{
  "id": 454799,
  "title": "You know something fishy is going on with the submission if...",
  "url": "/competitions/blood-vessel-segmentation/discussion/454799",
  "author_name": "DennisSakva",
  "post_date": "2023-11-11T19:53:42.643000",
  "votes": 8,
  "comment_count": 9,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>…it's been four days since the competition started and only two people managed to submit something else than sample_submission. No matter what I try, I keep getting the dreaded 'Submission Scoring Error,' and there's no way to debug it.<br>\nReplacing data in the sample_submission doesn't work.<br>\nCreating a new submission.csv from scratch with predictions sorted by slice doesn't work.<br>\nMy submission.csv looks pretty unremarkable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F349155%2Fee72d0ebb18f9c49ac98e12bd70fdc50%2Fsubmission.png?generation=1699731798183696&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>Do the images in the hidden test dataset have the same format, the same number of channels ? Are they more or less the same size? Are the file names/folders formatted in the same way? Maybe there are some *.tiff files instead of .tif?</p>\n<p>I'm out of ideas.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 2521544,
      "postDate": "2023-11-11T19:53:42.643Z",
      "content": "<p>…it's been four days since the competition started and only two people managed to submit something else than sample_submission. No matter what I try, I keep getting the dreaded 'Submission Scoring Error,' and there's no way to debug it.<br>\nReplacing data in the sample_submission doesn't work.<br>\nCreating a new submission.csv from scratch with predictions sorted by slice doesn't work.<br>\nMy submission.csv looks pretty unremarkable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F349155%2Fee72d0ebb18f9c49ac98e12bd70fdc50%2Fsubmission.png?generation=1699731798183696&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>Do the images in the hidden test dataset have the same format, the same number of channels ? Are they more or less the same size? Are the file names/folders formatted in the same way? Maybe there are some *.tiff files instead of .tif?</p>\n<p>I'm out of ideas.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "...it's been four days since the competition started and only two people managed to submit something else than sample_submission. No matter what I try, I keep getting the dreaded 'Submission Scoring Error,' and there's no way to debug it.\nReplacing data in the sample_submission doesn't work.\nCreating a new submission.csv from scratch with predictions sorted by slice doesn't work.\nMy submission.csv looks pretty unremarkable.\n\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F349155%2Fee72d0ebb18f9c49ac98e12bd70fdc50%2Fsubmission.png?generation=1699731798183696&alt=media)\n\nDo the images in the hidden test dataset have the same format, the same number of channels ? Are they more or less the same size? Are the file names/folders formatted in the same way? Maybe there are some *.tiff files instead of .tif?\n\nI'm out of ideas.",
      "votes": 8
    },
    {
      "id": 2522090,
      "postDate": "2023-11-12T11:30:48.940Z",
      "content": "<p>Same problem here. This is what I have tried so far: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/code/clemchris/test-submission/notebook\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/code/clemchris/test-submission/notebook</a>. Will run more tests tomorrow</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Same problem here. This is what I have tried so far: https://www.kaggle.com/code/clemchris/test-submission/notebook. Will run more tests tomorrow",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2522119,
          "postDate": "2023-11-12T11:57:54.100Z",
          "content": "<p>Excellent experiments clem-chris! Will try to use sample_submission.csv as a source of file names next, probably. </p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Excellent experiments clem-chris! Will try to use sample_submission.csv as a source of file names next, probably. ",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 2523059,
              "postDate": "2023-11-13T08:12:09.473Z",
              "content": "<p>I added one more test and can confirm that the \"1 0\" mask is the problem</p>",
              "rawMarkdown": "I added one more test and can confirm that the \"1 0\" mask is the problem",
              "votes": 1
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2521559,
      "postDate": "2023-11-11T20:02:54.053Z",
      "content": "<p>Facing the same issue. I was getting the submission scoring error whatever I’ve tried :( </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Facing the same issue. I was getting the submission scoring error whatever I’ve tried :( ",
      "votes": 1
    },
    {
      "id": 2572177,
      "postDate": "2023-12-24T01:20:53.307Z",
      "content": "<p>New to this competition，anyone solved it？😤</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "New to this competition，anyone solved it？😤"
    },
    {
      "id": 2523080,
      "postDate": "2023-11-13T08:26:06.543Z",
      "content": "<p>Ho-ho-hooo… Apparently, a bug in the submission validation code considers an empty prediction mask incorrect prediction and gives \" 'Submission Scoring Error'. The current workaround of submitting 1 1 is sub-optimal as it introduces a spurious pixel which is penalized by the metric.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Ho-ho-hooo... Apparently, a bug in the submission validation code considers an empty prediction mask incorrect prediction and gives \" 'Submission Scoring Error'. The current workaround of submitting 1 1 is sub-optimal as it introduces a spurious pixel which is penalized by the metric.",
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2523145,
          "postDate": "2023-11-13T09:56:57.120Z",
          "content": "<p>I was curious about that too, so I experimented a bit.<br>\nI used train_rle.csv to calculate metrics for the first 300 slices of kidney_1_dense.<br>\nWhen the empty_mask rle was changed from \"1 0\" to \"1 1\", the score dropped just slightly.<br>\n<strong>1.0 → 0.9997</strong></p>\n<p>I really hope that the host will soon respond to this issue, because I am sure that I will be penalized. However, changing to \"1 1\" should not shift the score that much, so if you want to know the rough LB, I think this measure is currently sufficient.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "I was curious about that too, so I experimented a bit.\nI used train_rle.csv to calculate metrics for the first 300 slices of kidney_1_dense.\nWhen the empty_mask rle was changed from \"1 0\" to \"1 1\", the score dropped just slightly.\n**1.0 → 0.9997**\n\nI really hope that the host will soon respond to this issue, because I am sure that I will be penalized. However, changing to \"1 1\" should not shift the score that much, so if you want to know the rough LB, I think this measure is currently sufficient.",
          "votes": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2521809,
      "postDate": "2023-11-12T05:19:12.377Z",
      "rawMarkdown": "",
      "votes": -2,
      "isDeleted": true,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2521897,
          "postDate": "2023-11-12T06:57:00.230Z",
          "content": "<p>Oh, wow. That's an unorthodox view for a competition grandmaster. To drop the problem just because of some technical difficulties? How else would you develop your problem-solving skills, then? You won't learn much just by reading.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Oh, wow. That's an unorthodox view for a competition grandmaster. To drop the problem just because of some technical difficulties? How else would you develop your problem-solving skills, then? You won't learn much just by reading.",
          "votes": 4
        }
      ]
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 2522090,
      "author_name": "clem-chris",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2023-11-12T11:30:48.940000",
      "content": "<p>Same problem here. This is what I have tried so far: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/code/clemchris/test-submission/notebook\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/code/clemchris/test-submission/notebook</a>. Will run more tests tomorrow</p>",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2522119,
          "author_name": "DennisSakva",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2023-11-12T11:57:54.100000",
          "content": "<p>Excellent experiments clem-chris! Will try to use sample_submission.csv as a source of file names next, probably. </p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 2523059,
              "author_name": "clem-chris",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "2023-11-13T08:12:09.473000",
              "content": "<p>I added one more test and can confirm that the \"1 0\" mask is the problem</p>",
              "votes": 1,
              "replies": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2521559,
      "author_name": "Igor Krashenyi",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2023-11-11T20:02:54.053000",
      "content": "<p>Facing the same issue. I was getting the submission scoring error whatever I’ve tried :( </p>",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2572177,
      "author_name": "Seeing Times",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2023-12-24T01:20:53.307000",
      "content": "<p>New to this competition，anyone solved it？😤</p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2523080,
      "author_name": "DennisSakva",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2023-11-13T08:26:06.543000",
      "content": "<p>Ho-ho-hooo… Apparently, a bug in the submission validation code considers an empty prediction mask incorrect prediction and gives \" 'Submission Scoring Error'. The current workaround of submitting 1 1 is sub-optimal as it introduces a spurious pixel which is penalized by the metric.</p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2523145,
          "author_name": "YumeNeko",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2023-11-13T09:56:57.120000",
          "content": "<p>I was curious about that too, so I experimented a bit.<br>\nI used train_rle.csv to calculate metrics for the first 300 slices of kidney_1_dense.<br>\nWhen the empty_mask rle was changed from \"1 0\" to \"1 1\", the score dropped just slightly.<br>\n<strong>1.0 → 0.9997</strong></p>\n<p>I really hope that the host will soon respond to this issue, because I am sure that I will be penalized. However, changing to \"1 1\" should not shift the score that much, so if you want to know the rough LB, I think this measure is currently sufficient.</p>",
          "votes": 5,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2521809,
      "author_name": "",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2023-11-12T05:19:12.377000",
      "content": "",
      "votes": -2,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2521897,
          "author_name": "DennisSakva",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2023-11-12T06:57:00.230000",
          "content": "<p>Oh, wow. That's an unorthodox view for a competition grandmaster. To drop the problem just because of some technical difficulties? How else would you develop your problem-solving skills, then? You won't learn much just by reading.</p>",
          "votes": 4,
          "replies": []
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    "2521544": "...it's been four days since the competition started and only two people managed to submit something else than sample_submission. No matter what I try, I keep getting the dreaded 'Submission Scoring Error,' and there's no way to debug it.\nReplacing data in the sample_submission doesn't work.\nCreating a new submission.csv from scratch with predictions sorted by slice doesn't work.\nMy submission.csv looks pretty unremarkable.\n\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F349155%2Fee72d0ebb18f9c49ac98e12bd70fdc50%2Fsubmission.png?generation=1699731798183696&alt=media)\n\nDo the images in the hidden test dataset have the same format, the same number of channels ? Are they more or less the same size? Are the file names/folders formatted in the same way? Maybe there are some *.tiff files instead of .tif?\n\nI'm out of ideas.",
    "2522090": "Same problem here. This is what I have tried so far: https://www.kaggle.com/code/clemchris/test-submission/notebook. Will run more tests tomorrow",
    "2521559": "Facing the same issue. I was getting the submission scoring error whatever I’ve tried :( ",
    "2572177": "New to this competition，anyone solved it？😤",
    "2523080": "Ho-ho-hooo... Apparently, a bug in the submission validation code considers an empty prediction mask incorrect prediction and gives \" 'Submission Scoring Error'. The current workaround of submitting 1 1 is sub-optimal as it introduces a spurious pixel which is penalized by the metric.",
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