🎉 The Algonauts 2025 Challenge is Now Online!
Image credit: Algonauts ProjectThe Algonauts Project 2025 Challenge is now live! This year’s challenge invites researchers to predict human brain responses to complex multimodal movies using state-of-the-art computational models.
Challenge Overview
The 2025 edition leverages the largest dataset of human brain responses to naturalistic movies in collaboration with the Courtois Project on Neuronal Modelling (CNeuroMod). This challenge promotes innovation in neuroscience and machine learning by focusing on out-of-distribution generalization, fostering robust and generalizable brain encoding models.
Participants will test their models through the Codabench platform, with transparent and comparable results via a public leaderboard. Winners will present their findings at the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) 2025, held in Amsterdam.
📅 Important Dates
- Model building phase: January 6th, 2025 – July 6th, 2025
- Model selection phase: July 6th, 2025 – July 13th, 2025
- Report/code submission deadline: July 25th, 2025
- Results announcement: August 5th, 2025
- Session at CCN 2025: August 12th–13th, 2025
🔗 Key Resources
- Challenge Website
- Challenge Paper
- CNeuroMod
- Codabench Submission Page
- Development Kit Tutorial Video
- Challenge Overview Video
🎥 Videos
- Introduction to the Algonauts 2025 Challenge: Watch here
- Development Kit Tutorial: Watch here
- Codabench Submission Walkthrough: Watch here
🏆 Prizes
- Gold (1st place): €7,500 and up to €1,500 reimbursement for travel/conference registration.
- Silver (2nd place): €5,000.
- Bronze (3rd place): €3,000.
Top entries will present their models during a talk at CCN 2025 in Amsterdam.
Join the challenge today and help push the boundaries of neuroscience and machine learning!
For inquiries, visit the Codabench Forum or contact algonauts.mit@gmail.com.