{
  "id": 569280,
  "title": "Are pretrained models like ResNet allowed when Internet is disabled?",
  "url": "/competitions/el-hackathon-2025/discussion/569280",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2025-03-21T03:13:23.845298100Z",
  "votes": 5,
  "comment_count": 4,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hi,</p>\n<p>I have a question regarding the competition rules. Since Internet access is disabled during notebook execution, I’d like to ask:</p>\n<p>Are we allowed to use pretrained models like ResNet (e.g., from torchvision or timm)?</p>\n<p>Looking forward to clarification from the organizers or anyone who has experience with this. Thanks!</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "3155431",
      "postDate": "03/21/2025 03:13:23",
      "content": "<p>Hi,</p>\n<p>I have a question regarding the competition rules. Since Internet access is disabled during notebook execution, I’d like to ask:</p>\n<p>Are we allowed to use pretrained models like ResNet (e.g., from torchvision or timm)?</p>\n<p>Looking forward to clarification from the organizers or anyone who has experience with this. Thanks!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi,\n\nI have a question regarding the competition rules. Since Internet access is disabled during notebook execution, I’d like to ask:\n\nAre we allowed to use pretrained models like ResNet (e.g., from torchvision or timm)?\n\nLooking forward to clarification from the organizers or anyone who has experience with this. Thanks!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3155604",
      "postDate": "03/21/2025 07:56:47",
      "content": "<p>Yes of course - you can store the pretrained model as a Kaggle model/ dataset file and then import and use the model at inference and submission <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/dtan22\" target=\"_blank\">@dtan22</a> </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yes of course - you can store the pretrained model as a Kaggle model/ dataset file and then import and use the model at inference and submission @dtan22",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3155728",
      "postDate": "03/21/2025 10:54:45",
      "content": "<p>Thank you very much! </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you very much!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3159882",
      "postDate": "03/26/2025 03:09:48",
      "content": "<p>The \"Submit\" button was active after commit even when internet access was enabled. <br>\nI hope I don't need to re-submit my previous submissions… <br>\nLooking forward to clarification from the host <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/elucidata2025\" target=\"_blank\">@elucidata2025</a> .<br>\n(I checked the \"Rules\", and this submission requirement is not stated in the \"Rules\".)</p>\n<p>Copy from the \"Overview\" today:</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p><strong>This is a Code Competition</strong><br>\n  Submissions to this competition must be made through Notebooks. In order for the \"Submit\" button to be active after a commit, the following conditions must be met:</p>\n  <p>CPU Notebook &lt;= 9 hours run-time</p>\n  <p>GPU Notebook &lt;= 9 hours run-time</p>\n  <p>Internet access disabled</p>\n  <p>Submission file must be named submission.csv. Predictions for each test sample (spot) are expected to be provided as a comma-separated list of floats (predictions for one spot per line) in the following format: ID,C1,C2,… C35, where ID is the identifier for each spot in the test set, and C1-C35 are the abundances of the 35 possible cell types assigned to the spot.</p>\n</blockquote>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The \"Submit\" button was active after commit even when internet access was enabled. \nI hope I don't need to re-submit my previous submissions... \nLooking forward to clarification from the host @elucidata2025 .\n(I checked the \"Rules\", and this submission requirement is not stated in the \"Rules\".)\n\nCopy from the \"Overview\" today:\n>**This is a Code Competition**\n>Submissions to this competition must be made through Notebooks. In order for the \"Submit\" button to be active after a commit, the following conditions must be met:\n\n>CPU Notebook <= 9 hours run-time\n\n>GPU Notebook <= 9 hours run-time\n\n>Internet access disabled\n\n>Submission file must be named submission.csv. Predictions for each test sample (spot) are expected to be provided as a comma-separated list of floats (predictions for one spot per line) in the following format: ID,C1,C2,… C35, where ID is the identifier for each spot in the test set, and C1-C35 are the abundances of the 35 possible cell types assigned to the spot.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3161894",
      "postDate": "03/28/2025 15:01:24",
      "content": "<p>It seems it is possible to make submissions with Internet active. Maybe they have changed it again?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It seems it is possible to make submissions with Internet active. Maybe they have changed it again?",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3155604,
      "author_name": "ravi20076",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/21/2025 07:56:47",
      "content": "<p>Yes of course - you can store the pretrained model as a Kaggle model/ dataset file and then import and use the model at inference and submission <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/dtan22\" target=\"_blank\">@dtan22</a> </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 3155728,
          "author_name": "",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/21/2025 10:54:45",
          "content": "<p>Thank you very much! </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 3159882,
      "author_name": "gpch2159",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/26/2025 03:09:48",
      "content": "<p>The \"Submit\" button was active after commit even when internet access was enabled. <br>\nI hope I don't need to re-submit my previous submissions… <br>\nLooking forward to clarification from the host <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/elucidata2025\" target=\"_blank\">@elucidata2025</a> .<br>\n(I checked the \"Rules\", and this submission requirement is not stated in the \"Rules\".)</p>\n<p>Copy from the \"Overview\" today:</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p><strong>This is a Code Competition</strong><br>\n  Submissions to this competition must be made through Notebooks. In order for the \"Submit\" button to be active after a commit, the following conditions must be met:</p>\n  <p>CPU Notebook &lt;= 9 hours run-time</p>\n  <p>GPU Notebook &lt;= 9 hours run-time</p>\n  <p>Internet access disabled</p>\n  <p>Submission file must be named submission.csv. Predictions for each test sample (spot) are expected to be provided as a comma-separated list of floats (predictions for one spot per line) in the following format: ID,C1,C2,… C35, where ID is the identifier for each spot in the test set, and C1-C35 are the abundances of the 35 possible cell types assigned to the spot.</p>\n</blockquote>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 3161894,
          "author_name": "dalloliogm",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/28/2025 15:01:24",
          "content": "<p>It seems it is possible to make submissions with Internet active. Maybe they have changed it again?</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
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    "3155431": "Hi,\n\nI have a question regarding the competition rules. Since Internet access is disabled during notebook execution, I’d like to ask:\n\nAre we allowed to use pretrained models like ResNet (e.g., from torchvision or timm)?\n\nLooking forward to clarification from the organizers or anyone who has experience with this. Thanks!",
    "3155604": "Yes of course - you can store the pretrained model as a Kaggle model/ dataset file and then import and use the model at inference and submission @dtan22",
    "3155728": "Thank you very much!",
    "3159882": "The \"Submit\" button was active after commit even when internet access was enabled. \nI hope I don't need to re-submit my previous submissions... \nLooking forward to clarification from the host @elucidata2025 .\n(I checked the \"Rules\", and this submission requirement is not stated in the \"Rules\".)\n\nCopy from the \"Overview\" today:\n>**This is a Code Competition**\n>Submissions to this competition must be made through Notebooks. In order for the \"Submit\" button to be active after a commit, the following conditions must be met:\n\n>CPU Notebook <= 9 hours run-time\n\n>GPU Notebook <= 9 hours run-time\n\n>Internet access disabled\n\n>Submission file must be named submission.csv. Predictions for each test sample (spot) are expected to be provided as a comma-separated list of floats (predictions for one spot per line) in the following format: ID,C1,C2,… C35, where ID is the identifier for each spot in the test set, and C1-C35 are the abundances of the 35 possible cell types assigned to the spot.",
    "3161894": "It seems it is possible to make submissions with Internet active. Maybe they have changed it again?"
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