AV Causal Scenario Retrieval Challenge

Who can participate?

• You may participate individually or as part of a team with multiple members.
• Every participant must be at least the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence when they register. By registering, participants confirm that they meet this requirement.
• Participants must be affiliated with a recognized university, research institute, or commercial organization, declare that affiliation, and register with an official institutional email address. Personal email addresses require explicit organizer approval. Organizers may verify these details and reject or remove participants whose affiliation or email cannot be verified.
• Each team must designate one submitter during registration. Only that person may submit for the team, and the designation cannot change after the challenge begins unless the organizers approve an exception.
• Each person may belong to only one team. Multiple accounts may not be created or used to bypass submission limits or other challenge rules.
• Each individual entrant or team may make up to five submissions. Organizers may adjust this limit when necessary for the fair and efficient operation of the challenge.

How do I participate?

1. Sign in and apply.

   Open the participation page, sign in with Hugging Face, and submit the team name, contact email, and institution that the organizers should review.

2. Wait for organizer review.

   The admin dashboard records an ACCEPTED, PENDING, or REJECTED decision. Challenge data and Official Terms and Conditions remain unavailable until the registration is accepted.

3. Review the protected participant materials.

   Once accepted, return to the participation page to open the dataset and development guide and read the current Official Terms and Conditions.

4. Develop and validate your system.

   Use the approved-participant guide to obtain the data, task-owned train and validation split, devkit, and local evaluation workflow.

5. Submit for evaluation.

   Create or reconnect the private artifact repository from the participation page, publish your self-contained container artifact with the devkit, review and explicitly accept the current Agreement, and queue the evaluation. Acceptance is required at submission time.

More about submissions

• Each individual entrant or team may submit up to five entries during the challenge.
• Approved participants must read and accept the current Official Terms and Conditions when submitting.
• Submissions run without network access. All code, dependencies, model weights, and other components needed for inference must be packaged in the submission artifact.
• Each submission must complete within six hours on one NVIDIA A100 80 GB GPU (compute capability 8.0, sm_80). The devkit does not require a specific CUDA version; your packaged framework runtime and compiled extensions must be compatible with the evaluation host and include sm_80 support.