Each task-specific track awards a USD $2,500 cash prize to the top three teams and travel support for one representative per top-3 team to present at the NeurIPS workshop in Sydney. Some tracks may add a 6-month internship offer at the sponsor company (TBC).
Each task-specific track has its own sponsor and the same cash prize structure: USD $2,500 to first, second, and third place, plus travel support for one representative per top-3 team to present at the NeurIPS workshop in Sydney.
Top-5 retrieval accuracy on held-out images. Sponsored by Alljoined, who also contribute the dataset.
Balanced accuracy across motor imagery, mental math, and word association, without recalibration. Sponsored by Meta FAIR Brain & AI.
Lowest MAE in seconds to stable N2 onset on consumer-grade wearable EEG. Sponsored by InteraXon, who provide the Muse-grade recordings.
Lowest character error rate decoding typed text from wristband surface EMG. Sponsored by Meta Reality Labs.
Some tracks may offer a 6-month research internship to the first-place team's chosen representative at the sponsor company, subject to the sponsor's standard hiring process. Sponsor agreements are not finalised; confirmed offers will be announced on this page.
The cross-modality winner. A single shared biosignal encoder evaluated on the EEG-to-IMG, BCI, Sleep, and EMG tracks at once. Rewards the team whose model is the most generally useful across both EEG and surface EMG, not the most specialized on any one. Hosted by Yneuro. Foundation-prize cash is finalised at NeurIPS opening; the per-track 1st-place baseline ($2,500) applies if no additional sponsor is named.
Consent, mental privacy, and dataset-controller chains are operational baselines, not afterthoughts. See the ethics page for the full statement, the empirical limits on non-invasive decoding, and the per-track consent posture.
The prize pool is funded by the track sponsors and the host organisation; the host institutions cover top-3 travel for every track. Every sponsor is listed on the homepage with their contribution.
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Top-3 per track win $2,500 each plus travel support for one representative. Start with a baseline, beat it, pass the audit, present in Sydney.