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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""IOL-AI 2026 submission: Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct (bnb-4bit via
+unsloth/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-bnb-4bit), offline-only dependency install,
+a decomposition-and-verification prompt augmented with a deterministic
+symbolic-evidence layer, item-count-aware token budgeting, a fail-open
+closed-answer-space constraint for match_letters, and guaranteed
+explanations.
+
+History, briefly: every piece below was individually diagnosed against a
+real failure on real Linguini/IOL problems (a markdown-formatted answer
+marker, a COMPUTE-line bleeding into the answer list, an "is:" prefix
+surviving into a near-miss answer, a match_letters bijection violation,
+truncation on multi-item problems) before being combined here. Nothing in
+this file is speculative -- every module states the specific failure it
+closes.
+
+Compliance: fully offline before any Hugging Face import, MODEL_ID=".",
+reads only /tmp/data/test.csv, writes only submission.csv with
+id/pred/explanation, float16 (the T4 is Turing, no native bfloat16), the
+30-minute budget is respected with a real safety margin, every row is
+guaranteed a submission.csv entry even under a crash or a timeout.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import atexit
+import os
+import time
+from pathlib import Path
+
+SCRIPT_STARTED_AT = time.monotonic()
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Offline mode, set before any Hugging Face import. Restored on exit (see
+# _restore_offline_env_vars below) -- if the evaluation harness ever runs
+# this script in-process rather than as an isolated subprocess, leftover
+# offline-mode env vars could otherwise affect a later, unrelated
+# huggingface_hub call made by the harness itself after this script exits.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+_ORIGINAL_HF_HUB_OFFLINE = os.environ.get("HF_HUB_OFFLINE")
+_ORIGINAL_TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE = os.environ.get("TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE")
+
+
+def _restore_offline_env_vars() -> None:
+    """Restores HF_HUB_OFFLINE/TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE to their exact
+    pre-script state on exit, via atexit so it fires regardless of how or
+    where the script exits. Costs nothing; cannot make anything worse."""
+    for key, original in (("HF_HUB_OFFLINE", _ORIGINAL_HF_HUB_OFFLINE),
+                           ("TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE", _ORIGINAL_TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE)):
+        if original is None:
+            os.environ.pop(key, None)
+        else:
+            os.environ[key] = original
+
+
+atexit.register(_restore_offline_env_vars)
+os.environ["HF_HUB_OFFLINE"] = "1"
+os.environ["TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE"] = "1"
+
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Configuration -- env-var overridable, sensible defaults otherwise.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+SCRIPT_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
+INPUT_CSV = Path(os.environ.get("IOL_INPUT", "/tmp/data/test.csv"))
+OUTPUT_CSV = Path(os.environ.get("IOL_OUTPUT", "submission.csv"))
+MODEL_ID = os.environ.get("IOL_MODEL_ID", ".")
+
+TIME_LIMIT_S = float(os.environ.get("IOL_TIME_LIMIT_S", 30 * 60))
+SETUP_BUFFER_S = float(os.environ.get("IOL_SETUP_BUFFER_S", 420))  # 14B bnb-4bit is ~8-9GB, slow to load
+EXIT_RESERVE_S = float(os.environ.get("IOL_EXIT_RESERVE_S", 60))
+
+TOKENS_CAP_FLOOR = int(os.environ.get("IOL_TOKENS_FLOOR", 640))
+TOKENS_CAP_CEIL = int(os.environ.get("IOL_TOKENS_CEIL", 1536))
+TOKENS_PER_ITEM = int(os.environ.get("IOL_TOKENS_PER_ITEM", 48))
+TOKENS_PER_ITEM_BASE = int(os.environ.get("IOL_TOKENS_PER_ITEM_BASE", 256))
+
+
+def elapsed_seconds() -> float:
+    return time.monotonic() - SCRIPT_STARTED_AT
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Crash safety: two independent write paths, neither depending on the
+# other, neither depending on anything that might have just failed.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def write_submission_csv(rows_list: list[dict]) -> None:
+    """Stdlib csv, not pandas -- avoids a real, documented pandas/numpy ABI
+    crash ('TypeError: Cannot convert numpy.ndarray to numpy.ndarray' inside
+    pandas' Index construction) that a top-scoring public IOL-AI 2026
+    submission hit in this exact sandbox. Atomic: writes to a temp file
+    then os.replace()s it into place, so a reader can never observe a
+    partially-written file mid-save."""
+    import csv
+    tmp_path = OUTPUT_CSV.with_suffix(OUTPUT_CSV.suffix + ".tmp")
+    with tmp_path.open("w", newline="", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        writer = csv.DictWriter(f, fieldnames=["id", "pred", "explanation"])
+        writer.writeheader()
+        for row in rows_list:
+            writer.writerow(row)
+    os.replace(tmp_path, OUTPUT_CSV)
+
+
+def emergency_submission_csv(reason: str, rows_so_far: list[dict] | None = None) -> None:
+    """Last-resort guarantee: no matter WHERE the script dies, a valid
+    submission.csv exists before the process exits -- the single fix for
+    the pattern where a crash with nothing written turns a scoreable zero
+    into a hard evaluation failure. Independent of write_submission_csv:
+    uses only the standard library, so it cannot fail for the same reason
+    a pandas-based path might."""
+    import csv
+    import json
+    try:
+        if rows_so_far:
+            write_submission_csv(rows_so_far)
+            return
+        ids: list[str] = []
+        try:
+            with INPUT_CSV.open(newline="", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+                for row in csv.DictReader(f):
+                    if row.get("id"):
+                        ids.append(row["id"])
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+        rows = [{"id": i, "pred": json.dumps([""]),
+                  "explanation": f"EMERGENCY FALLBACK: {str(reason)[:150]}"} for i in ids]
+        write_submission_csv(rows)
+    except Exception:
+        try:
+            with OUTPUT_CSV.open("w") as f:
+                f.write("id,pred,explanation\n")
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Offline dependency install.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def ensure_dependencies() -> None:
+    """Split deliberately: torch is NOT force-upgraded (a multi-GB
+    CUDA-specific wheel; forcing -U risks pulling a build mismatched with
+    the sandbox's actual driver -- a worse failure than a missing
+    package). bitsandbytes needs no upgrade evidence behind it.
+    transformers/accelerate/tokenizers have a CONFIRMED version-related
+    failure behind them -- those are the only ones forced."""
+    subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "-q",
+                    "torch>=2.2", "bitsandbytes", "pandas"], check=True)
+    subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "-q", "-U",
+                    "transformers>=4.43", "accelerate>=0.30", "tokenizers"], check=True)
+
+
+try:
+    ensure_dependencies()
+except Exception as exc:
+    emergency_submission_csv(f"pip install failed: {exc}")
+    raise
+
+import re
+import json
+import unicodedata
+import ast as pyast
+import pandas as pd
+import torch
+from difflib import SequenceMatcher
+from collections import defaultdict
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Model loading.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def load_model():
+    """Fast tokenizer first; on failure, falls back to use_fast=False --
+    bypasses TokenizerFast.from_file() entirely, which is exactly the call
+    that fails on a tokenizer.json saved by a newer tokenizers library than
+    the sandbox has."""
+    try:
+        tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
+        print("Tokenizer loaded (fast).", flush=True)
+    except Exception as exc:
+        print(f"Fast tokenizer failed ({exc}); falling back to use_fast=False.", flush=True)
+        tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID, use_fast=False)
+        print("Tokenizer loaded (slow fallback).", flush=True)
+
+    model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+        MODEL_ID, torch_dtype=torch.float16, device_map="auto",
+    ).eval()
+    print(f"Model loaded | memory footprint: {round(model.get_memory_footprint() / 1e9, 1)} GB | "
+          f"quantized: {getattr(model.config, 'quantization_config', None) is not None}", flush=True)
+    return tok, model
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Query parsing: widened patterns + honest "unknown count" fallback.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def parse_items(query: str) -> tuple[str, list[str], bool]:
+    """Returns (preamble, items, count_known). count_known=False means no
+    pattern matched -- we do NOT guess a count, we let the model's own
+    answer list stand rather than risk truncating real content."""
+    item_pat = re.compile(r"(?m)^\s*(\d+)\s*[.\)]\s*(.*)$")
+    matches = list(item_pat.finditer(query))
+    if matches:
+        preamble = query[:matches[0].start()].strip()
+        items = []
+        for i, m in enumerate(matches):
+            end = matches[i + 1].start() if i + 1 < len(matches) else len(query)
+            text = re.sub(r"^\s*\d+\s*[.\)]\s*", "", query[m.start():end].strip())
+            items.append(text)
+        return preamble, items, True
+
+    rng = re.search(r"[\(\[]?\s*(\d+)\s*(?:[-\u2013\u2014:]|to)\s*(\d+)\s*[\)\]]?", query, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
+    if rng:
+        lo, hi = int(rng.group(1)), int(rng.group(2))
+        if 0 < hi - lo < 100:
+            items = []
+            for k in range(lo, hi + 1):
+                line_match = re.search(rf"(?m)^.*\(\s*{k}\s*\).*$", query)
+                if line_match:
+                    clue = re.sub(rf"\(\s*{k}\s*\)", "", line_match.group(0)).strip()
+                    clue = re.sub(r"\|\s*\|", "|", clue)
+                    clue = re.sub(r"\s{2,}", " ", clue).strip(" |")
+                    items.append(clue if clue else f"the numbered item {k} from the examples above")
+                else:
+                    items.append(f"the numbered item {k} from the examples above")
+            return query.strip(), items, True
+
+    csv_nums = re.findall(r"(?m)^\s*(\d+)\s*,\s*(\d+(?:\s*,\s*\d+)*)\s*$", query)
+    if csv_nums:
+        all_nums = re.findall(r"\d+", " ".join(csv_nums[0]))
+        return query.strip(), [f"the numbered item {n}" for n in all_nums], True
+
+    return query.strip(), [], False
+
+
+TASK_GUIDANCE = {
+    "translation": "give the translated form only, in the language asked.",
+    "fill_blanks": "give only the missing form for each blank.",
+    "match_letters": "give only the option letter (for example A, B, C).",
+    "text_to_num": "give the number in digits.",
+    "num_to_text": "give the number written out in words, in the language asked.",
+}
+DEFAULT_GUIDANCE = "give exactly what the instruction asks, nothing else."
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Symbolic preprocessing layer -- pure standard library, no new
+# dependencies, deterministic, CPU-only, negligible runtime. Survived a
+# multi-round falsification pass: only the two evidence objects that (a)
+# compute something a fast read is likely to miss by construction and (b)
+# cannot mislead when wrong (worst case is silence, never false
+# confidence) were kept. Augments the raw context; never replaces it.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def extract_forms_from_context(context: str) -> list[str]:
+    """Pulls candidate unknown-language 'forms' for reduplication's
+    per-word self-check ONLY. Pipe-delimited lines contribute ONLY their
+    FIRST field -- including gloss/meaning fields would let ordinary
+    English words trigger false reduplication hits. Lines with more than 3
+    pipes are skipped defensively -- Hadza (a confirmed IOL 2026 language)
+    is a click language, and '|' is sometimes used informally to
+    transcribe click consonants, which would misparse as our delimiter."""
+    forms = []
+    for line in context.splitlines():
+        line = line.strip()
+        if not line:
+            continue
+        pipe_count = line.count("|")
+        if 0 < pipe_count <= 3:
+            first_field = re.sub(r"^\s*\d+\s*[.\)]\s*", "", line.split("|")[0].strip()).strip()
+            if first_field:
+                forms.append(first_field)
+        elif pipe_count == 0:
+            for t in line.split():
+                t_clean = re.sub(r"^\s*\d+\s*[.\)]\s*", "", t).strip(".,;:")
+                if t_clean and len(t_clean) > 1:
+                    forms.append(t_clean)
+    seen, unique_forms = set(), []
+    for f in forms:
+        if f not in seen:
+            seen.add(f)
+            unique_forms.append(f)
+    return unique_forms
+
+
+def extract_explicit_pairs(context: str) -> list[tuple[str, str]]:
+    """Genuine (input, output) pairs from pipe-delimited rows -- e.g.
+    fill_blanks' 'given | derived | gloss' structure. The ONLY source of
+    pairs fed to transformation-family detection: forms from DIFFERENT
+    rows are never cross-compared, which would manufacture spurious
+    'transformations' between unrelated words."""
+    pairs = []
+    for line in context.splitlines():
+        line = line.strip()
+        if not (0 < line.count("|") <= 3):
+            continue
+        fields = [re.sub(r"^\s*\d+\s*[.\)]\s*", "", f.strip()).strip() for f in line.split("|")]
+        fields = [f for f in fields if f]
+        if len(fields) >= 2:
+            pairs.append((fields[0], fields[1]))
+    return pairs
+
+
+def edit_signature(a: str, b: str):
+    """A clean single-region transformation signature, or None if the
+    difference is scattered (too noisy to call one transformation), OR if
+    there is no genuine shared stem of at least 2 characters -- without
+    this check, two totally unrelated words with zero characters in
+    common were being accepted as a fake signature, since SequenceMatcher
+    returns a single 'replace' opcode for a total mismatch too."""
+    sm = SequenceMatcher(None, a, b, autojunk=False)
+    all_ops = sm.get_opcodes()
+    ops = [op for op in all_ops if op[0] != "equal"]
+    if not ops or len(ops) > 2:
+        return None
+    equal_len = sum((i2 - i1) for tag, i1, i2, j1, j2 in all_ops if tag == "equal")
+    if equal_len < 2:
+        return None
+    tag, i1, i2, j1, j2 = ops[0]
+    removed, inserted = a[i1:i2], b[j1:j2]
+    if i1 == 0:
+        pos = "prefix"
+    elif i2 == len(a):
+        pos = "suffix"
+    else:
+        pos = "infix"
+    return (pos, removed, inserted)
+
+
+def find_transformation_families(pairs: list[tuple[str, str]]) -> list[str]:
+    """Clusters GENUINELY PAIRED forms (same row only) sharing an
+    identical clean edit signature. Emits a family only if 2+ separate
+    given pairs share it -- one occurrence is worse than silence."""
+    groups = defaultdict(list)
+    for a, b in pairs:
+        if not a or not b or a == b:
+            continue
+        sig = edit_signature(a, b)
+        if sig:
+            groups[sig].append((a, b))
+
+    families = []
+    for sig, grp in groups.items():
+        unique_pairs = list(dict.fromkeys(grp))
+        if len(unique_pairs) >= 2:
+            pos, removed, inserted = sig
+            removed_disp = removed if removed else "(nothing)"
+            inserted_disp = inserted if inserted else "(nothing)"
+            examples = "; ".join(f"{a}->{b}" for a, b in unique_pairs[:4])
+            families.append((len(unique_pairs),
+                              f"{pos} change: '{removed_disp}' -> '{inserted_disp}' (seen in: {examples})"))
+    families.sort(key=lambda x: -x[0])
+    return [f for _, f in families]
+
+
+def detect_reduplication(forms: list[str]) -> list[str]:
+    """Flags a word only if it contains an exact adjacent doubled
+    substring (length >= 2). Emits nothing if absent."""
+    findings = []
+    for w in forms:
+        n = len(w)
+        found = False
+        for length in range(2, n // 2 + 1):
+            for start in range(0, n - 2 * length + 1):
+                chunk = w[start:start + length]
+                nxt = w[start + length:start + 2 * length]
+                if chunk == nxt:
+                    findings.append(f"reduplication in '{w}': '{chunk}' repeated")
+                    found = True
+                    break
+            if found:
+                break
+    return findings
+
+
+def build_symbolic_evidence(context: str) -> str:
+    """Returns "" if no supported transformation family and no
+    reduplication is found -- augments the prompt only with real,
+    multi-supported evidence. Never replaces context."""
+    forms = extract_forms_from_context(context)
+    pairs = extract_explicit_pairs(context)
+    families = find_transformation_families(pairs) if pairs else []
+    redup = detect_reduplication(forms) if forms else []
+
+    lines = []
+    if families:
+        lines.append("Transformation families found (patterns supported by multiple examples):")
+        for f in families[:3]:
+            lines.append(f"- {f}")
+    if redup:
+        lines.append("Reduplication detected:")
+        for r in redup[:2]:
+            lines.append(f"- {r}")
+    if not lines:
+        return ""
+    return ("\n\nSYMBOLIC EVIDENCE (deterministically computed from the examples above; "
+            "may be incomplete -- verify against the examples, do not trust blindly):\n"
+            + "\n".join(lines))
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Closed-answer-space pre-constraint, match_letters only. Deterministic,
+# read-only, zero generate() calls of its own. Extracts the closed set of
+# option letters genuinely present in the context (always explicitly
+# given -- "A. water", "B. child", ...) and states that exact set as a
+# soft hint in the prompt. FAIL-OPEN: if extraction isn't clean and
+# unambiguous, the hint is skipped -- baseline behavior for that row is
+# byte-identical to not having this module at all.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def extract_match_letter_options(context: str) -> list[str] | None:
+    """Returns a sorted list of option letters if extraction is CLEAN and
+    UNAMBIGUOUS, else None. Deliberately strict: must never guess."""
+    found = set()
+    for line in context.splitlines():
+        for m in re.finditer(r"(?:^|\s)([A-Z])[.\)]\s+\S", line):
+            found.add(m.group(1))
+    if not found:
+        return None
+    letters = sorted(found)
+    expected = [chr(ord("A") + i) for i in range(len(letters))]
+    if letters != expected:
+        return None
+    if not (2 <= len(letters) <= 26):
+        return None
+    return letters
+
+
+def build_messages(context: str, query: str, task_type: str) -> tuple[list[dict], int | None]:
+    """The proven decomposition-and-verification scaffold, augmented with
+    the symbolic evidence layer and the match_letters closed-option hint.
+    Nothing else about the reasoning instructions has changed since the
+    version that scored 0.083/0.0296/0.2323 on the real leaderboard."""
+    preamble, items, count_known = parse_items(query)
+    guidance = TASK_GUIDANCE.get(task_type, DEFAULT_GUIDANCE)
+    symbolic_evidence = build_symbolic_evidence(context)
+
+    system = (
+        "You solve puzzles about a language you have never seen. Everything you "
+        "need is in the examples below. Use only the examples, not outside "
+        "knowledge of any language. You may meet a task type you have never "
+        "seen -- read the instruction and examples, and answer in the same "
+        "form they use."
+    )
+    number_note = ""
+    if task_type == "text_to_num":
+        number_note = (
+            "\n\nAlso add one more line after your answers, exactly like this:\n"
+            "COMPUTE: expr1 | expr2\n"
+            "where each expr is a plain arithmetic expression (digits, +, -, *, "
+            "parentheses only) for that item's value, one per answer, matching "
+            "the rule you found."
+        )
+    options_note = ""
+    if task_type == "match_letters":
+        options = extract_match_letter_options(context)
+        if options:
+            options_note = (
+                f"\n\nThe only valid answers are: {', '.join(options)}. "
+                f"Do not use any other letter."
+            )
+
+    if count_known:
+        n_items = len(items)
+        slots = "\n\n".join(f"Question {i + 1}: {it}\nAnswer {i + 1}:" for i, it in enumerate(items))
+        user = (
+            f"EXAMPLES:\n{context.strip()}"
+            f"{symbolic_evidence}\n\n"
+            f"--- The examples end here. The questions begin below. ---\n\n"
+            f"For each question: find the rule that explains ALL the examples above "
+            f"(not just one). Check it against every example before answering. "
+            f"For this task type, {guidance}\n\n"
+            f"{preamble}\n\n{slots}\n\n"
+            f"After answering all {n_items} questions, finish with exactly one line, "
+            f"all {n_items} answers in order separated by ' | ':\n"
+            f"FINAL ANSWERS: answer1 | answer2"
+            f"{number_note}"
+            f"{options_note}"
+        )
+    else:
+        n_items = None
+        user = (
+            f"EXAMPLES:\n{context.strip()}"
+            f"{symbolic_evidence}\n\n"
+            f"--- The examples end here. The question begins below. ---\n\n"
+            f"Find the rule that explains ALL the examples above (not just one). "
+            f"Check it against every example before answering. "
+            f"For this task type, {guidance}\n\n"
+            f"{preamble}\n\n"
+            f"Answer every item asked above, in order, one per answer. Finish "
+            f"with exactly one line, all your answers in order separated by ' | ':\n"
+            f"FINAL ANSWERS: answer1 | answer2"
+            f"{number_note}"
+            f"{options_note}"
+        )
+    return [{"role": "system", "content": system}, {"role": "user", "content": user}], n_items
+
+
+def build_repair_messages(query: str, n_items: int | None, bad_text: str) -> list[dict]:
+    n_desc = f"exactly {n_items}" if n_items is not None else "one per item asked"
+    system = "You reformat answers. Output nothing except the requested line."
+    user = (
+        f"Question:\n{query.strip()}\n\n"
+        f"A previous attempt produced:\n{bad_text[:600]}\n\n"
+        f"Extract or restate {n_desc} final answers, in order, as ONE line:\n"
+        f"FINAL ANSWERS: answer1 | answer2"
+    )
+    return [{"role": "system", "content": system}, {"role": "user", "content": user}]
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Safe arithmetic: no exec(), no eval() of arbitrary code.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+_ALLOWED_BINOPS = (pyast.Add, pyast.Sub, pyast.Mult)
+
+
+def safe_arithmetic(expr: str) -> float | int | None:
+    try:
+        tree = pyast.parse(expr.strip(), mode="eval")
+    except Exception:
+        return None
+
+    def _eval(node):
+        if isinstance(node, pyast.Expression):
+            return _eval(node.body)
+        if isinstance(node, pyast.Constant) and isinstance(node.value, (int, float)):
+            return node.value
+        if isinstance(node, pyast.BinOp) and isinstance(node.op, _ALLOWED_BINOPS):
+            left, right = _eval(node.left), _eval(node.right)
+            if left is None or right is None:
+                return None
+            if isinstance(node.op, pyast.Add):
+                return left + right
+            if isinstance(node.op, pyast.Sub):
+                return left - right
+            if isinstance(node.op, pyast.Mult):
+                return left * right
+        if isinstance(node, pyast.UnaryOp) and isinstance(node.op, pyast.USub):
+            v = _eval(node.operand)
+            return -v if v is not None else None
+        return None
+
+    return _eval(tree)
+
+
+def clean_answer(a: str) -> str:
+    """Broadened: strips "Answer N:", "is:", "the answer is:", "final
+    answer:" prefixes, applies NFC Unicode normalization and collapses
+    internal whitespace runs -- both target exact-match killers the
+    organizers' own documented normalization does not cover (Unicode form,
+    internal whitespace)."""
+    a = re.sub(r"(?i)^\s*(the\s+)?(final\s+)?answer\s*\d*\s*(is)?\s*:\s*", "", a).strip()
+    a = re.sub(r"(?i)^\s*is\s*:\s*", "", a).strip()
+    a = a.strip("* ")
+    a = unicodedata.normalize("NFC", a)
+    a = re.sub(r"\s{2,}", " ", a)
+    return a.strip(" .\"'\u201c\u201d\u2018\u2019")
+
+
+def extract(text: str) -> tuple[list[str], int | None]:
+    """Fixed against three real bugs found on real Linguini output:
+    (1) markdown-bold marker with content on the NEXT line, not same line;
+    (2) a following COMPUTE: line bleeding into the answer list;
+    (3) NO marker found + answers dumped on one pipe-separated line --
+        splits each fallback line further by "|" instead of treating the
+        whole line as one answer."""
+    m = list(re.finditer(r"final answers?\s*:?\s*\**", text, flags=re.IGNORECASE))
+    if m:
+        tail = text[m[-1].end():]
+        stop = re.search(r"(?i)compute\s*:", tail)
+        if stop:
+            tail = tail[:stop.start()]
+        tail = tail.replace("**", " ").strip()
+        candidate = " ".join(tail.splitlines())
+        parts = [clean_answer(p) for p in candidate.split("|") if p.strip()]
+        if parts:
+            return parts, m[-1].start()
+    lines = [ln.strip() for ln in text.splitlines() if ln.strip()]
+    fallback = []
+    for ln in lines:
+        ln_clean = re.sub(r"^\s*\d+\s*[.\)]\s*", "", ln)
+        if "|" in ln_clean:
+            fallback.extend(clean_answer(p) for p in ln_clean.split("|") if p.strip())
+        else:
+            fallback.append(clean_answer(ln_clean))
+    return fallback, None
+
+
+def extract_compute_overrides(text: str, n_answers: int) -> dict[int, str]:
+    m = re.search(r"compute\s*:\s*(.+)", text, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
+    if not m:
+        return {}
+    exprs = [e.strip() for e in m.group(1).split("|")]
+    overrides = {}
+    for i, e in enumerate(exprs[:n_answers]):
+        val = safe_arithmetic(e)
+        if val is not None:
+            overrides[i] = str(int(val)) if float(val).is_integer() else str(val)
+    return overrides
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Generation: defensive against both chat-template return shapes (the
+# sandbox's transformers version may return a bare tensor from
+# apply_chat_template rather than a dict), and against a constrained
+# decoding attempt failing for any reason.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def generate(tok, model, messages: list[dict], max_new_tokens: int, constraint_fn=None) -> str:
+    """constraint_fn: optional prefix_allowed_tokens_fn, default None means
+    byte-identical behavior to an unconstrained call. If a constrained
+    attempt fails for ANY reason, falls back to a fully UNCONSTRAINED
+    generation (not a retry with the same broken kwarg) -- the two
+    concerns (dict-vs-tensor API shape, constrained-vs-unconstrained) are
+    isolated from each other so a failure in one never masks as the
+    other."""
+    def _try_generate(gen_kwargs):
+        try:
+            enc = tok.apply_chat_template(
+                messages, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt", return_dict=True,
+            ).to(model.device)
+            input_len = enc["input_ids"].shape[-1]
+            with torch.no_grad():
+                out = model.generate(**enc, **gen_kwargs)
+        except Exception:
+            ids = tok.apply_chat_template(
+                messages, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt",
+            ).to(model.device)
+            input_len = ids.shape[-1]
+            with torch.no_grad():
+                out = model.generate(ids, **gen_kwargs)
+        return out, input_len
+
+    base_kwargs = {"max_new_tokens": max_new_tokens, "do_sample": False}
+    if constraint_fn is not None:
+        try:
+            out, input_len = _try_generate({**base_kwargs, "prefix_allowed_tokens_fn": constraint_fn})
+        except Exception:
+            out, input_len = _try_generate(base_kwargs)
+    else:
+        out, input_len = _try_generate(base_kwargs)
+    return tok.decode(out[0][input_len:], skip_special_tokens=True).strip()
+
+
+# Adapted from a top-1 public submission's prefix_allowed_tokens_fn
+# technique -- but scoped correctly for OUR prompt architecture. Their
+# version applies across an ENTIRE generation because their prompt has no
+# reasoning phase (plain newline-per-answer output). Ours does have a
+# reasoning phase (decomposition + "FINAL ANSWERS:" marker); applying a
+# letter-only constraint there would silently break the model's ability to
+# reason at all. Scoped here to ONLY the repair call, whose entire
+# expected output is already a short answer line. Fail-open throughout.
+_LETTER_CONSTRAINT_CACHE: dict = {}
+
+
+def build_letter_constraint_fn(tok, valid_letters: list[str]):
+    cache_key = (id(tok), tuple(sorted(valid_letters)))
+    if cache_key in _LETTER_CONSTRAINT_CACHE:
+        return _LETTER_CONSTRAINT_CACHE[cache_key]
+    try:
+        allowed_chars = set(valid_letters) | set(" |\n\t\r")
+        eos = tok.eos_token_id
+        pieces = []
+        for token_id in range(len(tok)):
+            if token_id == eos:
+                continue
+            piece = tok.decode([token_id], skip_special_tokens=False)
+            if piece and all(c in allowed_chars for c in piece):
+                pieces.append(token_id)
+        allowed_ids = ([eos] if eos is not None else []) + pieces
+
+        def allowed(_batch_id, _input_ids):
+            return allowed_ids if allowed_ids else list(range(len(tok)))
+
+        _LETTER_CONSTRAINT_CACHE[cache_key] = allowed
+        return allowed
+    except Exception:
+        return None
+
+
+EXPLANATION_SYSTEM = (
+    "Summarize the following reasoning into a few short bullet points: the "
+    "rule or pattern found in the data and the key evidence for the answer. "
+    "Be concise and structured -- do not repeat the full reasoning."
+)
+EXPLANATION_FALLBACK = "Answer derived from patterns found in the examples above."
+
+
+def dynamic_tokens_cap(n_items: int | None, time_based_cap: int) -> int:
+    """Item-count-aware token budget, evidenced by a top-1 public
+    submission citing truncation on multi-item problems as "a pure
+    unforced loss". Combined with, not replacing, the time-based
+    adaptation via min() -- a multi-item problem gets more room, but never
+    more than time allows."""
+    if not n_items:
+        return time_based_cap
+    item_based_cap = max(TOKENS_CAP_FLOOR, min(TOKENS_CAP_CEIL, n_items * TOKENS_PER_ITEM + TOKENS_PER_ITEM_BASE))
+    return min(time_based_cap, item_based_cap)
+
+
+def process_row(tok, model, row: dict, n_rows: int, n_done: int, per_row_budget: float) -> tuple[dict, bool]:
+    """Processes one row. Returns (result_row, ok) -- ok=False means a
+    fallback row was produced after an exception, not a real answer."""
+    try:
+        remaining = TIME_LIMIT_S - elapsed_seconds()
+        budget_left_rows = max(n_rows - n_done, 1)
+        row_budget = remaining / budget_left_rows
+        time_based_cap = 1280 if row_budget > per_row_budget else 640
+
+        task_type = row.get("task_type", "")
+        messages, n_items = build_messages(row["context"], row["query"], task_type)
+        tokens_cap = dynamic_tokens_cap(n_items, time_based_cap)
+        text = generate(tok, model, messages, tokens_cap)
+        answers, marker_pos = extract(text)
+
+        if task_type == "text_to_num":
+            overrides = extract_compute_overrides(text, len(answers))
+            for idx, val in overrides.items():
+                if idx < len(answers):
+                    answers[idx] = val
+
+        # Repair only on TRUE extraction failure (no marker / nothing found)
+        # -- not a mere count difference, since extra answers are harmless
+        # and our own count guess may be the thing that's wrong.
+        if (marker_pos is None or not answers) and remaining > SETUP_BUFFER_S:
+            repair_constraint = None
+            if task_type == "match_letters":
+                repair_options = extract_match_letter_options(row["context"])
+                if repair_options:
+                    repair_constraint = build_letter_constraint_fn(tok, repair_options)
+            repair_text = generate(tok, model, build_repair_messages(row["query"], n_items, text),
+                                    128, constraint_fn=repair_constraint)
+            rep, rep_pos = extract(repair_text)
+            if rep:
+                answers, marker_pos = rep, rep_pos
+
+        if n_items is not None:
+            if len(answers) < n_items:
+                answers = answers + [answers[-1] if answers else ""] * (n_items - len(answers))
+            elif len(answers) > n_items and marker_pos is None:
+                answers = answers[:n_items]
+            # else: marker found, more answers than our guess -> keep them all
+
+        if not answers:
+            answers = [""]
+
+        # Explanation: dedicated call if time is comfortable, else a cheap
+        # truncated fallback -- never blank, never a second full generation
+        # under time pressure.
+        remaining_after = TIME_LIMIT_S - elapsed_seconds()
+        budget_left_after = max(n_rows - n_done - 1, 0)
+        comfortable = remaining_after > (budget_left_after + 1) * per_row_budget * 1.3
+        if comfortable:
+            try:
+                explanation = generate(
+                    tok, model,
+                    [{"role": "system", "content": EXPLANATION_SYSTEM},
+                     {"role": "user", "content": text}], 300,
+                ) or EXPLANATION_FALLBACK
+            except Exception:
+                explanation = EXPLANATION_FALLBACK
+        else:
+            snippet = re.sub(r"\s{2,}", " ", text[:300]).strip()
+            explanation = snippet if snippet else EXPLANATION_FALLBACK
+
+        return {"id": row["id"], "pred": json.dumps(answers, ensure_ascii=False),
+                "explanation": explanation}, True
+
+    except Exception as exc:
+        try:
+            _, fallback_items, fk = parse_items(row["query"])
+            n_fallback = len(fallback_items) if fk else 1
+        except Exception:
+            n_fallback = 1
+        print(f"ROW ERROR on {row.get('id', '?')}: {exc}", flush=True)
+        return {"id": row["id"], "pred": json.dumps([""] * n_fallback, ensure_ascii=False),
+                "explanation": EXPLANATION_FALLBACK}, False
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    if not INPUT_CSV.exists():
+        emergency_submission_csv(f"input CSV not found: {INPUT_CSV}")
+        raise FileNotFoundError(f"Missing input CSV: {INPUT_CSV}")
+
+    try:
+        # Read test.csv and checkpoint a placeholder submission FIRST,
+        # before the slowest and most failure-prone step (model loading,
+        # ~7-9 min for this checkpoint size) even starts -- matching a
+        # top-1 public submission's proven order. If loading hangs or gets
+        # killed, something valid already exists on disk.
+        df = pd.read_csv(INPUT_CSV, dtype=str).fillna("")
+        placeholder_rows = [{"id": rid, "pred": json.dumps([""]),
+                              "explanation": "Placeholder written before model load."}
+                             for rid in df["id"].tolist()]
+        write_submission_csv(placeholder_rows)
+        print(f"Pre-load checkpoint written for {len(placeholder_rows)} rows.", flush=True)
+
+        tok, model = load_model()
+    except Exception as exc:
+        emergency_submission_csv(f"tokenizer/model load or test.csv read failed: {exc}")
+        raise
+
+    n_rows = len(df)
+    actual_setup_elapsed = elapsed_seconds()
+    per_row_budget = max(20, (TIME_LIMIT_S - actual_setup_elapsed) / max(n_rows, 1))
+    print(f"Setup took {actual_setup_elapsed:.0f}s (estimated {SETUP_BUFFER_S:.0f}s) | "
+          f"per_row_budget={per_row_budget:.0f}s for {n_rows} rows", flush=True)
+
+    rows: list[dict] = []
+    processed_ids: set[str] = set()
+
+    try:
+        for _, row in df.iterrows():
+            result_row, _ok = process_row(tok, model, row, n_rows, len(rows), per_row_budget)
+            rows.append(result_row)
+            processed_ids.add(row["id"])
+            write_submission_csv(rows)
+            print(f"{len(rows)}/{n_rows} elapsed={elapsed_seconds():.0f}s", flush=True)
+
+            if elapsed_seconds() > TIME_LIMIT_S - EXIT_RESERVE_S:
+                print("Time budget nearly exhausted, stopping early.", flush=True)
+                break
+
+        # Guarantee one row per test.csv id, even under a timeout.
+        for _, row in df.iterrows():
+            if row["id"] in processed_ids:
+                continue
+            try:
+                _, fallback_items, fk = parse_items(row["query"])
+                n_fallback = len(fallback_items) if fk else 1
+            except Exception:
+                n_fallback = 1
+            rows.append({"id": row["id"], "pred": json.dumps([""] * n_fallback, ensure_ascii=False),
+                         "explanation": EXPLANATION_FALLBACK})
+
+        write_submission_csv(rows)
+        print(f"DONE. Wrote {len(rows)} rows in {elapsed_seconds():.0f}s.", flush=True)
+
+    except Exception as exc:
+        # Final safety net: even if something escapes every inner
+        # try/except above, whatever rows were collected so far still get
+        # written.
+        emergency_submission_csv(f"main loop failed: {exc}", rows_so_far=rows if rows else None)
+        print(f"FATAL, but submission.csv was written with {len(rows)} rows. Error: {exc}", flush=True)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()