Extension for the entry submission deadline

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Extension for the entry submission deadline

jianguoz opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

Based on the training process on SGD-All. Is it possible that we have one-week extension for the entry submission deadline?

Chenglong Chen · Answer 1 · Sat Oct 12 2019 10:17:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I have the same question. We start the competition very late, but we are very interested in this task. However, the model training part consumes fairy amount of time despite we still have some interesting ideas yet to try.

Xiaoxue Zang · Answer 2 · Sun Oct 13 2019 09:28:18 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi, thanks for your requests. We are extending the submission deadline to Oct 14 (UTC -12). Please feel free to add follow-ups if you have any questions.

Chenglong Chen · Answer 3 · Sun Oct 13 2019 09:46:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi, thanks for the response. Just to further confirm about the exact time, does it mean the new ddl will be at 11:59 PM UTC-12, Oct 14 or 11:59 PM UTC-12, Oct 13？

ianma · Answer 4 · Sun Oct 13 2019 11:06:42 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Looks like 11:59 PM UTC-12, Oct 13 (the 14th of October (Anywhere on Earth))?
@XiaoxueZang Extending the submission deadline is unfair to most of the participants.

Xiaoxue Zang · Answer 5 · Mon Oct 14 2019 10:24:49 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@Damcy Thanks for letting us know your concern. It's unlikely that one day is enough to build a model that beats what having been developed over the past 3 months. We extend the deadline to make sure that the participants have enough time to finish training and deal with some unexpected issues.