# Terms & Conditions
# 1 - Organizing companies
This competition is organized by:
- Institut de Recherche Technologique SystemX, A Scientific Research Foundation (FCS), listed under SIREN N° 753 408 962, having its head office at Palaiseau (91120), 2, Boulevard Thomas Gobert, France
# 2 - Purpose of the competition and calendar
The Organizers have decided to organize a competition with the purpose of improving the trustworthiness of an AI component.
The Competition is held in France from March 17th 2025 to August 17nd 2025 inclusive.
# This Competition runs in 3 phases:
- Warm-up phase (4 weeks): participants can get familiar with provided material and the competition platform, make their first submissions and provide feedback to organizers. Based on this feedback, organizers can adjust and improve the competition for the next phase.
- Development phase (18 weeks): participants will develop their solutions and will be able to test their already trained models using a provided validation dataset. They can also have access continuously to the global score corresponding their submitted solution.
- Final phase (4 weeks): the organizers prepare the final ranking and official results.
# Calendar:
- Phase 1: Warmup phase ( 4 weeks) March 17 th - April 13 th
- Phase 2: Development phase (1 8 weeks) April 14 th - August 17 th
- Phase 3: Final phase ( 4 weeks) August 18 th - September 15th
# Definition and value of awards :
General prizes:
- 🥇 1st Place: 4000 €
- 🥈 2nd Place: 2000 €
- 🥉 3rd Place: 1000 €
- 💡 Most Original Solution: 1000 €
Winners will also gain visibility at the Confiance.ai Community Event.
The general and special prizes are not cumulative
Winning one of the general prizes hinder the access to special prizes.
# Criteria to determinate the winners:
The ranking of the submission will be based on the score as defined in the evaluation page. The score formula can be adjusted by the organizer based on the feedback obtained from submitted participation until the beginning of phase 2. Only submission made during the 2nd phase (development) of the competition will be included in the final ranking.
# 3 - Communication
The Competition is announced on Codabench[link], as well as on the website https://renault-welding-challenge.csia.irtsystemx.org/.
# 4 - Participation to the Competition
- To enter in Competition, entrants must register on Codabench platform at [link].
- The Competition is free of charge, with no obligation to purchase and no participation fees.
- Participants may be individuals or companies. - This Competition is open to any person over 18 years of age on the date of participation, excluding members of the Organizer's staff, family living under their roof, and staff of companies providing services for this Competition.
- Participants may enter either individually or in groups, in which case all team members must be over 18 years of age.
- Teams should use a common account, under a group email. Multiple accounts are forbidden.
- Verification of identity: participants authorize the Organizers to carry out any necessary verification of their identity and their professional postal and/or e- mail address. These verifications will be carried out in strict compliance with Article 9 of the French Civil Code.
# 5 - Terms of participation
During the warm-up phase, the Organizers may adjust the global score formula.
During phases 1 and 2, the participant can submit their code and see the associated score on the leader board.
The Organizers may provide additional baseline results during the challenge to stimulate the Competition.
The participant, and/or the team using a group account, will be limited to 5 submissions per day and 1000 in total per phase.
Each participant will be limited to 1 submission run at a time on the Codabench servers for each track. In the case of two or more your submissions run for more than 5 minutes, all your submissions will get aborted and you will receive a warning the first time this happens. You could get disqualified the second time this happens without sound justification. If you are running into trouble with your submissions, please get in touch with us.
The Organizers strongly encourage all participants to share their codes and make them accessible in public submission.
The final ranking of the participants will be made using the global score calculated based on the 3 categories of criteria, and sent to all participants.
The last submission in development phase from the participants will be the one evaluated and ranked at the final automated phase.
# 6 - Awards
- To receive any award, a participant (which can be a team) should agree to open-source its code at the end of the Competition.
- Monetary prizes for the Competition winners will only be awarded to Competition winners subject to the participant (such as winning companies, institutions, team members or individuals) not being under any sort of sanction by European countries or states. If the Competition winners cannot be awarded by the monetary prize, it will be donated to an agreed non-profit organization or charity in the name of the Competition winner.
- Winners will be notified through the email provided when registering to the competition (associated with the codabench account of the participant).
# 7 - Modifications - Restrictions
The Organizers reserve the right to modify the rules of the Competition, without any recourse against them. The Organizers may not be held liable for such modifications.
The Organizers reserve the right to stop, cancel, postpone or extend this Competition at any time for reasons of force majeure, without any compensation being due on its part.
Neither can they be held responsible for any disruption due to technical incidents, strikes or any other interruption beyond their control.
# 8 - Personal Data
Participants and Winners are reminded that they must provide, through the codabench platform, certain personal information about themselves (e-mail address, surname, first name, address, etc.) to participate.
This information is necessary to validate their participation in the Competition and to award/deliver the prizes. This information will be used by Organizers to organize the competition.
The information collected on the registration form on codabench.org is recorded in a filing system by the University Paris-Saclay, LISN laboratory, Campus Universitaire Bât 650- 660 - 1 rue Raimond Castaing - 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, FRANCE on behalf of the Organizers. The prize-winners agree to take part in any publicity or promotional operation linked to this Competition, and within these frameworks, to the total or partial use of their name and/or image, invention and/or innovation on any media such as social networks or website. More information on the privacy policy of Codabench.org can be found at: https://github.com/codalab/codalab- competitions/wiki/Privacy
In accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, each participant has the right to access, modify, rectify or delete information concerning them, which may be exercised by simple request to the following address: [mail de challenge]
For more information on this website processing of personal data, please refer to the Personal data and cookies policy.
# 9 - Acceptance of the rules
The mere fact of taking part in this Competition implies full acceptance of the present rules, waiver of any recourse concerning the conditions of organization and running of the Competition, as well as pure and simple acceptance of the awarding of prizes by the jury, whose decision is sovereign.
# 10 – Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These rules shall be governed by and shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of France.
All disputes in connection with or arising out of the existence, validity, construction, performance and/or termination of the Competition (or any terms thereof), which the parties are unable to resolve amicably between themselves, shall be finally settled by the competent courts of Paris. The proceedings shall be conducted in the French language.
