Hi everyone,

Here is a link to a screencast explaining the submission procedure for round2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e495B8kmUk&feature=youtu.be.

Some more updates about rules for round2 are :

• 1) Round 2 Deadline extended to Monday, November 13th, 12:00 UTC
• 2) All eligible participants are allowed 5 successful submissions (instead of 3) and upto 2 failed submissions
• 3) The state of the submitted models can now be reviewed at : https://www.crowdai.org/challenges/nips-2017-learning-to-run/submissions. In case that the grader fails to grade a particular container, a “failed” status will be reflected on the referenced page.
• 4) The submission container will not have access to external network when being graded
• 5) Each submission container is allowed to use a maximum memory of 5GB
• 6) Each submission will be run for atleast N=10 simulations.
• 6.5) In case of a tie between the top-2 participants, we will re-run their simulations with N=20 and the new scores will be used as a tie breaker.
• 7) Timeout for a submission is 8hours. In case of N > 10, the timeout will be proportionally increased.
• 8) Each team can use only one account in the second round
• 9) A team with two or more accounts accepted in the second round is obliged to report this issue to the organizers immediately, before submitting any solution
• 9.5) To be eligible for the prize as a team, the combined submissions from the accounts of all team members in round 2 has to be less than or equal to upto 5 successful submissions (+2 failed submissions).
• 10) The winners will be asked to release the code and the trained models of the solution
• 11) Violation of the rules or other unfair activity may result in disqualification for the prizes

Best of Luck,
Mohanty