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The next morning at six o'clock.

Li Ao typed the last line and pressed Enter, finally stopping what he was doing, and stood up to stretch.

Looking at the data on the screen, he felt a strong sense of accomplishment.

"Finally got the branch fixed, it shouldn't affect the morning's report."

After working through the night, he successfully merged the discrete curvature correction term with the original local boundary weight module, managing to bring the worst-case group Rboundary/EbuIk under irregular boundaries back within the safe range.

However, there isn't enough time left to run another full scan, so we have to take this version of the code directly to the site for evaluation.

Seeing that everyone was still fast asleep, Li Ao did not make a sound to wake them.

After tidying up briefly, he left the meeting room and went to the nearby breakfast area to get some free bagels, coffee, and sandwiches.

Although I don't feel sleepy, I still need to fill my stomach so I can get through the morning's progress report.

When he returned with breakfast, everyone else was already awake.

"Leo, how could I let you get breakfast? You should rest for a while." Isabella quickly got up and took the food.

Arjun also chimed in, "Your health is the most important thing. Everyone knows you've done your best."

Seeing Li Ao's computer closed and him return with the free breakfast, everyone's first reaction was that the task had not been completed and they had given up for the time being.

That's normal, after all, one night is too short.

After witnessing his coding skills last night, everyone felt understanding, not resentment.

Li Ao picked up a cup of coffee, smiled, and shook his head: "It's okay, I'm not sleepy. I'll go back to sleep after I finish the morning report. Anyway, the branch correction is done, so I feel much less pressure."

The meeting room fell silent for a moment.

"Are you done?" Arjun asked in surprise.

"The discrete curvature correction term was fine, but it took some time to interface with Argonne's data format. It's a pity we didn't have time to do a full rerun."

Li Ao took a bite of his bagel and said casually.

Hearing his slightly regretful tone, Ah-Qiong and the others exchanged glances.

It took less than a day to create the corner correction branch and complete the module fusion, which is already incredibly fast. But this guy still complained that the docking took too long.

If you didn't know Li Ao's character, you'd think he was at Versailles.

After being silenced by Li Ao's words, everyone wisely chose to end the topic, quickly finished breakfast, and began making final preparations for the interim report.

It was a little after 8 a.m.

Project teams from the University of Chicago, Caltech, and UC Berkeley, among others, gathered in the conference room at Argonne National Laboratory to prepare for a phase-one evaluation by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Rudy has learned from Arjun and others that the anomaly at the irregular boundary has been successfully suppressed.

Despite knowing some of Li Ao's abilities, he couldn't help but feel a surge of joy upon hearing this definite news.

He had even started thinking that after this report was over, he must have a good talk with Li Ao and find a way to keep him at the University of Chicago for long-term cooperation.

Although he initially only intended to borrow the little guy's brain, now he's really serious about it.

"The person in charge of this evaluation meeting is Dr. Harrison, a senior researcher in Argonne Computer Science, who has always had extremely high requirements for stability and reproducibility."

In the University of Chicago team's seats, Rudy quietly introduced the person in charge on the stage to Li Ao.

Li Ao looked up at the front row and said calmly, "Our version of the solution has good stability and reproducibility, so it should satisfy him."

After a brief opening statement, the presentation officially began.

The Caltech team was the first to take the stage and present.

The focus of this evaluation is to reproduce the stability lower bound of the two-dimensional lattice model under irregular boundary and strong boundary coupling conditions.

Caltech's presentation was nearing its end, and the final data results were projected directly onto the big screen.

"Their continuous approximation plus global penalty scheme was indeed affected by irregular boundaries, and the stability margin for the worst-case set was already very narrow."

Arjun looked at the data on the screen, her tone tinged with relief, "If Leo hadn't urgently added corner compensation last night, our situation during the Q&A session today would probably have been even more difficult than theirs."

Before they could chat for long, the evaluation meeting moderator had already called out their names.

"Next, the James Frank Institute project team at the University of Chicago will adopt the following approach: a local boundary weight stability scheme."

After taking the stage, the team quickly connected to the Argonne benchmark example.

Despite having passed the internal review, everyone was still on edge as the formal evaluation approached.

The script started running, and the progress bar on the big screen slowly advanced.

Even Rudy, sitting in the audience, unconsciously clenched his fingers.

Although Li Ao's correction term can theoretically solve the local modal problem, we didn't have time to run through the full dataset last night.

If potential logical conflicts occur when merging the two weight modules, the actual running error may be greater than yesterday.

Meanwhile, the Caltech team, which had just stepped down, was also quietly discussing their competitors' proposals.

"Argonne's set of irregular boundaries is specifically designed to test robustness, and the local patterns at corners are very difficult to handle."

"Our global penalty scheme has achieved the result we just saw, which is already acceptable. We can then focus on optimizing the individual compensation methods."

"The University of Chicago takes the local boundary weight approach, and its parameter coupling is much more complex than ours."

"Without a special improvement plan, the error in their data will definitely get out of control."

"Then the availability of subsequent computing resources is in jeopardy."

Whispering voices drifted over, but the University of Chicago staff paid no attention, several pairs of eyes fixed on the data in front of them.

As the computation process ended, stability data was displayed on the large screen in real time.

There was a brief silence on the University of Chicago project team's side when they saw the results.

"R—boundary/E—bulk——————It's been compressed to 0.86?" Arjun stared at the big screen, hardly believing her eyes.

"It really is 0.86." Amber took a deep breath. "The correction term not only solves the problem of irregular boundaries, but also further reduces the boundary energy ratio."

A surge of joy welled up in everyone's hearts; the result was so outstanding that it was completely beyond their expectations.

Isabella, suppressing her excitement, exclaimed softly, "Leo, this is incredible!"

Seeing the final result, Li Ao finally relaxed.

Faced with his colleagues' excitement, he explained honestly, "When I was fusing the correction terms last night, I also reorganized the boundary block index and parameter normalization, which can further reduce the boundary energy ratio. It was an unexpected bonus."

"Good, well done!" Rudy patted Li Ao's shoulder heavily, his smile undisguised, his eyes full of admiration.

This kid absolutely cannot be let go.

On the other hand, the Caltech team fell into a long silence.

They couldn't understand how the University of Chicago had managed to not only fill in the gaps in the irregular boundaries overnight, but also leave such an exaggerated margin of stability.

After a long pause, one of the researchers broke the silence, looking slightly embarrassed: "I think our global penalty approach might be more suitable for large-scale coarse scanning of rule boundaries."

By 11:00 AM, all teams had finished their progress reports.

Unsurprisingly, the University of Chicago's proposal received the most comprehensive feedback, giving it a significant lead.

As he left the meeting, Rudy was in high spirits and said he would treat the whole team to a celebratory lunch.

Isabella noticed that Li Ao, standing to the side, had his brows furrowed slightly, as if he were pondering something.

"Leo, what's wrong?" she asked softly. "Are you too tired? Maybe I should talk to Professor Rudy and change the dinner to the evening so you can go home and catch up on some sleep."

"It's okay, I'm not tired."

Hearing Isabella's words, Li Ao snapped out of his reverie and replied truthfully, "I was just thinking that since the core solution has been changed, the paper and report definitely need to be rewritten. I'm wondering if I should strike while the iron is hot and finish them today before going to sleep."

Seeing his serious expression, Isabella opened her mouth, but for a moment she didn't know how to respond.

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