📜 Competition Rules

Welcome to the Embodied Agent Interface Challenge @ NeurIPS 2025!
To ensure fairness, transparency, and reproducibility, all participants must adhere to the following rules.

✅ Eligibility

• Open to all individuals and teams worldwide — including students, academics, and industry practitioners.
• No restrictions based on geography or affiliation.
• Multiple teams from the same institution are allowed but must submit independent entries.

👥 Team Participation

• Participants can join individually or as part of a team.
• Each team must designate a primary contact for communications.

📦 Submission Formats

All interfaces and submission formats are detailed in the Participate page.

📈 Submission Limits

• A maximum of 10 submissions per team per day during the development phase
• This limit helps avoid leaderboard overfitting and ensures fair resource usage

🏁 Final Evaluation Phase

• The final leaderboard will be based on performance on a hidden test set unavailable to participants.
• No manual tuning, hard-coding, or test set engineering allowed

🔁 Reproducibility

To qualify for final ranking and awards:

• Submissions must include all code, dependencies, and setup files
• Top teams’ submissions will be re-executed by organizers to verify results
• Models must be fully automated and deterministic

🌍 Use of External Resources

• You may use external datasets or models if:
  • They were publicly available before the competition launch
  • They are clearly cited in your final write-up

🚫 Disallowed Practices

Violations will result in disqualification. These include:

• Using manually labeled outputs on test sets
• Hard-coding answers or exploiting leaderboard feedback
• Leaking or reverse-engineering the hidden test set
• Submitting outputs that do not generalize to new inputs

⚖️ Ethics & Conduct

All participants must follow the NeurIPS Code of Ethics, including principles of:

• Fairness
• Transparency
• Safety
• Responsible AI development