1. The Graph Neural Networking Challenge: A Worldwide Competition for Education in AI/ML for Networks
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Suárez-Varela, José, Ferriol-Galmés, Miquel, López, Albert, Almasan, Paul, Bernárdez, Guillermo, Pujol-Perich, David, Rusek, Krzysztof, Bonniot, Loïck, Neumann, Christoph, Schnitzler, François, Taïani, François, Happ, Martin, Maier, Christian, Du, Jia Lei, Herlich, Matthias, Dorfinger, Peter, Hainke, Nick Vincent, Venz, Stefan, Wegener, Johannes, Wissing, Henrike, Wu, Bo, Xiao, Shihan, Barlet-Ros, Pere, and Cabellos-Aparicio, Albert
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Computer Science - Networking and Internet Architecture ,Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence ,Computer Science - General Literature ,Computer Science - Machine Learning - Abstract
During the last decade, Machine Learning (ML) has increasingly become a hot topic in the field of Computer Networks and is expected to be gradually adopted for a plethora of control, monitoring and management tasks in real-world deployments. This poses the need to count on new generations of students, researchers and practitioners with a solid background in ML applied to networks. During 2020, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has organized the "ITU AI/ML in 5G challenge'', an open global competition that has introduced to a broad audience some of the current main challenges in ML for networks. This large-scale initiative has gathered 23 different challenges proposed by network operators, equipment manufacturers and academia, and has attracted a total of 1300+ participants from 60+ countries. This paper narrates our experience organizing one of the proposed challenges: the "Graph Neural Networking Challenge 2020''. We describe the problem presented to participants, the tools and resources provided, some organization aspects and participation statistics, an outline of the top-3 awarded solutions, and a summary with some lessons learned during all this journey. As a result, this challenge leaves a curated set of educational resources openly available to anyone interested in the topic.
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- 2021
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