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ML Engineering & MLOps Challenges
ML Engineering & MLOps challenges put you inside the work of getting models out of notebooks and into production. You'll develop skills in building ML Pipelines, Model Packaging and Model Deployment, and understanding the gap between Training vs Serving, while tracking work in MLflow.
From there you'll handle the harder edges — Model Monitoring, Drift detection & auto-retraining, Kubeflow pipelines, Edge Deployment, and ONNX optimization — running Weights & Biases experiment tracking and Production ML deployment the way real MLOps teams do. Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
- CodeSeniorNew
Video Action Recognition for a Retail Loss-Prevention Startup
Use a public action-recognition dataset (UCF101 + a small curated retail-action subset; the latter is provided synthetic or you can label 50 short clips). Fine-tune a small back…
- Video Understanding
- Action Recognition
- Transfer Learning
Computer Vision - CodeIntermediateNew
Forecasting Model for Online-Game Daily Active Users
Build forecasts at 14-day horizon per region using: (1) classical baseline — SARIMA or Prophet; (2) ML approach — gradient-boosted regressor on engineered features (day-of-week,…
- Supervised Learning
- Time Series Forecasting
- Python Programming
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - CodeSeniorNew
Train a 3D Object Detector for Highway Trucking
Use the nuScenes or Waymo Open Dataset (open access) as your training and evaluation source. Fine-tune a strong baseline (e.g., CenterPoint or BEVFusion) and define an evaluatio…
- 3d Object Detection
- Perception
- Pytorch
AI for Autonomous Vehicles - CodeBeginnerNew
Tune a Recommender for an EU Streaming Music App
Use the public Last.fm-360k or similar dataset (anonymized listening histories) as a stand-in. Implement a baseline matrix-factorization recommender, then a hybrid that adds tra…
- Recommender Systems
- Feature Engineering
- Model Evaluation
Applied Machine Learning Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cost-Model a Foundation-Model API Migration
You receive: 90 days of API logs (request volume, token distributions), the customer's golden eval set of 200 prompts, the incumbent and new pricing schedules, and quality ratin…
- Cost Modeling
- Ai Strategy
- Model Evaluation
AI for Business and AI Product Management - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Chest-X-Ray Deployment Audit Across Hospital Sites
You receive (1) a vendor-supplied multi-label chest-X-ray classifier, (2) the current single-site held-out evaluation set, (3) a 12,000-image multi-site evaluation set with 14-f…
- Medical Imaging
- Classification
- Model Evaluation
Machine Learning for Imaging and Medical Image Analysis - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design a Three-Tier Pricing Proposal for an Observability Startup
Using the anonymized customer export and the current-pricing memo in the provided materials, design a replacement pricing model and prove it pays. First, analyze the 80 customer…
- Pricing Strategy
- Packaging
- Financial Modeling
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
Brain-Tumor MRI Segmentation Bake-Off
You receive a curated public multi-modal MRI brain-tumor cohort (~600 patients, T1/T1c/T2/FLAIR with whole-tumor / tumor-core / enhancing-tumor masks). Train all three architect…
- Medical Imaging
- Segmentation
- Convolutional Neural Networks
Machine Learning for Imaging and Medical Image Analysis - Browse challenges
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Ship product that solves real user problems. Combine user research, prototyping, and stakeholder alignment to turn ambiguous briefs into measurable wins — the role at the centre of modern software teams.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Multi-View Pose Estimation for a Sports-Analytics Startup
Use the publicly-released SoccerNet or a synthetic 4-view dataset (you can render with Unity or use a provided one). Implement a 2D pose estimator per view (HRNet or YOLOv8-pose…
- Pose Estimation
- Multi View Geometry
- 3d Reconstruction
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Audit a Hiring-Screening Model for Demographic Bias
You receive: (a) inference API access to the production model (black-box), (b) a 12,000-resume audit benchmark with self-declared gender and age-band labels (consented, GDPR-com…
- Fairness Metrics
- Bias Auditing
- Model Evaluation
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Optimize Hyperparameters with Bayesian Optimization on a Tight Budget
You receive a B2B-SaaS churn dataset (about 12,000 customer-month rows, 38 features) and a fixed sweep budget of 40 trials per model family. Implement a Bayesian optimizer (Optu…
- Bayesian Optimization
- Hyperparameter Tuning
- Ensemble Methods
Advanced Machine Learning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Structured Prediction for Insurance Claim Triage
You receive 18,000 historical claims with text, attachments-count, claim amount, customer tenure, and the ground-truth final routing bucket. Train a structured classifier (e.g.,…
- Structured Prediction
- Multi Class Classification
- Model Evaluation
Advanced Machine Learning Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
Why Ewance
- CodeBeginnerNew
Reduce Dimensionality on Sensor Streams for a Mid-Cap Robotics OEM
You receive 120 robot-hours of windowed sensor data (5s windows, 240 channels) with labels for normal vs. one of four fault classes. Implement (1) PCA, (2) kernel PCA with an RB…
- Dimensionality Reduction
- Kernel Methods
- Autoencoders
Machine Learning - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Credit-Card Fraud Detector for a Singapore Neobank
You receive 9 months of anonymized authorization data (around 8 million transactions, around 0.4 percent fraud) plus current rule outcomes. Split temporally and train at least t…
- Classification Modeling
- Class Imbalance
- Model Calibration
AI and Quantitative Finance - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Detect Fraudulent Refund Requests for a Mid-Market Marketplace
You receive a labeled dataset with buyer history, seller history, shipping carrier, refund reason text, and outcome label (legit / fraud). Train and evaluate at least two classi…
- Classification
- Model Calibration
- Imbalanced Classification
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Classify Retail Product Photos for an E-Commerce Marketplace
Use a publicly-available product-image dataset (e.g., Fashion-MNIST extended, or a Kaggle e-commerce subset of around 10k images across 12 categories). Fine-tune a small pretrai…
- Image Classification
- Transfer Learning
- Pytorch
Computer Vision (Undergraduate) - ResearchSeniorNew
Audit a Production Model for Membership Inference Attacks
Use a black-box membership inference attack (e.g., the LiRA or shadow-model attack). You have query access to a sandboxed copy of the model + the original training data labels f…
- Membership Inference
- Privacy Attacks
- Model Evaluation
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Triage Medical-Imaging Annotations with a Small Vision Model
Train a binary normal/abnormal classifier on the public CheXpert or NIH ChestX-ray14 dataset. Use temperature scaling to calibrate the output, then define abstention thresholds …
- Image Classification
- Transfer Learning
- Calibration
Applied Machine Learning - CodeSeniorNew
Survival-Analysis Risk Model for an Oncology Decision-Support Pilot
You receive a curated public colorectal cancer cohort (about 9,000 patients, demographics, stage, grade, comorbidities, baseline labs, censored survival times). Fit (1) a Cox pr…
- Survival Analysis
- Risk Stratification
- Model Calibration
Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biomedicine - CodeIntermediateNew
Predict Loan Default Risk for a Cross-Border Fintech
You receive 18 months of transactions (around 12M rows) and seller-firmographic data. Define a defensible proxy label for default (e.g., a 60-day chargeback-or-dispute spike com…
- Feature Engineering
- Model Selection
- Model Evaluation
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Quantize a CNN for Battery-Powered Wildlife Cameras at a Climate Nonprofit
You receive an FP32 CNN (MobileNetV2 fine-tuned to 22 species, around 13 MB) and a hold-out test set of 4,000 images. Quantize to int8 (post-training quantization first, then qu…
- Quantization
- Qat
- Edge Deployment
Deep Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Containerized Model Inference on Kubernetes for a Fintech
You receive a pre-trained credit-risk model (a LightGBM model file) and a sample request payload. Containerize a FastAPI inference service, deploy to EKS or GKE (a single-zone c…
- Kubernetes
- Containerization
- Autoscaling
Cloud Computing for Data and ML - CodeIntermediateNew
Build an Ensemble Strategy for Marketing-Mix Modelling
You receive 36 months of weekly marketing-spend and outcome data for 8 sample brands. Build a per-brand baseline gradient-boosting MMM model, then build two more base learners (…
- Ensemble Methods
- Stacking
- Time Series Cv
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build an End-to-End ML Pipeline for Loan-Default Prediction
You receive 24 months of historical application + outcome data (about 380,000 rows). Build a pipeline using a workflow orchestrator (Prefect, Kedro, or a simple Makefile chain) …
- Ml Pipelines
- Feature Engineering
- Pipeline Testing
Open coursework
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Browse challenges aligned to your studies.
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Accept the one that fits your goals.
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