Eligibility

This competition is open to all participants with a valid Kaggle account. Participants may compete individually or form teams in accordance with Kaggle’s standard competition policies and deadlines.

All participants must comply with Kaggle’s Terms of Service and Competition Rules.

Team Policy

Participants may form teams up to the maximum team size specified in the competition settings. Team mergers must be completed before the team merge deadline.

Each team may make submissions using any member’s account, but all work must represent the collective effort of the team.

Submission Policy

Participants are limited to the number of daily submissions configured in the competition settings. Only submissions made before the final deadline will be evaluated for ranking.

Final rankings will be determined using each participant’s or team’s best valid submission on the private test split.

Submissions must strictly follow the required format. Files with missing columns, duplicate identifiers, incorrect column names, or incomplete predictions will be rejected automatically.

Data Usage

The dataset provided in this competition may only be used for purposes directly related to this competition.

Participants may use publicly available external data, pretrained models, and open-source resources unless otherwise restricted in the competition settings. All external resources must be legally obtainable and publicly accessible to all competitors.

The use of private or proprietary datasets that are not publicly accessible is not permitted.

Fair Play

Participants must not:

- Attempt to access or infer private test labels.

- Exploit bugs or unintended behavior in the evaluation system.

- Use multiple accounts to gain additional submissions.

- Share private test predictions or reverse-engineered labels.

- Manipulate the leaderboard through systematic probing.

Any violation may result in disqualification.

Reproducibility

Top-ranked participants may be required to provide inference code or a notebook demonstrating that their final submission can be reproduced using the provided data and publicly available resources.

Failure to reproduce results may result in disqualification.

Leaderboard and Evaluation

The public leaderboard reflects performance on a subset of the test data during the competition. The private leaderboard, computed after the competition closes, determines the final rankings.

Ties will be handled according to Kaggle’s standard competition policies.

Acceptance of Terms

By participating in this competition, you agree to comply with these rules, Kaggle’s Terms of Service, and all applicable competition policies.