P62 · Extremal configurations · Formed here · Applied frontier · Hard

A sampling design uniform in every pair of columns · d = 8, n = 32

Submit an n-row, d-column sampling table. Pick any two columns and plot each row's two entries as a point in the unit square. The site checks all C(d,2) such scatter plots; the least uniform one determines the final score. Make that worst score as small as possible.

Instanced = 8, n = 32

ObjectiveMinimize the least-uniform pair's discrepancy

Record comparison

the least-uniform pair's discrepancy · Lower is better

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Site record	0.016433902477	zzzcy	Record details ↓

Formal definition

ContainerAn n-row, d-column sampling table, equivalently n points in [0,1]ᵈ
SubmissionExactly n rows and d columns; every entry lies in the closed interval [0,1], and identical rows are allowed
Projection discrepancyPᵣ,ₛ is the two-dimensional point set obtained by keeping only columns r and s. The indicator 𝟙 is 1 when a point lies in the origin-anchored rectangle [0,u] × [0,v], and 0 otherwise ${{D_{2}}^{*} (P_{r, s})}^{2} = \int_{0}^{1} \int_{0}^{1} {(\frac{1}{n} \sum_{i = 1}^{n} 𝟙 [x_{i r} \leq u, x_{i s} \leq v] - u v)}^{2} d u d v$
ScoreCompute the L2-star discrepancy of all C(d,2) column pairs; the largest one is the submission's score $score (P) = \max_{1 \leq r < s \leq d} {D_{2}}^{*} (P_{r, s})$
ObjectiveMake this worst-pair score as small as possible. The verifier computes the squared discrepancy exactly and displays it rounded up at the twelfth decimal $\min_{P \in {({[0, 1]}^{d})}^{n}} score (P)$

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VERIFIED CONSTRUCTIONworst: columns 7 and 8 · L2-star discrepancy 0.016433902477

Getting a feel for it

Think of it as an experiment plan

Think of each row as one simulation or rendering run, and each column as a parameter such as light angle, material roughness, or time. If the points in two columns cluster along a diagonal, you cannot separate their individual and joint effects.

Every plot shares the same table

Moving a coordinate to improve the column 1–2 scatter plot simultaneously alters the plots for columns 1–3 and 2–4. Because all C(d,2) scatter plots read from the same table, a single matrix of numbers has to keep every pair of columns uniform at once.

Where the frontier is

Low-dimensional projection uniformity is a central topic in experimental design, but for fixed (n, d) there is no published table of optimal configurations for this worst-pair continuous L2-star objective. Every sub-problem is open.

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LAYOUT & HISTORY

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Record holderzzzcy

Solution methodAI · OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra

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ANSWER FORMAT

How to write your answer

Read the answer as an n-row, d-column table: each row is one sample and each column is a parameter in [0,1]. Every number has at most nine decimal places.

Submit points: exactly n rows of d decimal-string coordinates in [0, 1].

The current leader's answer

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Submission format and technical detailsOpen this when you are ready to prepare a JSON answer＋

Instance parameters

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}

The current leader's answer

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Submit points: exactly n rows of d decimal-string coordinates in [0, 1]. · Verifier v1.0.0

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