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Apr 16
Interview

With a dual career spanning clinical psychology and software development, Jack Cole and his team have brought a unique perspective to tackling the ARC Challenge.

Leveraging cognitive insights and advanced machine learning techniques, the team’s approach stands out for its novel use of test-time fine-tuning and synthetic data enhancement.

Apr 16
Announcement

The wait is over and the ARCathon is underway again. Make up to three submissions per week and join the ARC circle mailing list and monthly calls.

All information can be found in the announcement letter linked here.

Dec 22
Announcement

The ARCathon 2023 is a wrap! We want to thank all 265 participating teams and are excited about all the innovative submissions. Take a look at our final standings and podium.

But the ARCathon journey does not end here. Stay tuned!

Oct 19
Announcement

Win a trip to Lab42 in Davos, Switzerland, for a multi-day workshop alongside François Chollet! Travel expenses are covered and accommodations are provided by Lab42. To enter, submit an explanation of your ARC approach along with your code. The top three teams meeting the judging criteria will be selected at the conclusion of ARCathon 2023. Click the title link for more details.

Oct 19
Community Post

Two-time Essay Competition winner and ARCathon participant Simon Ouellette discusses the intricacies of deep learning in the context of the ARC challenge. He highlights its difficulties in classifying prime numbers and underscores the limitations of both purely deep learning and DSL-based methods. He then proposes a modular architecture as a potential bridge between these two methodologies.

Oct 18
Online-Event

We are excited to welcome François Chollet for an exclusive Q&A session on October 18 at 6 p.m. CEST (GMT +2)! To kick things off, our moderators, Michael Hodel and Simon Ouellette, will discuss François's insights on the challenges of ARC. Afterward, we'll open the floor for audience questions.

Oct 9
Community Post

ARCathon participants Jack Cole and Mohamed Osman discuss their strategy to tackle ARC with large language models and resources from Google's TPU Research Cloud. They emphasized the benefits of diverse datasets and meta-learning, discovering that test-time fine-tuning significantly boosted their model's performance.

Sept 10
Announcement

Since September 10, teams from over 60 countries from 6 continents have registered. We are just waiting for you, Antarctica...

July 12
Announcement

We have reached a total of over 200 teams in the ARCathon 2023! The Lab42 crew wishes all teams the best of luck in breaking the ARC world record of 30.5%!

July 7
ARC Article

In 2019, François Chollet published his paper "On the Measure of Intelligence" along where he introduced the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus. Almost four years later, after a competition on Kaggle and with Lab42's second ARCathon in progress, the time is ripe to take a look at where we stand today, including an update from seven devoted ARC specialists.

July 6
Survey

As the year is progressing and the ARCathon has passed its halfway mark, we'd love to hear from you again! In a 5-6 minutes survey, let us know how you are progressing with your ARC solution and what we can offer to make your efforts more successful.

June 22
Update

If you haven't yet submitted your ARC solution for the ARCathon leaderboard, we may be able to help. There is now a link to a test submission form on our ARCathon submission page. After submission, you will receive full feedback with log files and error messages!

June 20
Update

The ARCathon evaluation is designed to be flexible and is deliberately based on Docker. Nevertheless, some have found the step of integrating their code into a Docker image a hurdle. For this reason, our ARCathon participant Taka has kindly published a repo with a ready-to-use Docker image. Fork this repo to submit your algorithms in the ARCathon with minimal hassle!

June 5
ARC Essay

Simon Ouellette, the previous winner of the Principles of Intelligence essay competition, has done it again. In our latest essay competition, which ended in May, Simon detailed in 26 well-written pages how he intends to solve the ARC problem! Read his full essay to immerse yourself in the thought process of an ARC enthusiast, or simply read his executive summary for inspiration.

April 29
Update

We have revised and debugged our ARC Playground and Editor. Become a pioneer and build the next global benchmark for AI of tommorow. Build your own ARC tasks and submit them to ARC 2 in the ARC Editor.

February 13
Community

Join the Lab42 Discord server to discuss human-level AI and the ARC challenge. Here you will find over 5 different ARC discussion channels to share your thoughts, ask questions and discuss how to proceed with your solution finding processes.

ARC Publications

March 18, 2024

Seungpil Lee, Woochang Sim, Donghyeon Shin, Sanha Hwang, Wongyu Seo, Jiwon Park, Seokki Lee, Sejin Kim, Sundong Kim

March 13, 2024

Gustaw Opiełka, Hannes Rosenbusch, Veerle Vijverberg, Claire E. Stevenson

February 14, 2024

February 7, 2024

Natasha Butt, Blazej Manczak, Auke Wiggers, Corrado Rainone, David Zhang, Michaël Defferrard, Taco Cohen

January 15, 2024

Chao Lei, Nir Lipovetzky, Krista A. Ehinger

December 13, 2023

Mukul Singh, Jose Cambronero, Sumit Gulwani, Vu Le, Gust Verbruggen

November 14, 2023

Melanie Mitchell, Alessandro B. Palmarini, Arseny Moskvichev

November 14, 2023

Luca H. Thoms, Karel A. Veldkamp, Hannes Rosenbusch, Claire E. Stevenson

October 31, 2023

James Ainooson, Deepayan Sanyal, Joel P. Michelson, Yuan Yang, Maithilee Kunda

October 12, 2023

Simon Ouellette, Rolf Pfister, Hansueli Jud

September 11, 2023

Ruocheng Wang, Eric Zelikman, Gabriel Poesia, Yewen Pu, Nick Haber, Noah D. Goodman

July 10, 2023

Suvir Mirchandani, Fei Xia, Pete Florence, Brian Ichter, Danny Driess, Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Kanishka Rao, Dorsa Sadigh, Andy Zeng

June 14, 2023

Jaehyun Park, Jaegyun Im, Sanha Hwang, Mintaek Lim, Sabina Ualibekova, Sejin Kim, …

May 29, 2023

Di Huang, Ziyuan Nan, Xing Hu, Pengwei Jin, Shaohui Peng, Yuanbo Wen, Rui Zhang, Zidong Du, Qi Guo, Yewen Pu, Yunji Chen

May 26, 2023

May 11, 2023

Arseny Moskvichev, Victor Vikram Odouard, Melanie Mitchell

May 5, 2023

Rim Assouel, Pau Rodriguez, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez, Yoshua Bengio

March 7, 2023

Giacomo Camposampiero, Loic Houmard, Benjamin Estermann, Joël Mathys, Roger Wattenhofer

February 18, 2023

James Ainooson, Deepayan Sanyal, Joel P. Michelson, Yuan Yang, Maithilee Kunda

January 8, 2023

Jonas Witt, Stef Rasing, Sebastijan Dumančić, Tias Guns, Claus-Christian Carbon

October 21, 2022

Subin Kim, Prin Phunyaphibarn, Donghyun Ahn, Sundong Kim

October 18, 2022

July 4, 2022

June 28, 2022

Victor Vikram Odouard, Melanie Mitchell

March 25, 2022

Rim Assouel, Pau Rodriguez, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez, Yoshua Bengio

October 22, 2021

Simon Alford, Anshula Gandhi, Akshay Rangamani, Andrzej Banburski, Tony Wang, …

June 15, 2021

Samuel Acquaviva, Yewen Pu, Marta Kryven, Theodoros Sechopoulos, Catherine Wong, …

April 8, 2021

Yonggang Qi, Kai Zhang, Aneeshan Sain, Yi-Zhe Song

March 10, 2021

Aysja Johnson, Wai Keen Vong, Brenden M. Lake, Todd M. Gureckis

November 23, 2020

Andrzej Banburski, Simon Alford, Anshula Gandhi, Sylee Dandekar, Peter Chin, Tomaso Poggio

September, 2020

Raphael Fischer, Matthias Jakobs, Sascha Mücke, Katharina Morik

November 12, 2020

Victor Kolev, Bogdan Georgiev, Svetlin Penkov

November 5, 2019

François Chollet

Lab42 Updates

Jun 11
Announcement
ARCathon becomes ARC Prize! Organized by Mike Knoop, Co-Founder of Zapier, François Chollet, Creator of ARC, Lab42 and Infinite Monkey, the spirit of ARC Prize is to open source progress towards AGI.
 
Submit your solutions on Kaggle and visit arcprize.org today!
Apr 16
Interview

With a dual career spanning clinical psychology and software development, Jack Cole and his team have brought a unique perspective to tackling the ARC Challenge.

Leveraging cognitive insights and advanced machine learning techniques, the team’s approach stands out for its novel use of test-time fine-tuning and synthetic data enhancement.

Dec 22
Announcement

The ARCathon 2023 is a wrap! We want to thank all 265 participating teams and are excited about all the innovative submissions. Take a look at our final standings and podium.

But the ARCathon journey does not end here. Stay tuned!

Oct 19
Announcement
The ARC Novelty Prize!

Win a trip to Lab42 in Davos, Switzerland, for a multi-day workshop alongside François Chollet! Travel expenses are covered and accommodations are provided by Lab42. To enter, submit an explanation of your ARC approach along with your code. The top three teams meeting the judging criteria will be selected at the conclusion of ARCathon 2023. Click the title link for more details.

Oct 19
Community Post

Two-time Essay Competition winner and ARCathon participant Simon Ouellette discusses the intricacies of deep learning in the context of the ARC challenge. He highlights its difficulties in classifying prime numbers and underscores the limitations of both purely deep learning and DSL-based methods. He then proposes a modular architecture as a potential bridge between these two methodologies.

Oct 18
Online-Event
Q&A with the Inventor of ARC: François Chollet

We are excited to welcome François Chollet for an exclusive Q&A session on October 18 at 6 p.m. CEST (GMT +2)! To kick things off, our moderators, Michael Hodel and Simon Ouellette, will discuss François's insights on the challenges of ARC. Afterward, we'll open the floor for audience questions.

Oct 9
Community Post

ARCathon participants Jack Cole and Mohamed Osman discuss their strategy to tackle ARC with large language models and resources from Google's TPU Research Cloud. They emphasized the benefits of diverse datasets and meta-learning, discovering that test-time fine-tuning significantly boosted their model's performance.

Sept 10
Announcement
Teams from 60+ Countries!

Since September 10, teams from over 60 countries from 6 continents have registered. We are just waiting for you, Antarctica...

July 12
Announcement
200+ Teams!

We have reached a total of over 200 teams in the ARCathon 2023! The Lab42 crew wishes all teams the best of luck in breaking the ARC world record of 30.5%!

July 7
ARC Article

In 2019, François Chollet published his paper "On the Measure of Intelligence" along where he introduced the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus. Almost four years later, after a competition on Kaggle and with Lab42's second ARCathon in progress, the time is ripe to take a look at where we stand today, including an update from seven devoted ARC specialists.

June 5
ARC Essay

Simon Ouellette, the previous winner of the Principles of Intelligence essay competition, has done it again. In our latest essay competition, which ended in May, Simon detailed in 26 well-written pages how he intends to solve the ARC problem! Read his full essay to immerse yourself in the thought process of an ARC enthusiast, or simply read his executive summary for inspiration.

April 29
Update

We have revised and debugged our ARC Playground and Editor. Become a pioneer and build the next global benchmark for AI of tommorow. Build your own ARC tasks and submit them to ARC 2 in the ARC Editor.

February 13
Community

Join the Lab42 Discord server to discuss human-level AI and the ARC challenge. Here you will find over 5 different ARC discussion channels to share your thoughts, ask questions and discuss how to proceed with your solution finding processes.

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