Machine Learning Marathon

The ML+X community is excited to kick off the 3rd annual Machine Learning Marathon (MLM25)! Running from September to December, this 12-week hackathon offers real-world machine learning (ML) and AI projects (“Challenges“) catering to different skill levels, application areas, and ML/AI methods. This year’s challenges span topics such as:

• AI‑emissions accounting using retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
• Protein‑variant effect prediction using protein language models
• Clustering the BioTrove dataset with contrastive learning and autoencoders
  

• Solving abstract reasoning tasks using AI beyond traditional LLMs (ARC‑2025)

• Developing a supportive mental health chatbot using LLMs aligned for safety

• Predicting store sales with time-series forecasting 

• Decoding intended speech from brain signals using deep learning

• Classifying images (MNIST) with computer vision models 
• … and more!

Participants choose a challenge that suits their skills and interests, form teams, and collaborate to develop ML/AI pipelines and evaluate different modeling strategies. Weekly events feature workshops, coworking time, team share-outs, and advisor support to help teams move forward. AWS compute credits are also provided to help scale up experiments.

Find a Challenge          MLM25 Schedule

Ready to join MLM25? All participants must review the schedule, challenges (and their prerequisites), rules, and code of conduct before registering! Please register by Sept. 10 so we can plan our catering needs.