README.md

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license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: "IOAI 2026 – Robot Chasing"
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- ioai
- olympiad
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- instruction-following
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# IOAI 2026 — Robot Chasing

Official contest data for **Robot Chasing**, task 2 (Day 1) of the [IOAI 2026](https://ioai-official.org) Individual Contest, held in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Six robots operate in `6×6` grid rooms (an `8×8` array including walls). Each robot receives an English instruction describing a behaviour; contestants must predict the robots' actions from observations.

The task statement, translations, baseline and grader live in the [IOAI-2026 GitHub repository](https://github.com/IOAI-official/IOAI-2026/tree/main/Individual-Contest/2_Robot_Chasing). This repository holds **data only**.

## Subsets

| Subset | Path | Contestants saw it | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public – train | `public/train/` + `public/train_answers.json` | yes | labelled training observations |
| Public – dry-run | `public/pretrain/`, `public/pretest/` + answers | yes | small slices for pipeline validation |
| Private – Leaderboard A | `private/test_leaderboard_a/` + `private/test_leaderboard_a_answers.json` | no | **live leaderboard** during the contest |
| Private – Leaderboard B | `private/test_leaderboard_b/` + `private/test_leaderboard_b_answers.json` | no | **final ranking** |

Answers files sit at the subset root (`*_answers.json`), not inside the split folders — the layout the contest grader expects.

## Credits

Proposed by **Salem Lahlou**; developed by **Anuar Aimoldin**, **Kamalkhan Artykbayev** and **Nurdaulet Akhanov**. Published by the IOAI 2026 Scientific Committee under CC BY 4.0.