Competition protocol
Rules & scoring
Mission rules
- 01Sign in only with your assigned team code and PIN.
- 02Each attempt uses exactly 20 Nova, 20 Orbit, and 20 Pulse selection-bank images.
- 03Write a meaningful hypothesis before training. Confirming Start training consumes one attempt, even if the tab is closed.
- 04The output layer is always three-way Softmax. Only the approved architecture and parameter choices may be used.
- 05Aggregate hidden-validation results are evidence for your next experiment; hidden examples and predictions are never revealed.
- 06Complete the four-part reflection before beginning your next attempt.
- 07Lock one evaluated attempt as your final model. If you do not, the ranking rules choose your best validation attempt.
Validation ranking
Applied in order until the tie is resolved.
- 1. Accuracy ↑
- 2. Worst-class accuracy ↑
- 3. Cross-entropy loss ↓
- 4. Trainable parameters ↓
- 5. Earlier submission
Default final score
Overall accuracy60%
Worst class20%
Accepted accuracy10%
Confidence quality10%
A configurable penalty applies to confidently incorrect predictions. Administrators can preview formula changes before saving.