{"id":2007,"date":"2025-09-25T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsdm-conference.org\/2026\/?page_id=2007"},"modified":"2025-09-25T20:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:09:41","slug":"wsdm-cup","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wsdm-conference.org\/2026\/index.php\/wsdm-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"WSDM Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are pleased to open the call for proposals for hosting challenge problems for the WSDM Cup 2026, a high impact ML \/ AI competition event that will be co-located with the WSDM 2026 main conference in Boise, Idaho, USA from February\n 22-26, 2026. <\/p>\n

Competitions of this form are a crucial part of the research ecosystem, bringing together world-class experts from all over the world to independently evaluate their own best ideas on an important problem. Past experience has shown\n this process to create both amazing progress on specific problems, but also help to achieve a depth of validation and understanding in a way that lives up to the highest ideals of empirical rigor for AI and ML as research fields.<\/p>\n

We are seeking proposals for challenge problems and datasets from both industrial and academic institutions, with an emphasis on novel challenges that will help uncover the most topical and important issues facing the WSDM community\n today.<\/p>\n

We are particularly interested in, but do not limit our attention to tasks that can leverage new insights, tasks, and solutions that are aided by the use of Generative AI. Much like many similar shared tasks, we view these types of\n challenges as competitions that allow academic and industry practitioners to come together to explore interesting problems and discuss successes, challenges, and future directions. Past WSDM Cup tasks have helped provide new datasets\n and evaluation methodologies, and have introduced tasks to wider audiences that may have been unfamiliar with them. <\/p>\n

We strongly encourage all interested institutions and research groups to submit proposals and be part of this important challenge. Hosting the challenge is a fantastic way to bring a strong spotlight to previously under-studied areas\n or emerging topics, to showcase expertise, to establish new benchmarks in the field, and to contribute to advancing the field forward on real world problems. Moreover, this year the winning proposal for the WSDM Cup Challenge will\n be an archival submission to be included in a companion volume for WSDM workshops.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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