State of ML competitions 2023 - CodaLab performing well again!

[anne-catherine letournel]

Dear Codalab community,

We just wanted to share the new report from Harald Carlens, "The State of Competitive Machine Learning - 2023": https://mlcontests.com/state-of-competitive-machine-learning-2023/

CodaLab remains one of the most influential ML platforms in the world:

"Google’s Kaggle platform has by far the most registered users (17m+, up from 10m+ last year), and remains the largest platform by total prize money, with DrivenData second.
CodaLab ran the most competitions that fit our inclusion criteria [1]; many of these were competitions affiliated with academic conferences. Among academic conferences, the other popular competition platforms tended to be EvalAI, AIcrowd, and Kaggle.
Alibaba Cloud’s Tianchi ran the second-most competitions that fit our criteria.
Zindi — in addition to 21 competitions — also held 47 community hackathons, and awarded $190k in total prize money across community hackathons and competitions in 2023."

Codabench is also classified, as "a new iteration of the popular CodaLab platform. It maintains the open-source nature of its predecessor, and has a public instance hosted by Université Paris-Saclay. It improves on usability, while also offering new features aimed at ongoing benchmarks."

Don't hesitate to contact MLContest to have your competition listed on their portal if your competition is an official competition from NeurIPS, CVPR, ICRA, ICLR, ICPR, ICML, IROS, or MICCAI or fits to the other criteria [1].

Best regards,

Codalab team

[1] https://mlcontests.com/submit/?ref=state23