NeurIPS '18 Competition

This volume presents the results of the Neural Information Processing Systems Competition track at the 2018 NeurIPS conference. The competition follows the same format as the 2017 competition track for NIPS. Out of 21 submitted proposals, eight competitionproposals were selected, spanning the area of Robotics, Health, Computer Vision, NaturalLanguage Processing, Systems and Physics. Competitions have become an integral part of advancing state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence (AI). They exhibit one important difference tobenchmarks: Competitions test a system end-to-end rather than evaluatingonly a single component; they assess the practicability of an algorithmic solutionin addition to assessing feasibility. The eight run competitions aim at advancing the state of the art in deep reinforcement learning, adversarial learning, and auto machine learning, among others, including new applications for intelligent agents in gaming and conversational settings, energy physics, and prosthetics.