Yahoo! Labs

Learning to Rank Challenge is closed!

Close competition, innovative ideas, and fierce determination were some of the highlights of the first ever Yahoo! Labs Learning to Rank Challenge. The challenge, which ran from March 1 to May 31, drew a huge number of participants from the machine learning community. There were a whopping 4,736 submissions coming from 1,055 teams. Winners were awarded cash prizes and the opportunity to present their algorithms at a workshop at the
27th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2010) in Haifa, Israel.

Thank you to everyone who participated. To see the winners, learn more about the ICML workshop in Haifa, and read about the contest findings,
read the full article on Yahoo! Labs.