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Data scientist @kaggle / @google. Competitions team.

Brooklyn, NY
Joined December 2010
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πŸ“£ If you have opinions about chart crimes and plotslop, we have an arena for you. Go vote for the best models on Chart Arena, live on Kaggle now! kaggle.com/benchmarks/kaggle…
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Interesting write ups are being published now that the competition is closed Many are are inference engineering I want to make all these tricks available to future agents who are experimenting in the same domain How do we contribute this to public knowledge town square?
Competition closed Thank you to everyone who participated - now time to tally it all up V3: 18.5K entrants, 67K submissions V2: 12K entrants, 35K submissions Papers (1 more week): 420 submissions
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How do competitors with restricted compute find opportunities to win, build their careers, and earn medals? Last year, Isaiah Pressman finished 2nd in a competition on his home PC, behind a team running 8 H100s. This year, he won on a cluster. In the first episode of Beyond the Leaderboard, three Orbit Wars competitors weigh scale against clever engineering. Here’s a sneak peek:
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New kaggle logo is pretty dope.
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As a test of our progress to advance the frontier of AI research, in June we entered the next generation of our autonomous AI research system, AIRA₃, in a live Kaggle competition run by NVIDIA to fine-tune a 30B Nemotron model. The challenge was to teach the model to reason better β€” all competitors had access to the same information and were graded externally on a private test set. AIRA₃ placed 8th out of ~4,000 teams to win Gold, outperforming human competitors who had access to the same frontier tools. We believe this is a reliable signal that AIRA₃ can improve a targeted capability of an AI model at a level similar to human experts.
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Last month, the NVIDIA Nemotron Model Reasoning Challenge wrapped on @kaggle with 5,000+ participants across 4,000+ teams. The community explored techniques for improving reasoning accuracy, here's what we learned πŸ‘‡
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πŸ† New @kaggle competition! πŸ† Autonomous Agent Prediction: submit an agent to autonomously solve multiple unseen ML tasks from a common distribution. It's a test of where we're heading -- building & evaluating agents that continually learn, generalizing across novel but related tasks within token budget constraints. kaggle.com/competitions/auto…
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Deep Past Challenge was my first kaggle competition without coding, and with @raja_biswas we came 3rd πŸ₯‰ It was fun to use agentic tools to learn about life and settling disputes 4000 years ago. Thanks @kaggle for hosting πŸ‘‡10 minas of silver (~5 kg) β€” enough to buy a house.
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NVIDIA is hosting a Kaggle competition. How can you train a nemotron nano model to solve scientific questions? I hope you'll enjoy it! For this competition @kaggle secured NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs from Google Cloud. These GPUs are much more powerful than the usual Kaggle GPUs. Come and try these beasts! kaggle.com/competitions/nvid…
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1/ Today the biggest score jump in AIMO history happened: we sit at 38/50. Usually score increases are on the order of few points, and it is unusual for the distance to the other competitors to be this big, especially as most of easy problems have now been solved.
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Shocking results: From 0/50 to 23/50 IMO-level problems in a day! Taking into account that these are very hard problems and your model has on average just 6 minutes of H100-time per problem, this is quite an achievement.
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AIMO3 has launched! Check out our mini-benchmark of reference problems below & help us shrink the gap to commercial LLMs to zero!
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110 problems created by an international team ❌ Not scraped from the internet ❌ Not in any training dataset ❌ Not seen by any model before This is how you test TRUE reasoning ability. Can your model actually SOLVE problems? Or just pattern spot? AIMO3 will tell you πŸ”
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Our OpenAI x AIMO that we made in March 2025 revealed on an unprecedented scale the difference between the math reasoning performance of open-source vs closed-source LLMs. Join us for AIMO3 to shrink this gap to zero!
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πŸŽ‰ The Drawing with LLMs Kaggle competition has wrapped up! The participants were challenged to turn words into visuals & generate SVGs from text prompts using Kaggle Packages. 1,742 participants across 1,313 teams submitted over 39,000 entries.
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πŸ“£ Competition Launch Alert: @arcprize 2025 🎯 Create an AI capable of novel reasoning πŸ’° $725,000 ⏰ Entry Deadline: Oct 27, 2025 kaggle.com/competitions/arc-…
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I had the occasion to recreate @antgoldbloom's breakdown of what users do on Kaggle 3y+ later my perspective is now total awe at what Kaggle's comparatively small, but massively mighty Competitions community has accomplished in terms of AI/ML industry influence. Making progress on ... - Vesuvius scroll decoding - Kprize (contamination-free SWE bench) - ARC Prize & AGI - AI Mathematical Olympiad - RNA folding - FIDE efficient chess agents - And so much more ... Open, community collaboration for the win! Join us!
Here's the latest breakdown of what users do on Kaggle. We started as machine learning competitions, there's clearly much more to Kaggle these days. In particular, there continues to be a large amount of interest in Kaggle's public datasets.
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My colleague Christof Henkel @kagglingdieter has been cited on CNN for his win int he American Sigh Language compeition on @kaggle last year. β€œthey have a thing called kaggle grandmasters at NVIDIA and a gentleman named Christof Henkel won this competition. He was able to teach an LLM American Sign Language and once he developed it, it open up a floodgate of opportunities. So this is a wonderful thing.” Very proud to work with Christof. Link below.
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