Academic competitions
Hugo Jair Escalante, Aleksandra Kruchinina

TL;DR
This paper surveys the role and impact of academic competitions in advancing machine learning, highlighting their goals, achievements, and future prospects in fostering research and inclusivity.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive review of influential machine learning competitions, analyzing their challenges, successes, and potential future directions.
Findings
Competitions have significantly advanced machine learning research.
They promote inclusivity and highlight key research topics.
Recent competitions have led to notable breakthroughs in the field.
Abstract
Academic challenges comprise effective means for (i) advancing the state of the art, (ii) putting in the spotlight of a scientific community specific topics and problems, as well as (iii) closing the gap for under represented communities in terms of accessing and participating in the shaping of research fields. Competitions can be traced back for centuries and their achievements have had great influence in our modern world. Recently, they (re)gained popularity, with the overwhelming amounts of data that is being generated in different domains, as well as the need of pushing the barriers of existing methods, and available tools to handle such data. This chapter provides a survey of academic challenges in the context of machine learning and related fields. We review the most influential competitions in the last few years and analyze challenges per area of knowledge. The aims of scientific…
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Taxonomy
TopicsMachine Learning in Materials Science · Machine Learning and Data Classification
