{
  "id": 175927,
  "title": "Bug in the Leaderboard",
  "url": "/competitions/global-wheat-detection/discussion/175927",
  "author_name": "Aidyn Ubingazhibov",
  "post_date": "2020-08-19T21:06:58.498000",
  "votes": 33,
  "comment_count": 6,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>My old private scores were not updated, and I was mistakenly placed #1 in the competition. I did not choose 2 of my final submissions. </p>\n<p>New scores<br>\n<img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F3613976%2F513b6ad67fcfd3de5848ed8a4cbb7c16%2FSelection_317.png?generation=1597869629308451&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"><br>\nOld scores<br>\n<img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F3613976%2F4a90e4183a8210222cfdc243af4b6dd6%2F012946e9-47e0-4267-9445-6e0913e018b7.jpeg?generation=1597871158557972&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>As you can see from the screenshots, my scores for final submissions are exactly the same as they were for the old private set. My assumption (just a speculation) is that the notebooks of the participants who did not choose their final submissions were not rerun on the new test set. </p>\n<p>There might be more such cases, so I think the kaggle team should take a day or two to fix the bug, and finally provide fair results …</p>\n<p>Edit: I was simply removed from the competition … I hope they will bring me back …</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 978006,
      "postDate": "2020-08-19T21:06:58.500Z",
      "content": "<p>My old private scores were not updated, and I was mistakenly placed #1 in the competition. I did not choose 2 of my final submissions. </p>\n<p>New scores<br>\n<img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F3613976%2F513b6ad67fcfd3de5848ed8a4cbb7c16%2FSelection_317.png?generation=1597869629308451&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"><br>\nOld scores<br>\n<img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F3613976%2F4a90e4183a8210222cfdc243af4b6dd6%2F012946e9-47e0-4267-9445-6e0913e018b7.jpeg?generation=1597871158557972&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>As you can see from the screenshots, my scores for final submissions are exactly the same as they were for the old private set. My assumption (just a speculation) is that the notebooks of the participants who did not choose their final submissions were not rerun on the new test set. </p>\n<p>There might be more such cases, so I think the kaggle team should take a day or two to fix the bug, and finally provide fair results …</p>\n<p>Edit: I was simply removed from the competition … I hope they will bring me back …</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "My old private scores were not updated, and I was mistakenly placed #1 in the competition. I did not choose 2 of my final submissions. \n\nNew scores\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F3613976%2F513b6ad67fcfd3de5848ed8a4cbb7c16%2FSelection_317.png?generation=1597869629308451&alt=media)\nOld scores\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F3613976%2F4a90e4183a8210222cfdc243af4b6dd6%2F012946e9-47e0-4267-9445-6e0913e018b7.jpeg?generation=1597871158557972&alt=media)\n\nAs you can see from the screenshots, my scores for final submissions are exactly the same as they were for the old private set. My assumption (just a speculation) is that the notebooks of the participants who did not choose their final submissions were not rerun on the new test set. \n\nThere might be more such cases, so I think the kaggle team should take a day or two to fix the bug, and finally provide fair results ...\n\nEdit: I was simply removed from the competition ... I hope they will bring me back ...",
      "votes": 33
    },
    {
      "id": 978968,
      "postDate": "2020-08-20T14:41:41.770Z",
      "content": "<p>This is a serious bug, kaggle team please look into this matter!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "This is a serious bug, kaggle team please look into this matter!",
      "votes": 7
    },
    {
      "id": 978045,
      "postDate": "2020-08-19T22:13:00.933Z",
      "content": "<p>Interesting. I just made a similar post before seeing this one. I thought perhaps the reason was because I had deleted my dataset; but like you, I too did not select final submissions and just let kaggle to its thing. At the point of the competition close, I only had 3 successful submissions anyway.</p>\n<p>So either you're right that it has to do with not selecting successful submissions, or perhaps faster-rcnn was ban-hammered because my models that now show up as \"Error\" were also faster-rcnn based. Let's see how it goes =).</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Interesting. I just made a similar post before seeing this one. I thought perhaps the reason was because I had deleted my dataset; but like you, I too did not select final submissions and just let kaggle to its thing. At the point of the competition close, I only had 3 successful submissions anyway.\n\nSo either you're right that it has to do with not selecting successful submissions, or perhaps faster-rcnn was ban-hammered because my models that now show up as \"Error\" were also faster-rcnn based. Let's see how it goes =).",
      "votes": 2,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 978053,
          "postDate": "2020-08-19T22:35:00.507Z",
          "content": "<p>I was mistakenly placed #1 in the competition due to this bug (not updated scores), and they did not remove me from the competition until I reported this bug to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/philculliton\" target=\"_blank\">@philculliton</a> . In your case, it might be because you deleted the dataset … The hosts/kaggle team simply reran the notebooks instead of changing the evaluation script, so I guess your notebook failed due to the deleted dataset.   </p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "I was mistakenly placed #1 in the competition due to this bug (not updated scores), and they did not remove me from the competition until I reported this bug to @philculliton . In your case, it might be because you deleted the dataset ... The hosts/kaggle team simply reran the notebooks instead of changing the evaluation script, so I guess your notebook failed due to the deleted dataset.   ",
          "votes": 10
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1370453,
      "postDate": "2021-06-30T07:17:59.877Z",
      "content": "<p>This was very helpful!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "This was very helpful!"
    },
    {
      "id": 978952,
      "postDate": "2020-08-20T14:22:52.733Z",
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    {
      "id": 978801,
      "postDate": "2020-08-20T11:58:21.823Z",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 978968,
      "author_name": "alan chen",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-08-20T14:41:41.770000",
      "content": "<p>This is a serious bug, kaggle team please look into this matter!</p>",
      "votes": 7,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 978045,
      "author_name": "عثمان",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-08-19T22:13:00.933000",
      "content": "<p>Interesting. I just made a similar post before seeing this one. I thought perhaps the reason was because I had deleted my dataset; but like you, I too did not select final submissions and just let kaggle to its thing. At the point of the competition close, I only had 3 successful submissions anyway.</p>\n<p>So either you're right that it has to do with not selecting successful submissions, or perhaps faster-rcnn was ban-hammered because my models that now show up as \"Error\" were also faster-rcnn based. Let's see how it goes =).</p>",
      "votes": 2,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 978053,
          "author_name": "Aidyn Ubingazhibov",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2020-08-19T22:35:00.507000",
          "content": "<p>I was mistakenly placed #1 in the competition due to this bug (not updated scores), and they did not remove me from the competition until I reported this bug to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/philculliton\" target=\"_blank\">@philculliton</a> . In your case, it might be because you deleted the dataset … The hosts/kaggle team simply reran the notebooks instead of changing the evaluation script, so I guess your notebook failed due to the deleted dataset.   </p>",
          "votes": 10,
          "replies": []
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      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1370453,
      "author_name": "Justin Chen",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2021-06-30T07:17:59.877000",
      "content": "<p>This was very helpful!</p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": []
    },
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      "id": 978952,
      "author_name": "",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-08-20T14:22:52.733000",
      "content": "",
      "votes": 0,
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      "id": 978801,
      "author_name": "",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-08-20T11:58:21.823000",
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    "978006": "My old private scores were not updated, and I was mistakenly placed #1 in the competition. I did not choose 2 of my final submissions. \n\nNew scores\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F3613976%2F513b6ad67fcfd3de5848ed8a4cbb7c16%2FSelection_317.png?generation=1597869629308451&alt=media)\nOld scores\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F3613976%2F4a90e4183a8210222cfdc243af4b6dd6%2F012946e9-47e0-4267-9445-6e0913e018b7.jpeg?generation=1597871158557972&alt=media)\n\nAs you can see from the screenshots, my scores for final submissions are exactly the same as they were for the old private set. My assumption (just a speculation) is that the notebooks of the participants who did not choose their final submissions were not rerun on the new test set. \n\nThere might be more such cases, so I think the kaggle team should take a day or two to fix the bug, and finally provide fair results ...\n\nEdit: I was simply removed from the competition ... I hope they will bring me back ...",
    "978968": "This is a serious bug, kaggle team please look into this matter!",
    "978045": "Interesting. I just made a similar post before seeing this one. I thought perhaps the reason was because I had deleted my dataset; but like you, I too did not select final submissions and just let kaggle to its thing. At the point of the competition close, I only had 3 successful submissions anyway.\n\nSo either you're right that it has to do with not selecting successful submissions, or perhaps faster-rcnn was ban-hammered because my models that now show up as \"Error\" were also faster-rcnn based. Let's see how it goes =).",
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