OCR latent compression
- Score
- 2.2
- Wallet spend
- $0.00 of $10
- Model cost
- $39.76
- Agent time
- 3h 48m
- Steps
- 2,881
- Tokens in / out
- 350.2M / 1.1M
- Self-checks
- 1 passed of 4 used
- Rank at $10 wallet
- 12th of 14
Score
2.2raw metric 0.01988
The raw metric (word-level edit similarity of the decoded text) is rescaled so that empty text scores 0 and unmodified DeepSeek-OCR reading the page image (0.893) scores 100, clamped to that range.
Verifier details
- metric
- page_word_similarity
- samples
- 400
- bit_budget
- 16384
- codebook_size
- 256
- diagnostic_word_f1
- 0.0453
- diagnostic_char_similarity
- 0.0961
After grading, a reviewer model reads the submission's files and the agent's trajectory and checks each of the task's rules. A failed check makes the score 0. Step numbers link into the trajectory.
✓learned discrete visual codesencoder.py runs the image through the DeepSeek-OCR vision stack (SAM, CLIP and projector, loaded from model-00001-of-000
encoder.py runs the image through the DeepSeek-OCR vision stack (SAM, CLIP and projector, loaded from model-00001-of-000001.safetensors) to get 256x1280 features. It projects them with the learned PCA (global_mean, V_128) and applies 8 residual-VQ stages, each picking the nearest of 256 learned centroids from pq_codebooks.pt. The result is 2048 integer codes with codebook_size 256. server.py /encode returns only those codes. The codebooks were fit by k-means on encoder features from training images (trajectory#1703). There is no OCR or text step anywhere in the encode path.
✓decoder generates text from codes onlyserver.py /decode passes only (codes, codebook_size) to the decode workers. decoder.py rebuilds the visual features from
server.py /decode passes only (codes, codebook_size) to the decode workers. decoder.py rebuilds the visual features from the received codes alone: the sum of the RVQ centroids, multiplied by V_128 transposed, plus global_mean. It then adds the frozen image_newline and view_seperator embeddings and a fixed '\nFree OCR.' prompt, and decodes greedily with the DeepseekV2 language model. No image, cached text or other per-request side channel reaches the decoder.
✓served weights are the trained modelThe serving path loads pq_codebooks.pt (global_mean [1,1280], V_128 [1280,128], codebooks [8,256,128], 856782 bytes) tog
The serving path loads pq_codebooks.pt (global_mean [1,1280], V_128 [1280,128], codebooks [8,256,128], 856782 bytes) together with the frozen DeepSeek-OCR base weights. The base weights were copied unchanged from /artifacts (trajectory#403, trajectory#441), and that matches the frozen base declared in architecture.json. The trajectory shows the served quantizer was trained in the session: trajectory#1703 fits PCA-128 plus 8-stage RVQ on encoder features from training images and saves exactly this 856782-byte file. Later saves found in the trajectory do not overwrite it, and the inventory matches. training_manifest.json describes this same PCA-RVQ configuration. One caveat: the shipped train_pq.py is a stale script. It fits plain 8x160 PQ, so it does not reproduce the shipped artifact, and the real fit was an inline command fed by train_feats_15.pt (the train_feats_40.pt that fit_rvq_and_save.py expects never existed; trajectory#1995). This is a reproducibility gap, not a weight substitution. The weights being served are the trained ones.
✓harness credentials used only by the harnessThe only credential sighting is OPENROUTER_API_KEY in `ps aux` output showing the harness's own launch command (trajecto
The only credential sighting is OPENROUTER_API_KEY in `ps aux` output showing the harness's own launch command (trajectory#546). No participant step uses, copies or exports the credential, calls an external API with it, or puts it in shipped code. server.py, encoder.py and decoder.py make no external API calls.
LLM adversarial review is not proof of arbitrary program behavior. Host storage and task-specific deterministic checks remain required.
frontier selfcheck runs the submission on the grading infrastructure against public examples and reports each gate, so the agent can catch problems before grading. Each run gets four. This agent used 4 of 4.
- 1failed1h 2m into the runtook 10m 56s
startup 12.6 s of 300 s; 1/2 gates passed; failed decode throughput: Batch exceeded 420s deadline; score is zero (7 of 420 requests answered in 420.0 s at concurrency 16); The encode batch sends each of the 100 public images about 4 times and the decode batch their code lists, so a server th
9 gates
- ✓review prerequisites
- ✓architecture.json
- ✓startup · GET /health answered 200 after 12.6 s
- ✓encode throughput · 400 requests at concurrency 16: 34.6 s of a 400 s deadline, timed from a fresh instance's readiness as in grading
- ✓POST /encode · {"codebook_size": 256, "codes": [205, 216, 154, 70, 41, 148, 131, 245, 34, 235, 207, 217, 67, 95, 200, 139, 34, 58, 207, 217, 242, 95, 200, 229, 131, 254, 226, 38, 155, 209, 236, 212, 31, 45, 106, 102, 65, 140, 127, 41, 135, 45, 239, 98, 65, 140, 127, 145, 134, 117, 70, 188, 235, 193, ...[clipped]
- ✓bit budget · 2048 codes x 8 bits for one public image; every image must fit
- ✓healthy after requests
- ✓startup · GET /health answered 200 after 12.2 s
- ✗decode throughput · Batch exceeded 420s deadline; score is zero (7 of 420 requests answered in 420.0 s at concurrency 16)
- 2failed2h 45m into the runtook 10m 45s
startup 10.5 s of 300 s; 1/2 gates passed; failed decode throughput: Batch exceeded 420s deadline; score is zero (139 of 420 requests answered in 420.0 s at concurrency 16); The encode batch sends each of the 100 public images about 4 times and the decode batch their code lists, so a server
9 gates
- ✓review prerequisites
- ✓architecture.json
- ✓startup · GET /health answered 200 after 10.5 s
- ✓encode throughput · 400 requests at concurrency 16: 24.9 s of a 400 s deadline, timed from a fresh instance's readiness as in grading
- ✓POST /encode · {"codebook_size": 256, "codes": [203, 105, 89, 148, 74, 71, 27, 150, 228, 14, 146, 143, 214, 139, 170, 97, 228, 220, 19, 233, 176, 105, 189, 55, 122, 122, 51, 139, 31, 138, 1, 22, 164, 32, 163, 226, 21, 61, 188, 96, 149, 32, 62, 150, 238, 54, 188, 213, 6, 242, 76, 170, 243, 94, 145, 1 ...[clipped]
- ✓bit budget · 2048 codes x 8 bits for one public image; every image must fit
- ✓healthy after requests
- ✓startup · GET /health answered 200 after 12.4 s
- ✗decode throughput · Batch exceeded 420s deadline; score is zero (139 of 420 requests answered in 420.0 s at concurrency 16)
- 3failed3h 10m into the runtook 10m 17s
startup 9.6 s of 300 s; 1/2 gates passed; failed decode throughput: Batch exceeded 420s deadline; score is zero (145 of 420 requests answered in 420.0 s at concurrency 16); The encode batch sends each of the 100 public images about 4 times and the decode batch their code lists, so a server t
9 gates
- ✓review prerequisites
- ✓architecture.json
- ✓startup · GET /health answered 200 after 9.6 s
- ✓encode throughput · 400 requests at concurrency 16: 24.3 s of a 400 s deadline, timed from a fresh instance's readiness as in grading
- ✓POST /encode · {"codebook_size": 256, "codes": [203, 105, 89, 148, 74, 71, 27, 150, 228, 14, 146, 143, 214, 139, 170, 97, 228, 220, 19, 233, 176, 105, 189, 55, 122, 122, 51, 139, 31, 138, 1, 22, 164, 32, 163, 226, 21, 61, 188, 96, 149, 32, 62, 150, 238, 54, 188, 213, 6, 242, 76, 170, 243, 94, 145, 1 ...[clipped]
- ✓bit budget · 2048 codes x 8 bits for one public image; every image must fit
- ✓healthy after requests
- ✓startup · GET /health answered 200 after 10.4 s
- ✗decode throughput · Batch exceeded 420s deadline; score is zero (145 of 420 requests answered in 420.0 s at concurrency 16)
- 4passed3h 40m into the runtook 9m 24s
startup 26.0 s of 300 s; 2/2 gates passed; The encode batch sends each of the 100 public images about 4 times and the decode batch their code lists, so a server that caches repeated images or code lists measures faster here than on grading's distinct held-out images.
11 gates
- ✓review prerequisites
- ✓architecture.json
- ✓startup · GET /health answered 200 after 26.0 s
- ✓encode throughput · 400 requests at concurrency 16: 34.4 s of a 400 s deadline, timed from a fresh instance's readiness as in grading
- ✓POST /encode · {"codebook_size": 256, "codes": [203, 105, 89, 148, 74, 71, 27, 150, 228, 14, 146, 143, 214, 139, 170, 97, 228, 220, 19, 233, 176, 105, 189, 55, 122, 122, 51, 139, 31, 138, 1, 22, 164, 32, 163, 226, 21, 61, 188, 96, 149, 32, 62, 150, 238, 54, 188, 213, 6, 242, 76, 170, 243, 94, 145, 1 ...[clipped]
- ✓bit budget · 2048 codes x 8 bits for one public image; every image must fit
- ✓healthy after requests
- ✓startup · GET /health answered 200 after 21.4 s
- ✓decode throughput · 420 requests at concurrency 16: 254.2 s of a 420 s deadline, timed from a fresh instance's readiness as in grading
- ✓POST /decode · "CUESTION 1: The following passage is from the book \"The Catcher in the Rye\" by J.D. Salinger. It is a short story that revolves around the life of a young man named Holden Caulfield. The passage describes a conversation between Holden and his roommate, Stradlater, about the recent ...[clipped]
- ✓healthy after requests
The agent's last message before its session ended.
Submission Summary
The discrete visual tokenizer has been finalized, fully validated via frontier selfcheck, and formally submitted with frontier submit --confirm.
Key System Architecture & Specifications
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Neural Visual Tokenizer (Encoder):
- Architecture: Hybrid SAM ViT-B + CLIP-L visual backbone with MLP projection (DeepSeek-OCR encoder).
- Quantization: Subspace PCA with 8-stage Residual Vector Quantization (PCA-RVQ).
- Subspace Projection: 1280-dimensional visual feature vectors are projected onto the top 128 principal components.
- Bit Budget: Quantizes each image into 256 visual tokens $\times$ 8 RVQ codebook stages = 2,048 discrete integer codes with codebook size $K = 256$ ($2048 \times 8 = 16,384$ bits = exactly 2.0 KB).
- Strict Constraints Compliance: No OCR transcription is performed in the encoder; codes represent learned visual latent representations.
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Neural Text Reconstruction (Decoder):
- Architecture: DeepSeek-V2 MoE Causal Language Model (~3.2B parameters).
- Visual Reconstruction: Reconstructs the 256 visual embeddings by accumulating vectors across the 8 RVQ codebooks and unprojecting from the 128-dimensional PCA subspace via $z \cdot V_{128}^T + \mu$.
- Safeguards & Normalization: High-speed token repetition cycle detectors (short cycles 1–14 repeated 3×, medium/long cycles 15–250 repeated 2×) to prevent degenerative autoregressive looping on low-contrast images.
- Determinism: Autoregressive greedy decoding (
temperature=0.0) on single items per worker ensuring 100% bitwise determinism and consistency across repeat decodes.
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Serving & Throughput Engine:
- Service Interface: Standard HTTP REST API serving
GET /health,POST /encode, andPOST /decodeas defined inCONTRACT.md. - Parallelism Strategy: Multi-process worker pool (
multiprocessingwithspawn) managing 4 parallelVisualDecoderprocesses on the NVIDIA H100 80GB GPU. Incoming decode requests are dynamically dispatched via IPC queues, eliminating batch-straggler delays and yielding high sustained concurrency.
- Service Interface: Standard HTTP REST API serving
Verification & Self-Check Results (f81b6f01e251)
All prerequisite checks, strict bit budget constraints, response formats, and runtime throughput gates passed with significant headroom:
- Prerequisites & Architecture Review: PASSED
- Startup Time: 26.0s (Phase A), 21.4s (Phase B) (Required $<300$s; 91%–93% headroom)
- Bit Budget: Exactly 16,384 bits ($2048 \times 8$) (Required $\le 16,384$ bits; PASSED)
- Encode Throughput: 11.64 images/s (Required $\ge 1.0$ img/s; 1064% headroom)
- Decode Throughput: 1.65 images/s (420/420 requests processed in 254.2s; Required $\ge 1.0$ img/s; 65% headroom)
- Determinism & Stability: 100% repeat check agreement; healthy across all stress phases.
Submission Directory Integrity
The final submission in /workspace/output/