Hackathon

• Performance on the evaluation set:

  • 1st Prize: ₹ 15,000 - np.random: Sriram Devata, IIIT-Hyderabad + Umesh Chandra Roy, JNU

  • 2nd Prize: ₹ 10,000 - Happy Holmes: Ganesh Chandan, IIIT-Hyderabad + Kartik Majila, NCBS

  • 3rd Prize: ₹ 8,000 - Keezadi Transformers: Mohammad Sahil, TIFR - Hyderabad + Aparna Gangwar, IIT - Indore

• Methodology: ₹ 5,000 (innovative usage of ML irrespective of performance of the framework used) - Wizards of Smiles: Rohit Modee, IIIT-Hyderabad + Dheemanth Reddy Regati, NCBS

• Best team name: ₹ 5,000 (innovative/interesting/funny/connection to the problem) - Smile Podu: Sandeep Nagar, IIIT-Hyderabad + ER Litralson, CSIR-IGIB

• Online orientation & Problem introduction, 15th February 2023     

• Day 1:

  • 9 March 2023, 18:00, download the dataset for training: A csv 'dataset_train.csv' file containing SMILES and 4 properties for 5k small molecules as announced on the orientation day

  • Link for training set: to be provided later

  • 9 March, from 21:00 until 23:59, train the model

• Day 2: 

  • 10 March 2023, from 21:00 PM until 23:59 PM, refining make new predictions with the model: SMILES for 1k new molecules 'dataset_test.smi'  will be shared and the participants must predict the 4 properties

  • Link for evaluation set: to be provided later

  • Before 10 March 2023, 23:59 PM, send your predictions :Predictions in a csv file 'Prediction_TeamName.csv' must be emailed to ml4science@iiit.ac.in for evaluation

• Day 3:

  • 11 March 2023 19:00 PM until 19:30 PM, methods presentation: (3-minutes presentation of methods by each team with a maximum of 3 slides each)

  • 11 March during conference dinner: Results and Prize Distribution

• Performance on the evaluation set:

  • 1st Prize: ₹ 15,000

  • 2nd Prize: ₹ 10,000

  • 3rd Prize: ₹ 8,000

• Methodology: ₹ 5,000 (innovative usage of ML irrespective of performance of the framework used)

• Best team name: ₹ 5,000 (innovative/interesting/funny/connection to the problem)

• Goodies, munchies & refreshments to Everyone!

A jury (Professors Raghunathan Ramakrishnan, Prabhakar Bhimalapuram and Girish Varma) will plan, conduct and foresee the hackathon, and its decisions will be final on all matters. Teams resorting to unfair practices and conducting against the sprit of the event will be disqualified on-spot. 

None of the members of the participating nine teams were involved in putting together the hackathon problem.

Good luck to the teams! No restriction on a single team coming out top on all three categories :-)

• Laptop with all your favorite ML tools - All members of the teams

• Try Google Colab in advance, in case you need to use this

• Note that we will be in a remote location; internet connectivity may be limited, not an academic place,... Enough homework would help