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CodeWorld GYM — results

a code world model races the real interpreter · 6 feedback conditions · KernelBench + MLE-Lite (22) + ProgramBench · Qwen3.6 ⇄ Haiku · official graders only

What this is

A prompted Code World Model gives a coding agent per-turn feedback and races the real interpreter — first finished feeds the next revision, the loser is killed. Everything below compares six feedback conditions on three slow-executor benchmarks (KernelBench, MLE-bench Lite, ProgramBench), 8 turns, official graders only. Configs: A = Qwen3.6-35B-A3B codes + Haiku WM · B = swapped.

The headline result — what feedback actually helps

fresh_ablation2_results.png

The feedback-channel ladder (framework arm). Simulated execution feedback (sim-only) beats every rubric variant on all three benchmarks: it TIES self-repair on KernelBench-B (6/20) while winning 60% of races, and beats it outright on ProgramBench-B (0.22 vs 0.03). Rubric feedback — old DB or domain-matched — never separates from base.

conclusionevidence
1. Specific feedback works; scored checklists don't. The WM's simulated output/errors moves outcomes; 0/1 rubric rewards never do — even after fixing rubric relevance.ladder above; audit dissociation (Ablations & Audit tab)
2. The WM earns its keep where verification is expensive or vague. KB (minutes/exec): sim-only = self-repair quality at ~4× less wall-clock. PB (aggregate-only real feedback): sim-only beats self-repair ~8×. MLE (rich tracebacks): self-repair still wins (19/22 vs 14/22).per-benchmark tabs
3. The race mechanism is verified. WM win rate scales with executor latency (KB ~95-100% → PB ~half); losers killed (kill counts = win counts). race table below
4. Below a coder-capability floor, feedback choice is irrelevant. Config A (Qwen codes) is flat across ALL conditions on KB/PB.ladder above, A columns

Does the race fire? Win rate scales with execution latency

benchmarkA: WM race-win rateB
KernelBench95% (35/37)100% (44/44)
MLE-Lite70% (44/63)92% (65/71)
ProgramBench45% (10/22)62% (18/29)

KernelBench (compile+bench ≈ minutes): WM wins ~all races. ProgramBench (fast-failing compiles): executor wins ~half — correct first-finished behavior.

Run log (provenance of everything on this dashboard)

datewhatcommit / scriptsdata
07-22Bare-bones harness (reward-vector WM, race, verified logging)f7e5a19tests/smoke_gym.py
07-22KernelBench + ProgramBench integrations (upstream-exact grading); full MLE-Lite prep (22 comps)slurm/ @ 1486703eval-tasks/*
07-22Cap-4 fresh run (A/B × 4 arms × 3 benches) — the per-benchmark tab figures1b73bf4data/{kernelbench,programbench,mlelite}_{A,B}.jsonl + gymlogs
07-238-turn baselines (base + self-repair, shadow logging)slurm/*_bl8.sbatchdata/*_it8.jsonl
07-23Dual-WM lane (rubric ∥ simulator, θ=0.7) all benches/configs + shadow true-verifier + Opus 4.8 auditdw commitsdata/*_dw.jsonl + rubric_audit.jsonl
07-24Sim-only ablation (WM = execution simulator only, no rubrics) all benches/configsslurm/*_so.sbatchdata/*_so.jsonl
07-24Domain rubric DBs mined (CUDA 12.9k / ML 11.0k / CLI 7.5k; held-out guard) + retrieval QC vs old DBslurm/mine_domain_rubrics.sbatchdata/rubric_db_{kb,mle,pb}.jsonl + qc_rubric_dbs.jsonl
07-24DB-swap ablations (KB+PB, rubric-only + dual; MLE held — DB failed QC) + Opus audit of the runs → null result, dissociation confirmedslurm/exp_*_dn*.sbatchdata/*_dnr/_dndw.jsonl + rubric_audit_dn_*.jsonl
07-24Dashboard published to codingwm.github.iocodingwm/codingwm.github.io–

How the method works (current bare-bones implementation)

One simple loop (codeworld_gym/gym.py, ~300 lines) shared by every benchmark; a benchmark plugs in only a task prompt and an executor.

Task prompt problem / competition / docs ① Coding agent (LLM) generate, then revise on feedback Candidate artifact kernel.py · train.py · code bundle each turn: both start TOGETHER ② World-model lane (seconds) TWO parallel LLM calls (top-10 rubrics selected first): (a) rubric rewards {rubric → 0/1} (b) execution simulator → predicted output/errors gate: rubric score ≥ θ → feedback = (b), else (a) ③ Real-executor lane (minutes) KB: nvcc + correctness + timing MLE: training run · PB: compile + tests killable subprocess ④ RACE — whichever lane finishes FIRST feeds back no gating · the losing execution is KILLED (frees the GPU) · audit logged when possible ⑤ Feedback rubrics + rewards · or exec summary revise — up to 8 turns early stop: rewards all 1, exec passes, or no change loop done ⑥ Final REAL execution → official grader eval_kernel_against_ref · mlebench.grade_csv · all hidden test branches

The framework (race) arm. base / self-repair / cwm are ablations: base skips the loop entirely; self-repair keeps only the red lane; cwm keeps only the teal lane.

One turn, precisely

  1. Select. Embed (task + current code), cosine against the static 31k rubric DB, take the top-10 items. (~0.7s, cached matrix; skipped entirely in self-repair.)
  2. Start both racers. The world model gets (task, the 10 rubric texts, the code) and must output ONLY {"rewards": [{"id": ..., "reward": 0|1}]} — one 0/1 per rubric, nothing else (no prose, no confidence, no simulated output). The real executor starts on the same code in a killable subprocess.
  3. First finished wins the race. Executor first → its result is the feedback (WM harvested as a calibration audit where possible). WM lane first → the in-flight execution is SIGKILLed (frees the GPU) and the lane picks WHICH feedback to send via the threshold gate: if the rubric score (fraction of rewards = 1) is ≥ θ, the code is structurally sound, so the agent gets the simulated output/errors from call (b) — concrete predicted failures to fix; if the score is < θ, the agent gets the rubric texts + rewards from call (a) — structural criteria to satisfy first. (Below θ the unused simulator call is cancelled.) Executor feedback stays a compact result summary; ProgramBench hidden-test identities are still withheld.
  4. Revise. The coding agent receives (task, its previous code, the feedback) and emits new code. Loop exits early when all rewards are 1 / the executor passes / the code stops changing; hard cap 8 turns (was 4 for the logged cap-4 runs).
  5. Final real execution, always. Whatever fed the loop, the final artifact runs for real once — that run produces the graded object (kernel timing, submission.csv, rebuilt binary) — and is scored by the benchmark's official grader.

The feedback conditions — all ablations of the same loop

conditionin-loop feedbackreal executions
basenone (0 turns)1 (final only)
self-repairexecutor every turn (errors / pass counts)every turn + final
cwm — rubricWM rubric reward vector every turn1 (final only)
cwm — dual (θ=0.7)rubric rewards, or simulated output/errors when rubric score ≥ θ1 (final only)
cwm — sim-onlyWM-simulated output/errors ONLY (no rubrics anywhere)1 (final only)
frameworkrace winner each turn (any WM lane above vs executor)started every turn; losers killed

Per-benchmark instantiation

KernelBenchMLE-bench LiteProgramBench
artifact / turnone kernel.py defining ModelNew (inline CUDA) complete train.pymulti-file bundle (### FILE: sections incl. compile.sh)
in-loop executorupstream eval_kernel_against_ref: nvcc compile + 5 correctness trials + 100+100 timing trials, fresh subprocess (bad kernels hang/corrupt CUDA) real training run on the GPU (cap 1200s); success = exit 0 + submission.csv written bash compile.sh (cap 600s) + ONE real upstream hidden-test branch (~500-2000 pytest tests), aggregate feedback only
typical exec latency~1–4 min~1–20 min~30s–5 min (fails fast on compile errors — why the WM only wins ~half the races here)
final gradingsame upstream call — solved = compiled ∧ correct ∧ speedup>1; >10× hack flag + static checker loggedofficial mlebench.grade_csv (score + medal vs human leaderboard)ALL hidden branches locally; plus upstream-format submission.tar.gz for the official Docker harness (off-cluster)
modelsconfig A: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B codes, Haiku judges rubrics · config B: swapped · Qwen self-hosted on vLLM (cu129, no thinking)

WM-lane variants & what is deliberately NOT here

Three WM lanes, selectable per run: rubric (one call → 0/1 reward per retrieved rubric; rubrics re-selected fresh every turn), dual (θ=0.7) (rubric scorer + execution simulator start in parallel; if the rubric score clears θ the agent gets the SIMULATED output/errors instead of rubric rewards), and sim-only (the simulator call IS the lane — no rubric selection or scoring anywhere; loop stops when the sim predicts no errors). Each simulator call is single-purpose: two free-text fields (predicted output / predicted errors), no rubric content. In all variants: the RACE has no gating (first finished wins), rubric evolution is off (static DBs — the original 31k plus three domain-mined ones), no keep-last-valid safety net. Everything is logged per event / per turn / per run; the logs are what every figure and trace on this dashboard is computed from.

KernelBench — 20 tasks (L1/L2), official eval_kernel_against_ref on H200

Grading = upstream library call (5 correctness trials + 100+100 timing, in-call reference, >10× hack flag + static checker logged). solved = compiled ∧ correct ∧ speedup>1.

State of play (8-turn runs): B config — sim-only framework 6/20 = self-repair at ~4× less wall-clock (244s vs 983s/task) winning 60% of races; dual-WM 4/20; every rubric variant ≤ 4/20; base 2/20. A config flat (≤3/20 everywhere — coder-limited). Figures below are from the cap-4 fresh run (07-22); the 8-turn ladder lives on Overview + Ablations & Audit.

fresh_kernelbench_quality.png

cwm doubles base's solves in both configs (A: 1→2, B: 2→4); self-repair triples at far higher cost. Best real speedup found: 1.34×.

fresh_kernelbench_race.png

WM wins 95–100% of races (execution is minutes); framework kills every lost eval, freeing the GPU.

Real rollout traces (click to expand)

l2_16_ConvTranspose2d_Mish_Add_Hardtanh_Scaling · framework · config B — SOLVED, 1.33x speedup — WM-guided revisions

iterations=1 · WM race wins=1 · executor wins=0 · executions started/completed/killed=2/1/1 · time: generate 5s / WM 2s / execution 126s / select 1s

Event timeline (real, from the run's gymlog):

t+turneventdetail
0.0s0generatelatency_s=5.387, ok=True, code_len=2942
0.7s0selectlatency_s=0.713, k=10
2.4s0wm_calllatency_s=1.724, ok=True, n_rubrics=10, n_pass=10, n_fail=0
2.4s0racewinner=world_model, wm_latency_s=1.724, n_fail=0
2.4s0exec_cancelledafter_s=1.722
128.4s1exec_donelatency_s=125.98, passed=1, total=1, all_pass=True, blocking=True
128.4sfinalpassed=1, total=1, solved=True, wall_s=133.8
final artifact: kernel.py
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F
from torch.utils.cpp_extension import load_inline

# Define the custom CUDA kernel for fused Mish + Add + Hardtanh + Scale
fused_activation_source = """
#include <torch/extension.h>
#include <cuda_runtime.h>
#include <cmath>

__global__ void fused_mish_add_hardtanh_scale_kernel(
    const float* input,
    float* output,
    int size,
    float add_value,
    float scale,
    float min_val,
    float max_val
) {
    int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
    if (idx < size) {
        float x = input[idx];
        
        // Mish activation: x * tanh(softplus(x))
        // softplus(x) = log(1 + exp(x))
        float softplus = log(1.0f + exp(fmin(x, 20.0f)));
        float mish = x * tanh(softplus);
        
        // Add value
        float added = mish + add_value;
        
        // Hardtanh
        float clamped = fmin(fmax(added, min_val), max_val);
        
        // Scale
        output[idx] = clamped * scale;
    }
}

torch::Tensor fused_mish_add_hardtanh_scale_cuda(
    torch::Tensor input,
    float add_value,
    float scale
) {
    auto size = input.numel();
    auto output = torch::empty_like(input);
    
    const int block_size = 256;
    const int num_blocks = (size + block_size - 1) / block_size;
    
    fused_mish_add_hardtanh_scale_kernel<<<num_blocks, block_size>>>(
        input.data_ptr<float>(),
        output.data_ptr<float>(),
        size,
        add_value,
        scale,
        -1.0f,
        1.0f
    );
    
    return output;
}
"""

fused_activation_cpp_source = (
    "torch::Tensor fused_mish_add_hardtanh_scale_cuda(torch::Tensor input, float add_value, float scale);"
)

# Compile the inline CUDA code
fused_activation = load_inline(
    name="fused_activation",
    cpp_sources=fused_activation_cpp_source,
    cuda_sources=fused_activation_source,
    functions=["fused_mish_add_hardtanh_scale_cuda"],
    verbose=False,
    extra_cflags=[],
    extra_ldflags=[],
)


class FusedMishAddHardtanhScaleFunction(torch.autograd.Function):
    @staticmethod
    def forward(ctx, input, add_value, scale):
        ctx.add_value = add_value
        ctx.scale = scale
        output = fused_activation.fused_mish_add_hardtanh_scale_cuda(input, add_value, scale)
        ctx.save_for_backward(input)
        return output

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l1_100_HingeLoss · framework · config A — unsolved — WM won all 4 races, every losing eval killed

iterations=4 · WM race wins=4 · executor wins=0 · executions started/completed/killed=5/1/4 · time: generate 28s / WM 15s / execution 127s / select 1s

Event timeline (real, from the run's gymlog):

t+turneventdetail
0.0s0generatelatency_s=4.971, ok=True, code_len=4462
0.5s0selectlatency_s=0.522, k=10
4.0s0wm_calllatency_s=3.5, ok=True, n_rubrics=10, n_pass=9, n_fail=1
4.0s0racewinner=world_model, wm_latency_s=3.5, n_fail=1
4.0s0exec_cancelledafter_s=3.499
9.2s0reviselatency_s=5.192, ok=True, code_len=4645
9.5s1selectlatency_s=0.283, k=10
13.9s1wm_calllatency_s=4.402, ok=True, n_rubrics=10, n_pass=9, n_fail=1
13.9s1racewinner=world_model, wm_latency_s=4.402, n_fail=1
13.9s1exec_cancelledafter_s=4.401
19.1s1reviselatency_s=5.153, ok=True, code_len=4595
19.3s2selectlatency_s=0.267, k=10
23.2s2wm_calllatency_s=3.91, ok=True, n_rubrics=10, n_pass=9, n_fail=1
23.2s2racewinner=world_model, wm_latency_s=3.91, n_fail=1
23.2s2exec_cancelledafter_s=3.91
29.6s2reviselatency_s=6.369, ok=True, code_len=6010
29.9s3selectlatency_s=0.288, k=10
33.6s3wm_calllatency_s=3.686, ok=True, n_rubrics=10, n_pass=9, n_fail=1
33.6s3racewinner=world_model, wm_latency_s=3.686, n_fail=1
33.6s3exec_cancelledafter_s=3.685
39.9s3reviselatency_s=6.36, ok=True, code_len=6010
167.0s4exec_donelatency_s=127.088, passed=0, total=1, all_pass=False, blocking=True
167.0sfinalpassed=0, total=1, solved=False, wall_s=172.0
final artifact: kernel.py
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from torch.utils.cpp_extension import load_inline

# Custom CUDA kernel for optimized Hinge Loss computation
# Combines: element-wise multiplication, subtraction from 1, clamp, and mean reduction
hinge_loss_source = """
#include <torch/extension.h>
#include <cuda_runtime.h>
#include <c10/cuda/CUDAGuard.h>

__global__ void hinge_loss_kernel(
    const float* predictions,
    const float* targets,
    float* out,
    int n
) {
    // Each block reduces a chunk of the array to a partial sum
    extern __shared__ float shared_mem[];
    
    int tid = threadIdx.x;
    int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
    
    // Load data into shared memory with coalesced access
    float val = 0.0f;
    if (idx < n) {
        // Compute hinge loss: max(0, 1 - prediction * target)
        float product = predictions[idx] * targets[idx];
        float loss = 1.0f - product;
        val = (loss > 0.0f) ? loss : 0.0f;
    }
    
    shared_mem[tid] = val;
    __syncthreads();
    
    // Parallel reduction in shared memory
    for (int stride = blockDim.x / 2; stride > 0; stride >>= 1) {
        if (tid < stride) {
            shared_mem[tid] += shared_mem[tid + stride];
        }
        __syncthreads();
    }
    
    // Write the sum for this block to global memory
    if (tid == 0) {
        out[blockIdx.x] = shared_mem[0];
    }
}

torch::Tensor hinge_loss_cuda(torch::Tensor predictions, torch::Tensor targets) {
    TORCH_CHECK(predictions.is_cuda(), "predictions must be a CUDA tensor");
    TORCH_CHECK(targets.is_cuda(), "targets must be a CUDA tensor");
    TORCH_CHECK(predictions.scalar_type() == torch::kFloat32, "predictions must be FP32");
    TORCH_CHECK(targets.scalar_type() == torch::kFloat32, "targets must be FP32");
    TORCH_CHECK(predictions.numel() == targets.numel(), "predictions and targets must have the same number of elements");
    
    const int n = predictions.numel();
    if (n == 0) {
        return torch::tensor(0.0f, torch::device(torch::kCUDA).dtype(torch::kFloat32));
    }
    
    // Calculate grid and block dimensions
    const int block_size = 256;
    const int num_blocks = (n + block_size - 1) / block_size;
    // Cap the number of blocks to avoid excessive grid size
    const int capped_blocks = std::min(num_blocks, 65535);
    
    // Allocate output tensor for partial sums
    auto out = torch::empty({capped_blocks}, torch::TensorOptions().dtype(torch::kFloat32).device(torch::kCUDA));
    
    // Launch kernel
    const auto* pred_ptr = predictions.data_ptr<float>();
    const auto* tgt_ptr = targets.data_ptr<float>();
    auto* out_ptr = out.data_ptr<float>();
    
    const size_t shared_mem_size = block_size * sizeof(float);
    
    hinge_loss_kernel<<<capped_blocks, block_size, shared_mem_size>>>(
        pred_ptr, tgt_ptr, out_ptr, n
    );
    
    // Synchronize to ensure kernel completion
    cudaDeviceSynchronize();
    
    // Final reduction: sum all partial sums and divide by n
    auto final_sum = out.sum();
    auto result = final_sum / static_cast<float>(n);
    
    return result;
}
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Inside one turn — REAL config-A trace (KernelBench cap-8 run, turn 1)

REAL run trace (config A: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B codes, Haiku judges rubrics) — logged automatically by the harness.

task kernelbench/l1_11_4D_tensor_matrix_multiplication · mode race · iterations 1 · solved False · the agent's full turn input = the revise template (Method tab) filled with ⓪ the task + ①b its previous code + ③ the feedback below

⓪ Task prompt (embedded verbatim in every turn's input, 4255 chars):

You write custom CUDA operators to replace the pytorch operators in the given architecture to get speedups.

You have complete freedom to choose the set of operators you want to replace. You may make the decision to replace some operators with custom CUDA operators and leave others unchanged. You may replace multiple operators with custom implementations, consider operator fusion opportunities (combining multiple operators into a single kernel, for example, combining matmul+relu), or algorithmic changes (such as online softmax). You are only limited by your imagination.

Here's an example to show you the syntax of inline embedding custom CUDA operators in PyTorch:

Example:

Input architecture:

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F


class Model(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        super().__init__()

    def forward(self, a, b):
        return a + b


def get_inputs():
    # randomly generate input tensors based on the model architecture
    a = torch.randn(1, 128).cuda()
    b = torch.randn(1, 128).cuda()
    return [a, b]


def get_init_inputs():
    # randomly generate tensors required for initialization based on the model architecture
    return []


Optimized with CUDA operators:

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F
from torch.utils.cpp_extension import load_inline

# Define the custom CUDA kernel for element-wise addition
elementwise_add_source = """
#include <torch/extension.h>
#include <cuda_runtime.h>

__global__ void elementwise_add_kernel(const float* a, const float* b, float* out, int size) {
    int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
    if (idx < size) {
        out[idx] = a[idx] + b[idx];
    }
}

torch::Tensor elementwise_add_cuda(torch::Tensor a, torch::Tensor b) {
    auto size = a.numel();
    auto out = torch::zeros_like(a);

    const int block_size = 256;
    const int num_blocks = (size + block_size - 1) / block_size;

    elementwise_add_kernel<<<num_blocks, block_size>>>(a.data_ptr<float>(), b.data_ptr<float>(), out.data_ptr<float>(), size);

    return out;
}
"""

elementwise_add_cpp_source = (
    "torch::Tensor elementwise_add_cuda(torch::Tensor a, torch::Tensor b);"
)
... [73 more lines]

①b Previous code (what the agent is revising, from turn 0, 4783 chars):

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from torch.utils.cpp_extension import load_inline

# Custom CUDA kernel for 4D tensor-matrix multiplication: C[b, i, j, k] = sum_l A[b, i, j, l] * B[l, k]
# We reshape A to (b*i*j, l) and B to (l, k) and perform batched-like matrix multiplication.
# To maximize performance, we use a tiled matrix multiplication approach.

custom_matmul_source = """
#include <torch/extension.h>
#include <cuda_runtime.h>
#include <c10/cuda/CUDAGuard.h>

// Tiled matrix multiplication kernel
// A: (M, K_in), B: (K_in, N), C: (M, N)
// Each thread block computes a tile of C.
__global__ void matmul_kernel(
    const float* __restrict__ A,
    const float* __restrict__ B,
    float* __restrict__ C,
    int M,
    int K_in,
    int N
) {
    // Tile size
    const int TILE_SIZE = 32;
    
    // Shared memory for tiles of A and B
    __shared__ float As[TILE_SIZE][TILE_SIZE];
    __shared__ float Bs[TILE_SIZE][TILE_SIZE];
    
    // Block indices
    int bx = blockIdx.x;
    int by = blockIdx.y;
    
    // Thread indices within block
    int tx = threadIdx.x;
    int ty = threadIdx.y;
    
    // Global row and column indices for this thread
    int row = by * TILE_SIZE + ty;
    int col = bx * TILE_SIZE + tx;
    
    // Accumulator for the dot product
    float sum = 0.0f;
    
    // Loop over K dimension in tiles
    for (int k = 0; k < K_in; k += TILE_SIZE) {
        // Load tile from A into shared memory
        if (row < M && (k + tx) < K_in) {
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fresh_kernelbench_latency.png

cwm ≈ base wall-clock (~120–150s) while iterating 4 turns — WM feedback is nearly free here. Self-repair pays ~4×.

MLE-bench Lite — 22 competitions, official mlebench grader

Full Lite split (22/22 prepared). run-cap 1200s/training; framework kills race-losing trainings.

State of play (8-turn runs): self-repair dominates validity (19-21/22 — its traceback feedback is exactly what fixes broken training scripts); sim-only framework is the best WM condition (B 14/22 vs base 9/22, 107s vs 572s/task); rubric variants ≤ base. MLE domain-DB eval deliberately held — its mined DB failed retrieval QC (1.45/5). Figures below are from the cap-4 fresh run (07-22).

fresh_mlelite_quality.png

Self-repair clearly best on validity (B: 19/22 = 86%); bare-bones WM-only revision HURTS validity vs base (no safety net — it breaks working scripts). Config A took 2 medals (base + self-repair arms).

fresh_mlelite_race.png

WM wins 68–92% of races; framework at 140s wall in B — faster than base — but validity 9/22 vs self-repair's 19/22: speed bought with weak-WM quality.

Real rollout traces (click to expand)

aerial-cactus-identification · framework · config A — valid, 0.982 AUC — 3 in-loop trainings killed by WM race wins

iterations=3 · WM race wins=3 · executor wins=0 · executions started/completed/killed=4/1/3 · time: generate 81s / WM 14s / execution 1112s / select 1s

Event timeline (real, from the run's gymlog):

t+turneventdetail
0.0s0generatelatency_s=23.899, ok=True, code_len=23809
0.4s0selectlatency_s=0.424, k=10
4.3s0wm_calllatency_s=3.893, ok=True, n_rubrics=10, n_pass=0, n_fail=10
4.3s0racewinner=world_model, wm_latency_s=3.893, n_fail=10
4.3s0exec_cancelledafter_s=3.892
22.6s0reviselatency_s=18.25, ok=True, code_len=17377
22.9s1selectlatency_s=0.38, k=10
26.8s1wm_calllatency_s=3.884, ok=True, n_rubrics=10, n_pass=0, n_fail=10
26.8s1racewinner=world_model, wm_latency_s=3.884, n_fail=10
26.8s1exec_cancelledafter_s=3.883
46.1s1reviselatency_s=19.225, ok=True, code_len=18461
46.4s2selectlatency_s=0.35, k=10
52.7s2wm_calllatency_s=6.259, ok=True, n_rubrics=10, n_pass=0, n_fail=10
52.7s2racewinner=world_model, wm_latency_s=6.259, n_fail=10
52.7s2exec_cancelledafter_s=6.258
71.9s2reviselatency_s=19.229, ok=True, code_len=18461
1183.8s3exec_donelatency_s=1111.914, passed=1, total=1, all_pass=True, blocking=True
1183.8sfinalpassed=1, total=1, solved=True, wall_s=1207.7
final artifact: train.py
import os
import sys
import glob
import zipfile
import shutil
import traceback
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier, GradientBoostingClassifier
from sklearn.model_selection import cross_val_score, StratifiedKFold
from sklearn.metrics import roc_auc_score
import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')

# Try to import tensorflow/keras or torch, but handle gracefully
try:
    import tensorflow as tf
    from tensorflow import keras
    from tensorflow.keras import layers
    from tensorflow.keras.preprocessing.image import ImageDataGenerator
    from tensorflow.keras.applications import MobileNetV2, EfficientNetB0
    HAS_TF = True
except ImportError:
    HAS_TF = False
    print("TensorFlow not available, will use sklearn fallback.")

try:
    import torch
    import torchvision
    import torchvision.transforms as transforms
    import torchvision.models as models
    HAS_TORCH = True
except ImportError:
    HAS_TORCH = False
    print("PyTorch not available, will use sklearn fallback.")

def extract_zip_if_needed(zip_path, extract_dir):
    """Extract zip file if the directory doesn't exist."""
    if not os.path.exists(extract_dir):
        if os.path.exists(zip_path):
            print(f"Extracting {zip_path} to {extract_dir}")
            try:
                with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_path, 'r') as zip_ref:
                    zip_ref.extractall(extract_dir)
                return True
            except Exception as e:
                print(f"Error extracting {zip_path}: {e}")
                return False
    return True

def find_sample_submission(data_dir):
    """Find the sample submission file using glob."""
    patterns = [
        os.path.join(data_dir, 'sample*submission*.csv'),
        os.path.join(data_dir, 'sample*Submission*.csv'),
        os.path.join(data_dir, '*sample*submission*.csv'),
    ]
    for pattern in patterns:
        matches = glob.glob(pattern)
        if matches:
            return matches[0]
    return None

def find_train_csv(data_dir):
    """Find the train.csv file."""
    csv_candidates = ['train.csv', 'Train.csv', 'training.csv', 'labels.csv']
    
    # Check root data_dir first
    for name in csv_candidates:
        path = os.path.join(data_dir, name)
        if os.path.exists(path):
            return path
    
    # Check subdirectories
    if os.path.exists(data_dir):
        for item in os.listdir(data_dir):
            item_path = os.path.join(data_dir, item)
            if os.path.isdir(item_path):
                for name in csv_candidates:
                    path = os.path.join(item_path, name)
                    if os.path.exists(path):
                        return path
    return None

def find_image_directories(data_dir):
    """Find train and test image directories."""
    train_image_dir = None
    test_image_dir = None
    
    if not os.path.exists(data_dir):
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detecting-insults-in-social-commentary · framework · config A — valid, 0.874 AUC (the comp our submission-format fix rescued)

iterations=3 · WM race wins=3 · executor wins=0 · executions started/completed/killed=4/1/3 · time: generate 46s / WM 11s / execution 62s / select 1s

Event timeline (real, from the run's gymlog):

t+turneventdetail
0.0s0generatelatency_s=14.653, ok=True, code_len=14659
0.3s0selectlatency_s=0.328, k=10
4.1s0wm_calllatency_s=3.782, ok=True, n_rubrics=10, n_pass=4, n_fail=6
4.1s0racewinner=world_model, wm_latency_s=3.782, n_fail=6
4.1s0exec_cancelledafter_s=3.781
19.5s0reviselatency_s=15.346, ok=True, code_len=15308
19.8s1selectlatency_s=0.316, k=10
23.5s1wm_calllatency_s=3.712, ok=True, n_rubrics=10, n_pass=7, n_fail=3
23.5s1racewinner=world_model, wm_latency_s=3.712, n_fail=3
23.5s1exec_cancelledafter_s=3.711
39.5s1reviselatency_s=15.99, ok=True, code_len=16166
39.7s2selectlatency_s=0.258, k=10
43.7s2wm_calllatency_s=3.988, ok=True, n_rubrics=10, n_pass=10, n_fail=0
43.7s2racewinner=world_model, wm_latency_s=3.987, n_fail=0
43.7s2exec_cancelledafter_s=3.986
106.1s3exec_donelatency_s=62.41, passed=1, total=1, all_pass=True, blocking=True
106.1sfinalpassed=1, total=1, solved=True, wall_s=120.8
final artifact: train.py
import os
import sys
import glob
import zipfile
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import traceback
from sklearn.model_selection import StratifiedKFold
from sklearn.metrics import roc_auc_score
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
from sklearn.ensemble import GradientBoostingClassifier, RandomForestClassifier, VotingClassifier
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from scipy.sparse import hstack, csr_matrix
import warnings

warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')

def extract_zip_if_needed(zip_path, extract_dir):
    """Extract zip file if the target directory doesn't exist.
    
    Rationale: Efficiently handles compressed data inputs common in Kaggle competitions.
    """
    if not os.path.exists(extract_dir):
        if os.path.exists(zip_path):
            print(f"Extracting {zip_path} to {extract_dir}")
            try:
                with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_path, 'r') as z:
                    z.extractall(extract_dir)
                return True
            except Exception as e:
                print(f"Error extracting {zip_path}: {e}")
                return False
    return False

def find_sample_submission(data_dir):
    """Find the sample submission file using globbing.
    
    Rationale: Robustly identifies the expected output format to ensure submission compatibility.
    """
    patterns = [
        os.path.join(data_dir, '*sample*submission*.csv'),
        os.path.join(data_dir, '*sample*sub*.csv'),
        os.path.join(data_dir, '*submission*.csv')
    ]
    
    for pattern in patterns:
        matches = glob.glob(pattern)
        if matches:
            # Return the first match, preferring ones with 'sample' in name
            sample_matches = [m for m in matches if 'sample' in os.path.basename(m).lower()]
            if sample_matches:
                return sample_matches[0]
            return matches[0]
    return None

def load_data(data_dir):
    """Load training and test data, handling various formats.
    
    Rationale: Handles both direct CSVs and zipped archives, ensuring robustness across different data delivery methods.
    """
    # Check for zip files first
    train_zip = os.path.join(data_dir, 'train.zip')
    test_zip = os.path.join(data_dir, 'test.zip')
    
    if os.path.exists(train_zip):
        extract_zip_if_needed(train_zip, data_dir)
    if os.path.exists(test_zip):
        extract_zip_if_needed(test_zip, data_dir)
    
    # Find CSV files
    csv_files = glob.glob(os.path.join(data_dir, '*.csv'))
    
    train_file = None
    test_file = None
    
    for f in csv_files:
        fname = os.path.basename(f).lower()
        if 'train' in fname and 'test' not in fname:
            train_file = f
        elif 'test' in fname and 'train' not in fname:
            test_file = f
    
    # If we didn't find specific files, try to identify by content
    if not train_file or not test_file:
        for f in csv_files:
            fname = os.path.basename(f).lower()
            if 'train' in fname:
                train_file = f
            elif 'test' in fname:
                test_file = f
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Inside one turn — REAL config-A trace (MLE-Lite cap-8 run, turn 1)

REAL run trace (config A: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B codes, Haiku judges rubrics) — logged automatically by the harness.

task mlebench/dog-breed-identification · mode cwm · iterations 2 · solved False · the agent's full turn input = the revise template (Method tab) filled with ⓪ the task + ①b its previous code + ③ the feedback below

⓪ Task prompt (embedded verbatim in every turn's input, 4063 chars):

# Overview

## Description

Who's a good dog? Who likes ear scratches? Well, it seems those fancy deep neural networks don't have *all* the answers. However, maybe they can answer that ubiquitous question we all ask when meeting a four-legged stranger: what kind of good pup is that?

In this playground competition, you are provided a strictly canine subset of [ImageNet](https://www.kaggle.com/c/imagenet-object-detection-challenge) in order to practice fine-grained image categorization. How well you can tell your Norfolk Terriers from your Norwich Terriers? With 120 breeds of dogs and a limited number training images per class, you might find the problem more, err, ruff than you anticipated.

![border_collies.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/competitions/kaggle/3333/media/border_collies.png)

### Acknowledgments

We extend our gratitude to the creators of the [Stanford Dogs Dataset](http://vision.stanford.edu/aditya86/ImageNetDogs/) for making this competition possible: Aditya Khosla, Nityananda Jayadevaprakash, Bangpeng Yao, and Fei-Fei Li.

---

## Evaluation

Submissions are evaluated on [Multi Class Log Loss](https://www.kaggle.com/wiki/MultiClassLogLoss) between the predicted probability and the observed target.

### Submission File

For each image in the test set, you must predict a probability for each of the different breeds. The file should contain a header and have the following format:
```
id,affenpinscher,afghan_hound,..,yorkshire_terrier
000621fb3cbb32d8935728e48679680e,0.0083,0.0,...,0.0083
etc.
```

---

## Citation

Will Cukierski. (2017). Dog Breed Identification. Kaggle. https://kaggle.com/competitions/dog-breed-identification

---

# Dataset Description

You are provided with a training set and a test set of images of dogs. Each image has a filename that is its unique `id`. The dataset comprises 120 breeds of dogs. The goal of the competition is to create a classifier capable of determining a dog's breed from a photo. The list of breeds is as follows:

```
affenpinscher
afghan_hound
african_hunting_dog
airedale
american_staffordshire_terrier
appenzeller
australian_terrier
basenji
basset
beagle
bedlington_terrier
bernese_mountain_dog
black-and-tan_coonhound
blenheim_spaniel
bloodhound
bluetick
border_collie
border_terrier
borzoi
boston_bull
bouvier_des_flandres
boxer
brabancon_griffon
briard
brittany_spaniel
bull_mastiff
cairn
cardigan
... [99 more lines]

①b Previous code (what the agent is revising, from turn 0, 14190 chars):

import os
import sys
import glob
import zipfile
import shutil
import traceback
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from PIL import Image
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.optim as optim
from torch.utils.data import Dataset, DataLoader
import torchvision.transforms as transforms
import torchvision.models as models
from tqdm import tqdm
import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')

# Configuration
DEVICE = torch.device('cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu')
BATCH_SIZE = 64
NUM_EPOCHS = 5
LEARNING_RATE = 1e-4
IMG_SIZE = 224
DATA_DIR = './data'
SUBMISSION_FILE = './submission.csv'

def extract_zip_if_needed(zip_path, extract_dir):
    """Extract zip file if the directory doesn't exist."""
    if not os.path.exists(extract_dir):
        if os.path.exists(zip_path):
            print(f"Extracting {zip_path} to {extract_dir}")
            with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_path, 'r') as zip_ref:
                zip_ref.extractall(extract_dir)
            return True
    return False

def find_sample_submission(data_dir):
    """Find the sample submission file using glob."""
    patterns = [
        os.path.join(data_dir, 'sample*submission*.csv'),
        os.path.join(data_dir, '*sample*submission*.csv'),
        os.path.join(data_dir, '*submission*.csv')
    ]
    
    for pattern in patterns:
        matches = glob.glob(pattern)
        if matches:
            # Return the first match that looks like a sample submission
... [344 more lines]

① Selector output (0.307s) — the 10 rubrics retrieved:

[5395d4a0eb21b217] The solution is structured clearly with well-named helper routines separating candidate generation, validation, and output.
[da27328ed4df8c87] The solution adds tests that exercise the newly supported input category through a realistic, representative scenario
[1560bacc6cc7477d] The solution adds test coverage for the newly supported category, including its recognition, correct field extraction, and end-to-end processing.
[a0d559a337839302] The solution outputs the per-category counts in the exact required order and format, one value per line, for each dataset.
[f3f986c11b1fd8a1] The solution outputs exactly one result token per dataset using the required output labels.
[db2ea3fd2b8b077a] The solution outputs, for each dataset, the required positional index using the specified indexing convention (e.g., 1-based) and format.
[43aee606ca1dfad0] The solution reads multiple datasets until the designated sentinel line signaling end of input, and processes each dataset independently.
[383eec3548e9206d] The solution correctly navigates and inspects the appropriate nested structures for each distinct output shape, extracting the value under test from the correct location.
[e3f41dd875b9256d] The solution reads multiple datasets until the designated termination sentinel is encountered, processing each dataset independently.
[c1fda7a39e9b37bb] The solution is clearly written and documented, with comments or docstrings that explain the intent and rationale of non-obvious classification logic.

② CWM output (3.573s) — the complete reward vector (2/10 pass):

reward=1  The solution is structured clearly with well-named helper routines separating candidate generation, validation, and output.
reward=0  The solution adds tests that exercise the newly supported input category through a realistic, representative scenario
reward=0  The solution adds test coverage for the newly supported category, including its recognition, correct field extraction, and end-to-end processing.
reward=0  The solution outputs the per-category counts in the exact required order and format, one value per line, for each dataset.
reward=0  The solution outputs exactly one result token per dataset using the required output labels.
reward=0  The solution outputs, for each dataset, the required positional index using the specified indexing convention (e.g., 1-based) and format.
reward=0  The solution reads multiple datasets until the designated sentinel line signaling end of input, and processes each dataset independently.
reward=0  The solution correctly navigates and inspects the appropriate nested structures for each distinct output shape, extracting the value under test from the correct location.
reward=0  The solution reads multiple datasets until the designated termination sentinel is encountered, processing each dataset independently.
reward=1  The solution is clearly written and documented, with comments or docstrings that explain the intent and rationale of non-obvious classification logic.

③ Feedback text the coding agent received (source: world_model):

Rubric rewards for your previous code (1 = satisfied, 0 = violated):
[reward=1] The solution is structured clearly with well-named helper routines separating candidate generation, validation, and output.
[reward=0] The solution adds tests that exercise the newly supported input category through a realistic, representative scenario
[reward=0] The solution adds test coverage for the newly supported category, including its recognition, correct field extraction, and end-to-end processing.
[reward=0] The solution outputs the per-category counts in the exact required order and format, one value per line, for each dataset.
[reward=0] The solution outputs exactly one result token per dataset using the required output labels.
[reward=0] The solution outputs, for each dataset, the required positional index using the specified indexing convention (e.g., 1-based) and format.
[reward=0] The solution reads multiple datasets until the designated sentinel line signaling end of input, and processes each dataset independently.
[reward=0] The solution correctly navigates and inspects the appropriate nested structures for each distinct output shape, extracting the value under test from the correct location.
[reward=0] The solution reads multiple datasets until the designated termination sentinel is encountered, processing each dataset independently.
[reward=1] The solution is clearly written and documented, with comments or docstrings that explain the intent and rationale of non-obvious classification logic.

Revise the code to satisfy the criteria with reward 0 while keeping the ones with reward 1 satisfied.

④ Agent's revised output (14.302s, 14190 chars — first 60 lines):

import os
import sys
import glob
import zipfile
import shutil
import traceback
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from PIL import Image
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.optim as optim
from torch.utils.data import Dataset, DataLoader
import torchvision.transforms as transforms
import torchvision.models as models
from tqdm import tqdm
import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')

# Configuration
DEVICE = torch.device('cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu')
BATCH_SIZE = 64
NUM_EPOCHS = 5
LEARNING_RATE = 1e-4
IMG_SIZE = 224
DATA_DIR = './data'
SUBMISSION_FILE = './submission.csv'

def extract_zip_if_needed(zip_path, extract_dir):
    """Extract zip file if the directory doesn't exist."""
    if not os.path.exists(extract_dir):
        if os.path.exists(zip_path):
            print(f"Extracting {zip_path} to {extract_dir}")
            with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_path, 'r') as zip_ref:
                zip_ref.extractall(extract_dir)
            return True
    return False

def find_sample_submission(data_dir):
    """Find the sample submission file using glob."""
    patterns = [
        os.path.join(data_dir, 'sample*submission*.csv'),
        os.path.join(data_dir, '*sample*submission*.csv'),
        os.path.join(data_dir, '*submission*.csv')
    ]
    
    for pattern in patterns:
        matches = glob.glob(pattern)
        if matches:
            # Return the first match that looks like a sample submission
            for match in matches:
                if 'sample' in os.path.basename(match).lower():
                    return match
            # If no sample found, return the first submission file
            return matches[0]
    
    raise FileNotFoundError("Could not find sample submission file")

def find_labels_csv(data_dir):
    """Find the labels CSV file."""
fresh_mlelite_latency.png

Training dominates self-repair's wall; WM arms keep completed-training time near base.

ProgramBench — 8 rebuild-from-binary tasks (c/go), real upstream hidden tests

Executor runs the REAL upstream test blobs locally (all branches for final scores; 1 branch in-loop). Feedback is aggregate-only — hidden-test identities never reach the agent (upstream information protocol). Official leaderboard grading additionally needs their Docker harness → every final artifact is packaged as upstream submission.tar.gz (ready to grade on a Docker box). Local toolchain ≠ their cleanroom image (documented).

State of play (8-turn runs): sim-only framework is the outright winner (B mean 0.223 vs base 0.078, self-repair 0.028) — the one benchmark where the WM BEATS real feedback, because the real signal is aggregate-only pass counts while the simulator names specific predicted failures. All rubric variants ≤ base. Figures below are from the cap-4 fresh run (07-22).

fresh_programbench_quality.png

Execution signal drives everything: self-repair best (mean 4–6% of hidden tests, best 22.5%); WM-only = base or worse. Rebuilding real programs from binaries is brutally hard for weak models — nonzero scores are genuine partial rebuilds.

fresh_programbench_race.png

WM wins only ~half the races here — fast-failing compiles return in seconds and legitimately beat the WM. First-finished semantics working as intended.

Real rollout traces (click to expand)

abishekvashok__cmatrix.5c082c6 · selfrepair · config A — best local score — 19% of hidden tests on a from-scratch cmatrix rebuild

iterations=2 · WM race wins=0 · executor wins=2 · executions started/completed/killed=3/3/0 · time: generate 67s / WM 0s / execution 37s / select 0s

Event timeline (real, from the run's gymlog):

t+turneventdetail
0.0s0generatelatency_s=21.645, ok=True, code_len=16276
0.9s0exec_donelatency_s=0.716, passed=0, total=141, all_pass=False, blocking=True
23.0s0reviselatency_s=22.142, ok=True, code_len=16075
41.4s1exec_donelatency_s=18.227, passed=26, total=141, all_pass=False, blocking=True
64.2s1reviselatency_s=22.869, ok=True, code_len=16075
82.1s2exec_donelatency_s=17.762, passed=25, total=141, all_pass=False, blocking=True
82.1sfinalpassed=25, total=141, solved=False, wall_s=103.8
final artifact: cmatrix.c
/*
 * CMatrix - Matrix-like effect in your terminal
 * 
 * Rebuilt from documentation.
 * Supports: -a, -b, -B, -f, -l, -o, -c, -L, -h, -r, -k, -n, -s, -m, -x, -V, -u, -C, -M, -t
 * Interactive: a, b, B, n, 0-9, !@#$%^&), q
 */

#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200809L
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <getopt.h>

/* --- Configuration & Globals --- */

#define MAX_COLS 200
#define MAX_ROWS 100
#define MAX_SPEED 9
#define DEFAULT_SPEED 4

/* Colors */
#define COLOR_GREEN 1
#define COLOR_RED 2
#define COLOR_BLUE 3
#define COLOR_WHITE 4
#define COLOR_YELLOW 5
#define COLOR_CYAN 6
#define COLOR_MAGENTA 7
#define COLOR_BLACK 8
#define COLOR_RAINBOW 9

typedef struct {
    int x;
    int y;
    int speed;
    int len;
    int bold;
    int head; /* 1 if this is the leading character */
    int shadow; /* 1 if this is a shadow character */
} Drop;

/* Global State */
static int width = 80;
static int height = 24;
static int speed = DEFAULT_SPEED;
static int async_scroll = 0;
static int bold_chars = 0;
static int all_bold = 0;
static int no_bold = 0;
static int old_style = 0;
static int shadows_only = 0;
static int rainbow_mode = 0;
static int every_char_change = 0;
static int lambda_mode = 0;
static int screensaver_mode = 0;
static int lock_mode = 0;
static int force_linux_term = 0;
static int linux_mode = 0;
static int x_window_mode = 0;
static int use_tty = 0;
static char tty_name[256] = "";
static int color_mode = COLOR_GREEN;
static char *center_message = NULL;

/* The grid: stores the character at each position */
static char grid[MAX_ROWS][MAX_COLS];
/* Stores the color index for each position */
static int grid_color[MAX_ROWS][MAX_COLS];
/* Stores the speed of the drop passing through this cell (for async) */
static int grid_speed[MAX_ROWS][MAX_COLS];

/* Drops */
static Drop drops[MAX_COLS];
static int num_drops = 0;

/* Termios */
static struct termios orig_termios;
static int tty_fd = STDIN_FILENO;

/* --- Helper Functions --- */

… [460 more lines]
final artifact: compile.sh
#!/bin/bash
set -e

gcc -std=c11 -O2 -o executable cmatrix.c -lm -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L 2>/dev/null || \
gcc -std=c11 -O2 -o executable cmatrix.c -lm
abishekvashok__cmatrix.5c082c6 · framework · config A — same task, race arm — mixed WM/executor turns

iterations=2 · WM race wins=1 · executor wins=1 · executions started/completed/killed=3/2/1 · time: generate 62s / WM 16s / execution 14s / select 1s

Event timeline (real, from the run's gymlog):

t+turneventdetail
0.0s0generatelatency_s=20.44, ok=True, code_len=16276
0.3s0selectlatency_s=0.285, k=10
0.9s0exec_donelatency_s=0.53, passed=0, total=141, all_pass=False, blocking=False
0.9s0racewinner=interpreter, latency_s=0.53
9.2s0wm_calllatency_s=8.896, ok=True, n_rubrics=10, n_pass=0, n_fail=10
9.2s0auditagree=True, wm_all_pass=False, wm_n_fail=10, exec_fraction=0.0, code_sha=d11235d1afc2
21.5s0reviselatency_s=20.527, ok=True, code_len=16075
21.7s1selectlatency_s=0.267, k=10
29.2s1wm_calllatency_s=7.464, ok=True, n_rubrics=10, n_pass=0, n_fail=10
29.2s1racewinner=world_model, wm_latency_s=7.464, n_fail=10
29.6s1exec_cancelledafter_s=7.85
50.2s1reviselatency_s=20.564, ok=True, code_len=16075
63.3s2exec_donelatency_s=13.025, passed=26, total=141, all_pass=False, blocking=True
63.3sfinalpassed=26, total=141, solved=False, wall_s=83.7
final artifact: cmatrix.c
/*
 * CMatrix - Matrix-like effect in your terminal
 * 
 * Rebuilt from documentation.
 * Supports: -a, -b, -B, -f, -l, -o, -c, -L, -h, -r, -k, -n, -s, -m, -x, -V, -u, -C, -M, -t
 * Interactive: a, b, B, n, 0-9, !@#$%^&), q
 */

#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200809L
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <getopt.h>

/* --- Configuration & Globals --- */

#define MAX_COLS 200
#define MAX_ROWS 100
#define MAX_SPEED 9
#define DEFAULT_SPEED 4

/* Colors */
#define COLOR_GREEN 1
#define COLOR_RED 2
#define COLOR_BLUE 3
#define COLOR_WHITE 4
#define COLOR_YELLOW 5
#define COLOR_CYAN 6
#define COLOR_MAGENTA 7
#define COLOR_BLACK 8
#define COLOR_RAINBOW 9

typedef struct {
    int x;
    int y;
    int speed;
    int len;
    int bold;
    int head; /* 1 if this is the leading character */
    int shadow; /* 1 if this is a shadow character */
} Drop;

/* Global State */
static int width = 80;
static int height = 24;
static int speed = DEFAULT_SPEED;
static int async_scroll = 0;
static int bold_chars = 0;
static int all_bold = 0;
static int no_bold = 0;
static int old_style = 0;
static int shadows_only = 0;
static int rainbow_mode = 0;
static int every_char_change = 0;
static int lambda_mode = 0;
static int screensaver_mode = 0;
static int lock_mode = 0;
static int force_linux_term = 0;
static int linux_mode = 0;
static int x_window_mode = 0;
static int use_tty = 0;
static char tty_name[256] = "";
static int color_mode = COLOR_GREEN;
static char *center_message = NULL;

/* The grid: stores the character at each position */
static char grid[MAX_ROWS][MAX_COLS];
/* Stores the color index for each position */
static int grid_color[MAX_ROWS][MAX_COLS];
/* Stores the speed of the drop passing through this cell (for async) */
static int grid_speed[MAX_ROWS][MAX_COLS];

/* Drops */
static Drop drops[MAX_COLS];
static int num_drops = 0;

/* Termios */
static struct termios orig_termios;
static int tty_fd = STDIN_FILENO;

/* --- Helper Functions --- */

… [460 more lines]
final artifact: compile.sh
#!/bin/bash
set -e

gcc -std=c11 -O2 -o executable cmatrix.c -lm -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L 2>/dev/null || \
gcc -std=c11 -O2 -o executable cmatrix.c -lm
Inside one turn — REAL config-A trace (cmatrix, turn 1)

REAL run trace (config A: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B codes, Haiku judges rubrics) — logged automatically by the harness.

task programbench/abishekvashok__cmatrix.5c082c6 · mode race · iterations 3 · solved False · the agent's full turn input = the revise template (Method tab) filled with ⓪ the task + ①b its previous code + ③ the feedback below

⓪ Task prompt (embedded verbatim in every turn's input, 6448 chars):

Rebuild a command-line program from its documentation alone.

You are given the complete usage documentation of a compiled program (below). Write a COMPLETE, ORIGINAL codebase (language: C) plus a `compile.sh` build script that reproduces the documented program's behavior exactly.

How your submission is evaluated (you cannot interact with any of this): the reference compiled binary (`./executable`) and a hidden behavioral test suite exist only in the evaluation workspace. Your bundle is materialized into a fresh workspace, `bash compile.sh` is run (no network), and it MUST exit 0 and leave your compiled binary at `./executable` in the workspace root. The tests then invoke `./executable` with many flag/stdin/file combinations and assert on stdout, stderr, exit codes, and produced files, comparing against the reference behavior. Any revision feedback you receive comes from a subsample of those hidden tests.

Output format — respond with ONE bundle containing EVERY file of your codebase. Introduce each file with a header line of exactly this form:

### FILE: relative/path/from/workspace/root

followed by that file's raw content. `compile.sh` must be one of the files; it runs with the workspace root as CWD. Toolchain: gcc 13 (C11/C17) and make; ONLY libc/POSIX plus zlib and libjpeg dev headers are installed — ncurses/pcre/glib etc. are NOT available, so prefer dependency-free implementations (e.g. raw ANSI escape sequences and termios instead of curses).

Guidance:
- Implement every documented flag, option, default, and output format; where the docs show exact usage/help/version text, reproduce it verbatim.
- Handle error paths (unknown flag -> usage on stderr + non-zero exit) — these are tested as heavily as the happy path.
- Prefer a complete faithful implementation over a stub; keep the build one-step and dependency-free.

<documentation>
===== README.md =====
# CMatrix

Matrix-like effect in your terminal

## Overview

CMatrix is based on the screensaver from The Matrix website. It shows text
flying in and out in a terminal like as seen in "The Matrix" movie. It can
scroll lines all at the same rate or asynchronously and at a user-defined
speed.

CMatrix is inspired from 'The Matrix' movie.

> Disclaimer: We are in no way affiliated with the movie "The Matrix", "Warner Bros" nor
any of its affiliates in any way, just fans.

## Usage

Run CMatrix with the following command:
```sh
cmatrix
```

Run with different arguments to get different effects:
```sh
cmatrix [-abBflohnsmVx] [-u update] [-C color]
```

Example:
```sh
cmatrix -ba -u 2 -C red
```

### Command-line Options

- `-a` - Asynchronous scroll
- `-b` - Bold characters on
- `-B` - All bold characters (overrides -b)
- `-f` - Force the linux $TERM type to be on
- `-l` - Linux mode (sets "matrix.fnt" font in console)
- `-o` - Use old-style scrolling
- `-c` - Only print the shadows of letters
- `-L` - Locks cmatrix, unable to quit
- `-h, -?` - Print usage and exit
- `-r` - "Rainbow" mode, rainbow colored characters
- `-k` - Every characters change
- `-n` - No bold characters (overrides -b and -B)
- `-s` - "Screensaver" mode, exits on first keystroke
- `-m` - "Lambda" mode, every character becomes a lambda
- `-x` - X window mode
- `-V` - Print version information and exit
... [149 more lines]

①b Previous code (what the agent is revising, from turn 0, 19003 chars):

### FILE: compile.sh
```bash
#!/bin/bash
set -e

gcc -std=c11 -O2 -o executable cmatrix.c -lm
```

### FILE: cmatrix.c
```c
/*
 * CMatrix - Matrix-like effect in your terminal
 * 
 * Reimplementation based on documentation.
 * Uses raw ANSI escape sequences and termios for portability without ncurses.
 */

#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 /* For usleep */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <getopt.h>

/* --- Configuration & Constants --- */

#define VERSION "2.0"
#define MAX_COLS 256
#define MAX_ROWS 100
#define MAX_SPEED 9
#define DEFAULT_SPEED 4

/* Colors */
#define COLOR_GREEN  1
#define COLOR_RED    2
#define COLOR_BLUE   3
#define COLOR_WHITE  4
#define COLOR_YELLOW 5
#define COLOR_CYAN   6
#define COLOR_MAGENTA 7
#define COLOR_BLACK  8
#define COLOR_RAINBOW 9

/* Modes */
... [565 more lines]

① Selector output (0.275s) — the 10 rubrics retrieved:

[a5841f48eca0afea] The solution uses only the allowed output alphabet for matrix entries and formats rows exactly as required.
[50d2c60d6b417131] The solution reads the grid dimension and the partially filled grid according to the specified input format, and prints exactly one of the mandated status keywords in uppercase on the first line.
[c3d2c1d1dc60c7f6] The solution frames examples with clear narrative context that motivates the usage and explains what each call computes
[06cbb60d0f0f5a8f] The solution satisfies the explicitly requested command-line interface and its options, including any documented flags and subcommands.
[3f4a58cd8ed175cc] The solution includes clear, focused comments explaining non-obvious formatting or compatibility requirements imposed by the underlying platform or library.
[e1d8135e00ef6081] The solution maintains readable, well-documented code including illustrative usage examples where helpful.
[3a903f020b31e015] The solution includes clear comments or documentation explaining non-obvious behavior, such as special modes or sentinel values.
[4b3acad4c045188f] The solution correctly parses grid or matrix input dimensions and populates the internal representation faithfully to the given coordinate convention.
[e06041ce4fe5c959] The solution maintains clarity and readability, using descriptive comments to explain non-obvious workarounds or platform-specific caveats.
[d163b468e7fbb7e8] The solution keeps documentation, examples, and inline notes consistent with the actual runtime behavior of the modified code.

② CWM output (7.307s) — the complete reward vector (0/10 pass):

reward=0  The solution uses only the allowed output alphabet for matrix entries and formats rows exactly as required.
reward=0  The solution reads the grid dimension and the partially filled grid according to the specified input format, and prints exactly one of the mandated status keywords in uppercase on the first line.
reward=0  The solution frames examples with clear narrative context that motivates the usage and explains what each call computes
reward=0  The solution satisfies the explicitly requested command-line interface and its options, including any documented flags and subcommands.
reward=0  The solution includes clear, focused comments explaining non-obvious formatting or compatibility requirements imposed by the underlying platform or library.
reward=0  The solution maintains readable, well-documented code including illustrative usage examples where helpful.
reward=0  The solution includes clear comments or documentation explaining non-obvious behavior, such as special modes or sentinel values.
reward=0  The solution correctly parses grid or matrix input dimensions and populates the internal representation faithfully to the given coordinate convention.
reward=0  The solution maintains clarity and readability, using descriptive comments to explain non-obvious workarounds or platform-specific caveats.
reward=0  The solution keeps documentation, examples, and inline notes consistent with the actual runtime behavior of the modified code.

③ Feedback text the coding agent received (source: world_model):

Rubric rewards for your previous code (1 = satisfied, 0 = violated):
[reward=0] The solution uses only the allowed output alphabet for matrix entries and formats rows exactly as required.
[reward=0] The solution reads the grid dimension and the partially filled grid according to the specified input format, and prints exactly one of the mandated status keywords in uppercase on the first line.
[reward=0] The solution frames examples with clear narrative context that motivates the usage and explains what each call computes
[reward=0] The solution satisfies the explicitly requested command-line interface and its options, including any documented flags and subcommands.
[reward=0] The solution includes clear, focused comments explaining non-obvious formatting or compatibility requirements imposed by the underlying platform or library.
[reward=0] The solution maintains readable, well-documented code including illustrative usage examples where helpful.
[reward=0] The solution includes clear comments or documentation explaining non-obvious behavior, such as special modes or sentinel values.
[reward=0] The solution correctly parses grid or matrix input dimensions and populates the internal representation faithfully to the given coordinate convention.
[reward=0] The solution maintains clarity and readability, using descriptive comments to explain non-obvious workarounds or platform-specific caveats.
[reward=0] The solution keeps documentation, examples, and inline notes consistent with the actual runtime behavior of the modified code.

Revise the code to satisfy the criteria with reward 0 while keeping the ones with reward 1 satisfied.

④ Agent's revised output (24.138s, 19200 chars — first 60 lines):

### FILE: compile.sh
```bash
#!/bin/bash
set -e

gcc -std=c11 -O2 -o executable cmatrix.c -lm
```

### FILE: cmatrix.c
```c
/*
 * CMatrix - Matrix-like effect in your terminal
 * 
 * Reimplementation based on documentation.
 * Uses raw ANSI escape sequences and termios for portability without ncurses.
 * 
 * This implementation faithfully reproduces the behavior described in the
 * README.md and cmatrix.1 man page, including all command-line flags,
 * interactive keystrokes, and visual effects.
 */

#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 /* For usleep */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <getopt.h>

/* --- Configuration & Constants --- */

#define VERSION "2.0"
#define MAX_COLS 256
#define MAX_ROWS 100
#define MAX_SPEED 9
#define DEFAULT_SPEED 4

/* Colors */
#define COLOR_GREEN  1
#define COLOR_RED    2
#define COLOR_BLUE   3
#define COLOR_WHITE  4
#define COLOR_YELLOW 5
#define COLOR_CYAN   6
#define COLOR_MAGENTA 7
#define COLOR_BLACK  8
#define COLOR_RAINBOW 9

/* Modes */
#define MODE_ASYNC   0x01
#define MODE_BOLD    0x02
#define MODE_ALLBOLD 0x04
#define MODE_NOBOLD  0x08
#define MODE_OLD     0x10
#define MODE_SHADOW  0x20
fresh_programbench_latency.png

framework ~20% faster than self-repair at comparable best scores.

End-to-end experiments — wall-clock controlled

Same 30 minutes of wall clock per arm on each held-out MLE-bench program. 97 arm-runs · 20 programs · 12 competitions · 731 rubrics · coder claude-haiku-4-5 · world model claude-opus-5 · official grader only.

e2e_performance.png
e2e_mechanism.png
e2e_precision.png
e2e_race.png

Ablations & audit — which feedback channel helps, and why rubrics don't

Every condition below is the SAME loop with only the feedback channel changed (8 turns, both configs, shadow true-verifier logging that the agent never sees). Two rounds: first the dual-WM gate + audit that diagnosed the rubric channel, then the sim-only ablation + domain-matched DBs that isolated the cause. Read top to bottom — the first figure is the conclusion, the rest is the evidence chain.

fresh_ablation2_results.png

THE RESULT — the feedback-channel ladder (framework arm shown). Sim-only feedback (WM predicts output/errors, no rubrics) beats every rubric variant on all three benchmarks: ties self-repair on KB-B (6/20, winning 60% of races), triples base on PB-B (0.22 vs 0.08). The domain-matched DBs — despite doubling retrieval relevance on KB — land within noise of the old DB everywhere. Config A stays flat across all conditions: the Qwen coder, not the feedback channel, is A's bottleneck.

Why rubric feedback fails — the evidence chain

fresh_rubric_vs_true.png

(1) The proxy is decoupled from the truth. Per turn: the rubric WM score the agent optimizes against vs the hidden TRUE verifier score. Correlation near zero everywhere (KB r=+0.17, MLE r=-0.14, PB r=+0.16). On MLE the lines cross — rubric score climbs while true performance drops (partly survivorship: solved runs early-stop — but the rubric score staying high on exactly the failing runs IS the disconnect).

fresh_dualwm_turndeltas.png

(2) Acting on rubric feedback is net harmful. Per-turn true-score change by feedback source: rubric-fed turns improve 5% / worsen 12%; simulation-fed 7%/9%; real execution 9%/8%. Most turns change code without changing true performance.

fresh_audit.png

(3) An independent judge reading full traces agrees. Opus 4.8 on n=59 dual-WM runs: relevance 1.53/5, score accuracy 1.81/5, helpfulness 1.07/5; feedback fully followed in 6/59; exactly 1/60 runs judged genuinely helped.

fresh_audit_compare.png

(4) And it is NOT a relevance problem — the dissociation. Swapping in domain-mined DBs (CUDA 12.9k / ML 11.0k / CLI 7.5k rubrics; retrieval QC: KB 1.95→2.67, PB 1.75→1.88, MLE 1.10→1.45 held out of evals) raised judged RELEVANCE ~1 point but HELPFULNESS stayed pinned at 1.0 and true-score trends stayed flat (35/39). Relevant-but-generic criteria still give the agent nothing actionable. Specificity, not relevance, is the binding constraint.

The dual-WM gate experiment (round 1, historical)

fresh_dualwm_results.png

Dual-WM (rubric scorer ∥ simulator, gate θ=0.7) lifted the WM arms from below-base (the original rubric-only failure) to ~base — the first hint that the simulator branch carried the value. Zero bars are verified real outcomes: KB-A cwm ran all 20 tasks (6 compile-fail, 8 incorrect, 6 correct-but-slower; 'solved' = upstream fast_1: compiled AND correct AND speedup>1.0, nearest miss 0.89x); PB-A base genuinely fails every hidden suite zero-shot while the same coder with real feedback scores nonzero on 3 tasks.

Representative audit evidence (verbatim)

KernelBench l1_13 (symmetric matmul) — relevance 2, helpfulness 1
"The rubrics were generic vectorization/device-consistency checks that mismatch this
KernelBench task's real requirement: a correct, compilable custom CUDA kernel that beats
torch baseline while exploiting symmetry — none of the rubrics addressed the symmetry."
Verdict: No — generic and misaligned; inflated scores; true verifier never rose above zero.
MLE text-normalization — PROXY DIVERGENCE (rubric score up, true score down)
"Rising rubric scores rewarded irrelevant surface normalization while the true score fell
to and stayed at zero because the core prediction/data-loading was broken."
The one positive case (1/60): KernelBench l1_11 4D tensor matmul
"Yes — the rubrics accurately flagged the naive/broken kernel and their feedback steered
the agent toward a correct vectorized matmul."

Bottom line

Feedback SPECIFICITY is the binding constraint — proven by elimination. Round 1 suspected domain mismatch (relevance 1.5/5). Round 2 fixed relevance (domain DBs, QC-verified) and outcomes did not move; meanwhile removing rubrics entirely and letting the WM simulate execution beat every rubric variant. Where the WM now stands vs self-repair: tie at ~4× less wall-clock when execution is slow (KernelBench), strictly better when real feedback is information-poor (ProgramBench aggregate counts), second where real tracebacks are rich (MLE). Next levers: task-derived rubrics (inherit sim-like specificity), justified rubric scores (0/1 + required line-level pointer), a stop-gate that reads behavioral deviations too (the simulator's 'no errors' early-stop discards critique in the output field), then failure-conditioned selection / pruning / calibration as separate experiments.

What the agents actually get wrong — measured, not assumed

Every arm was re-run with FULL tracing: the task as posed, the exact prompt the coding agent saw, its raw reply, its code, and the REAL interpreter output (compiler errors, stack traces, grader verdicts) — the last of which the old logs never stored. From those traces claude-opus-4-8 induced a per-benchmark error taxonomy (4 independent proposals merged into one canonical set) and then labelled every failure episode against it. 715 episodes labelled: KernelBench 320, MLE-Lite 177, ProgramBench 218. The raw episode (task + code + interpreter output) is stored alongside each label, so the same data can be re-classified under a different scheme without re-running anything.

fresh_error_types.png

The failure distribution per benchmark. KernelBench is dominated by compile errors (14%) and indexing/range bugs, plus a large tail of kernels that are CORRECT but not faster than cuBLAS (naive-custom-matmul-slower-than-cublas 10%, elementwise-fusion-no-speedup 9%, cublas-wrapper-no-custom-kernel 8% - i.e. the agent wrote no kernel at all). MLE-Lite is dominated by pipeline/contract failures rather than modelling: silent-fallback-invalid-submission 17%, unvalidated-column-schema 16%, missing-third-party-dependency 11%. ProgramBench has one overwhelming mode: backtick-fence-leaks-into-compile-sh at 26% - a FORMATTING failure, not a programming one.

fresh_error_by_arm.png

The same taxonomy split by feedback condition. Arms with fewer than 8 episodes are omitted rather than drawn as a distribution.

Rubric source ablation: retrieved vs generated vs generated+evolved

EvoRubrics (co-evolving rubric generator, ported training-free as cwm-online): rubrics are GENERATED per task and EVOLVED every turn using their fitness terms restated as edit rules - retire any criterion whose verdict is constant across the observed programs (discrimination), sharpen-then-retire criteria the agent never acts on (reflect), embedding dedup + axis cap (diversity), and an anti-saturation tripwire when everything passes without execution. The generated-frozen control (genesis at turn 0, never evolved) separates "generating beats retrieving" from "evolving beats frozen".

fresh_online_rubrics.png

The mechanism ran healthily - 100 episodes, 398 criteria retired and replaced, 298 edits applied vs 35 frozen, zero stalls, zero fallbacks - and the retirements are exactly the intended behaviour (e.g. 'satisfied by all versions; cannot discriminate' -> replaced by warp-shuffle and second-level-reduction criteria). But neither generating rubrics per task nor evolving them online separates from static retrieval, and none of the three reaches self-repair. Three independent attacks on rubric QUALITY - better source (domain DBs), better targeting (error types), adaptive evolution (EvoRubrics) - all land in the same place.

Everything we tried, on one axis

Twenty world-model configurations across two model pairings, all on KernelBench fast_1 (compiled and numerically correct and faster than PyTorch), 20 tasks per cell. Dashed lines are the interpreter-only baseline each arm has to beat. Every rubric database, the simulator lane and its variants, Opus-5 as judge, the verdict lane, and the no-stop change sit between 0 and 4 of 20 — against the interpreter's 5 and 6.

One exception: the evidence-bar debias on the rubric lane reaches 5/20 (config A) and 7/20 (config B) — matching the interpreter on A, passing it on B, and +3 over its own biased baseline in both configs. Paired on task: A +3/−0, B +5/−2, pooled +8/−2, p=0.109. Consistent in direction, replicated across configs, and not yet significant — n=20 puts the whole range inside the ~24-point repeat-run noise floor.

Everything we tried, on one axis

Configurations run on only one model pairing are marked "not run" rather than drawn as a zero bar. Build 2026-07-29 22:37. Full breakdown: diagnosis · evidence.

The whole campaign, measured

Every method we ran, recomputed from raw logs. MLE-Lite uses OFFICIALLY GRADED rows only — 119/857 rows had the grader crash and our fallback marked them valid, which inflated every MLE number reported before that was caught.

{fig("campaign_master.png", "Twelve methods x three benchmarks x two configs. Shading is normalised WITHIN each column because the three metrics are not comparable. Self-repair is the darkest cell on four of six columns; no world-model variant beats it wherever the interpreter is informative. ProgramBench is the exception, and there self-repair is itself below base.")} {fig("campaign_efficiency.png", "The claim that survives. The world model answers in ~2s against ~115s for a KernelBench evaluation, so it wins nearly every slow race and the framework arm pays for far fewer real executions. Race win-rate tracks executor latency almost perfectly - which is also why 'framework' collapses onto 'cwm' on the slow benchmarks and only separates on ProgramBench.")} {fig("campaign_mechanisms.png", "Why the quality claim fails, in four measurements. (1) The verdict carries almost no information about whether the code runs; the static DB is actively ANTI-correlated. (2) Acting on rubric feedback moves the hidden true score DOWN. (3) On code that genuinely passes, the rubric channel flags a problem anyway ~95% of the time - and debiasing the prompt does not fix it, though it does fix the simulator. (4) The consequence: on MLE 22% of world-model runs wrote working code at turn 0 and destroyed it.")}

Noise floor — read this before believing any single cell

Two independent runs of the SAME arm differ by 24.6 points on average (KernelBench base A: 5.0 vs 10.0; self-repair A: 15.0 vs 25.0; MLE base B: 18.8 vs 59.1). On a 20-task benchmark one task is 5 points, so gaps under ~10 points on KernelBench are not evidence, and MLE cells built on few graded rows are weaker still. Most of the differences between rubric variants in the master figure sit inside this band.

{fig("campaign_harness.png", "The agent harness: a real tool-using loop (list/read/write/run_tests/submit over a project directory) where the world model is an INVISIBLE latency optimisation inside the interpreter tool - it races the real runner and the loser is cancelled, and the agent cannot tell which side answered. Reported as quality AND executions paid for, because those are different claims.")}

Trace browser — every step of the pipeline, verbatim

Browse by benchmark → method → episode → turn. Each block is the RAW logged text, not a summary: the exact prompt the coding agent saw, the rubrics that were selected (with ids, points and axis for the generated ones), the world model's per-criterion 0/1 verdicts (and its reasons where the channel carries them), the code produced, the REAL interpreter output, and the feedback string handed back for the next turn. 157 episodes across 10 methods.

↗ Open the trace browser full-screen  (recommended — it is a three-pane browser and wants the width)

Three panes: method → episode → turn-by-turn detail. Benchmarks are the tabs along the top of the browser. Filter episodes by name, toggle which block types are shown (prompt / code / rubrics / world model / execution / feedback), and expand-all on any episode.

Findings, issues & next steps

  1. The race mechanism is verified end-to-end. works Win rates scale with execution latency (100% → 45% as executions get faster); losers killed; all confirmed from per-event logs.
  2. Rubric reward vectors lose to real execution — but SIMULATED execution doesn't. resolved: core finding Rubric feedback never beats base (old DB or domain-matched). Sim-only WM feedback ties self-repair on KernelBench at ~4× less wall-clock, beats it on ProgramBench (vague real feedback), trails it on MLE (rich tracebacks). The WM's value = specific feedback where verification is slow or uninformative.
  3. WM-only loops need a keep-last-valid safety net. regression by design Bare-bones spec removed it; MLE validity drops below base (A: 7 vs 9 /21; B: 6 vs 13 /22). Cheap fix, big win.
  4. Audit coverage is structurally thin in kill-mode. logging gap Killing race losers destroys the WM-vs-execution comparison pair; agreement stats have small n. Fix: per-turn sampled audits (let x% of losers finish in background).
  5. ProgramBench official grading is Docker-gated. infra submission.tar.gz files are packaged upstream-format under exp/pb-runs/; grade on any Docker box with programbench eval. Local scores already use the real hidden suites.
  6. Rubric relevance hypothesis — tested and rejected. resolved Domain-scoped mining (CUDA/ML/CLI DBs, retrieval QC-verified better) produced a NULL result on outcomes and the audit dissociation (relevance ↑, helpfulness flat at 1.0). The failure is specificity, not coverage. Next: task-derived rubrics; justified 0/1 scores with line pointers; failure-conditioned selection as an independent experiment.

Backlog benches

MLAgentBench (cleanest next, no Docker) → RE-Bench → FeatureBench → SWE-bench Pro (Docker-gated) → PaperBench (Docker-welded). See BENCHMARKS.md.