This operation’s output is estimated by simulating trajectories in the REINFORCE algorithm, one of a class of methods named for “policy” and this operation. Pseudo-residuals are fit using “weak learners” such as decision trees in a method contrasted with random forests named for this operation’s “boosting.” Since the sigmoid activation function saturates at extreme values, it is susceptible to a problem in which this operation “vanishes.” The negative learning rate scales the result of this operation applied to the loss associated with a single data point in the update step of a stochastic algorithm named for this operation. An optimization algorithm that takes steps in the opposite direction to this operation is named for this operation’s “descent.” For 10 points, name this operation that outputs a vector of partial derivatives. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 81.33 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 77.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 105.56 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.33 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 71% | 0% | 14% | 89.00 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 115.25 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 10% | 89.33 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 111.75 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 56.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 88.80 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 60% | 105.25 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 124.00 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 77.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 25% | 80.60 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 84.71 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 25% | 124.50 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 78.80 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley C | 23 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State A | UTD A | 23 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Toronto J | 24 | -5 |
| Simon Bennett | Macalester A | Minnesota C | 28 | -5 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame A | Illinois C | 36 | -5 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Illinois B | 36 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Stanford C | Berkeley A | 37 | 10 |
| Justin Qian | British Columbia A | British Columbia B | 37 | -5 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 44 | -5 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Toronto H | 44 | -5 |
| Aaryan Sumesh | Berkeley D | Berkeley B | 45 | 10 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA B | UCLA C | 45 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto A | 45 | 10 |
| Cranmer McGinn | McMaster C | Waterloo | 45 | -5 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | MSU A | 45 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | North Carolina A | 45 | -5 |
| Rohit Chintala | Maryland C | Notre Dame E | 45 | -5 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland D | 45 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Columbia A | 45 | -5 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois A | Notre Dame C | 45 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Iowa State | 45 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Nebraska | 45 | -5 |
| Ryan Zhang | British Columbia C | British Columbia D | 45 | -5 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech B | Huntsville A | 45 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol A | Cambridge A | 45 | 10 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 46 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Georgia Tech C | 46 | 10 |
| Samuel Zheng | Toronto F | Toronto I | 48 | -5 |
| Brian Lai | Virginia A | Virginia Tech B | 48 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | George Mason A | 48 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Georgetown A | 48 | 10 |
| Yash Tiwari | Minnesota A | St. Thomas | 48 | -5 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | Washington B | 48 | 10 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | UCO | 48 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont Scripps | USC | 49 | 10 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | George Mason C | 54 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton A | 60 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Stanford B | 65 | 10 |
| Christopher Jenkins | UCF B | UF C | 65 | 10 |
| Danny Peelen | Pitt A | Kenyon B | 65 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Chicago B | 65 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Chicago C | 65 | -5 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Chicago D | 65 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | British Columbia C | 65 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | UAB A | 65 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton B | 65 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Alberta | 67 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | Bruin A | 67 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rowan A | 68 | -5 |
| Abhinav Dinesh | LSE B | Warwick B | 70 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Columbia C | 72 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Kenyon A | 75 | -5 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Iowa | 75 | -5 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Queen's B | 80 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Louisville A | 82 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Toronto C | 84 | -5 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Yale B | 85 | -5 |
| Tianyi Zheng | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 88 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCI | 94 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | OSU C | Pitt C | 97 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Tulsa | 97 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Notre Dame A | 106 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU D | 107 | -5 |
| Sebastian Hofmann | Berkeley E | UCSC | 110 | 10 |
| Brayden Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Alabama A | 110 | -5 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Sewanee A | 110 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF B | 116 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | ERAU B | 116 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | Pitt B | 116 | 10 |
| Nathan Whittington | Tennessee B | Liberty C | 116 | 10 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Vassar A | 116 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin | Carleton | 116 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Texas B | 116 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Edinburgh B | 116 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | Claremont Pitzer | 118 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | George Washington B | 118 | 10 |
| Noah Jaye | McMaster B | McMaster A | 119 | -5 |
| Sam Kung | North Carolina C | Clemson A | 119 | 10 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | Catholic University | 119 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | SIUE | 119 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Purdue C | 119 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Purdue A | 119 | 10 |
| Luke Houtz | Arizona State B | McGill D | 119 | 10 |
| Derek Li | Cornell-DII | RIT A | 119 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | Virginia B | 120 | 10 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | George Mason B | 121 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Michigan C | 121 | 10 |
| Jacob Evans | MSU B | OSU D | 122 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Georgetown B | 122 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Northwestern C | 122 | -5 |
| Dominic Heffron | Melbourne A | USF | 123 | 10 |
| Andres Cordoba | Yale B | Bowdoin A | 124 | 10 |
| Cori Zhong | Waterloo | McMaster C | 129 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Clemson B | 129 | 10 |
| Nghia Khau | VCU A | Penn B | 129 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Rutgers B | 129 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Guelph B | 130 | 10 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | McMaster B | 130 | 10 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa | Guelph A | 130 | 0 |
| James Fan | Toronto J | Toronto E | 130 | 10 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | Toronto D | 130 | 10 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto H | McGill B | 130 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Toronto K | 130 | 0 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph A | Ottawa | 130 | 0 |
| Andrew Lin | Toronto K | Western Ontario | 130 | 0 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | FSU | 130 | 10 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU A | UF A | 130 | 10 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | CWRU A | 130 | 0 |
| Joshua Garner | OSU B | CWRU D | 130 | 0 |
| Wren Davis | CWRU D | OSU B | 130 | 0 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Liberty B | 130 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Tennessee A | 130 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Roanoke | 130 | 10 |
| Nicholas Ryan | Lehigh A | Lehigh B | 130 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Swarthmore A | 130 | 0 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | Missouri A | 130 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | WashU B | 130 | 0 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | William Woods | 130 | 0 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Truman State | 130 | 0 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago C | Indiana B | 130 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Minnesota A | 130 | 10 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Macalester A | 130 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | British Columbia A | 130 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Ohio | 130 | 0 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | Rose State | 130 | 0 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Alabama B | 130 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | Huntsville B | 130 | 10 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | ESF | 130 | 0 |
| Madison Glaser | ESF | Syracuse | 130 | 0 |