We’re excited to offer both monetary prizes and academic exposure opportunities to recognize outstanding submissions to MMU-RAG.
💰 Prize Pool
Thanks to the support of Amazon, MMU-RAG offers a $10,000 prize pool in AWS credits. Prizes will be awarded to top-performing teams across both tracks.
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Final prize breakdown across tracks and leaderboard categories (e.g., open-source vs. mixed systems) will be announced closer to the submission deadline.
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All prize-winning teams will receive AWS credits for further research and development.
🎤 Present at NeurIPS
Top teams will also be invited to present their systems during the MMU-RAG competition session at NeurIPS 2025. This is a unique opportunity to share with the community!
- Share your methodology and insights with the NeurIPS community
- Gain academic visibility and feedback
- Build connections with researchers and practitioners in retrieval-augmented generation and multimodal AI
🥇 Evaluation and Eligibility
Submissions will be ranked using:
- Automatic metrics
- LLM-as-a-judge evaluations
- Real-time user feedback from our RAG-Arena
Prize eligibility requires:
- Full system reproducibility
- Clear documentation of all components, including retrieval pipelines, corpora, and generation methods
Refer to our submissions guidelines [link to submission guidelines] for more information.