It appears that the test dataset provided for this competition only includes image paths and does not contain the tabular features required by the pipeline, such as Sampling_Date, State, or Height_Ave_cm. As a result, it is impossible to use the full set of features for inference. The current setup allows predictions based only on the images, which may limit model performance. Participants should be aware that the test data format does not match the training data structure in terms of tabular information.
", "messages": [ { "id": "3310723", "postDate": "11/03/2025 14:24:55", "content": "It appears that the test dataset provided for this competition only includes image paths and does not contain the tabular features required by the pipeline, such as Sampling_Date, State, or Height_Ave_cm. As a result, it is impossible to use the full set of features for inference. The current setup allows predictions based only on the images, which may limit model performance. Participants should be aware that the test data format does not match the training data structure in terms of tabular information.
", "rawMarkdown": "It appears that the test dataset provided for this competition only includes image paths and does not contain the tabular features required by the pipeline, such as Sampling_Date, State, or Height_Ave_cm. As a result, it is impossible to use the full set of features for inference. The current setup allows predictions based only on the images, which may limit model performance. Participants should be aware that the test data format does not match the training data structure in terms of tabular information.", "votes": null }, { "id": "3385939", "postDate": "01/04/2026 09:32:50", "content": "I too have same doubts.\nDoes the test cases have all the features when run inference for leaderboard?
", "rawMarkdown": "I too have same doubts.\nDoes the test cases have all the features when run inference for leaderboard?", "votes": null }, { "id": "3386126", "postDate": "01/04/2026 16:49:09", "content": "No. The host made the decision to have only images in the test. The data certainly exists, reading the paper that was published a decade ago on the data they were only using tabular and not images. So test had to include all the meta data.
", "rawMarkdown": "No. The host made the decision to have only images in the test. The data certainly exists, reading the [paper](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/csiro-biomass/discussion/613941) that was published a decade ago on the data they were only using tabular and not images. So test had to include all the meta data.", "votes": null } ], "comments": [ { "id": 3385939, "author_name": "girish2002", "author_url": "", "post_date": "01/04/2026 09:32:50", "content": "I too have same doubts.\nDoes the test cases have all the features when run inference for leaderboard?
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3386126, "author_name": "pcjimmmy", "author_url": "", "post_date": "01/04/2026 16:49:09", "content": "No. The host made the decision to have only images in the test. The data certainly exists, reading the paper that was published a decade ago on the data they were only using tabular and not images. So test had to include all the meta data.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "3310723": "It appears that the test dataset provided for this competition only includes image paths and does not contain the tabular features required by the pipeline, such as Sampling_Date, State, or Height_Ave_cm. As a result, it is impossible to use the full set of features for inference. The current setup allows predictions based only on the images, which may limit model performance. Participants should be aware that the test data format does not match the training data structure in terms of tabular information.", "3385939": "I too have same doubts.\nDoes the test cases have all the features when run inference for leaderboard?", "3386126": "No. The host made the decision to have only images in the test. The data certainly exists, reading the [paper](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/csiro-biomass/discussion/613941) that was published a decade ago on the data they were only using tabular and not images. So test had to include all the meta data." }, "source": "meta" }