NeurIPS 2024 Competitions Announced!

Today, we introduce the competitions that have been accepted at NeurIPS 2024 Competition Track. It seemed especially challenging this year given the number of quality submissions and the limited number that could be accepted compared to last year.  We selected a total of 16 very strong proposals, covering a wide range of areas and subdisciplines.  Some of the competitions are completely new, others are familiar to the NeurIPS community. 

This year will mark the eighth year of NeurIPS having a dedicated competition track. Whether this is the first time you’ve heard about NeurIPS competitions or you’re a grandmaster, this year’s cohort has something to offer for a variety of backgrounds, skill levels, and domain knowledge.  We hope you’ll take some time to look over this year’s exciting set of competitions, and encourage you to participate! 

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

As a participant, you will benefit from being exposed to a vibrant community! Indeed, they’re great for connecting to like-minded researchers, excellent for learning and resume building, and allow you to use your skills to have a real-world impact on important and challenging problems. After the challenges are complete, we hope that you continue collaborating with your former competitors to advance solutions for these important problems.

As with last year, competition reports co-authored by both organizers and participants will be subject to new publication requirements. To improve scientific rigor, transparency, and reproducibility, accepted competitions in 2024 will be required to submit their post-competition analyses as papers to the 2025 NeurIPS D&B track (next year). 

The NeurIPS 2024 program includes the following exciting competitions:

• Physics and Scientific Computing
  • MyoChallenge 2024: Physiological Dexterity and Agility in Bionic Humans
  • FAIR Universe – the challenge of handling uncertainties in fundamental science
  • BELKA: The Big Encoded Library for Chemical Assessment
  • ML4CFD Competition: Harnessing Machine Learning for Computational Fluid Dynamics in Airfoil Design
• Generative AI and Large Language Models 
  • HAC: The Hacker-Cup AI Competition
  • LLM Merging: Building LLMs Efficiently through Merging
  • Edge-Device Large Language Model Competition
• Multiagent Systems and Reinforcement Learning
  • Large-Scale Auction Challenge: Learning Decision-Making in Uncertain and Competitive Games
  • Lux AI Season 3: Multi-Agent Meta Learning at Scale
  • The Concordia Contest: Advancing the Cooperative Intelligence of Language Model Agents
• Signal Reconstruction and Enhancement
  • URGENT Challenge
  • Weather4cast 2024 – Multi-task Challenges for Rain Movie Prediction on the Road to Hi-Res Foundation Models
  • Ariel Data Challenge 2024: Extracting exoplanetary signals from the Ariel Space Telescope
• Responsible AI and Security
  • LASC 2024: The LLM and Agent Safety Competition
  • Erasing the Invisible: A Stress-Test Challenge for ImageWatermarks
  • The NeurIPS 2024 LLM Privacy Challenge

We are very grateful to the colleagues that helped us with reviewing and selecting the competition proposals for this year.  We congratulate all the authors on their accepted proposals, and we thank everyone who submitted a proposal for their fantastic work. 

Please feel free to reach out to competition-chairs@neurips.cc if you have any questions or suggestions. 

Good luck to our organizers and participants; we look forward to seeing the competition outcomes at the conference! 

Tao, Jake, Megan