Halite AI Programming Competition

Halite is an open-source computer programming contest developed by the hedge fund/tech firm Two Sigma in partnership with a team at Cornell Tech.[1] Programmers can see the game environment and learn everything they need to know about the game.[2] Participants are asked to build bots in whichever language they choose to compete on a two-dimensional virtual battle field.[1]

Benjamin Spector and Michael Truell[3][4] created the first Halite competition, which launched in November 2016[5] and ended in February 2017.[6][7] Halite I, which asked participants to conquer territory on a grid, attracted about 1,500 players.[8]

Halite II was similar to Halite I, but with a space-war theme.[9] It ran from October 2017 until January 2018.[10][11] The second installment of the competition attracted about 6,000 individual players from more than 100 countries.[8] Among the participants were professors, physicists and NASA engineers, as well as high school and university students.[9]

Halite III launches in mid-October 2018.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Cornell Tech - Two Sigma Announces Public Launch of Halite, A.I. Coding Game". Cornell Tech. 2016-11-02. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  2. ↑ Segal, Michael (2017-11-30). "Why a Hedge Fund Started a Video Game Competition". Nautilus.
  3. ↑ Spector, Benjamin; Truell, Michael (2017-10-20). "The Design and Implementation of Modern Online Programming Competitions". arXiv:1710.07738 [cs.CY].
  4. ↑ Haskin, Brian (Janzert). "A Quick Rating System Comparison". janzert.com. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  5. ↑ "Halite Postmortem · GitBook (Legacy)". GitBook. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  6. ↑ "Halite Bot Breakdown". dexgroves.github.io. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  7. ↑ "Halite ML Solution". StakerNotes. 2017-02-18. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  8. 1 2 3 Wigglesworth, Robin; Palma, Stefania (29 September 2018). "Funds turn to quant 'World Cup' to lure the best analysts". Financial Times. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  9. 1 2 "A Brooklyn high-schooler takes on the world - Technical.ly Brooklyn". Technical.ly Brooklyn. 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  10. ↑ "Test Your AI Coding Skills With This Programming Challenge". MakeUseOf. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  11. ↑ Sigma, Two. "Two Sigma Launches Halite II: The Open Source Competition for Experimenting With Future Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
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