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The International
Machine Learning Olympiad

A written machine learning competition, open worldwide. Do a project, write it up, and the strongest report wins $10,000 in Anthropic credits.

Enter the olympiad How judging works
  • Entry$25 per report
  • First prize$10,000 in credits
  • DeadlineDecember 6, 2026

July 2026 Medalists

Figure 1 of Beyond Pass@k: a scatter plot of pass@1 against the Human-Centric Composite Score for six model families
Gold medalist

Beyond Pass@k: Developing Human-Centric Evaluation Metrics for AI Pair Programmers

Matthew Park & Aidan Chang

ICML 2026 Workshop on Deep Learning for Code

A human-centric score for AI-written code; cut developer review time by 28%.

$10,000 in Anthropic credits from IMLO · Read on OpenReview
Figure 4 of The Compositional Grounding Gap: a diagram of two scenes collapsing into the same pooled embedding, and a bar chart of blind spots growing with scene size
Silver medalist

The Compositional Grounding Gap: Why Vision-Language Models Fail at Relational Reasoning and How to Fix It

Kaustubh Bukkapatnam

ACL 2026 Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)

Fixes relational blind spots in vision-language models: +8.6 on Winoground, no fine-tuning.

$6,000 in Anthropic credits from IMLO · Read on OpenReview
Figure 3 of Hyperbolic Few-Shot Learning: Poincaré disk embeddings of plant species, with HProtoNet clustered tightly and Euclidean embeddings spread out
Bronze medalist

Hyperbolic Few-Shot Learning for Taxonomic Plant Classification

Mithil Shah

NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Imageomics: Discovering Biological Knowledge from Images Using AI

Hyperbolic embeddings that follow the plant family tree, on PlantCLEF.

$4,000 in Anthropic credits from IMLO · Read on OpenReview

Timeline

September 1, 2026 Submissions open
December 6, 2026 Deadline, 11:59 pm AoE
January 18, 2027 Finalists announced
February 8, 2027 Winner announced

Prizes

Gold

$10,000

in Anthropic credits

Silver

$6,000

in Anthropic credits

Bronze

$4,000

in Anthropic credits

Anthropic credits pay for the Claude API. Use them for development: build, test and ship your next machine learning project.

Common questions

Who can enter?

High school and undergraduate students worldwide.

Does the project have to be new?

Yes. The work should be done, or substantially extended, during the season.

My results were inconclusive. Should I still enter?

Yes. Failed research directions are valuable contributions to science and will be treated as such.

What exactly are Anthropic credits?

They are usage credits for Anthropic's API, which runs the Claude models.

Do judges run my code?

No. Judges grade the report. Your code, a Python .zip of up to 150 MB, is used to verify the work.

What does the registration fee cover?

The $25 registration fee pays our review committee of ML professionals and researchers.

Can I use AI tools?

Yes, as long as you disclose how you used them. Read the AI policy.