Hello Codeforces!
We are pleased to announce the start of the Yandex Cup 2025 Championship!
This year, we still have 6 tracks and a prize fund of 12 million rubles:
Let's talk in more detail about two directions:
Algorithm ❤️
An important change this year: we ask all participants of the qualification stage (last year it was called the semi-final) who are applying for the finals to arrange proctoring. After the qualification is completed, a window will appear in the participant's personal account, where you will need to send a link to proctoring.
Machine Learning
This year we decided to make the track more interesting. We have three pieces of news: * from this year, the Machine learning track, like the «Algorithm» track, becomes international; * schoolchildren from Russia aged 14 to 18 can participate in the track; * the format of the competition is changing.
The new format of the Machine Learning track:
1, The qualification stage will last 22 days — from October 15 to November 2, inclusive. Participants will be offered three tasks: - Autonomous Driving camera sensor image generation. - STEM problem illustrations Q&A with VLMs. - Large Language Models hallucinations robustness. Restrictions: each participant can submit two submissions per day with a limit of 1 GPU/hour. We will publish detailed rules of the track on the direction page on Tuesday.
- The final stage is a five-hour contest with tasks in the ioai format.
Dates of the championship in 2025
Trial round
This year, we have made some changes to the qualifying stages. All stages of the championship in all directions will be held on our testing system Yandex Contest. This year, our colleagues from Yandex Contest have significantly updated the user interface. We do not want the unfamiliar interface to prevent participants from achieving the desired results. Therefore, instead of the usual qualification stage, we will hold a trial round with tasks from previous years. The trial round will not be taken into account in the overall standings, but we recommend taking part in it to get to know the new interface.
Dates of the trial round: October 20–29 (format: virtual contest).
Qualification round (former semi-final)
The qualification round will be held on November 2. The start of the contests is at 12:00 (GMT+3) and 17:00 (GMT+3) for the «Algorithm» and «Analytics» tracks. The duration depends on the chosen track.
Final round
The following will reach the finals: * the top 20 participants in the Algorithm, Backend, Analytics and Machine Learning directions; * the top 10 participants in the Frontend and Mobile Development directions; * the top 10 participants in the Juniors track in the Algorithm, Analytics and Machine Learning.
The final of the competition will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, from December 5 to December 7. We will cover all expenses related to the travel and accommodation of the finalists.
We have prepared a detailed schedule for you in the form of a table here
Or you can follow the dates on CLIST
See you soon!
