A sortable list of public machine learning/data science/AI contests, viewable on mlcontests.com.
Please submit a pull request for any changes.
Additions or changes to the competitions list can be made by editing competitions.json.
Please check the submission criteria first to ensure your competition qualifies.
The schema is in schema.json.
The required date format in all cases is D MMM YYYY - e.g. 5 Jan 2023.
The prize field should use USD values with a comma as the thousands separator, e.g. $50,000 for fifty-thousand dollars.
This field should only contain unconditional cash prizes. Other prizes -- compute grants, travel grants, hardware, or swag, should be specified as a string in the additional_prizes field.
Each competition can have several tags linked to it, and website users can filter by tag. Some of the valid tags are listed below. See the schema for a full list of tags.
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
"measurable" |
Any competition with an objectively measurable goal/benchmark |
"subjective" |
Any competition with a subjective determination of winners, such as through a judging panel |
"supervised" |
Supervised learning (labels are given) |
"unsupervised" |
Unsupervised learning (no labels given) |
"reinforcement learning" |
Reinforcement learning (actions to maximise reward) |
"control" |
Control problems (controlling a dynamical system) |
"classification" |
Classification (class labels) |
"regression" |
Regression (numerical labels) |
"ranking" |
Ranking (ranking sets of items) |
"segmentation" |
Segmentation (1) (2) (dividing something into parts with labels) |
"vision" |
Computer Vision (images/video) |
"audio" |
Audio processing (sound) |
"nlp" |
Natural Language Processing (language, or sequences of tokens) |
"tabular" |
Tabular data (structured, in rows and columns) |
"multimodal" |
Multi-modal data (e.g. audio + text) |
"timeseries" |
Time series analysis (anything with time series data) |
"forecasting" |
Forecasting (making predictions about the future) |
"causal" |
Causal inference (cause and effect) |
"automl" |
AutoML (competitions restricted to AutoML solutions) |
"graph" |
Learning on Graphs |
"optimisation" |
Optimisation (formal optimisation problems) |
"search" |
Search problems |
"safety" |
AI Safety (alignment, robustness, ,monitoring, etc) |
"security" |
Information security (virus detection, passwords, encryption, etc) |
"privacy" |
Privacy (privacy-enhancing ML, federated learning, etc) |
"meta" |
Meta learning (learning to learn) |
"writing" |
Writing (essays, articles, blog posts) |
"reasoning" |
Logical reasoning or abstraction based challenges. |
"analysis" |
Analysis/visualisation (notebooks, presentations, recommendations, interpretation) |
"science" |
Any challenge analysing scientific data (physics/biology/chemistry/...) |
"medical" |
Any challenge analysing medical data (CT scans/notes/...) |
"sports" |
Any challenge analysing sports data (horse racing, NFL, NBA, soccer,...) |
"business" |
Any challenge analysing business data (customer behaviour, credit card defaults,...) |
"finance" |
Any challenge analysing financial markets data (crypto price prediction,...) |
"education" |
Any challenge analysing education-related data (analysing students' essays, etc) |
"geo" |
Any challenge analysing geographical data (localisation, mapping, etc) |
"data" |
Any challenge where the core component is preparing or cleaning data, or creating new benchmark data sets |
"open" |
Outside data can be used, not just data that was given |
"pvp" |
'player-vs-player', i.e. evaluation is done by having competitors battle |
"robotics" |
Any challenge involving teaching robots skills |
"driving" |
Any challenge involving self-driving cars |
"multiple" |
A competition composed of multiple mini-challenges |
"mlops" |
A competition focused on MLOps - the operational aspects of ML in production - rather than modelling |
"generative" |
A competition that focuses on generative models |
"deep learning" |
A competition related specifically to deep learning, e.g. exploring strengths/weaknesses of specific architectures |