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Checklist AICC 2026 Round 7 · Task 1

Polarity

Classify word pairs as synonyms or antonyms from 50 labelled examples, using only bert-large-uncased.

  • NLP
  • Few-shot binary classification of word pairs

The task

A water-damaged book of word pairs recorded whether each pair were synonyms (for example happy/glad) or antonyms (for example high/low). Only fifty pairs still show their label; several hundred have lost it.

The training set has 50 labelled pairs (25 synonyms, 25 antonyms). The test set has 686 unlabelled pairs; the data page states that half are synonyms and half antonyms. Every word is a single token in the model's vocabulary, and no training word appears in the test set.

Contestants predict 0 (synonyms) or 1 (antonyms) for each test pair, and may use bert-large-uncased in any way.

Abridged by SOTA from the official materials. The official statement has the exact rules, and it wins wherever this summary differs.

At a glance

You get
train.csv (50 rows: w1, w2, label) and test.csv (686 rows: row_id, w1, w2).
You submit
submission.csv with columns row_id,label, one row per test pair.
Scoring
Macro-averaged F1 over the two classes, score = (F1(0) + F1(1)) / 2. Baseline 0.49, reference solution 0.91.
Rules
  • bert-large-uncased (loaded from Hugging Face with transformers) is the only pretrained model allowed; no external lexicon, thesaurus or word list (including nltk.corpus) and no external text corpus.
  • Internet access only to download the model.
  • Individual participation (maximum team size 1); at most 30 submissions per day.
  • AICC contest rules (stated on each Kaggle rules page, not enforceable): no use of LLMs for writing code or getting task ideas; no internet use other than official library documentation and the contest platform; no communication with anyone during the contest; clarifications only via the #clarification-requests channel on the AICC Discord server.
Format
AICC Round 7, online on Kaggle, 22 May 2026 19:58 UTC – 24 May 2026 20:01 UTC.

Details

Year
2026, Online (Kaggle)
Round
Round 7 · Task 1
Language
English
License
Varies by task: Polarity — CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; Oriented Ship and Scientific Facts — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Kaggle competition licences). Solutions repository: MIT., as stated by the source