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Automated Research Hackathon

$9,000 in prizes across three pools

$3k

Online challenges

$3k

In-person challenges

$3k

Projects track

Challenges

Negotiation

Natural Language

Prompt an AI agent to negotiate resource splits against a baseline. 10 games, highest mean score wins.

Prediction Market

Python

Write a Python market-making strategy for a limit order book. Capture edge from retail flow, avoid the arbitrageur. 50 simulations.

Attention Kernel

Python

Build the fastest numerically faithful block-sparse attention backend for H100.

Projects

Projects Track

Open-ended

Submit a GitHub link to your automated research project. Any project related to automated research is welcome, including harnesses, tools, benchmarks, challenges, or demonstrations. Only in-person participants are eligible for prizes or presentations.