Hello, Codeforces!
From the ICPC 2023 World Finals, we are happy to bring you an exciting online event: The ICPC 2023 Online Challenge powered by Huawei，which will start on November 20, 2023 15:00 UTC (UTC+8)
In this Challenge, you will have a unique chance:
- to compete with top programmers globally
- to solve 1 exciting problem prepared by Huawei
- to win amazing prizes from Huawei!
It is an individual competition.
The ICPC 2023 Online Challenge powered by Huawei:
Start: November 20, 2023 15:00 (UTC+8)
Finish: December 4, 2023 15:00 (UTC+8)
We hope you'll enjoy this complex yet very exciting Challenge!
Problem
We are glad to propose to you an exciting challenge “Deterministic Scheduling for Extended Reality over 5G and Beyond”, which is prepared by Huawei Wireless Product Line.
In this contest, we focus on a XR-service scheduling problem to maximize the total number of successfully transformed XR-data frames under specific transmission requirements. Extended reality (XR) is an umbrella term for different types of realities such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), which can provide people with immersive experience. To achieve better user-experience, scheduling algorithm should be proposed to efficiently utilize the limited radio resources, e.g., time resource, frequency resource, and power resource. Due to several practical constraints, the scheduling task is a typical NP-hard problem.
Prizes from Huawei
| Rank | Prize | |
| Grand Prize (Rank 1) | € 12 000 EUR + the travel trip to the 48th Annual ICPC World Finals in a guest role | |
| First Prize (Rank 2-10) | € 6,000 EUR | |
| Second Prize (Rank 11-30) | € 3,000 EUR | |
| Third Prize (Rank 31-60): | € 800 EUR | |
| TOP 200 Participants | Souvenir T-shirt | |
| * If for any reason, Huawei cannot deliver the allocated prize to your region, the prize may be replaced by another prize (if no legal restrictions), at the discretion of the Huawei.. | ||
Challenge Rules and Conditions
By participating in this Challenge, you agree to the Challenge Rules and Conditions of Participation
Good luck, we hope this will be fun!
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O_O
is it rated?
ask while knowing the answer
As a specialist, should I even try?
Do you lose anything by trying?
Well, I suppose not. But it might not be as helpful as normal contests if the problems are much harder than what I can solve
1 impossible chinese problem o_o
yes. If you get a good placement, you can even get money
Definitely. This competition is much different from the regular "speedforces", since you will be working on a single (but hard problem) for 2 weeks, iterating on it finding better approximations (instead of exact solutions). You will have time to research and possibly learn many new things. I have seen in the previous competition some people performing really well having "low" rating, or unranked.
Here an on-going pupil registered for the contest ^^
I hope to be specialist by that day tho.
so many awards!
o.O
It's such a great chance to improve and have fun!
Especially working accompanied by the best players in the world.
nice! can't wait XD
how many do usually attempt this? i just want a t-shirt :D
That's the last round, prizes were almost the same: https://codeforces.com/contest/1813/standings
The rounds before had even less participants, probably because the problem statement was longer and harder to understand.
._. yea time for me to have a skill issue
So true, same
wait is this rated
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nvm its probably not rated
can you explain some information about this contest please
its an contest sponsored by huawei it includes 1 singular problem which is NP-Hard im probably not the best at explaining this but NP-Hard is on the difficulty of the Turing Halting Problem (non-deterministic polynomial-time hard)
Thanks bro
great!!
Will be there an additional mirror for Huawei employees, like the previous time?
Dear participant, Thank you for your interest in our contest. Unfortunately, this time additional mirror for Huawei employees is not provided.
Waku waku!
be far ahead!
there is any certificate for the participants ?
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hmmmmm it still says post-world finals in the contest page
Jiangly will win the championship.
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How hard is this problem gonna be lol?
Is it rated?
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Enjoy the contest!
我嘞个豆，精神大爆发 I'm chinese,I'm proud!!! 华为太帅了（
Why don't they provide Chinese questions for such competitions every time? Is it difficult to do two sets of questions? Isn't Huawei a Chinese company?
yoooo!!
Hi, I am very green to codeforces, I have read the guidelines but I just want to make sure that I am eligible. I am senior communications engineering student. Also, to fellow codeforces users like me who have or haven't participated in a huawei challenge like this before I want to ask: "is it worth it? Should I even try or I am way out the league of most participants? Also, what is is it gonna be like ? How should i prepare"
What to do if you are already registered, but do not want to participate
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Is it enough to only set your Codeforces email the same as your ICPC email to be eligible for prizes?
Will there be system test based on hidden test set like in the previous contest, or will the leaderboard be the final results?
Update: Looks like Huawei just published an announcement that addresses this
good question!
"Why few people participating?"
is there any penalty for WA?
I submitted the code a dozen times yesterday, but they were all been wrong. Today I was told that the problem is the space at the end of a line, which is too stupid.
Same, I submitted a solution at 00:10:48 that would've gotten 1000 points and put me at first place but it got WA :skull:
Why did you put me minus((?
WOW
Hello Codeforces
Yes.
look at this bot's submissions. maybe you can do something? ban for example https://codeforces.com/submissions/Wizst
looks difficult to me..is it?