Get Ready for the NeurIPS Competition Track

By Marco Ciccone, Gustavo Stolovitzky Jake Albrecht

NeurIPS is here and we will have a dedicated Competition Track for the sixth time!

Social Event and Poster Session

We are glad to invite you to our social event in New Orleans at the Conference on 29th November at 6 PM (Ballroom C).

The event will be opened by an invited talk from two pioneers of challenges in ML, Isabelle Guyon and Evelyne Viegas, who will discuss the role of competitions at NeurIPS, their evolution, and opportunities.

The invited talk will be followed by a poster session with the competition organizers presenting their challenges and the highlights of the past few months. 

Competitions have a valuable place in research and in solving complex problems. 

We encourage you to take advantage of this social opportunity to learn more about ML challenges and application trends. 

This year we selected competitions covering a broad spectrum of challenges and disciplines such as AutoML, Graph Representation Learning, Security, Machine Learning for Physical and Life Sciences, Natural Language Processing and Understanding, Robotics, and Multi-Agent Systems.

See the complete list of the selected competitions for this year: https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2022/CompetitionTrack

We are excited to finally meet new and old faces of both organizers and participants who made the competition track a success during these years. There will be pizza, salad, and soft drinks for everyone!

Online Workshops

After the success of the past editions, in addition to the physical event, the Competition Track will feature online workshops during the virtual week.

The online workshops aim to reach a larger audience and allow researchers worldwide interested in specific ML challenges to foster collaboration, exchange ideas, and grow a sense of community.

Each workshop is a focused session with invited talks from winners and experts of the specific competition. Check the schedule of each workshop on the conference competitions page or look at the general virtual program below.

6th December

Cross-Domain MetaDL: Any-Way Any-Shot Learning Competition with Novel Datasets from Practical Domains	11-14 UTC
Driving SMARTS	11-14 UTC
Real Robot Challenge III — Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Offline Data in the Real World	11-14 UTC
The MineRL BASALT Competition on Fine-tuning from Human Feedback	11-14 UTC
IGLU: Interactive Grounded Language Understanding in a Collaborative Environment	11-14 UTC
Traffic4cast 2022 – Predict Dynamics along Graph Edges from Sparse Node Data: Whole City Traffic and ETA from simple Road Counters	11-14 UTC
Causal Insights for Learning Paths in Education	11-14 UTC
The SENSORIUM competition on predicting large scale mouse primary visual cortex activity	21-24 UTC
MyoChallenge: Learning contact-rich manipulation using a musculoskeletal hand	21-24 UTC

7th December

Weakly Supervised Cell Segmentation in Multi-modality High-Resolution Microscopy Images	13-16 UTC
Inferring Physical Properties of Exoplanets From Next-Generation Telescopes	13-16 UTC
The CityLearn Challenge 2022	13-16 UTC
Reconnaissance Blind Chess: An Unsolved Challenge for Multi-Agent Decision Making Under Uncertainty	13-16 UTC
AutoML for the 2020s: Diverse Tasks, Modern Methods, and Efficiency at Scale	13-16 UTC
Multimodal Single-Cell Integration Across Time, Individuals, and Batches	13-16 UTC
Second AmericasNLP Competition: Speech-to-Text Translation for Indigenous Languages of the Americas	13-16 UTC
EURO Meets NeurIPS 2022 Vehicle Routing Competition	13-16 UTC

8th December

NL4Opt: Formulating Optimization Problems Based on Their Natural Language Descriptions	1-4 AM UTC
Weather4cast – Super-Resolution Rain Movie Prediction under Spatio-temporal Shifts	11-14 UTC
VisDA 2022 Challenge: Sim2Real Domain Adaptation for Industrial Recycling	21-24 UTC
OGB-LSC 2022: A Large-Scale Challenge for ML on Graphs	21-24 UTC
The Third Neural MMO Challenge: Learning to Specialize in Massively Multiagent Open Worlds	21-24 UTC
Open Catalyst Challenge	21-24 UTC
The Trojan Detection Challenge	21-24 UTC
Habitat Rearrangement Challenge	21-24 UTC

We want to thank all the reviewers, organizers and competition participants for the hard work and integrity over the past months of preparation. We look forward to meeting you all in NOLA and virtually for two inspiring weeks of science.