We received the following question regarding our second award category 2 (data-centric challenge): "is it permitted for contestants to use AI models in the data pipeline (especially in data augmentation)? If so, can the model be trained on publicly available data or can it only be trained from the dataset provided?"

For award category 2 (data-centric challenge) it is permitted to use AI models in the data pipeline under the following conditions:

  • the AI models ONLY alter/augment the data or synthetically generate new data but they don’t generate the prediction;
  • the AI models can be pretrained but have to be as such publicly available, but it is NOT allowed to train them on any ADDITIONAL data (only the challenge dataset is allowed for training).

We added this clarification to our challenge rules.