Google is conducting an exciting hackathon on AI model runtime optimisation titled ‘Fast or Slow?’ Checkout the exciting prizes and details below!

About Google LLC

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company focusing on artificial intelligence, online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, and consumer electronics. It is one of the world’s most valuable brands due to its market dominance, data collection, and technological advantages in the field of artificial intelligence. Google is also the largest search engine, mapping and navigation application, email provider, office suite, video sharing platform, photo and cloud storage provider, mobile operating system, web browser, ML framework, and AI virtual assistant provider in the world as measured by market share

About the Hackathon

The Fast or Slow? Predict AI Model Runtime hackathon by google is a competition for data scientists and machine learning engineers to build models that can predict the runtime of AI models. The goal of the hackathon is  to train a machine learning model based on the runtime data provided to you in the training dataset and further predict the runtime of graphs and configurations in the test dataset. The hackathon is based on compiler’s configurations that change the way the compiler compiles and optimizes the models, and hence make the models run faster or slower.

A bit of technical background on an AI compiler will help you get started! An AI model can be represented as a graph, where a node is a tensor operation (e.g. matrix multiplication, convolution, etc), and an edge represents a tensor. A compilation configuration controls how the compiler transforms the graph for a specific optimization pass.

  • A layout configuration control how tensors in the graph are laid out in the physical memory, by specifying the dimension order of each input and output of an operation node.

  • A tile configuration controls the tile size of each fused subgraph.

Eligibility

The hackathon is open to the Students, technologist, freelancers and professional developer community. To be eligible to enter the Competition, you must be:

  • A registered account holder at Kaggle.com;
  • 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction of residence (unless otherwise agreed to by Competition Sponsor and appropriate parental/guardian consents have been obtained by Competition Sponsor);
  • Not a resident of Crimea, so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) or Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR), Cuba, Iran, Syria, or North Korea; and
  • Not a person or representative of an entity under U.S. export controls or sanctions

Timeline

  • August 29, 2023 – Start Date.
  • November 10, 2023 – Entry Deadline. You must accept the competition rules before this date in order to compete.
  • November 10, 2023 – Team Merger Deadline. This is the last day participants may join or merge teams.
  • November 17, 2023 – Final Submission Deadline.

Prizes

  • 1st Place – $15,000
  • 2nd Place – $10,000
  • 3rd Place – $8,000
  • 4th Place – $7,000
  • 5th Place – $5,000
  • 6th Place – $5,000

As a condition to being awarded a Prize, a Prize winner must provide a detailed write-up on their solution in the competition forums within 14 days of the conclusion of the competition.

How to Apply?

Interested candidates can apply online via this link.

Click here to view the official notification of Google – Fast or Slow? AI Model Hackathon by Google