🌍 AICC (IOAI Community Contest) 2026, Round 4 (February 2026)

Extreme Condensation

Synthesise one soft-labelled 28x28 image so that a CNN trained only on it classifies MNIST as well as possible.

Get ready on the platform

The chapters of the learning path that prepare for this problem.

These chapters are picked from the solution: showing them may hint at the approach.

›How to tackle it

Read the statement. What to hand in, the metric that scores you, the time and hardware limits.
Explore the data. Size, format, missing values, how the labels are spread.
Score yourself first. Keep part of the training data aside to measure your work before submitting.
Start simple, then improve. A first solution that works end to end, then one change at a time.
Compare with a solution. Once you have searched, open it and see what you would have done differently.

Links taken from community indexes (checklist.sota-ai.org, awesome-ioai-tasks) and not all checked.

The statement, data and solutions belong to their authors; we only link to them. Licence : Subject to Competition Rules.