Prizes
Travel Support
Winners will receive travel funding to attend the SMood ML Challenge winners' ceremony at the FAIR in ML, AI Readiness, & Reproducibility (FARR) Workshop on April 8, 2026. Details of available funding will be provided in emails to the winning teams approximately one week before they are announced publicly.
Travel expenses will be reimbursed following the trip upon submission of receipts.
Prize Pool for HDR ML Challenges 2nd year
- 💰 Total cash prizes $4000
- 👩🏽💻 Cloud credits from AWS and NVIDIA for the winners.
- ☁︎ NVIDIA is also providing $400 in cloud credits to teams for training on their model.
- 🎖️ Prize from AMD TBD
- 🏆 Special jury prizes include funded invitations to present their solution at award ceremony
- Potential for additional award.
Participation Requirements
Participants must agree to the competition’s Terms and Conditions to be eligible for these prizes. These terms outline the specific eligibility criteria for all participants.
To be considered a valid participant for the final phase, we require all teams to send an email to the challenge organizers with a link to the team GitHub and a list of team members. Reminders will be sent out prior to the deadline, but for full consideration, please send the email by February 23, 2026 at 11:59pm AOE. Specifically, your email should include:
- The account that the team used to submit on Codabench.
- A list of team members' names and affiliation/company.
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Share the link to your model and code in a public GitHub repository.
- An example can be found at: Imageomics/HDR-SMood-Challenge-sample.
- If your model weights are too large for GitHub, you may include a link to the weights in a Hugging Face Model repo
- Please make sure to follow a structure similar to that of the sample repo (documentation, training code, license, etc.) and as noted above.
Any team that does not satisfy the above requirements will not be considered a valid participant as described in the terms and conditions.
The committee has announced the winners on the Year 2 winners page. Winning teams are contacted by the email used to provide the above information.