Meet ERNIE 5, ERNIE 4.5 Open-source Series, and PaddleOCR here!

This challenge invites developers to innovate with ERNIE & PaddlePaddle's cutting-edge capabilities, pushing the limits of model customization and real-world applications.

LLaMA-Factory, Unsloth, Novita AI, CAMEL-AI, D-Robotics have partnered with Baidu to bring you this challenge. Your mission is to leverage the unique capabilities of ERNIE & PaddlePaddle to build intelligent and creative solutions. build a practical robot or creative application, fine-tune the model effectively to make it unique, or push the limits of model inference and deployment in the most imaginative and impactful ways. 

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Requirements

WHAT TO BUILD

We offer a range of tasks from beginner-friendly warm-ups to model and application development tasks. Just submit your project under one or more of the following tasks. 

Warm-up Task
  • Web Builder: Build a Web Page with PaddleOCR & ERNIE
    • For all participants who use PaddleOCR-VL to extract text and layout from a PDF, convert the content into Markdown, then use ERNIE model to generate a web page, and finally deploy it on GitHub Pages. 
Model-Building Tasks
  • Best ERNIE Fine-Tune using Unsloth: 
    • For the best fine-tuned ERNIE model created using Unsloth, optimized for a specific, impactful task.
  • Best ERNIE Fine-Tune using LLaMA-Factory: 
    • For the best fine-tuned ERNIE model created using LLaMA-Factory, optimized for a specific, impactful task.
  • Best PaddleOCR-VL Fine-Tune: 
    • For the best fine-tuned PaddleOCR-VL model created, optimized for a specific, impactful task.
 
Application-Building Tasks

Build an innovative application powered by ERNIE/PaddleOCR and their ecosystem partners, choose your application theme and technology stack from the following directions:

 
  • Best ERNIE Multimodal Application
    • For the best ERNIE Multimodal Application using Baidu AI Studio API
  • Best ERNIE Multimodal Application 
    • For the best ERNIE Multimodal Application using Novita API
  • Best in Edge AI & Robotics
    • For the best Edge AI & Robotics Applications integrating ERNIE/PaddleOCR with the D-Robotics RDK X5 dev kit.
  • Best Agent System
    • For the best Multi-agent Systems built on ERNIE/PaddleOCR and the CAMEL-AI framework to tackle complex real-world problems.

 

WHAT TO SUBMIT

The Warm-up Task offers a completion reward, while other tasks will each select 2–3 winners. In addition to the Warm-up Reward, each entrant can win only one main prize.

Warm-up Task
  • The deployed web page generated from your PDF, hosted on GitHub Pages.
Model-Building Tasks
  • The URL to the open-sourced fine-tuned model weights.
  • The URL to the code repository containing your fine-tuning code, including training data, hyperparameters, prompt, training strategy and techniques, and a clear README file.
  • A text description that explain the features and functionality of your Project.
  • A demonstration video of your Project (≤5 minutes), instructional for ERNIE/PaddleOCR training and fully showcasing fine-tuned model performance.
Application-Building Tasks
  • The URL to the functional demo application.
  • The URL to the code repository with your full application source code / robotics code and integration, and a clear README file.
  • A text description that explain the features and functionality of your Project.
  • A demonstration video of your Project (≤5 minutes), showing the application scenario, key features, technical approach, and introducing the author/team.

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Prizes

$10,000+ in prizes
+ other prizes
Warm-up Reward
10,000 winners

Certificate and Baidu AI Studio 10 Million Tokens

Best ERNIE Fine-Tune using Unsloth
$1,000 in cash
3 winners

Best ERNIE Fine-Tune using LlamaFactory
$1,000 in cash
3 winners

Best PaddleOCR-VL Fine-Tune
$1,000 in cash
3 winners

Best ERNIE Multimodal Application | Powered by Baidu AI Studio
$500 in cash
2 winners

Best ERNIE Multimodal Application | Sponsored by Novita - 1st Place
1 winner

$1,000 Novita Voucher and Ambassador title

Best Agent System | Sponsored by CAMEL-AI - 1st Place
1 winner

1-year Eigent Pro Plan (ARV $999.90)

Best ERNIE Multimodal Application | Sponsored by Novita - 2nd Place
1 winner

$700 Novita Voucher and Ambassador title

Best Agent System | Sponsored by CAMEL-AI - 2nd Place
1 winner

6-month Eigent Pro Plan (ARV $499.9)

Best ERNIE Multimodal Application | Sponsored by Novita - 3rd Place
1 winner

$300 Novita Voucher and Ambassador title

Best in Edge AI & Robotics | Sponsored by D-Robotics - 2nd Place
1 winner

1 D-Robotics Dev Board worth about $1,000

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Jun Zhang

Jun Zhang
Baidu

Ting Liu

Ting Liu
Baidu

Daniel Han

Daniel Han
Unsloth

Zhangchi Feng

Zhangchi Feng
LLaMA-Factory

Wendong Fan

Wendong Fan
CAMEL-AI / Eigent

Viktor Hu

Viktor Hu
Novita

Lisa Li

Lisa Li
D-Robotics

Leon Liuzx

Leon Liuzx
Baidu

Yiran Ren

Yiran Ren
Baidu

Ziyu Zhang

Ziyu Zhang
Baidu

Youzhi Yang

Youzhi Yang
Baidu

Judging Criteria

  • Application of the model
    Does the project apply the models in an effective way, fitting with the categories? Can other models do the same thing, or does the project showcase the strengths of the models uniquely?
  • Potential Impact
    How big of an impact could the project have for its intended audience? How big of an impact could it have beyond the target community and the rest of the world?
  • Creativity of the Idea
    How creative and unique is the project? Does the concept exist already? If so, how much does the project improve on it?
  • Documentation Quality
    How well is the model/application documented for the submission?
  • Demo Video Quality
    Does the video clearly demonstrate the functionality and core features of the model/application, showing how it works and what problems it solves?

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