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\n\n### B. GENERAL COMPETITION RULES\n#### **1.\tBINDING AGREEMENT.** \n\nTo enter the Competition, you must agree to these Official Competition Rules, which incorporate by reference the provisions and content of the Competition Website and any Specific Competition Rules above (collectively, the \"Rules\"). Please read these Rules carefully before entry to ensure you understand and agree. You further agree that submission of an entry in the Competition constitutes agreement to these Rules. You may not submit an entry to the Competition and are not eligible to receive the prizes associated with this Competition (“Prizes”) unless you agree to these Rules. These Rules form a binding legal agreement between you and the Competition Sponsor with respect to the Competition.\n\n#### **2.\tELIGIBILITY.** \n\nA. To be eligible to enter the Competition, you must be:\n\t(i) a registered account holder at Kaggle.com; \n\t(ii) the older of 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction of residence (unless otherwise agreed to by Competition Sponsor and appropriate parental/guardian consents have been obtained by Competition Sponsor); \n\t(iii) not a resident of Crimea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, or Sudan; and\n\t(iv) not a person or representative of an entity under U.S. export controls or sanctions (see [https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/Programs.aspx][1]).\n\nIf you are entering as a representative of a company, educational institution or other legal entity, or on behalf of your employer, these rules are binding on you, individually, and the entity you represent or are an employee. If you are acting within the scope of your employment, as an employee, contractor, or agent of another party, you warrant that such party has full knowledge of your actions and has consented thereto, including your potential receipt of a Prize. You further warrant that your actions do not violate your employer's or entity's policies and procedures. \n\nThe Competition Sponsor reserves the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate on any dispute at any time. If you provide any false information relating to the Competition concerning your identity, residency, mailing address, telephone number, email address, ownership of right, or information required for entering the Competition, you may be immediately disqualified from the Competition.\n\nB. Unless otherwise stated in the Specific Competition Rules above or prohibited by internal policies of the Competition Entities, employees, interns, contractors, officers and directors of Competition Entities may enter and participate in the Competition, but are not eligible to win any Prizes. \"Competition Entities\" means the Competition Sponsor, Kaggle Inc., and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. If you are such a participant from a Competition Entity, you are subject to all applicable internal policies of your employer with respect to your participation.\n\n#### **3.\tSPONSOR AND HOSTING PLATFORM.** \n\nThe Competition is sponsored by Competition Sponsor named above. The Competition is hosted on behalf of Competition Sponsor by Kaggle Inc. (\"Kaggle\"). Kaggle is an independent contractor of Competition Sponsor, and is not a party to this or any agreement between you and Competition Sponsor. You understand that Kaggle has no responsibility with respect to selecting the potential Competition winner(s) or awarding any Prizes. Kaggle will perform certain administrative functions relating to hosting the Competition, and you agree to abide by the provisions relating to Kaggle under these Rules. As a Kaggle.com account holder and user of the Kaggle competition platform, remember you have accepted and are subject to the Kaggle Terms of Service at [www.kaggle.com/terms][2] in addition to these Rules.\n\n#### **4.\tCOMPETITION PERIOD.** \n\nFor the purposes of Prizes, the Competition will run from the Start Date and time to the End Date and time (such duration the “Competition Period”). The Competition Timeline is subject to change, and Competition Sponsor may introduce additional hurdle deadlines during the Competition Period. Any updated or additional deadlines will be publicized on the Competition Website. It is your responsibility to check the Competition Website regularly to stay informed of any deadline changes. *YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE CORRESPONDING TIME ZONE IN YOUR LOCATION.* \n\n#### **5.\tCOMPETITION ENTRY.** \n\nNO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. To enter the Competition, you must register on the Competition Website prior to the Entry Deadline, and follow the instructions for developing and entering your Submission through the Competition Website. Your Submissions must be made in the manner and format, and in compliance with all other requirements, stated on the Competition Website (the \"Requirements\"). Submissions must be received before any Submission deadlines stated on the Competition Website. Submissions not received by the stated deadlines will not be eligible to receive a Prize.\n\nSubmissions may not use or incorporate information from hand labeling or human prediction of the validation dataset or test data records.\n\nIf the Competition is a multi-stage competition with temporally separate training and/or test data, one or more valid Submissions may be required during each Competition stage in the manner described on the Competition Website in order for the Submissions to be Prize eligible.\n\nSubmissions are void if they are in whole or part illegible, incomplete, damaged, altered, counterfeit, obtained through fraud, or late. Competition Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entrant who does not follow these Rules, including making a Submission that does not meet the Requirements. \n\n#### **6.\tINDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS.** \n\nA. *Individual Account*. You may make Submissions only under one, unique Kaggle.com account. You will be disqualified if you make Submissions through more than one Kaggle account, or attempt to falsify an account to act as your proxy. You may submit up to the maximum number of Submissions per day as specified on the Competition Website. \n\nB. *Teams*. If permitted under the Competition Website guidelines, multiple individuals may collaborate as a team (a \"Team\"); however, you may join or form only one Team. Each Team member must be a single individual with a separate Kaggle account. You must register individually for the Competition before joining a Team. You must confirm your Team membership to make it official by responding to the Team notification message sent to your Kaggle account. Team membership may not exceed the Maximum Team Size stated on the Competition Website.\n\nC. *Team Merger*. Teams may request to merge via the Competition Website. Team mergers may be allowed provided that: (i) the combined Team does not exceed the Maximum Team Size; (ii) the number of Submissions made by the merging Teams does not exceed the number of Submissions permissible for one Team at the date of the merger request; (iii) the merger is completed before the earlier of: any merger deadline or the Competition deadline; and (iv) the proposed combined Team otherwise meets all the requirements of these Rules. \n\n#### **7.\tCOMPETITION DATA.** \n\n\"Competition Data\" means the data or datasets available from the Competition Website for the purpose of use in the Competition, including any prototype or executable code provided on the Competition Website. The Competition Data will contain private and public test sets. Which data belongs to which set will not be made available to participants. \n\nA. *Data Access and Use*. \nYou may access and use the Competition Data only for participating in the Competition and on Kaggle.com forums. The Competition Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any participant who uses the Competition Data other than as permitted by the Competition Website and these Rules. The original dataset is located here: https://www.kaggle.com/higgstachyon/kannada-mnist.\n \nB. *Data Security*. You agree to use reasonable and suitable measures to prevent persons who have not formally agreed to these Rules from gaining access to the Competition Data. You agree not to transmit, duplicate, publish, redistribute or otherwise provide or make available the Competition Data to any party not participating in the Competition. You agree to notify Kaggle immediately upon learning of any possible unauthorized transmission of or unauthorized access to the Competition Data and agree to work with Kaggle to rectify any unauthorized transmission or access.\n\nC. *External Data*. You may use data other than the Competition Data (“External Data”) to develop and test your models and Submissions. However, you will (i) ensure the External Data is available to use by all participants of the competition for purposes of the competition at no cost to the other participants and (ii) post such access to the External Data for the participants to the official competition forum prior to the Entry Deadline.\n\n#### **8.\tSUBMISSION CODE REQUIREMENTS.**\n\nA. *Private Code Sharing*. Unless otherwise specifically permitted under the Competition Website or Competition Specific Rules above, during the Competition Period, you are not allowed to privately share source or executable code developed in connection with or based upon the Competition Data or other source or executable code relevant to the Competition (“Competition Code”). This prohibition includes sharing Competition Code between separate Teams, unless a Team merger occurs. Any such sharing of Competition Code is a breach of these Competition Rules and may result in disqualification.\n\nB. *Public Code Sharing*. You are permitted to publicly share Competition Code, provided that such public sharing does not violate the intellectual property rights of any third party. If you do choose to share Competition Code or other such code, you are required to share it on Kaggle.com on the discussion forum or kernels associated specifically with the Competition for the benefit of all competitors. By so sharing, you are deemed to have licensed the shared code under an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see [www.opensource.org][3]) that in no event limits commercial use of such Competition Code or model containing or depending on such Competition Code.\n\nC. *Use of Open Source*. Unless otherwise stated in the Specific Competition Rules above, if open source code is used in the model to generate the Submission, then you must only use open source code licensed under an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see [www.opensource.org][4]) that in no event limits commercial use of such code or model containing or depending on such code.\n\n#### **9.\tDETERMINING LEADERBOARD.** \n\nEach Submission will be scored and ranked by the evaluation metric stated on the Competition Website. During the Competition Period, the current ranking will be visible on the Competition Website's public leaderboard. The public leaderboard will be based on the public test set and the private leaderboard will be based on the private test set.\n\nIn the event of a tie, the Submission that was entered first to the Competition will be ranked higher.\n\n#### **10.\tDISQUALIFICATION.**\n\nCompetition Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any participant from the Competition if the Competition Sponsor reasonably believes that the participant has attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of the Competition by cheating, deception, or other unfair playing practices or abuses, threatens or harasses any other participants, Competition Sponsor or Kaggle.\n \nA disqualified participant may be removed from the Competition leaderboard, at Kaggle's sole discretion.\n \nThe final leaderboard list will be publicly displayed at Kaggle.com. Determinations of Competition Sponsor are final and binding.\n\n#### **11.\tGENERAL CONDITIONS.**\n\nAll federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations apply. \n\n#### **12.\tPUBLICITY. ** \n\nYou agree that Competition Sponsor, Kaggle and its affiliates may use your name and likeness for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law.\n\n#### **13.\tPRIVACY.** \n\nYou acknowledge and agree that Competition Sponsor and Kaggle may collect, store, share and otherwise use personally identifiable information provided by you during the Kaggle account registration process and the Competition, including but not limited to, name, mailing address, phone number, and email address (“Personal Information”). Kaggle acts as an independent controller with regard to its collection, storage, sharing, and other use of this Personal Information, and will use this Personal Information in accordance with its Privacy Policy000 001 002 003 ... 026 027\n028 029 030 031 ... 054 055\n056 057 058 059 ... 082 083\n | | | | ... | |\n728 729 730 731 ... 754 755\n756 757 758 759 ... 782 783 \n\n\nThe test data set, `test.csv`, is the same as the training set, except that it does not contain the `label` column.\n\nThe evaluation metric for this contest is the categorization accuracy, or the proportion of test images that are correctly classified. For example, a categorization accuracy of 0.97 indicates that you have correctly classified all but 3% of the images.\n\n## Files\n\n* **train.csv** - the training set\n* **test.csv** - the test set\n* **sample_submission.csv** - a sample submission file in the correct format\n* **Dig-MNIST.csv** - an additional labeled set of characters that can be used to validate or test model results before submitting to the leaderboard", "isPublished": false, "hasIsPublished": false, "postTitle": "", "hasPostTitle": false, "mimeType": "", "hasMimeType": false }, { "name": "Description", "content": "### Bored of MNIST?\n\nThe goal of this competition is to provide a simple extension to the classic [MNIST competition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/digit-recognizer/) we're all familiar with. Instead of using Arabic numerals, it uses a recently-released dataset of Kannada digits.\n\nKannada is a language spoken predominantly by people of Karnataka in southwestern India. The language has roughly 45 million native speakers and is written using the Kannada script. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada)\n\n\n\nThis competition uses the same format as the [MNIST competition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/digit-recognizer/) in terms of how the data is structured, but it's different in that it is a synchronous re-run Kernels competition. You write your code in a Kaggle Notebook, and when you submit the results, your code is scored on both the public test set, as well as a private (unseen) test set.\n\n### Technical Information\n\nAll details of the dataset curation has been captured in the paper titled: Prabhu, Vinay Uday. \"Kannada-MNIST: A new handwritten digits dataset for the Kannada language.\" arXiv preprint [arXiv:1908.01242 (2019)](https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01242)\n\nThe github repo of the author [can be found here](https://github.com/vinayprabhu/Kannada_MNIST).\n\nOn the [originally-posted dataset](https://www.kaggle.com/higgstachyon/kannada-mnist), the author suggests some interesting questions you may be interested in exploring. Please note, although this dataset has been released in full, the purpose of this competition is for practice, not to find the labels to submit a perfect score.\n\n In addition to the _main_ dataset, the author also disseminated an additional real world handwritten dataset (with 10k images), termed as the 'Dig-MNIST dataset' that can serve as an out-of-domain test dataset. It was created with the help of volunteers that were non-native users of the language, authored on a smaller sheet and scanned with different scanner settings compared to the _main_ dataset. This 'dig-MNIST' dataset serves as a more difficult test-set (An accuracy of 76.1% was reported in the paper cited above) and achieving ~98+% accuracy on this test dataset would be rather commendable.\n\n### Acknowledgments\nKaggle thanks [Vinay Prabhu](https://www.kaggle.com/higgstachyon) for providing this interesting dataset for a Playground competition.\n\nImage reference: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/speech-for-Kannada-numbers_fig2_313113588", "isPublished": false, "hasIsPublished": false, "postTitle": "", "hasPostTitle": false, "mimeType": "", "hasMimeType": false }, { "name": "Evaluation", "content": "This competition is evaluated on the categorization accuracy of your predictions (the percentage of images you get correct).\n\n## Submission File Format\n\nThe file should contain a header and have the following format:\n```\nid,label\n1,5\n2,5\n3,5\n...\n```", "isPublished": false, "hasIsPublished": false, "postTitle": "", "hasPostTitle": false, "mimeType": "", "hasMimeType": false }, { "name": "Timeline", "content": "* **Entry deadline**: Same as the Final Submission Deadline\n\n* **Team Merger deadline**: Same as the Final Submission Deadline\n\n* **Final submission deadline** - December 17, 2019\n\nAll deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC on the corresponding day unless otherwise noted. The competition organizers reserve the right to update the contest timeline if they deem it necessary.", "isPublished": false, "hasIsPublished": false, "postTitle": "", "hasPostTitle": false, "mimeType": "", "hasMimeType": false }, { "name": "Kernels Requirements", "content": "\n\n### This is a Kernels-only competition\n \nSubmissions to this competition must be made through Kernels. Your kernel will re-run automatically against an unseen test set. \n\nIn order for the \"Submit to Competition\" button to be active after a commit, the following conditions must be met:\n\n - CPU (<= 9 hours run-time) or GPU Kernels (<= 2 hours run-time)\n - Internet must be turned off\n\n**Note:**\n - You can still train a model offline, upload it as a dataset, and use the kernel exclusively to perform inference, if that's what you'd prefer to do. Or you can have training and inference happen within Kernels.\n - Submissions can result in an error either within the kernel or during the process of scoring on the unseen test set. In either case, a submission error will count against your daily submission limit and will not return the specific error message. This is necessary to prevent probing the private test set.\n - Please see the [Kernels-only FAQ](https://www.kaggle.com/docs/competitions#kernels-only-FAQ) for more information on how to submit.\n - **UPDATE:** Submission files must be named `submission.csv` to submit them to the leaderboard.", "isPublished": false, "hasIsPublished": false, "postTitle": "", "hasPostTitle": false, "mimeType": "", "hasMimeType": false } ] }