2022/03/24

• UPSTAGE WINS KAGGLE GOLD MEDAL FOR SECOND 'AI OLYMPICS' THIS YEAR... 8TH PLACE OUT OF 2,060 TEAMS WORLDWIDE

• THE FIRST DOMESTIC COMPANY TO WIN 10 GOLD MEDALS IN KAGGLE COMPETITIONS… A YEAR AND A HALF AFTER FOUNDING, RANKS AMONG THE TOP AI COMPANIES

• “INCLUDING THE GLOBAL TOP 20 AI EXPERTS, WE WILL NURTURE THE BEST TALENT THROUGH THE GLOBAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM”

(Upstage=2022/3/24) At the 'AI Olympics' Kaggle competition, Korea's representative AI startup Upstage won the 10th gold medal and established itself as the best AI technology company.

Upstage (https://www.upstage.ai/) announced on the 24th that it won the second gold medal this year by placing 8th in the Kaggle Competition at Georgia State University. With this gold medal, Upstage achieved the feat of winning the 10th gold medal in a year and a half since its founding.

KAGGLE IS A DATA EXPERT COMMUNITY OWNED BY GOOGLE AND THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS ONLINE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) CONTEST PLATFORM WITH 9 MILLION PARTICIPANTS FROM 200 COUNTRIES. THE RANKING CONSISTS OF FIVE GRADES: GRANDMASTER, MASTER, EXPERT, CONTRIBUTOR, AND NOVICE. THE RANKING AND RATING ARE BASED ON THE RESULTS OF A CONTEST THAT SOLVES PROBLEMS OF VARIOUS COMPANIES WITH AI. 

This contest is the 'Feedback Prize - Evaluating Student Writing' contest hosted by Georgia State University in the US. It is an AI evaluation model that evaluates the structure of writing and provides personalized feedback to help students improve their writing skills. A challenge was conducted with the goal of creating In this competition, which took place for about three months from December last year, 2,060 teams participated and competed in AI technology.

The contest presents 10,000 articles written by middle and high school students as data for three months, and evaluates the consistency of the model that divides the content of each paragraph into seven structures: subject, position, argument and reverse argument, rebuttal, argument, and conclusion. proceeded in a way. 

THE UPSTAGE TEAM IMPROVED THE MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE BY FURTHER UPGRADING THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING MODEL TO INCREASE THE CONSISTENCY OF TEXT STRUCTURE EVALUATION, ACHIEVING THE 8TH PLACE RESULT. UNDERSTANDING THE ORDER OF WORDS IS VERY IMPORTANT IN RECOGNIZING TEXT STRUCTURE, AND THE AI'S ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE THE LOCATION OF WORDS HAS BEEN STRENGTHENED SO THAT IT CAN ANALYZE LONG SENTENCES THAT EXISTING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING MODELS COULD NOT. IN ADDITION, THE TEAM FURTHER RAISED THE COHERENCE OF STRUCTURAL EVALUATION BY LIMITING THE AI MODEL TO DISTINGUISH SPECIFIC STRUCTURES SUCH AS INTRODUCTION, POSITION, AND CONCLUSION ONLY ONCE IN THE TEXT.

Upstage became the first Korean company to boast of its 10th gold medal by winning the gold medal in this competition. This is an achievement achieved in less than a year and a half since its establishment in October 20, 2020. The Kaggle double-digit gold medal is a record held by leading global AI companies such as Nvidia and H2O.ai, which means that Upstage will stand shoulder to shoulder with top AI technology companies. The gold medal qualification for the Kaggle Competition is generally in such a way that 10 teams are awarded in the event of more than 1000 teams participating, and the number of winners increases according to the number of additional participating teams.

UPSTAGE HAS ALREADY PROVEN ITS BEST AI TECHNOLOGY IN KOREA BY WINNING THE GOLD MEDAL IN THE FIRST KAGGLE COMPETITION IN JANUARY THIS YEAR, AND HAVING TWO OF KAGGLE'S TOP 20 GRANDMASTERS.

In particular, this year's gold medals such as Grand Master Kim Yun-su, who won the gold medal in January, and Masters Won-ho Song, Hyun-byeong Park, and Ik-hyo Jeong, the protagonists of this gold medal, are all achievements made through the upstage AI talent nurturing program, Global Residency, so it is more meaningful. Big. Upstage Global Residency is a program that builds practical skills related to AI technology development while experiencing real-world field experiences through mentoring by upstage incumbent experts.

KAGGLE GRANDMASTER 18TH IN THE WORLD AND LEADER SANGHOON KIM, WHO LEADS THE UPSTAGE CHALLENGES TEAM, SAID, “I AM VERY HAPPY TO HAVE WON THE 10TH GOLD MEDAL AT THE KAGGLE COMPETITION WHERE WORLD-CLASS DATA SCIENTISTS PARTICIPATE. THROUGH THE RESIDENCY PROGRAM, WE WILL NURTURE THE BEST TALENT AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BEST PERFORMING AI PACK.”

In addition to winning the Kaggle Competition, Upstage developed an 'AI Pack' that can easily apply the latest AI technology to various industries based on its AI technology leadership proven by papers presented at international AI conferences such as NeurlPS, AAAI, ACL, and EMNLP. , plans to launch in the second half of this year. 

Upstage's 'AI Pack' includes AI technologies such as OCR technology that can extract and use desired information from images, high-performance natural language processing technology that can search for information with similar meaning, and recommendation technology that takes customer information and product and service characteristics into consideration. It is a one-stop solution that helps you to use the Through Upstage's 'AI Pack', customers can always use the latest AI technology in the field through continuous updates as well as data processing and AI modeling.

Contact

Upstage | Geun-Kyo Kim, PR Director | 010-8229-7240 | keunkyo@upstage.ai

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