# Latest **URL:** https://community.drivendata.org/latest.md [Latest](https://community.drivendata.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.drivendata.org/categories.md) --- ## [Welcome to the DrivenData community forum](https://community.drivendata.org/t/welcome-to-the-drivendata-community-forum/8)
**Author:** [@system](https://community.drivendata.org/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/welcome-to-the-drivendata-community-forum/8 "2014-12-12T18:23:56Z")
Welcome to the community forum for DrivenData participants! In addition to general discussions, there are categories for each active competition. This forum is for discussing approaches, sharing code, and all manner of d… --- ## [How were the new test faults identified? (data sources and fault types)](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-were-the-new-test-faults-identified-data-sources-and-fault-types/11527)
**Author:** [@jgaines](https://community.drivendata.org/u/jgaines)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2026, 10:22pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-were-the-new-test-faults-identified-data-sources-and-fault-types/11527 "2026-09-23T22:22:59Z")
Hello. Could we please ask three questions about data sources and fault types involved in identifying the new test faults? We’d like to have better insight into how they were identified, so we can choose appropriate inpu… --- ## [Paid for external data license](https://community.drivendata.org/t/paid-for-external-data-license/11528)
**Author:** [@fishnchips](https://community.drivendata.org/u/fishnchips)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/paid-for-external-data-license/11528 "2026-09-23T17:01:27Z")
Can we utilise paid for external data, eg if a subscription is required, but if the competition hosts can also access the data - provided they have purchased a license would that solution be allowed? --- ## [Where do you draw the line?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/where-do-you-draw-the-line/11536)
**Author:** [@moongrega](https://community.drivendata.org/u/moongrega)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2026, 7:39am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/where-do-you-draw-the-line/11536 "2026-09-23T07:39:45Z")
I’m still curious where you draw the line between a correction to an existing fault and a new fault. Like, if a mapped USGS/INGENIOUS fault appears to continue beyond its existing endpoint, can that previously unmapped … --- ## [Why does the \`Training fault labels\` file in the data tab have a single band, while the labels in the \`reference solution\` repo have 19 bands?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/why-does-the-training-fault-labels-file-in-the-data-tab-have-a-single-band-while-the-labels-in-the-reference-solution-repo-have-19-bands/11529)
**Author:** [@DLegorreta](https://community.drivendata.org/u/DLegorreta)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2026, 7:36am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/why-does-the-training-fault-labels-file-in-the-data-tab-have-a-single-band-while-the-labels-in-the-reference-solution-repo-have-19-bands/11529 "2026-09-23T07:36:53Z")
here the link of the repo: gems-prize-reference-solution/unet-mc-cv-reference-solution.ipynb at main · drivendataorg/gems-prize-reference-solution · GitHub --- ## [Scoring clarification: are known USGS/INGENIOUS faults masked when scoring, and are they in the Final Round label set?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/scoring-clarification-are-known-usgs-ingenious-faults-masked-when-scoring-and-are-they-in-the-final-round-label-set/11516)
**Author:** [@exposed](https://community.drivendata.org/u/exposed)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2026, 7:25am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/scoring-clarification-are-known-usgs-ingenious-faults-masked-when-scoring-and-are-they-in-the-final-round-label-set/11516 "2026-09-21T07:25:04Z")
Hi organizers, Two questions about how submissions are scored, since they change the optimal way to build a submission: The problem description says the test set consists of newly identified faults that are not in th… --- ## [Looking for a geologist teammate (lidar fault mapping, Basin and Range) to join a working ML pipeline](https://community.drivendata.org/t/looking-for-a-geologist-teammate-lidar-fault-mapping-basin-and-range-to-join-a-working-ml-pipeline/11531)
**Author:** [@exposed](https://community.drivendata.org/u/exposed)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2026, 2:20am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/looking-for-a-geologist-teammate-lidar-fault-mapping-basin-and-range-to-join-a-working-ml-pipeline/11531 "2026-09-20T02:20:34Z")
Hi all, I’m competing solo and looking for one teammate with a geoscience background, ideally someone who has mapped Quaternary faults or scarps on lidar in Nevada or the Walker Lane. Where I am: a working end-to-end p… --- ## [Institutional Limit](https://community.drivendata.org/t/institutional-limit/11526)
**Author:** [@GGKea](https://community.drivendata.org/u/GGKea)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2026, 10:23pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/institutional-limit/11526 "2026-09-18T22:23:04Z")
Regarding the rules that, in part, state, “Each participating entity (team, organization, or individual prize competitor not on a team) is allowed to have one final submission; individuals participating on a team will no… --- ## [Weekly Submissions](https://community.drivendata.org/t/weekly-submissions/11524)
**Author:** [@TommyCheeze](https://community.drivendata.org/u/TommyCheeze)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2026, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/weekly-submissions/11524 "2026-09-17T13:48:00Z")
What day and time does the three-submissions-per-week allowance reset, and is it a calendar week or a rolling seven-day window? --- ## [How much shake-up are you expecting?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-much-shake-up-are-you-expecting/11518)
**Author:** [@atatonal](https://community.drivendata.org/u/atatonal)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-much-shake-up-are-you-expecting/11518 "2026-09-16T15:27:37Z")
With ~1,300 scans and only a few thousandths of log loss between ranks, I suspect much of the current ordering is noise. Since we’re predicting a clinician’s read rather than dopaminergic status, there may also be a labe… --- ## [What correlation CV vs LB?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/what-correlation-cv-vs-lb/11507)
**Author:** [@bitguber](https://community.drivendata.org/u/bitguber)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/what-correlation-cv-vs-lb/11507 "2026-09-16T15:09:11Z")
mine 0.28 cv to 0.30 lb --- ## [How to select final result](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-to-select-final-result/11520)
**Author:** [@tomkyte](https://community.drivendata.org/u/tomkyte)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2026, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-to-select-final-result/11520 "2026-09-16T13:30:09Z")
how to select final result from my teams submit --- ## [Submissions after competition closing](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submissions-after-competition-closing/11515)
**Author:** [@fishnchips](https://community.drivendata.org/u/fishnchips)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submissions-after-competition-closing/11515 "2026-09-15T20:34:36Z")
Hi, Will the infrastructure to make and score submissions still be available after the competition ends? I’d like to continue some personal research and continued learning and the testing infrastructure would be a use … --- ## [Can abstracted or encoded data be shared with AI assistants for preprocessing advice?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/can-abstracted-or-encoded-data-be-shared-with-ai-assistants-for-preprocessing-advice/11511)
**Author:** [@seonuk](https://community.drivendata.org/u/seonuk)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2026, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/can-abstracted-or-encoded-data-be-shared-with-ai-assistants-for-preprocessing-advice/11511 "2026-09-15T18:47:15Z")
Hi organizers, I’d like to clarify what information, if any, may be shared with external AI assistants such as ChatGPT or Claude when seeking help with data understanding and preprocessing. I understand that competitio… --- ## [Facing Training Data Access Issue](https://community.drivendata.org/t/facing-training-data-access-issue/11461)
**Author:** [@rkb1u25](https://community.drivendata.org/u/rkb1u25)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2026, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/facing-training-data-access-issue/11461 "2026-09-14T14:30:00Z")
Hi everyone, I am a student from University of Southampton, United Kingdom. i want to participate in SNOMED CT Entity Linking Benchmark competition but unable to complete the CITI program training course in order to gai… --- ## [Where to find additional data?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/where-to-find-additional-data/11490)
**Author:** [@solosolevd](https://community.drivendata.org/u/solosolevd)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2026, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/where-to-find-additional-data/11490 "2026-09-12T13:29:41Z")
This data is very small for training neural nets. So from where to get additional dataset? --- ## [How does the weekly limit of three scored submissions reset?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-does-the-weekly-limit-of-three-scored-submissions-reset/11505)
**Author:** [@audric](https://community.drivendata.org/u/audric)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2026, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-does-the-weekly-limit-of-three-scored-submissions-reset/11505 "2026-09-11T18:05:17Z")
The rules allow three scored submissions per participant per week. I want to plan my remaining uploads before the deadline and cannot tell from the submissions page which of these applies: A fixed calendar week: the co… --- ## [About number of submissions](https://community.drivendata.org/t/about-number-of-submissions/11500)
**Author:** [@ZenithX9271](https://community.drivendata.org/u/ZenithX9271)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/about-number-of-submissions/11500 "2026-09-08T15:33:59Z")
Dear Organization team, Is the number of submissions are unlimited to submit for leaderboard or just 3, but I’m seeing people had 18-20 submissions in the leaderboard. what are the 3 submission limit exactly for? Coul… --- ## [Problem with submissions](https://community.drivendata.org/t/problem-with-submissions/11497)
**Author:** [@fishnchips](https://community.drivendata.org/u/fishnchips)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2026, 10:03am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/problem-with-submissions/11497 "2026-09-05T10:03:34Z")
Hi, Could someone help to improve the upload performance. It’s very slow and on my last attempts I have not be able to complete the upload. It seems to fail but there is not reason for this. Many thanks, --- ## [Looking for teammates to join Neuro\_AI\_Lab!](https://community.drivendata.org/t/looking-for-teammates-to-join-neuro-ai-lab/11481)
**Author:** [@jeanAH](https://community.drivendata.org/u/jeanAH)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2026, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/looking-for-teammates-to-join-neuro-ai-lab/11481 "2026-09-04T15:37:45Z")
Hi everyone! I just created the team “Neuro\_AI\_Lab” for this challenge. I want to build deep learning models to analyze these DaT scans. If you have skills in Python, computer vision, or medical imaging and want to colla… --- ## [Is DINOv3 allowed to use?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/is-dinov3-allowed-to-use/11488)
**Author:** [@hariprasanth\_sm](https://community.drivendata.org/u/hariprasanth_sm)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/is-dinov3-allowed-to-use/11488 "2026-09-03T14:29:50Z")
Hey, I want to confirm regarding the usage of the foundation models, especially DINOv3. Unlike DINOv2, which has Apache 2.0 license, DINOv3 has their own license. Even though they are allowing it to use freely, one need… --- ## [Team merges and the submission quota](https://community.drivendata.org/t/team-merges-and-the-submission-quota/11494)
**Author:** [@Adilours](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Adilours)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/team-merges-and-the-submission-quota/11494 "2026-09-03T14:02:45Z")
A question about how team merges interact with the submission limit. If two existing teams merge, what happens to the submissions each team has already used? Are they added together against the merged team’s allowance,… --- ## [Test set size and final submission selection](https://community.drivendata.org/t/test-set-size-and-final-submission-selection/11493)
**Author:** [@Adilours](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Adilours)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/test-set-size-and-final-submission-selection/11493 "2026-09-02T14:07:00Z")
Two questions about the evaluation setup, for planning purposes rather than modelling. How many exams are in the test set, and how is it split between the public and the private leaderboard? Knowing the size helps judg… --- ## [Is a team mandatory?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/is-a-team-mandatory/11491)
**Author:** [@sunshine499](https://community.drivendata.org/u/sunshine499)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2026, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/is-a-team-mandatory/11491 "2026-09-01T12:01:14Z")
do i have to create a single person team if only i me and myself are participating? or just do nothing and submit as is --- ## [How to install new python package on this competition？](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-to-install-new-python-package-on-this-competition/11489)
**Author:** [@tomkyte](https://community.drivendata.org/u/tomkyte)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-to-install-new-python-package-on-this-competition/11489 "2026-08-21T13:32:45Z")
how to install new python package on this competition？ i want use a package that not in the enveriment , may anyone help me to do it, thank you very much,waiting for your feedback. thanks --- ## [Clarification on AI coding assistants and cloud GPU compute with competition data](https://community.drivendata.org/t/clarification-on-ai-coding-assistants-and-cloud-gpu-compute-with-competition-data/11479)
**Author:** [@BrayanD117](https://community.drivendata.org/u/BrayanD117)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2026, 5:40am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/clarification-on-ai-coding-assistants-and-cloud-gpu-compute-with-competition-data/11479 "2026-08-21T05:40:38Z")
Hello, I’d like to clarify two points about the “no third-party tools that store/retain data” and “never share the data” rules: Is it acceptable to use an AI coding assistant (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to hel… --- ## [How can i install a python package that not in the enviroment](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-can-i-install-a-python-package-that-not-in-the-enviroment/11484)
**Author:** [@tomkyte](https://community.drivendata.org/u/tomkyte)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2026, 11:56am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-can-i-install-a-python-package-that-not-in-the-enviroment/11484 "2026-08-20T11:56:17Z")
how can i install a python package that not in the enviroment ? such as a new python package ? may i install it by pip install xxx ？ if that can not do ,how can i do it to install a python package that can get score --- ## [How to use pretrained models and external publicly available datasets?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-to-use-pretrained-models-and-external-publicly-available-datasets/11480)
**Author:** [@serkanpaker](https://community.drivendata.org/u/serkanpaker)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-to-use-pretrained-models-and-external-publicly-available-datasets/11480 "2026-08-17T14:21:42Z")
In submission, how to demonstrate it? Like compress them into submission.zip too? --- ## [Limit to size of zip files for uploading](https://community.drivendata.org/t/limit-to-size-of-zip-files-for-uploading/11470)
**Author:** [@fishnchips](https://community.drivendata.org/u/fishnchips)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2026, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/limit-to-size-of-zip-files-for-uploading/11470 "2026-08-10T13:09:52Z")
Hi, Is there a limit to the size of the zip file uploads? I have a large \> 1gb file and it consistently fails to upload. Thanks, --- ## [Clarification on ImageNet pre-trained weights under Open Source / Commercial rules](https://community.drivendata.org/t/clarification-on-imagenet-pre-trained-weights-under-open-source-commercial-rules/11475)
**Author:** [@Mobarmij](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Mobarmij)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2026, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/clarification-on-imagenet-pre-trained-weights-under-open-source-commercial-rules/11475 "2026-08-06T13:19:03Z")
Hi DrivenData Team, Could you please clarify the stance on using ImageNet pre-trained weights as external data for this challenge? According to the competition rules: Winning solutions must be available under an ope… [Next page](https://community.drivendata.org/latest.md?page=1)