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AI/ML in 5G Challenge 2021

Applying machine learning in communications networks.

Participants of the ITU AI/ML in 5G Challenge solve real world problems. Teams enable, create, train and deploy ML models for communication networks. Datasets are provided The first edition  of the Challenge in 2020, over 1300 students and professionals from 62 countries competed for global recognition and prizes. Prize categories: 1st prize: 5,000 CHF, 2nd prize: 3,000 CHF 3rd prize: 2,000 CHF and other prizes

Participants of the ITU AI/ML in 5G Challenge solve real world problems. Teams enable, create, train and deploy ML models for communication networks. Datasets are provided The first edition  of the Challenge in 2020, over 1300 students and professionals from 62 countries competed for global recognition and prizes. Prize categories: 1st prize: 5,000 CHF, 2nd prize: 3,000 CHF 3rd prize: 2,000 CHF and other prizes

ITU AI/ML 5G Challenge Timeline

February – May 2021

June – October 2021

December 2021

Curation Phase

Competition Phase

Grand Challenge Finale (online) 

June – September 2021 – Registration

Hard registration deadline 14 September 2021

June – Sept/beginning of October 2021 – Submission of solutions

October 2021 – Evaluation of solutions

October – November 2021 – Preparation of reports

November 2021 – Judges Panel evaluates the best solutions from Competition Phase

Best solutions pitch in a 2-day event end of November 2021 to determine the finalists

December 2021 – Grand Challenge Finale

ITU AI/ML 5G Challenge Timeline

February – May 2021

Curation Phase

June – October 2021

Competition Phase

  • June – September 2021  – Registration
  • Hard registration deadline 14 September 2021
  • June – Sept/beginning of October 2021 – Submission of solutions
  • October 2021 – Evaluation of solutions
  • October – November 2021 – Preparation of reports

December 2021

Grand Challenge Finale (online) 

  • November 2021 – Judges Panel evaluates the best solutions from Competition Phase
  • Best solutions pitch in a 2-day event end of November 2021 to determine the finalists
  • December 2021 – Grand Challenge Finale

Challenge Related Information

Problem statements and data resources

Challenge Management Guidelines​

ITU Focus Group ML in 5G

ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies

AI/ML in 5G Grand Challenge Awards

The 2021 ITU AI/ML in 5G Challenge climaxed with the Grand Challenge Finale (awards ceremony) on 14 December, 2021. The following teams were given awards during this ceremony.

Gold Champion (1st Place)

Team BacalhauNET​​
José Nuno Grácio Rosa
Daniel Miranda Silva Malafaia Granhão
Guilherme Luis Leitao T G Carvalho
Tiago Filipe Sousa Gonçalves

Polytechnic of Leiria, University of Porto
Portugal

Silver Champion (2nd Place)

Team PARANA​​
Bruno Klaus de Aquino Afonso

UNIFESP - Federal University of São Paulo
Brazil

Bronze Champions (3rd Place)

Team FederationS​​​
Andrea Bonfante
Jernej Hribar

CONNECT Centre, Trinity College 
Dublin

Team Aaronica​​
Mohammad Chegini, Pouya Shiri
Prof. Amirali Baniasadi

Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
University of Victoria, Canada

Runner ups (4th Place)

Team Ember​​​​
Yu Du
Ke Wu
Longsheng Du

China

Team MLGrads​​​​​
Vijay Venugopal
Deena Mukundan

India

Team SOFGNN​​​
Brigitte Jaumard
Charles Boudreau
Junior Momo Ziazet
Huy Duong

Concordia University
Canada

Honorable Mentions

Team Orion​​​​​
Pedamalli Saikrishna
Ashwini Kumar
Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva
Sripada Kadambar

Samsung R&D
Institute India
India

Team Data Explorers​​​
Khalid Albagami
Bayan AlOquibi
Abdullah Alajlan
Raghad Alturki

Ericson
Saudi Arabia

Team 数智先锋 (Digi pioneer)
WANG Xidong
YIN Jiacheng
LI Wenwen
XU Shicheng
ZHU Liyi

AsiaInfo Technologies
China Mobile Hunan
China

Team SSN_ITU
Indu Subramanian
Charu Jain
Meghna Govind
Venkateswaran N

India

Team The Sixth Sense​​​
Shubham Khunteta
Avani Agrawal
Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva
Ashok Kumar Sahoo

Samsung R&D 
Institute India

Team Automata​​​​
Mehmet Karaca
Doruk Tayli
Ozge Simay Demirci

TED University
Turkey

Mentor’s Encouragement Award

Team WINEST​​​​​
Guda Blessed
Ibrahim Aliyu
James Agajo

FUT Minna
Nigeria

Team MLAB-RL​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Bojian Du
Hirofumi Ohzeki
Ryoma Kondo
Daisuke Kobuchi

University of Tokyo
Japan

ITU AI/ML in 5G Grand Challenge Finale
14 December 2021

AI for Good ML/5G partners

Sponsor

Xilinx
Xilinx
MSIT Korea
MSIT Korea

Hosts of problem statements

Xilinx
Xilinx
Barcelona Neural Net-working Center (BNN-UPC)
Barcelona Neural Net-working Center (BNN-UPC)
Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
North Carolina State University (NCSU)
North Carolina State University (NCSU)
Turkcell
Turkcell
The Bonch-Bruevich Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications (SPbSUT)
The Bonch-Bruevich Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications (SPbSUT)
ZTE
ZTE
China Unicom
China Unicom
RISING
RISING
NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
The University of Alabama, USA
The University of Alabama, USA
KDDI Research, Inc.
KDDI Research, Inc.

Technical partner