Leoma Anti-Plagiarism & Validator Gaming Rules

Leoma enforces byte-identical weight duplicate detection: miners uploading the same model weights as an earlier committer get zeroed. Team clarified that custom inference stacks and Docker images are encouraged, but gaming the validator (IP detection evasion, external API calls, eval pipeline manipulation) triggers blacklist. The 80% task-completion gate makes optimization critical.

• •Duplicate model hash triggers automatic zero; earliest uploader wins.
• •Custom Docker image + inference tuning encouraged; shave seconds for better pass rate.
• •Validator gaming (judge IP detection, fake metadata, sandbox escape) = blacklist.
• •One-byte weight change = different hash; avoids duplicate penalty but must outperform on tasks.