Introduction to NIPS 2017 Competition Track

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​Introduction to NIPS 2017 Competition Track​
Escalera, S.; Weimer, M.; Burtsev, M.; Malykh, V.; Logacheva, V.; Lowe, R.& Serban, I. V. et al.​ (2018)
In:​Escalera, S.; Weimer, N.​ (Eds.), The NIPS '17 Competition: Building Intelligent Systems pp. 1​-23. ​Cham: ​Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94042-7_1 

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Escalera, Sergio; Weimer, Markus; Burtsev, Mikhail; Malykh, Valentin; Logacheva, Varvara; Lowe, Ryan; Serban, Iulian Vlad; Bengio, Yoshua; Rudnicky, Alexander; Black, Alan W.; Prabhumoye, Shrimai; Kidziński, Łukasz; Mohanty, Sharada Prasanna; Ong, Carmichael F.; Hicks, Jennifer L.; Levine, Sergey; Salathé, Marcel; Delp, Scott L.; Huerga, Iker; Grigorenko, Alexander; Thorbergsson, Leifur; Das, Anasuya; Nemitz, Kyla; Sandker, Jenna; King, Stephen; Ecker, Alexander S. ; Gatys, Leon A.; Bethge, Matthias; Boyd-Graber, Jordan; Feng, Shi; Rodriguez, Pedro; Iyyer, Mohit; He, B.; Daumé, Hal; McGregor, Sean; Banifatemi, Amir; Kurakin, Alexey; Goodfellow, Ian; Bengio, Samy
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Escalera, S.; Weimer, N.
Abstract
Competitions have become a popular tool in the data science community to solve hard problems, assess the state of the art and spur new research directions. Companies like Kaggle and open source platforms like Codalab connect people with data and a data science problem to those with the skills and means to solve it. Hence, the question arises: What, if anything, could NIPS add to this rich ecosystem? In 2017, we embarked to find out. We attracted 23 potential competitions, of which we selected five to be NIPS 2017 competitions. Our final selection features competitions advancing the state of the art in other sciences such as “Classifying Clinically Actionable Genetic Mutations” and “Learning to Run”. Others, like “The Conversational Intelligence Challenge” and “Adversarial Attacks and Defences” generated new data sets that we expect to impact the progress in their respective communities for years to come. And “Human-Computer Question Answering Competition” showed us just how far we as a field have come in ability and efficiency since the break-through performance of Watson in Jeopardy. Two additional competitions, DeepArt and AI XPRIZE Milestions, were also associated to the NIPS 2017 competition track, whose results are also presented within this chapter.
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2018
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Springer
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978-3-319-94041-0
eISBN
978-3-319-94042-7
ISSN
2520-131X
eISSN
2520-1328
Language
English

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