Submission + - Baidu forced to withdraw last month's ImageNet test results
elwinc writes: Back in mid-May, Baidu, a computer research and services organization in Mainland China, announced impressive results on the ImageNet "Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge," besting results posted by Google and Microsoft.
Turns out, Baidu gamed the system, creating 30 accounts and running far more than the 2 tests per week allowed in the contest.
Having been caught cheating, Baidu has been banned for a year from the challenge. I believe all competitors are using variations on the convolutional neural network, AKA deep network. Running the test dozens of times per week might allow a competitor to pre-tune parameters for the particular problem, thus producing results that might not generalize to other problems. All of which makes it quite ironic that a Baidu scientist crowed Our company is now leading the race in computer intelligence!
