{ "fetched_at": "2026-10-20T09:04:53Z", "source_url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/WattBot2025/data", "pages": [ { "name": "data-description", "content": "# Dataset Description\n\nThis dataset provides metadata and question files used in the WattBot challenge. Participants must build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems that reason over these materials to answer questions about the energy use and environmental impact of different AI workloads.\n\nParticipants are responsible for downloading, parsing, chunking, embedding, and retrieving from these documents. No preprocessed text is provided.\n\n## Files\n\n- **`metadata.csv`** \n A machine-readable index of all referenced documents with the following fields:\n\n - `id`: unique identifier for the document (e.g., `strubell2019`) \n - `type`: document category (`paper`, `report`, etc.) \n - `title`: document title \n - `year`: publication year \n - `citation`: formatted citation string \n - `url`: link to the original PDF or webpage \n\n- **`train_QA.csv`** \n A set of annotated question–answer pairs to help you calibrate your RAG pipeline. The schema matches the solutions file.\n\n Fields include: \n - `id`: question ID \n - `question`: full question text \n - `answer`: natural language response (fallback phrase if unanswerable) \n - `answer_value`: normalized numeric or categorical value (or `is_blank`) \n - `answer_unit`: unit of measurement (or `is_blank`) \n - `ref_id`: list of supporting document IDs from `metadata.csv` (or `is_blank`) \n - `ref_url`: URL(s) of the cited document(s) (or `is_blank`) \n - `supporting_materials`: verbatim evidence such as a quote, table/figure reference, or figure caption (or `is_blank`) \n - `explanation`: reasoning or calculation steps linking the evidence to the answer (or `is_blank`)\n\n- **`test_Q.csv`** \nA larger set of questions with ground-truth answers hidden. You must generate predictions for these questions using your RAG system. Formatting conventions must match `train_QA.csv` ", "isPublished": false, "hasIsPublished": false, "postTitle": "", "hasPostTitle": false, "mimeType": "", "hasMimeType": false }, { "name": "Description", "content": "## Background\nThe environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging concern in both industry and academia. As large models grow in popularity, so do their energy and resource requirements—raising questions about carbon emissions, water usage, and sustainability practices across the AI lifecycle. However, the knowledge needed to estimate or compare these impacts is often buried in technical literature, scattered across domains like machine learning, energy systems, and environmental science. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) offers a promising approach to extracting and synthesizing this information from unstructured documents. By combining document retrieval with generative language models, RAG systems can produce factually grounded answers supported by references.\n\n## Goal\nIn this challenge, you’ll use RAG to tackle real sustainability questions, drawing from a curated corpus of over 30 scholarly articles on AI’s environmental impact. Your system should generate responses that include:\n\n- A concise natural-language answer \n- `ref_id` – ID(s) of the cited document(s) from `metadata.csv` \n- `supporting_materials` – Supporting materials from the retrieved reference(s) (e.g., a verbatim quote, table reference, or figure reference)\n- `explanation` – Reasoning that connects the supporting materials to the final answer.\n\nIf no evidence exists, your system must emit the standardized fallback. Scores combine retrieval precision, numerical accuracy, and citation faithfulness.\n\n## Provided Data\n\n- `metadata.csv`: Contains document IDs, titles, and full citations \n- `train_QA.csv`: Sample questions with answers and references provided \n- `test_Q.csv`: Test questions to be used for evaluation (answers not provided). Your solution file must provide answers to these questions for evaluation.\n\n### Question Types & Examples\n\nAll questions expect either (i) a numeric value, (ii) a specific term / concept name, or (iii) a True/False answer. Examples include: \n\n* **Question**: What is the estimated CO2 emissions (in pounds) from training the BERT‑base model for 79 hours on 64 V100 GPUs?\n**Answer**: 1438 lbs. Supporting refID(s): [strubel2019], Supporting materials: [Table 3].\n* **Question**: True or False: New AI data centers often rely on air cooling due to high server power densities. \n**Answer**: FALSE. Supporting refID(s): [li2025b], Supporting materials: [“In general, new data centers dedicated to AI training often rely on liquid cooling due to the high server power densities.”]\n* **Question**: What term refers to the amount of water evaporated, transpired, or incorporated into products, defined as “water withdrawal minus water discharge”?\n**Answer**: Water consumption. Supporting refID(s): [li2025b], Supporting materials: [“Water consumption: It is defined as “water withdrawal minus water discharge”, and means the amount of water “evaporated, transpired, incorporated into products or crops, or otherwise removed from the immediate water environment [13].””]\n* **Question**: How much does an elephant weigh?\t\n**Answer**: Unable to answer with confidence based on the provided documents.\n\n**Refer to to the train_QA.csv to explore other Q&A examples.**\n\n### Considerations\n- A small portion of questions require combining information from multiple documents (e.g., GPU power specs from one source and emissions rates from another). \n- A small portion of questions involve visual reasoning — for example, interpreting a graph in a paper to extract values. Participants are encouraged to use OCR techniques to extract information from figures, tables, or scanned pages where necessary.\n- A small portion of questions are intentionally unanswerable based on the provided corpus; your system must recognize and handle these appropriately.\n\n## Contact\n\nChris Endemann (endemann@wisc.edu) \nHosted by ML+X at the University of Wisconsin-Madison \nSponsor info: https://hub.datascience.wisc.edu/communities/mlx/sponsorship/\n", "isPublished": false, "hasIsPublished": false, "postTitle": "", "hasPostTitle": false, "mimeType": "", "hasMimeType": false }, { "name": "Evaluation", "content": "## Expected Output Format\n\nEach system prediction must include the all fields listed in `train_QA.csv`\n- **`id`**: The question ID (e.g., `q001`)\n- **`question`**: The original question text\n- **`answer`**: A clear natural-language response (e.g., `1438 lbs`, `Water consumption`, `TRUE`)'. \n - If no answer is possible, use `\"Unable to answer with confidence based on the provided documents.\"`\n- **`answer_value`**: The normalized numeric or categorical value (e.g., `1438`, `Water consumption`, `1`)\n - If no answer is possible, use `is_blank`\n - Ranges should be encoded as `[low,high]`\n - Do **not** include symbols like `<`, `>`, `~` here. Those can be left in the clear natural language column.\n- **`answer_unit`**: Unit of measurement (e.g., `lbs`, `kWh`, `gCO2`, `projects`, `is_blank`). \n- **`ref_id`**: One or more document IDs from `metadata.csv` that support the answer. \n- **`ref_url`**: One or more URL(s) of the cited document(s). \n- **`supporting_materials`**: Verbatim justification from the cited document (quote, table reference, figure reference, etc.). \n- **`explanation`**: Short reasoning describing why the cited material supports the answer. \n\n**Refer to to the train_QA.csv to study the expected formatting conventions.** \n\n## Scoring\nSubmissions are scored with a custom WattBot score that evaluates three fields for every question and returns a weighted accuracy between **0 – 1**:\n\n| Component | Weight | What counts as correct |\n|------------------|:------:|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| **answer_value** | **0.75** | Matches the ground truth. Numeric answers must be within ±0.1% relative tolerance; categorical values (e.g. `TRUE`, `FALSE`, `Water consumption`) must match exactly after normalization. If a question is unanswerable, this column must contain `is_blank`. |\n| **ref_id** | **0.15** | Partial credit via Jaccard overlap between your ref_id set and the ground-truth set (order ignored, case-insensitive). Use 'is_blank' if no evidence is available. |\n| **is_NA** | **0.10** | For truly unanswerable questions, your submission must mark all relevant fields (`answer_value`, `answer_unit`, `ref_id`, `ref_url`, `supporting_materials`) as `is_blank`. Any other combination scores 0 for this component. |\n\n### Notes\n- Only the answer_value and ref_id columns will be evaluated, but full responses are still expected in the other columns. You're encouraged to make the `explanation` field as useful and detailed as possible to help with debugging and calibrating your RAG pipeline. While short quotes or table references are acceptable, longer natural-language justifications and multi-sentence explanations are also encouraged.\n- The public leaderboard reports the mean WattBot Score on a subset of the test set. A hidden portion is used after the competition deadline for final rankings. \n\n## Submitting solution\n\nUpload a single **CSV** with the same columns and formatting conventions as train_QA.csv. \n\nSubmit the file via **Make Submission**. The platform will run the metric script (ignoring the `explanation` column for scoring), return your score, and place your team on the public leaderboard.", "isPublished": false, "hasIsPublished": false, "postTitle": "", "hasPostTitle": false, "mimeType": "", "hasMimeType": false }, { "name": "rules", "content": "#### 1. COMPETITION SPONSOR \nThis challenge is organized by the [ML+X](https://hub.datascience.wisc.edu/communities/mlx/) community at UW–Madison with support from its sponsors.\n\n#### 2. PRIZES \nThis is a non-monetary educational challenge. There are no cash or material prizes. \nTop teams may be invited to present at the Machine Learning Marathon (MLM25) showcase or contribute to open source outputs.\n\n#### 3. TEAM LIMITS \n- Maximum team size: 5 participants \n- Team mergers are allowed as long as the merged team’s total number of submissions remains within the allowed limits (5 submissions/day × days active), and you do not exceed the maximum team size.\n\n#### 4. SUBMISSION INTEGRITY \n- Manual lookup is not allowed for submissions. Many questions could be answered by reading the source papers directly, and it’s fine to sanity-check your pipeline on a smaller scale, but you may not use manual lookup as your “solution.” The point is to design systems that scale across the full benchmark. \n- Submissions must be produced with code. Do not rely on manually prompting ChatGPT (or similar tools) to generate answers. It’s fine to experiment interactively during development, but this cannot be your final approach. The challenge is to build automated systems. If you are not yet familiar with APIs or open-source libraries, use this opportunity to learn — many options exist on Hugging Face and elsewhere.\n\n#### 5. SUBMISSION LIMITS \n- Up to 5 submissions per day \n- At the close of the competition, only your 3 most recent submissions will be carried forward to the private leaderboard. Of those 2, the highest-scoring submission will automatically count as your final result.\n\n#### 6. COMPETITION DATA \nThe dataset is for non-commercial use only. It may be used for competition participation and academic research. It may not be redistributed or republished.\n\n#### 7. LICENSE \nWinning teams must release their full solution under an open source license that permits reuse. ", "isPublished": false, "hasIsPublished": false, "postTitle": "", "hasPostTitle": false, "mimeType": "", "hasMimeType": false }, { "name": "abstract", "content": "AI systems can consume vast amounts of energy and water, but reliable emissions data remains hard to find and harder to trust. In this challenge, you’ll build a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system that extracts credible environmental impact estimates from academic articles and reports. Your model must output concise, citation-backed answers—or explicitly indicate when the evidence is missing. The goal: turn scattered academic knowledge into transparent, actionable insights for researchers, engineers, and policy makers.", "isPublished": false, "hasIsPublished": false, "postTitle": "", "hasPostTitle": false, "mimeType": "", "hasMimeType": false }, { "name": "foundational-rules", "content": "The following Kaggle Competition Foundational Rules (“ Foundational Rules ”) apply to every competition regardless of whether the Sponsor creates competition-specific rules. Any competition-specific rules provided by the Sponsor are in addition to these rules, and in the case of any conflict or inconsistency, these Foundational Rules control and nullify contrary competition-specific rules.\n###GENERAL COMPETITION RULES - BINDING AGREEMENT\n####1. ELIGIBILITY\na. To be eligible to enter the Competition, you must be:\n1. a registered account holder at Kaggle.com; \n2. 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); \n3. not a resident of Crimea, so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) or Luhansk People's Republic (LNR), Cuba, Iran, Syria, or North Korea; and\n4. not a person or representative of an entity under U.S. export controls or sanctions (see: [https://www.treasury.gov/resourcecenter/sanctions/Programs/Pages/Programs.aspx][1]).\n\nb. Competitions are open to residents of the United States and worldwide, except that if you are a resident of Crimea, so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) or Luhansk People's Republic (LNR), Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, or are subject to U.S. export controls or sanctions, you may not enter the Competition. 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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. \nd. Private Sharing. No private sharing outside of Teams. Privately sharing code or data outside of Teams is not permitted. It's okay to share code if made available to all Participants on the forums.\n\n####6. SUBMISSION CODE REQUIREMENTS\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.\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 notebooks associated specifically with the Competition for the benefit of all competitors. 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An “Entry” is when a Participant has joined, signed up, or accepted the rules of a competition. Entry is required to make a Submission to a competition.\nc. A “Final Submission” is the Submission selected by the user, or automatically selected by Kaggle in the event not selected by the user, that is/are used for final placement on the competition leaderboard.\nd. A “Participant” or “Participant User” is an individual who participates in a competition by entering the competition and making a Submission.\ne. The “Private Leaderboard” is a ranked display of Participants’ Submission scores against the private test set. The Private Leaderboard determines the final standing in the competition.\nf. The “Public Leaderboard” is a ranked display of Participants’ Submission scores against a representative sample of the test data. This leaderboard is visible throughout the competition.\ng. A “Sponsor” is responsible for hosting the competition, which includes but is not limited to providing the data for the competition, determining winners, and enforcing competition rules.\nh. A “Submission” is anything provided by the Participant to the Sponsor to be evaluated for competition purposes and determine leaderboard position. A Submission may be made as a model, notebook, prediction file, or other format as determined by the Sponsor.\ni. A “Team” is one or more Participants participating together in a Kaggle competition, by officially merging together as a Team within the competition platform.\n\n [1]: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/Programs.aspx\n [2]: http://www.kaggle.com/terms\n [3]: http://www.opensource.org\n [4]: http://www.opensource.org\n [5]: https://www.kaggle.com/WinningModelDocumentationGuidelines\n [6]: http://www.kaggle.com/privacy\n [7]: http://www.kaggle.com/contact\n", "isPublished": false, "hasIsPublished": false, "postTitle": "", "hasPostTitle": false, "mimeType": "", "hasMimeType": false }, { "name": "Bonus Round: Contribute Your Own Q&As", "content": "Each team may contribute up to 15 Q&A pairs by Oct 27. These will be added to the public test set on Nov. 7 and the leaderboard will refresh. Your team will know its own answers, but that’s fine — they are only a small part of the 250+ test questions. The goal is to add a layer of game-theory while helping WattBot grow into a stronger, community-driven benchmark. Please review submissions carefully and use good ole fashioned organic brains instead of ChatGPT; *any inaccuracies discovered during review will cause the entire set to be discarded and no further questions accepted from that team*.\n\nQuestions and answers should:\n- follow the same conventions as train_QA.csv\n- stick to sustainability topics surrounding AI \n- be grounded in explicit evidence (quote, table, or figure) with ref ID(s) \n- be phrased to yield short, checkable answers (numbers, ranges, or categorical names) \n- to generate good Q&A pairs (that challenge the best RAG systems), we recommend crafting Q&A pairs that have one or more of the following qualities:\n - combine evidence across multiple papers\n - involve visual reasoning over figures (bonus: without supporting text to back it up so it's visual reasoning only)\n - involve simple math/unit conversions/deductions\n \n**Send your team's Q&A pairs to endemann@wisc.edu by Oct 27**.", "isPublished": false, "hasIsPublished": false, "postTitle": "", "hasPostTitle": false, "mimeType": "", "hasMimeType": false } ] }