Challenge Timeline
2026
Website Released
Official CUHK-X Challenge website goes live with full timeline, track details, and dataset overview.
2026
Competition Launch
Both Kaggle competitions open for registration and submissions. Dataset publicly released. Promotion channels go live simultaneously.
2026
Kaggle Leaderboard Freeze
Public submissions close. Top 15 teams per track on the Kaggle private leaderboard are notified and invited to the verification and evaluation stage.
2026
Verification Package Due
Top 15 teams per track submit their verification package by 23:59 UTC.
2026
Verification & Evaluation
The Organizing Committee reproduces each solution from the submitted code, model artifacts, configuration, and setup instructions to verify successful execution and consistency with the selected Kaggle submission. The organizer-run private-data evaluation also takes place during this period.
2026
Final Top 6 Announced
Top 6 teams per track passing verification are officially invited to the Grand Finals. Technical reports from formally invited teams are due at 23:59 UTC on October 1.
2026
Grand Finals · Shanghai
Finalist presentations (5 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A per team, in English) and the awards ceremonies. No additional on-site private-test inference. Teams unable to travel may participate via Zoom.