The task
Correlate an alarm storm against the network topology and the change log, and name the single failing element.
Proposed by PIG-DemoRank 9 of 12Not in the first set
Telecom Alarm → Root-Cause
Who it is for
SVP Network Operations
One fibre cut lights up thousands of alarms. My operations centre spends the first half of the outage deciding which one to read.
The reward
Pays on time-to-identify, measured against the root cause the post-incident review recorded.
The counterweight
A confident wrong element costs the truck roll it triggers. Answering “insufficient evidence, here are the two candidates” scores higher than a fast wrong answer, which is the opposite of what a plain accuracy metric would teach.
The counterweight is the part worth arguing about. A reward with nothing pulling against it is a target, and a target is what a model learns to hit instead of doing the job.
What exists today
Nothing. There is no environment for this vertical, no recorded run, and no number. It is a proposal, written to the same shape as the one that is built so you can judge it on the same terms.
The environment that does exist is Word Five. It is a word game, and it is deliberately not one of these twelve: it is there to show the machinery, not to imply we have built yours.