The graph neural networking challenge: a worldwide competition for education in AI/ML for networks - Inria - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue Computer Communication Review Année : 2021

The graph neural networking challenge: a worldwide competition for education in AI/ML for networks

François Schnitzler
Jia Lei Du
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

During the last decade, Machine Learning (ML) has increasingly become a hot topic in the field of Computer Networks and is expected to be gradually adopted for a plethora of control, monitoring and management tasks in real-world deployments. This poses the need to count on new generations of students, researchers and practitioners with a solid background in ML applied to networks. During 2020, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has organized the "ITU AI/ML in 5G challenge", an open global competition that has introduced to a broad audience some of the current main challenges in ML for networks. This large-scale initiative has gathered 23 different challenges proposed by network operators, equipment manufacturers and academia, and has attracted a total of 1300+ participants from 60+ countries. This paper narrates our experience organizing one of the proposed challenges: the "Graph Neural Networking Challenge 2020". We describe the problem presented to participants, the tools and resources provided, some organization aspects and participation statistics, an outline of the top-3 awarded solutions, and a summary with some lessons learned during all this journey. As a result, this challenge leaves a curated set of educational resources openly available to anyone interested in the topic.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
paper.pdf (487.47 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origine : Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s)

Dates et versions

hal-03346696 , version 1 (16-09-2021)

Identifiants

Citer

José Suárez-Varela, Miquel Ferriol-Galmés, Albert López, Paul Almasan, Guillermo Bernárdez, et al.. The graph neural networking challenge: a worldwide competition for education in AI/ML for networks. Computer Communication Review, 2021, 51 (3), pp.9-16. ⟨10.1145/3477482.3477485⟩. ⟨hal-03346696⟩
84 Consultations
197 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More