🥳 Welcome!

Hi there, Do you struggle with ML? Don't know where to start your Machine Learning journey? We have just the right thing for you!
We present to you ML Battleground - a beginner-friendly Machine Learning Contest. The objective is simple, you need to train models for cool real-life problems, and submit predictions made on the given test dataset. To help you get started, each problem has a starter-code kit! So, let's dive in? 

📅 CONTEST DETAILS

• Start Time:   12:30 PM UTC 25th Feb, 2021
• End Time: 12:30 PM UTC 6th March 2021
• Duration: 10 days

💻 INSTRUCTIONS

• Each problem has an associated weight. This weight denotes the problem’s contribution to your final score.
• The final leaderboard is calculated by the weighted mean of your rank across all the problems in the contest. If a problem is not attempted by the participant, his/her rank in that problem is denoted by the total number of participants in the whole challenge.
• To help you "Get Started" we have a starter kit available for each of these problems. We hope they are helpful; if you find any bugs, typos, or improvements, please send us a pull request.
• In case you have any queries, please reach out to us via the Discussion Forums.

🏆 Prizes

• Global

  • 1st place: 7000 INR
  • 2nd place: 5000 INR
  • 3rd place: 3000 INR

• IIIT H Students

  • 1st place: 2000 INR
  • 2nd place: 1500 INR
  • 3rd place: 1000 INR

ELIGIBILITY

ML Battleground⚡is open to everyone who is interested in diving into the world of Data Science - students, professionals, or researchers. With problems of varying difficulty, we try to ensure that there is something for everyone.

📱Host

The contest is hosted by Felicity's 2021 Threads Team. Felicity is the annual cultural event of IIIT Hyderabad.
Problem Setters:  Animesh Sinha, Kanish Anand, Avani Gupta, Yogottam Khandelwal, Gurkirat Singh, Shrey Gupta.