AI Competitions and Benchmarks: Competition platforms
This provides an overview for researchers and organizers on existing platforms, but it is incremental as it synthesizes known information without new data or solutions.
The chapter reviews AI competition platforms, highlighting their diversity in managing administrative tasks to free organizers for other contest aspects, and discusses alternative hosting methods.
The ecosystem of artificial intelligence competitions is a diverse and multifaceted landscape, encompassing a variety of platforms that each host numerous competitions annually, alongside a plethora of specialized websites dedicated to singular contests. These platforms adeptly manage the overarching administrative responsibilities inherent in orchestrating competitions, thus affording organizers the liberty to allocate greater attention to other facets of their contests. Notably, these platforms exhibit considerable diversity in their operational functionalities, economic models, and community dynamics. This chapter conducts an extensive review of the foremost services in this realm and elucidates several alternative methodologies that facilitate the independent hosting of such challenges. Keywords: competition platform, challenge hosting services, comparison.