ARC Prize 2026 - Paper Track
Document your conceptual approach for the ARC Prize 2026
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Open the competition on Kaggle↗
Open the competition on Kaggle↗- Effort
- 25–80 hours
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Compute
- No compute
- Scoring
- Judged
At a glance
Full rules ↗- Scoring
- “Each criterion is scored on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 5 (highest)…” The official page's words
- Teams
- Up to 8 per team
- Submitting
- Up to 5 a day
- Host
- Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus
Is it for you?
Prepare before joining
Beginner fit18/100
Learning value68/100
Who it suits
Researchers or strong technical writers who want to document a conceptual ARC Prize approach rather than compete mainly through model training or leaderboard iteration.
What makes it hard
The deliverable is closer to a research proposal or paper than a standard prediction submission. Success depends on clear reasoning-system design, novelty, evidence, and written argument quality.
Getting started
Skills to bring
- technical writing
- familiarity with ARC-style reasoning tasks
- ability to explain experimental design
- basic benchmark evaluation literacy
From the organizer
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