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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| pretty_name: "IOAI 2026 – Potato" |
| tags: |
| - ioai |
| - olympiad |
| - word-embeddings |
| - semantic-similarity |
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| # IOAI 2026 — Potato |
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| Official contest data for **Potato**, task 3 (Day 1) of the [IOAI 2026](https://ioai-official.org) Individual Contest, held in Astana, Kazakhstan. |
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| A word-guessing game: the judge picks a hidden word from a fixed vocabulary, and the contestant must find it in at most 30 turns. Each turn the judge compares two words and reports which is semantically closer to the hidden word. |
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| The task statement, translations into 45+ languages, the baseline solution, and the grader live in the [IOAI-2026 GitHub repository](https://github.com/IOAI-official/IOAI-2026/tree/main/Individual-Contest/3_Potato). This repository holds **data only**. |
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| ## Subsets |
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| | Subset | Path | Contestants saw it | Role | |
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| | Public | `public/` | yes | development: public embeddings, vocabulary, public test games | |
| | Private – common | `private/private_embeddings.npy`, `private/vocabulary.json` | no | the true embedding space used by the judge | |
| | Private – Leaderboard A | `private/secrets_leaderboard_a.json` | no | hidden words for the **live leaderboard** during the contest | |
| | Private – Leaderboard B | `private/secrets_leaderboard_b.json` | no | hidden words for the **final ranking** | |
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| ## Layout |
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| ``` |
| public/ |
| public_embeddings.npy embeddings given to contestants |
| vocabulary.json the fixed word list |
| test_public.json public test games |
| private/ |
| private_embeddings.npy judge-side embeddings |
| vocabulary.json same word list |
| secrets_leaderboard_a.json |
| secrets_leaderboard_b.json |
| ``` |
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| ## Credits |
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| Proposed by **Kirill Fedyanin**; developed by **Ayana Mussabayeva** and **Kirill Fedyanin**. Published by the IOAI 2026 Scientific Committee under CC BY 4.0. |
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