ML Olympiad returns with over 20 challenges

The popular ML Olympiad is back for its third round with over 20 community-hosted machine learning competitions on Kaggle.

The ML Olympiad – organised by groups including ML GDE, TFUG, and other ML communities – aims to provide developers with hands-on opportunities to learn and practice machine learning skills by tackling real-world challenges.

Over the previous two rounds, an impressive 605 teams participated across 32 competitions, generating 105 discussions and 170 notebooks.

This year’s lineup includes challenges spanning areas like healthcare, sustainability, natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, and more. Competitions are hosted by expert groups and developers from around the world.
Here are this year’s challenges:

• Smoking Detection in Patients

Hosted by Rishiraj Acharya (AI/ML GDE) in collaboration with TFUG Kolkata, this competition tasks participants with predicting smoking status using bio-signal ML models.

• TurtleVision Challenge

Organised by Anas Lahdhiri under MLAct, this challenge calls for the development of a classification model to differentiate between jellyfish and plastic pollution in ocean imagery.

• Detect Hallucinations in LLMs

Luca Massaron (AI/ML GDE) presents a unique challenge of identifying hallucinations in answers provided by a Mistral 7B instruct model.

• ZeroWasteEats

Anushka Raj, alongside TFUG Hajipur, seeks ML solutions to mitigate food wastage, a critical concern in today’s world.

• Predicting Wellness

Hosted by Ankit Kumar Verma and TFUG Prayagraj, this competition involves predicting the percentage of body fat in men using multiple regression methods.

• Offbeats Edition

Ayush Morbar from Offbeats Byte Labs invites participants to build a regression model to predict the age of crabs.

• Nashik Weather

TFUG Nashik challenges participants to forecast the weather condition in Nashik, India, leveraging machine learning techniques.

• Predicting Earthquake Damage

Usha Rengaraju presents a task of predicting the level of damage to buildings caused by earthquakes, based on various factors.

• Forecasting Bangladesh’s Weather

TFUG Bangladesh (Dhaka) aims to predict rainfall, average temperature, and rainy days for a particular day in Bangladesh.

• CO2 Emissions Prediction Challenge

Md Shahriar Azad Evan and Shuvro Pal from TFUG North Bengal seek to predict CO2 emissions per capita for 2030 using global development indicators.

• AI & ML Malaysia

Kuan Hoong (AI/ML GDE) challenges participants to predict loan approval status, addressing a crucial aspect of financial inclusion.

• Sustainable Urban Living

Ashwin Raj and BeyondML task participants with predicting the habitability score of properties, promoting sustainable urban development.

• Toxic Language (PTBR) Detection

Hosted in Brazilian Portuguese, this challenge by Mikaeri Ohana, Pedro Gengo, and Vinicius F. Caridá (AI/ML GDE) involves classifying toxic tweets.

• Improving Disaster Response

Yara Armel Desire of TFUG Abidjan invites participants to predict humanitarian aid contributions in response to disasters worldwide.

• Urban Traffic Density

Kartikey Rawat from TFUG Durg calls for the development of predictive models to estimate traffic density in urban areas.

• Know Your Customer Opinion

TFUG Surabaya presents a challenge of classifying customer opinions into Likert scale categories.

• Forecasting India’s Weather

Mohammed Moinuddin and TFUG Hyderabad task participants with predicting temperatures for specific months in India.

• Classification Champ

Hosted by TFUG Bhopal, this competition involves developing classification models to predict tumour malignancy.

• AI-Powered Job Description Generator

Akaash Tripathi from TFUG Ghaziabad challenges participants to build a system that automatically generates job descriptions using Generative AI and chatbot interface.

• Machine Translation French-Wolof

GalsenAI presents a challenge of accurately translating French sentences into Wolof, offering a platform to enhance language translation capabilities.

• Water Mapping using Satellite Imagery

Taha Bouhsine of ML Nomads tasks participants with water mapping using satellite imagery for dam drought detection.

Google is supporting each community host this round through its Google for Developers program.

Participants are encouraged to search for “ML Olympiad” on Kaggle, follow #MLOlympiad on social media, and get involved in the competitions that most interest them.

With such a diverse array of real-world machine learning challenges, the ML Olympiad represents an excellent opportunity for developers to put their skills to the test and gain valuable experience.