hardik90/competition-baseline-kit

Competition Baseline Kit

CPU-only baselines for entering Hugging Face competitions in minutes — free to run.

One command gets you a working submission on most HF competitions (generic CSV-submission type). Replace the model with something better as the deadline allows; the plumbing stays.

How HF competitions work (two types)

1. Generic — you get a training CSV + a test CSV, you upload a predictions.csv. All test data is public. Baselines below cover this.
2. Script — you submit code that generates predictions; test data can be hidden. The kit's scripts adapt (write your training inside a train() and save the model).

Quick start

# text classification/regression (e.g. movie-genre-prediction style)
python baseline_text.py --train train.csv --test test.csv --target label --text-col text

# tabular (e.g. wyze-rule-recommendation style)
python baseline_tabular.py --train train.csv --test test.csv --target label

Output: submissions/predictions.csv — exactly what the competition UI asks you to upload.

Kit contents

File	Use
baseline_text.py	TF-IDF (1-2 grams) + LogisticRegression — strong text baseline
baseline_tabular.py	HistGradientBoosting (classifier/regressor auto-detect) — handles NaN + categories

The winning workflow (this is the actual edge)

1. Monitor daily — new competitions get announced on the HF forum (Community Calls) and the competitions org. Being first means more submissions and more learning.
2. Enter within 24h of launch with a baseline — you now have a leaderboard position and can iterate publicly.
3. Iterate free: feature engineering, ensembling, and (if the task needs it) small fine-tunes on CPU/Colab-free resources.
4. Publish your solution on the Hub after the deadline — it becomes portfolio material (models, datasets, write-ups) that feeds the consulting side of the profile.

Known active/live reference

• KDD Cup 2026 — Tencent UNI-REC ($885k pool) and HKUST Data Agents ($30k pool) announced March 2026: https://dataagent.top/
• ICML 2026 agent reproduction challenge (closed Aug 2, 2026) — pattern to watch for 2027

License

CC0 — steal the baselines, they're meant to be forked.