SCML Newsletter (June 04th
2022)
This is the final SCML 2022 newsletter.The final deadline
for agent submission is less than a week from now. We hope that you are
having fun participating in the online competition.
SCML is one of the leagues of
ANAC 2022 one of
the official competitions of IJCAI 2022.
- The deadline for initial agent submission was extended to
June 8th and the last online tournament will be run on
June 9th. The final deadline for agent submission is
still June 10th and for report submission is still
June 17th.
- Please be sure to check each of the following items before
submitting your agent
- Never use
print(). You can save log information for
debugging as described here.
- Make sure that you do not use any plotting library in your agent
(e.g.
matplotlib, seaborn,
plotly).
- In SCML, agents are not allowed to pass information between world
simulations. Never open a file for writing. You can
read data in your agent’s path as described here.
Trying to write to the server’s HDD, will lead to disqualification.
- Be sure to write the short description of your agent in the textarea
in the submission page. You can update it with the final report
submission until June 17th.
- If you are participating in the standard competition and do
not have a collusion strategy, please uncheck “Run in collusion
track.” in your submission page (Active Agent). According to the
competition rules, if you do not have a non-trivial collusion strategy,
the agent cannot advance to be a finalist on the collusion track anyway.
By unchecking this box you allow us to run the competition at a lower
cost with no loss for your agent.
- If you are using a data file in your agent, please DO NOT
use pickle. The reason is that
pickle is sensitive
to the version number of all libraries involved and we cannot guarantee
that our servers will have the same versions used to save the file. We
cannot guarantee that your agent will behave normally
if you are using pickle. Recommended storage formats are
csv and json. For binary formats, check feather.
- As specified in Table 3 of the oneshot
description documnent, the distributions from which utility
functions are sampled can be changed without notice. Check this
discussion for an example case in which we reduced the range from
which the production costs are sampled. You can access all of the
utility function parameters directly through the
AWI.
Important Reminder You MUST submit
a 2-pages report of the agent by June 17th at 23:59
AoE. Failure to do so can result in immediate disqualification.
Please check the CFP
Page 3 (Academic report) for details about this requirement.
We thank our sponsors for supporting SCML:
- NEC-AIST AI Collaborative Research Laboratory
- BIRD Initiative
We also thank Brown University for hosting our website
(https://scml.cs.brown.edu)
On Behalf of the SCML Organizing Committee
yasser