Reproducibility issues with #1413 and #1493

[zenithlight]

When I attempted to reproduce these results, the minified files for submissions #1413 and #1493 fail to start with the following error message, using the reproduction instructions provided in the README (Python 3.11, 1xH100 PCIe):

(parameter-golf) root@aa98b58231cf:/workspace/parameter-golf/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-04-05_SP8192_GPTQ-Embeddings_SDClip_Loop45x2# SEED=42 torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node=1 train_gpt.py
[minified content omitted]
  File "<string>", line 260
    for cat in sorted(categories):log(f"  {cat}: {", ".join(sorted(categories[cat]))}")

Prior submission, #1394, does not have this issue.

[dexhunter]

Thanks for the report! The minified train_gpt.py uses PEP 701 f-strings (nested quotes of the same type inside f-string expressions), which require Python 3.12+. On Python 3.11 this is a syntax error at decompression time.

The error line:

log(f"  {cat}: {\", \".join(sorted(categories[cat]))}")

— the inner ", " reuses double quotes inside a double-quoted f-string, which is only valid from 3.12 onward.

My README should have specified Python >= 3.12 under Requirements — that's an oversight on my part. PR #1394 (the base) didn't use this syntax, which is why it works on 3.11.

With Python 3.12+ the code should decompress and run without issues.

[zenithlight]

Thanks for the clarification,