This year the first AI track for the popular Meta Hacker Cup programming competition, designed to assess the capabilities of Generative AI in performing autonomous code generation tasks is being run by NeurIPS.

It aims to test the limits of AI in complex coding challenges and measure the performance gap between AI systems and human programmers.

This lecture series is run in collaboration with the HAC organisers at PyTorch and Microsoft and aims to get participants up to speed on the challenge, how its structured and how to develop solutions to the challengeJoin the NeurIPS Hacker Cup Challenge discord here:
https://discord.gg/sVzKJU2T

August 12th 5pm CET/ 8am PST

Topic: Submit your first solution

Speaker: Thomas Capelle, Weights & Biases

August 13th 5pm CET/ 8am PST

Topic: AutoGen: Solving Complex Coding Challenges Using a Multi-Agent Framework 

Speakers: David Titsworth &  Andrzej Banburski-Fahey, Microsoft

August 14th 7pm CET/ 10am PST

Topic:  Reinforcement learning

Speaker: Vincent Moens, Meta

August 15th 5pm CET/ 8am PST

Topic:  SWEAgent

Speaker: Kilian Lieret, SWEAgent

August 21st 5pm CET/ 8am PST

Topic:  FineTuning

Speaker: Joe Cummings, TorchTune

August 27th 5pm CET/ 8am PST

Topic:  DsPy

Speakers: Krista Opsahl-Ong & Omar Khattab, DsPy

August 28th 5pm CET/ 8am PST

Topic:  RAG

Speaker: Bharat Ramanathan, Weights & Biases