
"Announcing the ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge" by Jacob_Hilton
From LessWrong (Curated & Popular) by LessWrong
June 3, 2026 · 5 min
About this episode
The episode announces the ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge in collaboration with AIcrowd, aimed at improving estimation algorithms for random MLPs with a significant prize pool.
ARC has teamed up with AIcrowd to launch the ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge, a contest to improve upon our estimation algorithms for random MLPs. The warm-up round begins this week, and later rounds will have a total prize pool of at least $100,000. We are very grateful to Sharada Mohanty, Sneha Nanavati, Dipam Chakraborty and everyone else at AIcrowd for working with us to host this contest, as well as to Paul Rosu for testing the contest and to Harshita Khera for operational support...
People in this episode
Host: Jacob_Hilton
Topics covered
- AI
- estimation algorithms
- machine learning
- contest
- prize pool
Keywords
- ARC
- AIcrowd
- White-Box Estimation Challenge
- estimation algorithms
- MLPs
- contest
- prize money
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Organizations: ARC, AIcrowd
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