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SML Presents : Chess AI Hackathon

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SML Presents : Chess AI Hackathon

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Our sister meetup, Sydney Machine Learning is proud to partner with Strong Compute to host teams for a hard core weekend to make the best Chess playing AI. In order to win you will have to blend the best of human intuition, historical player data & bring your own cutting edge techniques

Prize: winning teams will receive one of Strong Compute’s $10-100K grants for open source AI research - or further developing open chess models.

Task: Train a language model to play chess.

Dataset: Public dataset of training game “Portable Game Notations” (PGNs) from Leela Chess Zero. An example data loading pipeline will be provided. You can use this or source your own.

Models: Must be character-level generative language models. Example models will be provided, or you can develop your own. Models must be trained from scratch during the competition weekend.

Compute: access to multiple 48x 24GB Ampere clusters and dedicated GPU workstations on the Strong Compute Instant Super Computer platform.

Budget: compute credits provided during the competition.
​Judging: each team’s model will play off in a tournament to determine the competition winner.

​Judging: each team’s model will play off in a tournament to determine the competition winner.

​Location: ​Artarmon, NSW, specific details to be provided to successful applicants.

​The full set of rules and gameplay will be shared with participants ahead of time on our Discord.

Schedule:
​Sat, 3 August:

  • ​9.00 am coffee, breakfast + networking
  • ​9.30 am set-up, onboarding, test training run + inference
  • ​10.30 am competition begins
  • ​12.30 pm lunch
  • ​6.00 pm dinner
  • ​12.00am wrap up day one

​Sun, 4 August:

  • ​9.00am day two start, breakfast
  • ​12.30 pm lunch
  • ​2.00 pm tournament begins
  • ​3.30 pm winners announced
  • ​4.00 pm done

Strong Compute:
​Strong Compute provides infrastructure management capability for rapid artificial intelligence development.
​P.S. We're hiring and this is a great way for us to get to know each other

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