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Compression Crawl · online
72 hours, fully online, on long-context KV-cache compression. Judged on a held-out perplexity / throughput Pareto across three open 7B models.
- When
- 10–12 Jul 2026
- Where
- Online · 72h
- Pool
- $8,000
- Status
- Open
Task
Build a KV-cache compression scheme that improves the perplexity / throughput Pareto over the published state-of-the-art on a fleet of three open 7B models. Submissions are graded against a held-out long-context eval.
Prize pool · $8,000
- 1st: $4,000
- 2nd: $2,000
- 3rd: $1,000
- Best newcomer: $500
- Best write-up: $500
What you get on entry
- Spec and held-out eval methodology, released 7 days before kickoff
- Baseline notebook with three published methods reproduced
- Free cloud credits ($150 / team) usable during the hack
- Discord channel and on-call mentor across 72 hours
10–12 Jul 2026 Open
72-hour online sprint
Teams of up to four. Open to anyone with a working laptop. Discord-led, on-call mentor.