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Vision for a ternary LM

Add vision to a ternary language model

Vision & AudioInspired byDeepgrove
Score
judged accuracy on held-out questions
Best
6.5
Median over trials
0.0

Instruction

Add a vision encoder and connector to Maple, the ternary language model in /artifacts/maple/. You can use a pretrained encoder and fine-tune Maple, but keep its language network ternary. Don't add another language model or an image-to-text front end.

Write a script serve.sh which serves the model through an OpenAI-compatible POST /v1/chat/completions endpoint. The server should work offline on one H100 and be ready within 300 seconds.

Optimize accuracy on college-level questions about images.

Do not train, fine-tune, calibrate or select on the validation or test split of any public dataset or benchmark; training splits and other public corpora are fine. However, you are free to use the validation data samples I have provided however you want.

Submit in /workspace/output/. Interface and runtime details: /task/CONTRACT.md. Supporting files: /task/public/. Evaluate with python /task/validate.py --server-url URL. Test the finished submission the way it will be run with frontier selfcheck. Hand it in with frontier submit when it is final. Use spin --help for compute and model APIs.

Trials

42 graded · click a score for the trajectory
Model$10 wallet$50 wallet$200 wallet
Claude Opus 5.5xhigh0.46.52.4
Claude Sonnet 5.5xhigh0.00.00.0
Claude Fable 5.1xhigh0.00.00.0
Claude Haiku 5.5max0.00.00.0
GPT-6 Astraxhigh0.00.00.0
GPT-6.1 Solxhigh0.00.00.0
GPT-6 Lunaxhigh0.00.00.0
Gemini 3.8 Flashhigh0.00.00.0
Grok 4.7xhigh0.00.00.0
Muse Spark 1.3max0.00.00.0
Muse Wondermax0.00.00.0
Kimi K3max0.00.00.0
Qwen3.8 Maxxhigh0.00.00.0
GLM 5.3max0.00.00.0

Scoring

The raw metric (judged accuracy on held-out MMMU questions) is rescaled so that the starting ternary model answering from the text alone, with its own reasoning (accuracy 0.438) scores 0 and every question right scores 100, clamped to that range.

MetricScores 0 atScores 100 at
accuracy0.43781