Qwen3.6-35B from the single-floor prompt
Pre-registered prediction: no evolved prompt wins this floor. It held: 0/5 for both.
- Loop
- (1+1) loop, 6 candidates
- Task model
- Qwen3.6-35B
- Teacher
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash
- Starting prompt
- floor_basic.txt
- Observation
- full
- Training floors
- complex · 2 episodes each
- Started
- 2026-09-28 22:55
- Result file
- gepa_result_gs4_complex_35b.json
Evaluation after the run
| Floors | Prompt | Kills | Mean goal score |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | Single-floor prompt | 0/5 | 0.140 |
| all | Evolved | 0/5 | 0.168 |
| training | Single-floor prompt | 0/5 | 0.140 |
| training | Evolved | 0/5 | 0.168 |
From gs4_complex_35b.json; its episodes are listed on the episodes page.
Mean goal score on the training floors per candidate (click to open). Small dots: score per floor; dashed: best so far.seedmutationre-evaluation
Candidate 4mutationfrom candidate 2score 0.168returned as the best promptkept as parent
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