{
  "id": 684202,
  "title": "Identical Submission Produced Different Public/Private Scores",
  "url": "/competitions/deep-past-initiative-machine-translation/discussion/684202",
  "author_name": "panda__MB__maximus",
  "post_date": "2026-03-24T01:56:48.799000",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 0,
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  "content": "<p>Hi Kaggle Team,\nI noticed that identical submissions from the same notebook produced slightly different public/private scores.\nThe difference is small, but it unfortunately affected my final ranking and medal eligibility.</p>\n<p>Is this expected behavior due to non-deterministic evaluation, or could there be any issue with evaluation reproducibility?</p>\n<p>I completely understand small variations may occur, but I wanted to confirm if this is expected.</p>\n<p>Thanks for your time.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 3427358,
      "postDate": "2026-03-24T01:56:48.800Z",
      "content": "<p>Hi Kaggle Team,\nI noticed that identical submissions from the same notebook produced slightly different public/private scores.\nThe difference is small, but it unfortunately affected my final ranking and medal eligibility.</p>\n<p>Is this expected behavior due to non-deterministic evaluation, or could there be any issue with evaluation reproducibility?</p>\n<p>I completely understand small variations may occur, but I wanted to confirm if this is expected.</p>\n<p>Thanks for your time.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi Kaggle Team,\nI noticed that identical submissions from the same notebook produced slightly different public/private scores.\nThe difference is small, but it unfortunately affected my final ranking and medal eligibility.\n\nIs this expected behavior due to non-deterministic evaluation, or could there be any issue with evaluation reproducibility?\n\nI completely understand small variations may occur, but I wanted to confirm if this is expected.\n\nThanks for your time.",
      "votes": 1
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    "3427358": "Hi Kaggle Team,\nI noticed that identical submissions from the same notebook produced slightly different public/private scores.\nThe difference is small, but it unfortunately affected my final ranking and medal eligibility.\n\nIs this expected behavior due to non-deterministic evaluation, or could there be any issue with evaluation reproducibility?\n\nI completely understand small variations may occur, but I wanted to confirm if this is expected.\n\nThanks for your time."
  }
}