Kalapa Challenge 2023 brings many values ​​to the community

Kalapa Challenge 2023 with the theme ByteBattles is an annual machine learning competition, organized by Kalapa Joint Stock Company with information sponsorship from the Vietnam Association of Information Technology.

The dramatic final match between GPU Dominators and ProPTIT with the Vietnamese Medical Question Answering problem at the competition

The challenge for this year's contestants was to propose new solutions for medicine to improve the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and to provide an effective solution for the management and conversion of handwritten documents.

“We strongly support competition models like Kalapa Challenges 2023, because it will help discover and find talents in the field of AI, a field that helps us solve many problems in life, from healthcare, education, business, production to entertainment. Creating communities of AI technology experts also contributes to the development of the AI ​​industry in Vietnam, creating a premise for the country's economic and social development,” said Mr. Nguyen Long - Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Association of Information Technology, the information sponsor of the competition.

ByteBattles is an annual machine learning competition.

This year, the competition has the participation of 630 teams with nearly 1,000 members from all over Vietnam and Vietnamese people living and working in other countries. The total prize of the competition is 100 million VND including cash and in kind.

The final round of the competition took place on December 16th in a very exciting competition format and found the winners of the awards.

With the problem "Vietnamese Medical Question Answering", the first prize belonged to the GPU Dominators team with the only member being Ngo Dinh Luan (born in 1998), currently an AI engineer for a famous corporation in Vietnam.

Ngo Dinh Luan

As for the problem "Vietnamese Handwritten Text Recognition", the first prize belongs to Gau Tun team with the only member being Do Manh (born in 1996), who is also an AI engineer.

Do Manh

Mr. Le Tran Bao Cuong, Project Director of Kalapa and Head of the competition organizing committee

Sharing about this year's competition, Mr. Le Tran Bao Cuong, Project Director of Kalapa and Head of the Organizing Committee of the competition, said: “The topic of the Kalapa Challenge 2023 competition is relatively difficult, targeting good or experienced candidates (expert level). The criteria of the competition is to find well-invested, elaborate entries with high practical application value. We expect this to be a useful technology playground for artificial intelligence (AI) engineers to have the opportunity to learn and improve their knowledge; at the same time, contribute very high-quality models for application in medicine. After this competition, the models of the winning teams will all be widely announced and will be a valuable reference for the artificial intelligence research community.”

Kalapa is one of the financial technology (fintech) companies, providing big data and AI solutions for financial institutions and banks. Kalapa's mission is to help the financial market become clean, reduce bad debt rates, optimize costs for businesses and help customers access financial products in the safest way. The company has been developing products using AI to solve security gaps in the market. Thanks to that, Internet users and online services will have access to technology products safely, helping society develop sustainably without any risks causing economic damage.

KIM THANH

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/cuoc-thi-kalapa-challenge-2023-mang-lai-nhieu-gia-tri-cho-cong-dong-post720329.html