competitions.md

Competitions and Challenges

Competitions, benchmark challenges, and recurring events for optimization, constraint programming, analytics, routing, and Operations Research practice.

Contents

• Optimization Competitions
• Constraint Programming Competitions
• Benchmark Challenges
• Industry and Applied OR Challenges
• Data Science Competitions with OR Content

Optimization Competitions

• MIPLIB Computational Challenges - Mixed-integer programming benchmark collections and computational challenge ecosystem.
• ROADEF Challenge - Industrial optimization challenge organized by the French OR society and partners.
• PACE Challenge - Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments challenge with graph and combinatorial optimization problems.
• GECCO Competitions - Evolutionary computation and optimization competitions.
• NeurIPS Competitions - Machine learning competitions that increasingly include decision-making and optimization tasks.

Constraint Programming Competitions

• MiniZinc Challenge - Annual competition for constraint programming solvers using MiniZinc benchmarks.
• XCSP Competition - Competition for constraint satisfaction and optimization solvers.
• SAT Competition - SAT solver competition relevant to CP, combinatorial optimization, and proof systems.
• MaxSAT Evaluation - MaxSAT solver evaluation and benchmarks.

Benchmark Challenges

• DIMACS Challenges - Long-running algorithmic challenges covering graph algorithms, optimization, and discrete mathematics.
• TSPLIB - Traveling salesperson benchmark library used in exact and heuristic algorithm comparisons.
• CVRPLIB - Vehicle routing benchmark library.
• Hans Mittelmann Benchmarks - Solver benchmark results for LP, MIP, QP, conic, and nonlinear optimization.
• QPLIB - Quadratic programming benchmark library.

Industry and Applied OR Challenges

• INFORMS Franz Edelman Competition - Premier award competition for applied OR and analytics impact.
• INFORMS Wagner Prize - Competition for excellence in OR practice.
• INFORMS Doing Good with Good OR - Recognizes OR work with social impact.
• Amazon Last Mile Routing Research Challenge - Research challenge dataset for last-mile delivery and routing.

Data Science Competitions with OR Content

• Kaggle - Hosts forecasting, scheduling, routing, allocation, and logistics-related competitions; verify OR relevance case by case.
• DrivenData - Social-good data competitions often involving allocation, operations, and policy decisions.
• AIcrowd - AI challenges that may include reinforcement learning, planning, and optimization.
• EvalAI - Challenge platform for AI tasks, including planning and decision-making benchmarks.