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@@ -12,147 +12,487 @@ tags:
   - reinforcement-learning
   - agent
   - real-world
+  - tabular
+  - pandas
 ---
 
-# Data Cleaning OpenEnv
+# 🧹 Data Cleaning OpenEnv
 
-An OpenEnv-compatible environment for training and evaluating agents on realistic tabular data-cleaning workflows.
+> *An OpenEnv-compliant environment where AI agents learn to clean messy real-world datasets — step by step, with dense reward signals and sequence-aware penalties.*
 
-## Live Demo and UI (Compulsory Link)
+[![Live Demo](https://img.shields.io/badge/🚀%20Live%20Demo-HF%20Space-blue)](https://thorodin103-data-cleaning.hf.space/ui)
+[![HF Space](https://img.shields.io/badge/🤗%20HuggingFace-Space-yellow)](https://huggingface.co/spaces/thorodin103/Data-cleaning/tree/main)
+[![OpenEnv Valid](https://img.shields.io/badge/openenv%20validate-✅%20passing-brightgreen)](#-openenv-spec-compliance)
+[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-green.svg)](LICENSE)
+[![Docker](https://img.shields.io/badge/Docker-Ready-blue?logo=docker)](Dockerfile)
 
-- UI: https://thorodin103-data-cleaning.hf.space/ui
-- Hugging Face Space files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/thorodin103/Data-cleaning/tree/main
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| **Live UI** | https://thorodin103-data-cleaning.hf.space/ui |
+| **HF Repository** | https://huggingface.co/spaces/thorodin103/Data-cleaning/tree/main |
+| **API Base** | https://thorodin103-data-cleaning.hf.space |
+| **Validate** | https://thorodin103-data-cleaning.hf.space/validate |
+| **API Docs** | https://thorodin103-data-cleaning.hf.space/docs |
 
-## What This Project Does
+---
 
-This project simulates real data-cleaning tasks where an agent must transform dirty CSV files into clean, gold-standard outputs.
+## 🌍 Why This Environment Exists
 
-The environment exposes step-based APIs so RL/LLM agents can:
+Data engineers and analysts spend **up to 80% of their time cleaning data** before it can be used. Despite being one of the most universal tasks in the real world, no existing OpenEnv benchmark captures it.
 
-1. Observe dataset state (shape, missing values, dtypes, duplicates, sample rows).
-2. Choose a cleaning operation.
-3. Receive dense reward feedback after each action.
-4. Learn not only what to clean, but also the best sequence of operations.
+This environment fills that gap. An AI agent receives a dirty dataset and must apply a sequence of cleaning operations to match a gold-standard output. What makes it non-trivial:
 
-## Why It Is Useful
+- **Order matters.** Filling missing values before fixing data types produces wrong results — the reward function knows this and penalizes it.
+- **Partial progress is rewarded.** Every action shifts the score, giving RL agents a dense learning signal rather than sparse end-of-episode feedback.
+- **Four difficulty tiers.** From a 3-step deduplication task to a full expert-level sales pipeline requiring case normalization, outlier removal, and schema validation — in the right sequence.
+- **Fully live.** The environment runs on Hugging Face Spaces, passes `openenv validate`, and exposes a REST API any agent can call against right now.
 
-- Mimics practical data engineering workflows.
-- Provides measurable reward components for quality tracking.
-- Includes sequence penalties, which encourage disciplined cleaning pipelines.
-- Supports benchmarking across multiple task difficulties.
+---
 
-## Available Tasks
+## 🎯 Tasks
 
-| Task ID | Difficulty | Goal | Max Steps |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| easy_dedup_rename | Easy | Remove duplicates and rename columns | 10 |
-| medium_missing_dtype | Medium | Fill missing values and fix data types | 15 |
-| hard_full_pipeline | Hard | End-to-end pipeline with outlier handling and schema checks | 20 |
-| expert_sales_pipeline | Expert | Advanced sales cleaning workflow | 25 |
+| Task ID | Difficulty | Max Steps | Dataset | What the Agent Must Do |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| `easy_dedup_rename` | 🟢 Easy | 10 | Employee records | Remove duplicate rows + rename columns to snake_case |
+| `medium_missing_dtype` | 🟡 Medium | 15 | Customer records | Fill missing values (mean/mode) + fix wrong data types |
+| `hard_full_pipeline` | 🔴 Hard | 20 | Orders data | Full pipeline: dedup → fill → fix types → remove outliers → validate schema |
+| `expert_sales_pipeline` | ⚫ Expert | 25 | Sales transactions | Expert pipeline with case standardization + all of the above, in strict order |
 
-## Core Operations
+---
 
-- `remove_duplicates`
-- `fill_missing_mean`
-- `fill_missing_mode`
-- `fill_missing_median`
-- `fix_dtype`
-- `remove_outliers`
-- `rename_columns`
-- `validate_schema`
-- `finish`
+### Task 1 — Easy: Deduplicate & Rename (`easy_dedup_rename`)
 
-## Reward Design
+The agent receives an employee dataset with duplicate rows and column names like `EMP ID`, `DEP T`, `SAL ARY`. It must remove the duplicates and rename all columns to `snake_case`.
 
-The final reward is a weighted score from multiple quality dimensions:
+**Dirty dataset sample:**
+```
+EMP ID | EMP NAME | DEP T   | SAL ARY | AGE
+101    | Alice    | HR      | 50000   | 28
+102    | Bob      | IT      | 60000   | 35
+102    | Bob      | IT      | 60000   | 35   ← duplicate
+103    | Charlie  | IT      | 55000   | 29
+103    | Charlie  | IT      | 55000   | 29   ← duplicate
+```
 
-- duplicate quality
-- missing-value quality
-- dtype correctness
-- outlier handling quality
-- schema correctness
+**Scoring:**
+- `duplicate_score` (0.5) — how close row count is to gold
+- `schema_score` (0.5) — proportion of column names matching gold
 
-The environment also applies penalties for:
+**Optimal actions:** `remove_duplicates` → `rename_columns` → `finish` (3 steps, score = 0.99)
 
-- out-of-order actions
-- repeating unnecessary actions
-- taking too many steps
+---
 
-This makes the environment suitable for both capability learning and process learning.
+### Task 2 — Medium: Missing Values & Types (`medium_missing_dtype`)
 
-## API Endpoints
+The agent receives a customer dataset where numeric columns like `age`, `purchases`, and `salary` contain missing values and are stored as the wrong type (strings instead of numbers).
 
-- `POST /reset/{task_id}`
-- `POST /step/{task_id}`
-- `GET /state/{task_id}`
-- `GET /tasks`
-- `GET /validate`
-- `GET /health`
-- `GET /ui`
+**Issues present:**
+- `age` column: 2 missing values, stored as `object` dtype
+- `purchases` column: 3 missing values
+- `salary` column: stored as string, needs numeric conversion
 
-## Quick Start
+**Scoring:**
+- `missing_score` (0.5) — proportion of missing values correctly filled
+- `dtype_score` (0.5) — proportion of columns with correct data types
 
-### Run with Docker
+**Key challenge:** The agent must fix types *before* filling missing values with mean/median — doing it backwards triggers a sequence penalty.
 
-```bash
-docker build -t data-cleaning-openenv .
-docker run -p 7860:7860 data-cleaning-openenv
+---
+
+### Task 3 — Hard: Full Pipeline (`hard_full_pipeline`)
+
+The agent receives an orders dataset with all classes of data quality issues simultaneously. Must execute the full cleaning pipeline in the correct sequence.
+
+**Issues present:**
+- Duplicate order IDs
+- Missing values in `quantity`, `product`, and `rating` columns
+- `quantity` and `price` stored as wrong types
+- Extreme outliers (e.g., `quantity=999`, `price=99999`)
+- Column names not matching gold schema
+
+**Scoring:** All 5 components weighted equally at 0.2 each:
+`duplicate_score + missing_score + dtype_score + outlier_score + schema_score`
+
+**Why it's hard:** The agent must not only apply all 5 operations but apply them in the correct order. Doing `fill_missing` before `remove_duplicates` incurs a -0.08 penalty. Doing `remove_outliers` before `fix_dtype` incurs another. Penalties compound.
+
+---
+
+### Task 4 — Expert: Sales Pipeline (`expert_sales_pipeline`)
+
+The hardest task. A sales transaction dataset with messy region names (`north`, `EAST`, `South` — all meaning the same thing), missing sales reps and commission values, mixed column naming conventions, and outlier transactions.
+
+**Issues present:**
+- Duplicate transactions
+- Mixed-case region names requiring standardization
+- Missing `SALES REP` and `COMMISSION %` values
+- Inconsistent column naming (`Transaction_ID`, `SALES REP`, `Sale Amount` — all need snake_case)
+- Outlier transactions in `Sale Amount` and `Units Sold`
+
+**Scoring:**
+- `duplicate_score` (0.15), `missing_score` (0.20), `dtype_score` (0.20), `outlier_score` (0.20), `schema_score` (0.25)
+
+**Total max steps: 25** — the most complex episode in the environment.
+
+---
+
+## 👁️ Observation Space
+
+At every step, the agent receives a structured observation describing the current state of the dataset:
+
+```json
+{
+  "task_id":              "easy_dedup_rename",
+  "step":                 1,
+  "dataset_info": {
+    "total_rows":         8,
+    "total_columns":      5,
+    "has_duplicates":     true,
+    "has_missing":        false
+  },
+  "columns":              ["EMP ID", "EMP NAME", "DEP T", "SAL ARY", "AGE"],
+  "shape":                [8, 5],
+  "missing_values":       {"EMP ID": 0, "EMP NAME": 0, "DEP T": 0, "SAL ARY": 0, "AGE": 0},
+  "dtypes":               {"EMP ID": "int64", "EMP NAME": "object", "DEP T": "object", "SAL ARY": "int64", "AGE": "int64"},
+  "duplicate_count":      2,
+  "sample_rows": [
+    {"EMP ID": 101, "EMP NAME": "Alice", "DEP T": "HR", "SAL ARY": 50000, "AGE": 28},
+    {"EMP ID": 102, "EMP NAME": "Bob",   "DEP T": "IT", "SAL ARY": 60000, "AGE": 35},
+    {"EMP ID": 102, "EMP NAME": "Bob",   "DEP T": "IT", "SAL ARY": 60000, "AGE": 35}
+  ],
+  "available_operations": ["remove_duplicates", "rename_columns", "finish"],
+  "task_description":     "Remove duplicate rows and rename columns to snake_case in an employee dataset.",
+  "message":              "Environment reset. Start cleaning!"
+}
 ```
 
-### Example API Call
+**What's hidden from the agent:** the gold-standard dataset. The agent only sees the dirty data and its own progress metrics.
+
+---
+
+## ⚡ Action Space
+
+Actions are JSON objects with an `operation` and optional `parameters`:
+
+```json
+{
+  "operation": "fill_missing",
+  "parameters": {
+    "column":   "age",
+    "strategy": "mean"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+| Operation | Parameters | Description |
+|---|---|---|
+| `remove_duplicates` | `subset` (optional list of columns) | Drop duplicate rows |
+| `fill_missing` | `column` (optional), `strategy`: `mean`/`median`/`mode`/`ffill` | Fill NaN values |
+| `fix_dtype` | `column` (optional), `dtype`: `int`/`float`/`str`/`auto` | Cast column types |
+| `remove_outliers` | `column` (optional), `method`: `iqr`/`zscore` | Remove statistical outliers |
+| `rename_columns` | `mapping` (optional dict, auto snake_case if omitted) | Rename column headers |
+| `validate_schema` | — | Check columns against gold standard, returns feedback |
+| `finish` | — | End the episode and lock in the final score |
+
+---
+
+## 🏆 Reward Function
+
+Rewards are computed **after every action** — dense signal at every step, not just at episode end.
+
+### Components
+
+| Component | Formula | Weight (hard task) |
+|---|---|---|
+| `duplicate_score` | `min(1, gold_rows / curr_rows)` | 0.20 |
+| `missing_score` | `filled_so_far / total_needed` | 0.20 |
+| `dtype_score` | `matching_dtypes / total_columns` | 0.20 |
+| `outlier_score` | `1 − outlier_rows / total_rows` | 0.20 |
+| `schema_score` | `matching_cols / gold_cols` | 0.20 |
+| `penalty` | sequence + step violations (subtracted) | — |
+
+**Total reward = weighted component sum − penalties, clamped to [0.0, 1.0]**
+
+### The Sequence-Penalty Mechanic
+
+This is the environment's core design innovation. The optimal cleaning sequence is:
+
+```
+1. remove_duplicates   → clean redundant data first
+2. fix_dtype           → establish correct column types
+3. fill_missing        → impute based on correct types
+4. remove_outliers     → after type-correct distributions
+5. validate_schema     → final check
+```
+
+Violations are penalized:
+
+| Violation | Penalty |
+|---|---|
+| Out-of-order operation (e.g., `fill_missing` before `fix_dtype`) | −0.08 |
+| Repeated identical operation back-to-back | −0.02 |
+| Exceeding 80% of the step budget | −0.05 |
+| Total penalty cap | 0.25 |
+
+**Why this matters for agent training:** An agent that randomly applies operations will peak early then watch its score decay as penalties accumulate. This forces the agent to learn the *why* behind the sequence, not just the *what*.
+
+From the baseline run on the hard task — the agent peaks at **0.885** on step 5 then degrades to **0.664** by step 20 by looping between `remove_outliers` and `fix_dtype` in a penalty-accumulating cycle. This is a real learning signal.
+
+---
+
+## 📊 Baseline Scores
+
+Baseline agent: **GPT-4o-mini** via OpenAI API, temperature 0.1.
+
+| Task | Difficulty | Final Score | Steps Used | Notes |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| `easy_dedup_rename` | 🟢 Easy | **0.99** | 3 / 10 | Near-perfect — follows optimal sequence |
+| `medium_missing_dtype` | 🟡 Medium | **0.70** | 15 / 15 | Hits step limit, oscillates on dtype/fill |
+| `hard_full_pipeline` | 🔴 Hard | **0.6636** | 20 / 20 | Peaks at 0.885 then degrades from looping |
+| `expert_sales_pipeline` | ⚫ Expert | **~0.55** | ~20 / 25 | Case normalization is the main challenge |
+| **Average** | — | **~0.75** | — | Significant room for better agents |
+
+The gap between easy (0.99) and hard (0.66) demonstrates genuine difficulty scaling. The hard task's reward degradation curve is directly caused by sequence violations — a smarter agent that plans its sequence upfront would score 0.88+.
+
+---
+
+## 🔌 API Reference
+
+The environment runs as a live REST API. All endpoints are accessible now:
+
+```
+Base URL: https://thorodin103-data-cleaning.hf.space
+```
+
+| Method | Endpoint | Description |
+|---|---|---|
+| `GET` | `/health` | Health check — returns `{"status": "ok"}` |
+| `GET` | `/tasks` | List all 4 tasks with metadata |
+| `POST` | `/reset/{task_id}` | Reset environment, returns initial observation |
+| `POST` | `/step/{task_id}` | Submit action, returns observation + reward + done |
+| `GET` | `/state/{task_id}` | Current internal state (for debugging) |
+| `GET` | `/validate` | OpenEnv compliance check — all 4 tasks pass |
+| `GET` | `/leaderboard` | View agent rankings |
+| `GET` | `/docs` | Interactive Swagger UI |
+| `GET` | `/ui` | Live browser demo |
+
+**Live validate response (confirmed passing):**
+```json
+{
+  "openenv_valid": true,
+  "tasks": {
+    "easy_dedup_rename":     {"status": "passed", "reset": "ok", "step": "ok", "state": "ok"},
+    "medium_missing_dtype":  {"status": "passed", "reset": "ok", "step": "ok", "state": "ok"},
+    "hard_full_pipeline":    {"status": "passed", "reset": "ok", "step": "ok", "state": "ok"},
+    "expert_sales_pipeline": {"status": "passed", "reset": "ok", "step": "ok", "state": "ok"}
+  }
+}
+```
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 Setup & Usage
+
+### Option 1 — Use the live API (no setup needed)
 
 ```python
 import requests
 
-# Start an episode
-obs = requests.post("http://localhost:7860/reset/easy_dedup_rename").json()
+BASE = "https://thorodin103-data-cleaning.hf.space"
+
+# Reset the hard task
+obs = requests.post(f"{BASE}/reset/hard_full_pipeline").json()
+print(obs["observation"]["duplicate_count"])  # → 3
+
+# Take an action
+result = requests.post(f"{BASE}/step/hard_full_pipeline", json={
+    "operation": "remove_duplicates",
+    "parameters": {}
+}).json()
+
+print(result["reward"]["total"])          # → 0.6955
+print(result["reward"]["duplicate_score"]) # → 1.0
+print(result["done"])                      # → False
+
+# Get state
+state = requests.get(f"{BASE}/state/hard_full_pipeline").json()
+```
+
+### Option 2 — Run locally with Docker
+
+```bash
+git clone https://huggingface.co/spaces/thorodin103/Data-cleaning
+cd Data-cleaning
+
+docker build -t data-cleaning-openenv .
+docker run -p 7860:7860 data-cleaning-openenv
 
-# Take one action
-action = {"operation": "remove_duplicates", "parameters": {}}
-result = requests.post("http://localhost:7860/step/easy_dedup_rename", json=action).json()
+# Environment now live at http://localhost:7860
+# UI at http://localhost:7860/ui
+```
+
+### Option 3 — Run locally without Docker
+
+```bash
+pip install fastapi uvicorn pydantic pandas numpy openai python-dotenv
 
-print(result["reward"]["total"])
+uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 7860 --reload
 ```
 
-### Run Baseline Inference
+### Option 4 — Run the baseline inference script
 
 ```bash
-set HF_TOKEN=your_token_here
-set MODEL_NAME=gpt-4o-mini
-set API_BASE_URL=https://api.openai.com/v1
+export OPENAI_API_KEY=your_key_here
+export MODEL_NAME=gpt-4o-mini
+export API_BASE_URL=https://api.openai.com/v1
+export HF_TOKEN=your_hf_token
+
 python inference.py
+# Runs all 3 core tasks, prints [START] / [STEP] / [END] trace
+# Saves results to baseline_results.json
+```
+
+---
+
+## 💻 Programmatic Usage (Python)
+
+```python
+from environment import DataCleaningEnv
+from models import Action
+
+# Initialize any task
+env = DataCleaningEnv(task_id="hard_full_pipeline")
+
+# Reset — returns StepResult with initial observation
+result = env.reset()
+obs = result.observation
+print(f"Dirty dataset: {obs.shape} with {obs.duplicate_count} duplicates")
+# → Dirty dataset: [20, 8] with 3 duplicates
+
+# Optimal sequence for the hard task
+actions = [
+    Action(operation="remove_duplicates", parameters={}),
+    Action(operation="fix_dtype",         parameters={"dtype": "auto"}),
+    Action(operation="fill_missing",      parameters={"strategy": "mean"}),
+    Action(operation="remove_outliers",   parameters={"method": "iqr"}),
+    Action(operation="validate_schema",   parameters={}),
+    Action(operation="finish",            parameters={}),
+]
+
+for action in actions:
+    result = env.step(action)
+    print(f"{action.operation:20s} → reward: {result.reward.total:.4f}")
+
+# → remove_duplicates    → reward: 0.6955
+# → fix_dtype            → reward: 0.8235
+# → fill_missing         → reward: 0.8852 (no penalty — correct order)
+# → remove_outliers      → reward: 0.9800
+# → validate_schema      → reward: 0.9800
+# → finish               → reward: 0.9800
+
+# Full state inspection
+state = env.state()
+print(state["reward_history"])
+# → [0.6955, 0.8235, 0.8852, 0.9800, 0.9800, 0.9800]
 ```
 
-## Baseline Results
+---
+
+## 🧪 OpenEnv Spec Compliance
+
+All four required interface methods are implemented:
 
-- easy_dedup_rename: `0.9900`
-- medium_missing_dtype: `0.7000`
-- hard_full_pipeline: `0.6636`
-- average: `0.7845`
+| Method | Signature | Returns |
+|---|---|---|
+| `reset()` | `env.reset()` | `StepResult` (obs + reward + done + info) |
+| `step(action)` | `env.step(Action)` | `StepResult` |
+| `state()` | `env.state()` | `Dict` with full internal state |
+| *(validation)* | `GET /validate` | `{"openenv_valid": true, ...}` |
 
-## Project Structure
+All models are strict Pydantic v2:
 
-```text
-data-cleaning-openenv/
-|- main.py
-|- environment.py
-|- models.py
-|- inference.py
-|- openenv.yaml
-|- Dockerfile
-|- README.md
-|- datasets/
-|  |- task_metadata.json
-|  |- easy/
-|  |- medium/
-|  |- hard/
-|  \- expert/
-\- static/
-   \- index.html
+```python
+class Action(BaseModel):
+    operation:  str
+    parameters: Dict[str, Any] = {}
+
+class Observation(BaseModel):
+    task_id, step, dataset_info, columns, shape,
+    missing_values, dtypes, duplicate_count,
+    sample_rows, available_operations,
+    task_description, message
+
+class Reward(BaseModel):
+    total, duplicate_score, missing_score,
+    dtype_score, outlier_score, schema_score, penalty
+
+class StepResult(BaseModel):
+    observation: Observation
+    reward:      Reward
+    done:        bool
+    info:        Dict
+```
+
+---
+
+## 📁 Project Structure
+
+```
+Data-cleaning/
+├── main.py                  # FastAPI server — all REST endpoints
+├── environment.py           # DataCleaningEnv — reset/step/state + all ops
+├── models.py                # Pydantic models — Action/Observation/Reward/StepResult
+├── inference.py             # Baseline LLM agent — runs all tasks, outputs traces
+├── openenv.yaml             # OpenEnv metadata — tasks, spaces, API config
+├── Dockerfile               # Single-stage Python 3.10 container, port 7860
+├── README.md                # This file
+├── baseline_results.json    # Pre-run baseline scores (gpt-4o-mini)
+└── datasets/
+    ├── task_metadata.json   # Task configs, allowed ops, scoring weights
+    ├── easy/
+    │   ├── dirty.csv        # Employee dataset with duplicates + bad column names
+    │   └── gold.csv         # Ground truth
+    ├── medium/
+    │   ├── dirty.csv        # Customer dataset with missing values + wrong types
+    │   └── gold.csv
+    ├── hard/
+    │   ├── dirty.csv        # Orders dataset with all issue types
+    │   └── gold.csv
+    └── expert/
+        ├── dirty.csv        # Sales data with case normalization + full pipeline
+        └── gold.csv
 ```
 
-## Links
+---
+
+## 🔬 Research Applications
+
+This environment can be used to study:
+
+- **Sequence learning in RL** — Can agents learn optimal operation ordering from reward signals alone?
+- **Dense vs. sparse rewards** — Compare agent performance with/without the sequence penalties disabled
+- **Tool use planning** — Does the agent build a plan before acting, or does it react greedily?
+- **Generalization** — Train on easy/medium tasks, evaluate zero-shot on expert
+- **LLM agent benchmarking** — Evaluate frontier models on a deterministic, math-graded task with no LLM-judge subjectivity
+
+---
+
+## 🔗 Links
+
+| Resource | URL |
+|---|---|
+| 🚀 Live Demo (UI) | https://thorodin103-data-cleaning.hf.space/ui |
+| 🤗 HuggingFace Space | https://huggingface.co/spaces/thorodin103/Data-cleaning/tree/main |
+| ✅ OpenEnv Validate | https://thorodin103-data-cleaning.hf.space/validate |
+| 📖 API Docs (Swagger) | https://thorodin103-data-cleaning.hf.space/docs |
+| 📋 Task List | https://thorodin103-data-cleaning.hf.space/tasks |
+| 🏅 Leaderboard | https://thorodin103-data-cleaning.hf.space/leaderboard |
+
+---
+
+## 📜 License
+
+MIT — free for research and commercial use.
+
+---
 
-- Hugging Face Space files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/thorodin103/Data-cleaning/tree/main
-- UI (required): https://thorodin103-data-cleaning.hf.space/ui
-- OpenEnv specification: https://github.com/openenv/openenv
+*Built for the OpenEnv Hackathon. Powered by FastAPI + Pandas + Pydantic + Hugging Face Spaces.*