Boston University Students Win Two NeurIPS 2022 Competitions
As part of the Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning courses taught by associate professor Iddo Drori, Boston University students participated in NeurIPS 2022 competitions in the Fall of 2022 under professor Drori’s mentorship. The goals of the competitions are learning from human feedback in Minecraft and learning to specialize in massively multiagent open worlds.
The AI class teams won 1st and 3rd places in the NeurIPS 2022 MineRL BASALT competition on Fine-tuning from Human Feedback. CS graduate students Ben Minh (GRS ’25) from Boston University and Parker Hunt from Boston College won 3rd place in the BASALT Track and graduate students Dallin Gordon(GRS ’25) and Haoran Hu(GRS ’25) won 1st place in the INTRO track. The competition results were presented at NeurIPS 2022 on December 6, 2022.
The Deep Learning class team won silver tier in The 3rd Neural MMO Challenge on Learning to Specialize in Massively Multiagent Open Worlds. Graduate students Tanner Bangerter(GRS ’25), Sahana Kowshik(GRS ’23), and Teona Bagashvili(GRS ’29) won silver tier in the competition. The competition results were presented at NeurIPS 2022 on December 8, 2022.
As part of the AI and DL courses, students got to compete in common task framework competitions which enabled them to test the skills they learned in the Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning courses in the real world while advancing science.