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simjeb-bracket-fea-mass-prediction-real

claude-code claude-opus-4-8 ✗ failed GOOD_FAILURE ↑ View task

Solved from the instruction alone, tests/ and solution/ were withheld from the agent's workspace and restored only for grading.

Reward = tests/test.sh exit code (0 → resolved); the classification below is post-hoc and cannot change it.

Classification , post-hoc; cannot change the reward

GOOD_FAILUREHonest miss, the agent ran correctly but couldn't solve it. Expected for a hard task; the task is sound.

SubtypeComplexity Overwhelm

EvidenceAgent achieved test relative L2 error of 0.2830, falling short of the target 0.204 (38.7% away from passing). Test output shows: 'public_test rel=0.2830 mae=0.1744 mx=0.5808'. The reference solution (oracle) implements sophisticated techniques: 2200 epochs, EMA, point cloud augmentation (random flips, 768-point sampling), AdamW optimizer with weight decay, cosine annealing LR schedule, and trains on combined train+val+test data. The task is marked 'hard' with expert time estimate 120 minutes, indicating this is research-grade ML optimization work, not a straightforward fix.

Root causeThe agent failed to implement sufficient training improvements to achieve target generalization performance on the held-out test set. The task requires sophisticated ML engineering (data augmentation, EMA, learning rate scheduling, extended training) beyond what a basic training loop provides. This is a legitimate hard task where 20-40% pass rate is expected.

RecommendationN/A - task is fine. This is a well-specified ML benchmark task with clear metrics, proper test isolation, and legitimate difficulty. The agent's failure is due to insufficient ML engineering expertise, not task specification problems. The instruction clearly states what to optimize for, provides the necessary code scaffolding, and the verifier properly enforces the checkpoint format and isolation requirements."

Trajectory

Tool-by-tool agent trajectory

282 tool calls · 3 tool types · 282 steps

You are given point-cloud samples of 3D jet-engine bracket designs along with each bracket's FEA-derived mass (kg). Each point cloud is an unordered set of 2048 surface points in R^3; coordinates are pre-centered and rescaled so the axis-aligned bounding box of each bracket fits inside the unit cube. The mapping from geometry to mass is not given to you - you have to learn it from the data. Train a model that takes a `[2048, 3]` point cloud and predicts the scalar mass value. Your model is then applied to a held-out set of bracket geometries and the predictions are compared against the ground-truth FEA-simulated mass values. ## Files - `/app/data/{train,val,public_test}/samples.pt` - each file is a dict with keys `features` (shape `[N, 2048, 3]`) and `labels` (shape `[N, 1]`), both float16 on disk. Load with `torch.load(path, weights_only=True)`. - `/app/task_config.json` - architecture sizes and training defaults. - `/app/feature_schema.json` - input / label spec. - `/app/candidate_model.py` - the fixed PointNet-style architecture. Keep it as is; your saved checkpoint has to load back into this same architecture. - `/app/dataset.py` - a minimal loader for `samples.pt`. - `/app/train.py` - a small starter training loop you can extend or replace. ## What you must produce Write your trained checkpoint to `/app/outputs/model.pt` as a dict with the following required keys: - `state_dict` - your model's `state_dict()` mapping. - `feat_mean`, `feat_std` - length-3 tensors used to standardize the input coordinates before the forward pass. The same normalization is applied at inference time, so these are required. - `label_mean`, `label_std` - length-1 tensors used to standardize the target during training and de-standardize the model output at inference. The model's output is mapped back to physical units using these, so they are required too. The model must consume a `[B, 2048, 3]` tensor and produce a `[B, 1]` output. ## What you are optimizing Your predictions are measured against the true FEA-simulated mass labels with three error numbers, all lower is better: the relative L2 over the full set (the primary one), the mean absolute error, and the worst-case per-sample absolute error. A strong model needs to do well on all three, so do not trade one off against the others.

Let me start by exploring the environment to understand what I'm working with.

I'll start by exploring the environment to understand the task, the provided files, and the data.

bash

cd /app && ls -la && echo "---TASK CONFIG---" && cat task_config.json && echo "---FEATURE SCHEMA---" && cat feature_schema.json

output

total 14
drwxrws--- 3 h2tagent h2tagent  138 Jun 20 18:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root     root     4096 Jun 20 21:27 ..
-rw-rw---- 1 h2tagent h2tagent 1639 Jun 20 18:10 candidate_model.py
drwxrws--- 5 h2tagent h2tagent   58 Jun 20 18:10 data
-rw-rw---- 1 h2tagent h2tagent 1183 Jun 20 18:10 dataset.py
-rw-rw---- 1 h2tagent h2tagent  499 Jun 20 18:10 feature_schema.json
-rw-rw---- 1 h2tagent h2tagent  581 Jun 20 18:10 task_config.json
-rw-rw---- 1 h2tagent h2tagent 3117 Jun 20 18:10 train.py
---TASK CONFIG---
{
  "task_id": "simjeb-bracket-fea-mass-prediction-real",
  "dataset_name": "simjeb-bracket-fea-mass-pilot",
  "n_points": 2048,
  "point_dim": 3,
  "label_dim": 1,
  "label_per_point": false,
  "seed": 20260518,
  "model": {
    "feature_width": 64,
    "global_width": 256,
    "head_width": 128
  },
  "training": {
    "epochs": 1,
    "batch_size": 16,
    "lr": 0.001,
    "weight_decay": 0.0001,
    "loss": "MSE"
  },
  "evaluation": {
    "primary_metric": "mass_rel_l2_score",
    "secondary_metrics": [
      "mass_mae_score",
      "mass_max_abs_err_score"
    ]
  }
}
---FEATURE SCHEMA---
{
  "version": "simjeb-bracket-fea-mass-pilot-v1",
  "input": {
    "type": "point_cloud",
    "n_points": 2048,
    "dim": 3,
    "coord_range": [
      -0.5,
      0.5
    ],
    "description": "Unordered surface point sample of a jet-engine bracket; each bracket mesh is centered at its bounding-box centroid and rescaled so the axis-aligned bounding box fits inside the unit cube."
  },
  "label": {
    "type": "scalar",
    "dim": 1,
    "description": "FEA-derived bracket mass in kg."
  }
}

Let me look at the model architecture, dataset loader, and training script.

Let me examine the model architecture, dataset loader, and starter training script.

bash

cd /app && echo "===== candidate_model.py =====" && cat candidate_model.py && echo "" && echo "===== dataset.py =====" && cat dataset.py && echo "" && echo "===== train.py =====" && cat train.py

output

===== candidate_model.py =====
from __future__ import annotations

from typing import Mapping

import torch
import torch.nn as nn


class SharedPointMLP(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, in_dim: int, widths: tuple[int, ...]) -> None:
        super().__init__()
        layers: list[nn.Module] = []
        prev = in_dim
        for w in widths:
            layers.append(nn.Conv1d(prev, w, kernel_size=1))
            layers.append(nn.BatchNorm1d(w))
            layers.append(nn.GELU())
            prev = w
        self.net = nn.Sequential(*layers)

    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
        return self.net(x)


class PointNetRegressor(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, feature_width: int, global_width: int, head_width: int) -> None:
        super().__init__()
        self.feature = SharedPointMLP(3, (feature_width, feature_width, feature_width))
        self.lift = SharedPointMLP(feature_width, (feature_width * 2, global_width))
        self.head = nn.Sequential(
            nn.Linear(global_width, head_width),
            nn.GELU(),
            nn.Linear(head_width, head_width // 2),
            nn.GELU(),
            nn.Linear(head_width // 2, 1),
        )

    def forward(self, points: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
        x = points.transpose(1, 2).contiguous()
        x = self.feature(x)
        x = self.lift(x)
        x = x.max(dim=2).values
        return self.head(x)


def build_model(config: Mapping) -> PointNetRegressor:
    m = config["model"]
    return PointNetRegressor(
        feature_width=int(m["feature_width"]),
        global_width=int(m["global_width"]),
        head_width=int(m["head_width"]),
    )

===== dataset.py =====
from __future__ import annotations

from pathlib import Path
from typing import Iterable

import torch
from torch.utils.data import Dataset


class SampleStore(Dataset):
    def __init__(self, split_dir: str | Path) -> None:
        self.dir = Path(split_dir)
        payload = torch.load(self.dir / "samples.pt", map_location="cpu", weights_only=True)
        self.features: torch.Tensor = payload["features"].float()
        self.labels: torch.Tensor = payload["labels"].float()
        if self.features.shape[0] != self.labels.shape[0]:
            raise ValueError("features and labels must have the same number of rows")

    def __len__(self) -> int:
        return self.features.shape[0]

    def __getitem__(self, idx: int) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
        return self.features[idx], self.labels[idx]


def iter_batches(
    x: torch.Tensor,
    y: torch.Tensor,
    batch_size: int,
    shuffle: bool = True,
) -> Iterable[tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]]:
    n = x.shape[0]
    idx = torch.randperm(n) if shuffle else torch.arange(n)
    for start in range(0, n, batch_size):
        chunk = idx[start : start + batch_size]
        yield x[chunk], y[chunk]

===== train.py =====
from __future__ import annotations

import json
import os
import sys
from pathlib import Path

import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F

APP_DIR = Path(os.environ.get("APP_DIR", "/app"))
sys.path.insert(0, str(APP_DIR))

from candidate_model import build_model  # noqa: E402
from dataset import SampleStore, iter_batches  # noqa: E402


def _device() -> torch.device:
    if torch.cuda.is_available():
        return torch.device("cuda")
    if torch.backends.mps.is_available():
        return torch.device("mps")
    return torch.device("cpu")


def _load_config() -> dict:
    with (APP_DIR / "task_config.json").open() as fh:
        return json.load(fh)


def main() -> None:
    cfg = _load_config()
    device = _device()
    torch.manual_seed(int(cfg["seed"]))

    train = SampleStore(APP_DIR / "data" / "train")
    val = SampleStore(APP_DIR / "data" / "val")

    feat_mean = train.features.mean(dim=(0, 1), keepdim=True)
    feat_std = train.features.std(dim=(0, 1), keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-6)
    label_mean = train.labels.mean(dim=(0,), keepdim=True)
    label_std = train.labels.
…[truncated]

Now let me look at the data. Let me check the shapes and statistics of the datasets.

Now let me inspect the data: shapes, dtypes, and label distributions across splits.

bash

cd /app && ls -la data && echo "---" && for d in train val public_test; do echo "=== $d ==="; ls -la data/$d; done

output

total 3
drwxrws--- 5 h2tagent h2tagent  58 Jun 20 18:10 .
drwxrws--- 3 h2tagent h2tagent 138 Jun 20 18:13 ..
drwxrws--- 2 h2tagent h2tagent  55 Jun 20 18:10 public_test
drwxrws--- 2 h2tagent h2tagent  55 Jun 20 18:10 train
drwxrws--- 2 h2tagent h2tagent  55 Jun 20 18:10 val
---
=== train ===
total 1210
drwxrws--- 2 h2tagent h2tagent      55 Jun 20 18:10 .
drwxrws--- 5 h2tagent h2tagent      58 Jun 20 18:10 ..
-rw-rw---- 1 h2tagent h2tagent    6483 Jun 20 18:10 manifest.jsonl
-rw-rw---- 1 h2tagent h2tagent 1230821 Jun 20 18:10 samples.pt
=== val ===
total 389
drwxrws--- 2 h2tagent h2tagent     55 Jun 20 18:10 .
drwxrws--- 5 h2tagent h2tagent     58 Jun 20 18:10 ..
-rw-rw---- 1 h2tagent h2tagent   2011 Jun 20 18:10 manifest.jsonl
-rw-rw---- 1 h2tagent h2tagent 395109 Jun 20 18:10 samples.pt
=== public_test ===
total 197
drwxrws--- 2 h2tagent h2tagent     55 Jun 20 18:10 .
drwxrws--- 5 h2tagent h2tagent     58 Jun 20 18:10 ..
-rw-rw---- 1 h2tagent h2tagent   1134 Jun 20 18:10 manifest.jsonl
-rw-rw---- 1 h2tagent h2tagent 198437 Jun 20 18:10 samples.pt

bash

cd /app && python3 -c "
import torch, json
for d in ['train','val','public_test']:
    p = torch.load(f'data/{d}/samples.pt', weights_only=True)
    f = p['features']; l = p['labels']
    print(f'=== {d} ===')
    print(' features', tuple(f.shape), f.dtype, 'labels', tuple(l.shape), l.dtype)
    lf = l.float()
    print(f'  label min={lf.min():.4f} max={lf.max():.4f} mean={lf.mean():.4f} std={lf.std():.4f}')
    ff = f.float()
    print(f'  coord min={ff.min():.4f} max={ff.max():.4f} mean={ff.mean():.4f} std={ff.std():.4f}')
    print(f'  per-axis min={ff.amin(dim=(0,1)).tolist()}')
    print(f'  per-axis max={ff.amax(dim=(0,1)).tolist()}')
"

output

=== train ===
 features (100, 2048, 3) torch.float16 labels (100, 1) torch.float16
  label min=0.2078 max=2.2188 mean=0.7476 std=0.3895
  coord min=-0.5000 max=0.5000 mean=-0.0257 std=0.1863
  per-axis min=[-0.320556640625, -0.5, -0.2279052734375]
  per-axis max=[0.322998046875, 0.5, 0.22705078125]
=== val ===
 features (32, 2048, 3) torch.float16 labels (32, 1) torch.float16
  label min=0.2937 max=2.0723 mean=0.7622 std=0.4126
  coord min=-0.5000 max=0.5000 mean=-0.0248 std=0.1846
  per-axis min=[-0.3095703125, -0.5, -0.2279052734375]
  per-axis max=[0.31005859375, 0.5, 0.2275390625]
=== public_test ===
 features (16, 2048, 3) torch.float16 labels (16, 1) torch.float16
  label min=0.1984 max=1.4492 mean=0.7296 std=0.3278
  coord min=-0.5000 max=0.5000 mean=-0.0253 std=0.1872
  per-axis min=[-0.309326171875, -0.5, -0.1865234375]
  per-axis max=[0.309326171875, 0.5, 0.1864013671875]

So we have: - train: 100 samples - val: 32 samples - public_test: 16 samples Each sample is a [2048, 3] point cloud, label is a scalar mass (kg). The data is small (100 training samples). This is a regression problem from point clouds to a scalar mass. Key observations: - The bounding box is normalized to fit in unit cube. The Y axis spans the full [-0.5, 0.5] for all (min -0.5, max 0.5), while X and Y spans are smaller. So the Y dimension is the longest dimension for all brackets (the bounding box is rescaled so the LONGEST dimension fits, i.e., so the whole bbox fits inside unit cube , meaning the largest extent = 1.0 and it's along Y). Wait, let me reconsider. The bbox is rescaled so it fits inside the unit cube. So the max extent across all 3 axes = 1.0. Here Y always spans [-0.5, 0.5] = 1.0. So Y is the longest axis for all brackets. Since the scaling is uniform (preserves shape), the absolute scale information is LOST. The mass depends on actual volume × density. But we only have normalized shape. Hmm, but wait , if the scale is lost, how can mass be predicted? Let me think. The mass is FEA-derived. Mass = density × volume. If all brackets are scaled to fit the unit cube (longest dimension = 1), then we lose the absolute size. Two geometrically similar brackets of different sizes would have the same point cloud but different masses. So in principle, mass couldn't be perfectly predicted from normalized shape alone... unless the original brackets all have a fixed bounding box size, or the mass correlates with shape features that survive normalization. Actually, for the SimJEB dataset (Simulated Jet Engine Bracket), all brackets share the same 4 mounting hole interfaces and a load point , they're all designed to fit the same mounting envelope. So the absolute scale is essentially fixed by the design constraints! The mounting interfaces are at fixed physical locations. So the normalization (fit bbox to unit cube) would roughly preserve absolute scale because all brackets have similar bounding box dimensions. That means the normalized shape + the (implicit, nearly constant) scale gives volume, and volume → mass. Actually wait, but if bounding boxes are all similar in absolute size, then after rescaling to unit cube they'd all get nearly the same scale factor, so relative proportions are preserved and mass ~ volume (fraction of space filled) works. The mass then correlates with how much material fills the bounding box. Point cloud density/distribution encodes the shape/volume. So the model must learn mass from the surface point distribution. This is a legit learning problem. The SimJEB dataset has ~381 brackets. Here we have 100 train + 32 val + 16 test = 148 samples. Let me think about the key challenge: only 100 training points, predicting a scalar. The provided architecture is a PointNet regressor. I must keep the architecture as-is (build a checkpoint loadable into PointNetRegressor). I can change the training procedure, normalization, data augmentation, loss, epochs, etc. Let me reconsider the metrics: - relative L2 over full set (primary): ||pred - true||_2 / ||true||_2 - MAE - worst-case per-sample absolute error So I need good accuracy across all samples, including worst case. Strategy: 1. Keep the architecture (PointNetRegressor) exactly. 2. Normalize inputs and labels properly. 3. Train with data augmentation to avoid overfitting: random rotations? But rotations might change the mass mapping , since point cloud is oriented (Y is the longest axis, mounting holes at fixed positions). Actually the mass is rotation-invariant (mass doesn't depend on orientation). But the normalization fits bbox to unit cube, which IS orientation-dependent. Hmm. If I rotate the point cloud arbitrarily, the bounding box changes, and the physical meaning changes. Since the data is given in a canonical orientation, I should be careful. Augmentation that preserves the mapping: small jitter, point resampling/dropout, slight scalin …[truncated]

Let me check the manifest files and count the model parameters.

bash

cd /app && echo "=== train manifest (head) ===" && head -n 3 data/train/manifest.jsonl && echo "..." && echo "=== val manifest (head) ===" && head -n 2 data/val/manifest.jsonl && echo "=== public_test manifest (head) ===" && head -n 2 data/public_test/manifest.jsonl && echo "=== counts ===" && for d in train val public_test; do echo -n "$d: "; wc -l < data/$d/manifest.jsonl; done

output

=== train manifest (head) ===
{"id": "train_0000", "source_bracket_id": 214, "n_points": 2048}
{"id": "train_0001", "source_bracket_id": 538, "n_points": 2048}
{"id": "train_0002", "source_bracket_id": 546, "n_points": 2048}
...
=== val manifest (head) ===
{"id": "val_0000", "source_bracket_id": 418, "n_points": 2048}
{"id": "val_0001", "source_bracket_id": 441, "n_points": 2048}
=== public_test manifest (head) ===
{"id": "public_test_0000", "source_bracket_id": 461, "n_points": 2048}
{"id": "public_test_0001", "source_bracket_id": 440, "n_points": 2048}
=== counts ===
train: 100
val: 32
public_test: 16

This is the SimJEB dataset (source_bracket_id confirms it). Source bracket IDs go up to ~538+. The real SimJEB has 381 brackets. Here we only have 148 total (100+32+16). The source_bracket_id values are distinct across splits presumably. Let me count model parameters and run a quick forward test. Let me also check available compute (GPU?).

bash

cd /app && python3 -c "
import torch, json
from candidate_model import build_model
cfg = json.load(open('task_config.json'))
m = build_model(cfg)
n = sum(p.numel() for p in m.parameters())
print('total params:', n)
x = torch.randn(4, 2048, 3)
y = m(x)
print('output shape:', tuple(y.shape))
print('cuda available:', torch.cuda.is_available())
import platform; print('torch', torch.__version__)
" && echo "--- CPU info ---" && nproc && free -h 2>/dev/null | head -2

output

total params: 92289
output shape: (4, 1)
cuda available: True
torch 2.5.1+cu124
--- CPU info ---
3
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            30Gi        63Mi        29Gi          0B        29Mi        29Gi

bash

cd /app && nvidia-smi --query-gpu=name,memory.total,memory.used --format=csv 2>/dev/null || echo "no nvidia-smi"

output

name, memory.total [MiB], memory.used [MiB]
NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3, 81559 MiB, 0 MiB

We have an H100 GPU. Great. The model is tiny (92K params). Data is tiny (100 training samples). Let me think carefully about the approach. Let me first establish a baseline with the provided train.py to see where we stand, then improve. Let me run the baseline training quickly (it's 1 epoch by default). Actually, let me set up a proper evaluation harness first so I can measure the three metrics on val and public_test. Let me write an evaluation function that: 1. Loads model.pt 2. Normalizes features with feat_mean/std 3. Forwards 4. De-standardizes with label_mean/std 5. Computes rel_l2, MAE, max_abs_err Let me define metrics precisely: - rel_l2 = ||pred - true||_2 / ||true||_2 (over all samples) - mae = mean(|pred - true|) - max_abs_err = max(|pred - true|) The "score" naming (mass_rel_l2_score) suggests maybe they convert error to a score. But lower error is better. Let me just minimize errors. Let me first run baseline to see numbers. Actually let me write my own eval harness since I'll reuse it a lot. Let me think about the fundamental question: can mass be predicted well from normalized point clouds? Let me do a quick exploratory analysis , compute simple geometric features (bbox extents before... well they're normalized; extents are X-range, Z-range since Y is always 1), point spread, nearest-neighbor density, convex hull volume estimate , and see correlation with mass. This tells me the achievable signal and whether the PointNet should do well. Let me explore correlations.

We have an H100 GPU, a tiny model (92K params), and small data (100 train samples). This is the SimJEB bracket dataset. Let me do some exploratory analysis to understand how predictable mass is from the normalized point clouds, since the global rescaling could in principle destroy absolute-scale information.

bash

cd /app && python3 -c "
import torch, numpy as np
p = torch.load('data/train/samples.pt', weights_only=True)
f = p['features'].float().numpy(); l = p['labels'].float().numpy().ravel()
N = f.shape[0]
feats = {}
# per-axis extent
ext = f.max(1) - f.min(1)  # [N,3]
feats['ext_x']=ext[:,0]; feats['ext_y']=ext[:,1]; feats['ext_z']=ext[:,2]
feats['ext_prod']=ext.prod(1)
# std per axis
sd = f.std(1)
feats['std_x']=sd[:,0]; feats['std_y']=sd[:,1]; feats['std_z']=sd[:,2]
feats['std_prod']=sd.prod(1)
# mean abs coords
feats['mean_r']=np.linalg.norm(f,axis=2).mean(1)
# voxel occupancy: fraction of occupied cells in a grid
def occ(fc, n=16):
    out=[]
    for i in range(fc.shape[0]):
        pts=fc[i]
        idx=np.floor((pts+0.5)*n).clip(0,n-1).astype(int)
        key=idx[:,0]*n*n+idx[:,1]*n+idx[:,2]
        out.append(len(np.unique(key)))
    return np.array(out,dtype=float)
feats['occ16']=occ(f,16)
feats['occ24']=occ(f,24)
feats['occ32']=occ(f,32)
print('label mean/std', l.mean(), l.std())
for k,v in feats.items():
    c=np.corrcoef(v,l)[0,1]
    print(f'{k:10s} corr={c:+.3f}')
"

output

label mean/std 0.74757814 0.38751265
ext_x      corr=+0.234
ext_y      corr=+0.143
ext_z      corr=+0.177
ext_prod   corr=+0.253
std_x      corr=+0.635
std_y      corr=+0.149
std_z      corr=+0.250
std_prod   corr=+0.667
mean_r     corr=+0.394
occ16      corr=+0.775
occ24      corr=+0.686
occ32      corr=+0.660

Good signal. Voxel occupancy at 16^3 has correlation 0.775 with mass. This makes sense , more occupied volume → more mass. So the shape genuinely encodes mass. A PointNet should be able to learn this and more (nonlinear combos). Let me build a richer feature set and fit a simple regressor (e.g., gradient boosting or ridge on many features) to estimate the achievable accuracy ceiling. This gives me a target for what the PointNet should reach. Actually, let me think about what occupancy captures , it's essentially a proxy for surface area / volume enclosed. Let me combine several features in a linear/RF model and check val performance. This helps me understand the ceiling. Let me build a quick feature-based model and evaluate rel_l2 on val.

There's strong learnable signal , voxel occupancy correlates 0.78 with mass. Let me estimate an accuracy ceiling with a quick feature-based model (many geometric features + gradient boosting) evaluated on val, to know what the PointNet should be able to reach.

bash

cd /app && python3 -c "
import torch, numpy as np
def load(d):
    p=torch.load(f'data/{d}/samples.pt',weights_only=True)
    return p['features'].float().numpy(), p['labels'].float().numpy().ravel()
def feat(f):
    N=f.shape[0]; out=[]
    ext=f.max(1)-f.min(1); sd=f.std(1)
    r=np.linalg.norm(f,axis=2)
    cols=[ext, sd, ext.prod(1,keepdims=True), sd.prod(1,keepdims=True),
          r.mean(1,keepdims=True), r.std(1,keepdims=True)]
    for n in [8,12,16,20,24,32]:
        occ=[]
        for i in range(N):
            idx=np.floor((f[i]+0.5)*n).clip(0,n-1).astype(int)
            key=idx[:,0]*n*n+idx[:,1]*n+idx[:,2]
            occ.append(len(np.unique(key))/ (n**3))
        cols.append(np.array(occ)[:,None])
    return np.concatenate(cols,1)
Xtr,ytr=load('train'); Xv,yv=load('val'); Xt,yt=load('public_test')
Ftr,Fv,Ft=feat(Xtr),feat(Xv),feat(Xt)
from sklearn.ensemble import GradientBoostingRegressor, RandomForestRegressor
from sklearn.linear_model import Ridge
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
sc=StandardScaler().fit(Ftr)
def metrics(pred,true):
    rel=np.linalg.norm(pred-true)/np.linalg.norm(true)
    return rel, np.mean(np.abs(pred-true)), np.max(np.abs(pred-true))
for name,mdl in [('ridge',Ridge(alpha=1.0)),('rf',RandomForestRegressor(n_estimators=500,max_depth=6)),('gbr',GradientBoostingRegressor(n_estimators=300,max_depth=3,learning_rate=0.05))]:
    if name=='ridge':
        mdl.fit(sc.transform(Ftr),ytr); pv=mdl.predict(sc.transform(Fv)); pt=mdl.predict(sc.transform(Ft))
    else:
        mdl.fit(Ftr,ytr); pv=mdl.predict(Fv); pt=mdl.predict(Ft)
    print(f'{name:6s} val  rel/mae/max = {metrics(pv,yv)}')
    print(f'{name:6s} test rel/mae/max = {metrics(pt,yt)}')
"

output

[stderr]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 22, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sklearn'

bash

cd /app && pip install scikit-learn --quiet 2>&1 | tail -2 || echo "pip failed (offline?)"

output

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement scikit-learn (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for scikit-learn

No internet. No sklearn. Let me implement a simple ridge regression and a simple gradient-boosting-like or just ridge with numpy to estimate the ceiling. Actually let me just do ridge regression with numpy (closed form) on the features to get a sense. And maybe a simple k-NN. Let me do ridge with numpy and also a random-forest-free approach. Ridge closed form is easy.

No internet for sklearn, but I can do ridge regression in NumPy to gauge the ceiling.

bash

cd /app && python3 -c "
import torch, numpy as np
def load(d):
    p=torch.load(f'data/{d}/samples.pt',weights_only=True)
    return p['features'].float().numpy(), p['labels'].float().numpy().ravel()
def feat(f):
    N=f.shape[0]; out=[]
    ext=f.max(1)-f.min(1); sd=f.std(1)
    r=np.linalg.norm(f,axis=2)
    cols=[ext, sd, ext.prod(1,keepdims=True), sd.prod(1,keepdims=True),
          r.mean(1,keepdims=True), r.std(1,keepdims=True)]
    for n in [8,12,16,20,24,32]:
        occ=[]
        for i in range(N):
            idx=np.floor((f[i]+0.5)*n).clip(0,n-1).astype(int)
            key=idx[:,0]*n*n+idx[:,1]*n+idx[:,2]
            occ.append(len(np.unique(key))/ (n**3))
        cols.append(np.array(occ)[:,None])
    return np.concatenate(cols,1).astype(np.float64)
Xtr,ytr=load('train'); Xv,yv=load('val'); Xt,yt=load('public_test')
Ftr,Fv,Ft=feat(Xtr),feat(Xv),feat(Xt)
mu=Ftr.mean(0); sd=Ftr.std(0)+1e-9
Ftr=(Ftr-mu)/sd; Fv=(Fv-mu)/sd; Ft=(Ft-mu)/sd
def metrics(pred,true):
    rel=np.linalg.norm(pred-true)/np.linalg.norm(true)
    return f'rel={rel:.4f} mae={np.mean(np.abs(pred-true)):.4f} max={np.max(np.abs(pred-true)):.4f}'
ym=ytr.mean()
for alpha in [0.1,1.0,3.0,10.0]:
    A=Ftr.T@Ftr+alpha*np.eye(Ftr.shape[1])
    w=np.linalg.solve(A, Ftr.T@(ytr-ym))
    pv=Fv@w+ym; pt=Ft@w+ym
    print(f'ridge a={alpha:5.1f} | val {metrics(pv,yv)} | test {metrics(pt,yt)}')
# baseline: predict mean
print('mean-pred val', metrics(np.full_like(yv,ym),yv), '| test', metrics(np.full_like(yt,ym),yt))
"

output

ridge a=  0.1 | val rel=0.1674 mae=0.1164 max=0.3176 | test rel=0.3126 mae=0.1974 max=0.6423
ridge a=  1.0 | val rel=0.1964 mae=0.1301 max=0.4515 | test rel=0.3514 mae=0.2246 max=0.6747
ridge a=  3.0 | val rel=0.2060 mae=0.1377 max=0.4719 | test rel=0.3525 mae=0.2265 max=0.6467
ridge a= 10.0 | val rel=0.2152 mae=0.1441 max=0.4967 | test rel=0.3378 mae=0.2167 max=0.5747
mean-pred val rel=0.4706 mae=0.3024 max=1.3247 | test rel=0.3995 mae=0.2607 max=0.7016

So a simple ridge on hand-crafted features gets val rel_l2 ~0.167, test rel_l2 ~0.31. The test set seems harder (or has an outlier). The mean prediction gives rel 0.47 val / 0.40 test. So there's substantial signal but the simple linear model isn't great on test. These are crude features. A well-trained PointNet should beat this , it can learn richer shape representations. The ceiling is likely much better. In the SimJEB literature, mass prediction from point clouds with PointNet can get quite accurate. Let me now build the real training pipeline with the PointNet. Key design decisions: 1. **Normalization**: feat_mean/std per-axis over train. Label standardized. 2. **Data augmentation** (critical for 100 samples): - Point jitter (Gaussian noise ~0.01) - Random point resampling (subsample 2048 from 2048 with replacement, or better: the points are a fixed set; I can randomly drop and duplicate). Actually, a strong augmentation for point clouds: randomly sample a subset and pad? No, keep 2048. I'll do random permutation (free, but PointNet is perm-invariant so no effect) + random resampling with replacement (bootstrap) to vary density slightly. - Small rotation about the Y-axis? Let me reconsider. The brackets are in canonical pose. Actually let me check if rotations about vertical axis keep things consistent. Hmm, the bounding box normalization means X and Z extents are fixed per bracket. Rotating about Y would change X/Z extents and thus break the "fits unit cube" assumption only if rotation makes X or Z exceed... they're < 0.5 so some rotation is fine but changes the canonical alignment. I think the safest and most label-preserving augmentations for mass are: jitter, point dropout/resampling, and mirroring. - Mirror along X (x -> -x) and along Z (z -> -z): SimJEB brackets , are they symmetric? Many are, but not all. Risky. Let me test empirically whether mirror aug helps val. 3. **Loss**: MSE on standardized labels (aligns with rel L2). Maybe add a small term. I'll primarily use MSE / Huber. 4. **Training**: cosine LR, weight decay, many epochs, early stopping on val rel_l2. Since data is tiny, I can do full-batch or small-batch. BatchNorm is in the model , with batch size 16 and 100 samples, BN stats will be a bit noisy but fine. Actually BN with small batches on tiny data can be problematic. Let me use a reasonable batch size (e.g., 32) and enough epochs. I should make sure BN running stats are well-estimated (eval mode uses running stats). 5. **Model selection / ensembling**: I can train multiple models (different seeds) and average. But the checkpoint must be a single PointNetRegressor state_dict. So I can't ensemble into one state_dict easily... unless I average weights (weight averaging / SWA), which IS a single state_dict! Stochastic Weight Averaging (SWA) or EMA of weights produces one state_dict and often improves generalization. That's a great fit here. Averaging weights of models from different seeds doesn't work (different basins), but EMA/SWA along a single trajectory works well. So plan: train one model with EMA of weights, select best EMA checkpoint on val. Actually, I realize I should think about whether to combine train+val for final training. The eval is on a held-out set (public_test is given but the real grading might be on a separate private held-out set). The task says "held-out set of bracket geometries". public_test is provided presumably as a proxy. I should use val for model selection (early stopping) and keep an eye on public_test. For the final model, I might retrain on train+val combined with the chosen hyperparameters to maximize data. But then I lose my validation signal. Given the tiny dataset, more data helps. Strategy: - Phase 1: tune hyperparams using train→val. - Phase 2: train final model on train+val (132 samples), using public_test only as a sanity check (not for selection, to avoid overfitting to it). Or keep val for selection and train on train only. Hmm. Let m …[truncated]

A simple linear model already beats mean prediction substantially, confirming strong signal. A well-trained PointNet should do better. Let me build a flexible training pipeline (with augmentation, EMA weight averaging, cosine schedule, and validation-based selection) and a metrics harness. I'll write it as a module I can iterate on.

bash

cd /app && mkdir -p outputs exp && cat > exp/lib.py << 'PYEOF'
from __future__ import annotations
import json, copy, math, os
from pathlib import Path
import torch, torch.nn as nn, torch.nn.functional as F
APP = Path('/app')
import sys; sys.path.insert(0, str(APP))
from candidate_model import build_model

def load_split(d):
    p = torch.load(APP/'data'/d/'samples.pt', weights_only=True)
    return p['features'].float(), p['labels'].float()

def get_cfg():
    return json.load(open(APP/'task_config.json'))

def metrics(pred, true):
    pred = pred.reshape(-1).double(); true = true.reshape(-1).double()
    rel = (torch.linalg.norm(pred-true)/torch.linalg.norm(true)).item()
    mae = (pred-true).abs().mean().item()
    mx  = (pred-true).abs().max().item()
    return rel, mae, mx

class EMA:
    def __init__(self, model, decay):
        self.decay = decay
        self.shadow = {k: v.detach().clone().float() for k,v in model.state_dict().items()}
    def update(self, model):
        d = self.decay
        for k,v in model.state_dict().items():
            s = self.shadow[k]
            if v.dtype.is_floating_point:
                s.mul_(d).add_(v.detach().float(), alpha=1-d)
            else:
                s.copy_(v)
    def copy_to(self, model):
        model.load_state_dict({k: v.clone() for k,v in self.shadow.items()}, strict=True)

def augment(x, cfg):
    # x: [B,2048,3] on device
    B,N,_ = x.shape
    if cfg.get('resample',False):
        idx = torch.randint(0,N,(B,N),device=x.device)
        x = torch.gather(x,1,idx.unsqueeze(-1).expand(-1,-1,3))
    if cfg.get('jitter',0)>0:
        x = x + torch.randn_like(x)*cfg['jitter']
    if cfg.get('mirror_x',False):
        s = (torch.rand(B,1,1,device=x.device)<0.5).float()*2-1
        x = x*torch.cat([s,torch.ones_like(s),torch.ones_like(s)],-1)
    if cfg.get('mirror_z',False):
        s = (torch.rand(B,1,1,device=x.device)<0.5).float()*2-1
        x = x*torch.cat([torch.ones_like(s),torch.ones_like(s),s],-1)
    if cfg.get('roty',0)>0:
        a = (torch.rand(B,device=x.device)*2-1)*cfg['roty']
        ca,sa = torch.cos(a),torch.sin(a)
        R = torch.zeros(B,3,3,device=x.device)
        R[:,0,0]=ca; R[:,0,2]=sa; R[:,2,0]=-sa; R[:,2,2]=ca; R[:,1,1]=1
        x = torch.bmm(x,R.transpose(1,2))
    if cfg.get('scale',0)>0:
        s = 1+(torch.rand(B,1,1,device=x.device)*2-1)*cfg['scale']
        x = x*s
    if cfg.get('trans',0)>0:
        x = x + (torch.rand(B,1,3,device=x.device)*2-1)*cfg['trans']
    return x

def train_model(acfg, seed=0, epochs=400, bs=32, lr=2e-3, wd=1e-4, ema_decay=0.999,
                data=('train',), val_split='val', huber=0.0, device='cuda', verbose=False,
                label_log=False, lr_min_frac=0.01, warmup=20):
    torch.manual_seed(seed); import numpy as np; np.random.seed(seed)
    feats=[]; labels=[]
    for d in data:
        f,l = load_split(d); feats.append(f); labels.append(l)
    Xtr=torch.cat(feats); ytr=torch.cat(labels)
    Xv,yv = load_split(val_split)
    feat_mean = Xtr.mean(dim=(0,1)); feat_std = Xtr.std(dim=(0,1)).clamp_min(1e-6)
    if label_log:
        ylt = torch.log(ytr)
        label_mean = ylt.mean(0); label_std = ylt.std(0).clamp_min(1e-6)
    else:
        label_mean = ytr.mean(0); label_std = ytr.std(0).clamp_min(1e-6)
    def nx(x): return (x-feat_mean)/feat_std
    Xtr_n=nx(Xtr).to(device); Xv_n=nx(Xv).to(device)
    if label_log:
        ytr_n=((torch.log(ytr)-label_mean)/label_std).to(device)
    else:
        ytr_n=((ytr-label_mean)/label_std).to(device)
    yv_dev=yv.to(device)
    model=build_model(get_cfg()).to(device)
    opt=torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(),lr=lr,weight_decay=wd)
    ema=EMA(model,ema_decay)
    N=Xtr_n.shape[0]
    steps_per=max(1,math.ceil(N/bs)); total=epochs*steps_per
    def lr_at(step):
        if step<warmup*steps_per:
            return lr*step/max(1,warmup*steps_per)
        t=(step-warmup*steps_per)/max(1,total-warmup*steps_per)
        return lr*(lr_min_frac+(1-lr_min_fr
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output

lib written

Now let me run a first experiment to get a baseline with the PointNet + EMA + some augmentation, training on 'train', selecting on 'val', and checking 'public_test'. Let me start with mild augmentation (jitter + resample) and see.

Now let me run a first real experiment: PointNet + EMA + mild augmentation, selecting on val, checking public_test.

bash

cd /app/exp && python3 -c "
import lib, torch
acfg={'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}
best=lib.train_model(acfg,seed=0,epochs=400,bs=32,lr=2e-3,wd=1e-4,ema_decay=0.999,verbose=True)
print('BEST val (rel,mae,mx):', tuple(round(x,4) for x in best['val']))
print('public_test     :', tuple(round(x,4) for x in lib.eval_ckpt(best,'public_test')))
print('train           :', tuple(round(x,4) for x in lib.eval_ckpt(best,'train')))
"

output

ep  0 lr1.00e-04 val rel=0.4708 mae=0.3014 mx=1.3285 (best 0.4708@0)
  ep 50 lr1.97e-03 val rel=0.4709 mae=0.3010 mx=1.3304 (best 0.4708@0)
  ep100 lr1.79e-03 val rel=0.4711 mae=0.3002 mx=1.3336 (best 0.4708@0)
  ep150 lr1.47e-03 val rel=0.4715 mae=0.2988 mx=1.3390 (best 0.4708@0)
  ep200 lr1.08e-03 val rel=0.4721 mae=0.2967 mx=1.3470 (best 0.4708@0)
  ep250 lr6.81e-04 val rel=0.4732 mae=0.2942 mx=1.3579 (best 0.4708@0)
  ep300 lr3.33e-04 val rel=0.4745 mae=0.2937 mx=1.3706 (best 0.4708@0)
  ep350 lr1.00e-04 val rel=0.4759 mae=0.2934 mx=1.3845 (best 0.4708@0)
  ep399 lr2.00e-05 val rel=0.4768 mae=0.2919 mx=1.3966 (best 0.4708@0)
BEST val (rel,mae,mx): (0.4708, 0.3014, 1.3285)
public_test     : (0.3993, 0.2602, 0.7054)
train           : (0.4602, 0.3024, 1.475)

The model isn't learning at all , val rel stays ~0.47 (same as mean prediction), and train rel is ~0.46 (also mean prediction level). The EMA decay 0.999 with only ~4 steps/epoch × 400 epochs = 1600 steps. EMA decay 0.999 means effective averaging window ~1000 steps, so the EMA is heavily lagged and basically stuck near initialization. Also the model output near init predicts ~constant → mean. Wait, train rel is also 0.46 , so even the EMA weights on train predict near mean. That suggests EMA is too slow OR the model truly isn't learning. Let me check the raw (non-EMA) model performance and loss. Let me reduce EMA decay and check training loss decreasing. Actually the bigger issue: with 100 samples and batch size 32, we have ~3-4 batches/epoch. BatchNorm in train mode computes batch statistics. At eval it uses running stats (momentum default 0.1). With EMA copying model.state_dict(), the BN running_mean/var are also EMA'd. That should be OK. But the core problem: EMA decay 0.999 is way too slow for 1600 total steps. The shadow barely moves from init. Let me verify by evaluating the raw model too. Let me lower EMA decay drastically or evaluate raw model. Let me debug: train a plain model (no EMA) and watch train/val loss.

The EMA is barely moving from initialization (decay 0.999 over only ~1600 steps). Let me debug with the raw (non-EMA) model and check that training loss actually decreases.

bash

cd /app/exp && python3 -c "
import torch, torch.nn.functional as F, math, copy
import lib
from candidate_model import build_model
device='cuda'
Xtr,ytr=lib.load_split('train'); Xv,yv=lib.load_split('val')
fm=Xtr.mean((0,1)); fs=Xtr.std((0,1)).clamp_min(1e-6)
lmean=ytr.mean(0); lstd=ytr.std(0).clamp_min(1e-6)
Xtr_n=((Xtr-fm)/fs).to(device); Xv_n=((Xv-fm)/fs).to(device)
ytr_n=((ytr-lmean)/lstd).to(device)
torch.manual_seed(0)
m=build_model(lib.get_cfg()).to(device)
opt=torch.optim.AdamW(m.parameters(),lr=2e-3,weight_decay=1e-4)
N=Xtr_n.shape[0]; bs=32
for ep in range(300):
    m.train(); perm=torch.randperm(N,device=device); tot=0;nb=0
    for s in range(0,N,bs):
        idx=perm[s:s+bs]; xb=Xtr_n[idx]; yb=ytr_n[idx]
        opt.zero_grad(); pred=m(xb); loss=F.mse_loss(pred,yb); loss.backward(); opt.step()
        tot+=loss.item(); nb+=1
    if ep%30==0 or ep==299:
        m.eval()
        with torch.no_grad():
            pv=m(Xv_n)*lstd.to(device)+lmean.to(device)
            pt=m(Xtr_n)*lstd.to(device)+lmean.to(device)
        print(f'ep{ep:3d} trainloss={tot/nb:.4f} val={lib.metrics(pv.cpu(),yv)} train={lib.metrics(pt.cpu(),ytr)}')
"

output

ep  0 trainloss=1.0471 val=(0.47108032959771484, 0.30014502070844173, 1.3336990475654602) train=(0.46034867920807815, 0.30147391855716704, 1.4802544713020325)
ep 30 trainloss=1.0691 val=(0.39909771490580753, 0.278356640599668, 0.9316060543060303) train=(0.34120640473615066, 0.20827669024467468, 1.0714890956878662)
ep 60 trainloss=0.5478 val=(0.3189485988669241, 0.2181922337040305, 0.7711892127990723) train=(0.2891468977384453, 0.1775481653213501, 0.9365253448486328)
ep 90 trainloss=0.3664 val=(0.3125560202125213, 0.22108049876987934, 0.7241503000259399) train=(0.2824290532043017, 0.1753322559595108, 0.9250465631484985)
ep120 trainloss=0.2669 val=(0.2596121268312193, 0.17829719558358192, 0.4748876690864563) train=(0.23817817959978388, 0.1484094101190567, 0.5631805658340454)
ep150 trainloss=0.3720 val=(0.3266696089391012, 0.22848494723439217, 0.6015751361846924) train=(0.3008889155485055, 0.19918183207511903, 0.9367942810058594)
ep180 trainloss=0.2695 val=(0.229476365330017, 0.15609659906476736, 0.38798826932907104) train=(0.21232508809287973, 0.1333857834339142, 0.584047794342041)
ep210 trainloss=0.2150 val=(0.23218016463494542, 0.16029545199126005, 0.38912642002105713) train=(0.18744238202182845, 0.11979531079530716, 0.6002324819564819)
ep240 trainloss=0.3748 val=(0.2606850908169901, 0.1846503308042884, 0.4795403480529785) train=(0.18912515782355266, 0.12295511037111283, 0.6790505647659302)
ep270 trainloss=0.4704 val=(0.2949288144781359, 0.20567970722913742, 0.6245946884155273) train=(0.20295535985100238, 0.13984150052070618, 0.49558258056640625)
ep299 trainloss=0.1340 val=(0.2519437625725058, 0.17386103235185146, 0.554987907409668) train=(0.1775210156261211, 0.11470008134841919, 0.4133691191673279)

OK so the raw model DOES learn , reaching val rel ~0.23-0.25, and best around ep180 val rel=0.229. Train rel ~0.18. So the issue in the EMA run was that EMA decay 0.999 was far too slow. The model learns but it's noisy (BatchNorm small-batch + tiny data). The loss fluctuates. So I need a much smaller EMA decay (e.g., 0.98 or 0.99) OR longer training. Also the performance is still not great (val rel ~0.23). The ridge baseline got val rel 0.167! So the PointNet is underperforming the simple feature baseline so far. I need to improve. Issues to address: 1. BatchNorm with small data / small batches is noisy. With N=100 and bs=32, batches of 32,32,32,4. The last batch of 4 is bad for BN. I should drop_last or use full-batch. Given tiny data, I could use full-batch gradient descent (batch=100) , then BN uses all 100 samples each step, very stable. Let me try larger batch or full batch. 2. The model might benefit from more epochs + proper LR schedule + EMA with a sensible decay. 3. Augmentation to regularize. Let me reconsider BatchNorm. With full-batch training (bs=100), BN statistics are computed over all 100 samples , stable and consistent with eval running stats. That could help a lot. But full-batch gradient descent converges slower; need more epochs / higher LR. Let me experiment. Actually, a cleaner approach given tiny data: use a moderately large batch (64) with drop_last=False but ensure BN handles it. Or just full batch. Let me also reconsider: the val set is only 32 samples, so val rel_l2 is noisy. And public_test only 16. I should be careful not to over-tune to val. But I'll use val as primary selection. Let me reconsider EMA: EMA decay should be set so the averaging window ~ a fraction of training. With full-batch, 1 step/epoch, 400 epochs = 400 steps. EMA decay 0.98 → window ~50 steps. That's reasonable for the tail. Let me use EMA decay around 0.99 with enough steps, and importantly evaluate both raw-best and EMA-best. Let me redesign: I'll sweep a few configs systematically. Let me make the train function more robust: - Option for full-batch or minibatch with drop_last. - Evaluate both raw and EMA each epoch, track best of each. - Return best by val rel. Actually, let me reconsider the whole approach. Given BN instability, EMA of weights including BN running stats helps smooth. But the fundamental noise is from tiny data. Let me think about what gives the best generalization: Option A: Full-batch training, BN over all 100, high-ish LR, long training, EMA for smoothing, pick best on val. Let me also reconsider the model's BN: at eval it uses running_mean/var accumulated with momentum 0.1 over training batches. If I train full-batch, running stats converge to the full-data stats , good and consistent. Let me try full-batch and a few LRs. Let me update the lib to support drop_last and evaluating raw vs EMA, and a "full batch" mode. Let me modify train_model to: - add drop_last option - track best raw and best ema separately, return both - add option bs='full' Let me rewrite more carefully and run a sweep. Actually, let me keep it simpler and just experiment directly in scripts to move fast. Let me write an improved train function. Let me think about hyperparameters to try: - batch: 100 (full), 50, 32 - lr: 3e-3, 1e-3 - epochs: 600 - ema_decay: 0.99, 0.995 - augmentation: none, jitter, jitter+resample, +mirror - huber vs mse - label_log: try Let me build a better train function that returns best-raw and best-ema and their val metrics, and run a sweep. I'll reduce verbosity. Let me rewrite lib.train_model.

The raw model learns (val rel ~0.23) but EMA decay 0.999 was far too slow. Still, the PointNet currently underperforms the ridge baseline (0.167). Key suspects: BatchNorm instability with tiny/small batches. Let me improve the training function (support full-batch, drop_last, track best-raw vs best-EMA separately) and run a systematic sweep.

bash

cd /app/exp && cat > lib.py << 'PYEOF'
from __future__ import annotations
import json, copy, math, os
from pathlib import Path
import torch, torch.nn as nn, torch.nn.functional as F
APP = Path('/app')
import sys; sys.path.insert(0, str(APP))
from candidate_model import build_model

def load_split(d):
    p = torch.load(APP/'data'/d/'samples.pt', weights_only=True)
    return p['features'].float(), p['labels'].float()

def get_cfg():
    return json.load(open(APP/'task_config.json'))

def metrics(pred, true):
    pred = pred.reshape(-1).double(); true = true.reshape(-1).double()
    rel = (torch.linalg.norm(pred-true)/torch.linalg.norm(true)).item()
    mae = (pred-true).abs().mean().item()
    mx  = (pred-true).abs().max().item()
    return rel, mae, mx

def augment(x, cfg):
    B,N,_ = x.shape
    if cfg.get('resample',False):
        idx = torch.randint(0,N,(B,N),device=x.device)
        x = torch.gather(x,1,idx.unsqueeze(-1).expand(-1,-1,3))
    if cfg.get('jitter',0)>0:
        x = x + torch.randn_like(x)*cfg['jitter']
    if cfg.get('mirror_x',False):
        s=(torch.rand(B,1,1,device=x.device)<0.5).float()*2-1
        x=x*torch.cat([s,torch.ones_like(s),torch.ones_like(s)],-1)
    if cfg.get('mirror_z',False):
        s=(torch.rand(B,1,1,device=x.device)<0.5).float()*2-1
        x=x*torch.cat([torch.ones_like(s),torch.ones_like(s),s],-1)
    if cfg.get('roty',0)>0:
        a=(torch.rand(B,device=x.device)*2-1)*cfg['roty']
        ca,sa=torch.cos(a),torch.sin(a)
        R=torch.zeros(B,3,3,device=x.device); R[:,0,0]=ca;R[:,0,2]=sa;R[:,2,0]=-sa;R[:,2,2]=ca;R[:,1,1]=1
        x=torch.bmm(x,R.transpose(1,2))
    if cfg.get('aniso',0)>0:
        s=1+(torch.rand(B,1,3,device=x.device)*2-1)*cfg['aniso']
        x=x*s
    return x

def _destd(p,lm,ls,log):
    v=p*ls+lm
    return torch.exp(v) if log else v

def train_model(acfg, seed=0, epochs=600, bs=0, lr=2e-3, wd=1e-4, ema_decay=0.99,
                data=('train',), val_split='val', huber=0.0, device='cuda', verbose=False,
                label_log=False, lr_min_frac=0.01, warmup_ep=20, drop_last=True,
                sel='rel'):
    torch.manual_seed(seed)
    import numpy as np; np.random.seed(seed)
    feats=[];labels=[]
    for d in data:
        f,l=load_split(d); feats.append(f); labels.append(l)
    Xtr=torch.cat(feats); ytr=torch.cat(labels)
    Xv,yv=load_split(val_split)
    feat_mean=Xtr.mean(dim=(0,1)); feat_std=Xtr.std(dim=(0,1)).clamp_min(1e-6)
    base = torch.log(ytr) if label_log else ytr
    label_mean=base.mean(0); label_std=base.std(0).clamp_min(1e-6)
    def nx(x): return (x-feat_mean)/feat_std
    Xtr_n=nx(Xtr).to(device); Xv_n=nx(Xv).to(device)
    ytr_n=((base-label_mean)/label_std).to(device)
    model=build_model(get_cfg()).to(device)
    opt=torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(),lr=lr,weight_decay=wd)
    shadow={k:v.detach().clone().float() for k,v in model.state_dict().items()}
    N=Xtr_n.shape[0]
    if bs<=0 or bs>=N: bs=N
    steps_per=max(1,(N//bs) if drop_last else math.ceil(N/bs)); total=epochs*steps_per
    warmup=warmup_ep*steps_per
    def lr_at(step):
        if step<warmup: return lr*step/max(1,warmup)
        t=(step-warmup)/max(1,total-warmup)
        return lr*(lr_min_frac+(1-lr_min_frac)*0.5*(1+math.cos(math.pi*t)))
    lm=label_mean.to(device); ls=label_std.to(device)
    emamodel=build_model(get_cfg()).to(device)
    best={'rel':1e9}; step=0
    for ep in range(epochs):
        model.train(); perm=torch.randperm(N,device=device)
        lim = (N//bs)*bs if drop_last and N>=bs else N
        for s in range(0,lim,bs):
            idx=perm[s:s+bs]; xb=augment(Xtr_n[idx],acfg); yb=ytr_n[idx]
            for g in opt.param_groups: g['lr']=lr_at(step)
            opt.zero_grad(set_to_none=True); pred=model(xb)
            loss=F.huber_loss(pred,yb,delta=huber) if huber>0 else F.mse_loss(pred,yb)
            loss.backward(); opt.step()
            d=ema_decay
            for k,v in model.state_dict().items():
                sh=shadow
…[truncated]

output

ok

Now let me run a sweep over batch size, lr, augmentation, ema_decay, huber, label_log. Let me start with a focused sweep. Since each run is fast (tiny data/model on H100), I can do many. Let me write a sweep script that prints val and public_test metrics for each config. I'll keep public_test only as a secondary check (not for selection).

Now let me run a focused sweep over batch size, augmentation, EMA decay, and loss type. I'll select on val and report public_test as an unbiased check.

bash

cd /app/exp && python3 -c "
import lib, itertools, time
t0=time.time()
configs=[]
# (name, acfg, kwargs)
base=dict(epochs=500,seed=0,wd=1e-4)
aug_none={}
aug_j={'jitter':0.01}
aug_jr={'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}
grid=[
 ('bs100 lr3e-3 ema.99 none',  aug_none, dict(bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 ('bs100 lr3e-3 ema.99 jit',   aug_j,   dict(bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 ('bs100 lr3e-3 ema.99 jit+rs', aug_jr,  dict(bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 ('bs32  lr2e-3 ema.98 jit+rs', aug_jr,  dict(bs=32,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.98)),
 ('bs50  lr2e-3 ema.99 jit+rs', aug_jr,  dict(bs=50,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 ('bs100 lr5e-3 ema.99 jit+rs', aug_jr,  dict(bs=0,lr=5e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 ('bs100 lr3e-3 ema.99 jit+rs huber', aug_jr, dict(bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99,huber=1.0)),
 ('bs100 lr3e-3 ema.99 jit+rs log',  aug_jr, dict(bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99,label_log=True)),
]
for name,acfg,kw in grid:
    kk=dict(base); kk.update(kw)
    b=lib.train_model(acfg,**kk)
    vt=lib.eval_ckpt(b,'public_test'); tr=lib.eval_ckpt(b,'train')
    print(f'{name:38s} | VAL rel={b[\"rel\"]:.4f} mae={b[\"mae\"]:.4f} mx={b[\"mx\"]:.4f} {b[\"tag\"]}@{b[\"ep\"]:3d} | TEST rel={vt[0]:.4f} mae={vt[1]:.4f} mx={vt[2]:.4f} | TRAIN rel={tr[0]:.3f}')
print('elapsed',round(time.time()-t0,1),'s')
"

output

bs100 lr3e-3 ema.99 none               | VAL rel=0.2056 mae=0.1417 mx=0.4114 raw@ 93 | TEST rel=0.3152 mae=0.2236 mx=0.4913 | TRAIN rel=0.148
bs100 lr3e-3 ema.99 jit                | VAL rel=0.1742 mae=0.1243 mx=0.3978 raw@175 | TEST rel=0.3921 mae=0.2607 mx=0.6774 | TRAIN rel=0.071
bs100 lr3e-3 ema.99 jit+rs             | VAL rel=0.1598 mae=0.1133 mx=0.3023 raw@399 | TEST rel=0.3295 mae=0.2214 mx=0.4895 | TRAIN rel=0.051
bs32  lr2e-3 ema.98 jit+rs             | VAL rel=0.1435 mae=0.1024 mx=0.2657 raw@287 | TEST rel=0.3814 mae=0.2495 mx=0.6419 | TRAIN rel=0.068
bs50  lr2e-3 ema.99 jit+rs             | VAL rel=0.1650 mae=0.1190 mx=0.3054 raw@292 | TEST rel=0.3500 mae=0.2287 mx=0.5924 | TRAIN rel=0.080
bs100 lr5e-3 ema.99 jit+rs             | VAL rel=0.1714 mae=0.1206 mx=0.3373 raw@392 | TEST rel=0.3504 mae=0.2306 mx=0.5151 | TRAIN rel=0.045
bs100 lr3e-3 ema.99 jit+rs huber       | VAL rel=0.1621 mae=0.1134 mx=0.2964 raw@288 | TEST rel=0.3913 mae=0.2632 mx=0.6298 | TRAIN rel=0.090
bs100 lr3e-3 ema.99 jit+rs log         | VAL rel=0.1995 mae=0.1364 mx=0.4067 raw@119 | TEST rel=0.3176 mae=0.2255 mx=0.4200 | TRAIN rel=0.149
elapsed 45.1 s

Now the PointNet reaches val rel ~0.14-0.16 (beating ridge's 0.167). But public_test is consistently worse (~0.31-0.39). Interesting , public_test rel is ~0.32-0.39 regardless, while val is 0.14-0.20. There's a consistent gap. The "jit+rs log" config got the best TEST rel=0.3176 and notably the best TEST mx=0.42. The public_test set seems systematically harder / different distribution. Let me look more carefully. The test mx (max error) is large (~0.49-0.68). Earlier ridge also had test rel ~0.31-0.35. So public_test might contain a hard outlier. Let me analyze the public_test labels and see which sample has the big error. Also, the fact that val and test differ so much suggests I should not over-tune to val. I want a model that generalizes. Important: the REAL grading is on a held-out set that I don't see. public_test is probably a proxy for it (16 samples). So I should aim for robustness. The consistent test gap suggests either distribution shift or just small-sample noise. Let me investigate public_test: what are its labels, and where do errors concentrate? Let me also check: maybe the issue is that a couple of test brackets have masses/shapes underrepresented in train. Let me get per-sample predictions on public_test from a decent model. Also, I notice train rel goes quite low (0.05-0.09) → overfitting. The gap between train (0.05) and val (0.16) and test (0.33) indicates overfitting + distribution shift. Regularization (more aug, weight decay, smaller model, can't change model) should help. Let me try stronger augmentation and higher weight decay. Also ensembling via multiple seeds averaged at prediction-level isn't possible (single checkpoint), BUT I can do SWA-style or just pick robust config. Wait , actually I CAN produce a single checkpoint that is an ensemble if I... no. The checkpoint is one PointNetRegressor. Can't ensemble different-seed weights (incompatible). But here's a thought: I could train with heavy augmentation to reduce overfitting, and use the EMA weights which generalize better. Let me focus on reducing the train→test gap. Let me investigate the public_test outliers first.

The PointNet now beats the ridge baseline on val (0.14–0.16), but public_test is consistently harder (~0.32) with large worst-case errors, and train rel is very low (~0.05) , clear overfitting plus some distribution gap. Let me inspect where the public_test errors concentrate.

bash

cd /app/exp && python3 -c "
import lib, torch, numpy as np
b=lib.train_model({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True},epochs=500,bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99,label_log=True,seed=0)
from candidate_model import build_model
def preds(split):
    Xs,ys=lib.load_split(split)
    m=build_model(lib.get_cfg()).cuda(); m.load_state_dict(b['state']); m.eval()
    fm=b['feat_mean'].cuda();fs=b['feat_std'].cuda();lm=b['label_mean'].cuda();ls=b['label_std'].cuda()
    with torch.no_grad():
        p=m((Xs.cuda()-fm)/fs)*ls+lm
        if b['label_log']: p=torch.exp(p)
    return p.cpu().numpy().ravel(), ys.numpy().ravel()
for sp in ['val','public_test']:
    p,y=preds(sp); e=np.abs(p-y)
    order=np.argsort(-e)
    print(f'=== {sp}: rel={np.linalg.norm(p-y)/np.linalg.norm(y):.4f} ===')
    for i in order[:5]:
        print(f'  idx{i:2d} true={y[i]:.3f} pred={p[i]:.3f} err={e[i]:+.3f}')
    print(f'  label range {y.min():.3f}-{y.max():.3f}')
"

output

=== val: rel=0.1995 ===
  idx23 true=1.375 pred=0.968 err=+0.407
  idx 0 true=0.403 pred=0.769 err=+0.366
  idx 8 true=1.180 pred=0.879 err=+0.301
  idx 5 true=1.427 pred=1.143 err=+0.284
  idx 3 true=0.294 pred=0.557 err=+0.263
  label range 0.294-2.072
=== public_test: rel=0.3176 ===
  idx 9 true=1.083 pred=0.663 err=+0.420
  idx 3 true=1.122 pred=0.772 err=+0.350
  idx11 true=1.449 pred=1.108 err=+0.342
  idx15 true=0.596 pred=0.929 err=+0.333
  idx 6 true=0.947 pred=0.629 err=+0.318
  label range 0.198-1.449

The errors are spread out, not a single catastrophic outlier. The model systematically under-predicts the heavier brackets (true 1.0-1.45 predicted lower) and over-predicts some light ones. This is classic regression-to-the-mean from overfitting/underfitting the tails. The model is biased toward the mean. The public_test has true values up to 1.449 that are being underpredicted, and a light one (idx15 true 0.596 pred 0.929) overpredicted. So there's shrinkage toward the mean. To reduce this, I need a better-fitting, less-biased model. Options: 1. Reduce regression to mean: train longer / less aggressive early stopping, or the model capacity is limited. The model is small (92K params) but should be enough. 2. The issue may be that max-pooling global feature + small head isn't capturing volume well. But we can't change architecture. 3. Better features via input: we feed raw xyz. PointNet with xyz only. The model must infer volume from surface points. That's hard from a single max-pooled feature of width 256. Actually, max pooling captures extremes, not density/volume. Hmm. Max pooling over per-point features tends to capture the "silhouette"/extent, not how filled the volume is. Mass depends on volume filled. That might be why it struggles. Wait, but occupancy (volume proxy) had 0.77 correlation. Max-pooling can approximate counting via... no, max pooling loses count information. PointNet's max-pool captures the presence of certain features but not their frequency. So volume/density is hard for vanilla PointNet. But I can't change the architecture. However, I CAN change the INPUT representation fed to the fixed forward! The forward expects [B,2048,3]. The eval feeds the raw point cloud (normalized by feat_mean/std). So input must be the actual coordinates. I can't add extra channels (model takes 3 dims). Hmm wait, actually can I be clever about feat_mean/feat_std? Those are per-axis length-3. They just standardize. Can't add features. So I'm constrained to xyz input and this exact PointNet. The max-pool bottleneck means the model captures the bounding silhouette / extreme coordinates primarily. But it still got val rel 0.14. Let me see if I can push further. Actually, max pooling over 256-dim features across 2048 points: each of 256 channels takes the max over points of a learned function of xyz. A learned function like "indicator of point near region R" maxed gives "is there any point in region R" , that's occupancy-like but binary (any point), capturing the silhouette/extent in many directions, effectively a fine-grained bounding description. With 256 channels probing different directions/regions, the model can reconstruct a coarse shape envelope. Mass correlates with the envelope size (bigger envelope → more volume → more mass). And within fixed bbox, the filled fraction... max pool can't see density. But apparently shape envelope carries a lot of the signal (ridge on extents+occupancy got 0.167; occupancy matters but extents too). So PointNet can do decently. To improve: 1. Reduce overfitting & mean-shrinkage. 2. Ensemble via weight averaging across the trajectory (EMA) , already doing. 3. Possibly the biggest gain: averaging predictions across multiple models. Can't in one checkpoint. BUT , clever idea: Since test-time forward is fixed and single-pass, but I could bake a form of "multi-view" into... no. Let me reconsider. Another idea to combat regression-to-mean: the loss. With MSE on standardized targets, the model is unbiased in expectation but with limited capacity/regularization it shrinks. Using label_log helped test rel (0.317) and especially max error. Let me explore more. Let me focus on practical gains: - Larger effect: train on train+val combined for final (more data) , but then I need a selection signal. I can select hyperparams now with train→val, then retrain on train+val with fixed epoch count (no early stopping, or use a small held-out from the combined). The held-out test will benefit from mor …[truncated]

Errors are spread across heavier brackets (systematic under-prediction , regression toward the mean from overfitting), not one catastrophic outlier. `label_log` helped the worst-case. Since val (32) and public_test (16) are small and noisy, I'll switch to **K-fold cross-validation on the pooled train+val (132 samples)** for honest, lower-variance hyperparameter selection. Let me refactor the trainer to accept explicit tensors.

bash

cd /app/exp && cat > core.py << 'PYEOF'
from __future__ import annotations
import json, math
from pathlib import Path
import torch, torch.nn.functional as F
APP=Path('/app'); import sys; sys.path.insert(0,str(APP))
from candidate_model import build_model

def load_split(d):
    p=torch.load(APP/'data'/d/'samples.pt',weights_only=True)
    return p['features'].float(), p['labels'].float()
def get_cfg(): return json.load(open(APP/'task_config.json'))
def metrics(pred,true):
    pred=pred.reshape(-1).double(); true=true.reshape(-1).double()
    return ((torch.linalg.norm(pred-true)/torch.linalg.norm(true)).item(),
            (pred-true).abs().mean().item(), (pred-true).abs().max().item())

def augment(x,cfg):
    B,N,_=x.shape
    if cfg.get('resample',False):
        idx=torch.randint(0,N,(B,N),device=x.device)
        x=torch.gather(x,1,idx.unsqueeze(-1).expand(-1,-1,3))
    if cfg.get('jitter',0)>0: x=x+torch.randn_like(x)*cfg['jitter']
    if cfg.get('mirror_x',False):
        s=(torch.rand(B,1,1,device=x.device)<0.5).float()*2-1
        x=x*torch.cat([s,torch.ones_like(s),torch.ones_like(s)],-1)
    if cfg.get('mirror_z',False):
        s=(torch.rand(B,1,1,device=x.device)<0.5).float()*2-1
        x=x*torch.cat([torch.ones_like(s),torch.ones_like(s),s],-1)
    if cfg.get('roty',0)>0:
        a=(torch.rand(B,device=x.device)*2-1)*cfg['roty']
        ca,sa=torch.cos(a),torch.sin(a)
        R=torch.zeros(B,3,3,device=x.device);R[:,0,0]=ca;R[:,0,2]=sa;R[:,2,0]=-sa;R[:,2,2]=ca;R[:,1,1]=1
        x=torch.bmm(x,R.transpose(1,2))
    if cfg.get('aniso',0)>0:
        s=1+(torch.rand(B,1,3,device=x.device)*2-1)*cfg['aniso']
        x=x*s
    if cfg.get('drop',0)>0:
        # randomly duplicate a fraction (point dropout emulation via resample subset)
        k=int(N*(1-cfg['drop']))
        idx=torch.argsort(torch.rand(B,N,device=x.device),dim=1)[:,:k]
        sel=torch.gather(x,1,idx.unsqueeze(-1).expand(-1,-1,3))
        pad=torch.randint(0,k,(B,N-k),device=x.device)
        x=torch.cat([sel,torch.gather(sel,1,pad.unsqueeze(-1).expand(-1,-1,3))],1)
    return x

def _destd(p,lm,ls,log):
    v=p*ls+lm; return torch.exp(v) if log else v

def train_core(Xtr,ytr,Xv,yv, acfg, seed=0, epochs=500, bs=0, lr=3e-3, wd=1e-4,
               ema_decay=0.99, huber=0.0, label_log=False, lr_min_frac=0.02,
               warmup_ep=20, drop_last=True, device='cuda', sel='rel', patience=10**9,
               return_pred_for=None):
    torch.manual_seed(seed); import numpy as np; np.random.seed(seed)
    fm=Xtr.mean(dim=(0,1)); fs=Xtr.std(dim=(0,1)).clamp_min(1e-6)
    base=torch.log(ytr) if label_log else ytr
    lm_=base.mean(0); ls_=base.std(0).clamp_min(1e-6)
    Xtr_n=((Xtr-fm)/fs).to(device); ytr_n=((base-lm_)/ls_).to(device)
    Xv_n=((Xv-fm)/fs).to(device)
    model=build_model(get_cfg()).to(device)
    opt=torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(),lr=lr,weight_decay=wd)
    shadow={k:v.detach().clone().float() for k,v in model.state_dict().items()}
    emamodel=build_model(get_cfg()).to(device)
    N=Xtr_n.shape[0]
    if bs<=0 or bs>=N: bs=N; drop_last=False
    steps_per=max(1,(N//bs) if drop_last else math.ceil(N/bs)); total=epochs*steps_per
    warmup=warmup_ep*steps_per
    lmd=lm_.to(device); lsd=ls_.to(device)
    def lr_at(st):
        if st<warmup: return lr*st/max(1,warmup)
        t=(st-warmup)/max(1,total-warmup); return lr*(lr_min_frac+(1-lr_min_frac)*0.5*(1+math.cos(math.pi*t)))
    best={'rel':1e9}; step=0
    for ep in range(epochs):
        model.train(); perm=torch.randperm(N,device=device)
        lim=(N//bs)*bs if drop_last and N>=bs else N
        for s in range(0,lim,bs):
            idx=perm[s:s+bs]; xb=augment(Xtr_n[idx],acfg); yb=ytr_n[idx]
            for g in opt.param_groups: g['lr']=lr_at(step)
            opt.zero_grad(set_to_none=True); pred=model(xb)
            loss=F.huber_loss(pred,yb,delta=huber) if huber>0 else F.mse_loss(pred,yb)
            loss.backward(); opt.step()
            d=ema_decay
            for k,
…[truncated]

output

ok

Wait, there's a subtlety: in kfold_eval I use the test fold as the selection val set (early stopping on the fold). That leaks the fold into selection, giving optimistic OOF estimates. For honest CV I should select within training (e.g., a sub-validation split), not on the held-out fold. But for *relative comparison* of configs it's still useful, though biased optimistic. To be more honest, I should not early-stop on the held-out fold. Options: - Use a fixed epoch budget (no selection) and evaluate final-epoch or EMA at end. - Split each training fold further into train/sub-val for selection. Given tiny data, carving out sub-val reduces training data. A cleaner approach: use a fixed number of epochs determined to be reasonable, and take the EMA weights at the end (EMA is stable). That removes the selection leak. Let me evaluate configs using fixed-epoch EMA-end predictions (no peeking at held-out fold for stopping). Let me modify: add a flag to train_core to just return the final EMA (and raw) without selecting on val. Actually simpler: I'll add return of final-EMA prediction regardless of selection. Let me add to best dict a 'final_ema_pred'. Hmm. Let me just restructure kfold to not leak: I'll pass the held-out fold only for measuring, but select the epoch using EMA-at-fixed-end. Let me add param to train_core: if sel=='none', after training compute EMA prediction on Xv and return that (no peeking). Let me implement sel='none' path returning final EMA. Actually even simpler and clean: train_core already tracks best on Xv. For CV honesty, I'll add an option `final_only=True` that ignores Xv for selection and returns EMA at the last epoch. Let me patch.

I need to avoid an optimistic bias in CV: my trainer early-stops on the eval fold, which leaks. Let me add a `final_only` mode that ignores the held-out fold for selection and just returns the end-of-training EMA weights (stable), giving honest CV estimates.

bash

cd /app/exp && python3 - << 'PY'
import re
s=open('core.py').read()
# add final_only param
s=s.replace("def train_core(Xtr,ytr,Xv,yv, acfg, seed=0, epochs=500, bs=0, lr=3e-3, wd=1e-4,\n               ema_decay=0.99, huber=0.0, label_log=False, lr_min_frac=0.02,\n               warmup_ep=20, drop_last=True, device='cuda', sel='rel', patience=10**9,\n               return_pred_for=None):",
 "def train_core(Xtr,ytr,Xv,yv, acfg, seed=0, epochs=500, bs=0, lr=3e-3, wd=1e-4,\n               ema_decay=0.99, huber=0.0, label_log=False, lr_min_frac=0.02,\n               warmup_ep=20, drop_last=True, device='cuda', sel='rel', patience=10**9,\n               final_only=False):")
# after the epoch loop 'return best', insert final_only handling before it
s=s.replace("            mm.train()\n    return best",
"""            mm.train()
    if final_only:
        emamodel.load_state_dict({k:v.clone() for k,v in shadow.items()}); emamodel.eval()
        with torch.no_grad(): pv=_destd(emamodel(Xv_n),lmd,lsd,label_log)
        rel,mae,mx=metrics(pv.cpu(),yv)
        return {'rel':rel,'mae':mae,'mx':mx,'ep':epochs-1,'tag':'ema',
                'state':{k:v.detach().clone().cpu() for k,v in shadow.items()},
                'feat_mean':fm.clone(),'feat_std':fs.clone(),
                'label_mean':lm_.clone(),'label_std':ls_.clone(),'label_log':label_log,
                'pred':pv.detach().cpu().clone()}
    return best""")
open('core.py','w').write(s)
print('patched')
PY
cd /app/exp && python3 -c "import core; print('import ok')"

output

patched
import ok

Now let me run honest CV (final_only=True) for several configs. I'll use k=6 folds, 1-2 seeds. Let me compare configs. I'll compute rel, mae, mx on OOF. Let me run. Each config = 6 folds × ~500 epochs. Earlier 8 configs × 500 epochs took 45s total, so ~5.6s per 500-epoch train. 6 folds ≈ 34s per config. With a few configs and seeds, manageable. Let me run a first CV sweep focusing on augmentation + label_log + epochs.

Now let me run honest K-fold CV (final EMA, no leak) across configurations to select robust hyperparameters.

bash

cd /app/exp && python3 -c "
import core, time
t0=time.time()
cfgs={
 'none':          ({}, dict(epochs=500,bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 'jit':           ({'jitter':0.01}, dict(epochs=500,bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 'jit+rs':        ({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}, dict(epochs=500,bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 'jit+rs log':    ({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}, dict(epochs=500,bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99,label_log=True)),
 'jit+rs bs32':   ({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}, dict(epochs=500,bs=32,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.98)),
 'jit+rs+mir log':({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True,'mirror_x':True,'mirror_z':True}, dict(epochs=500,bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99,label_log=True)),
}
for name,(acfg,kw) in cfgs.items():
    kw=dict(kw); kw['final_only']=True
    rel,mae,mx,oof,y=core.kfold_eval(acfg,k=6,seeds=(0,1),config=kw)
    print(f'{name:16s} CV rel={rel:.4f} mae={mae:.4f} mx={mx:.4f}')
print('elapsed',round(time.time()-t0),'s')
"

output

[stderr]
Shell command timed out.
Tool interaction exceeded 300 seconds.

bash

restart: true

output

<system>tool has been restarted.</system>

The CV with 2 seeds × 6 folds × 6 configs = 72 trainings of 500 epochs each. That's too much for 300s. Each 500-epoch full-batch train: earlier 8 runs in 45s → ~5.6s each, but those were bs>=... Actually the earlier sweep had mixed batch sizes. Let me estimate: full-batch (bs=100) 500 epochs should be fast. But 72 runs × ~5s = 360s > 300. Let me run in the background and poll, and reduce to 1 seed and fewer configs per call. Let me run things in background with nohup and write results to a file. Let me run CV in background, polling.

The full sweep exceeded the time limit. I'll run experiments in the background and poll for results, reducing per-call load.

bash

cd /app/exp && cat > cv1.py << 'PY'
import core, time, sys
t0=time.time()
cfgs={
 'none':          ({}, dict(epochs=400,bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 'jit':           ({'jitter':0.01}, dict(epochs=400,bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 'jit+rs':        ({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}, dict(epochs=400,bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 'jit+rs log':    ({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}, dict(epochs=400,bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99,label_log=True)),
 'jit+rs bs32':   ({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}, dict(epochs=400,bs=32,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.98)),
 'jit+rs+mir log':({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True,'mirror_x':True,'mirror_z':True}, dict(epochs=400,bs=0,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99,label_log=True)),
}
for name,(acfg,kw) in cfgs.items():
    kw=dict(kw); kw['final_only']=True
    rel,mae,mx,oof,y=core.kfold_eval(acfg,k=6,seeds=(0,),config=kw)
    print(f'{name:16s} CV rel={rel:.4f} mae={mae:.4f} mx={mx:.4f}  [{round(time.time()-t0)}s]',flush=True)
print('done',round(time.time()-t0),'s',flush=True)
PY
nohup python3 cv1.py > cv1.out 2>&1 &
echo "started pid $!"

output

started pid 307

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 120 && cat cv1.out

output

none             CV rel=0.4247 mae=0.2540 mx=1.2837  [37s]
jit              CV rel=0.4586 mae=0.2785 mx=1.4645  [61s]
jit+rs           CV rel=0.4591 mae=0.2772 mx=1.4667  [84s]
jit+rs log       CV rel=0.4622 mae=0.2734 mx=1.4648  [107s]

Hmm, the CV rel with final_only (EMA at end of 400 epochs) is ~0.42-0.46! That's MUCH worse than the val-selected numbers (0.14-0.20). That means: 1. The final EMA at epoch 400 is bad , either overfit or EMA is lagging/underfit. 2. The earlier good numbers were due to early-stopping selection (best epoch on val), which for the honest fold selection was leaking. Wait, 0.42 CV rel is basically mean-prediction level (mean-pred rel ~0.47). So the end-of-training EMA predicts near-constant?! That suggests the EMA with decay 0.99 over 400 full-batch steps (1 step/epoch since bs=0 → bs=N=110 per fold, 1 step/epoch) → 400 steps total. EMA decay 0.99 → effective window ~100 steps. After 400 steps, EMA should have caught up reasonably. But maybe the model at the end (after cosine decay to near-0 LR) overfits and EMA averages over the overfit tail. Wait, but 0.42 is near mean-level which is underfitting, not overfitting. Let me reconsider. Oh! With bs=0 → full batch, 1 step per epoch, 400 epochs = 400 steps. That's very few gradient steps. The earlier successful raw runs used bs such that there were a few steps/epoch, and 500 epochs. Actually no , earlier "bs100 lr3e-3" also had 1 step/epoch and reached val rel 0.20 (raw@93). So raw at its best epoch was 0.20. But here final_only uses EMA at epoch 400. Hmm the issue: with full-batch and only 400 steps, and cosine schedule, the model may reach good raw performance mid-training then the EMA (lagging) never catches the good region, OR the model overfits late. The CV final EMA being ~0.42 (near mean) suggests the EMA is dominated by early (underfit) weights because decay 0.99 over 400 steps weights the last ~100 steps most... that should be fine. Actually wait , let me reconsider. Full batch with 110 samples, lr 3e-3, 400 steps. That might simply be too few steps to converge well, so even the final model is mediocre, and EMA slightly worse. The earlier per-split runs that got 0.14-0.20 were selected at their best epoch among raw AND ema across 500 epochs , and crucially on the actual val set. For CphV folds with only 110 training samples (vs 100 before) similar. The discrepancy (0.20 raw-best vs 0.42 ema-final) is large. Let me directly diagnose: for one fold, print raw-best, ema-best (peeking) and ema-final and raw-final. This tells me whether EMA-final underfits. Actually, I realize the bigger issue might be: with bs=0 (full-batch) and 1 step/epoch, "400 epochs" = 400 steps is too few. Let me reconsider using minibatches (more steps) which worked better (bs32 got val 0.14). Let me wait for the bs32 result in cv1.out, then decide. Let me wait for remaining configs.

Surprising: end-of-training EMA gives CV rel ~0.42 (near mean-prediction), far worse than the val-selected ~0.15. This suggests the end-of-training EMA underfits/overfits the tail, and full-batch (1 step/epoch = only 400 steps) may be too few steps. Let me wait for the minibatch result, then diagnose the raw-vs-EMA, best-vs-final gap directly.

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 60 && cat cv1.out

output

none             CV rel=0.4247 mae=0.2540 mx=1.2837  [37s]
jit              CV rel=0.4586 mae=0.2785 mx=1.4645  [61s]
jit+rs           CV rel=0.4591 mae=0.2772 mx=1.4667  [84s]
jit+rs log       CV rel=0.4622 mae=0.2734 mx=1.4648  [107s]
jit+rs bs32      CV rel=0.2641 mae=0.1616 mx=0.7796  [143s]
jit+rs+mir log   CV rel=0.4720 mae=0.2931 mx=1.2600  [166s]
done 166 s

Now it's clear: minibatch bs32 gives CV rel=0.264 (EMA-final, honest), vs full-batch ~0.42-0.47. So minibatch training (more gradient steps) is essential. Full-batch with 1 step/epoch just doesn't train enough. So bs=32 is much better. The honest CV estimate for bs32+jit+rs is 0.264. That's the honest generalization (no leak). The earlier 0.14 was leaked (selected on fold). So realistic performance ~0.26 rel on pooled OOF. Wait, but that's with EMA-final at 400 epochs. Let me now: 1. Use minibatch (bs 16 or 32). 2. More epochs (since more steps help). 3. Tune EMA decay appropriately (with bs32, 110 samples → 3 steps/epoch → 400 epochs = ~1200 steps; EMA 0.98 window ~50 steps). Let me diagnose a single fold to understand raw vs ema and convergence, then sweep minibatch configs properly in background. Let me also reconsider: maybe even smaller batch (16) gives more steps and better BN? BN with batch 16 is a bit noisy but the earlier direct test bs32 got good val. Let me run a diagnostic: one fold, bs=16/32, print raw-final, ema-final, and the trajectory of val rel over epochs to see where it converges and whether longer helps. Let me do a quick diagnostic (short, <180s).

Clear result: minibatch (bs32, CV rel **0.264**) vastly outperforms full-batch (~0.42) because it takes many more gradient steps. The earlier 0.14 was leaked via fold-based early stopping; 0.26 is the honest estimate. Let me diagnose batch size, epochs, and EMA decay with minibatches, tracking the convergence trajectory on one fold.

bash

cd /app/exp && cat > diag.py << 'PY'
import core, torch
X,y=core.pooled(); N=X.shape[0]
g=torch.Generator().manual_seed(12345); perm=torch.randperm(N,generator=g)
va=perm[:22]; tr=perm[22:]
import candidate_model as cm, torch.nn.functional as F, math
for bs,epochs,ema in [(16,600,0.99),(32,800,0.99),(16,600,0.995)]:
    b=core.train_core(X[tr],y[tr],X[va],y[va],{'jitter':0.01,'resample':True},
                      seed=0,epochs=epochs,bs=bs,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=ema,final_only=True)
    bb=core.train_core(X[tr],y[tr],X[va],y[va],{'jitter':0.01,'resample':True},
                      seed=0,epochs=epochs,bs=bs,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=ema,sel='rel')
    print(f'bs{bs} ep{epochs} ema{ema}: EMA-final rel={b["rel"]:.4f} | best(peek) rel={bb["rel"]:.4f} {bb["tag"]}@{bb["ep"]}',flush=True)
PY
nohup python3 diag.py > diag.out 2>&1 &
echo "pid $!"

output

pid 339

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 90 && cat diag.out

output

bs16 ep600 ema0.99: EMA-final rel=0.2096 | best(peek) rel=0.1993 raw@332
bs32 ep800 ema0.99: EMA-final rel=0.2032 | best(peek) rel=0.1932 raw@498

With more epochs, bs16/32 EMA-final gives ~0.20-0.21 on this fold (and best-peek ~0.19-0.20). So longer training helps (vs 0.264 at 400 epochs with bs32). Good. The gap between EMA-final and best-peek is small now (~0.01), which is reassuring , means I can rely on EMA-final without leak and lose little. Let me wait for the third result, then run a proper honest CV over good minibatch configs with more epochs. Let me plan the next sweep: - bs: 16, 32 - epochs: 800, 1200 - ema: 0.99, 0.995 - lr: 2e-3, 3e-3 - label_log: on/off - augmentation strength: jitter 0.01 vs 0.02, resample on/off I'll run honest CV (final_only, k=6, seed 0) for the most promising combos. Let me be mindful of time , each 800-epoch bs32 fold takes a while. The diag: bs32 ep800 took maybe ~40s for 2 trainings (final + sel) → ~20s per training. k=6 → 120s per config. Let me run ~4 configs per background job (~8min) and poll. Let me wait for third diag result first.

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 30 && cat diag.out

output

bs16 ep600 ema0.99: EMA-final rel=0.2096 | best(peek) rel=0.1993 raw@332
bs32 ep800 ema0.99: EMA-final rel=0.2032 | best(peek) rel=0.1932 raw@498
bs16 ep600 ema0.995: EMA-final rel=0.2097 | best(peek) rel=0.1993 raw@332

EMA decay 0.995 vs 0.99 gave nearly identical results (0.2097 vs 0.2096) , EMA decay not very sensitive here. Good. EMA-final is close to best-peek, so I'll rely on EMA-final for honest selection. Now let me run a proper honest CV sweep with longer minibatch training. Let me pick configs and run in background. I'll use k=6, seed 0, final_only. Let me test: - bs32 ep1000 lr2e-3 ema.99 jit+rs - bs32 ep1000 lr2e-3 ema.99 jit+rs log - bs16 ep1000 lr2e-3 ema.99 jit+rs - bs32 ep1000 lr3e-3 ema.99 jit+rs - bs32 ep1000 lr2e-3 ema.99 jit(0.02)+rs - bs32 ep1500 lr2e-3 ema.99 jit+rs Let me time-budget: bs32 ep1000 × 6 folds. diag bs32 ep800 two trainings took ~? The job ran 90s+30s and produced 3 lines each with 2 trainings = 6 trainings in ~120s → 20s per training of ~600-800 ep. So bs32 ep1000 ~25s × 6 folds = 150s per config. 6 configs = 900s. Too long for one call but fine in background; I'll poll across calls. Let me launch.

EMA decay isn't sensitive (0.99 ≈ 0.995), and EMA-final ≈ best-peek, so I can trust EMA-final for honest CV. Let me launch a longer-training minibatch CV sweep in the background and poll.

bash

cd /app/exp && cat > cv2.py << 'PY'
import core, time
t0=time.time()
J={'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}
J2={'jitter':0.02,'resample':True}
cfgs={
 'bs32 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit+rs':      (J, dict(epochs=1000,bs=32,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 'bs32 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit+rs log':  (J, dict(epochs=1000,bs=32,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99,label_log=True)),
 'bs16 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit+rs':      (J, dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 'bs32 ep1000 lr3e-3 jit+rs':      (J, dict(epochs=1000,bs=32,lr=3e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 'bs32 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit2+rs':     (J2,dict(epochs=1000,bs=32,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 'bs32 ep1500 lr2e-3 jit+rs':      (J, dict(epochs=1500,bs=32,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
}
for name,(acfg,kw) in cfgs.items():
    kw=dict(kw); kw['final_only']=True
    rel,mae,mx,oof,y=core.kfold_eval(acfg,k=6,seeds=(0,),config=kw)
    print(f'{name:32s} CV rel={rel:.4f} mae={mae:.4f} mx={mx:.4f}  [{round(time.time()-t0)}s]',flush=True)
print('done',flush=True)
PY
nohup python3 cv2.py > cv2.out 2>&1 &
echo "pid $!"

output

pid 370

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 240 && cat cv2.out

output

bs32 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit+rs        CV rel=0.2692 mae=0.1650 mx=0.8206  [95s]
bs32 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit+rs log    CV rel=0.2603 mae=0.1569 mx=0.8354  [187s]

Hmm, now ep1000 gives CV rel 0.269 (jit+rs) and 0.260 (log), WORSE than the single fold diag (0.20). Wait , the single-fold diag used a specific fold (perm[:22] val) which may have been an easy fold. The k=6 CV averages over all folds, including harder ones, giving a more honest 0.26-0.27. But also ep1000 (0.269) is slightly worse than the ep400 bs32 earlier (0.264)! So more epochs isn't clearly helping on honest CV , might be overfitting. The single-fold improvement was fold-specific noise. So honest CV rel is around 0.26 regardless. The leaked (peek) estimate was ~0.19-0.20. The real generalization is ~0.26. Let me reconsider. The OOF CV rel ~0.26 on pooled train+val. This is the honest number. Can I do better? The ridge baseline had val rel 0.167 (but that was also on a single split, possibly leaked-ish via alpha selection; test was 0.31). Let me compute ridge's honest CV rel on the same pooled folds for a fair comparison. That tells me if PointNet is competitive with hand-crafted features. Let me wait for cv2 to finish, then do a ridge CV comparison and think about ensembling. Actually, a key lever I haven't used: **ensembling predictions across folds/seeds averaged** , but the final deliverable is ONE checkpoint. However, I realize the honest OOF CV (0.26) uses single models per fold. At final time I train on all data. A single final model ≈ one fold model → ~0.26-ish generalization. How to beat 0.26 with a single checkpoint? - Weight-space averaging of multiple independent runs doesn't work (different basins) , unless I average EMA weights from runs that started from the SAME init and diverge only by minibatch order/augmentation (they'd stay in the same basin → averaging works, like SWA). Actually averaging weights of models from the same initialization trained with different data order can work if they stay mode-connected. Risky but worth testing: does averaging N EMA checkpoints (same init seed, different data-order seeds) improve over a single one? If they're in the same loss basin (likely for short-ish training from same init), weight averaging helps. Alternatively, I can just make ONE very good model. Let me think about what limits performance: - The model underfits the tails (regression to mean). - Honest CV 0.26 means typical relative error ~26%. MAE 0.16 on mean mass 0.75 → ~21% , quite high. Let me reconsider the DATA. Is there label noise? FEA mass is deterministic given geometry, so labels are clean. The challenge is purely the geometry→mass mapping from 2048 surface points through a max-pool PointNet. Idea: The max-pool bottleneck loses density/volume info. But I can't change the architecture. HOWEVER, I control the INPUT coordinates via feat_mean/feat_std (just affine per-axis) , can't add channels. Wait , re-read the constraint. The model "must consume a [B,2048,3] tensor". The eval applies feat_mean/feat_std standardization then forward. I cannot change what coordinates are fed (they're the given point cloud). So input is fixed as xyz. So I'm stuck with xyz → this PointNet. Best I can do is train it well. Honest CV ~0.26. Let me see if I can squeeze more: 1. Try label_log (slightly better: 0.260). 2. Try a better LR schedule / more regularization to reduce overfit. 3. Try weight averaging across seeds (SWA-like) for the final model. 4. Try larger jitter or other aug. Let me also compute the ridge CV baseline honestly to calibrate. Let me wait for cv2 to finish first.

Honest CV rel is ~0.26 regardless of epoch count (the single-fold 0.20 was fold-luck). `label_log` helps slightly. Let me wait for the rest, and meanwhile compute an honest ridge-feature CV baseline for calibration.

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 180 && cat cv2.out

output

bs32 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit+rs        CV rel=0.2692 mae=0.1650 mx=0.8206  [95s]
bs32 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit+rs log    CV rel=0.2603 mae=0.1569 mx=0.8354  [187s]
bs16 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit+rs        CV rel=0.2470 mae=0.1561 mx=0.7626  [392s]

bs16 gives CV rel 0.247, better than bs32 (0.269). So smaller batch → more steps → better (and more BN noise as regularization). Let me wait for the remaining configs. Meanwhile, let me compute the honest ridge CV baseline in a separate quick call (won't interfere much with GPU since ridge is CPU/numpy). Actually the background job is using the GPU. Ridge is numpy/CPU so fine to run concurrently. Let me compute ridge OOF CV on the same folds. But wait, I need the same fold split as core.kfold_eval: perm=torch.randperm(N, gen=12345), folds[i]=perm[i::k]. Let me replicate for ridge.

bs16 improves to CV rel **0.247** (more steps + BN-noise regularization). Let me compute an honest ridge-feature CV baseline on the identical folds (CPU, runs alongside the GPU job).

bash

cd /app/exp && python3 -c "
import torch, numpy as np, core
X,y=core.pooled(); Xn=X.numpy(); yn=y.numpy().ravel(); N=X.shape[0]
def feat(f):
    ext=f.max(1)-f.min(1); sd=f.std(1); r=np.linalg.norm(f,axis=2)
    cols=[ext,sd,ext.prod(1,keepdims=True),sd.prod(1,keepdims=True),r.mean(1,keepdims=True),r.std(1,keepdims=True)]
    for n in [8,12,16,20,24,32]:
        occ=np.array([len(np.unique((np.floor((f[i]+0.5)*n).clip(0,n-1).astype(int)*[n*n,n,1]).sum(1)))/n**3 for i in range(f.shape[0])])
        cols.append(occ[:,None])
    return np.concatenate(cols,1).astype(np.float64)
F=feat(Xn)
g=torch.Generator().manual_seed(12345); perm=torch.randperm(N,generator=g).numpy()
k=6; folds=[perm[i::k] for i in range(k)]
for alpha in [0.3,1.0,3.0]:
    oof=np.zeros(N)
    for fi in range(k):
        va=folds[fi]; tr=np.concatenate([folds[j] for j in range(k) if j!=fi])
        mu=F[tr].mean(0); sd=F[tr].std(0)+1e-9; Ft=(F[tr]-mu)/sd; Fv=(F[va]-mu)/sd
        ym=yn[tr].mean(); A=Ft.T@Ft+alpha*np.eye(F.shape[1]); w=np.linalg.solve(A,Ft.T@(yn[tr]-ym))
        oof[va]=Fv@w+ym
    rel=np.linalg.norm(oof-yn)/np.linalg.norm(yn); mae=np.abs(oof-yn).mean(); mx=np.abs(oof-yn).max()
    print(f'ridge alpha={alpha}: CV rel={rel:.4f} mae={mae:.4f} mx={mx:.4f}')
"

output

ridge alpha=0.3: CV rel=0.2072 mae=0.1378 mx=0.6155
ridge alpha=1.0: CV rel=0.2185 mae=0.1422 mx=0.6835
ridge alpha=3.0: CV rel=0.2274 mae=0.1464 mx=0.7481

Honest ridge CV rel = 0.207 (alpha 0.3), better than the PointNet's 0.247! So hand-crafted geometric features (extents, std, occupancy) actually beat the PointNet on honest CV. This confirms the max-pool PointNet struggles to capture volume/occupancy, which is the dominant mass signal. But I MUST output a PointNet checkpoint. I can't submit ridge. However , can I make the PointNet mimic these features? The features (extents, occupancy) , extents ARE capturable by max-pool (max of coordinate = extent). Occupancy (volume filling) is NOT directly capturable by max-pool. That's the gap. Hmm. Is there a way to get occupancy-like info through max pooling? Max pooling of a learned per-point function f(xyz): if f is a smooth bump at location c, then max over points ≈ 1 if any point near c, else 0. With many such bumps tiling space, the max-pooled vector encodes occupancy (which cells have points). With 256 channels we get 256 "cells". That's a coarse occupancy grid! So in principle the PointNet CAN represent a coarse occupancy via max-pool of localized features. The feature extractor is 3 conv1d layers (width 64) then lift to 256 , it can learn localized detectors. So it should be able to approximate occupancy at ~256 regions. So why does it underperform ridge? Possibly optimization/regularization, not representational capacity. Or the localized-detector solution is hard to learn from 110 samples. Ideas to close the gap: 1. Feed better-conditioned input so the network learns occupancy-like features more easily. But input is fixed xyz. 2. Help the network: the BN + GELU MLP should be fine. Maybe more epochs with lower LR, or different init. 3. Ensemble several PointNets via weight averaging (SWA) , but that doesn't add representational power, just reduces variance. Actually, an important realization: I could combine BOTH worlds by making the PointNet's predictions and then... no, single checkpoint must be the PointNet alone. Alternatively , what if I make a PointNet that effectively computes occupancy-like statistics and is TRAINED to match an ensemble/ridge teacher (knowledge distillation)? Distillation won't exceed the student's capacity, but if capacity is sufficient, distilling from a strong teacher (ridge on rich features, or an ensemble) could guide the PointNet to a better solution than direct training on 110 labels. The teacher can be trained on all data and provide smooth targets. But ultimately the student must generalize; distillation mainly helps by providing a better-behaved target function and acting as regularization. Given only 110 points, the labels are limited; a teacher can't create new information though. Hmm. Let me step back and think about the best achievable with PointNet. Let me try harder configs: - Lower LR, more epochs, stronger weight decay. - Different augmentation: maybe NO resample (resample might hurt by changing density the model keys on). Actually for occupancy learning, resample changes which cells are occupied slightly , mild. - Try feeding larger jitter for regularization. - Try bs8 (even more steps). Let me also reconsider: the ridge uses occupancy at multiple resolutions explicitly. The PointNet must learn these. Perhaps more capacity in how we train helps. Let me do a focused CV sweep on smaller batch and regularization. Also, crucially: maybe combine PointNet with the fact that extents are easy , the model already should get extents. The gap to ridge is ~0.04 rel. Not huge. Let me reconsider the target metric. The grader compares on a held-out set. If honest CV ~0.25 for PointNet, that's probably what I'll get. Let me push to ~0.20 if possible. Let me think about whether smaller batch + more epochs + lower final LR helps, and whether averaging multiple seeds' weights (SWA) helps. Let me run: - bs8, bs16 with ep1500, lr 1.5e-3 - weight-averaging across 3 seeds (same init? different init?). For SWA/weight-averaging to work, models should be in the same basin. Training from the SAME …[truncated]

Key insight: honest ridge CV (0.207) actually beats the PointNet (0.247) , the max-pool bottleneck makes volume/occupancy (the dominant mass signal) hard to learn, though it's representable via localized max-pool detectors. Since I must ship the PointNet, let me push it harder. Let me check the remaining sweep results.

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 30 && cat cv2.out

output

bs32 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit+rs        CV rel=0.2692 mae=0.1650 mx=0.8206  [95s]
bs32 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit+rs log    CV rel=0.2603 mae=0.1569 mx=0.8354  [187s]
bs16 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit+rs        CV rel=0.2470 mae=0.1561 mx=0.7626  [392s]

bash

cd /app/exp && ps aux | grep -c "[c]v2.py"; sleep 120 && cat cv2.out

output

1
bs32 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit+rs        CV rel=0.2692 mae=0.1650 mx=0.8206  [95s]
bs32 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit+rs log    CV rel=0.2603 mae=0.1569 mx=0.8354  [187s]
bs16 ep1000 lr2e-3 jit+rs        CV rel=0.2470 mae=0.1561 mx=0.7626  [392s]
bs32 ep1000 lr3e-3 jit+rs        CV rel=0.2762 mae=0.1714 mx=0.8061  [598s]

lr3e-3 is worse. The job is taking long (bs16 ep1000 was slow at 392s cumulative; the remaining jit2 and ep1500 configs will take a while). Let me kill it to free the GPU and run a more targeted sweep focusing on what matters: small batch + regularization, label_log, and combining with mirror. Let me also test weight-averaging (SWA across seeds) and label_log + bs16. Let me kill cv2 and design a sharper experiment. The best so far: bs16 ep1000 jit+rs → 0.247. Let me try: - bs16 + label_log (log helped at bs32) - bs16 ep1500 (more) - bs8 - bs16 + mirror aug (if brackets symmetric, doubles effective data) - bs16 + aniso scaling (regularization) And test weight averaging of seeds. Let me kill and relaunch targeted.

lr3e-3 is worse; bs16+jit+rs (0.247) leads. The job is slow, so I'll stop it and run a sharper sweep around small batch + `label_log` + symmetry augmentation (brackets are often mirror-symmetric, which could effectively double data).

bash

cd /app/exp && pkill -f cv2.py; sleep 2; cat > cv3.py << 'PY'
import core, time
t0=time.time()
J={'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}
configs={
 'bs16 log':          (J, dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99,label_log=True)),
 'bs16 mir':          ({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True,'mirror_x':True}, dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 'bs16 mirxz log':    ({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True,'mirror_x':True,'mirror_z':True}, dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99,label_log=True)),
 'bs8  jit+rs':       (J, dict(epochs=800,bs=8,lr=1.5e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 'bs16 wd3e-4':       (J, dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99,wd=3e-4)),
 'bs16 aniso':        ({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True,'aniso':0.05}, dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
}
for name,(acfg,kw) in configs.items():
    kw=dict(kw); kw['final_only']=True
    rel,mae,mx,oof,y=core.kfold_eval(acfg,k=6,seeds=(0,),config=kw)
    print(f'{name:18s} CV rel={rel:.4f} mae={mae:.4f} mx={mx:.4f}  [{round(time.time()-t0)}s]',flush=True)
print('done',flush=True)
PY
nohup python3 cv3.py > cv3.out 2>&1 &
echo "pid $!"

output

pid 432
[stderr]
[3]+  Terminated              nohup python3 cv2.py > cv2.out 2>&1

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 240 && cat cv3.out

output

bs16 log           CV rel=0.2613 mae=0.1593 mx=0.8959  [223s]

bs16 + log gave 0.261, worse than bs16 without log (0.247). So label_log doesn't help at bs16. The runs are slow (~220s per config for 6 folds at bs16 ep1000). This is taking long. Let me be patient but also think. Actually, each bs16 ep1000 6-fold CV takes ~220s. I have 5 more configs in cv3 → ~18min. Let me wait but also reconsider strategy to save time. Actually, let me reconsider: the differences between configs (0.247 vs 0.261) are within CV noise (single seed, 6 folds, 132 samples). I should use multiple seeds to reduce noise before trusting small differences. But that's expensive. Let me step back and think about the biggest lever: can I beat ridge (0.21) with the PointNet, or should I accept ~0.24-0.25? Alternative high-impact idea: **Distillation / feature-informed training isn't needed** , but what about directly improving the PointNet's ability to capture occupancy by training longer with the right regularization? The gap is 0.04. Another idea: **ensemble by weight averaging** multiple PointNets. This reduces variance. Honest CV of a single model ~0.247. An ensemble of predictions typically reduces error. But I can only ship one checkpoint. IF weight-averaging (SWA) of same-basin models approximates prediction-ensembling, I get the benefit. Let me test this directly: train M models (same init, different data order) and average weights, compare CV. Actually, the cleanest test: within each fold, train 3 seeds, average their EMA weights into one model, evaluate. Compare to single-seed. Let me implement a quick version. But weight-averaging across different random inits usually fails. I need same init. Let me make a variant of train_core that accepts a fixed init state and only varies data ordering/augmentation via a separate rng. Then average the shadows. Let me think if it's worth it. Prediction ensembling of neural nets typically cuts error noticeably. Even if weight-averaging only partially captures it, could get from 0.247 → maybe 0.22. Worth testing. Let me design: 1. Create base init (seed 0) state_dict. 2. For s in seeds: load base init, train with data-order seed s, get EMA shadow. 3. Average shadows → one model. (BN running stats also averaged , should be okay since same-ish.) 4. Evaluate. Let me implement and test on the 6-fold CV for one promising config (bs16 jit+rs). Actually wait , BN running_mean/var and weights averaged across models that diverged: if they're in the same basin, fine. Let me just test empirically. Let me also reconsider: maybe I'm overcomplicating. Let me test a direct prediction-ensemble first (train K models per fold, average their PREDICTIONS) to see the ceiling of ensembling. If prediction-ensemble gives big gains, then I invest in weight-averaging to realize it in one checkpoint. If prediction-ensemble barely helps, skip. Let me kill cv3 (slow) and run the ensemble ceiling test + weight-averaging test together. Actually, let me keep cv3 running to get the mirror/aniso/wd results (useful), and run the ensemble test in parallel? GPU has 80GB and these are tiny; two processes can share. But they'd slow each other. cv3 has 5 configs left (~18 min). That's a lot. Let me kill it and prioritize the ensemble investigation which is higher-value. Let me kill cv3 and run: (a) prediction-ensemble ceiling with K=5 seeds per fold, (b) weight-averaging of same-init models.

bs16+log (0.261) is worse than bs16 plain (0.247), and single-seed fold differences are within noise. Rather than chase small config tweaks, let me investigate a higher-value lever: **ensembling**. First I'll measure the prediction-ensemble ceiling (does averaging multiple models help a lot?), then test whether weight-averaging (which I *can* ship as one checkpoint) captures that gain.

bash

cd /app/exp && pkill -f cv3.py; sleep 2
cat > ens.py << 'PY'
import core, torch, time
from candidate_model import build_model
t0=time.time()
X,y=core.pooled(); N=X.shape[0]
g=torch.Generator().manual_seed(12345); perm=torch.randperm(N,generator=g)
k=6; folds=[perm[i::k] for i in range(k)]
acfg={'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}
K=5
def get_init():
    torch.manual_seed(999); m=build_model(core.get_cfg()); return {kk:v.detach().clone() for kk,v in m.state_dict().items()}
INIT=get_init()
oof_single=torch.zeros(N); oof_ens=torch.zeros(N); oof_wavg=torch.zeros(N)
for fi in range(k):
    va=folds[fi]; tr=torch.cat([folds[j] for j in range(k) if j!=fi])
    preds=[]; shadows=[]
    for s in range(K):
        b=core.train_core(X[tr],y[tr],X[va],y[va],acfg,seed=s,epochs=800,bs=16,lr=2e-3,
                          ema_decay=0.99,final_only=True,init_state=INIT)
        preds.append(b['pred'].reshape(-1)); shadows.append(b['state'])
    P=torch.stack(preds,0)
    oof_single[va]=P[0]
    oof_ens[va]=P.mean(0)
    # weight-average shadows
    avg={kk: torch.stack([sh[kk].float() for sh in shadows],0).mean(0) for kk in shadows[0]}
    pack=dict(b); pack['state']=avg
    oof_wavg[va]=core.predict(pack,X[va]).reshape(-1)
    print(f'fold{fi} done [{round(time.time()-t0)}s]',flush=True)
for name,oof in [('single',oof_single),('pred-ens',oof_ens),('weight-avg',oof_wavg)]:
    print(name, tuple(round(v,4) for v in core.metrics(oof,y)),flush=True)
PY
echo "need init_state support in train_core"

output

need init_state support in train_core
[stderr]
[3]+  Terminated              nohup python3 cv3.py > cv3.out 2>&1

I need to add `init_state` support to train_core so I can start from a fixed initialization. Let me patch core.py.

I need to add `init_state` support to the trainer first.

bash

cd /app/exp && python3 - << 'PY'
s=open('core.py').read()
s=s.replace("warmup_ep=20, drop_last=True, device='cuda', sel='rel', patience=10**9,\n               final_only=False):",
            "warmup_ep=20, drop_last=True, device='cuda', sel='rel', patience=10**9,\n               final_only=False, init_state=None):")
s=s.replace("    model=build_model(get_cfg()).to(device)\n    opt=torch.optim.AdamW",
            "    model=build_model(get_cfg()).to(device)\n    if init_state is not None:\n        model.load_state_dict({k:v.clone() for k,v in init_state.items()})\n    opt=torch.optim.AdamW")
open('core.py','w').write(s); print('patched')
PY
cd /app/exp && python3 -c "import core; print('ok')"
nohup python3 ens.py > ens.out 2>&1 &
echo "pid $!"

output

patched
ok
pid 467

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 280 && cat ens.out

output

fold0 done [162s]

This is slow: 162s for 1 fold × 5 seeds × 800 epochs bs16. 6 folds → ~16min. Let me wait. Meanwhile, let me reflect and not waste the turn. Actually, 5 seeds × 6 folds × 800 epochs is a lot. Let me just wait it out with a longer sleep. But each poll costs time. Let me sleep ~280s again and check; it should be ~fold 2-3 by then. Actually 162s/fold → 6 folds = ~970s total. Let me wait in chunks. Let me wait.

Ensemble test is running (~160s/fold, ~16 min total). Let me wait for it.

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 290 && cat ens.out

output

fold0 done [162s]
fold1 done [304s]
fold2 done [430s]
fold3 done [555s]

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 260 && cat ens.out

output

fold0 done [162s]
fold1 done [304s]
fold2 done [430s]
fold3 done [555s]
fold4 done [675s]
fold5 done [823s]
single (0.2905, 0.1752, 0.8744)
pred-ens (0.269, 0.1635, 0.9237)
weight-avg (0.3591, 0.2238, 1.3669)

Important findings: - single (seed0, this init 999): 0.2905 , note worse than before (0.247) because init seed 999 / 800 epochs differ from before. - pred-ens (5 seeds averaged predictions): 0.269 , improves over single 0.29 but not dramatically. And interestingly pred-ens mx went UP (0.92). - weight-avg: 0.359 , WORSE. So weight-averaging across these 5 runs (same init, different data order) does NOT stay in the same basin → averaging hurts. So SWA-across-seeds won't work here. So prediction-ensembling helps modestly (0.29→0.27) but I can't ship it as one checkpoint (weight-avg fails). Also note single here (0.29) is worse than the earlier bs16 ep1000 (0.247). Differences: init seed 999 vs default, 800 vs 1000 epochs. So results are noisy and init-dependent. This variance is concerning , single-model performance varies a lot with seed (0.25-0.29). Given weight-averaging fails, to ship one checkpoint I must pick a single good model. The seed variance means I should select the best by CV / val. Let me reconsider the bigger picture. Honest CV for a single PointNet ~0.25-0.29 depending on seed. Ridge gets 0.21. The PointNet is underperforming. New idea: What if the issue is that max-pooling alone can't aggregate volume, but I can help by using the BatchNorm/training to encourage it. Not easily. Alternative: Is there a way to get the PointNet to compute something like occupancy? The first layer is Conv1d(3→64) , linear per point + BN + GELU. Then two more 64→64. Then 64→128→256. Then max over points. The network CAN learn localized bump detectors (via combinations), but maybe 110 samples isn't enough to learn good ones. Let me reconsider whether I can exceed ridge by giving the network a better starting point , e.g., initialize the first conv to produce features that tile space (like random Fourier features or a grid of bumps), effectively hard-coding an occupancy-like front end, then let training adapt. Since I can set the initial weights (the checkpoint is just weights), I could initialize cleverly. But training will move them. Still, a good init (like random Fourier positional features) could help the max-pool capture occupancy and give a better basin. This is worth trying: initialize feature MLP to compute sin/cos of linear projections (random Fourier features) , these are localized-ish in frequency and their max over points encodes distribution info. Hmm, but GELU not sin. Actually, simpler: let me reconsider the real target. I've been assuming honest CV ~ what the grader sees. But the grader's held-out set is separate. My job is to ship the best single PointNet. Let me: 1. Pick the best config (bs16, jit+rs, ep~1000, default init) , CV ~0.247. 2. Train MANY seeds on the full pooled data, and SELECT the one with best CV-like estimate. But for the final single model trained on ALL data, I have no held-out set. I can select among seeds by their performance on a small holdout (e.g., public_test) , but that risks overfitting to public_test's 16 samples. Hmm. Let me reconsider using public_test. The grader's held-out set ≠ public_test (probably). But public_test is a reasonable proxy. If I select among ~10 seeds by public_test rel, I might pick one that's 0.28 on public_test but could be 0.26 or 0.30 on the true held-out. The selection overfitting with 16 samples is real but bounded. Better: select by val (32 samples) since I'll train final on train only, OR by averaging val+public_test. Let me reconsider the train/val/test usage for the FINAL model: - I want max training data AND a selection signal. - Option 1: Train on train (100), select seed by val+public_test (48 samples combined). Ship. Leaves val+test as selection only. - Option 2: Train on train+val (132), select seed by public_test (16). - Option 3: Train on train+val+public_test (148) , max data , but then no selection signal; pick seed by... nothing. Could use a fixed seed or average. Given seed variance is high (~0.25-0.29), selection matters. I think …[truncated]

Key findings: prediction-ensembling helps only modestly (0.29→0.27), and **weight-averaging across seeds fails** (0.36 , different basins), so I can't ship an ensemble as one checkpoint. Seed/config variance (~0.25–0.29) dominates, so a well-chosen single model + good selection matters most. Let me get a 2-seed CV on the top candidates to pick robustly, and meanwhile build the final training + inference-verification scripts.

bash

cd /app/exp && cat > cv4.py << 'PY'
import core, time
t0=time.time()
configs={
 'bs16 jit+rs':   ({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}, dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 'bs16 jit':      ({'jitter':0.01},                dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99)),
 'bs16 jit+rs wd3e-4': ({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}, dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99,wd=3e-4)),
}
for name,(acfg,kw) in configs.items():
    kw=dict(kw); kw['final_only']=True
    rel,mae,mx,oof,y=core.kfold_eval(acfg,k=6,seeds=(0,1),config=kw)
    print(f'{name:22s} CV rel={rel:.4f} mae={mae:.4f} mx={mx:.4f}  [{round(time.time()-t0)}s]',flush=True)
print('done',flush=True)
PY
nohup python3 cv4.py > cv4.out 2>&1 &
echo "pid $!"

output

pid 506

While that runs, let me write the final training script that: 1. Trains the PointNet on a chosen data pool with the chosen config. 2. Uses EMA weights at the end (or best-on-holdout). 3. Writes /app/outputs/model.pt with the required keys. And an inference verification harness that loads model.pt exactly as the grader would: build_model, load_state_dict, standardize with feat_mean/std, forward, de-standardize with label_mean/std. But wait , there's a subtlety about label_log. The grader does NOT know about label_log. The spec says: "label_mean, label_std - length-1 tensors used to standardize the target during training and de-standardize the model output at inference. The model's output is mapped back to physical units using these." So the grader computes pred_phys = model_output * label_std + label_mean. There's NO log/exp step at inference on the grader side! So if I train with label_log (predicting standardized log-mass), the grader would de-standardize to get log-mass, not mass , WRONG. So I must NOT use label_log unless I bake exp into... I can't, the grader applies only affine de-standardization. So label_log is OFF the table (the grader only does affine de-standardization). Good thing I'm checking. So all my label_log CV numbers are irrelevant for the final. The non-log config (bs16 jit+rs 0.247) is the one. This also means my inference verification must exactly mirror the grader: pred = model((x - feat_mean)/feat_std) * label_std + label_mean, with NO log. Let me write it that way. Let me also reconsider feat standardization: grader applies (x - feat_mean)/feat_std with my provided length-3 tensors. My training also does this. Good. I must save feat_mean/feat_std as length-3, label_mean/label_std as length-1. Let me confirm exact expected shapes: "feat_mean, feat_std - length-3 tensors", "label_mean, label_std - length-1 tensors". And state_dict mapping. And model consumes [B,2048,3] → [B,1]. Let me write the final trainer (no log) and a verify script. I'll make the trainer save in the exact format. Then I'll run it for several seeds on train, pick best by val (and check public_test), and save. Actually, let me reconsider the data pool for the final model and the selection: - I'll train on train+val (132) to maximize data, then among seeds pick by public_test? Or train on train (100), pick by val (32), then optionally retrain best config on train+val+? Given the grader uses a separate held-out set, more training data is better. But I also want to pick a good seed. Let me do this: - Train N seeds on pooled train+val (132 samples), EMA-final weights (no holdout needed since EMA-final ≈ best). - To select among seeds without a held-out, I'll use public_test (16) as the selector, but to reduce overfitting to it, I'll select by a combined score on val+public_test... but val is in training now. Hmm. Alternative cleaner approach: - Keep val as held-out selector. Train N seeds on train (100). Select best seed by val rel. This gives a model trained on 100 with honest selection on 32. Then ALSO report public_test. - OR train on train+val and select by public_test. The difference: training on 132 vs 100. 32 extra samples (~32% more data) likely helps generalization meaningfully given small data. And selecting by public_test (16) is noisier but okay. Let me do BOTH and compare on the OTHER holdout: - Model A: train on train(100), pick seed by val, check public_test. - Model B: train on train+val(132), pick seed by public_test, check val. Then decide. Actually the honest thing: I'll train seeds on train+val and use public_test only as a light selector (or even just pick the median/a robust seed). But let me also consider averaging predictions is out. Let me reconsider: The safest for generalization to an UNKNOWN held-out set is to (a) use all labeled data (train+val+public_test = 148) for the final fit, and (b) pick a config/seed via CV done beforehand, not via peeking. Since I've established the config via CV, I can …[truncated]

While CV runs, I realize a **critical constraint**: the grader de-standardizes the output with only an affine map (`out*label_std + label_mean`) , there's no log/exp step available at inference. So `label_log` is off the table (it would leave predictions in log-space). That validates focusing on the non-log config (bs16 jit+rs, CV 0.247). Let me write the final trainer and a grader-faithful verification script now.

bash

cd /app/exp && cat > verify.py << 'PY'
# Grader-faithful inference: pred = model((x-feat_mean)/feat_std)*label_std + label_mean
import torch, sys
from pathlib import Path
sys.path.insert(0,'/app')
from candidate_model import build_model
import json
def load_split(d):
    p=torch.load(f'/app/data/{d}/samples.pt',weights_only=True); return p['features'].float(),p['labels'].float()
def metrics(pred,true):
    pred=pred.reshape(-1).double();true=true.reshape(-1).double()
    return ((torch.linalg.norm(pred-true)/torch.linalg.norm(true)).item(),(pred-true).abs().mean().item(),(pred-true).abs().max().item())
def run(path='/app/outputs/model.pt'):
    ck=torch.load(path,weights_only=True)
    cfg=json.load(open('/app/task_config.json'))
    m=build_model(cfg); m.load_state_dict(ck['state_dict']); m.eval()
    fm=ck['feat_mean'].float();fs=ck['feat_std'].float();lm=ck['label_mean'].float();ls=ck['label_std'].float()
    assert fm.numel()==3 and fs.numel()==3 and lm.numel()==1 and ls.numel()==1, 'shape check'
    out={}
    for sp in ['train','val','public_test']:
        X,y=load_split(sp)
        with torch.no_grad():
            p=m((X-fm)/fs)*ls+lm
        assert p.shape==(X.shape[0],1), p.shape
        out[sp]=metrics(p,y)
    return out
if __name__=='__main__':
    import sys
    r=run(sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv)>1 else '/app/outputs/model.pt')
    for k,v in r.items(): print(f'{k:12s} rel={v[0]:.4f} mae={v[1]:.4f} mx={v[2]:.4f}')
PY
echo "verify.py written"; cat cv4.out 2>/dev/null || echo "(cv4 not done yet)"

output

verify.py written

cv4 not done yet. Let me write the final trainer while waiting. The final trainer: train K seeds on a pool, EMA-final weights, evaluate each on a selector split, save best in the required format. Let me build it using core.train_core (final_only=True gives EMA-final state + norms). Let me write train_final.py.

Now the final trainer: train several seeds on a data pool, take EMA-final weights, select by a holdout, and save in the exact required checkpoint format.

bash

cd /app/exp && cat > train_final.py << 'PY'
import core, torch, sys, json, time
from pathlib import Path

def make_pack_ckpt(b):
    return {
        'state_dict': {k: v.cpu() for k,v in b['state'].items()},
        'feat_mean': b['feat_mean'].squeeze().cpu().float(),
        'feat_std':  b['feat_std'].squeeze().cpu().float(),
        'label_mean':b['label_mean'].reshape(1).cpu().float(),
        'label_std': b['label_std'].reshape(1).cpu().float(),
    }

def train_select(pool, selector, seeds, acfg, kw, out_path, extra_report=()):
    feats=[];labels=[]
    for d in pool:
        f,l=core.load_split(d); feats.append(f); labels.append(l)
    X=torch.cat(feats); y=torch.cat(labels)
    Xs,ys=core.load_split(selector)
    results=[]
    t0=time.time()
    for s in seeds:
        kk=dict(kw); kk['final_only']=True
        b=core.train_core(X,y,Xs,ys,acfg,seed=s,**kk)
        # evaluate on selector via grader-path prediction
        pack=make_pack_ckpt(b)
        rel,mae,mx=core.metrics(core.predict(b,Xs),ys)
        rep={d: core.metrics(core.predict(b,core.load_split(d)[0]),core.load_split(d)[1]) for d in extra_report}
        results.append((rel,mae,mx,s,b,rep))
        extra=' '.join(f'{d}={rep[d][0]:.4f}' for d in extra_report)
        print(f'seed{s}: sel[{selector}] rel={rel:.4f} mae={mae:.4f} mx={mx:.4f} | {extra} [{round(time.time()-t0)}s]',flush=True)
    # selection: minimize selector rel, tie-break by mae+mx
    results.sort(key=lambda r:(r[0], r[1]+0.1*r[2]))
    best=results[0]
    print(f'SELECTED seed{best[3]} sel rel={best[0]:.4f}',flush=True)
    Path(out_path).parent.mkdir(parents=True,exist_ok=True)
    torch.save(make_pack_ckpt(best[4]), out_path)
    print('saved',out_path,flush=True)
    return results

if __name__=='__main__':
    acfg={'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}
    kw=dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99,wd=1e-4)
    train_select(('train','val'), 'public_test', list(range(8)), acfg, kw,
                 '/app/outputs/model.pt', extra_report=('val',))
PY
echo "train_final.py written"; sleep 60; cat cv4.out 2>/dev/null

output

train_final.py written

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 180 && cat cv4.out

output

<system>Tool ran without output or errors</system>

cv4.out is empty still? Let me check if the process is running and if there's an error.

bash

cd /app/exp && ps aux | grep "[c]v4.py" | head; echo "---"; cat cv4.out; echo "--- file size ---"; ls -la cv4.out

output

h2tagent   506 97.3 15.8 19704556 4994244 ?    Sl   22:14   4:34 python3 cv4.py
---
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-rw-r--r-- 1 h2tagent h2tagent 0 Jun 20 22:14 cv4.out

cv4 is still running (4:34 elapsed), output empty because the first config (2 seeds × 6 folds) hasn't finished. 2 seeds × 6 folds × 1000 epochs bs16 ≈ 12 × ~27s = 324s for first config. It's been 274s. Let me wait a bit more. Each config ~324s, 3 configs = ~16min total. Let me wait. Meanwhile let me reconsider the plan to ensure I'm efficient. The final trainer uses public_test as selector with 8 seeds. But I'm concerned about selection overfitting to 16 samples. Let me also consider selecting by val, or by val+public combined. Actually, let me reconsider: for the FINAL model, I want to use as much data as possible AND generalize. Let me reconsider whether to include public_test in training. Given the grader's held-out set is separate, and I have only 148 labeled samples, the most robust single model would be trained on as much as possible. But I need a selection signal to combat seed variance. Let me do a two-stage final: Stage 1 (selection): train seeds on train+val (132), eval on public_test (16), identify which SEED and confirm config. Stage 2 (final model): Actually, I'll just ship the best-on-public_test model from stage 1 (trained on 132). But let me ALSO consider shipping a model trained on all 148. Trade-off: +16 samples of data vs losing the public_test check. Given variance, I'd rather keep the validated model. Hmm, but actually if public_test is representative of the held-out set, then a model trained on 132 and selected to be good on public_test's distribution should be good. Including public_test in training (148) would help a bit more but I can't then verify. Let me go with: train on train+val (132), select best of 8 seeds by public_test rel. This is my primary deliverable. I'll verify with verify.py. Let me wait for cv4 to confirm config robustness, then run train_final. Let me wait.

cv4 is still on its first config (~324s each). Let me wait for it to report.

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 200 && cat cv4.out

output

bs16 jit+rs            CV rel=0.2471 mae=0.1500 mx=0.8085  [427s]

bs16 jit+rs with 2 seeds × 6 folds: CV rel=0.2471, mae=0.150, mx=0.808. Consistent with the earlier single-seed 0.247. Good , robust. Let me wait for the other two configs (jit-only, wd3e-4). Actually, this is taking long. Let me let it finish the other two configs in the background while I proceed to also try a potentially better idea to beat 0.247. Let me think about representational improvements again. The max-pool PointNet underperforms ridge (0.207). The ridge uses multi-scale occupancy. Idea: Can I precondition the PointNet to compute occupancy-like features via a smart initialization that training won't destroy? Since training moves weights, a fixed good init helps find a better basin but training (1000 epochs) will adapt. The high seed variance (0.25-0.29) suggests basin/optimization matters. A good init could consistently land in a better basin. Specifically: the first conv layer maps xyz(3) → 64 channels linearly then BN+GELU. If I initialize the 64 filters as random directions/offsets so that after GELU they act like soft half-space indicators tiling space, then subsequent layers + maxpool could form occupancy estimates. But this is speculative and training will change it. Alternative concrete idea that's cheap: **multi-seed selection is my main tool.** With 8+ seeds and selection on a holdout, I can pick a model at the better end of the variance (e.g., 0.22 instead of 0.25). The CV showed single-model OOF ~0.247 averaged, but individual good seeds could be better on a given holdout. Selection exploits this (with some overfitting to the selector). Let me also consider: a longer training (ep1500-2000) with lower final LR might reduce variance and improve. Earlier ep1500 wasn't clearly better but I didn't finish that run. Let me not over-invest. Let me make a decision to converge: - Config: bs16, jit+rs, ep1000, lr2e-3, ema0.99, wd1e-4. Robust CV 0.247. - Train 10-12 seeds on train+val, select by public_test rel (primary), tie-break mae+mx. - Verify and ship. But I also want to try to push below 0.247. Let me try two quick things in the final-selection run by also testing a slightly longer schedule and jitter variants across seeds, then pick the overall best on the selector. Essentially fold hyperparams into the seed search and select on public_test. Risk: overfitting selection to 16 samples. To mitigate, I'll select on val+public_test combined (48 samples) , but val would be in training if I train on train+val. Let me restructure: Train on TRAIN only (100). Select on val+public_test combined (48 samples, neither in training). This gives a cleaner, larger selector (48) and keeps 48 held-out for honest selection. Downside: only 100 training samples (vs 132). Which is better: train on 132 select on 16, or train on 100 select on 48? - More training data (132) likely reduces error by a bit; 32 extra samples is meaningful. - Larger selector (48) reduces selection overfitting. Given variance, a robust selector matters. But I could also do: train on 100, select on val (32), then final retrain best config on 132 (train+val) with the SAME seed, and ship , using public_test (16) as a final sanity check only. This uses 132 for the shipped model, selects config/seed on val (32), and sanity-checks on public_test (16). Seeds: the selected seed on 100-train may not be best on 132-train, but config transfers. This is getting complicated. Let me simplify to a robust, defensible pipeline: FINAL PIPELINE: 1. Train K=12 seeds on train+val (132), EMA-final. 2. For each seed, compute rel on public_test (16). 3. Select seed = argmin public_test rel (tie-break mae+mx). 4. Ship that checkpoint. This is simple and uses 132 for training. public_test selection slightly optimistic but fine. Expected shipped performance ~0.22-0.25 on the true held-out. Actually, to reduce selection variance, let me select by a ROBUST criterion: among the K seeds, rather than pick the single best on 16 samples (overfit risk), pick the one with …[truncated]

Confirmed robust: bs16 jit+rs gives CV rel **0.2471** (2 seeds × 6 folds), matching the single-seed estimate. That's my config. Let me stop the remaining sweep and run the final multi-seed training on train+val, selecting by public_test. I'll train 12 seeds (background) and also record each model's val/public numbers so I can sanity-check the selection.

bash

cd /app/exp && pkill -f cv4.py; sleep 2
sed -i "s/list(range(8))/list(range(12))/" train_final.py
sed -i "s/extra_report=('val',))/extra_report=('val','train'))/" train_final.py
nohup python3 train_final.py > final.out 2>&1 &
echo "pid $!"

output

pid 568
[stderr]
[4]+  Terminated              nohup python3 cv4.py > cv4.out 2>&1

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 200 && cat final.out

output

seed0: sel[public_test] rel=0.3240 mae=0.1970 mx=0.7803 | val=0.0125 train=0.0118 [44s]
seed1: sel[public_test] rel=0.3472 mae=0.2102 mx=0.7549 | val=0.0113 train=0.0107 [84s]
seed2: sel[public_test] rel=0.3403 mae=0.2044 mx=0.6794 | val=0.0109 train=0.0101 [124s]
seed3: sel[public_test] rel=0.3260 mae=0.1956 mx=0.7490 | val=0.0111 train=0.0111 [162s]

Whoa, something is off. When training on train+val (132) and evaluating: - val rel = 0.0125?? train rel = 0.0118?? Those are near-perfect because val is now IN the training set (train+val pool) , so val and train are both training data → memorized (rel ~0.01). - public_test rel = 0.32-0.35 , much worse than the CV estimate of 0.247! Wait, public_test rel 0.32 is worse than CV 0.247. Why? In CV, the held-out fold came from the train+val pool (same distribution). public_test might be a slightly harder/shifted set. Recall earlier: ridge also did worse on public_test (0.31) than CV (0.21). And the PointNet earlier got public_test ~0.31-0.39. So public_test is systematically ~0.1 worse in rel than in-distribution CV. This suggests public_test is a bit out-of-distribution or just a hard small sample. This is important: the real held-out set might behave like public_test (harder) or like CV (easier). Given public_test and the held-out are both "held-out" by the task authors, the held-out might be similarly hard. So realistic expectation ~0.30 rel on the true test, not 0.247. Also note train rel ~0.01 , severe overfitting/memorization. The model memorizes the 132 training points (rel 0.01) but generalizes to public_test at 0.32. Huge generalization gap. This means the model is heavily overfitting. The EMA-final still memorizes training. Wait, but in CV the held-out fold got 0.247. And here public_test gets 0.32. The difference between CV-holdout (0.247) and public_test (0.32) is the domain gap. Memorization of training (0.01) is expected for held-out estimate we use CV/public_test. Hmm, the severe overfit (train 0.01) concerns me , maybe stronger regularization would help generalization. The earlier CV used the SAME config and got 0.247 on held-out folds. So despite train memorization, held-out ~0.247. The public_test being 0.32 is a distribution thing. So: to do well on public_test (and presumably the true held-out), I need to either (a) reduce the domain gap or (b) accept ~0.30. Let me reconsider: is public_test really harder, or is my selection/normalization off? Let me look at public_test more. Earlier analysis: public_test label range 0.198-1.449, train 0.208-2.219, val 0.294-2.072. So public_test has NO heavy brackets (max 1.449) but has the lightest (0.198). The mass distribution differs: public_test is lighter on average? Earlier: public_test mean 0.73 vs train 0.75. Similar mean. But max differs. The model underpredicts heavy and overpredicts light (regression to mean). public_test has a very light bracket (0.198) which gets overpredicted, and medium ones underpredicted. The rel_l2 denominator ||true|| is smaller for public_test (lighter), making rel larger for similar absolute errors. Let me check: public_test ||y|| vs its errors. Actually rel = ||err||/||true||. public_test true values are smaller (no 2.2 kg), so ||true|| smaller → rel larger even for same abs error. That partly explains higher rel on public_test. MAE is more comparable: public_test mae ~0.197 vs CV mae ~0.150. So public_test really does have higher absolute errors too. Anyway. I should pick the approach that generalizes best. Let me reconsider reducing overfitting since train rel 0.01 is extreme. Stronger augmentation / weight decay / fewer epochs might generalize better to the (harder) held-out. But my CV (on train+val folds) said more epochs/bs16 was fine (0.247). The CV doesn't capture the domain gap to public_test. If the true held-out is like public_test, I should optimize for public_test-like generalization, which my CV can't measure. This is a dilemma: optimize for in-distribution CV (0.247) or for public_test (0.32, possibly representative of true held-out). Given the task says predictions are compared on a "held-out set of bracket geometries", and public_test is explicitly named "public_test" (suggesting it's a representative public portion of the test), I should weight public_test heavily as my proxy for the true held-out. So I s …[truncated]

I see two important things: (1) training on train+val makes val useless as a selector (it's memorized, rel~0.01), and (2) **public_test is systematically harder (~0.32) than in-distribution CV (0.247)** , partly because it has lighter brackets (smaller `||true||` inflates rel L2) and the model regresses toward the mean. Since "public_test" is likely the best proxy for the true held-out set, I should treat val and public_test as genuine held-out. Let me retrain on `train` only (100), using val (32) as an honest selector and public_test (16) as a secondary check.

bash

cd /app/exp && pkill -f train_final.py; sleep 2
python3 - << 'PY'
s=open('train_final.py').read()
s=s.replace("train_select(('train','val'), 'public_test', list(range(12)), acfg, kw,\n                 '/app/outputs/model.pt', extra_report=('val','train'))",
            "train_select(('train',), 'val', list(range(12)), acfg, kw,\n                 '/app/outputs/model_trainonly.pt', extra_report=('public_test',))")
open('train_final.py','w').write(s); print('ok')
PY
nohup python3 train_final.py > final2.out 2>&1 &
echo "pid $!"

output

ok
pid 593
[stderr]
[4]+  Terminated              nohup python3 train_final.py > final.out 2>&1

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 240 && cat final2.out

output

seed0: sel[val] rel=0.2101 mae=0.1347 mx=0.5010 | public_test=0.3138 [36s]
seed1: sel[val] rel=0.2256 mae=0.1433 mx=0.4627 | public_test=0.3109 [68s]
seed2: sel[val] rel=0.1868 mae=0.1209 mx=0.4534 | public_test=0.3250 [101s]
seed3: sel[val] rel=0.2433 mae=0.1550 mx=0.5765 | public_test=0.3461 [132s]
seed4: sel[val] rel=0.2336 mae=0.1529 mx=0.4751 | public_test=0.3288 [165s]
seed5: sel[val] rel=0.2053 mae=0.1313 mx=0.4516 | public_test=0.3108 [197s]
seed6: sel[val] rel=0.2104 mae=0.1217 mx=0.5279 | public_test=0.3268 [230s]

Training on 100, EMA-final: - val rel ranges 0.187-0.243, public_test 0.31-0.35. - The val and public_test are somewhat anti-correlated across seeds? seed2 best val (0.187) but worst-ish public (0.325). seed5 val 0.205, public 0.311 (good on both). So selecting by val doesn't guarantee good public_test. The public_test is stubbornly ~0.31-0.35 regardless. This strongly suggests public_test has a domain gap / the model can't do better than ~0.31 on it with this approach. The fundamental issue: public_test rel ~0.31 is a wall. Let me understand WHY. Let me look at public_test predictions vs true in detail for a trained model, and compare the error structure. Is it a scale/bias issue (systematic), which I could correct via calibration? If predictions are systematically off by a scale factor, I could fold a correction into label_mean/label_std (affine)! That's allowed , label_mean/std are mine to set. A global affine calibration (scale+shift) on the output could reduce systematic bias. Let me check: on public_test, is there a systematic slope/bias? Earlier per-sample: model underpredicts heavy, overpredicts light → slope <1 (regression to mean). A linear recalibration pred' = a*pred + b with a>1 could expand predictions toward extremes and reduce error IF the same slope deficiency exists on the true held-out. But fitting a,b on public_test overfits to 16 samples. However, the regression-to-mean slope is a general property; estimating it on val+train could give a robust a>1. Actually, a cleaner fix for regression-to-mean: it arises from MSE + limited capacity/regularization shrinking predictions. A known correction: "variance matching" / calibration. But let me first quantify by fitting pred vs true on val. Let me also reconsider: maybe the model's predictions have a compressed range. Let me measure std(pred)/std(true) on val and public_test. Let me wait for final2 to finish (5 more seeds, ~160s) then analyze calibration. Actually let me analyze now with an already-saved model? None saved yet (train_final saves at end). Let me just wait for it to finish and save model_trainonly.pt, then analyze. Let me wait.

public_test sits stubbornly at ~0.31 regardless of seed, while val varies 0.19–0.24 , a real domain gap. The error pattern (under-predict heavy, over-predict light) is classic regression-toward-the-mean, i.e., a **compressed prediction range**. That's correctable with an affine calibration , and crucially, `label_mean`/`label_std` are mine to set, so I can fold a variance-matching correction into them at no architectural cost. Let me wait for this run to finish, then quantify the calibration slope.

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 200 && cat final2.out

output

seed0: sel[val] rel=0.2101 mae=0.1347 mx=0.5010 | public_test=0.3138 [36s]
seed1: sel[val] rel=0.2256 mae=0.1433 mx=0.4627 | public_test=0.3109 [68s]
seed2: sel[val] rel=0.1868 mae=0.1209 mx=0.4534 | public_test=0.3250 [101s]
seed3: sel[val] rel=0.2433 mae=0.1550 mx=0.5765 | public_test=0.3461 [132s]
seed4: sel[val] rel=0.2336 mae=0.1529 mx=0.4751 | public_test=0.3288 [165s]
seed5: sel[val] rel=0.2053 mae=0.1313 mx=0.4516 | public_test=0.3108 [197s]
seed6: sel[val] rel=0.2104 mae=0.1217 mx=0.5279 | public_test=0.3268 [230s]
seed7: sel[val] rel=0.2046 mae=0.1266 mx=0.4375 | public_test=0.3483 [258s]
seed8: sel[val] rel=0.2115 mae=0.1347 mx=0.5033 | public_test=0.3719 [287s]
seed9: sel[val] rel=0.2056 mae=0.1307 mx=0.5519 | public_test=0.3144 [316s]
seed10: sel[val] rel=0.1936 mae=0.1289 mx=0.3942 | public_test=0.3392 [359s]
seed11: sel[val] rel=0.2165 mae=0.1478 mx=0.4355 | public_test=0.3544 [398s]
SELECTED seed2 sel rel=0.1868
saved /app/outputs/model_trainonly.pt

Now let me analyze the calibration. Let me load model_trainonly.pt (seed2) and a couple others, and examine pred vs true on train/val/public_test. Compute the best-fit slope (std ratio) and the effect of calibration. Let me write an analysis that, for a given model, fits a linear recalibration a*pred+b using TRAIN predictions (in-sample, to estimate the regression-to-mean slope) and applies it to val/public_test to see improvement. Also try fitting on val. Actually, the regression-to-mean slope is best estimated where we have labels: train (100). If the model underfits heavy on train too, the slope estimate from train will reflect it. But train is memorized here (rel 0.01)! Wait, no , for models trained on 100, train rel was not shown here. Let me check: earlier (train+val run) train rel was 0.01. So on TRAIN, the model memorizes → no regression to mean on train. So I can't estimate the slope from train. I must estimate from a held-out set (val). So: fit calibration a,b on val (32 samples), apply to public_test (16). See if it helps. But this uses val for calibration , val was used for seed selection. Fitting 2 params on 32 samples is okay-ish. Then public_test is a clean test of the calibration. Let me also consider: variance matching a = std(true)/std(pred) on val, b = mean(true) - a*mean(pred). This is a principled de-shrinkage. Let me analyze.

Now let me quantify the regression-to-mean (range compression) and test whether an affine recalibration , estimated on held-out val and applied to public_test , reduces error. This correction can be folded into `label_mean`/`label_std` for free.

bash

cd /app/exp && python3 -c "
import torch, core, numpy as np
from candidate_model import build_model
ck=torch.load('/app/outputs/model_trainonly.pt',weights_only=True)
m=build_model(core.get_cfg()); m.load_state_dict(ck['state_dict']); m.eval()
fm=ck['feat_mean'];fs=ck['feat_std'];lm=ck['label_mean'];ls=ck['label_std']
def pred(sp):
    X,y=core.load_split(sp)
    with torch.no_grad(): p=m((X-fm)/fs)*ls+lm
    return p.reshape(-1).numpy(), y.reshape(-1).numpy()
for sp in ['train','val','public_test']:
    p,y=pred(sp)
    print(f'{sp:11s} std(pred)/std(true)={p.std()/y.std():.3f} mean(pred)={p.mean():.3f} mean(true)={y.mean():.3f} rel={np.linalg.norm(p-y)/np.linalg.norm(y):.4f}')
# fit affine calib on val (variance matching + mean), apply to public_test
pv,yv=pred('val'); pt,yt=pred('public_test')
a=yv.std()/pv.std(); b=yv.mean()-a*pv.mean()
def rel(p,y): return np.linalg.norm(p-y)/np.linalg.norm(y)
def mae(p,y): return np.abs(p-y).mean()
def mx(p,y): return np.abs(p-y).max()
print('--- variance-match calib (fit on val) a=%.3f b=%.3f ---'%(a,b))
for sp,(p,y) in [('val',(pv,yv)),('public_test',(pt,yt))]:
    pc=a*p+b
    print(f'{sp:11s} before rel={rel(p,y):.4f} mae={mae(p,y):.4f} mx={mx(p,y):.4f} | after rel={rel(pc,y):.4f} mae={mae(pc,y):.4f} mx={mx(pc,y):.4f}')
# least-squares calib on val
A=np.polyfit(pv,yv,1); a2,b2=A
print('--- LS calib (fit on val) a=%.3f b=%.3f ---'%(a2,b2))
for sp,(p,y) in [('public_test',(pt,yt))]:
    pc=a2*p+b2
    print(f'{sp:11s} after rel={rel(pc,y):.4f} mae={mae(pc,y):.4f} mx={mx(pc,y):.4f}')
"

output

train       std(pred)/std(true)=1.015 mean(pred)=0.749 mean(true)=0.748 rel=0.0102
val         std(pred)/std(true)=0.902 mean(pred)=0.825 mean(true)=0.762 rel=0.1868
public_test std(pred)/std(true)=0.855 mean(pred)=0.724 mean(true)=0.730 rel=0.3249
--- variance-match calib (fit on val) a=1.108 b=-0.153 ---
val         before rel=0.1868 mae=0.1209 mx=0.4533 | after rel=0.1744 mae=0.1171 mx=0.4141
public_test before rel=0.3249 mae=0.1960 mx=0.7677 | after rel=0.3520 mae=0.2119 mx=0.7630
--- LS calib (fit on val) a=1.032 b=-0.090 ---
public_test after rel=0.3406 mae=0.2052 mx=0.7219

Interesting. On val, std(pred)/std(true)=0.90, and calibration helps val (0.187→0.174). But on public_test the same calibration HURTS (0.325→0.352). Because public_test already has mean(pred)≈mean(true) and the val-derived shift b=-0.153 pushes public_test predictions down wrongly (val had mean(pred)=0.825 > mean(true)=0.762, a positive bias on val, but public_test has no such bias). So the bias is not consistent between val and public_test , calibration fit on val doesn't transfer. So global affine calibration is NOT robust here. The shrinkage slope (0.85-0.90) is mild and the bias differs by set. So calibration won't reliably help. The core issue is just model accuracy + domain variation. public_test at 0.32 seems to be a genuine difficulty. Let me reconsider the whole problem. The public_test rel ~0.32 with mae ~0.20. Note public_test has true values 0.198-1.449. The rel_l2 denominator ||true|| over 16 samples. Let me compute what a "good" model could get. The mae 0.196 on mean-true 0.73 = 27% , that's high. Let me reconsider if there's label or input subtlety I'm missing that inflates public_test error. Let me check: are public_test point clouds in the same coordinate convention? Earlier per-axis ranges: public_test x [-0.309,0.309], y [-0.5,0.5], z [-0.187,0.186]. Similar to train. So same convention. Fine. Let me reconsider the possibility that public_test is just a hard 16-sample draw and the TRUE held-out might be closer to CV (0.247). In that case, optimizing for robust in-distribution performance (CV ~0.24) is the right call, and public_test 0.32 is pessimistic. Given uncertainty, the best strategy is a model that's as accurate and robust as possible in-distribution, which CV measures (0.247). I've been selecting seeds on val (in-distribution held-out, 32 samples) which is reasonable. seed2 got val 0.187, public 0.325. But selection on val (32) gave seed2 which is WORST on public (0.325). That's bad luck / anti-correlation. A more robust selection: pick a seed good on BOTH val and public_test (like seed5: val 0.205, public 0.311; or seed9: val 0.206, public 0.314; or seed0: val 0.210, public 0.314). These are robust across both holdouts. Selecting on val+public_test combined (48 samples) would pick a seed that generalizes to both → more robust for the true held-out. Let me reconsider: I should ship a model trained on as much data as possible and selected robustly. Let me train on train+val+public_test? No selector then. Let me think about what gives the best EXPECTED performance on the unknown held-out: - The held-out is drawn from the same pool as train/val/public_test (SimJEB brackets). - My honest CV over train+val (0.247) is the best estimator of in-distribution held-out performance. - public_test (0.32) suggests some draws are harder. - The true held-out performance is probably between, ~0.25-0.32. To maximize expected performance: 1. Use ALL available labeled data (train+val+public_test = 148) for the final model → best generalization. 2. Select config via CV (done: jit+rs bs16 ep1000). 3. For seed selection without a holdout: train several seeds on all 148, and pick via internal CV-like criterion. Since no holdout, I could pick the seed closest to the average prediction (most "central"/robust), or just train with multiple seeds and... can't ensemble. Hmm, picking a seed when training on all 148 is hard without a holdout. Alternative: Use K-fold to generate the model. Actually, here's a clean robust approach that USES all data and reduces variance: - Since I can't ensemble weights, ship the SINGLE best-CV config model trained on the largest data with a holdout-selected seed. Let me go with: Train on train+val (132). Select seed by public_test (16). This uses 132 for training and an honest-ish selector. The earlier final.out run did exactly this for seeds 0-3 (public 0.32-0.35) before I killed it. Let me run the full 12 seeds for train+val → public_test selection, and pick the best. The selecte …[truncated]

The affine calibration doesn't transfer (val has a +bias, public_test doesn't), so it's not robust , I'll drop it. The deeper issue is the train→holdout overfit gap (train rel 0.01 vs holdout 0.25), so **augmentation strength is my main generalization lever**. Let me run a CV sweep on augmentation strength, using a pool of all 148 labeled samples so the estimate reflects the public_test-like distribution too.

bash

cd /app/exp && python3 - << 'PY'
s=open('core.py').read()
s=s.replace("def pooled():\n    Xt,yt=load_split('train'); Xv,yv=load_split('val')\n    return torch.cat([Xt,Xv]),torch.cat([yt,yv])",
"""def pooled(splits=('train','val')):
    fs=[];ls=[]
    for d in splits:
        f,l=load_split(d); fs.append(f); ls.append(l)
    return torch.cat(fs),torch.cat(ls)""")
s=s.replace("def kfold_eval(acfg, k=6, seeds=(0,), config=None, verbose=False, val_sel=True):\n    config=config or {}\n    X,y=pooled(); N=X.shape[0]",
            "def kfold_eval(acfg, k=6, seeds=(0,), config=None, verbose=False, pool_splits=('train','val')):\n    config=config or {}\n    X,y=pooled(pool_splits); N=X.shape[0]")
open('core.py','w').write(s); print('patched')
PY
cd /app/exp && python3 -c "import core; print('ok', core.pooled(('train','val','public_test'))[0].shape)"
cat > cv5.py << 'PY'
import core, time
t0=time.time()
POOL=('train','val','public_test')
configs={
 'jit.01+rs':        ({'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}, {}),
 'jit.02+rs':        ({'jitter':0.02,'resample':True}, {}),
 'jit.03+rs':        ({'jitter':0.03,'resample':True}, {}),
 'jit.02+rs+aniso':  ({'jitter':0.02,'resample':True,'aniso':0.07}, {}),
 'jit.02+rs+drop':   ({'jitter':0.02,'resample':True,'drop':0.2}, {}),
}
base=dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99,final_only=True)
for name,(acfg,extra) in configs.items():
    kw=dict(base); kw.update(extra)
    rel,mae,mx,oof,y=core.kfold_eval(acfg,k=5,seeds=(0,1),config=kw,pool_splits=POOL)
    print(f'{name:18s} CV148 rel={rel:.4f} mae={mae:.4f} mx={mx:.4f}  [{round(time.time()-t0)}s]',flush=True)
print('done',flush=True)
PY
nohup python3 cv5.py > cv5.out 2>&1 &
echo "pid $!"

output

patched
ok torch.Size([148, 2048, 3])
pid 641

Now let me wait. 5 configs × 2 seeds × 5 folds × 1000 epochs on ~118 samples. Each fold train ~118 samples bs16 ep1000. ~25s/fold × 10 (2 seeds×5 folds) = 250s/config × 5 = 1250s (~21 min). That's long. Let me poll periodically. Meanwhile, let me think about distillation as a parallel idea but avoid running on GPU simultaneously (would slow cv5). Let me wait ~280s and check progress.

The augmentation CV (pool of all 148) is running. This will take a while; let me poll periodically.

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 290 && cat cv5.out

output

<system>Tool ran without output or errors</system>

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 120 && cat cv5.out; echo "--- running? ---"; ps aux | grep "[c]v5" | wc -l

output

--- running? ---
1

Still no output after ~410s. Each config (2 seeds × 5 folds = 10 trainings) takes longer than I estimated. 410s and not even the first config done → ~40s per training. 10 trainings = 400s per config. 5 configs = 2000s (~33 min). That's too long to keep polling efficiently. Let me reduce scope. Let me kill and run with fewer seeds (1) and k=5, which halves time: ~200s per config. Still 1000s for 5 configs. Let me instead run just the most important comparison: jit.01 vs jit.02 vs jit.02+aniso, 1 seed, k=5. ~600s. Actually, let me reconsider time spent. I have a working model already (model_trainonly.pt, val 0.187, public 0.325). Let me make sure I have a valid deliverable NOW, then continue improving. Let me copy the selected train-only model to /app/outputs/model.pt and verify it loads via the grader path. That secures a baseline deliverable. Then continue experiments to improve. Let me do that first.

This is slower than estimated (~40s/training). Let me first secure a valid deliverable at `/app/outputs/model.pt` from the model I already have, verify it through the grader-faithful path, then continue improving.

bash

cd /app/exp && cp /app/outputs/model_trainonly.pt /app/outputs/model.pt && python3 verify.py /app/outputs/model.pt && echo "--- keys/shapes ---" && python3 -c "
import torch
ck=torch.load('/app/outputs/model.pt',weights_only=True)
print('keys:', list(ck.keys()))
for k in ['feat_mean','feat_std','label_mean','label_std']:
    print(k, tuple(ck[k].shape), ck[k].dtype)
print('n state_dict tensors:', len(ck['state_dict']))
"

output

train        rel=0.0102 mae=0.0058 mx=0.0361
val          rel=0.1868 mae=0.1209 mx=0.4533
public_test  rel=0.3249 mae=0.1960 mx=0.7677
--- keys/shapes ---
keys: ['state_dict', 'feat_mean', 'feat_std', 'label_mean', 'label_std']
feat_mean (3,) torch.float32
feat_std (3,) torch.float32
label_mean (1,) torch.float32
label_std (1,) torch.float32
n state_dict tensors: 41

Good , I have a valid deliverable at /app/outputs/model.pt that loads correctly via the grader path (val 0.187, public_test 0.325). Keys and shapes are correct. But seed2 was the WORST on public_test (0.325). That's a bad selection for robustness. Let me reconsider selection: I should pick a seed robust across val AND public_test. From final2.out, seed5 (val 0.205, public 0.311) and seed0 (val 0.210, public 0.314) and seed9 (val 0.206, public 0.314) are robust. seed2 overfit to val. Let me reconsider the selection criterion: selecting purely on val (32) picked an outlier bad on public. A better criterion uses both. But for the TRUE held-out, I want robustness. Let me re-select among the 12 seeds using val+public_test combined rel (treating both as held-out validation). That's legitimate since the grader's set is separate. But those 12 models were trained on train-only (100). To use both val and public as selector, neither should be in training , correct, they were trained on train only. So I can select by combined val+public rel. But I didn't save all 12 models. Let me modify: I'll retrain and save all seeds' packs, then select by combined criterion. Or better, let me reconsider the entire final strategy now that cv5 is too slow. Let me kill cv5 (too slow) and make a decisive final plan: FINAL PLAN: 1. Train K=16 seeds on train (100). Save each model's predictions on val and public_test. 2. Select the seed minimizing a robust combined criterion: rel on (val ∪ public_test) = 48 samples. This is honest (neither in training) and robust. 3. Ship that model. This uses 100 training samples and 48 held-out for selection. The model generalizes to both val and public distributions. Alternatively, to use more data: train on train+val+public? No holdout. I'll go with train-on-100, select-on-48. Let me also reconsider: should I reduce overfitting via stronger augmentation? Let me quickly get the cv5 partial insight , but it's not done. Let me just pick jitter 0.02 (slightly stronger than 0.01) as a mild generalization boost, OR keep 0.01. Without CV data, I'll keep 0.01 (proven, CV 0.247) but maybe bump to 0.015. Actually, let me not guess , let me run a FAST comparison of jitter 0.01 vs 0.02 using the train→(val+public) holdout directly (not k-fold), across several seeds. This directly measures what I care about (generalization to val+public) and is fast (no k-fold). Let me kill cv5 and run a direct experiment: for jitter in {0.01, 0.02} and maybe +aniso, train 6 seeds on train(100), measure val, public_test, and combined. This tells me aug strength effect on the actual holdouts. Fast: 2-3 configs × 6 seeds × ~35s = ~630s. Background + poll. Actually, let me be even more efficient and directly produce the final selection while gathering this data. Let me write a script that: - For each (aug config, seed), trains on train(100), records val & public & combined rel/mae/mx, and stores the pack. - At the end, selects the pack with best combined rel (tie-break combined mae + 0.1*combined mx). - Saves to model.pt. Configs: jit0.01+rs, jit0.02+rs. Seeds 0-9 (10 each) = 20 trainings ~ 700s. Let me run in background and poll. I'll select from all 20. This gives a robust, well-selected final model using 48-sample held-out selection. Let me do it. Let me kill cv5 first.

Secured a valid baseline deliverable (loads correctly, val 0.187 / public 0.325). But selecting purely on val (32) picked seed2, which is actually the *worst* on public_test , a fragile choice. I'll re-select using a **larger, robust held-out (val ∪ public_test = 48 samples)**, and simultaneously compare jitter strength. Let me stop the slow k-fold sweep and run this more direct, decision-relevant experiment.

bash

cd /app/exp && pkill -f cv5.py; sleep 2
cat > final3.py << 'PY'
import core, torch, time
from pathlib import Path
t0=time.time()
Xtr,ytr=core.load_split('train')
Xv,yv=core.load_split('val'); Xp,yp=core.load_split('public_test')
Xsel=torch.cat([Xv,Xp]); ysel=torch.cat([yv,yp])   # 48-sample held-out selector
def ev(b,X,y): return core.metrics(core.predict(b,X),y)
def pack_ckpt(b):
    return {'state_dict':{k:v.cpu() for k,v in b['state'].items()},
            'feat_mean':b['feat_mean'].squeeze().cpu().float(),'feat_std':b['feat_std'].squeeze().cpu().float(),
            'label_mean':b['label_mean'].reshape(1).cpu().float(),'label_std':b['label_std'].reshape(1).cpu().float()}
cfgs={'jit.01+rs':{'jitter':0.01,'resample':True},
      'jit.02+rs':{'jitter':0.02,'resample':True}}
base=dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99,final_only=True)
cands=[]
for cname,acfg in cfgs.items():
    for s in range(10):
        b=core.train_core(Xtr,ytr,Xsel,ysel,acfg,seed=s,**base)
        rv=ev(b,Xv,yv); rp=ev(b,Xp,yp); rs=ev(b,Xsel,ysel)
        cands.append((rs,rv,rp,cname,s,pack_ckpt(b)))
        print(f'{cname} s{s}: sel48 rel={rs[0]:.4f} mae={rs[1]:.4f} mx={rs[2]:.4f} | val={rv[0]:.4f} pub={rp[0]:.4f} [{round(time.time()-t0)}s]',flush=True)
# robust selection: minimize sel48 rel, tie-break sel48 (mae + 0.1*mx)
cands.sort(key=lambda c:(c[0][0], c[0][1]+0.1*c[0][2]))
best=cands[0]
print('SELECTED',best[3],'seed',best[4],'sel48 rel=%.4f val=%.4f pub=%.4f'%(best[0][0],best[1][0],best[2][0]),flush=True)
torch.save(best[5],'/app/outputs/model_sel48.pt')
print('saved /app/outputs/model_sel48.pt',flush=True)
# also print top-5 for inspection
print('--- top5 by sel48 rel ---',flush=True)
for c in cands[:5]:
    print(f'  {c[3]} s{c[4]} sel48={c[0][0]:.4f} val={c[1][0]:.4f} pub={c[2][0]:.4f}',flush=True)
PY
nohup python3 final3.py > final3.out 2>&1 &
echo "pid $!"

output

pid 692
[stderr]
[5]+  Terminated              nohup python3 cv5.py > cv5.out 2>&1

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 280 && cat final3.out

output

jit.01+rs s0: sel48 rel=0.2456 mae=0.1489 mx=0.7871 | val=0.2101 pub=0.3138 [37s]
jit.01+rs s1: sel48 rel=0.2540 mae=0.1591 mx=0.7476 | val=0.2256 pub=0.3109 [70s]
jit.01+rs s2: sel48 rel=0.2366 mae=0.1460 mx=0.7677 | val=0.1868 pub=0.3250 [103s]
jit.01+rs s3: sel48 rel=0.2780 mae=0.1683 mx=0.8978 | val=0.2433 pub=0.3461 [136s]
jit.01+rs s4: sel48 rel=0.2656 mae=0.1658 mx=0.8359 | val=0.2336 pub=0.3288 [168s]
jit.01+rs s5: sel48 rel=0.2416 mae=0.1528 mx=0.6823 | val=0.2053 pub=0.3108 [200s]
jit.01+rs s6: sel48 rel=0.2508 mae=0.1433 mx=0.8369 | val=0.2104 pub=0.3268 [233s]
jit.01+rs s7: sel48 rel=0.2560 mae=0.1562 mx=0.8287 | val=0.2046 pub=0.3483 [265s]

The sel48 rel ranges 0.236-0.278 for jit0.01. The max error (mx) on sel48 is 0.68-0.90 , large. seed5 has the lowest mx (0.682) and good rel (0.242). seed2 lowest rel (0.237) but high mx (0.768). Let me wait for the jit0.02 results and the final selection. The max error is concerning for the worst-case metric. Let me think about what drives the max error , likely the heaviest bracket in val (2.07 kg) being underpredicted. On the 48-set, the max error ~0.68-0.90. Since val has a 2.07 kg sample and public has max 1.45, the worst error is probably on val's heavy sample. I can't easily fix the single worst case without better modeling of heavy brackets. Ensembling would reduce it but I can't ship an ensemble. Let me wait for the rest.

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 260 && cat final3.out

output

jit.01+rs s0: sel48 rel=0.2456 mae=0.1489 mx=0.7871 | val=0.2101 pub=0.3138 [37s]
jit.01+rs s1: sel48 rel=0.2540 mae=0.1591 mx=0.7476 | val=0.2256 pub=0.3109 [70s]
jit.01+rs s2: sel48 rel=0.2366 mae=0.1460 mx=0.7677 | val=0.1868 pub=0.3250 [103s]
jit.01+rs s3: sel48 rel=0.2780 mae=0.1683 mx=0.8978 | val=0.2433 pub=0.3461 [136s]
jit.01+rs s4: sel48 rel=0.2656 mae=0.1658 mx=0.8359 | val=0.2336 pub=0.3288 [168s]
jit.01+rs s5: sel48 rel=0.2416 mae=0.1528 mx=0.6823 | val=0.2053 pub=0.3108 [200s]
jit.01+rs s6: sel48 rel=0.2508 mae=0.1433 mx=0.8369 | val=0.2104 pub=0.3268 [233s]
jit.01+rs s7: sel48 rel=0.2560 mae=0.1562 mx=0.8287 | val=0.2046 pub=0.3483 [265s]
jit.01+rs s8: sel48 rel=0.2695 mae=0.1655 mx=0.9222 | val=0.2115 pub=0.3719 [298s]
jit.01+rs s9: sel48 rel=0.2431 mae=0.1474 mx=0.7852 | val=0.2056 pub=0.3144 [330s]
jit.02+rs s0: sel48 rel=0.2548 mae=0.1562 mx=0.8739 | val=0.1715 pub=0.3854 [363s]
jit.02+rs s1: sel48 rel=0.2455 mae=0.1571 mx=0.7930 | val=0.2050 pub=0.3213 [396s]
jit.02+rs s2: sel48 rel=0.2456 mae=0.1574 mx=0.7511 | val=0.1995 pub=0.3298 [432s]
jit.02+rs s3: sel48 rel=0.2571 mae=0.1524 mx=0.8566 | val=0.1996 pub=0.3576 [471s]
jit.02+rs s4: sel48 rel=0.2590 mae=0.1557 mx=0.8591 | val=0.2069 pub=0.3526 [509s]

jit0.02 isn't clearly better than jit0.01 on sel48. Both ~0.24-0.27. Let me wait for the final selection. Observations: - jit0.01 seed5: sel48 0.2416, val 0.205, pub 0.311, mx 0.682 (lowest mx!). Very robust. - jit0.01 seed2: sel48 0.2366 (lowest rel), val 0.187, pub 0.325, mx 0.768. - jit0.01 seed9: sel48 0.2431, val 0.206, pub 0.314, mx 0.785. The selection will pick lowest sel48 rel (seed2 jit0.01, 0.2366) unless a jit0.02 beats it. seed2's public is 0.325 though. seed5 is more balanced (pub 0.311, lowest mx). Given the three metrics (rel primary, mae, max), seed5 (jit0.01) looks like the best all-rounder: rel 0.242, mae 0.153, mx 0.682. But my selection sorts by rel first. seed2 has rel 0.237 but mx 0.768. For the worst-case metric, seed5's mx 0.682 is notably better. Since the task says "A strong model needs to do well on all three," I should weight max error. Let me reconsider the selection criterion to balance all three. Let me change selection to a combined normalized score: rel + mae/mean_true + mx/max_true, or rank-based. Actually, let me select by a weighted sum that reflects all three. But the metrics have different scales. A reasonable combined objective: sel48 rel (primary) with a penalty on mx. Or pick the model on the Pareto frontier that's balanced. Let me just compute, after all runs, a combined score = rel_rank + mae_rank + mx_rank (sum of ranks across candidates) and pick the min. That balances all three equally. Let me wait for completion then re-select with rank-based criterion from the printed data (I can parse it or recompute). Actually final3.py already saved model_sel48.pt by rel-only. Let me re-select manually using the printed numbers with a rank-based criterion. Let me wait for the final lines.

Neither jitter level dominates (both ~0.24–0.27 on the 48-sample selector). The worst-case error (mx) varies notably, and the task weights all three metrics , so I should select on a balanced criterion, not rel alone. Let me get the final lines, then re-select using a rank-based score across all three metrics.

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 150 && tail -n 12 final3.out

output

jit.02+rs s6: sel48 rel=0.2508 mae=0.1442 mx=0.8208 | val=0.2154 pub=0.3192 [586s]
jit.02+rs s7: sel48 rel=0.2548 mae=0.1624 mx=0.8064 | val=0.2088 pub=0.3394 [625s]
jit.02+rs s8: sel48 rel=0.2745 mae=0.1678 mx=0.8941 | val=0.2299 pub=0.3582 [663s]
jit.02+rs s9: sel48 rel=0.2390 mae=0.1483 mx=0.6754 | val=0.2028 pub=0.3080 [703s]
SELECTED jit.01+rs seed 2 sel48 rel=0.2366 val=0.1868 pub=0.3250
saved /app/outputs/model_sel48.pt
--- top5 by sel48 rel ---
  jit.01+rs s2 sel48=0.2366 val=0.1868 pub=0.3250
  jit.02+rs s9 sel48=0.2390 val=0.2028 pub=0.3080
  jit.01+rs s5 sel48=0.2416 val=0.2053 pub=0.3108
  jit.01+rs s9 sel48=0.2431 val=0.2056 pub=0.3144
  jit.02+rs s1 sel48=0.2455 val=0.2050 pub=0.3213

Now I have 20 candidates. Let me re-select using a balanced rank-based criterion across the three metrics on sel48. Let me parse final3.out and compute ranks. Notable balanced candidates: - jit.02+rs s9: sel48 rel=0.2390, mae=0.1483, mx=0.6754 (lowest mx!), val=0.2028, pub=0.3080 (lowest pub!). This looks like the BEST all-rounder: low rel, low mae, lowest mx, lowest public. - jit.01+rs s5: rel=0.2416, mae=0.1528, mx=0.6823, pub=0.3108. Also great. - jit.01+rs s2: rel=0.2366 (lowest), mae=0.1460, mx=0.7677, pub=0.3250. jit.02+rs s9 dominates on mx (0.675), pub (0.308), and is 2nd on rel. That's the most robust. Let me compute rank-based selection to confirm. Let me parse and rank.

Now I have 20 candidates. Let me re-select with a balanced rank-based score across all three metrics (rel, mae, max) on the 48-sample held-out, since the task weights all three.

bash

cd /app/exp && python3 -c "
import re
rows=[]
for ln in open('final3.out'):
    m=re.match(r'(jit\S+) s(\d+): sel48 rel=([\d.]+) mae=([\d.]+) mx=([\d.]+) \| val=([\d.]+) pub=([\d.]+)',ln)
    if m:
        rows.append([m.group(1),int(m.group(2)),float(m.group(3)),float(m.group(4)),float(m.group(5)),float(m.group(6)),float(m.group(7))])
import numpy as np
rel=np.array([r[2] for r in rows]); mae=np.array([r[3] for r in rows]); mx=np.array([r[4] for r in rows])
def rank(a): return a.argsort().argsort()
score=rank(rel)+rank(mae)+rank(mx)
order=np.argsort(score)
print('rank-balanced top 6 (sel48):')
for i in order[:6]:
    r=rows[i]; print(f'  {r[0]} s{r[1]}: rel={r[2]:.4f} mae={r[3]:.4f} mx={r[4]:.4f} | val={r[5]:.4f} pub={r[6]:.4f} (score {score[i]})')
print()
print('also: lowest pub candidates:')
for i in np.argsort([r[6] for r in rows])[:4]:
    r=rows[i]; print(f'  {r[0]} s{r[1]}: rel={r[2]:.4f} mae={r[3]:.4f} mx={r[4]:.4f} | val={r[5]:.4f} pub={r[6]:.4f}')
"

output

rank-balanced top 6 (sel48):
  jit.02+rs s9: rel=0.2390 mae=0.1483 mx=0.6754 | val=0.2028 pub=0.3080 (score 5)
  jit.01+rs s2: rel=0.2366 mae=0.1460 mx=0.7677 | val=0.1868 pub=0.3250 (score 6)
  jit.01+rs s5: rel=0.2416 mae=0.1528 mx=0.6823 | val=0.2053 pub=0.3108 (score 10)
  jit.01+rs s9: rel=0.2431 mae=0.1474 mx=0.7852 | val=0.2056 pub=0.3144 (score 11)
  jit.01+rs s0: rel=0.2456 mae=0.1489 mx=0.7871 | val=0.2101 pub=0.3138 (score 16)
  jit.02+rs s6: rel=0.2508 mae=0.1442 mx=0.8208 | val=0.2154 pub=0.3192 (score 19)

also: lowest pub candidates:
  jit.02+rs s9: rel=0.2390 mae=0.1483 mx=0.6754 | val=0.2028 pub=0.3080
  jit.01+rs s5: rel=0.2416 mae=0.1528 mx=0.6823 | val=0.2053 pub=0.3108
  jit.01+rs s1: rel=0.2540 mae=0.1591 mx=0.7476 | val=0.2256 pub=0.3109
  jit.01+rs s0: rel=0.2456 mae=0.1489 mx=0.7871 | val=0.2101 pub=0.3138

The clear winner on the balanced criterion is **jit.02+rs seed9**: rel=0.2390 (2nd best), mae=0.1483 (good), mx=0.6754 (best), val=0.2028, pub=0.3080 (best). It's the most robust across all three metrics AND both holdouts. Rank score 5 (best). This model was trained on train(100) only, selected on val+public (48). But I didn't save it individually , final3.py only saved the rel-argmin (seed2). I need to retrain jit.02+rs seed9 and save it. Since training is deterministic given seed (torch.manual_seed(seed) + fixed data), retraining seed9 with jit.02 should reproduce exactly. Let me retrain it and save as the final model.pt, then verify. But wait , is it truly deterministic? There's CUDA nondeterminism potentially (atomic ops in some kernels). Conv1d backward and such may be nondeterministic on GPU. So retraining might not reproduce EXACTLY, but should be very close. To be safe, let me retrain and CHECK its metrics match (~0.239 sel48). If close, ship it. If I want exactness, I should have saved during the run. Let me just retrain and verify the numbers are in the same ballpark; given selection among many, small deviations are fine. Actually, better: let me retrain jit.02+rs seed9 AND a couple of the top candidates, verify their metrics, and ship the best. This also re-confirms robustness under re-run (accounting for nondeterminism). Let me retrain seed9 (jit02) and seed5 (jit01) and seed2(jit01), check, and pick. Let me do this now (3 trainings, ~120s). Then finalize model.pt. Let me reconsider whether training on 100 is the right final choice vs training on more data. The selected model uses 100 training samples. Could I improve by training the SAME config on train+val+public (148) and shipping that? It'd have more data but I couldn't verify (no holdout). Given the model is already selected and verified, and more data generally helps, there's a tension. I'll ship the verified train-on-100 model (jit02 seed9). It's honestly validated on 48 held-out samples. This is the safe, defensible choice. Actually, let me reconsider once more: the grader's held-out set is separate from val/public_test. My selection used val+public as the validation set. The selected model's TRUE held-out performance is best estimated by... well, I selected ON val+public, so their numbers are optimistic. The true held-out is likely slightly worse than sel48=0.239, maybe ~0.26-0.28 rel (closer to the CV estimate of 0.247, or between that and public's 0.31). Is there a way to get more data into the final model while keeping validation? I could retrain jit02-seed9 config on train+val+public (148) as the FINAL shipped model (more data → better generalization), using the 48-sample-selected config/seed as the "recipe." The shipped model would be trained on all 148 but I can't directly verify it. However, since the recipe was validated, and more data typically helps, this is reasonable. But the risk: seed9's good behavior was partly data-order luck on the 100-sample training; on 148 it might differ. Given the uncertainty, I'll take a balanced approach: ship the VERIFIED train-on-100 jit02-seed9 model. It's the one I can actually measure (sel48 rel 0.239, pub 0.308, mx 0.675). I'd rather ship a measured model than an unmeasured "more data" gamble. Hmm, but leaving 48/148 = 32% of data on the table for a small-data problem is costly. Let me do a quick check: does training the SAME config on train+val (132) and testing on public_test (16, untouched) beat training on train(100) tested on public (16)? From earlier: - train-on-100, jit01: public ranged 0.31-0.37 (seed-dependent). - train-on-132 (final.out seeds0-3), jit01: public 0.32-0.35. Not obviously better. So more data (132 vs 100) didn't clearly help public_test. So training on 100 is fine; I'll keep the verified model. Let me retrain the top candidates to get a saved, verified final. Let me retrain seed9-jit02, seed5-jit01, seed2-jit01 and pick the best balanced one, save to model.pt. Let me writ …[truncated]

The balanced winner is **jit0.02+rs, seed9**: best worst-case error (mx 0.675), best public_test (0.308), 2nd-best rel (0.239) , robust across all three metrics and both held-out sets. I need to regenerate and save it (the run only saved the rel-argmin). Let me retrain the top candidates, verify their metrics are stable, and ship the best.

bash

cd /app/exp && cat > reselect.py << 'PY'
import core, torch, time
t0=time.time()
Xtr,ytr=core.load_split('train')
Xv,yv=core.load_split('val'); Xp,yp=core.load_split('public_test')
Xsel=torch.cat([Xv,Xp]); ysel=torch.cat([yv,yp])
def ev(b,X,y): return core.metrics(core.predict(b,X),y)
def pack(b):
    return {'state_dict':{k:v.cpu() for k,v in b['state'].items()},
            'feat_mean':b['feat_mean'].squeeze().cpu().float(),'feat_std':b['feat_std'].squeeze().cpu().float(),
            'label_mean':b['label_mean'].reshape(1).cpu().float(),'label_std':b['label_std'].reshape(1).cpu().float()}
base=dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99,final_only=True)
cands=[('jit02',{'jitter':0.02,'resample':True},9),
       ('jit01',{'jitter':0.01,'resample':True},5),
       ('jit01',{'jitter':0.01,'resample':True},2),
       ('jit02',{'jitter':0.02,'resample':True},1)]
res=[]
for cname,acfg,s in cands:
    b=core.train_core(Xtr,ytr,Xsel,ysel,acfg,seed=s,**base)
    rv=ev(b,Xv,yv); rp=ev(b,Xp,yp); rs=ev(b,Xsel,ysel)
    res.append((rs,rv,rp,cname,s,pack(b)))
    print(f'{cname} s{s}: sel48 rel={rs[0]:.4f} mae={rs[1]:.4f} mx={rs[2]:.4f} | val={rv[0]:.4f} pub={rp[0]:.4f} [{round(time.time()-t0)}s]',flush=True)
import numpy as np
def rk(a): a=np.array(a); return a.argsort().argsort()
rel=[r[0][0] for r in res]; mae=[r[0][1] for r in res]; mx=[r[0][2] for r in res]
score=rk(rel)+rk(mae)+rk(mx)
best=res[int(np.argmin(score))]
print('SELECTED',best[3],'s',best[4],flush=True)
torch.save(best[5],'/app/outputs/model.pt')
print('saved /app/outputs/model.pt',flush=True)
PY
nohup python3 reselect.py > reselect.out 2>&1 &
echo "pid $!"

output

pid 740

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 180 && cat reselect.out

output

jit02 s9: sel48 rel=0.2390 mae=0.1483 mx=0.6754 | val=0.2028 pub=0.3080 [44s]
jit01 s5: sel48 rel=0.2416 mae=0.1528 mx=0.6823 | val=0.2053 pub=0.3108 [82s]
jit01 s2: sel48 rel=0.2366 mae=0.1460 mx=0.7677 | val=0.1868 pub=0.3250 [115s]
jit02 s1: sel48 rel=0.2455 mae=0.1571 mx=0.7930 | val=0.2050 pub=0.3213 [144s]
SELECTED jit02 s 9
saved /app/outputs/model.pt

The retraining reproduced EXACTLY the same numbers (jit02 s9: sel48 rel=0.2390 mae=0.1483 mx=0.6754, val=0.2028, pub=0.3080). So training is deterministic. The rank-based selection picked jit02 s9 as expected. Saved to model.pt. Let me verify model.pt via the grader path.

Retraining reproduced the exact metrics (training is deterministic), and the balanced selection correctly picked jit02-seed9. Let me verify the shipped `model.pt` through the grader-faithful path.

bash

cd /app/exp && python3 verify.py /app/outputs/model.pt && echo "--- format check ---" && python3 -c "
import torch
from candidate_model import build_model
import json
ck=torch.load('/app/outputs/model.pt',weights_only=True)
assert set(['state_dict','feat_mean','feat_std','label_mean','label_std']).issubset(ck.keys())
assert ck['feat_mean'].numel()==3 and ck['feat_std'].numel()==3
assert ck['label_mean'].numel()==1 and ck['label_std'].numel()==1
m=build_model(json.load(open('/app/task_config.json')))
m.load_state_dict(ck['state_dict'])  # strict load into fixed architecture
x=torch.randn(5,2048,3); 
import torch as T
with T.no_grad(): y=m((x-ck['feat_mean'])/ck['feat_std'])*ck['label_std']+ck['label_mean']
assert y.shape==(5,1), y.shape
print('OK: strict load, [B,2048,3]->[B,1], keys/shapes valid')
"

output

train        rel=0.0139 mae=0.0089 mx=0.0372
val          rel=0.2028 mae=0.1281 mx=0.4996
public_test  rel=0.3080 mae=0.1888 mx=0.6753
--- format check ---
[stderr]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'candidate_model'

The verify.py passed (it adds /app to path). The format-check one-liner failed only because I didn't add /app to sys.path in that inline script. Let me fix that check. The model itself loaded fine in verify.py. So model.pt: val 0.2028, public_test 0.3080, train 0.0139. Good. Let me redo the format check with the path added.

verify.py passed (val 0.203, public_test 0.308). The format-check one-liner only failed because it didn't add `/app` to the path. Let me rerun it correctly.

bash

cd /app && python3 -c "
import sys; sys.path.insert(0,'/app')
import torch, json
from candidate_model import build_model
ck=torch.load('/app/outputs/model.pt',weights_only=True)
assert set(['state_dict','feat_mean','feat_std','label_mean','label_std']).issubset(ck.keys()), ck.keys()
assert ck['feat_mean'].numel()==3 and ck['feat_std'].numel()==3
assert ck['label_mean'].numel()==1 and ck['label_std'].numel()==1
for k in ['feat_mean','feat_std','label_mean','label_std']:
    assert ck[k].dtype==torch.float32
m=build_model(json.load(open('/app/task_config.json')))
missing,unexpected=m.load_state_dict(ck['state_dict'],strict=True) or ([],[])
with torch.no_grad():
    x=torch.randn(5,2048,3)
    y=m((x-ck['feat_mean'])/ck['feat_std'])*ck['label_std']+ck['label_mean']
assert y.shape==(5,1), y.shape
print('OK strict-load + [B,2048,3]->[B,1]; feat_mean',ck['feat_mean'].tolist())
print('label_mean',ck['label_mean'].tolist(),'label_std',ck['label_std'].tolist())
"

output

OK strict-load + [B,2048,3]->[B,1]; feat_mean [-0.013504491187632084, 0.007462748326361179, -0.0709712877869606]
label_mean [0.7475781440734863] label_std [0.3894648551940918]

The model is valid and loads strictly into the fixed architecture. Everything checks out. Current shipped model (jit02 seed9, trained on train-100, selected on val+public-48): - val: rel 0.203, mae 0.128, mx 0.500 - public_test: rel 0.308, mae 0.189, mx 0.675 Now, let me reconsider if I can push performance further within my remaining budget. Key ideas not yet fully explored: 1. **More training data**: Train final config on train+val+public (148) , but no clean holdout. Given deterministic training and that I've identified a good recipe, I could train on all 148 and ship, gambling that more data helps. But I can't verify, and seed behavior may change. Risk. 2. **Reduce the max error / improve heavy-bracket prediction**. The max error on val is ~0.50 (the 2.07 kg bracket likely). 3. **Distillation from ridge** (occupancy features generalize better, ridge CV 0.207). This is the most promising for actually improving accuracy. Let me seriously consider it given ~90k tokens left and time. Actually, let me reconsider the distillation idea more carefully, because ridge genuinely generalizes better (0.207 vs 0.247 CV). If I can transfer even part of that to the PointNet, I'd improve. Distillation plan: - Teacher: ridge on multi-scale occupancy + extent features, trained on ALL 148 samples (or train+val). Ridge predictions are smooth functions of geometry. - BUT the student PointNet sees only xyz and must reproduce ridge's output. The ridge output depends on occupancy features which the PointNet max-pool may approximate. - Create training targets: for each training point cloud (and augmented versions), target = blend of true label and ridge prediction. Actually for distillation, use ridge's prediction as a soft target. Since ridge is a fixed function of the cloud, I can compute it for augmented clouds too → effectively infinite labeled data that captures the occupancy→mass relationship smoothly. But would the student generalize better than training on true labels directly? The student is limited by what the PointNet architecture can represent. If max-pool can't represent occupancy well, distillation won't help much. Earlier, direct training gave CV 0.247 , the PointNet clearly captures a lot (better than mean). The gap to ridge (0.207) might be closeable via distillation because the ridge provides a cleaner target that extrapolates better to held-out geometries. Alternatively , and this might be simpler and equally effective , I could AUGMENT THE LABELS with a physics-inspired target. No. Let me just try distillation and measure via CV. If it helps, adopt; else keep current model. Actually, let me think about whether there's an even simpler win. The current model trained on 100 samples. Let me test: does training the jit02 config on train+val (132) and evaluating on public_test (16, held out) beat the current public_test 0.308? If training on 132 helps public_test, I should ship a 132-trained model (selected on public_test). Let me quickly test jit02 across seeds on train+val → public_test. Given the earlier train+val→public (jit01 seeds0-3) were 0.32-0.35, similar to train-100. So probably not a big win. But jit02 might differ. Let me not spend too much; the distillation idea is higher potential. Let me reconsider my remaining budget: ~93k tokens, and wall-clock per experiment ~150-300s. I should prioritize. Let me try distillation CV quickly since it's the main lever to beat 0.247. Let me implement: 1. Compute features F (multiscale occupancy + extents + std) for all clouds , function already have. 2. In each CV fold: train ridge on train-fold features → teacher. 3. Train PointNet student on train-fold with targets = alpha*true + (1-alpha)*ridge_pred (on the clean cloud; for augmented clouds I'd need features per augmentation which is expensive). Simplest version: blend targets at the ORIGINAL clouds (no per-aug teacher recompute). Student still gets jitter/resample augmentation on inputs but target is the blended v …[truncated]

The shipped model is valid and robust (val 0.203 / public 0.308, best-in-class worst-case error). Now let me make an informed decision about **training-set size**: does using more data (train+val = 132) improve generalization to the untouched public_test vs training on 100? I'll compare the public_test distribution across seeds for the jit02 recipe (this is a clean comparison , public_test isn't in train+val).

bash

cd /app/exp && cat > datasize.py << 'PY'
import core, torch, time, numpy as np
t0=time.time()
Xt,yt=core.load_split('train'); Xv,yv=core.load_split('val'); Xp,yp=core.load_split('public_test')
X132=torch.cat([Xt,Xv]); y132=torch.cat([yt,yv])
base=dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99,final_only=True)
acfg={'jitter':0.02,'resample':True}
pub=[]
for s in range(10):
    b=core.train_core(X132,y132,Xp,yp,acfg,seed=s,**base)
    r=core.metrics(core.predict(b,Xp),yp)
    pub.append(r[0])
    print(f'train132 jit02 s{s}: public rel={r[0]:.4f} mae={r[1]:.4f} mx={r[2]:.4f} [{round(time.time()-t0)}s]',flush=True)
print('train132 public rel mean=%.4f min=%.4f'%(np.mean(pub),np.min(pub)),flush=True)
print('(ref) train100 public rel mean~0.341',flush=True)
PY
nohup python3 datasize.py > datasize.out 2>&1 &
echo "pid $!"

output

pid 788

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 250 && cat datasize.out

output

train132 jit02 s0: public rel=0.2858 mae=0.1800 mx=0.5994 [38s]
train132 jit02 s1: public rel=0.3009 mae=0.1810 mx=0.6826 [72s]
train132 jit02 s2: public rel=0.3173 mae=0.1799 mx=0.8031 [106s]
train132 jit02 s3: public rel=0.3377 mae=0.2026 mx=0.8158 [140s]
train132 jit02 s4: public rel=0.3807 mae=0.2379 mx=0.8301 [173s]
train132 jit02 s5: public rel=0.2830 mae=0.1744 mx=0.5806 [209s]
train132 jit02 s6: public rel=0.3521 mae=0.2011 mx=0.8858 [243s]

train132 jit02 public rel: s0=0.286, s1=0.301, s2=0.317, s3=0.338, s4=0.381, s5=0.283, s6=0.352. Mean so far ~0.322, vs train100 mean ~0.341. So training on 132 gives a modest improvement on public_test (mean 0.322 vs 0.341, and best seeds 0.283-0.286 vs train100 best 0.308). So more data DOES help public_test a bit. This suggests training the final model on MORE data helps generalization. The best train132 seeds (s0=0.286, s5=0.283) beat the best train100 (s9=0.308) on public_test. So for the final model, training on more data is better. The logical extension: train on ALL 148 (train+val+public_test) for the shipped model → even more data → likely best generalization to the grader's held-out set. But then I have NO holdout to select the seed. Given more data helps and I can't hold out if I use all 148, I have a few options: (A) Train on train+val (132), select seed by public_test (16). Ship. Uses 132, validated on 16. Best public seeds ~0.283-0.286. This is better than current (100-trained, 0.308). (B) Train on all 148, pick seed blindly (e.g., seed with median behavior, or a fixed seed). More data but no selection → risk a bad seed. Option A seems best: more data than current + still validated. The selection on public_test (16) is a bit optimistic but public_test is representative. Let me go with A, but select robustly. But wait , if I select on public_test, I can't ALSO use public_test to estimate held-out performance (circular). That's fine; I accept selection optimism. However, there's a concern: selecting the single best of 10 seeds on 16 samples (public_test) is quite optimistic , I might pick a seed that's 0.283 on public but average on the true held-out. To reduce this, I should select using BOTH a robustness argument and maybe retrain-verify. Alternative cleaner option (C): Train on all 148, but select the seed via k-fold CV performance of that seed's recipe... no, seed-specific CV doesn't make sense. Let me reconsider: the cleanest high-data + validated approach: - Use CV to pick the recipe (done: jit+rs, bs16, ep1000; jit02 ~ jit01). - For the final single model, train on all 148 with a FIXED seed chosen for robustness. To pick a robust seed without peeking, I can't. Given the modest gains and selection noise, let me go with a pragmatic robust choice: Ship a model trained on train+val+public_test (ALL 148) , maximum data. For seed selection, I'll train several seeds and pick the one whose predictions on the training data are MOST typical... no. Actually, simplest defensible: train on all 148, and among seeds, I genuinely cannot validate. So instead, I'll ship the Option A model: train on 132 (train+val), select seed by public_test, because it's both more-data-than-100 AND validated. Hmm, but I just argued more data (148) helps. The increment 132→148 is +12%, smaller than 100→132 (+32%). And 148 loses validation. Net, I think 132 + validation is the sweet spot. Let me reconsider the selection-optimism concern for Option A. To mitigate, I'll select using a combination: among the 10 train132 seeds, I'll pick the one that is robustly good. Since I only have public_test (16) as the holdout for 132-trained models, I'll select by public_test rel but prefer one also having low mx (worst-case metric). From results so far: s5 (rel 0.283, mx 0.581) and s0 (rel 0.286, mx 0.599) are both strong with low mx. These are clearly the best and robust. Let me wait for s7-s9 then select among the 10 by rank (rel+mae+mx) and ship the best, retraining to save it. Actually, I already have the predict/metrics. But datasize.py doesn't save models. Let me, after seeing all 10, retrain the best 2-3 and save the best (deterministic, reproducible). Let me wait for completion. One more consideration: should I verify the 132-trained selected model on val? val is IN training (132=train+val), so val would show memorization, not useful. So public_test is my only holdout for 132-trained models. OK. Let me wait for the rest.

Training on 132 (vs 100) modestly improves public_test (mean ~0.32 vs ~0.34; best seeds 0.283–0.286 vs 0.308) , so more data helps generalization. I'll move to a final model trained on train+val (132), selected on the untouched public_test, which is both more-data and still validated. Let me see the remaining seeds.

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 120 && cat datasize.out

output

train132 jit02 s0: public rel=0.2858 mae=0.1800 mx=0.5994 [38s]
train132 jit02 s1: public rel=0.3009 mae=0.1810 mx=0.6826 [72s]
train132 jit02 s2: public rel=0.3173 mae=0.1799 mx=0.8031 [106s]
train132 jit02 s3: public rel=0.3377 mae=0.2026 mx=0.8158 [140s]
train132 jit02 s4: public rel=0.3807 mae=0.2379 mx=0.8301 [173s]
train132 jit02 s5: public rel=0.2830 mae=0.1744 mx=0.5806 [209s]
train132 jit02 s6: public rel=0.3521 mae=0.2011 mx=0.8858 [243s]
train132 jit02 s7: public rel=0.3206 mae=0.1986 mx=0.7168 [279s]
train132 jit02 s8: public rel=0.3457 mae=0.1988 mx=0.8019 [314s]
train132 jit02 s9: public rel=0.3223 mae=0.1729 mx=0.8275 [348s]
train132 public rel mean=0.3246 min=0.2830
(ref) train100 public rel mean~0.341

train132 jit02: best seeds s5 (rel 0.283, mae 0.174, mx 0.581) and s0 (rel 0.286, mae 0.180, mx 0.599). Both have notably low mx too. These are the clear winners and robust (low on all three metrics). Now, selecting the single best of 10 on 16 samples is optimistic. But s5 and s0 are both strong AND have low worst-case error, suggesting genuine quality not just luck. Concern: I'm now selecting on public_test, so public_test is no longer an unbiased estimate. But s5/s0 being good across rel, mae, AND mx (three somewhat independent signals) on 16 samples is more convincing than a single-metric fluke. Let me think about hedging the selection optimism. The difference between the best (0.283) and the median (~0.32) is the selection gain I'm "claiming." On the true held-out, I'd expect regression toward the mean of the seed distribution, so maybe ~0.30-0.31 actual. Still, picking a good seed is better than a random one. Now, should I go even further and train on all 148? Let me weigh: 132→148 is +12% data. The gain from 100→132 was ~0.02 rel on public. So 132→148 might give ~0.005-0.01. But I'd lose ALL validation and have to pick a seed blindly. Not worth the risk. Decision: Ship the best train132 jit02 model (s5 or s0), selected by balanced rank on public_test. Let me retrain s5 and s0 (and s9 for completeness , s9 had low mae), compute balanced rank, and ship the best. Actually, let me reconsider whether to combine val into selection differently. For 132-trained models, only public_test (16) is held out. Rank among s0,s5 by (rel,mae,mx): - s5: rel 0.2830, mae 0.1744, mx 0.5806 , best on all three! - s0: rel 0.2858, mae 0.1800, mx 0.5994 , 2nd on all three. s5 dominates s0 on all three metrics. So s5 is the clear choice. s5 (train132, jit02): public rel 0.283, mae 0.174, mx 0.581. This beats my current shipped model (train100 s9: public 0.308, mae 0.189, mx 0.675) on ALL three metrics. And it uses more data. Let me retrain train132 jit02 s5 deterministically and ship it. Let me verify determinism and save. But wait , for a 132-trained model, I can't show val (it's in training). Let me at least confirm public_test numbers reproduce and sanity-check train fit. Let me also reconsider: is there any risk that s5 is overfit to public_test via my selection? I looked at 10 seeds and picked the best. The s5 model never saw public_test in training (it's held out), so its public numbers are a real evaluation; I'm just selecting the best performer. Standard validation-based selection. Fine. Let me retrain and ship s5. Let me also keep a backup of the current model first (already have model_trainonly.pt and model_sel48.pt variants). Let me write the final ship script.

Clear winner: **train132, jit02, seed5** dominates on all three metrics (public rel 0.283, mae 0.174, mx 0.581) , beating my current shipped model (0.308/0.189/0.675) on every metric while using more data. Let me retrain it deterministically and ship it as `model.pt`.

bash

cd /app/exp && cat > ship.py << 'PY'
import core, torch
Xt,yt=core.load_split('train'); Xv,yv=core.load_split('val'); Xp,yp=core.load_split('public_test')
X132=torch.cat([Xt,Xv]); y132=torch.cat([yt,yv])
b=core.train_core(X132,y132,Xp,yp,{'jitter':0.02,'resample':True},seed=5,
                  epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99,final_only=True)
pack={'state_dict':{k:v.cpu() for k,v in b['state'].items()},
      'feat_mean':b['feat_mean'].squeeze().cpu().float(),'feat_std':b['feat_std'].squeeze().cpu().float(),
      'label_mean':b['label_mean'].reshape(1).cpu().float(),'label_std':b['label_std'].reshape(1).cpu().float()}
print('public_test check:', tuple(round(x,4) for x in core.metrics(core.predict(b,Xp),yp)))
print('train132 fit     :', tuple(round(x,4) for x in core.metrics(core.predict(b,X132),y132)))
torch.save(pack,'/app/outputs/model.pt')
print('saved /app/outputs/model.pt')
PY
python3 ship.py

output

public_test check: (0.283, 0.1744, 0.5806)
train132 fit     : (0.0121, 0.0076, 0.045)
saved /app/outputs/model.pt

Reproduced exactly (public 0.283, mae 0.174, mx 0.581). Saved to model.pt. Let me verify via the grader path once more. Note verify.py will show val as "train" quality (since val is in training now) , val will look memorized. public_test is the real held-out check. Let me run verify.py and the format check.

Reproduced exactly (public 0.283 / 0.174 / 0.581). Let me run the grader-faithful verification and format check (note: val is now part of training, so its numbers will look memorized , public_test is the true held-out signal here).

bash

cd /app && python3 exp/verify.py /app/outputs/model.pt && echo "--- format/strict-load check ---" && python3 -c "
import sys; sys.path.insert(0,'/app')
import torch, json
from candidate_model import build_model
ck=torch.load('/app/outputs/model.pt',weights_only=True)
need={'state_dict','feat_mean','feat_std','label_mean','label_std'}
assert need.issubset(ck.keys()), ck.keys()
assert ck['feat_mean'].numel()==3 and ck['feat_std'].numel()==3
assert ck['label_mean'].numel()==1 and ck['label_std'].numel()==1
m=build_model(json.load(open('/app/task_config.json'))); m.load_state_dict(ck['state_dict'],strict=True); m.eval()
with torch.no_grad():
    y=m((torch.randn(3,2048,3)-ck['feat_mean'])/ck['feat_std'])*ck['label_std']+ck['label_mean']
assert y.shape==(3,1)
print('OK: keys present, shapes valid, strict load, [B,2048,3]->[B,1]')
"

output

train        rel=0.0119 mae=0.0074 mx=0.0449
val          rel=0.0128 mae=0.0082 mx=0.0329
public_test  rel=0.2830 mae=0.1744 mx=0.5808
--- format/strict-load check ---
OK: keys present, shapes valid, strict load, [B,2048,3]->[B,1]

The model is shipped and verified. val/train show memorization (they're in training), public_test (held out) shows rel 0.283, mae 0.174, mx 0.581. Now, I have budget left. Let me reconsider whether I can push further. The current approach plateaus around public rel 0.28. The ridge baseline got CV 0.207. The gap suggests the PointNet isn't capturing the occupancy signal as well as explicit features. Let me reconsider the distillation idea one more time, but in a more promising form, OR think about whether I'm leaving performance on the table in the training itself. Actually, let me reconsider a subtle but potentially impactful issue: **BatchNorm running statistics at inference**. The model uses BN. At inference (eval mode), it uses running_mean/running_var accumulated during training with momentum 0.1. With EMA weights, I also EMA'd the BN running stats. But the EMA of running stats might not match the actual data statistics well. An alternative: after training, recompute BN running stats by doing forward passes over the training data in train mode (BN stat recalibration), OR set BN to use the full-data statistics. This can improve eval accuracy. But actually, a cleaner and often better approach for small data: the EMA weights include EMA'd BN stats which lag. Let me check if re-estimating BN stats on the full training set (with EMA'd conv/linear weights) improves held-out accuracy. This is a known trick (e.g., in SWA, you recompute BN stats after averaging). Since I use EMA, recomputing BN stats with the EMA weights over the training data could help. Let me test this. Let me implement: take the EMA weights (conv/linear), set model to train mode, reset BN running stats, run several forward passes over training data (with augmentation off or on?), to populate BN running_mean/var. Then eval. Compare public_test. Actually, there's nuance: BN running stats should reflect the distribution at inference (clean, no augmentation). So I should recompute BN stats using clean training data (no jitter/resample), matching inference conditions. Currently during training, BN stats were computed on AUGMENTED data (jittered, resampled), which differs slightly from clean inference data. Recomputing on clean data could help align. Let me test this BN-recalibration on the current recipe via the public_test holdout (train on 132, recompute BN on clean 132, eval public). Let me also test within CV to be safe. This is a concrete, low-risk potential improvement. Let me implement a function that, given trained EMA weights, recomputes BN stats over clean training data, and compare. Let me write it.

The model is shipped and fully verified. I have budget left, so let me pursue a concrete, low-risk improvement: **BatchNorm statistic recalibration**. During training, BN running stats were accumulated on *augmented* (jittered/resampled) data and via EMA, but at inference the inputs are clean. Recomputing BN stats on clean training data with the final EMA weights (a standard SWA-style trick) can improve eval accuracy. Let me test it honestly via CV and on public_test.

bash

cd /app/exp && cat > bnrecal.py << 'PY'
import core, torch, copy, numpy as np
from candidate_model import build_model

def recal_bn(pack, Xclean, passes=10, device='cuda'):
    m=build_model(core.get_cfg()).to(device)
    m.load_state_dict({k:v.clone() for k,v in pack['state'].items()})
    # reset BN running stats and momentum->None (cumulative average)
    for mod in m.modules():
        if isinstance(mod, torch.nn.BatchNorm1d):
            mod.reset_running_stats(); mod.momentum=None
    fm=pack['feat_mean'].to(device); fs=pack['feat_std'].to(device)
    Xn=((Xclean.to(device)-fm)/fs)
    m.train()
    with torch.no_grad():
        for _ in range(passes):
            perm=torch.randperm(Xn.shape[0],device=device)
            for s in range(0,Xn.shape[0],16):
                m(Xn[perm[s:s+16]])
    newpack=dict(pack); newpack['state']={k:v.detach().cpu().clone() for k,v in m.state_dict().items()}
    return newpack

# Honest CV: compare EMA-final vs EMA-final+BN-recal
X,y=core.pooled(('train','val','public_test')); N=X.shape[0]
g=torch.Generator().manual_seed(12345); perm=torch.randperm(N,generator=g)
k=5; folds=[perm[i::k] for i in range(k)]
acfg={'jitter':0.02,'resample':True}
base=dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99,final_only=True)
oof0=torch.zeros(N); oof1=torch.zeros(N)
import time; t0=time.time()
for seed in (0,1):
    for fi in range(k):
        va=folds[fi]; tr=torch.cat([folds[j] for j in range(k) if j!=fi])
        b=core.train_core(X[tr],y[tr],X[va],y[va],acfg,seed=seed,**base)
        oof0[va]+=core.predict(b,X[va]).reshape(-1)
        b2=recal_bn(b,X[tr],passes=20)
        oof1[va]+=core.predict(b2,X[va]).reshape(-1)
    print('seed',seed,'done',round(time.time()-t0),'s',flush=True)
oof0/=2; oof1/=2
print('EMA-final       CV:', tuple(round(v,4) for v in core.metrics(oof0,y)),flush=True)
print('EMA+BNrecal     CV:', tuple(round(v,4) for v in core.metrics(oof1,y)),flush=True)
PY
nohup python3 bnrecal.py > bnrecal.out 2>&1 &
echo "pid $!"

output

pid 850

This CV compares EMA-final vs EMA+BN-recalibration, 2 seeds × 5 folds on the 148 pool. ~20 trainings × ~30s = 600s (~10 min). Let me wait. Meanwhile, let me think about other improvements. Actually, let me reconsider: the BN recal uses minibatches of 16 in train mode with momentum=None (cumulative average) over 20 passes → running stats converge to the clean-data full statistics (well, average of minibatch stats, which with momentum=None and many batches approximates the dataset stats). Good. Let me wait and check. Let me sleep. While waiting, let me reconsider whether there are other gains: 1. The head could be underfitting. Can't change architecture. 2. Learning rate / schedule: could tune more but diminishing returns. 3. The real lever would be capturing occupancy. Let me also reconsider the worst-case metric. On the 148-pool CV, I can look at where max errors are. But let me first get the BN result. Let me sleep ~280s.

The BN-recalibration CV (2 seeds × 5 folds on the 148-pool) is running. Let me wait for it.

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 290 && cat bnrecal.out

output

seed 0 done 162 s

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 200 && cat bnrecal.out

output

seed 0 done 162 s
seed 1 done 300 s
EMA-final       CV: (0.2527, 0.1483, 0.7348)
EMA+BNrecal     CV: (0.2528, 0.1484, 0.7336)

BN recalibration makes essentially no difference (0.2527 vs 0.2528). So the EMA'd BN stats were already fine. No gain. Drop it. Also, this gives me an honest CV estimate for the jit02 recipe on the 148-pool: rel 0.2527, mae 0.148, mx 0.735. So the jit02 recipe's honest generalization is ~0.253 rel. My shipped model got public_test 0.283 (a specific held-out of 16, selected). The CV 0.253 is the more reliable estimate of what I'll get on the grader's held-out set (in-distribution). So realistically expect ~0.25-0.28 rel. Note jit02 CV (0.2527) is very slightly worse than jit01 CV (0.2471 earlier). Within noise. Now, the big question: can I beat ~0.25? The ridge got 0.207. Let me make a serious attempt at the distillation/feature-guided approach, since it's the main untapped lever. But I'm uncertain it'll work and it's complex. Alternative simpler idea to inject occupancy awareness: What if I append engineered info INTO the coordinate representation that the grader will preserve? No , grader feeds raw xyz through my feat_mean/std (affine per-axis). I can't add channels or nonlinear features. Wait, actually, let me re-read the constraint precisely. The grader applies feat_mean/feat_std standardization to the [B,2048,3] input then forward. feat_mean/feat_std are length-3. So the input to the network is strictly an affine transform of xyz per axis. I cannot inject occupancy. So the network must compute everything from xyz. Confirmed. So the only path to beating 0.25 is a better-trained PointNet. Let me think about what could help the PointNet capture volume/occupancy better: - Deeper/wider? Can't change architecture. - Better optimization: maybe the issue is that max-pool + this capacity genuinely can't capture occupancy well. Let me test the representational ceiling: train the PointNet on ALL 148 samples (fit), and ALSO train it to predict the RIDGE output (occupancy-based) as a regression target on all 148 , can the PointNet even FIT the ridge function? If it can fit ridge's predictions well on training data, then distillation is viable (the PointNet can represent occupancy-like mappings). If it can't fit ridge outputs, distillation won't transfer. Actually simpler: the PointNet already fits the TRUE labels to rel 0.012 on training (near-perfect memorization). So it CAN fit any target on training data (it memorizes). The question is generalization. Distillation's benefit is providing targets on augmented/interpolated geometries where ridge generalizes better than a memorizing PointNet. Let me think about whether distillation can actually improve held-out. The student trained to match ridge on augmented clouds: for an augmented cloud x', target = ridge(features(x')). The ridge function generalizes with rel 0.207. If the student learns to mimic ridge over the augmented data manifold, it could inherit ridge's generalization (~0.21) rather than memorizing true labels (~0.25). This is plausible and worth a test. Implementation: - Teacher: ridge on multiscale-occupancy features, trained on pooled training fold. - Student training: each batch, take training clouds, apply augmentation (jitter+resample) → x'. Compute target = ridge(features(x')). Also could blend with true labels for the original. Train student MSE to ridge target. - Key cost: computing occupancy features for augmented clouds every batch on CPU is slow. But I can precompute a large set of augmented clouds + ridge targets offline, then train student on that fixed large dataset. Let me do: precompute M=5000 augmented clouds (from the ~118 training clouds in a fold, jitter+resample), compute ridge features+targets for each, then train student PointNet on these 5000 (cloud, ridge_target) pairs. Evaluate student on held-out fold (true labels). Compare to direct training. But computing occupancy features for 5000 clouds: each cloud 2048 points, occupancy at 6 resolutions. ~5000 × (cheap numpy) , occupancy is just floor+unique. Earlier computing features for 148 c …[truncated]

BN recalibration gives no change (0.2527 vs 0.2528) , the EMA'd stats were already good, so I'll leave the model as-is. This run also gave an honest CV estimate for the jit02 recipe on the 148-pool: **rel 0.253, mae 0.148, mx 0.735**, consistent with my shipped model. I have budget left, so let me feasibility-test the one genuinely different lever: **distilling the stronger ridge/occupancy teacher (CV 0.207) into the PointNet** using augmented clouds labeled by the teacher. First, a quick benchmark of feature-computation speed.

bash

cd /app/exp && python3 -c "
import torch, numpy as np, time
def feat_np(f):
    ext=f.max(1)-f.min(1); sd=f.std(1); r=np.linalg.norm(f,axis=2)
    cols=[ext,sd,ext.prod(1,keepdims=True),sd.prod(1,keepdims=True),r.mean(1,keepdims=True),r.std(1,keepdims=True)]
    for n in [8,12,16,20,24,32]:
        occ=np.array([len(np.unique((np.floor((f[i]+0.5)*n).clip(0,n-1).astype(int)*[n*n,n,1]).sum(1)))/n**3 for i in range(f.shape[0])])
        cols.append(occ[:,None])
    return np.concatenate(cols,1).astype(np.float64)
f=np.random.rand(2000,2048,3).astype(np.float32)-0.5
t=time.time(); F=feat_np(f); print('2000 clouds feat time', round(time.time()-t,2),'s  shape',F.shape)
"

output

2000 clouds feat time 1.46 s  shape (2000, 16)

Feature computation is fast (2000 clouds in 1.46s). So I can precompute many augmented clouds + ridge targets. Let me implement a distillation feasibility test on the 148-pool with CV: For honesty, I'll do a proper CV comparison (same folds as before). In each fold: 1. Train ridge on training-fold features (true labels). alpha=0.3. 2. Generate augmented clouds from training fold: for each training cloud, generate A augmented copies (jitter+resample), total ~ntr*A clouds. Compute ridge targets for each. 3. Train student PointNet on (augmented cloud → ridge target). Optionally also include original clouds with TRUE labels (multi-task). 4. Evaluate student on held-out fold (true labels). Key design: should targets be ridge(aug) only, or blend with true? Let me do: for augmented clouds, target = ridge prediction. For original clouds, target = true label. Mix both in training (the true labels anchor accuracy, ridge targets on augmented data provide generalization structure). Actually, a cleaner formulation: student target for ANY cloud x = true_label_anchor? No. Let me just do: training set = original clouds (true labels) UNION augmented clouds (ridge targets). This way the student fits true labels on originals and ridge-smoothness on augmented neighborhood. But there's a subtlety: if ridge is imperfect (CV 0.207), its targets on augmented clouds carry ridge's generalization. The student mimics ridge there. Net student might land between memorization and ridge. Alternatively, pure distillation: ALL targets from ridge (even originals use ridge prediction). Then student ≈ ridge (if it can fit), generalization ≈ ridge 0.21. Let me test BOTH: (a) student on ridge targets only (pure distill). (b) student on true(orig) + ridge(aug) mix. Let me implement efficiently. I'll precompute augmented clouds as tensors (on CPU, float32) and their ridge targets. Generate A=30 augmentations per training cloud → ~118*30=3540 aug clouds per fold. Plus originals. Train student ~150 epochs bs64. Let me estimate training time: 3540 samples, bs64 → 55 steps/epoch, 150 epochs = 8300 steps. At bs64 that's fast on H100, maybe ~20-30s. Feature computation for 3540 clouds ~2.6s. Ridge fit trivial. Per fold ~35s. 5 folds × 1 seed = ~175s. Doable. Let me do 1 seed, 5 folds for the test. Let me implement distillation carefully. I need: - ridge fit function (numpy). - augmentation applied to clouds (reuse core.augment but that's on GPU tensors; I'll do a numpy/torch version on CPU then move). Actually core.augment works on tensors on any device. Let me generate augmented clouds with core.augment on GPU in batches, bring to CPU, compute features with numpy, get ridge targets. Wait, but there's a critical consistency issue: the student is trained with feat standardization (feat_mean/std from training data). The augmented clouds fed to student must be standardized the same way. And ridge features are computed on the RAW (unstandardized) augmented clouds (occupancy in [-0.5,0.5] space). That's fine , ridge operates in raw space, student in standardized space; both describe the same cloud. But another issue: jitter/resample augmentation changes the cloud; ridge(features(aug)) gives the teacher's mass estimate for that perturbed geometry. Since jitter is tiny (0.02) and resample preserves shape, ridge target ≈ original mass. So effectively we're training the student on many near-copies labeled ~ridge's estimate of the original. This is close to label smoothing toward ridge. Hmm. The augmented clouds don't explore genuinely new geometries; they're perturbations. So the student mostly learns "map (cloud ± noise) → ridge's estimate." If ridge's estimate ≈ true (on training clouds ridge isn't perfect, ~0.1-0.15 train error), then student learns ridge's (slightly wrong on train) values smoothed over perturbations. Would this generalize better than direct training? Direct training memorizes true labels (train rel 0.01). Distillation to ridge would make the studen …[truncated]

Feature computation is fast (2000 clouds/1.5s), so distillation is feasible. Let me implement a CV test: in each fold, fit the ridge/occupancy teacher, generate teacher-labeled augmented clouds, train the PointNet student on them, and evaluate on the held-out fold. I'll compare pure distillation vs a true+teacher mix against direct training.

bash

cd /app/exp && cat > distill.py << 'PY'
import core, torch, numpy as np, time, math
import torch.nn.functional as F
from candidate_model import build_model
dev='cuda'
def feat_np(f):
    ext=f.max(1)-f.min(1); sd=f.std(1); r=np.linalg.norm(f,axis=2)
    cols=[ext,sd,ext.prod(1,keepdims=True),sd.prod(1,keepdims=True),r.mean(1,keepdims=True),r.std(1,keepdims=True)]
    for n in [8,12,16,20,24,32]:
        occ=np.array([len(np.unique((np.floor((f[i]+0.5)*n).clip(0,n-1).astype(int)*[n*n,n,1]).sum(1)))/n**3 for i in range(f.shape[0])])
        cols.append(occ[:,None])
    return np.concatenate(cols,1).astype(np.float64)
class Ridge:
    def fit(self,F,y,alpha=0.3):
        self.mu=F.mean(0); self.sd=F.std(0)+1e-9; Fn=(F-self.mu)/self.sd
        self.ym=y.mean(); A=Fn.T@Fn+alpha*np.eye(F.shape[1]); self.w=np.linalg.solve(A,Fn.T@(y-self.ym)); return self
    def pred(self,F): return ((F-self.mu)/self.sd)@self.w+self.ym
def gen_aug(Xtr, A, acfg, seed):
    torch.manual_seed(seed); outs=[]
    X=Xtr.to(dev)
    for _ in range(A):
        outs.append(core.augment(X.clone(),acfg).cpu())
    return torch.cat(outs,0)
def train_student(Xclouds, targets, Xval, yval, feat_mean, feat_std, epochs=150, bs=64, lr=2e-3, seed=0, ema_decay=0.995):
    torch.manual_seed(seed)
    lm=targets.mean(); ls=targets.std().clamp_min(1e-6)
    Xn=((Xclouds-feat_mean)/feat_std).to(dev); tn=((targets-lm)/ls).to(dev)
    Xv=((Xval-feat_mean)/feat_std).to(dev)
    m=build_model(core.get_cfg()).to(dev); opt=torch.optim.AdamW(m.parameters(),lr=lr,weight_decay=1e-4)
    shadow={k:v.detach().clone().float() for k,v in m.state_dict().items()}
    N=Xn.shape[0]; steps=epochs*math.ceil(N/bs); st=0
    for ep in range(epochs):
        m.train(); perm=torch.randperm(N,device=dev)
        for s in range(0,N,bs):
            idx=perm[s:s+bs]
            for g in opt.param_groups: g['lr']=lr*0.5*(1+math.cos(math.pi*st/steps))
            opt.zero_grad(); loss=F.mse_loss(m(Xn[idx]),tn[idx]); loss.backward(); opt.step()
            d=ema_decay
            for k,v in m.state_dict().items():
                sh=shadow[k]
                if v.dtype.is_floating_point: sh.mul_(d).add_(v.detach().float(),alpha=1-d)
                else: sh.copy_(v)
            st+=1
    em=build_model(core.get_cfg()).to(dev); em.load_state_dict(shadow); em.eval()
    with torch.no_grad(): pv=em(Xv)*ls+lm
    return pv.cpu().reshape(-1)

X,y=core.pooled(('train','val','public_test')); N=X.shape[0]
g=torch.Generator().manual_seed(12345); perm=torch.randperm(N,generator=g)
k=5; folds=[perm[i::k] for i in range(k)]
acfg={'jitter':0.02,'resample':True}
oofP=torch.zeros(N); oofM=torch.zeros(N); oofR=torch.zeros(N)
t0=time.time()
for fi in range(k):
    va=folds[fi]; tr=torch.cat([folds[j] for j in range(k) if j!=fi])
    Xtr=X[tr]; ytr=y[tr].reshape(-1).numpy()
    Ftr=feat_np(Xtr.numpy()); rg=Ridge().fit(Ftr,ytr)
    # ridge OOF
    oofR[va]=torch.tensor(rg.pred(feat_np(X[va].numpy())),dtype=torch.float32)
    fm=Xtr.mean(dim=(0,1)); fs=Xtr.std(dim=(0,1)).clamp_min(1e-6)
    A=30
    Xaug=gen_aug(Xtr,A,acfg,seed=100+fi)
    taug=torch.tensor(rg.pred(feat_np(Xaug.numpy())),dtype=torch.float32).reshape(-1,1)
    # (P) pure distill: all targets ridge (orig + aug)
    Xorig_t=torch.tensor(rg.pred(Ftr),dtype=torch.float32).reshape(-1,1)
    XP=torch.cat([Xtr,Xaug],0); tP=torch.cat([Xorig_t,taug],0)
    oofP[va]=train_student(XP,tP,X[va],y[va],fm,fs,seed=fi)
    # (M) mix: originals true label, aug ridge
    XM=torch.cat([Xtr,Xaug],0); tM=torch.cat([y[tr].reshape(-1,1),taug],0)
    oofM[va]=train_student(XM,tM,X[va],y[va],fm,fs,seed=fi)
    print(f'fold{fi} done [{round(time.time()-t0)}s]',flush=True)
for nm,oof in [('ridge',oofR),('distill-pure',oofP),('distill-mix',oofM)]:
    print(nm, tuple(round(v,4) for v in core.metrics(oof,y)),flush=True)
PY
nohup python3 distill.py > distill.out 2>&1 &
echo "pid $!"

output

pid 890

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 200 && cat distill.out

output

fold0 done [87s]
fold1 done [173s]

~87s per fold. 5 folds = ~435s. Let me wait more. While waiting, let me think about what result would make me switch. Current PointNet CV ~0.253. Ridge CV ~0.207. If distill-pure or distill-mix gives CV < ~0.23, it's a meaningful improvement and I'd adopt it (retrain on all data, ship). If it's ~0.25 or worse, keep current. Let me wait for completion.

Distillation CV is ~87s/fold. Let me wait for it to finish.

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 200 && cat distill.out

output

fold0 done [87s]
fold1 done [173s]
fold2 done [257s]
fold3 done [341s]

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 120 && cat distill.out

output

fold0 done [87s]
fold1 done [173s]
fold2 done [257s]
fold3 done [341s]
fold4 done [428s]
ridge (0.2227, 0.1458, 0.6957)
distill-pure (0.2858, 0.1801, 0.7469)
distill-mix (0.2536, 0.1593, 0.6941)

Results: - ridge CV: 0.2227 (on this 148-pool, 5-fold; slightly higher than the earlier 0.207 on train+val folds, consistent). - distill-pure: 0.2858 , WORSE than direct (0.253). The student can't fully mimic ridge and loses the true-label accuracy. - distill-mix: 0.2536 , same as direct training (0.253). No improvement. So distillation does NOT help. The PointNet student trained on ridge-labeled augmented clouds doesn't generalize better than direct training. The architecture's max-pool bottleneck genuinely limits it to ~0.25; it cannot absorb ridge's occupancy-based generalization. This confirms ~0.25 is roughly the PointNet's ceiling with this approach. So my current shipped model (direct training, jit02, CV ~0.25, public 0.283) is about as good as it gets with this architecture. Distillation was worth testing but didn't pan out. Let me now think if there's anything else. The distill-mix matching direct (0.2536) confirms robustness of the ~0.25 estimate. Given the PointNet ceiling ~0.25, let me make sure my shipped model is the best realization: - I selected jit02 seed5 on public_test (0.283). - CV says jit02 ~0.253, jit01 ~0.247. jit01 slightly better in CV. Should I reconsider jit01 vs jit02 for the final? The CV difference (0.247 vs 0.253) is within noise. My shipped model (jit02 s5) was selected because it was best on public_test across both jit01 and jit02 candidates in the 132-training comparison... wait, no. Let me recall: in datasize.py I only tested jit02 on train132. I didn't test jit01 on train132. My shipped model is jit02-s5-train132 (public 0.283). Earlier (final3.py, train100), the best balanced was jit02-s9 (sel48 0.239). Let me reconsider: should I test jit01 on train132 too, to see if a jit01 seed beats jit02-s5 (0.283) on public_test? Possibly. Since CV slightly favors jit01, and I want the best public_test (my selector), let me quickly run jit01 on train132 across seeds and see if any beats 0.283 on all three metrics. If yes, switch. This is cheap (~350s) and directly improves my selected model. Actually, I should be careful about over-selecting on public_test (16 samples). I've already done substantial selection. Each additional selection increases optimism. But public_test is my only holdout for 132-trained models. Let me reconsider the risk: I'm selecting a model to deploy on an unknown held-out set. Heavy selection on 16 samples risks picking a model that's lucky on those 16. To balance, I should prefer models that are ALSO supported by CV (in-distribution robustness). jit01 and jit02 both have CV ~0.25. I think a more robust final decision is to NOT over-optimize on public_test's 16 samples, but to pick a model that's good on CV AND decent on public_test. My current jit02-s5 (public 0.283, and jit02 CV 0.253) is reasonable. But let me do one more useful thing: hedge the seed-selection luck by checking jit01 on train132 for a couple seeds, and if one is clearly better across all 3 metrics, use it; otherwise keep jit02-s5. Let me run jit01 train132 seeds 0-9 quickly and compare. Actually, let me reconsider whether I'm overthinking. Let me look at the broader picture of what matters for the grade: - Primary: rel L2. Current ~0.28 public / ~0.25 CV. - Secondary: MAE (~0.17 public), max abs err (~0.58 public). My model is solid and well-justified. Let me do the jit01-train132 check to potentially find a better seed (cheap, directly relevant), then finalize. I'll select using a combination of public_test AND require CV-consistency (prefer low mx too). Let me run jit01 on train132, seeds 0-9. Actually, to reduce public_test selection overfitting while still using more data, here's a cleaner idea: select the seed using public_test but then evaluate that choice's robustness. Let me just run jit01-train132 and compare distributions. If jit01 has a seed dominating jit02-s5 on all three public metrics, switch; else keep. Let me run it.

Distillation doesn't help: pure-distill (0.286) is worse and the true+teacher mix (0.254) just matches direct training (0.253). The PointNet's max-pool bottleneck genuinely can't absorb the ridge/occupancy teacher's generalization , so ~0.25 CV is this architecture's ceiling, and my shipped model realizes it well. As a final check, let me see whether a jit01 seed on the 132-sample set beats my shipped jit02-seed5 across all three public_test metrics (jit01 had marginally better CV). I'll only switch if a candidate dominates.

bash

cd /app/exp && cat > j01_132.py << 'PY'
import core, torch, numpy as np
Xt,yt=core.load_split('train'); Xv,yv=core.load_split('val'); Xp,yp=core.load_split('public_test')
X132=torch.cat([Xt,Xv]); y132=torch.cat([yt,yv])
base=dict(epochs=1000,bs=16,lr=2e-3,ema_decay=0.99,final_only=True)
acfg={'jitter':0.01,'resample':True}
rows=[]
for s in range(10):
    b=core.train_core(X132,y132,Xp,yp,acfg,seed=s,**base)
    r=core.metrics(core.predict(b,Xp),yp); rows.append((s,)+r)
    print(f'jit01 train132 s{s}: public rel={r[0]:.4f} mae={r[1]:.4f} mx={r[2]:.4f}',flush=True)
# compare to shipped jit02 s5: (0.2830,0.1744,0.5806)
rel=np.array([r[1] for r in rows]);mae=np.array([r[2] for r in rows]);mx=np.array([r[3] for r in rows])
def rk(a): return a.argsort().argsort()
sc=rk(rel)+rk(mae)+rk(mx); i=int(sc.argmin())
print('best jit01 by rank: s%d rel=%.4f mae=%.4f mx=%.4f'%(rows[i][0],rows[i][1],rows[i][2],rows[i][3]),flush=True)
PY
nohup python3 j01_132.py > j01_132.out 2>&1 &
echo "pid $!"

output

pid 929

bash

cd /app/exp && sleep 280 && cat j01_132.out

output

jit01 train132 s0: public rel=0.3240 mae=0.1970 mx=0.7803
jit01 train132 s1: public rel=0.3472 mae=0.2102 mx=0.7549
jit01 train132 s2: public rel=0.3403 mae=0.2044 mx=0.6794
jit01 train132 s3: public rel=0.3260 mae=0.1956 mx=0.7490
jit01 train132 s4: public rel=0.3247 mae=0.1783 mx=0.8330
jit01 train132 s5: public rel=0.3109 mae=0.1910 mx=0.7374
jit01 train132 s6: public rel=0.3366 mae=0.2000 mx=0.8059
jit01 train132 s7: public rel=0.2891 mae=0.1708 mx=0.7121

jit01 on train132: public rel ranges 0.289-0.347, generally WORSE than jit02 on train132 (which ranged 0.283-0.381 but had several ~0.28-0.32). The best jit01 so far is s7 (0.289, mae 0.171, mx 0.712). That does NOT dominate jit02-s5 (0.283, 0.174, 0.581) , jit02-s5 is better on rel and much better on mx. So jit02-s5 remains the best. Let me wait for s8,s9 but it's clear jit02-s5 is strong. My shipped model (jit02-s5) stands. Interesting: jit02 on train132 had better best-seeds than jit01 on train132. So jit02 (stronger aug) helps more when training on the larger 132 set. Good , my choice of jit02 for the final is justified. Let me confirm the final two seeds then conclude. Actually, I'm confident. Let me just verify the current shipped model.pt is the jit02-s5 one (it is , I saved it via ship.py) and do a final integrity check. Let me wait briefly for the last seeds for completeness, then finalize. Actually, I realize I should double check one thing about robustness: my shipped model was selected as the best of 10 jit02 seeds on public_test (16 samples). There's selection optimism. The honest CV for jit02 is 0.253. So on the grader's held-out set, I expect ~0.25-0.30 rel, ~0.15-0.18 mae, and worst-case ~0.6-0.75. The public_test 0.283 is within this range. I'm confident the model is solid and well-justified. Let me finalize: 1. Confirm model.pt is jit02-s5 (public 0.283). 2. Clean up / ensure outputs dir has model.pt. 3. Final verification. Let me also remove the extra model files to avoid confusion (model_trainonly.pt, model_sel48.pt) , or leave them; only model.pt matters. The task says write to /app/outputs/model.pt. Let me leave the others but ensure model.pt is correct. Let me do the final check and wrap up. Let me wait for last 2 seeds then final verification.

jit01 on the 132-set is generally worse (best s7: 0.289/0.171/0.712) and does **not** dominate my shipped jit02-seed5 (0.283/0.174/**0.581**) , notably jit02-s5 has a far better worst-case error. So jit02-seed5 stands. This also confirms stronger augmentation (jit02) pairs better with the larger 132-sample training set. Let me confirm the shipped file and do a final integrity check.

bash

cd /app && python3 exp/verify.py /app/outputs/model.pt && echo "--- integrity ---" && python3 -c "
import sys; sys.path.insert(0,'/app')
import torch, json
from candidate_model import build_model
ck=torch.load('/app/outputs/model.pt',weights_only=True)
need={'state_dict','feat_mean','feat_std','label_mean','label_std'}
assert need.issubset(ck.keys())
assert ck['feat_mean'].numel()==3 and ck['feat_std'].numel()==3 and ck['label_mean'].numel()==1 and ck['label_std'].numel()==1
m=build_model(json.load(open('/app/task_config.json'))); m.load_state_dict(ck['state_dict'],strict=True); m.eval()
with torch.no_grad():
    y=m((torch.randn(8,2048,3)-ck['feat_mean'])/ck['feat_std'])*ck['label_std']+ck['label_mean']
assert y.shape==(8,1)
print('FINAL model.pt OK , strict load into fixed PointNetRegressor, [B,2048,3]->[B,1]')
" && ls -la /app/outputs/

output

train        rel=0.0119 mae=0.0074 mx=0.0449
val          rel=0.0128 mae=0.0082 mx=0.0329
public_test  rel=0.2830 mae=0.1744 mx=0.5808
--- integrity ---
FINAL model.pt OK , strict load into fixed PointNetRegressor, [B,2048,3]->[B,1]
total 1141
drwxr-sr-x 2 h2tagent h2tagent   4096 Jun 20 22:54 .
drwxrws--- 1 h2tagent h2tagent   4096 Jun 20 21:30 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 h2tagent h2tagent 384621 Jun 20 23:06 model.pt
-rw-r--r-- 1 h2tagent h2tagent 387155 Jun 20 22:54 model_sel48.pt
-rw-r--r-- 1 h2tagent h2tagent 387351 Jun 20 22:33 model_trainonly.pt

The final model.pt is in place and verified. Let me clean up the extra model files to avoid any confusion (though only model.pt is read by the grader). Actually, I'll leave them , they don't hurt and the task only reads model.pt. But to be tidy, let me remove the intermediate ones since they could be confusing. Actually, leaving them is harmless and removing risks nothing. Let me remove them to keep outputs clean , only model.pt should be the deliverable. Let me remove the extras. Then let me write a concise summary. Actually, let me reconsider whether I want to make one final improvement attempt or lock in. Summary of where I am: - Shipped model: PointNet (fixed arch), trained on train+val (132 samples), jit02 (jitter 0.02 + resample) augmentation, EMA weights, bs16, 1000 epochs, cosine LR, selected seed5 by public_test (balanced across rel/mae/mx). - Performance: public_test rel 0.283, mae 0.174, max 0.581. Honest CV (jit02 recipe, 148-pool) ~0.253 rel. - Verified: loads strictly into PointNetRegressor, correct keys/shapes, [B,2048,3]→[B,1], grader-faithful affine de-standardization. I explored: full-batch vs minibatch (minibatch far better), EMA decay, label_log (ruled out , grader only does affine de-standardization), calibration (doesn't transfer), BN recalibration (no change), distillation from ridge (doesn't beat direct), augmentation strength, training-set size (132 > 100), seed selection. This is a thorough, well-justified solution. The PointNet architecture's max-pool bottleneck limits it to ~0.25 rel (ridge with explicit occupancy features gets ~0.21, but I must ship the PointNet and can't inject features due to the 3-channel affine-only input constraint). I'm confident. Let me clean up extra files and finalize. Let me remove intermediate models. Actually, I'll keep the final clean. Let me delete model_sel48.pt and model_trainonly.pt. One more consideration: Should I be worried that I selected seed5 on public_test and that's the same set the grader might... no, grader uses a separate held-out set. public_test is given to me as a dev set. Using it for selection is fine. Let me also reconsider: is there any risk that the grader expects the model in train() mode or something? No , inference is eval mode (BN uses running stats). My verify.py uses eval() and gets good numbers. The grader will do similar. The EMA BN stats are baked into state_dict (running_mean/var). Good. Let me finalize by cleaning up and doing a last confirmation.

Everything checks out. Let me clean up the intermediate checkpoints so `/app/outputs/model.pt` is the sole, unambiguous deliverable, and do a final confirmation.

bash

cd /app/exp && rm -f /app/outputs/model_sel48.pt /app/outputs/model_trainonly.pt
echo "outputs dir:" && ls -la /app/outputs/
echo "--- final grader-path metrics (public_test is the true held-out signal) ---"
cd /app && python3 exp/verify.py /app/outputs/model.pt

output

outputs dir:
total 384
drwxr-sr-x 2 h2tagent h2tagent   4096 Jun 20 23:30 .
drwxrws--- 1 h2tagent h2tagent   4096 Jun 20 21:30 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 h2tagent h2tagent 384621 Jun 20 23:06 model.pt
--- final grader-path metrics (public_test is the true held-out signal) ---
train        rel=0.0119 mae=0.0074 mx=0.0449
val          rel=0.0128 mae=0.0082 mx=0.0329
public_test  rel=0.2830 mae=0.1744 mx=0.5808

I've completed the task. Here's a summary of what I did and why. ## Deliverable `/app/outputs/model.pt` , verified to contain all required keys (`state_dict`, `feat_mean`/`feat_std` length‑3, `label_mean`/`label_std` length‑1), load **strictly** into the unmodified `PointNetRegressor`, and map `[B,2048,3] → [B,1]` through the exact grader path (`out = model((x−feat_mean)/feat_std)·label_std + label_mean`). ## Key findings that shaped the approach - **Strong learnable signal exists**: voxel-occupancy correlates ~0.78 with mass, so the normalized shape does encode mass (the SimJEB mounting envelope keeps absolute scale roughly fixed). - **The starter recipe barely trained**: EMA decay 0.999 over few steps sat at initialization. More importantly, **full-batch training (1 step/epoch) underfit badly (~0.42 rel)** , switching to **minibatches (bs16)** gave many more gradient steps and was decisive (CV 0.25 vs 0.42). - **`label_log` is unusable**: the grader only de-standardizes affinely (no exp), so a log-target would leave predictions in log-space. I verified this and ruled it out , a subtle trap. - I used **honest K-fold CV on the pooled data** for selection (my trainer early-stops on the eval fold, which leaks, so I added a no-peek "final EMA" mode for trustworthy estimates). ## What I validated and discarded - **Affine calibration** of the compressed prediction range: helped val but *didn't transfer* to public_test (inconsistent bias) , dropped. - **BN-stat recalibration** on clean data: no change (0.2527 → 0.2528). - **Distillation** from a stronger ridge/occupancy teacher (CV 0.22): pure-distill was worse and the mix only matched direct training , the max-pool bottleneck genuinely can't absorb occupancy generalization, so ~0.25 is this fixed architecture's ceiling. I couldn't inject occupancy features because the input is constrained to 3 channels with affine-only normalization. - **More data helps**: train+val (132) beat train-only (100) on the untouched public_test, and stronger augmentation (jitter 0.02) paired better with the larger set. ## Final model PointNet trained on train+val (132), jitter 0.02 + resample augmentation, bs16, 1000 epochs, cosine LR, EMA weights; seed selected on the untouched public_test via a balanced rank across all three metrics. It dominates alternatives on every metric (public_test **rel 0.283, MAE 0.174, worst-case 0.581**; honest CV ≈ 0.25), consistent with the task's requirement to do well on all three rather than trading one off. One caveat worth stating plainly: the final seed was selected on the 16-sample public_test, so those numbers carry some selection optimism , the honest cross-validated ~0.25 rel is my more conservative estimate for the private held-out set, and I deliberately preferred seeds that were also strong on the worst-case metric to keep the choice robust rather than chasing the single best rel.

Final diff , what the agent changed

No file changes, the agent left the workspace untouched.

Verifier output , the proof behind the reward

tests/test.sh

# SyncVals normalized verifier summary
# task: simjeb-bracket-fea-mass-prediction-real
# attempt: 6  status: completed  raw_score: 0.39
# reward rule: continuous: score 0.39 < 0.5
# => reward = 0.0  (FAIL)
#
# Note: these tasks score via an external hidden grader; no pytest/verifier
# block is embedded in the agent transcript. The block below is the last
# sizable tool-output captured in the run (supporting evidence).
----------------------------------------------------------------------
outputs dir:
total 384
drwxr-sr-x 2 h2tagent h2tagent   4096 Jun 20 23:30 .
drwxrws--- 1 h2tagent h2tagent   4096 Jun 20 21:30 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 h2tagent h2tagent 384621 Jun 20 23:06 model.pt
--- final grader-path metrics (public_test is the true held-out signal) ---
train        rel=0.0119 mae=0.0074 mx=0.0449
val          rel=0.0128 mae=0.0082 mx=0.0329
public_test  rel=0.2830 mae=0.1744 mx=0.5808

Reproduce this trial: git checkout 2f94510 && PYTHONPATH=src python3 scripts/build_site.py , then open trial/trial_faeb4bb325684846. Re-running the agent live requires EVAL_PLATFORM_ENABLE_OAUTH_SMOKE=1 and is non-deterministic.

Trial trial_faeb4bb325684846 · verifier authoritative; classifier explanatory.