The contest is closed for submissions, thank you to all who participated! All articles can be read at https://spectra.pub
Winners will be announced on March 26th!
Updates
March 4th, 2021
We are updating the deadline for this competition to March 15th 11:59 PM PST. In the meantime we will be working on editing submissions and publishing them. You can read the current submissions at the new website for this competition:
If you find an article interesting, let us know via email or Twitter (@MathpixApp) so that we can take this information into account when deciding the competition winners.
Overview
Make some money summarizing a research area of ML of your choice. To compete, submit a PR to this repo which will add a .md or .mmd to the "submissions" folder. See here to see what a sample submission looks like.
Prizes:
- 1st place: $5,000
- 2nd place: $2,000
- 3rd place: $1,000
Deadline for submission: 11:59 PM PST, March 3rd, 2021.
Details
Why
If you work on cutting edge Machine Learning and AI like we do at Mathpix, then you know how difficult it can be to navigate the flood of new research papers published every month. It is also difficult to assess the real world practicality of papers published on Arxiv. As many ML practitioners know, just because an approach shows a small improvement on a benchmark dataset, does not actually mean that approach is superior in practice.
Unfortunately, the people with nuanced understanding of state-of-the-art ML research don’t typically have much incentive to break down the pros/cons of cutting edge approaches. Such people usually have their hands full with research and development. The result is that most ML summary work is done by altruistic bloggers. Shouldn’t this work be compensated given how valuable it can be?
For this reason we are excited to announce the first ever Spectra Review Paper Competition as a way of launching our upcoming publishing platform, Spectra, where ML researchers and practitioners can make money by writing great ML review content for practitioners, and where practitioners can read content in a nice HTML first format.
Competition Rules
The rules of the competition are as follows:
- Deadline for submission: March 3rd, 2021
- The research discussed in the review paper need not be new/original research
- The review paper, however must be original writing and in English
- The goal of the paper should be to summarize/explain cutting edge approaches in a particular subfield of ML (for example machine translation, text summarization, and image segmentation)
- The target audience is ML practitioners or graduate level researchers who find it tough to keep up with rapidly evolving methods and strategies
- Papers must be submitted via PR to this public Github repo
Papers must be submitted as .md (Markdown) or .mmd (Mathpix Markdown) format (see here on creating .mmd files with VS Code). Links to external code and repos are acceptable and even encouraged, but the writing should stand on its own.
Prize
Once we have received the submissions, all papers will be posted publicly on our upcoming Spectra platform for the general public to vote for a winner, who will be announced on March 15th.
The prizes will be determined by the following criteria:
- depth
- accuracy
- clarity of writing
- good coverage of the most important literature on a given topic
Prizes:
- 1st place: $5,000
- 2nd place: $2,000
- 3rd place: $1,000
View Submissions Locally
npm install -g @mathpix/spectra
git clone git@github.com:Mathpix/spectra-review-paper-competition.git
spectra build spectra-review-paper-competition spectra-review-paper-competition-html --serveCopyright
Mathpix, Inc. reserves to right to publish all submissions, with proper attribution to the authors of course.