_ranking(ranking_frame(TARGET_UIDS, test_idx), OUT / \"submission.parquet\")\n    log(f\"done in {time.time() - t_all:.1f}s  val_best={best_name} {best_ndcg:.6f}\")\n\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n    main()\n"
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A bug remains in `_topk_sparse_rows` from leftover messy code.

I’m fixing slow ID mapping, the sparse top-k helper, and ALS so the first full run stays inside the time budget.

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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def uid_mapper(uids: np.ndarray) -> dict[int, int]:\n    return {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(uids.tolist())}",
  "new_string": "def uid_mapper(uids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    inv = np.full(int(uids.max()) + 1, -1, dtype=np.int32)\n    inv[uids] = np.arange(len(uids), dtype=np.int32)\n    return inv"
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    umap = uid_mapper(all_uids)\n    n_users = len(all_uids)",
  "new_string": "    umap = uid_mapper(all_uids)\n    n_users = len(all_uids)"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    def rows_of(uids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n        return np.fromiter((umap[int(u)] for u in uids), dtype=np.int32, count=len(uids))",
  "new_string": "    def rows_of(uids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n        return umap[uids]"
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def _topk_sparse_rows(mat: sparse.csr_matrix, k: int) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    mat = mat.tocsr()\n    indptr = [0]\n    indices = []\n    data = []\n    for r in range(mat.shape[0]):\n        sl = slice(mat.indptr[r], mat.indptr[r + 1])\n        idx = mat.indices[sl]\n        val = mat.data[sl]\n        if idx.size == 0:\n            indptr.append(len(indices))\n            continue\n        if idx.size > k:\n            take = np.argpartition(val, -k)[-k:]\n            idx, val = idx[take], val[take]\n        indices.append(idx)\n        data.append(val)\n        indptr.append(len(indices) if not indices else indptr[-1] + idx.size)\n    # rebuild more carefully\n    indptr = [0]\n    indices_cat = []\n    data_cat = []\n    for r in range(mat.shape[0]):\n        sl = slice(mat.indptr[r], mat.indptr[r + 1])\n        idx = mat.indices[sl]\n        val = mat.data[sl]\n        if idx.size > k:\n            take = np.argpartition(val, -k)[-k:]\n            idx, val = idx[take], val[take]\n        indices_cat.append(idx)\n        data_cat.append(val)\n        indptr.append(indptr[-1] + idx.size)\n    if not indices_cat:\n        return sparse.csr_matrix(mat.shape, dtype=np.float32)\n    return sparse.csr_matrix(\n        (np.concatenate(data_cat), np.concatenate(indices_cat), np.asarray(indptr)),\n        shape=mat.shape,\n        dtype=np.float32,\n    )",
  "new_string": "def _topk_sparse_rows(mat: sparse.csr_matrix, k: int) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    mat = mat.tocsr()\n    indptr = [0]\n    indices_cat = []\n    data_cat = []\n    for r in range(mat.shape[0]):\n        sl = slice(mat.indptr[r], mat.indptr[r + 1])\n        idx = mat.indices[sl]\n        val = mat.data[sl]\n        if idx.size > k:\n            take = np.argpartition(val, -k)[-k:]\n            idx, val = idx[take], val[take]\n        indices_cat.append(idx)\n        data_cat.append(val)\n        indptr.append(indptr[-1] + int(idx.size))\n    if not indices_cat:\n        return sparse.csr_matrix(mat.shape, dtype=np.float32)\n    return sparse.csr_matrix(\n        (np.concatenate(data_cat), np.concatenate(indices_cat), np.asarray(indptr, dtype=np.int32)),\n        shape=mat.shape,\n        dtype=np.float32,\n    )"
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "from sklearn.decomposition import TruncatedSVD\nfrom sklearn.linear_model import Ridge\nfrom sklearn.preprocessing import normalize",
  "new_string": "from joblib import Parallel, delayed\nfrom sklearn.decomposition import TruncatedSVD\nfrom sklearn.linear_model import Ridge\nfrom sklearn.preprocessing import normalize"
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{
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  "old_string": "def implicit_als(\n    R: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    target_rows: np.ndarray,\n    factors: int = 64,\n    iterations: int = 8,\n    alpha: float = 20.0,\n    reg: float = 0.15,\n    seed: int = 0,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    R = R.tocsr().astype(np.float32)\n    Rt = R.T.tocsr()\n    n_users, n_items = R.shape\n    rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)\n    X = rng.normal(0.0, 0.01, size=(n_users, factors)).astype(np.float64)\n    Y = rng.normal(0.0, 0.01, size=(n_items, factors)).astype(np.float64)\n\n    def _update(factors_out, other, mat, n_entity):\n        YtY = other.T @ other\n        eye = np.eye(factors, dtype=np.float64) * reg\n        for i in range(n_entity):\n            sl = slice(mat.indptr[i], mat.indptr[i + 1])\n            idx = mat.indices[sl]\n            if idx.size == 0:\n                factors_out[i] = 0.0\n                continue\n            data = mat.data[sl].astype(np.float64)\n            c = 1.0 + alpha * data\n            Y_i = other[idx]\n            A = YtY + Y_i.T @ ((c - 1.0)[:, None] * Y_i) + eye\n            b = Y_i.T @ c\n            try:\n                factors_out[i] = np.linalg.solve(A, b)\n            except np.linalg.LinAlgError:\n                factors_out[i] = np.linalg.lstsq(A, b, rcond=None)[0]\n\n    t0 = time.time()\n    for it in range(iterations):\n        _update(X, Y, R, n_users)\n        _update(Y, X, Rt, n_items)\n        log(f\"  ALS iter {it + 1}/{iterations} ({time.time() - t0:.1f}s)\")\n    scores = X[target_rows] @ Y.T\n    return np.ascontiguousarray(scores, dtype=np.float32)",
  "new_string": "def _als_block(start, end, other, indptr, indices, data, alpha, reg, factors):\n    YtY = other.T @ other\n    eye = np.eye(factors, dtype=np.float64) * reg\n    out = np.zeros((end - start, factors), dtype=np.float64)\n    for i in range(start, end):\n        sl = slice(int(indptr[i]), int(indptr[i + 1]))\n        idx = indices[sl]\n        if idx.size == 0:\n            continue\n        c = 1.0 + alpha * data[sl]\n        Y_i = other[idx]\n        A = YtY + Y_i.T @ ((c - 1.0)[:, None] * Y_i) + eye\n        b = Y_i.T @ c\n        try:\n            out[i - start] = np.linalg.solve(A, b)\n        except np.linalg.LinAlgError:\n            out[i - start] = np.linalg.lstsq(A, b, rcond=None)[0]\n    return out\n\n\ndef implicit_als(\n    R: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    target_rows: np.ndarray,\n    factors: int = 48,\n    iterations: int = 6,\n    alpha: float = 20.0,\n    reg: float = 0.15,\n    seed: int = 0,\n    n_jobs: int = 8,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    R = R.tocsr().astype(np.float32)\n    Rt = R.T.tocsr()\n    n_users, n_items = R.shape\n    rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)\n    X = rng.normal(0.0, 0.01, size=(n_users, factors)).astype(np.float64)\n    Y = rng.normal(0.0, 0.01, size=(n_items, factors)).astype(np.float64)\n\n    def _update(factors_out, other, mat, n_entity):\n        step = max(1, int(np.ceil(n_entity / n_jobs)))\n        blocks = Parallel(n_jobs=n_jobs, backend=\"loky\")(\n            delayed(_als_block)(\n                s,\n                min(s + step, n_entity),\n                other,\n                mat.indptr,\n                mat.indices,\n                mat.data.astype(np.float64, copy=False),\n                alpha,\n                reg,\n                factors,\n            )\n            for s in range(0, n_entity, step)\n        )\n        factors_out[:] = np.vstack(blocks)\n\n    t0 = time.time()\n    for it in range(iterations):\n        _update(X, Y, R, n_users)\n        _update(Y, X, Rt, n_items)\n        log(f\"  ALS iter {it + 1}/{iterations} ({time.time() - t0:.1f}s)\")\n    scores = X[target_rows] @ Y.T\n    return np.ascontiguousarray(scores, dtype=np.float32)"
}
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### Recorded reasoning summary
Fixing uid_index usage in main() to match the new array format.

Fixing like_knn IDF weights and sample_ridge_dataset's slow fromiter. Removing unused l2_normalize_columns. Confirmed joblib array copying is acceptable.

Switching ALS joblib backend from loky to threading. Pickling large matrices 8 times per update is too expensive. Threading avoids copies and numpy releases the GIL during solves. Rough timing estimates suggest each iteration takes about 20–40 seconds.



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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "        blocks = Parallel(n_jobs=n_jobs, backend=\"loky\")(",
  "new_string": "        blocks = Parallel(n_jobs=n_jobs, backend=\"threading\")("
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "            scores = implicit_als(R, target_rows, factors=48, iterations=7, alpha=25.0, reg=0.2)",
  "new_string": "            scores = implicit_als(R, target_rows, factors=40, iterations=5, alpha=25.0, reg=0.2)"
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "        scores = score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(Plike + Porg.multiply(0.15), idf_weights(X_like + 1e-6)), Xn_like)",
  "new_string": "        like_idf = idf_weights(X_like)\n        scores = score_item_cosine(\n            scale_profile_idf(Plike + Porg.multiply(0.15), like_idf), Xn_like\n        )"
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "        el_idx = np.flatnonzero(eligible[r])\n        pos_set = set(pos_cols)\n        neg_pool = el_idx[np.fromiter((c not in pos_set for c in el_idx), dtype=bool, count=len(el_idx))]",
  "new_string": "        el_idx = np.flatnonzero(eligible[r])\n        pos_mask = np.zeros(N_ITEMS, dtype=bool)\n        pos_mask[np.asarray(pos_cols, dtype=np.int32)] = True\n        neg_pool = el_idx[~pos_mask[el_idx]]"
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    uid_index = uid_mapper(all_uids)\n    target_rows = np.array([uid_index[int(u)] for u in TARGET_UIDS], dtype=np.int32)",
  "new_string": "    uid_index = uid_mapper(all_uids)\n    target_rows = uid_index[TARGET_UIDS]"
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    uid_index2 = uid_mapper(all_uids2)\n    target_rows2 = np.array([uid_index2[int(u)] for u in TARGET_UIDS], dtype=np.int32)",
  "new_string": "    uid_index2 = uid_mapper(all_uids2)\n    target_rows2 = uid_index2[TARGET_UIDS]"
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### Recorded reasoning summary
Unused `l2_normalize_columns` and `y_bin` variables remain in the ridge code.

RP3Beta and user KNN score matrices are sparse CSR. Converting to dense arrays is needed before NumPy operations.

RP3Beta will convert the item-user matrix to dense before scoring. Item popularity and user normalization are computed from the sparse input.

RP3Beta will keep the item-user matrix sparse and convert only the profile and user matrices to dense arrays. This limits memory to about 1.4 GB instead of 2.2 GB. The item cosine scorer is also being updated.

Item cosine scoring will use a dense item-user matrix. Peak memory is estimated at roughly 2.5 GB, which fits within the available limit. BM25 and session matrix construction are expected to run quickly. The unused `user_deg` variable in `score_rp3beta` also needs removal.

`collect_listen_triples` is called three times on the full listens dataframe, causing redundant filtering. The hybrid model uses `keys`, `coef`, and `w_ndcg`, all of which are in scope. If ALS fails on one run, the validation keys may not match the bank2 keys.

`blend_equal` already skips missing keys and zero weights, so a failed ALS run will not break the hybrid blend. The RRF scorer loops over 8456 users and 400 items, which may take 20 to 30 seconds. BM25 will also be hardened against empty user vectors.

`sample_ridge_dataset` edge cases were reviewed. `argpartition` and `rng.choice` safely handle empty pools, zero random samples, and near-full hard selections.

`implicit_als` reuses the same float64 array across blocks, so threading is safe.

The unused `load_pref_sets` function will be removed.

Validation liked items will be added as extra profile mass. They are strong taste signals and help cold-start users.

I considered injecting preference likes into the profile matrix, but decided to keep the first run simple. The existing net-likes preference state is cleaner than adding extra liked-item vectors.



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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def score_rp3beta(\n    profile: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    X: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    beta: float,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"P3 * pop^{-beta} via user space: (p @ X_item_norm.T) @ X_user_norm.\"\"\"\n    X = X.tocsr().astype(np.float32)\n    item_pop = np.asarray(X.sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    user_deg = np.asarray(X.sum(axis=1)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    Xu = normalize(X, norm=\"l1\", axis=1)  # user -> item\n    Xi = X.multiply(1.0 / np.maximum(item_pop, 1e-8))  # item -> user (col L1)\n    Xi = Xi.tocsr()\n    # p @ Xi.T : n_tgt x n_users  (profile lives on items)\n    # Xi is users x items, columns scale 1/pop, so Xi.T is items x users\n    mid = profile @ Xi.T  # tgt x users\n    scores = mid @ Xu  # tgt x items\n    scores = np.ascontiguousarray(scores, dtype=np.float32)\n    scores *= np.power(np.maximum(item_pop, 1.0), -beta).astype(np.float32)\n    return scores",
  "new_string": "def score_rp3beta(\n    profile: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    X: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    beta: float,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"P3 * pop^{-beta} via user space: (p @ X_item_norm.T) @ X_user_norm.\"\"\"\n    X = X.tocsr().astype(np.float32)\n    item_pop = np.asarray(X.sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    Xu = normalize(X, norm=\"l1\", axis=1)  # user -> item\n    Xi = X.multiply(1.0 / np.maximum(item_pop, 1e-8))  # item -> user (col L1)\n    mid = profile @ Xi.T\n    if sparse.issparse(mid):\n        mid = mid.toarray()\n    Xu_dense = Xu.toarray() if sparse.issparse(Xu) else Xu\n    scores = np.ascontiguousarray(mid @ Xu_dense, dtype=np.float32)\n    scores *= np.power(np.maximum(item_pop, 1.0), -beta).astype(np.float32)\n    return scores"
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    P14 = target_slice(X_w14, target_rows)\n    P7 = target_slice(X_w7, target_rows)\n    P30 = target_slice(X_w30, target_rows)\n    Porg = target_slice(X_org_w, target_rows)\n    Plike = target_slice(X_like, target_rows)",
  "new_string": "    P14 = target_slice(X_w14, target_rows)\n    P7 = target_slice(X_w7, target_rows)\n    P30 = target_slice(X_w30, target_rows)\n    Porg = target_slice(X_org_w, target_rows)\n    Plike = target_slice(X_like, target_rows)\n    if liked_map:\n        P14 = add_pref_boost(P14, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 5.0)\n        P7 = add_pref_boost(P7, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 6.0)\n        P30 = add_pref_boost(P30, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 4.0)\n        Porg = add_pref_boost(Porg, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 5.0)\n        Plike = add_pref_boost(Plike, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 3.0)"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def target_slice(mat: sparse.csr_matrix, target_rows: np.ndarray) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    return mat[target_rows]",
  "new_string": "def target_slice(mat: sparse.csr_matrix, target_rows: np.ndarray) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    return mat[target_rows]\n\n\ndef add_pref_boost(\n    P: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    target_uids: np.ndarray,\n    liked_map: dict[int, set[int]],\n    weight: float,\n) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    rows, cols, data = [], [], []\n    for i, uid in enumerate(target_uids):\n        items = liked_map.get(int(uid))\n        if not items:\n            continue\n        for item in items:\n            if 0 <= item < len(ITEM_INV):\n                c = int(ITEM_INV[item])\n                if c >= 0:\n                    rows.append(i)\n                    cols.append(c)\n                    data.append(weight)\n    if not rows:\n        return P\n    extra = sparse.csr_matrix(\n        (np.asarray(data, dtype=np.float32), (rows, cols)),\n        shape=P.shape,\n        dtype=np.float32,\n    )\n    return (P + extra).tocsr()"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def build_score_bank(\n    mats: dict,\n    target_rows: np.ndarray,\n    eligible: np.ndarray,\n    als: bool = True,\n) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:",
  "new_string": "def build_score_bank(\n    mats: dict,\n    target_rows: np.ndarray,\n    eligible: np.ndarray,\n    als: bool = True,\n    liked_map: dict[int, set[int]] | None = None,\n) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    y_bin = (y > 0).astype(np.float32)\n    y_gain = np.where(y >= 3, 7.0, y).astype(np.float32)",
  "new_string": "    y_gain = np.where(y >= 3, 7.0, y).astype(np.float32)"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    bank = build_score_bank(mats, target_rows, val_el, als=True)",
  "new_string": "    liked_val, _ = load_pref_sets(DATA / \"validation_preference_state.parquet\")\n    bank = build_score_bank(mats, target_rows, val_el, als=True, liked_map=liked_val)"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    bank2 = build_score_bank(mats2, target_rows2, test_el, als=True)",
  "new_string": "    liked_test, _ = load_pref_sets(DATA / \"test_preference_state.parquet\")\n    bank2 = build_score_bank(mats2, target_rows2, test_el, als=True, liked_map=liked_test)"
}
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### Recorded reasoning summary
`add_pref_boost` risks an index error if `item` exceeds the size of `ITEM_INV`.

The bounds check in `add_pref_boost` prevents out-of-bounds access. Non-catalog items within the catalog range map to -1, and larger IDs are skipped. The unused `ranks` variable in `rrf_from_bank` is harmless. Vectorizing RRF is unnecessary for 8456 users.

Column-normalized sparse matrices become dense after L2 normalization, consuming roughly 1.1 GB. BM25 scoring loops over users in Python are acceptable for this scale. A potential bug was spotted in `build_matrices`: `X_org_like` may already be included as binary ones within `X_org_w`, making the subsequent multiplication redundant.

The matrix construction is correct: organic likes are added once to the full matrix and again separately for the 7-day window. Calling `collect_listen_triples` three times is harmless because it only filters an in-memory dataframe. I will set `OMP_NUM_THREADS` to 8 at the top of the script.

I will run ALS with 8 threads and leave BLAS threading at its default. A 40×40 linear solve is too small to benefit from parallel BLAS anyway. I also verified that `uid_mapper` safely handles target UIDs outside the training catalog.

I will write a short README and run the script in the background. The pipeline should finish within the 30-minute limit. I will wrap main sections in try/except blocks to ensure a valid submission even if one stage fails. The RRF accumulation uses safe numpy advanced indexing. Negative ALS scores are clipped by z-score normalization.



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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "import gc\nimport sys\nimport time\nfrom pathlib import Path",
  "new_string": "import gc\nimport os\nimport sys\nimport time\nfrom pathlib import Path\n\nos.environ.setdefault(\"OMP_NUM_THREADS\", \"8\")\nos.environ.setdefault(\"OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS\", \"8\")\nos.environ.setdefault(\"MKL_NUM_THREADS\", \"8\")\nos.environ.setdefault(\"NUMEXPR_NUM_THREADS\", \"8\")"
}
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{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python -m py_compile /app/solution/build_ranker.py && echo OK",
  "description": "Syntax-check the ranker script"
}
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OK


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### Recorded reasoning summary
Writing a README and starting the ranker.

The full ranker would exceed memory. Storing all 18 z-score banks at 1 GB each needs roughly 18 GB, which is too much for the available 15 GB. I need to find a way to reduce memory usage before proceeding.

A top-K approach looks like the best fix. Keeping only the top 500 indices and values per method shrinks each bank to about 34 MB, well within the memory limit. The trade-off is that rare candidates ranked lower across individual methods might be missed in the blend, but this is unlikely if the methods are correlated.

The union of top-500 candidates from twelve methods should still cover the true top-100. I will keep only those indices and values per method, plus all relevant item scores for validation. A `compress_scores` helper will extract the top-K z-scores using `argpartition`. For test scoring, I will simply fuse the top-500 results from each method.

A single dense accumulator of 1 GB is acceptable, so I will accumulate the blended scores on the fly. Each method's compressed top-800 z-scores will be saved to disk for alternative fusions. The final weights cannot be computed until all NDCG scores are known.

After computing each method's NDCG from the compressed top-800, I will delete the full z-score matrix to save memory. The final fusion will load only those compressed results.

For Ridge regression, items missing from a method's top-800 will default to a low z-score of -1.0 rather than zero, since their true scores are typically below average.

I will explicitly store scores for all relevant items in the compressed bank so Ridge training never misses a feature. The blended score will be accumulated into a single 1 GB float32 array using `np.add.at` across the top-800 indices of each method.

A sparse COO matrix is another viable path. The union of top-800 candidates per user yields roughly 17 million non-zero entries, which is manageable. I can then convert to CSR and extract the top-100 per user directly.

I will refactor `build_score_bank` to return compressed top-1000 indices and values per method, keeping only one z-score matrix in memory at a time. Method NDCG will be computed directly from those top-K indices after the eligible mask is applied. The bank will use two dictionaries: `bank_idx` for int32 indices and `bank_val` for float32 values.

Ridge sampling will use a Python dictionary per user to look up compressed z-scores. The total memory for 4,263 dictionaries is small enough to handle. RRF can reuse the existing top-K ranks directly. I am proceeding with the refactor carefully.

Full z-score matrices would exceed RAM, so I’m switching the bank to compressed top-k scores before running.

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  "offset": 1,
  "limit": 80
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1→#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Made-for-You discovery ranker.

Unsupervised collaborative-filtering scores are fit on history at a cutoff,
blended on public validation labels, then refit on train+val for the hidden test.
"""
from __future__ import annotations

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

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

20→import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from scipy import sparse
from joblib import Parallel, delayed
from sklearn.decomposition import TruncatedSVD
from sklearn.linear_model import Ridge
from sklearn.preprocessing import normalize

sys.path.append("/task")
from ranking_evaluation import QUALITY_K, ndcg_at_k  # noqa: E402
30→
DATA = Path("/task/data")
OUT = Path("/app/solution")
OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

TRAIN_CUTOFF = 24_786_800
VAL_END = 25_393_400
LISTEN_POS = 50
LISTEN_STRONG = 80
TOP_N = 100
40→DAY = 86_400.0

CATALOG = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "candidate_catalog.parquet")
ITEM_IDS = CATALOG.item_id.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)
N_ITEMS = len(ITEM_IDS)
POP_RANK = CATALOG.popularity_rank.to_numpy(dtype=np.int32)
POP_SCORE = np.log1p(CATALOG.organic_positive_listens.to_numpy(dtype=np.float32))

TARGETS = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "target_users.parquet")
TARGET_UIDS = TARGETS.uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)
50→N_TGT = len(TARGET_UIDS)


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


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


ITEM_INV = item_mapper(ITEM_IDS)


def map_items(raw: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    out = np.full(len(raw), -1, dtype=np.int32)
    ok = (raw >= 0) & (raw < len(ITEM_INV))
    out[ok] = ITEM_INV[raw[ok]]
70→    return out


def load_eligibility(path: Path, target_uids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    z = np.load(path)
    uids = z["uids"].astype(np.int64)
    packed = z["packed_eligible"]
    items = z["item_ids"].astype(np.int64)
    if not np.array_equal(items, ITEM_IDS):
        raise RuntimeError(f"eligibility item order mismatch in {path}")
80→    row_of = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(uids)}

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  "offset": 520,
  "limit": 280
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520→                factors,
            )
            for s in range(0, n_entity, step)
        )
        factors_out[:] = np.vstack(blocks)

    t0 = time.time()
    for it in range(iterations):
        _update(X, Y, R, n_users)
        _update(Y, X, Rt, n_items)
530→        log(f"  ALS iter {it + 1}/{iterations} ({time.time() - t0:.1f}s)")
    scores = X[target_rows] @ Y.T
    return np.ascontiguousarray(scores, dtype=np.float32)


def zscore_masked(scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    scores = scores.astype(np.float32, copy=False)
    el = eligible
    cnt = el.sum(axis=1, keepdims=True).astype(np.float32)
    cnt = np.maximum(cnt, 1.0)
540→    mean = np.where(el, scores, 0.0).sum(axis=1, keepdims=True) / cnt
    diff = np.where(el, scores - mean, 0.0)
    std = np.sqrt((diff * diff).sum(axis=1, keepdims=True) / cnt)
    z = np.where(el, (scores - mean) / (std + 1e-6), 0.0)
    return z.astype(np.float32)


def apply_ineligible(scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    out = scores.astype(np.float32, copy=True)
    out[~eligible] = -1e9
550→    # tiny popularity tie-break
    out += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)
    return out


def topk_indices(scores: np.ndarray, k: int = TOP_N) -> np.ndarray:
    idx = np.argpartition(-scores, kth=k - 1, axis=1)[:, :k]
    row = np.arange(scores.shape[0])[:, None]
    part = scores[row, idx]
    order = np.argsort(-part, axis=1)
560→    return idx[row, order]


def ranking_frame(uids: np.ndarray, item_idx: np.ndarray) -> pd.DataFrame:
    n_users, k = item_idx.shape
    return pd.DataFrame(
        {
            "uid": np.repeat(uids, k).astype(np.int64),
            "item_id": ITEM_IDS[item_idx.reshape(-1)].astype(np.int64),
            "rank": np.tile(np.arange(1, k + 1, dtype=np.int64), n_users),
570→        }
    )


def save_ranking(df: pd.DataFrame, path: Path) -> None:
    df.to_parquet(path, index=False)
    log(f"wrote {path} rows={len(df)}")


def validation_graded(eligible: np.ndarray) -> dict[int, dict[int, int]]:
580→    uid_row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(TARGET_UIDS)}
    listens = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "val_listens.parquet")
    likes = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "val_likes.parquet")
    targets = set(map(int, TARGET_UIDS))
    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)][
590→        ["uid", "item_id"]
    ].drop_duplicates()
    graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]] = {}
    for uid, item in strong.itertuples(index=False, name=None):
        uid, item = int(uid), int(item)
        r = uid_row.get(uid)
        c = ITEM_INV[item] if 0 <= item < len(ITEM_INV) else -1
        if r is None or c < 0 or not eligible[r, c]:
            continue
        graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 1
600→    for uid, item in olikes.itertuples(index=False, name=None):
        uid, item = int(uid), int(item)
        r = uid_row.get(uid)
        c = ITEM_INV[item] if 0 <= item < len(ITEM_INV) else -1
        if r is None or c < 0 or not eligible[r, c]:
            continue
        graded.setdefault(uid, {})[item] = 3
    return graded


610→def ndcg_from_indices(item_idx: np.ndarray, graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]]) -> float:
    uid_row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(TARGET_UIDS)}
    scores = []
    for uid, gold in graded.items():
        ranked = ITEM_IDS[item_idx[uid_row[uid]]].tolist()
        scores.append(ndcg_at_k(ranked, gold, QUALITY_K))
    return float(np.mean(scores)) if scores else 0.0


def write_pop_ranking(eligible: np.ndarray, path: Path, uids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
620→    scores = np.broadcast_to(POP_SCORE, (len(uids), N_ITEMS)).copy()
    scores = apply_ineligible(scores, eligible)
    idx = topk_indices(scores, TOP_N)
    save_ranking(ranking_frame(uids, idx), path)
    return idx


def target_slice(mat: sparse.csr_matrix, target_rows: np.ndarray) -> sparse.csr_matrix:
    return mat[target_rows]

630→
def add_pref_boost(
    P: sparse.csr_matrix,
    target_uids: np.ndarray,
    liked_map: dict[int, set[int]],
    weight: float,
) -> sparse.csr_matrix:
    rows, cols, data = [], [], []
    for i, uid in enumerate(target_uids):
        items = liked_map.get(int(uid))
640→        if not items:
            continue
        for item in items:
            if 0 <= item < len(ITEM_INV):
                c = int(ITEM_INV[item])
                if c >= 0:
                    rows.append(i)
                    cols.append(c)
                    data.append(weight)
    if not rows:
650→        return P
    extra = sparse.csr_matrix(
        (np.asarray(data, dtype=np.float32), (rows, cols)),
        shape=P.shape,
        dtype=np.float32,
    )
    return (P + extra).tocsr()


def scale_profile_idf(P: sparse.csr_matrix, idf: np.ndarray) -> sparse.csr_matrix:
660→    return P.multiply(idf).tocsr()


def build_score_bank(
    mats: dict,
    target_rows: np.ndarray,
    eligible: np.ndarray,
    als: bool = True,
    liked_map: dict[int, set[int]] | None = None,
) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
670→    X_bin = mats["X_bin"]
    X_org = mats["X_org_bin"]
    X_strong = mats["X_strong_org"]
    X_w7 = mats["X_w7"]
    X_w14 = mats["X_w14"]
    X_w30 = mats["X_w30"]
    X_org_w = mats["X_org_w"]
    X_like = mats["X_like_bin"]
    session = mats["session"]

680→    P14 = target_slice(X_w14, target_rows)
    P7 = target_slice(X_w7, target_rows)
    P30 = target_slice(X_w30, target_rows)
    Porg = target_slice(X_org_w, target_rows)
    Plike = target_slice(X_like, target_rows)
    if liked_map:
        P14 = add_pref_boost(P14, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 5.0)
        P7 = add_pref_boost(P7, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 6.0)
        P30 = add_pref_boost(P30, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 4.0)
        Porg = add_pref_boost(Porg, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 5.0)
690→        Plike = add_pref_boost(Plike, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 3.0)

    bank: dict[str, np.ndarray] = {}

    log("column-normalize binary / organic matrices")
    Xn_bin = column_normalized_dense(X_bin)
    log("item-cosine full profile")
    idf_bin = idf_weights(X_bin)
    scores = score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P14, idf_bin), Xn_bin)
    bank["knn14"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)
700→    del scores
    log("item-cosine recent profile")
    scores = score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P7, idf_bin), Xn_bin)
    bank["knn7"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)
    del scores
    log("item-cosine 30d profile")
    scores = score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P30, idf_bin), Xn_bin)
    bank["knn30"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)
    del scores, Xn_bin
    gc.collect()
710→
    log("organic item-cosine")
    Xn_org = column_normalized_dense(X_org + X_like)
    idf_org = idf_weights(X_org + X_like)
    scores = score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(Porg, idf_org), Xn_org)
    bank["knn_org"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)
    del scores, Xn_org
    gc.collect()

    log("BM25 item-cosine")
720→    X_bm = bm25_weight(X_bin + X_like.multiply(2.0))
    Xn_bm = column_normalized_dense(X_bm)
    scores = score_item_cosine(P14, Xn_bm)
    bank["bm25"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)
    del scores, Xn_bm, X_bm
    gc.collect()

    log("RP3beta")
    scores = score_rp3beta(P14, X_bin + X_like, beta=0.4)
    bank["rp3"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)
730→    del scores
    scores = score_rp3beta(Porg, X_org + X_like, beta=0.55)
    bank["rp3_org"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)
    del scores
    gc.collect()

    log("user-kNN")
    scores = score_user_knn(P14, X_bin + X_like.multiply(1.5), target_rows, k=90)
    bank["uknn"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)
    del scores
740→    gc.collect()

    log("SVD")
    X_svd = bm25_weight(X_w30 + X_like.multiply(2.0))
    scores = score_svd(X_svd, target_rows, n_comp=128)
    bank["svd"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)
    del scores
    scores = score_svd(bm25_weight(X_org_w + X_like.multiply(3.0)), target_rows, n_comp=96)
    bank["svd_org"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)
    del scores, X_svd
750→    gc.collect()

    log("session expansion")
    sess_scores = P7 @ session
    if sparse.issparse(sess_scores):
        sess_scores = sess_scores.toarray()
    bank["session"] = zscore_masked(np.ascontiguousarray(sess_scores, dtype=np.float32), eligible)
    del sess_scores
    sess_scores = P14 @ session
    if sparse.issparse(sess_scores):
760→        sess_scores = sess_scores.toarray()
    bank["session14"] = zscore_masked(np.ascontiguousarray(sess_scores, dtype=np.float32), eligible)
    del sess_scores
    gc.collect()

    log("like-knn")
    if X_like.nnz > 0:
        Xn_like = column_normalized_dense(X_like + X_strong.multiply(0.25))
        like_idf = idf_weights(X_like)
        scores = score_item_cosine(
770→            scale_profile_idf(Plike + Porg.multiply(0.15), like_idf), Xn_like
        )
        bank["like_knn"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)
        del scores, Xn_like
    gc.collect()

    log("popularity features")
    bank["pop"] = zscore_masked(np.broadcast_to(POP_SCORE, (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible)
    bank["pop7"] = zscore_masked(np.broadcast_to(mats["pop7"], (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible)
    bank["pop30"] = zscore_masked(np.broadcast_to(mats["pop30"], (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible)
780→    bank["pop_like"] = zscore_masked(
        np.broadcast_to(mats["pop_like"], (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible
    )
    bank["pop_org"] = zscore_masked(
        np.broadcast_to(mats["pop_org_strong"], (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible
    )

    skip_item = np.asarray(mats["X_skip"].sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)
    listen_item = np.asarray(X_bin.sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)
    skip_rate = skip_item / np.maximum(skip_item + listen_item, 1.0)
790→    bank["skip_pen"] = zscore_masked(
        np.broadcast_to(-skip_rate, (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible
    )

    if als:
        log("implicit ALS")
        R = (X_w14 + X_like.multiply(2.0) + X_org_w.multiply(0.5)).tocsr()
        R.data = np.maximum(R.data, 0.0)
        try:
            scores = implicit_als(R, target_rows, factors=40, iterations=5, alpha=25.0, reg=0.2)

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Replacing the bank storage and blending functions.



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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "TOP_N = 100\nDAY = 86_400.0",
  "new_string": "TOP_N = 100\nSCORE_K = 1000\nDAY = 86_400.0"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def zscore_masked(scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    scores = scores.astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n    el = eligible\n    cnt = el.sum(axis=1, keepdims=True).astype(np.float32)\n    cnt = np.maximum(cnt, 1.0)\n    mean = np.where(el, scores, 0.0).sum(axis=1, keepdims=True) / cnt\n    diff = np.where(el, scores - mean, 0.0)\n    std = np.sqrt((diff * diff).sum(axis=1, keepdims=True) / cnt)\n    z = np.where(el, (scores - mean) / (std + 1e-6), 0.0)\n    return z.astype(np.float32)\n\n\ndef apply_ineligible(scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    out = scores.astype(np.float32, copy=True)\n    out[~eligible] = -1e9\n    # tiny popularity tie-break\n    out += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)\n    return out",
  "new_string": "def zscore_masked(scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    scores = scores.astype(np.float32, copy=False)\n    el = eligible\n    cnt = el.sum(axis=1, keepdims=True).astype(np.float32)\n    cnt = np.maximum(cnt, 1.0)\n    mean = np.where(el, scores, 0.0).sum(axis=1, keepdims=True) / cnt\n    diff = np.where(el, scores - mean, 0.0)\n    std = np.sqrt((diff * diff).sum(axis=1, keepdims=True) / cnt)\n    z = np.where(el, (scores - mean) / (std + 1e-6), 0.0)\n    return z.astype(np.float32)\n\n\ndef apply_ineligible(scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    out = scores.astype(np.float32, copy=True)\n    out[~eligible] = -1e9\n    out += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)\n    return out\n\n\ndef compress_scores(z: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray, k: int = SCORE_K) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n    s = apply_ineligible(z, eligible)\n    k = min(k, s.shape[1])\n    idx = np.argpartition(-s, kth=k - 1, axis=1)[:, :k]\n    val = np.take_along_axis(z, idx, axis=1).astype(np.float32)\n    return idx.astype(np.int32), val\n\n\ndef store_method(bank: dict, name: str, raw: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> None:\n    z = zscore_masked(raw, eligible)\n    bank[name] = compress_scores(z, eligible)\n    del z"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    bank: dict[str, np.ndarray] = {}\n\n    log(\"column-normalize binary / organic matrices\")\n    Xn_bin = column_normalized_dense(X_bin)\n    log(\"item-cosine full profile\")\n    idf_bin = idf_weights(X_bin)\n    scores = score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P14, idf_bin), Xn_bin)\n    bank[\"knn14\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores\n    log(\"item-cosine recent profile\")\n    scores = score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P7, idf_bin), Xn_bin)\n    bank[\"knn7\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores\n    log(\"item-cosine 30d profile\")\n    scores = score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P30, idf_bin), Xn_bin)\n    bank[\"knn30\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores, Xn_bin\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"organic item-cosine\")\n    Xn_org = column_normalized_dense(X_org + X_like)\n    idf_org = idf_weights(X_org + X_like)\n    scores = score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(Porg, idf_org), Xn_org)\n    bank[\"knn_org\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores, Xn_org\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"BM25 item-cosine\")\n    X_bm = bm25_weight(X_bin + X_like.multiply(2.0))\n    Xn_bm = column_normalized_dense(X_bm)\n    scores = score_item_cosine(P14, Xn_bm)\n    bank[\"bm25\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores, Xn_bm, X_bm\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"RP3beta\")\n    scores = score_rp3beta(P14, X_bin + X_like, beta=0.4)\n    bank[\"rp3\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores\n    scores = score_rp3beta(Porg, X_org + X_like, beta=0.55)\n    bank[\"rp3_org\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"user-kNN\")\n    scores = score_user_knn(P14, X_bin + X_like.multiply(1.5), target_rows, k=90)\n    bank[\"uknn\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"SVD\")\n    X_svd = bm25_weight(X_w30 + X_like.multiply(2.0))\n    scores = score_svd(X_svd, target_rows, n_comp=128)\n    bank[\"svd\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores\n    scores = score_svd(bm25_weight(X_org_w + X_like.multiply(3.0)), target_rows, n_comp=96)\n    bank[\"svd_org\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n    del scores, X_svd\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"session expansion\")\n    sess_scores = P7 @ session\n    if sparse.issparse(sess_scores):\n        sess_scores = sess_scores.toarray()\n    bank[\"session\"] = zscore_masked(np.ascontiguousarray(sess_scores, dtype=np.float32), eligible)\n    del sess_scores\n    sess_scores = P14 @ session\n    if sparse.issparse(sess_scores):\n        sess_scores = sess_scores.toarray()\n    bank[\"session14\"] = zscore_masked(np.ascontiguousarray(sess_scores, dtype=np.float32), eligible)\n    del sess_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"like-knn\")\n    if X_like.nnz > 0:\n        Xn_like = column_normalized_dense(X_like + X_strong.multiply(0.25))\n        like_idf = idf_weights(X_like)\n        scores = score_item_cosine(\n            scale_profile_idf(Plike + Porg.multiply(0.15), like_idf), Xn_like\n        )\n        bank[\"like_knn\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n        del scores, Xn_like\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"popularity features\")\n    bank[\"pop\"] = zscore_masked(np.broadcast_to(POP_SCORE, (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n    bank[\"pop7\"] = zscore_masked(np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop7\"], (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n    bank[\"pop30\"] = zscore_masked(np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop30\"], (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n    bank[\"pop_like\"] = zscore_masked(\n        np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop_like\"], (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible\n    )\n    bank[\"pop_org\"] = zscore_masked(\n        np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop_org_strong\"], (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible\n    )\n\n    skip_item = np.asarray(mats[\"X_skip\"].sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    listen_item = np.asarray(X_bin.sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    skip_rate = skip_item / np.maximum(skip_item + listen_item, 1.0)\n    bank[\"skip_pen\"] = zscore_masked(\n        np.broadcast_to(-skip_rate, (P14.shape[0], N_ITEMS)), eligible\n    )\n\n    if als:\n        log(\"implicit ALS\")\n        R = (X_w14 + X_like.multiply(2.0) + X_org_w.multiply(0.5)).tocsr()\n        R.data = np.maximum(R.data, 0.0)\n        try:\n            scores = implicit_als(R, target_rows, factors=40, iterations=5, alpha=25.0, reg=0.2)\n            bank[\"als\"] = zscore_masked(scores, eligible)\n            del scores\n        except Exception as exc:\n            log(f\"ALS failed: {exc}\")\n        del R\n        gc.collect()\n\n    return bank",
  "new_string": "    bank: dict[str, tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]] = {}\n\n    log(\"column-normalize binary / organic matrices\")\n    Xn_bin = column_normalized_dense(X_bin)\n    log(\"item-cosine full profile\")\n    idf_bin = idf_weights(X_bin)\n    store_method(bank, \"knn14\", score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P14, idf_bin), Xn_bin), eligible)\n    log(\"item-cosine recent profile\")\n    store_method(bank, \"knn7\", score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P7, idf_bin), Xn_bin), eligible)\n    log(\"item-cosine 30d profile\")\n    store_method(bank, \"knn30\", score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P30, idf_bin), Xn_bin), eligible)\n    del Xn_bin\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"organic item-cosine\")\n    Xn_org = column_normalized_dense(X_org + X_like)\n    idf_org = idf_weights(X_org + X_like)\n    store_method(bank, \"knn_org\", score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(Porg, idf_org), Xn_org), eligible)\n    del Xn_org\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"BM25 item-cosine\")\n    X_bm = bm25_weight(X_bin + X_like.multiply(2.0))\n    Xn_bm = column_normalized_dense(X_bm)\n    store_method(bank, \"bm25\", score_item_cosine(P14, Xn_bm), eligible)\n    del Xn_bm, X_bm\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"RP3beta\")\n    store_method(bank, \"rp3\", score_rp3beta(P14, X_bin + X_like, beta=0.4), eligible)\n    store_method(bank, \"rp3_org\", score_rp3beta(Porg, X_org + X_like, beta=0.55), eligible)\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"user-kNN\")\n    store_method(bank, \"uknn\", score_user_knn(P14, X_bin + X_like.multiply(1.5), target_rows, k=90), eligible)\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"SVD\")\n    X_svd = bm25_weight(X_w30 + X_like.multiply(2.0))\n    store_method(bank, \"svd\", score_svd(X_svd, target_rows, n_comp=128), eligible)\n    store_method(\n        bank,\n        \"svd_org\",\n        score_svd(bm25_weight(X_org_w + X_like.multiply(3.0)), target_rows, n_comp=96),\n        eligible,\n    )\n    del X_svd\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"session expansion\")\n    sess_scores = P7 @ session\n    if sparse.issparse(sess_scores):\n        sess_scores = sess_scores.toarray()\n    store_method(bank, \"session\", np.ascontiguousarray(sess_scores, dtype=np.float32), eligible)\n    del sess_scores\n    sess_scores = P14 @ session\n    if sparse.issparse(sess_scores):\n        sess_scores = sess_scores.toarray()\n    store_method(bank, \"session14\", np.ascontiguousarray(sess_scores, dtype=np.float32), eligible)\n    del sess_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"like-knn\")\n    if X_like.nnz > 0:\n        Xn_like = column_normalized_dense(X_like + X_strong.multiply(0.25))\n        like_idf = idf_weights(X_like)\n        store_method(\n            bank,\n            \"like_knn\",\n            score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(Plike + Porg.multiply(0.15), like_idf), Xn_like),\n            eligible,\n        )\n        del Xn_like\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"popularity features\")\n    n = P14.shape[0]\n    store_method(bank, \"pop\", np.broadcast_to(POP_SCORE, (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n    store_method(bank, \"pop7\", np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop7\"], (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n    store_method(bank, \"pop30\", np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop30\"], (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n    store_method(bank, \"pop_like\", np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop_like\"], (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n    store_method(bank, \"pop_org\", np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop_org_strong\"], (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n\n    skip_item = np.asarray(mats[\"X_skip\"].sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    listen_item = np.asarray(X_bin.sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    skip_rate = skip_item / np.maximum(skip_item + listen_item, 1.0)\n    store_method(bank, \"skip_pen\", np.broadcast_to(-skip_rate, (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n\n    if als:\n        log(\"implicit ALS\")\n        R = (X_w14 + X_like.multiply(2.0) + X_org_w.multiply(0.5)).tocsr()\n        R.data = np.maximum(R.data, 0.0)\n        try:\n            store_method(\n                bank,\n                \"als\",\n                implicit_als(R, target_rows, factors=40, iterations=5, alpha=25.0, reg=0.2),\n                eligible,\n            )\n        except Exception as exc:\n            log(f\"ALS failed: {exc}\")\n        del R\n        gc.collect()\n\n    return bank"
}
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{
  "target_file": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "offset": 800,
  "limit": 250
}
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800→                bank,
                "als",
                implicit_als(R, target_rows, factors=40, iterations=5, alpha=25.0, reg=0.2),
                eligible,
            )
        except Exception as exc:
            log(f"ALS failed: {exc}")
        del R
        gc.collect()

810→    return bank


def blend_equal(bank: dict[str, np.ndarray], keys: list[str], weights: list[float] | None = None) -> np.ndarray:
    acc = None
    if weights is None:
        weights = [1.0] * len(keys)
    for k, w in zip(keys, weights):
        if k not in bank or w == 0:
            continue
820→        acc = bank[k] * w if acc is None else acc + bank[k] * w
    return acc


def sample_ridge_dataset(
    bank: dict[str, np.ndarray],
    keys: list[str],
    graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]],
    eligible: np.ndarray,
    rng: np.random.Generator,
830→    n_neg: int = 60,
) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
    uid_row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(TARGET_UIDS)}
    xs = []
    ys = []
    ws = []
    for uid, gold in graded.items():
        r = uid_row[uid]
        pos_cols = []
        pos_grades = []
840→        for item, grade in gold.items():
            c = int(ITEM_INV[item]) if item < len(ITEM_INV) else -1
            if c >= 0 and eligible[r, c]:
                pos_cols.append(c)
                pos_grades.append(grade)
        if not pos_cols:
            continue
        el_idx = np.flatnonzero(eligible[r])
        pos_mask = np.zeros(N_ITEMS, dtype=bool)
        pos_mask[np.asarray(pos_cols, dtype=np.int32)] = True
850→        neg_pool = el_idx[~pos_mask[el_idx]]
        if len(neg_pool) == 0:
            continue
        take = min(n_neg, len(neg_pool))
        # mix random and hard (high knn) negatives
        n_rand = take // 2
        n_hard = take - n_rand
        rand_cols = rng.choice(neg_pool, size=n_rand, replace=False)
        knn_key = "knn14" if "knn14" in bank else keys[0]
        hard_scores = bank[knn_key][r, neg_pool]
860→        hard_idx = np.argpartition(-hard_scores, min(n_hard, len(neg_pool) - 1))[:n_hard]
        hard_cols = neg_pool[hard_idx]
        cols = np.concatenate([np.asarray(pos_cols, dtype=np.int32), rand_cols.astype(np.int32), hard_cols.astype(np.int32)])
        grades = np.concatenate(
            [np.asarray(pos_grades, dtype=np.float32), np.zeros(len(rand_cols) + len(hard_cols), dtype=np.float32)]
        )
        feat = np.stack([bank[k][r, cols] for k in keys], axis=1)
        xs.append(feat)
        ys.append(grades)
        wrow = np.where(grades >= 3, 4.0, np.where(grades >= 1, 1.5, 1.0)).astype(np.float32)
870→        ws.append(wrow)
    X = np.concatenate(xs, axis=0)
    y = np.concatenate(ys, axis=0)
    w = np.concatenate(ws, axis=0)
    return X, y, w


def ridge_weights(bank, keys, graded, eligible) -> np.ndarray:
    rng = np.random.default_rng(42)
    X, y, w = sample_ridge_dataset(bank, keys, graded, eligible, rng)
880→    y_gain = np.where(y >= 3, 7.0, y).astype(np.float32)
    model = Ridge(alpha=15.0, random_state=42)
    model.fit(X, y_gain, sample_weight=w)
    coef = model.coef_.astype(np.float64)
    log(f"ridge coefs: {list(zip(keys, np.round(coef, 4)))} intercept={model.intercept_:.4f}")
    return coef


def scores_to_ranking(scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    return topk_indices(apply_ineligible(scores, eligible), TOP_N)
890→

def rrf_from_bank(bank: dict[str, np.ndarray], keys: list[str], eligible: np.ndarray, k: int = 60, topm: int = 400) -> np.ndarray:
    n = next(iter(bank.values())).shape[0]
    acc = np.zeros((n, N_ITEMS), dtype=np.float32)
    for key in keys:
        s = apply_ineligible(bank[key], eligible)
        idx = np.argpartition(-s, kth=topm - 1, axis=1)[:, :topm]
        row = np.arange(n)[:, None]
        order = np.argsort(-s[row, idx], axis=1)
900→        ranked = idx[row, order]
        ranks = np.empty_like(ranked)
        ranks[row, ranked.argsort(axis=1)] = np.arange(topm, dtype=np.int32)
        # only the topm get rrf credit; reconstruct via scatter
        contrib = 1.0 / (k + 1.0 + np.arange(topm, dtype=np.float32))
        for i in range(n):
            acc[i, ranked[i]] += contrib
    return acc


910→def main() -> None:
    t_all = time.time()
    log("loading eligibility + preference")
    val_el = load_eligibility(DATA / "validation_eligible_candidates.npz", TARGET_UIDS)
    test_el = load_eligibility(DATA / "test_eligible_candidates.npz", TARGET_UIDS)

    log("writing popularity fallback submissions")
    write_pop_ranking(test_el, OUT / "submission.parquet", TARGET_UIDS)
    pop_val_idx = write_pop_ranking(val_el, OUT / "validation.parquet", TARGET_UIDS)

920→    log("loading train events")
    train_events = read_events("train")
    log("building validation-cutoff matrices")
    all_uids = unique_sorted_uids(
        TARGET_UIDS,
        train_events["listens"].uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64),
        train_events["likes"].uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64),
    )
    uid_index = uid_mapper(all_uids)
    target_rows = uid_index[TARGET_UIDS]
930→    mats = build_matrices(train_events, TRAIN_CUTOFF, all_uids)
    log("score bank (validation cutoff)")
    liked_val, _ = load_pref_sets(DATA / "validation_preference_state.parquet")
    bank = build_score_bank(mats, target_rows, val_el, als=True, liked_map=liked_val)

    graded = validation_graded(val_el)
    log(f"validation users with relevance: {len(graded)}")
    pop_ndcg = ndcg_from_indices(pop_val_idx, graded)
    log(f"popularity NDCG@10={pop_ndcg:.6f}")

940→    method_ndcg = {}
    for key in bank:
        idx = scores_to_ranking(bank[key], val_el)
        method_ndcg[key] = ndcg_from_indices(idx, graded)
        log(f"  {key:12s} NDCG@10={method_ndcg[key]:.6f}")

    cf_keys = [
        k
        for k in [
            "knn14",
950→            "knn7",
            "knn30",
            "knn_org",
            "bm25",
            "rp3",
            "rp3_org",
            "uknn",
            "svd",
            "svd_org",
            "session",
960→            "session14",
            "like_knn",
            "als",
        ]
        if k in bank
    ]
    pop_keys = [k for k in ["pop7", "pop30", "pop_like", "pop_org", "skip_pen", "pop"] if k in bank]
    keys = cf_keys + pop_keys

    # NDCG-weighted z blend (unsupervised, honest)
970→    ndcgs = np.array([method_ndcg[k] for k in keys], dtype=np.float64)
    w_ndcg = np.clip(ndcgs - pop_ndcg, 0, None)
    w_ndcg = w_ndcg / (w_ndcg.sum() + 1e-9)
    # boost methods clearly above median
    med = np.median(ndcgs)
    w_ndcg = w_ndcg * (1.0 + 1.5 * (ndcgs > med))
    w_ndcg = w_ndcg / (w_ndcg.sum() + 1e-9)
    log(f"ndcg weights: {list(zip(keys, np.round(w_ndcg, 4)))}")
    blend_ndcg_scores = blend_equal(bank, keys, w_ndcg.tolist())
    idx_ndcg = scores_to_ranking(blend_ndcg_scores, val_el)
980→    ndcg_w = ndcg_from_indices(idx_ndcg, graded)
    log(f"ndcg-weighted blend NDCG@10={ndcg_w:.6f}")

    # equal top methods
    top_methods = [k for k, _ in sorted(method_ndcg.items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1])[:8]]
    idx_eq = scores_to_ranking(blend_equal(bank, top_methods), val_el)
    ndcg_eq = ndcg_from_indices(idx_eq, graded)
    log(f"equal top8 {top_methods} NDCG@10={ndcg_eq:.6f}")

    # ridge on val labels
990→    coef = ridge_weights(bank, keys, graded, val_el)
    blend_ridge = blend_equal(bank, keys, coef.tolist())
    idx_ridge = scores_to_ranking(blend_ridge, val_el)
    ndcg_ridge = ndcg_from_indices(idx_ridge, graded)
    log(f"ridge blend NDCG@10={ndcg_ridge:.6f}")

    # RRF of strongest methods
    rrf_keys = [k for k, _ in sorted(method_ndcg.items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1])[:10]]
    rrf_scores = rrf_from_bank(bank, rrf_keys, val_el)
    idx_rrf = scores_to_ranking(rrf_scores, val_el)
1000→    ndcg_rrf = ndcg_from_indices(idx_rrf, graded)
    log(f"RRF top10 NDCG@10={ndcg_rrf:.6f}")

    # hybrid: ridge + small ndcg-weighted
    hybrid = blend_ridge + 0.35 * blend_ndcg_scores
    idx_hyb = scores_to_ranking(hybrid, val_el)
    ndcg_hyb = ndcg_from_indices(idx_hyb, graded)
    log(f"hybrid ridge+ndcg NDCG@10={ndcg_hyb:.6f}")

    candidates = {
1010→        "ndcg_w": (ndcg_w, idx_ndcg, "ndcg", w_ndcg, keys),
        "equal": (ndcg_eq, idx_eq, "equal", np.ones(len(top_methods)), top_methods),
        "ridge": (ndcg_ridge, idx_ridge, "ridge", coef, keys),
        "rrf": (ndcg_rrf, idx_rrf, "rrf", None, rrf_keys),
        "hybrid": (ndcg_hyb, idx_hyb, "hybrid", coef, keys),
    }
    best_name, (best_ndcg, best_idx, best_kind, best_coef, best_keys) = max(
        candidates.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[1][0]
    )
    log(f"selected validation blend={best_name} NDCG@10={best_ndcg:.6f}")
1020→    save_ranking(ranking_frame(TARGET_UIDS, best_idx), OUT / "validation.parquet")

    # Free validation bank before refit
    del bank, mats, blend_ndcg_scores, blend_ridge, hybrid, rrf_scores
    gc.collect()

    log("loading val events for refit")
    all_events = concat_splits(["train", "val"])
    all_uids2 = unique_sorted_uids(
        TARGET_UIDS,
1030→        all_events["listens"].uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64),
        all_events["likes"].uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64),
    )
    uid_index2 = uid_mapper(all_uids2)
    target_rows2 = uid_index2[TARGET_UIDS]
    log("building test-cutoff matrices (train+val)")
    mats2 = build_matrices(all_events, VAL_END, all_uids2)
    log("score bank (test cutoff)")
    liked_test, _ = load_pref_sets(DATA / "test_preference_state.parquet")
    bank2 = build_score_bank(mats2, target_rows2, test_el, als=True, liked_map=liked_test)
1040→
    if best_kind == "rrf":
        test_scores = rrf_from_bank(bank2, best_keys, test_el)
    elif best_kind == "hybrid":
        test_scores = blend_equal(bank2, keys, coef.tolist()) + 0.35 * blend_equal(
            bank2, keys, w_ndcg.tolist()
        )
    elif best_kind == "equal":
        test_scores = blend_equal(bank2, best_keys)
    elif best_kind == "ndcg":

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{
  "target_file": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "offset": 1040,
  "limit": 40
}
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1040→
    if best_kind == "rrf":
        test_scores = rrf_from_bank(bank2, best_keys, test_el)
    elif best_kind == "hybrid":
        test_scores = blend_equal(bank2, keys, coef.tolist()) + 0.35 * blend_equal(
            bank2, keys, w_ndcg.tolist()
        )
    elif best_kind == "equal":
        test_scores = blend_equal(bank2, best_keys)
    elif best_kind == "ndcg":
1050→        test_scores = blend_equal(bank2, best_keys, np.asarray(best_coef).tolist())
    else:
        test_scores = blend_equal(bank2, best_keys, np.asarray(best_coef).tolist())

    # extra insurance: if a method is missing after refit, skip
    test_idx = scores_to_ranking(test_scores, test_el)
    save_ranking(ranking_frame(TARGET_UIDS, test_idx), OUT / "submission.parquet")
    log(f"done in {time.time() - t_all:.1f}s  val_best={best_name} {best_ndcg:.6f}")


1060→if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()


## Step 29 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
I will replace the blend_equal function and all subsequent code in main with compressed-aware versions.



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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def blend_equal(bank: dict[str, np.ndarray], keys: list[str], weights: list[float] | None = None) -> np.ndarray:\n    acc = None\n    if weights is None:\n        weights = [1.0] * len(keys)\n    for k, w in zip(keys, weights):\n        if k not in bank or w == 0:\n            continue\n        acc = bank[k] * w if acc is None else acc + bank[k] * w\n    return acc\n\n\ndef sample_ridge_dataset(\n    bank: dict[str, np.ndarray],\n    keys: list[str],\n    graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]],\n    eligible: np.ndarray,\n    rng: np.random.Generator,\n    n_neg: int = 60,\n) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n    uid_row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(TARGET_UIDS)}\n    xs = []\n    ys = []\n    ws = []\n    for uid, gold in graded.items():\n        r = uid_row[uid]\n        pos_cols = []\n        pos_grades = []\n        for item, grade in gold.items():\n            c = int(ITEM_INV[item]) if item < len(ITEM_INV) else -1\n            if c >= 0 and eligible[r, c]:\n                pos_cols.append(c)\n                pos_grades.append(grade)\n        if not pos_cols:\n            continue\n        el_idx = np.flatnonzero(eligible[r])\n        pos_mask = np.zeros(N_ITEMS, dtype=bool)\n        pos_mask[np.asarray(pos_cols, dtype=np.int32)] = True\n        neg_pool = el_idx[~pos_mask[el_idx]]\n        if len(neg_pool) == 0:\n            continue\n        take = min(n_neg, len(neg_pool))\n        # mix random and hard (high knn) negatives\n        n_rand = take // 2\n        n_hard = take - n_rand\n        rand_cols = rng.choice(neg_pool, size=n_rand, replace=False)\n        knn_key = \"knn14\" if \"knn14\" in bank else keys[0]\n        hard_scores = bank[knn_key][r, neg_pool]\n        hard_idx = np.argpartition(-hard_scores, min(n_hard, len(neg_pool) - 1))[:n_hard]\n        hard_cols = neg_pool[hard_idx]\n        cols = np.concatenate([np.asarray(pos_cols, dtype=np.int32), rand_cols.astype(np.int32), hard_cols.astype(np.int32)])\n        grades = np.concatenate(\n            [np.asarray(pos_grades, dtype=np.float32), np.zeros(len(rand_cols) + len(hard_cols), dtype=np.float32)]\n        )\n        feat = np.stack([bank[k][r, cols] for k in keys], axis=1)\n        xs.append(feat)\n        ys.append(grades)\n        wrow = np.where(grades >= 3, 4.0, np.where(grades >= 1, 1.5, 1.0)).astype(np.float32)\n        ws.append(wrow)\n    X = np.concatenate(xs, axis=0)\n    y = np.concatenate(ys, axis=0)\n    w = np.concatenate(ws, axis=0)\n    return X, y, w\n\n\ndef ridge_weights(bank, keys, graded, eligible) -> np.ndarray:\n    rng = np.random.default_rng(42)\n    X, y, w = sample_ridge_dataset(bank, keys, graded, eligible, rng)\n    y_gain = np.where(y >= 3, 7.0, y).astype(np.float32)\n    model = Ridge(alpha=15.0, random_state=42)\n    model.fit(X, y_gain, sample_weight=w)\n    coef = model.coef_.astype(np.float64)\n    log(f\"ridge coefs: {list(zip(keys, np.round(coef, 4)))} intercept={model.intercept_:.4f}\")\n    return coef\n\n\ndef scores_to_ranking(scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    return topk_indices(apply_ineligible(scores, eligible), TOP_N)\n\n\ndef rrf_from_bank(bank: dict[str, np.ndarray], keys: list[str], eligible: np.ndarray, k: int = 60, topm: int = 400) -> np.ndarray:\n    n = next(iter(bank.values())).shape[0]\n    acc = np.zeros((n, N_ITEMS), dtype=np.float32)\n    for key in keys:\n        s = apply_ineligible(bank[key], eligible)\n        idx = np.argpartition(-s, kth=topm - 1, axis=1)[:, :topm]\n        row = np.arange(n)[:, None]\n        order = np.argsort(-s[row, idx], axis=1)\n        ranked = idx[row, order]\n        ranks = np.empty_like(ranked)\n        ranks[row, ranked.argsort(axis=1)] = np.arange(topm, dtype=np.int32)\n        # only the topm get rrf credit; reconstruct via scatter\n        contrib = 1.0 / (k + 1.0 + np.arange(topm, dtype=np.float32))\n        for i in range(n):\n            acc[i, ranked[i]] += contrib\n    return acc",
  "new_string": "def ranking_from_compressed(pair: tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray], k: int = TOP_N) -> np.ndarray:\n    idx, val = pair\n    take = min(k, idx.shape[1])\n    row = np.arange(idx.shape[0])[:, None]\n    order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1)[:, :take]\n    return idx[row, order]\n\n\ndef blend_compressed(\n    bank: dict[str, tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]],\n    keys: list[str],\n    weights: list[float] | np.ndarray | None = None,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    n = next(iter(bank.values()))[0].shape[0]\n    acc = np.zeros((n, N_ITEMS), dtype=np.float32)\n    if weights is None:\n        weights = [1.0] * len(keys)\n    row = np.arange(n)[:, None]\n    for key, weight in zip(keys, weights):\n        if key not in bank or weight == 0:\n            continue\n        idx, val = bank[key]\n        np.add.at(acc, (row, idx), np.float32(weight) * val)\n    acc += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)\n    return topk_indices(acc, TOP_N)\n\n\ndef rrf_from_bank(\n    bank: dict[str, tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]],\n    keys: list[str],\n    k: int = 60,\n    topm: int = 400,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    n = next(iter(bank.values()))[0].shape[0]\n    acc = np.zeros((n, N_ITEMS), dtype=np.float32)\n    row = np.arange(n)[:, None]\n    contrib = 1.0 / (k + 1.0 + np.arange(topm, dtype=np.float32))\n    for key in keys:\n        if key not in bank:\n            continue\n        idx, val = bank[key]\n        take = min(topm, idx.shape[1])\n        order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1)[:, :take]\n        ranked = idx[row, order]\n        np.add.at(acc, (row, ranked), contrib[:take])\n    acc += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)\n    return topk_indices(acc, TOP_N)\n\n\ndef lookup_features(bank, keys, row: int, cols: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    feat = np.zeros((len(cols), len(keys)), dtype=np.float32)\n    for j, key in enumerate(keys):\n        idx, val = bank[key]\n        pos = {int(i): float(v) for i, v in zip(idx[row], val[row])}\n        for t, c in enumerate(cols):\n            feat[t, j] = pos.get(int(c), 0.0)\n    return feat\n\n\ndef sample_ridge_dataset(\n    bank: dict[str, tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]],\n    keys: list[str],\n    graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]],\n    eligible: np.ndarray,\n    rng: np.random.Generator,\n    n_neg: int = 40,\n) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n    uid_row = {int(u): i for i, u in enumerate(TARGET_UIDS)}\n    xs, ys, ws = [], [], []\n    knn_key = \"knn14\" if \"knn14\" in bank else keys[0]\n    for uid, gold in graded.items():\n        r = uid_row[uid]\n        pos_cols, pos_grades = [], []\n        for item, grade in gold.items():\n            c = int(ITEM_INV[item]) if 0 <= item < len(ITEM_INV) else -1\n            if c >= 0 and eligible[r, c]:\n                pos_cols.append(c)\n                pos_grades.append(grade)\n        if not pos_cols:\n            continue\n        idx, val = bank[knn_key]\n        cand = idx[r]\n        pos_set = set(pos_cols)\n        neg_cands = [int(c) for c in cand if int(c) not in pos_set and eligible[r, int(c)]]\n        take = min(n_neg, len(neg_cands))\n        if take == 0:\n            neg_cols = np.zeros(0, dtype=np.int32)\n        else:\n            n_hard = take // 2\n            n_rand = take - n_hard\n            hard_cols = np.asarray(neg_cands[:n_hard], dtype=np.int32)\n            rest = neg_cands[n_hard:]\n            if rest and n_rand:\n                pick = rng.choice(len(rest), size=min(n_rand, len(rest)), replace=False)\n                rand_cols = np.asarray(rest, dtype=np.int32)[pick]\n            else:\n                rand_cols = np.zeros(0, dtype=np.int32)\n            neg_cols = np.concatenate([hard_cols, rand_cols])\n        cols = np.concatenate([np.asarray(pos_cols, dtype=np.int32), neg_cols])\n        grades = np.concatenate(\n            [\n                np.asarray(pos_grades, dtype=np.float32),\n                np.zeros(len(neg_cols), dtype=np.float32),\n            ]\n        )\n        xs.append(lookup_features(bank, keys, r, cols))\n        ys.append(grades)\n        ws.append(np.where(grades >= 3, 4.0, np.where(grades >= 1, 1.5, 1.0)).astype(np.float32))\n    return np.concatenate(xs), np.concatenate(ys), np.concatenate(ws)\n\n\ndef ridge_weights(bank, keys, graded, eligible) -> np.ndarray:\n    rng = np.random.default_rng(42)\n    X, y, w = sample_ridge_dataset(bank, keys, graded, eligible, rng)\n    y_gain = np.where(y >= 3, 7.0, y).astype(np.float32)\n    model = Ridge(alpha=15.0, random_state=42)\n    model.fit(X, y_gain, sample_weight=w)\n    coef = model.coef_.astype(np.float64)\n    log(f\"ridge coefs: {list(zip(keys, np.round(coef, 4)))} intercept={model.intercept_:.4f}\")\n    return coef"
}
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## Step 30 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
Updating main() to use compressed blending.



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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    method_ndcg = {}\n    for key in bank:\n        idx = scores_to_ranking(bank[key], val_el)\n        method_ndcg[key] = ndcg_from_indices(idx, graded)\n        log(f\"  {key:12s} NDCG@10={method_ndcg[key]:.6f}\")",
  "new_string": "    method_ndcg = {}\n    for key in bank:\n        idx = ranking_from_compressed(bank[key], TOP_N)\n        method_ndcg[key] = ndcg_from_indices(idx, graded)\n        log(f\"  {key:12s} NDCG@10={method_ndcg[key]:.6f}\")"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    log(f\"ndcg weights: {list(zip(keys, np.round(w_ndcg, 4)))}\")\n    blend_ndcg_scores = blend_equal(bank, keys, w_ndcg.tolist())\n    idx_ndcg = scores_to_ranking(blend_ndcg_scores, val_el)\n    ndcg_w = ndcg_from_indices(idx_ndcg, graded)\n    log(f\"ndcg-weighted blend NDCG@10={ndcg_w:.6f}\")\n\n    # equal top methods\n    top_methods = [k for k, _ in sorted(method_ndcg.items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1])[:8]]\n    idx_eq = scores_to_ranking(blend_equal(bank, top_methods), val_el)\n    ndcg_eq = ndcg_from_indices(idx_eq, graded)\n    log(f\"equal top8 {top_methods} NDCG@10={ndcg_eq:.6f}\")\n\n    # ridge on val labels\n    coef = ridge_weights(bank, keys, graded, val_el)\n    blend_ridge = blend_equal(bank, keys, coef.tolist())\n    idx_ridge = scores_to_ranking(blend_ridge, val_el)\n    ndcg_ridge = ndcg_from_indices(idx_ridge, graded)\n    log(f\"ridge blend NDCG@10={ndcg_ridge:.6f}\")\n\n    # RRF of strongest methods\n    rrf_keys = [k for k, _ in sorted(method_ndcg.items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1])[:10]]\n    rrf_scores = rrf_from_bank(bank, rrf_keys, val_el)\n    idx_rrf = scores_to_ranking(rrf_scores, val_el)\n    ndcg_rrf = ndcg_from_indices(idx_rrf, graded)\n    log(f\"RRF top10 NDCG@10={ndcg_rrf:.6f}\")\n\n    # hybrid: ridge + small ndcg-weighted\n    hybrid = blend_ridge + 0.35 * blend_ndcg_scores\n    idx_hyb = scores_to_ranking(hybrid, val_el)\n    ndcg_hyb = ndcg_from_indices(idx_hyb, graded)\n    log(f\"hybrid ridge+ndcg NDCG@10={ndcg_hyb:.6f}\")",
  "new_string": "    log(f\"ndcg weights: {list(zip(keys, np.round(w_ndcg, 4)))}\")\n    idx_ndcg = blend_compressed(bank, keys, w_ndcg.tolist())\n    ndcg_w = ndcg_from_indices(idx_ndcg, graded)\n    log(f\"ndcg-weighted blend NDCG@10={ndcg_w:.6f}\")\n\n    top_methods = [k for k, _ in sorted(method_ndcg.items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1])[:8]]\n    idx_eq = blend_compressed(bank, top_methods)\n    ndcg_eq = ndcg_from_indices(idx_eq, graded)\n    log(f\"equal top8 {top_methods} NDCG@10={ndcg_eq:.6f}\")\n\n    coef = ridge_weights(bank, keys, graded, val_el)\n    idx_ridge = blend_compressed(bank, keys, coef.tolist())\n    ndcg_ridge = ndcg_from_indices(idx_ridge, graded)\n    log(f\"ridge blend NDCG@10={ndcg_ridge:.6f}\")\n\n    rrf_keys = [k for k, _ in sorted(method_ndcg.items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1])[:10]]\n    idx_rrf = rrf_from_bank(bank, rrf_keys)\n    ndcg_rrf = ndcg_from_indices(idx_rrf, graded)\n    log(f\"RRF top10 NDCG@10={ndcg_rrf:.6f}\")\n\n    hyb_w = coef + 0.35 * w_ndcg\n    idx_hyb = blend_compressed(bank, keys, hyb_w.tolist())\n    ndcg_hyb = ndcg_from_indices(idx_hyb, graded)\n    log(f\"hybrid ridge+ndcg NDCG@10={ndcg_hyb:.6f}\")"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    # Free validation bank before refit\n    del bank, mats, blend_ndcg_scores, blend_ridge, hybrid, rrf_scores\n    gc.collect()",
  "new_string": "    del bank, mats\n    gc.collect()"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    if best_kind == \"rrf\":\n        test_scores = rrf_from_bank(bank2, best_keys, test_el)\n    elif best_kind == \"hybrid\":\n        test_scores = blend_equal(bank2, keys, coef.tolist()) + 0.35 * blend_equal(\n            bank2, keys, w_ndcg.tolist()\n        )\n    elif best_kind == \"equal\":\n        test_scores = blend_equal(bank2, best_keys)\n    elif best_kind == \"ndcg\":\n        test_scores = blend_equal(bank2, best_keys, np.asarray(best_coef).tolist())\n    else:\n        test_scores = blend_equal(bank2, best_keys, np.asarray(best_coef).tolist())\n\n    # extra insurance: if a method is missing after refit, skip\n    test_idx = scores_to_ranking(test_scores, test_el)\n    save_ranking(ranking_frame(TARGET_UIDS, test_idx), OUT / \"submission.parquet\")",
  "new_string": "    if best_kind == \"rrf\":\n        test_idx = rrf_from_bank(bank2, best_keys)\n    elif best_kind == \"hybrid\":\n        test_idx = blend_compressed(bank2, keys, (coef + 0.35 * w_ndcg).tolist())\n    elif best_kind == \"equal\":\n        test_idx = blend_compressed(bank2, best_keys)\n    else:\n        test_idx = blend_compressed(bank2, best_keys, np.asarray(best_coef).tolist())\n\n    save_ranking(ranking_frame(TARGET_UIDS, test_idx), OUT / \"submission.parquet\")"
}
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## Step 31 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
A bug was found in `np.add.at` with 2D indexing.

The fix uses flattened row and column indices for `np.add.at` instead of 2D broadcasting. `blend_compressed` and `rrf_from_bank` need updating. A read-only array issue with `broadcast_to` and `zscore_masked` was also spotted.

The read-only array concern is resolved. `np.where` and `apply_ineligible` create new arrays, so writes remain safe. `column_normalized_dense` uses in-place division correctly. Hybrid weights have matching shapes. `ranking_from_compressed` may skip re-sorting the partition from `compress_scores`.

`ranking_from_compressed` correctly re-sorts the partition after `argpartition`. The `np.add.at` bug is being fixed. The best single method ranking will be saved immediately after the method loop, before blending, to avoid losing progress on a crash.

The best single-method ranking will be saved to `validation.parquet` without overwriting the test submission. Test scores are not available until refitting, so computing them early is deferred. The third call to `collect_listen_triples` with `min_ratio=80` still maps all items, which is acceptable.



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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    n = next(iter(bank.values()))[0].shape[0]\n    acc = np.zeros((n, N_ITEMS), dtype=np.float32)\n    if weights is None:\n        weights = [1.0] * len(keys)\n    row = np.arange(n)[:, None]\n    for key, weight in zip(keys, weights):\n        if key not in bank or weight == 0:\n            continue\n        idx, val = bank[key]\n        np.add.at(acc, (row, idx), np.float32(weight) * val)\n    acc += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)\n    return topk_indices(acc, TOP_N)",
  "new_string": "    n = next(iter(bank.values()))[0].shape[0]\n    acc = np.zeros((n, N_ITEMS), dtype=np.float32)\n    if weights is None:\n        weights = [1.0] * len(keys)\n    for key, weight in zip(keys, weights):\n        if key not in bank or weight == 0:\n            continue\n        idx, val = bank[key]\n        rows = np.repeat(np.arange(n, dtype=np.int32), idx.shape[1])\n        np.add.at(acc, (rows, idx.ravel()), (np.float32(weight) * val).ravel())\n    acc += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)\n    return topk_indices(acc, TOP_N)"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    n = next(iter(bank.values()))[0].shape[0]\n    acc = np.zeros((n, N_ITEMS), dtype=np.float32)\n    row = np.arange(n)[:, None]\n    contrib = 1.0 / (k + 1.0 + np.arange(topm, dtype=np.float32))\n    for key in keys:\n        if key not in bank:\n            continue\n        idx, val = bank[key]\n        take = min(topm, idx.shape[1])\n        order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1)[:, :take]\n        ranked = idx[row, order]\n        np.add.at(acc, (row, ranked), contrib[:take])\n    acc += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)\n    return topk_indices(acc, TOP_N)",
  "new_string": "    n = next(iter(bank.values()))[0].shape[0]\n    acc = np.zeros((n, N_ITEMS), dtype=np.float32)\n    row = np.arange(n)[:, None]\n    contrib = 1.0 / (k + 1.0 + np.arange(topm, dtype=np.float32))\n    for key in keys:\n        if key not in bank:\n            continue\n        idx, val = bank[key]\n        take = min(topm, idx.shape[1])\n        order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1)[:, :take]\n        ranked = idx[row, order]\n        rows = np.repeat(np.arange(n, dtype=np.int32), take)\n        np.add.at(acc, (rows, ranked.ravel()), np.broadcast_to(contrib[:take], ranked.shape).ravel())\n    acc += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)\n    return topk_indices(acc, TOP_N)"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    for key in bank:\n        idx = ranking_from_compressed(bank[key], TOP_N)\n        method_ndcg[key] = ndcg_from_indices(idx, graded)\n        log(f\"  {key:12s} NDCG@10={method_ndcg[key]:.6f}\")",
  "new_string": "    for key in bank:\n        idx = ranking_from_compressed(bank[key], TOP_N)\n        method_ndcg[key] = ndcg_from_indices(idx, graded)\n        log(f\"  {key:12s} NDCG@10={method_ndcg[key]:.6f}\")\n    best_single = max(method_ndcg, key=method_ndcg.get)\n    save_ranking(\n        ranking_frame(TARGET_UIDS, ranking_from_compressed(bank[best_single])),\n        OUT / \"validation.parquet\",\n    )\n    log(f\"checkpoint best single method={best_single}\")"
}
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### Recorded reasoning summary
A potential issue with topk_indices was noted when scores contain many -inf or zeros, but argpartition kth=99 appears acceptable.

Memory peaks look manageable. The largest temporary matrix reaches about 3 GB. The next step is to compile the code, run it, and write a README.

ALS will get a time budget to avoid exceeding the 30-minute limit. If refitting times out, a fallback ranking using validation eligibility and pop scores will be used instead of submitting only the baseline.

A checkpoint submission will be generated from the validation-cutoff model before refitting. It masks out test-ineligible items from the compressed validation scores and takes the top 100. This provides a valid baseline if the refit times out.

A `rerank_with_mask` helper will apply the test eligibility mask to validation scores before ranking. The blend step will also use a masked version, `blend_compressed_masked`, to ensure only test-eligible items are considered.



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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def blend_compressed(\n    bank: dict[str, tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]],\n    keys: list[str],\n    weights: list[float] | np.ndarray | None = None,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    n = next(iter(bank.values()))[0].shape[0]\n    acc = np.zeros((n, N_ITEMS), dtype=np.float32)\n    if weights is None:\n        weights = [1.0] * len(keys)\n    for key, weight in zip(keys, weights):\n        if key not in bank or weight == 0:\n            continue\n        idx, val = bank[key]\n        rows = np.repeat(np.arange(n, dtype=np.int32), idx.shape[1])\n        np.add.at(acc, (rows, idx.ravel()), (np.float32(weight) * val).ravel())\n    acc += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)\n    return topk_indices(acc, TOP_N)",
  "new_string": "def blend_compressed(\n    bank: dict[str, tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]],\n    keys: list[str],\n    weights: list[float] | np.ndarray | None = None,\n    eligible: np.ndarray | None = None,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    n = next(iter(bank.values()))[0].shape[0]\n    acc = np.zeros((n, N_ITEMS), dtype=np.float32)\n    if weights is None:\n        weights = [1.0] * len(keys)\n    for key, weight in zip(keys, weights):\n        if key not in bank or weight == 0:\n            continue\n        idx, val = bank[key]\n        rows = np.repeat(np.arange(n, dtype=np.int32), idx.shape[1])\n        np.add.at(acc, (rows, idx.ravel()), (np.float32(weight) * val).ravel())\n    if eligible is not None:\n        acc[~eligible] = -1e9\n    acc += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)\n    return topk_indices(acc, TOP_N)"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    log(f\"selected validation blend={best_name} NDCG@10={best_ndcg:.6f}\")\n    save_ranking(ranking_frame(TARGET_UIDS, best_idx), OUT / \"validation.parquet\")\n\n    del bank, mats\n    gc.collect()",
  "new_string": "    log(f\"selected validation blend={best_name} NDCG@10={best_ndcg:.6f}\")\n    save_ranking(ranking_frame(TARGET_UIDS, best_idx), OUT / \"validation.parquet\")\n\n    # Checkpoint: val-cutoff scores filtered by test eligibility, in case refit runs long.\n    if best_kind == \"rrf\":\n        ckpt_idx = rrf_from_bank(bank, best_keys)\n        # re-apply test eligibility\n        n = ckpt_idx.shape[0]\n        acc = np.full((n, N_ITEMS), -1e9, dtype=np.float32)\n        rows = np.repeat(np.arange(n), ckpt_idx.shape[1])\n        acc[rows, ckpt_idx.ravel()] = np.broadcast_to(\n            np.arange(ckpt_idx.shape[1], 0, -1, dtype=np.float32), ckpt_idx.shape\n        ).ravel()\n        acc[~test_el] = -1e9\n        ckpt_idx = topk_indices(acc, TOP_N)\n    elif best_kind == \"hybrid\":\n        ckpt_idx = blend_compressed(bank, keys, (coef + 0.35 * w_ndcg).tolist(), eligible=test_el)\n    elif best_kind == \"equal\":\n        ckpt_idx = blend_compressed(bank, best_keys, eligible=test_el)\n    else:\n        ckpt_idx = blend_compressed(bank, best_keys, np.asarray(best_coef).tolist(), eligible=test_el)\n    save_ranking(ranking_frame(TARGET_UIDS, ckpt_idx), OUT / \"submission.parquet\")\n    log(\"checkpoint test submission written from val-cutoff model\")\n\n    del bank, mats\n    gc.collect()"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
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### Recorded reasoning summary
The `rrf_from_bank` function needs a fix similar to the mask test eligibility change.



### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def rrf_from_bank(\n    bank: dict[str, tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]],\n    keys: list[str],\n    k: int = 60,\n    topm: int = 400,\n) -> np.ndarray:",
  "new_string": "def rrf_from_bank(\n    bank: dict[str, tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]],\n    keys: list[str],\n    k: int = 60,\n    topm: int = 400,\n    eligible: np.ndarray | None = None,\n) -> np.ndarray:"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "        np.add.at(acc, (rows, ranked.ravel()), np.broadcast_to(contrib[:take], ranked.shape).ravel())\n    acc += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)\n    return topk_indices(acc, TOP_N)",
  "new_string": "        np.add.at(acc, (rows, ranked.ravel()), np.broadcast_to(contrib[:take], ranked.shape).ravel())\n    if eligible is not None:\n        acc[~eligible] = -1e9\n    acc += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)\n    return topk_indices(acc, TOP_N)"
}
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    if best_kind == \"rrf\":\n        ckpt_idx = rrf_from_bank(bank, best_keys)\n        # re-apply test eligibility\n        n = ckpt_idx.shape[0]\n        acc = np.full((n, N_ITEMS), -1e9, dtype=np.float32)\n        rows = np.repeat(np.arange(n), ckpt_idx.shape[1])\n        acc[rows, ckpt_idx.ravel()] = np.broadcast_to(\n            np.arange(ckpt_idx.shape[1], 0, -1, dtype=np.float32), ckpt_idx.shape\n        ).ravel()\n        acc[~test_el] = -1e9\n        ckpt_idx = topk_indices(acc, TOP_N)\n    elif best_kind == \"hybrid\":",
  "new_string": "    if best_kind == \"rrf\":\n        ckpt_idx = rrf_from_bank(bank, best_keys, eligible=test_el)\n    elif best_kind == \"hybrid\":"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
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### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    if best_kind == \"rrf\":\n        test_idx = rrf_from_bank(bank2, best_keys)",
  "new_string": "    if best_kind == \"rrf\":\n        test_idx = rrf_from_bank(bank2, best_keys, eligible=test_el)"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
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## Step 34 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
The test eligible set must be passed to the other test blend paths.

Validation blend_compressed already contains validation eligibility, so no extra mask is needed there. A potential bug was spotted in `np.add.at` if duplicate indices appear within a method. The README will be written next, followed by a long-running background script execution.



### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    elif best_kind == \"hybrid\":\n        test_idx = blend_compressed(bank2, keys, (coef + 0.35 * w_ndcg).tolist())\n    elif best_kind == \"equal\":\n        test_idx = blend_compressed(bank2, best_keys)\n    else:\n        test_idx = blend_compressed(bank2, best_keys, np.asarray(best_coef).tolist())",
  "new_string": "    elif best_kind == \"hybrid\":\n        test_idx = blend_compressed(bank2, keys, (coef + 0.35 * w_ndcg).tolist(), eligible=test_el)\n    elif best_kind == \"equal\":\n        test_idx = blend_compressed(bank2, best_keys, eligible=test_el)\n    else:\n        test_idx = blend_compressed(\n            bank2, best_keys, np.asarray(best_coef).tolist(), eligible=test_el\n        )"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
The file /app/solution/build_ranker.py has been updated successfully.

### write · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/README.md",
  "content": "# Made-for-You discovery ranker\n\nRanks 100 eligible catalog tracks for each target user on the organic discovery\nobjective (graded NDCG@10: organic like = 3, organic ≥80% listen = 1).\n\n## Model\n\nCollaborative filtering over the 30k retrieval catalog, using only history at\nthe relevant cutoff:\n\n- time-decayed item-item cosine (7/14/30-day profiles, organic-only, BM25)\n- RP3β random-walk item-item\n- user kNN\n- TruncatedSVD\n- implicit ALS\n- session / sequential co-visitation\n- like-based item kNN\n- recency and skip-rate popularity\n\nEach method is z-scored over a user's eligible items and compressed to its top\n1000 candidates. Validation NDCG selects among NDCG-weighted blending, equal\nfusion of the top methods, Ridge on graded relevance, RRF, and a Ridge+NDCG\nhybrid.\n\n## Protocol\n\n1. Fit on `train_*` only; score `validation_eligible_candidates.npz`.\n2. Choose the blend on public validation labels.\n3. Refit the same methods on `train_* + val_*` and rank\n   `test_eligible_candidates.npz`.\n\n## Artifacts\n\n- `submission.parquet`: hidden-test ranking (`uid`, `item_id`, `rank` 1–100)\n- `validation.parquet`: public-validation ranking of the selected blend\n- `build_ranker.py`: training / inference entry point\n"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
The file /app/solution/README.md has been created.

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


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### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "cd /app && /opt/task-venv/bin/python -u /app/solution/build_ranker.py > /tmp/ranker.log 2>&1",
  "description": "Run full ranking pipeline",
  "block_until_ms": 0
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
<task-id>01a0edf2-4875-7903-af6d-76912437bd1a</task-id>
<task-type>bash</task-type>
<output-file>/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/9f989bc0-b641-4f63-87a1-2bb4574ef131/terminal/call-e95d23c7-febb-4137-b48b-9d4877cc0435-67.log</output-file>
<status>running</status>
<summary>Background task 01a0edf2-4875-7903-af6d-76912437bd1a started</summary>
Use get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=["01a0edf2-4875-7903-af6d-76912437bd1a"] when you need the output.

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### get_command_or_subagent_output · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "task_ids": [
    "01a0edf2-4875-7903-af6d-76912437bd1a"
  ],
  "timeout_ms": 45000
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
=== Task 01a0edf2-4875-7903-af6d-76912437bd1a ===
Command: cd /app && /opt/task-venv/bin/python -u /app/solution/build_ranker.py > /tmp/ranker.log 2>&1
Status: failed
Duration: 16.39s
Exit Code: 1
Output File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/9f989bc0-b641-4f63-87a1-2bb4574ef131/terminal/call-e95d23c7-febb-4137-b48b-9d4877cc0435-67.log

=== Output ===
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### read_file · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "target_file": "/tmp/ranker.log"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
1→[16:14:34] loading eligibility + preference
[16:14:35] writing popularity fallback submissions
[16:14:36] wrote /app/solution/submission.parquet rows=845600
[16:14:38] wrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600
[16:14:38] loading train events
[16:14:39] building validation-cutoff matrices
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/solution/build_ranker.py", line 1099, in <module>
    main()
10→  File "/app/solution/build_ranker.py", line 962, in main
    mats = build_matrices(train_events, TRAIN_CUTOFF, all_uids)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/solution/build_ranker.py", line 271, in build_matrices
    X_dis = aggregate_pairs(
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/solution/build_ranker.py", line 160, in aggregate_pairs
    coo = sparse.coo_matrix((weights.astype(np.float32), (rows, cols)), shape=(n_rows, n_cols))
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/task-venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/scipy/sparse/_coo.py", line 101, in __init__
20→    self._check()
  File "/opt/task-venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/scipy/sparse/_coo.py", line 225, in _check
    raise ValueError(f'negative axis {i} index: {idx.min()}')
ValueError: negative axis 0 index: -1


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### Recorded reasoning summary
Some user IDs from the dislikes data are missing from the user mapping.

Some dislike users were missing from the ID map — I’ll include every event family before rebuilding.

### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def unique_sorted_uids(*arrays: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    return np.unique(np.concatenate(arrays))",
  "new_string": "def unique_sorted_uids(*arrays: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    return np.unique(np.concatenate([a for a in arrays if len(a)]))\n\n\ndef event_uids(events: dict[str, pd.DataFrame]) -> np.ndarray:\n    return unique_sorted_uids(*[df.uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64) for df in events.values()])"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
The file /app/solution/build_ranker.py has been updated successfully.

### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    all_uids = unique_sorted_uids(\n        TARGET_UIDS,\n        train_events[\"listens\"].uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64),\n        train_events[\"likes\"].uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64),\n    )",
  "new_string": "    all_uids = unique_sorted_uids(TARGET_UIDS, event_uids(train_events))"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
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{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    all_uids2 = unique_sorted_uids(\n        TARGET_UIDS,\n        all_events[\"listens\"].uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64),\n        all_events[\"likes\"].uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64),\n    )",
  "new_string": "    all_uids2 = unique_sorted_uids(TARGET_UIDS, event_uids(all_events))"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
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### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "/opt/task-venv/bin/python -m py_compile /app/solution/build_ranker.py && cd /app && /opt/task-venv/bin/python -u /app/solution/build_ranker.py > /tmp/ranker.log 2>&1",
  "description": "Rerun ranking pipeline after uid-map fix",
  "block_until_ms": 0
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
<task-id>01a0edf2-d27b-7ed2-85d4-b2058b11f036</task-id>
<task-type>bash</task-type>
<output-file>/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/9f989bc0-b641-4f63-87a1-2bb4574ef131/terminal/call-99509bfd-fb3c-499f-a7f9-b7dbcd58d1c1-73.log</output-file>
<status>running</status>
<summary>Background task 01a0edf2-d27b-7ed2-85d4-b2058b11f036 started</summary>
Use get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=["01a0edf2-d27b-7ed2-85d4-b2058b11f036"] when you need the output.

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### get_command_or_subagent_output · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "task_ids": [
    "01a0edf2-d27b-7ed2-85d4-b2058b11f036"
  ],
  "timeout_ms": 60000
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
=== Task 01a0edf2-d27b-7ed2-85d4-b2058b11f036 ===
Command: /opt/task-venv/bin/python -m py_compile /app/solution/build_ranker.py && cd /app && /opt/task-venv/bin/python -u /app/solution/build_ranker.py > /tmp/ranker.log 2>&1
Status: running
Duration: 61.83s
Output File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/9f989bc0-b641-4f63-87a1-2bb4574ef131/terminal/call-99509bfd-fb3c-499f-a7f9-b7dbcd58d1c1-73.log

=== Output ===


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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### read_file · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "target_file": "/tmp/ranker.log"
}
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1→[16:15:10] loading eligibility + preference
[16:15:10] writing popularity fallback submissions
[16:15:12] wrote /app/solution/submission.parquet rows=845600
[16:15:13] wrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600
[16:15:13] loading train events
[16:15:14] building validation-cutoff matrices
[16:15:32] score bank (validation cutoff)
[16:15:33] column-normalize binary / organic matrices
[16:15:33] item-cosine full profile
10→

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### get_command_or_subagent_output · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "task_ids": [
    "01a0edf2-d27b-7ed2-85d4-b2058b11f036"
  ],
  "timeout_ms": 90000
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
=== Task 01a0edf2-d27b-7ed2-85d4-b2058b11f036 ===
Command: /opt/task-venv/bin/python -m py_compile /app/solution/build_ranker.py && cd /app && /opt/task-venv/bin/python -u /app/solution/build_ranker.py > /tmp/ranker.log 2>&1
Status: failed
Duration: 61.98s
Exit Code: 137
Output File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/9f989bc0-b641-4f63-87a1-2bb4574ef131/terminal/call-99509bfd-fb3c-499f-a7f9-b7dbcd58d1c1-73.log

=== Output ===
--: line 1:  7079 Killed                  /opt/task-venv/bin/python -u /app/solution/build_ranker.py > /tmp/ranker.log 2>&1


## Step 43 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
The item-cosine dense GEMM ran out of memory and was killed.

The dense GEMM consumes roughly 1.01 GB for the item-user matrix multiplication alone, on top of 1.1 GB for the column-normalized dense matrix, plus additional overhead from z-score copies, training data, sparse matrices, and eligibility masks. This memory footprint exceeds the available RAM.

The z-score masking step creates multiple 1 GB arrays at once. `np.where` copies the full scores matrix for mean, diff, and z-score calculations. This pushes total memory usage past 10 GB.

I will drop pandas event frames after building matrices, pack eligibility masks to reduce memory, and stream z-score computation in user chunks. The dense item-item GEMM will be replaced by a sparse top-k approach: block-wise X.T @ X with only the top 200 neighbors per item, then P @ S. I am checking whether scipy can compute this without creating a large intermediate matrix.

A sparse block approach avoids the dense GEMM entirely. Each 500-column block converts to dense for a 500 × 30000 similarity matrix, which is only about 60 MB. The top 200 neighbors per item are kept, and the full matrix is built in roughly 60 blocks in seconds.

The sparse similarity matrix is tiny, but P @ S may still produce dense scores. I will compute each user's scores as a sparse matvec instead, keeping only the top 1000 candidates per user.

Z-score requires the full eligible-item mean and standard deviation, so it cannot be computed from top-k lists alone. Rank-based fusion methods such as RRF or rank fusion need only top-k candidate lists. Min-max or softmax normalization over the top-k scores can replace z-score entirely. This avoids the dense matrix multiplication and eliminates the memory bottleneck.

Scoring will proceed in chunks of 256 users. Each chunk produces a 256 × 30000 score matrix, which is only about 30 MB even if dense. The item-item similarity graph S will be built by computing column blocks of the normalized sparse matrix.

The item-item similarity matrix will be built by transposing the user-item matrix to items-by-users. Each 400-item block is converted to dense and multiplied by the full sparse user-item matrix using sklearn's safe_sparse_dot, yielding a 48 MB dense block per step.

Building the item-item similarity graph requires about 75 blocks and should finish in seconds to a minute. The user-kNN approach would also exhaust memory: its dense similarity matrix is 312 MB, and scoring all users against the full sparse item matrix produces a 1 GB dense result. Chunking user-kNN into 256-user batches avoids this, but only if the item matrix stays sparse.

SVD and ALS factorizations are also dense 8456 × 30000 matrices. Scoring will be chunked into 512-user batches, yielding roughly 61 MB per batch. Popularity can be ranked directly from eligible items without building a full z-score matrix. The training event dataframe will be freed after matrix construction. Eligibility masks will be packed to reduce memory and unpacked per chunk.

Z-score will be computed in 512-user chunks, keeping the eligible mask at roughly 15 MB per chunk. The test eligibility mask will be deferred until needed. The scoring pipeline will be rewritten to build item-kNN graphs, score users in 256–512-user batches, z-score each chunk, and compress results into index-value pairs. Popularity methods will rank only eligible items by broadcast popularity without computing a full z-score matrix.

I will simplify the method set to reduce memory pressure. The item-kNN graph will use three profiles, and I will drop ALS if it remains too heavy. I am now writing a cleaner, chunked scoring rewrite that keeps the binary user-item matrix sparse throughout.

The block-wise item-item similarity matrix is about 4.5 million non-zero entries, roughly 500 MB. The P @ S sparse multiplication may internally densify and exceed memory, so I will chunk the user matrix into smaller batches.

Chunking the user matrix into 400-user batches for P @ S keeps each dense score block at about 48 MB. I will rewrite build_score_bank and z-score in chunks, drop training events in main, and keep all 15 methods compressed. ALS will be retained with fewer factors and iterations to stay memory-efficient.

I will replace the scoring functions with chunked versions: `column_normalized_dense`, `score_item_cosine`, `score_rp3beta`, `score_user_knn`, `score_svd`, and a new `zscore_chunk`. The `store_method` helper will be rewritten to compress per-chunk results. I will also replace `build_score_bank` entirely.

In `main`, I will delete the training event dataframe after building matrices, and load the test eligibility mask only when needed.

I am keeping one full eligible-item mask in memory rather than packing it; unpacking 400 users at once costs only about 12 MB.

The test eligibility mask will be loaded only for the popularity fallback, then deleted immediately to avoid holding two copies at once. A new `compress_from_scorer` helper is being drafted so each scoring function can return a dense score block per user chunk, which the compressor then turns into a sparse top-k list.

The `compress_from_scorer` helper will process users in 400-user batches, z-score each chunk against the eligible mask, and compress to top-k lists. I am now writing scorer closures and replacing large sections of the file.

I will rewrite the entire script cleanly rather than patching it. I will also remove the unused `l2_normalize_columns` helper.

For the RP3beta graph, I am deriving the correct sparse formula: normalize the user-item matrix by rows to get P(i|u), then compute the item-item similarity as P^T P with popularity raised to the negative beta power.

The RP3beta graph will use a sparse block approach: normalize the user-item matrix by rows, divide each item column by its popularity raised to the negative beta power, then multiply the transposed normalized matrix against the full user-item matrix in blocks. The session similarity matrix is already sparse and top-150, so it will be scored directly with chunked P @ S. User kNN will use row-normalized X.

The dense item-cosine pass hit the 15GB RAM cap. I’ll switch to sparse item-kNN and chunked scoring so we can finish the run.

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130→def collect_flag_triples(
    frame: pd.DataFrame, cutoff: int
) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
    uid = frame.uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)
    ts = frame.timestamp.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64)
    cols = map_items(frame.item_id.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64))
    organic = frame.is_organic.to_numpy(dtype=np.int8)
    keep = (ts <= cutoff) & (cols >= 0)
    return uid[keep], ts[keep], cols[keep], organic[keep]

140→
def unique_sorted_uids(*arrays: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    return np.unique(np.concatenate([a for a in arrays if len(a)]))


def event_uids(events: dict[str, pd.DataFrame]) -> np.ndarray:
    return unique_sorted_uids(*[df.uid.to_numpy(dtype=np.int64) for df in events.values()])


def uid_mapper(uids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
150→    inv = np.full(int(uids.max()) + 1, -1, dtype=np.int32)
    inv[uids] = np.arange(len(uids), dtype=np.int32)
    return inv


def aggregate_pairs(
    rows: np.ndarray,
    cols: np.ndarray,
    weights: np.ndarray,
    n_rows: int,
160→    n_cols: int,
) -> sparse.csr_matrix:
    if len(rows) == 0:
        return sparse.csr_matrix((n_rows, n_cols), dtype=np.float32)
    coo = sparse.coo_matrix((weights.astype(np.float32), (rows, cols)), shape=(n_rows, n_cols))
    return coo.tocsr().astype(np.float32)


def build_matrices(
    events: dict[str, pd.DataFrame],
170→    cutoff: int,
    all_uids: np.ndarray,
) -> dict[str, sparse.csr_matrix | np.ndarray]:
    umap = uid_mapper(all_uids)
    n_users = len(all_uids)

    lu, lts, lc, lo, lr = collect_listen_triples(events["listens"], cutoff, min_ratio=1)
    pu, pts, pc, po, pr = collect_listen_triples(events["listens"], cutoff, min_ratio=LISTEN_POS)
    su, sts, sc, so, sr = collect_listen_triples(events["listens"], cutoff, min_ratio=LISTEN_STRONG)
    ku, kts, kc, ko = collect_flag_triples(events["likes"], cutoff)

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  "path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py"
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Found 49 matching lines
/app/solution/build_ranker.py
54:def log(msg: str) -> None:
58:def item_mapper(item_ids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
67:def map_items(raw: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
74:def load_eligibility(path: Path, target_uids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
87:def load_pref_sets(path: Path) -> tuple[dict[int, set[int]], dict[int, set[int]]]:
99:def read_events(split: str) -> dict[str, pd.DataFrame]:
106:def concat_splits(names: list[str]) -> dict[str, pd.DataFrame]:
111:def decay_from_age(age_sec: np.ndarray, half_life_days: float) -> np.ndarray:
117:def collect_listen_triples(
130:def collect_flag_triples(
141:def unique_sorted_uids(*arrays: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
145:def event_uids(events: dict[str, pd.DataFrame]) -> np.ndarray:
149:def uid_mapper(uids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
155:def aggregate_pairs(
168:def build_matrices(
306:def _popularity_vectors(pts, pc, po, pr, kts, kc, ko, cutoff):
327:def _session_matrix(rows, ts, cols, organic, n_users) -> sparse.csr_matrix:
353:def _topk_sparse_rows(mat: sparse.csr_matrix, k: int) -> sparse.csr_matrix:
377:def idf_weights(X: sparse.csr_matrix) -> np.ndarray:
383:def bm25_weight(X: sparse.csr_matrix, k1: float = 1.2, b: float = 0.75) -> sparse.csr_matrix:
400:def l2_normalize_columns(X: sparse.csr_matrix) -> np.ndarray:
408:def column_normalized_dense(X: sparse.csr_matrix) -> np.ndarray:
416:def score_item_cosine(profile: sparse.csr_matrix, item_user: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
422:def score_rp3beta(
441:def score_user_knn(
467:def score_svd(X: sparse.csr_matrix, target_rows: np.ndarray, n_comp: int = 128) -> np.ndarray:
476:def _als_block(start, end, other, indptr, indices, data, alpha, reg, factors):
496:def implicit_als(
540:def zscore_masked(scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
552:def apply_ineligible(scores: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
559:def compress_scores(z: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray, k: int = SCORE_K) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
567:def store_method(bank: dict, name: str, raw: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> None:
573:def topk_indices(scores: np.ndarray, k: int = TOP_N) -> np.ndarray:
581:def ranking_frame(uids: np.ndarray, item_idx: np.ndarray) -> pd.DataFrame:
592:def save_ranking(df: pd.DataFrame, path: Path) -> None:
597:def validation_graded(eligible: np.ndarray) -> dict[int, dict[int, int]]:
628:def ndcg_from_indices(item_idx: np.ndarray, graded: dict[int, dict[int, int]]) -> float:
637:def write_pop_ranking(eligible: np.ndarray, path: Path, uids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
645:def target_slice(mat: sparse.csr_matrix, target_rows: np.ndarray) -> sparse.csr_matrix:
649:def add_pref_boost(
677:def scale_profile_idf(P: sparse.csr_matrix, idf: np.ndarray) -> sparse.csr_matrix:
681:def build_score_bank(
817:def ranking_from_compressed(pair: tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray], k: int = TOP_N) -> np.ndarray:
825:def blend_compressed(
847:def rrf_from_bank(
873:def lookup_features(bank, keys, row: int, cols: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
883:def sample_ridge_dataset(
935:def ridge_weights(bank, keys, graded, eligible) -> np.ndarray:
946:def main() -> None:
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377→def idf_weights(X: sparse.csr_matrix) -> np.ndarray:
    df = np.asarray((X > 0).sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)
    n = X.shape[0]
380→    return np.log((n + 1.0) / (df + 1.0)).astype(np.float32) + 1.0


def bm25_weight(X: sparse.csr_matrix, k1: float = 1.2, b: float = 0.75) -> sparse.csr_matrix:
    """BM25-weight a user-item CSR matrix (users as documents)."""
    X = X.tocsr().astype(np.float32)
    n_users, n_items = X.shape
    dl = np.asarray(X.sum(axis=1)).ravel()
    avgdl = float(dl.mean()) + 1e-6
    df = np.bincount(X.indices, minlength=n_items).astype(np.float32)
390→    idf = np.log((n_users - df + 0.5) / (df + 0.5) + 1.0).astype(np.float32)
    X = X.copy()
    for u in range(n_users):
        sl = slice(X.indptr[u], X.indptr[u + 1])
        tf = X.data[sl]
        denom = tf + k1 * (1.0 - b + b * dl[u] / avgdl)
        X.data[sl] = ((k1 + 1.0) * tf / denom) * idf[X.indices[sl]]
    return X


400→def l2_normalize_columns(X: sparse.csr_matrix) -> np.ndarray:
    Xc = X.tocsc().astype(np.float32)
    norms = np.sqrt(np.asarray(Xc.power(2).sum(axis=0))).ravel()
    norms = np.maximum(norms, 1e-8)
    Xc = Xc.multiply(1.0 / norms)
    return np.ascontiguousarray(Xc.toarray().T.astype(np.float32).T)  # users x items C-order


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560→    s = apply_ineligible(z, eligible)
    k = min(k, s.shape[1])
    idx = np.argpartition(-s, kth=k - 1, axis=1)[:, :k]
    val = np.take_along_axis(z, idx, axis=1).astype(np.float32)
    return idx.astype(np.int32), val


def store_method(bank: dict, name: str, raw: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> None:
    z = zscore_masked(raw, eligible)
    bank[name] = compress_scores(z, eligible)
570→    del z


def topk_indices(scores: np.ndarray, k: int = TOP_N) -> np.ndarray:
    idx = np.argpartition(-scores, kth=k - 1, axis=1)[:, :k]
    row = np.arange(scores.shape[0])[:, None]
    part = scores[row, idx]
    order = np.argsort(-part, axis=1)
    return idx[row, order]

580→
def ranking_frame(uids: np.ndarray, item_idx: np.ndarray) -> pd.DataFrame:
    n_users, k = item_idx.shape
    return pd.DataFrame(
        {
            "uid": np.repeat(uids, k).astype(np.int64),
            "item_id": ITEM_IDS[item_idx.reshape(-1)].astype(np.int64),
            "rank": np.tile(np.arange(1, k + 1, dtype=np.int64), n_users),
        }
    )

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  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def l2_normalize_columns(X: sparse.csr_matrix) -> np.ndarray:\n    Xc = X.tocsc().astype(np.float32)\n    norms = np.sqrt(np.asarray(Xc.power(2).sum(axis=0))).ravel()\n    norms = np.maximum(norms, 1e-8)\n    Xc = Xc.multiply(1.0 / norms)\n    return np.ascontiguousarray(Xc.toarray().T.astype(np.float32).T)  # users x items C-order\n\n\ndef column_normalized_dense(X: sparse.csr_matrix) -> np.ndarray:\n    dense = np.ascontiguousarray(X.astype(np.float32).toarray())\n    norms = np.sqrt((dense * dense).sum(axis=0, keepdims=True))\n    norms = np.maximum(norms, 1e-8)\n    dense /= norms\n    return dense\n\n\ndef score_item_cosine(profile: sparse.csr_matrix, item_user: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"profile: n_tgt x n_items, item_user: n_users x n_items with L2 columns.\"\"\"\n    mid = profile @ item_user.T\n    return np.ascontiguousarray(mid @ item_user, dtype=np.float32)\n\n\ndef score_rp3beta(\n    profile: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    X: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    beta: float,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    \"\"\"P3 * pop^{-beta} via user space: (p @ X_item_norm.T) @ X_user_norm.\"\"\"\n    X = X.tocsr().astype(np.float32)\n    item_pop = np.asarray(X.sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    Xu = normalize(X, norm=\"l1\", axis=1)  # user -> item\n    Xi = X.multiply(1.0 / np.maximum(item_pop, 1e-8))  # item -> user (col L1)\n    mid = profile @ Xi.T\n    if sparse.issparse(mid):\n        mid = mid.toarray()\n    Xu_dense = Xu.toarray() if sparse.issparse(Xu) else Xu\n    scores = np.ascontiguousarray(mid @ Xu_dense, dtype=np.float32)\n    scores *= np.power(np.maximum(item_pop, 1.0), -beta).astype(np.float32)\n    return scores\n\n\ndef score_user_knn(\n    profile: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    X: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    target_rows: np.ndarray,\n    k: int = 80,\n) -> np.ndarray:\n    Xn = normalize(X.astype(np.float32), norm=\"l2\", axis=1)\n    Pn = normalize(profile.astype(np.float32), norm=\"l2\", axis=1)\n    sim = Pn @ Xn.T  # tgt x users\n    if sparse.issparse(sim):\n        sim = sim.toarray()\n    sim = np.ascontiguousarray(sim, dtype=np.float32)\n    sim[np.arange(len(target_rows)), target_rows] = -1.0\n    k = min(k, sim.shape[1] - 1)\n    idx = np.argpartition(-sim, k, axis=1)[:, :k]\n    rows = np.repeat(np.arange(sim.shape[0]), k)\n    cols = idx.ravel()\n    vals = sim[np.arange(sim.shape[0])[:, None], idx].ravel()\n    vals = np.clip(vals, 0.0, None)\n    Sk = sparse.csr_matrix((vals, (rows, cols)), shape=sim.shape, dtype=np.float32)\n    scores = Sk @ X.astype(np.float32)\n    if sparse.issparse(scores):\n        scores = scores.toarray()\n    return np.ascontiguousarray(scores, dtype=np.float32)\n\n\ndef score_svd(X: sparse.csr_matrix, target_rows: np.ndarray, n_comp: int = 128) -> np.ndarray:\n    n_comp = min(n_comp, min(X.shape) - 1)\n    svd = TruncatedSVD(n_components=n_comp, random_state=42, n_iter=7)\n    user_f = svd.fit_transform(X.astype(np.float32))  # n_users x f  (U * S)\n    item_f = svd.components_.astype(np.float32)  # f x n_items\n    scores = user_f[target_rows] @ item_f\n    return np.ascontiguousarray(scores, dtype=np.float32)",
  "new_string": "def col_l2_normalize(X: sparse.csr_matrix) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    Xc = X.tocsc().astype(np.float32)\n    norms = np.sqrt(np.asarray(Xc.multiply(Xc).sum(axis=0))).ravel()\n    norms = np.maximum(norms, 1e-8)\n    return Xc.multiply(1.0 / norms).tocsr()\n\n\ndef build_item_knn_graph(X: sparse.csr_matrix, k: int = 120, block: int = 250) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    \"\"\"Cosine item-item graph, keeping the top-k neighbors of each item.\"\"\"\n    Xn = col_l2_normalize(X)\n    Xt = Xn.T.tocsr()\n    n_items = Xn.shape[1]\n    indptr = [0]\n    indices_cat = []\n    data_cat = []\n    k = min(k, n_items - 1)\n    for start in range(0, n_items, block):\n        end = min(n_items, start + block)\n        blk = Xt[start:end].toarray()\n        sim = blk @ Xn\n        if sparse.issparse(sim):\n            sim = sim.toarray()\n        sim = np.ascontiguousarray(sim, dtype=np.float32)\n        for i, item in enumerate(range(start, end)):\n            row = sim[i]\n            row[item] = -np.inf\n            take = np.argpartition(row, -k)[-k:]\n            indices_cat.append(take.astype(np.int32))\n            data_cat.append(row[take])\n            indptr.append(indptr[-1] + k)\n        del sim, blk\n    return sparse.csr_matrix(\n        (np.concatenate(data_cat), np.concatenate(indices_cat), np.asarray(indptr, dtype=np.int32)),\n        shape=(n_items, n_items),\n        dtype=np.float32,\n    )\n\n\ndef build_rp3_graph(X: sparse.csr_matrix, k: int = 120, beta: float = 0.4, block: int = 250) -> sparse.csr_matrix:\n    X = X.tocsr().astype(np.float32)\n    item_pop = np.asarray(X.sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    Xu = normalize(X, norm=\"l1\", axis=1)\n    Xi = X.multiply(1.0 / np.maximum(item_pop, 1e-8)).tocsr()\n    Xt = Xi.T.tocsr()\n    n_items = X.shape[1]\n    pop_pen = np.power(np.maximum(item_pop, 1.0), -beta).astype(np.float32)\n    indptr = [0]\n    indices_cat = []\n    data_cat = []\n    k = min(k, n_items - 1)\n    for start in range(0, n_items, block):\n        end = min(n_items, start + block)\n        blk = Xt[start:end].toarray()\n        sim = blk @ Xu\n        if sparse.issparse(sim):\n            sim = sim.toarray()\n        sim = np.ascontiguousarray(sim, dtype=np.float32)\n        sim *= pop_pen\n        for i, item in enumerate(range(start, end)):\n            row = sim[i]\n            row[item] = -np.inf\n            take = np.argpartition(row, -k)[-k:]\n            indices_cat.append(take.astype(np.int32))\n            data_cat.append(row[take])\n            indptr.append(indptr[-1] + k)\n        del sim, blk\n    return sparse.csr_matrix(\n        (np.concatenate(data_cat), np.concatenate(indices_cat), np.asarray(indptr, dtype=np.int32)),\n        shape=(n_items, n_items),\n        dtype=np.float32,\n    )\n\n\ndef fit_svd_factors(X: sparse.csr_matrix, n_comp: int = 128) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:\n    n_comp = min(n_comp, min(X.shape) - 1)\n    svd = TruncatedSVD(n_components=n_comp, random_state=42, n_iter=6)\n    user_f = svd.fit_transform(X.astype(np.float32)).astype(np.float32)\n    item_f = svd.components_.astype(np.float32)\n    return user_f, item_f"
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  "old_string": "    scores = X[target_rows] @ Y.T\n    return np.ascontiguousarray(scores, dtype=np.float32)",
  "new_string": "    return X.astype(np.float32), Y.astype(np.float32)"
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  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "def store_method(bank: dict, name: str, raw: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> None:\n    z = zscore_masked(raw, eligible)\n    bank[name] = compress_scores(z, eligible)\n    del z",
  "new_string": "def store_method(bank: dict, name: str, raw: np.ndarray, eligible: np.ndarray) -> None:\n    z = zscore_masked(raw, eligible)\n    bank[name] = compress_scores(z, eligible)\n    del z\n\n\nCHUNK = 320\n\n\ndef store_from_chunks(bank: dict, name: str, eligible: np.ndarray, n_users: int, scorer) -> None:\n    idx_out = np.empty((n_users, SCORE_K), dtype=np.int32)\n    val_out = np.empty((n_users, SCORE_K), dtype=np.float32)\n    for start in range(0, n_users, CHUNK):\n        end = min(n_users, start + CHUNK)\n        raw = scorer(start, end)\n        if sparse.issparse(raw):\n            raw = raw.toarray()\n        raw = np.ascontiguousarray(raw, dtype=np.float32)\n        z = zscore_masked(raw, eligible[start:end])\n        idx, val = compress_scores(z, eligible[start:end], SCORE_K)\n        idx_out[start:end] = idx\n        val_out[start:end] = val\n        del raw, z\n    bank[name] = (idx_out, val_out)\n    log(f\"  stored {name}\")\n\n\ndef sparse_chunk_scorer(P: sparse.csr_matrix, graph: sparse.csr_matrix):\n    def _score(start: int, end: int):\n        return P[start:end] @ graph\n\n    return _score\n\n\ndef factor_chunk_scorer(user_f: np.ndarray, item_f: np.ndarray, target_rows: np.ndarray):\n    def _score(start: int, end: int):\n        return user_f[target_rows[start:end]] @ item_f\n\n    return _score\n\n\ndef userknn_chunk_scorer(\n    profile: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    X: sparse.csr_matrix,\n    target_rows: np.ndarray,\n    k: int = 80,\n):\n    Xn = normalize(X.astype(np.float32), norm=\"l2\", axis=1)\n    Pn = normalize(profile.astype(np.float32), norm=\"l2\", axis=1)\n    X = X.tocsr().astype(np.float32)\n\n    def _score(start: int, end: int):\n        sim = Pn[start:end] @ Xn.T\n        if sparse.issparse(sim):\n            sim = sim.toarray()\n        sim = np.ascontiguousarray(sim, dtype=np.float32)\n        sim[np.arange(end - start), target_rows[start:end]] = -1.0\n        kk = min(k, sim.shape[1] - 1)\n        idx = np.argpartition(-sim, kk, axis=1)[:, :kk]\n        rows = np.repeat(np.arange(end - start), kk)\n        cols = idx.ravel()\n        vals = np.clip(sim[np.arange(end - start)[:, None], idx].ravel(), 0.0, None)\n        Sk = sparse.csr_matrix((vals, (rows, cols)), shape=(end - start, X.shape[0]), dtype=np.float32)\n        sc = Sk @ X\n        return sc\n\n    return _score\n\n\ndef pop_chunk_scorer(vec: np.ndarray):\n    vec = np.ascontiguousarray(vec, dtype=np.float32)\n\n    def _score(start: int, end: int):\n        return np.broadcast_to(vec, (end - start, vec.shape[0])).copy()\n\n    return _score"
}
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780→        P14 = add_pref_boost(P14, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 5.0)
        P7 = add_pref_boost(P7, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 6.0)
        P30 = add_pref_boost(P30, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 4.0)
        Porg = add_pref_boost(Porg, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 5.0)
        Plike = add_pref_boost(Plike, TARGET_UIDS, liked_map, 3.0)

    bank: dict[str, tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]] = {}

    log("column-normalize binary / organic matrices")
    Xn_bin = column_normalized_dense(X_bin)
790→    log("item-cosine full profile")
    idf_bin = idf_weights(X_bin)
    store_method(bank, "knn14", score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P14, idf_bin), Xn_bin), eligible)
    log("item-cosine recent profile")
    store_method(bank, "knn7", score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P7, idf_bin), Xn_bin), eligible)
    log("item-cosine 30d profile")
    store_method(bank, "knn30", score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P30, idf_bin), Xn_bin), eligible)
    del Xn_bin
    gc.collect()

800→    log("organic item-cosine")
    Xn_org = column_normalized_dense(X_org + X_like)
    idf_org = idf_weights(X_org + X_like)
    store_method(bank, "knn_org", score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(Porg, idf_org), Xn_org), eligible)
    del Xn_org
    gc.collect()

    log("BM25 item-cosine")
    X_bm = bm25_weight(X_bin + X_like.multiply(2.0))
    Xn_bm = column_normalized_dense(X_bm)
810→    store_method(bank, "bm25", score_item_cosine(P14, Xn_bm), eligible)
    del Xn_bm, X_bm
    gc.collect()

    log("RP3beta")
    store_method(bank, "rp3", score_rp3beta(P14, X_bin + X_like, beta=0.4), eligible)
    store_method(bank, "rp3_org", score_rp3beta(Porg, X_org + X_like, beta=0.55), eligible)
    gc.collect()

    log("user-kNN")
820→    store_method(bank, "uknn", score_user_knn(P14, X_bin + X_like.multiply(1.5), target_rows, k=90), eligible)
    gc.collect()

    log("SVD")
    X_svd = bm25_weight(X_w30 + X_like.multiply(2.0))
    store_method(bank, "svd", score_svd(X_svd, target_rows, n_comp=128), eligible)
    store_method(
        bank,
        "svd_org",
        score_svd(bm25_weight(X_org_w + X_like.multiply(3.0)), target_rows, n_comp=96),
830→        eligible,
    )
    del X_svd
    gc.collect()

    log("session expansion")
    sess_scores = P7 @ session
    if sparse.issparse(sess_scores):
        sess_scores = sess_scores.toarray()
    store_method(bank, "session", np.ascontiguousarray(sess_scores, dtype=np.float32), eligible)
840→    del sess_scores
    sess_scores = P14 @ session
    if sparse.issparse(sess_scores):
        sess_scores = sess_scores.toarray()
    store_method(bank, "session14", np.ascontiguousarray(sess_scores, dtype=np.float32), eligible)
    del sess_scores
    gc.collect()

    log("like-knn")
    if X_like.nnz > 0:
850→        Xn_like = column_normalized_dense(X_like + X_strong.multiply(0.25))
        like_idf = idf_weights(X_like)
        store_method(
            bank,
            "like_knn",
            score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(Plike + Porg.multiply(0.15), like_idf), Xn_like),
            eligible,
        )
        del Xn_like
    gc.collect()
860→
    log("popularity features")
    n = P14.shape[0]
    store_method(bank, "pop", np.broadcast_to(POP_SCORE, (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)
    store_method(bank, "pop7", np.broadcast_to(mats["pop7"], (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)
    store_method(bank, "pop30", np.broadcast_to(mats["pop30"], (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)
    store_method(bank, "pop_like", np.broadcast_to(mats["pop_like"], (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)
    store_method(bank, "pop_org", np.broadcast_to(mats["pop_org_strong"], (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)

    skip_item = np.asarray(mats["X_skip"].sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)
870→    listen_item = np.asarray(X_bin.sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)
    skip_rate = skip_item / np.maximum(skip_item + listen_item, 1.0)
    store_method(bank, "skip_pen", np.broadcast_to(-skip_rate, (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)

    if als:
        log("implicit ALS")
        R = (X_w14 + X_like.multiply(2.0) + X_org_w.multiply(0.5)).tocsr()
        R.data = np.maximum(R.data, 0.0)
        try:
            store_method(
880→                bank,
                "als",
                implicit_als(R, target_rows, factors=40, iterations=5, alpha=25.0, reg=0.2),
                eligible,
            )
        except Exception as exc:
            log(f"ALS failed: {exc}")
        del R
        gc.collect()

890→    return bank


def ranking_from_compressed(pair: tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray], k: int = TOP_N) -> np.ndarray:
    idx, val = pair
    take = min(k, idx.shape[1])
    row = np.arange(idx.shape[0])[:, None]
    order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1)[:, :take]
    return idx[row, order]

900→
def blend_compressed(
    bank: dict[str, tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]],
    keys: list[str],
    weights: list[float] | np.ndarray | None = None,
    eligible: np.ndarray | None = None,
) -> np.ndarray:
    n = next(iter(bank.values()))[0].shape[0]
    acc = np.zeros((n, N_ITEMS), dtype=np.float32)
    if weights is None:
910→        weights = [1.0] * len(keys)
    for key, weight in zip(keys, weights):
        if key not in bank or weight == 0:
            continue
        idx, val = bank[key]
        rows = np.repeat(np.arange(n, dtype=np.int32), idx.shape[1])
        np.add.at(acc, (rows, idx.ravel()), (np.float32(weight) * val).ravel())
    if eligible is not None:
        acc[~eligible] = -1e9
    acc += (1e-7 * (N_ITEMS - POP_RANK)).astype(np.float32)
920→    return topk_indices(acc, TOP_N)


def rrf_from_bank(
    bank: dict[str, tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]],
    keys: list[str],
    k: int = 60,
    topm: int = 400,
    eligible: np.ndarray | None = None,
) -> np.ndarray:
930→    n = next(iter(bank.values()))[0].shape[0]
    acc = np.zeros((n, N_ITEMS), dtype=np.float32)
    row = np.arange(n)[:, None]
    contrib = 1.0 / (k + 1.0 + np.arange(topm, dtype=np.float32))
    for key in keys:
        if key not in bank:
            continue
        idx, val = bank[key]
        take = min(topm, idx.shape[1])
        order = np.argsort(-val, axis=1)[:, :take]

## Step 50 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
Replacing the body of `build_score_bank` from the `bank = {}` line onward.



### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    bank: dict[str, tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]] = {}\n\n    log(\"column-normalize binary / organic matrices\")\n    Xn_bin = column_normalized_dense(X_bin)\n    log(\"item-cosine full profile\")\n    idf_bin = idf_weights(X_bin)\n    store_method(bank, \"knn14\", score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P14, idf_bin), Xn_bin), eligible)\n    log(\"item-cosine recent profile\")\n    store_method(bank, \"knn7\", score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P7, idf_bin), Xn_bin), eligible)\n    log(\"item-cosine 30d profile\")\n    store_method(bank, \"knn30\", score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(P30, idf_bin), Xn_bin), eligible)\n    del Xn_bin\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"organic item-cosine\")\n    Xn_org = column_normalized_dense(X_org + X_like)\n    idf_org = idf_weights(X_org + X_like)\n    store_method(bank, \"knn_org\", score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(Porg, idf_org), Xn_org), eligible)\n    del Xn_org\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"BM25 item-cosine\")\n    X_bm = bm25_weight(X_bin + X_like.multiply(2.0))\n    Xn_bm = column_normalized_dense(X_bm)\n    store_method(bank, \"bm25\", score_item_cosine(P14, Xn_bm), eligible)\n    del Xn_bm, X_bm\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"RP3beta\")\n    store_method(bank, \"rp3\", score_rp3beta(P14, X_bin + X_like, beta=0.4), eligible)\n    store_method(bank, \"rp3_org\", score_rp3beta(Porg, X_org + X_like, beta=0.55), eligible)\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"user-kNN\")\n    store_method(bank, \"uknn\", score_user_knn(P14, X_bin + X_like.multiply(1.5), target_rows, k=90), eligible)\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"SVD\")\n    X_svd = bm25_weight(X_w30 + X_like.multiply(2.0))\n    store_method(bank, \"svd\", score_svd(X_svd, target_rows, n_comp=128), eligible)\n    store_method(\n        bank,\n        \"svd_org\",\n        score_svd(bm25_weight(X_org_w + X_like.multiply(3.0)), target_rows, n_comp=96),\n        eligible,\n    )\n    del X_svd\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"session expansion\")\n    sess_scores = P7 @ session\n    if sparse.issparse(sess_scores):\n        sess_scores = sess_scores.toarray()\n    store_method(bank, \"session\", np.ascontiguousarray(sess_scores, dtype=np.float32), eligible)\n    del sess_scores\n    sess_scores = P14 @ session\n    if sparse.issparse(sess_scores):\n        sess_scores = sess_scores.toarray()\n    store_method(bank, \"session14\", np.ascontiguousarray(sess_scores, dtype=np.float32), eligible)\n    del sess_scores\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"like-knn\")\n    if X_like.nnz > 0:\n        Xn_like = column_normalized_dense(X_like + X_strong.multiply(0.25))\n        like_idf = idf_weights(X_like)\n        store_method(\n            bank,\n            \"like_knn\",\n            score_item_cosine(scale_profile_idf(Plike + Porg.multiply(0.15), like_idf), Xn_like),\n            eligible,\n        )\n        del Xn_like\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"popularity features\")\n    n = P14.shape[0]\n    store_method(bank, \"pop\", np.broadcast_to(POP_SCORE, (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n    store_method(bank, \"pop7\", np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop7\"], (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n    store_method(bank, \"pop30\", np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop30\"], (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n    store_method(bank, \"pop_like\", np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop_like\"], (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n    store_method(bank, \"pop_org\", np.broadcast_to(mats[\"pop_org_strong\"], (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n\n    skip_item = np.asarray(mats[\"X_skip\"].sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    listen_item = np.asarray(X_bin.sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    skip_rate = skip_item / np.maximum(skip_item + listen_item, 1.0)\n    store_method(bank, \"skip_pen\", np.broadcast_to(-skip_rate, (n, N_ITEMS)), eligible)\n\n    if als:\n        log(\"implicit ALS\")\n        R = (X_w14 + X_like.multiply(2.0) + X_org_w.multiply(0.5)).tocsr()\n        R.data = np.maximum(R.data, 0.0)\n        try:\n            store_method(\n                bank,\n                \"als\",\n                implicit_als(R, target_rows, factors=40, iterations=5, alpha=25.0, reg=0.2),\n                eligible,\n            )\n        except Exception as exc:\n            log(f\"ALS failed: {exc}\")\n        del R\n        gc.collect()\n\n    return bank",
  "new_string": "    bank: dict[str, tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]] = {}\n    n = P14.shape[0]\n    idf_bin = idf_weights(X_bin)\n\n    log(\"item-knn graph (binary+likes)\")\n    G_bin = build_item_knn_graph(X_bin + X_like.multiply(1.5), k=140)\n    log(\"score knn14/7/30\")\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"knn14\", eligible, n, sparse_chunk_scorer(scale_profile_idf(P14, idf_bin), G_bin))\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"knn7\", eligible, n, sparse_chunk_scorer(scale_profile_idf(P7, idf_bin), G_bin))\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"knn30\", eligible, n, sparse_chunk_scorer(scale_profile_idf(P30, idf_bin), G_bin))\n    del G_bin\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"organic item-knn graph\")\n    G_org = build_item_knn_graph(X_org + X_like, k=140)\n    store_from_chunks(\n        bank, \"knn_org\", eligible, n, sparse_chunk_scorer(scale_profile_idf(Porg, idf_weights(X_org + X_like)), G_org)\n    )\n    del G_org\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"BM25 item-knn graph\")\n    X_bm = bm25_weight(X_bin + X_like.multiply(2.0))\n    G_bm = build_item_knn_graph(X_bm, k=140)\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"bm25\", eligible, n, sparse_chunk_scorer(P14, G_bm))\n    del X_bm, G_bm\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"RP3beta graphs\")\n    G_rp3 = build_rp3_graph(X_bin + X_like, k=140, beta=0.4)\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"rp3\", eligible, n, sparse_chunk_scorer(P14, G_rp3))\n    del G_rp3\n    G_rp3o = build_rp3_graph(X_org + X_like, k=140, beta=0.55)\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"rp3_org\", eligible, n, sparse_chunk_scorer(Porg, G_rp3o))\n    del G_rp3o\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"user-kNN\")\n    store_from_chunks(\n        bank, \"uknn\", eligible, n, userknn_chunk_scorer(P14, X_bin + X_like.multiply(1.5), target_rows, k=80)\n    )\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"SVD\")\n    uf, iff = fit_svd_factors(bm25_weight(X_w30 + X_like.multiply(2.0)), n_comp=128)\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"svd\", eligible, n, factor_chunk_scorer(uf, iff, target_rows))\n    del uf, iff\n    uf, iff = fit_svd_factors(bm25_weight(X_org_w + X_like.multiply(3.0)), n_comp=96)\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"svd_org\", eligible, n, factor_chunk_scorer(uf, iff, target_rows))\n    del uf, iff\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"session expansion\")\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"session\", eligible, n, sparse_chunk_scorer(P7, session))\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"session14\", eligible, n, sparse_chunk_scorer(P14, session))\n    gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"like-knn\")\n    if X_like.nnz > 0:\n        G_like = build_item_knn_graph(X_like + X_strong.multiply(0.25), k=100)\n        store_from_chunks(\n            bank,\n            \"like_knn\",\n            eligible,\n            n,\n            sparse_chunk_scorer(scale_profile_idf(Plike + Porg.multiply(0.15), idf_weights(X_like)), G_like),\n        )\n        del G_like\n        gc.collect()\n\n    log(\"popularity features\")\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"pop\", eligible, n, pop_chunk_scorer(POP_SCORE))\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"pop7\", eligible, n, pop_chunk_scorer(mats[\"pop7\"]))\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"pop30\", eligible, n, pop_chunk_scorer(mats[\"pop30\"]))\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"pop_like\", eligible, n, pop_chunk_scorer(mats[\"pop_like\"]))\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"pop_org\", eligible, n, pop_chunk_scorer(mats[\"pop_org_strong\"]))\n    skip_item = np.asarray(mats[\"X_skip\"].sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    listen_item = np.asarray(X_bin.sum(axis=0)).ravel().astype(np.float32)\n    skip_rate = skip_item / np.maximum(skip_item + listen_item, 1.0)\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"skip_pen\", eligible, n, pop_chunk_scorer(-skip_rate))\n\n    if als:\n        log(\"implicit ALS\")\n        R = (X_w14 + X_like.multiply(2.0) + X_org_w.multiply(0.5)).tocsr()\n        R.data = np.maximum(R.data, 0.0)\n        try:\n            Xu, Yi = implicit_als(R, target_rows, factors=32, iterations=4, alpha=25.0, reg=0.2)\n            store_from_chunks(bank, \"als\", eligible, n, factor_chunk_scorer(Xu, Yi.T, target_rows))\n            del Xu, Yi\n        except Exception as exc:\n            log(f\"ALS failed: {exc}\")\n        del R\n        gc.collect()\n\n    return bank"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
The file /app/solution/build_ranker.py has been updated successfully.

## Step 51 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
A bug was found in the implicit ALS implementation: it now returns user and item factors as a tuple (X, Y).

The ALS item factor transpose is correctly handled for scoring. `target_rows` remains in the implicit_als signature but is unused. `train_events` must be freed after matrix construction. The blended compressed matrix still consumes roughly 1 GB.

Peak memory is estimated at roughly 3 GB, which should be manageable. The item KNN graph construction may densify the sparse user-item matrix during dense-sparse multiplication. Using sklearn's safe_sparse_dot would avoid this.

The item KNN graph construction does not densify the sparse matrix. Building all graphs and score banks may take 12 to 24 minutes, which risks exceeding the 30-minute limit. The plan is to reduce the graph count by collapsing shared KNN variants and skipping redundant ones such as like-knn and ALS.

Eight item graphs are planned, one per cutoff. Each graph takes roughly 20 to 40 seconds to build. The total graph construction time is estimated at about 12 minutes.

The score bank size will be reduced to 800. ALS is kept with three iterations. The `store_method` parameter can remain.



### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    log(\"RP3beta graphs\")\n    G_rp3 = build_rp3_graph(X_bin + X_like, k=140, beta=0.4)\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"rp3\", eligible, n, sparse_chunk_scorer(P14, G_rp3))\n    del G_rp3\n    G_rp3o = build_rp3_graph(X_org + X_like, k=140, beta=0.55)\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"rp3_org\", eligible, n, sparse_chunk_scorer(Porg, G_rp3o))\n    del G_rp3o\n    gc.collect()",
  "new_string": "    log(\"RP3beta graph\")\n    G_rp3 = build_rp3_graph(X_bin + X_like, k=140, beta=0.45)\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"rp3\", eligible, n, sparse_chunk_scorer(P14, G_rp3))\n    store_from_chunks(bank, \"rp3_org\", eligible, n, sparse_chunk_scorer(Porg, G_rp3))\n    del G_rp3\n    gc.collect()"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
The file /app/solution/build_ranker.py has been updated successfully.

### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "            Xu, Yi = implicit_als(R, target_rows, factors=32, iterations=4, alpha=25.0, reg=0.2)",
  "new_string": "            Xu, Yi = implicit_als(R, target_rows, factors=32, iterations=3, alpha=25.0, reg=0.2)"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
The file /app/solution/build_ranker.py has been updated successfully.

### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    mats = build_matrices(train_events, TRAIN_CUTOFF, all_uids)\n    log(\"score bank (validation cutoff)\")",
  "new_string": "    mats = build_matrices(train_events, TRAIN_CUTOFF, all_uids)\n    del train_events\n    gc.collect()\n    log(\"score bank (validation cutoff)\")"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
The file /app/solution/build_ranker.py has been updated successfully.

### search_replace · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "file_path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py",
  "old_string": "    log(\"building test-cutoff matrices (train+val)\")\n    mats2 = build_matrices(all_events, VAL_END, all_uids2)\n    log(\"score bank (test cutoff)\")",
  "new_string": "    log(\"building test-cutoff matrices (train+val)\")\n    mats2 = build_matrices(all_events, VAL_END, all_uids2)\n    del all_events\n    gc.collect()\n    log(\"score bank (test cutoff)\")"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
The file /app/solution/build_ranker.py has been updated successfully.

## Step 52 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
Fixing a leftover reference to `rp3_org` in `cf_keys`.



### grep · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "pattern": "column_normalized_dense|score_item_cosine|score_rp3beta|score_user_knn|score_svd",
  "path": "/app/solution/build_ranker.py"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
<workspace_result workspace_path="/app">
No matches found
</workspace_result>

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


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### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "cd /app && /opt/task-venv/bin/python -u /app/solution/build_ranker.py > /tmp/ranker.log 2>&1",
  "description": "Run memory-efficient ranking pipeline",
  "block_until_ms": 0
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
<task-id>01a0edf6-ffa3-7350-b8fe-253d8e1ca9b2</task-id>
<task-type>bash</task-type>
<output-file>/home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/9f989bc0-b641-4f63-87a1-2bb4574ef131/terminal/call-fcec1057-7ae6-47ef-ab16-0ba59c7563c2-92.log</output-file>
<status>running</status>
<summary>Background task 01a0edf6-ffa3-7350-b8fe-253d8e1ca9b2 started</summary>
Use get_command_or_subagent_output with task_ids=["01a0edf6-ffa3-7350-b8fe-253d8e1ca9b2"] when you need the output.

## Step 54 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

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### get_command_or_subagent_output · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "task_ids": [
    "01a0edf6-ffa3-7350-b8fe-253d8e1ca9b2"
  ],
  "timeout_ms": 90000
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
=== Task 01a0edf6-ffa3-7350-b8fe-253d8e1ca9b2 ===
Command: cd /app && /opt/task-venv/bin/python -u /app/solution/build_ranker.py > /tmp/ranker.log 2>&1
Status: running
Duration: 91.73s
Output File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/9f989bc0-b641-4f63-87a1-2bb4574ef131/terminal/call-fcec1057-7ae6-47ef-ab16-0ba59c7563c2-92.log

=== Output ===


Waited the requested 90s. Unless the user specified, do not kill this task just because this wait returned. It is still working. You will be notified automatically when it completes. Do other work, or wait again with a longer timeout_ms.

## Step 55 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

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### read_file · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "target_file": "/tmp/ranker.log"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
1→[16:19:44] loading eligibility + preference
[16:19:44] writing popularity fallback submissions
[16:19:46] wrote /app/solution/submission.parquet rows=845600
[16:19:47] wrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600
[16:19:47] loading train events
[16:19:48] building validation-cutoff matrices
[16:20:05] score bank (validation cutoff)
[16:20:07] item-knn graph (binary+likes)
[16:20:49] score knn14/7/30
10→[16:20:56]   stored knn14
[16:21:03]   stored knn7
[16:21:10]   stored knn30
[16:21:10] organic item-knn graph


### run_terminal_command · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "command": "ps -p $(pgrep -f build_ranker.py | head -1) -o pid,rss,etime,cmd 2>/dev/null; free -h",
  "description": "Check ranker memory and runtime"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
exit: 0
    PID   RSS     ELAPSED CMD
   7436  3256       01:34 /usr/bin/bash -O extglob -c snap=$(command cat <&3); builtin shopt -s extglob 2>/dev/null; builtin shopt -s expand_aliases 2>/dev/null; builtin eval -- "$snap"; builtin export GROK_AGENT=1; builtin export PWD="$(builtin pwd)"; unalias find 2>/dev/null || true; find() { local __grok_bin=''; [ -x "$__grok_bin" ] || __grok_bin=$(command -v bfs 2>/dev/null) || __grok_bin=''; if [ -z "$__grok_bin" ]; then command find "$@"; return; fi; if [[ -z ${ZSH_VERSION-} ]] && (( BASH_SUBSHELL > 0 )); then exec -a find "$__grok_bin" "$@"; else (exec -a find "$__grok_bin" "$@"); fi; }; __grok_shadow_find=1; unalias grep 2>/dev/null || true; grep() { local __grok_bin=''; [ -x "$__grok_bin" ] || __grok_bin=$(command -v ugrep 2>/dev/null) || __grok_bin=''; if [ -z "$__grok_bin" ]; then command grep "$@"; return; fi; if [[ -z ${ZSH_VERSION-} ]] && (( BASH_SUBSHELL > 0 )); then exec -a grep "$__grok_bin" -G --ignore-files --hidden -I --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.svn --exclude-dir=.hg --exclude-dir=.bzr --exclude-dir=.jj --exclude-dir=.sl "$@"; else (exec -a grep "$__grok_bin" -G --ignore-files --hidden -I --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.svn --exclude-dir=.hg --exclude-dir=.bzr --exclude-dir=.jj --exclude-dir=.sl "$@"); fi; }; __grok_shadow_grep=1; __grok_user_cmd="$1"; builtin declare +x __grok_user_cmd 2>/dev/null; builtin set --; builtin eval "$__grok_user_cmd" 2>&1 -- cd /app && /opt/task-venv/bin/python -u /app/solution/build_ranker.py > /tmp/ranker.log 2>&1
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            15Gi       3.6Gi       5.8Gi       3.0Mi       6.2Gi        11Gi
Swap:             0B          0B          0B


## Step 56 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

### Recorded reasoning summary
System memory is healthy with 3.6GB used and 11GB available.



### get_command_or_subagent_output · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "task_ids": [
    "01a0edf6-ffa3-7350-b8fe-253d8e1ca9b2"
  ],
  "timeout_ms": 180000
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
=== Task 01a0edf6-ffa3-7350-b8fe-253d8e1ca9b2 ===
Command: cd /app && /opt/task-venv/bin/python -u /app/solution/build_ranker.py > /tmp/ranker.log 2>&1
Status: running
Duration: 279.69s
Output File: /home/agent/.grok/sessions/%2Fapp/9f989bc0-b641-4f63-87a1-2bb4574ef131/terminal/call-fcec1057-7ae6-47ef-ab16-0ba59c7563c2-92.log

=== Output ===


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 57 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

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### read_file · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "target_file": "/tmp/ranker.log"
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
1→[16:19:44] loading eligibility + preference
[16:19:44] writing popularity fallback submissions
[16:19:46] wrote /app/solution/submission.parquet rows=845600
[16:19:47] wrote /app/solution/validation.parquet rows=845600
[16:19:47] loading train events
[16:19:48] building validation-cutoff matrices
[16:20:05] score bank (validation cutoff)
[16:20:07] item-knn graph (binary+likes)
[16:20:49] score knn14/7/30
10→[16:20:56]   stored knn14
[16:21:03]   stored knn7
[16:21:10]   stored knn30
[16:21:10] organic item-knn graph
[16:21:42]   stored knn_org
[16:21:42] BM25 item-knn graph
[16:22:32]   stored bm25
[16:22:32] RP3beta graph
[16:23:24]   stored rp3
[16:23:29]   stored rp3_org
20→[16:23:29] user-kNN
[16:23:43]   stored uknn
[16:23:43] SVD
[16:23:52]   stored svd
[16:24:00]   stored svd_org
[16:24:00] session expansion
[16:24:08]   stored session
[16:24:16]   stored session14
[16:24:16] like-knn


## Step 58 · agent · Timestamp not recorded

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### get_command_or_subagent_output · Timestamp not recorded
{
  "task_ids": [
    "01a0edf6-ffa3-7350-b8fe-253d8e1ca9b2"
  ],
  "timeout_ms": 180000
}
### Tool output · Timestamp not recorded
No response recorded.