2026-W24 - Structural Break parallelism & Obesity ML Challenge results

Technical Changelog
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Competition Platform

Fixes

  • Processing logs is now done in batches, so they should arrive faster for the AWS options.
  • Crashes caused by OOM (out-of-memory) errors are now handled properly.

Competitions

structural-break-real-time

  • Determinism check was reduced to 10% of the dataset.
  • Introduced parallelism support (beta).

broad-obesity-1

  • Released the final Out-of-Sample leaderboard.

broad-obesity-2

  • Released the final Out-of-Sample leaderboard.

broad-obesity-3

  • Closed Proposal 1 submissions, and opened Proposal 2 submissions.

Forum

Changes

  • Migrated the Discourse to another hosting solution. It should now feel snapier!
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Hi everyone,

Do you know when the payouts will be sent for the Obesity ML Competition - Part 1?

Thanks!

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Hi Amine,

Due to the issue we had with the Part 2 results, we wanted to triple-check one last time with the EWSC team at the Broad Institute to ensure everything was the correct numbers.

Payouts will be sent tomorrow.

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Hi Enzo,

Thanks for the update. I really appreciate these great competitions.

Best,
Amine

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