2b or not 2b ? Custom LLM Scheduling Competition [P]

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Summary

A Kaggle competition challenges participants to build a scheduler that decides whether to run a 2B-parameter model on MMLU questions to minimize a weighted cost based on compute and accuracy trade-offs.

Hey everyone, I am generally interested in resource management and notably reducing the token cost for a given answer. So I just launched a Kaggle competition around a simple question: whether you should run a small model or not. I plan to add more model over time for better decision making. Here is the competition: [https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/llm-scheduling-competition](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/llm-scheduling-competition) The idea: * You get questions from the MMLU benchmark * Instead of answering them, you decide: * `2b` → run a small model * `none` → skip it Then there is a **cost-based metric**: * running the model costs compute * running it when it fails is expensive * skipping when it would have worked is also penalized So the goal is to **minimise weighted cost**. Currently the set up is quite simple as the cost to run your model is no taken into account. Still it might be a first step in the right direction. Curious to see what people come up with—rules, classifiers, or something more creative. Happy to discuss ideas or answer questions!
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