After metric exploitation was removed from consideration, the actual winning approach in the Arc competition used nonlinearities, suggesting they were needed for that task.

“So based on, on this idea that, you know, people pro-forward with this flow, with this cell flow type of idea. I think shows you that some nonlinear things are, in this case, needed so that the actual real winner, so if you sort of remove the, the exploitation, was actually something that is, this is taking some, some nonlinearities.”