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\nNew to Kaggle? Take a look at a few videos to learn a bit more about site etiquette, Kaggle lingo, and how to enter a competition using Kaggle Notebooks. Publish and share your models on Kaggle Models (and request to have them made public)!
\nLooking for a team? Express your interest in joining a team through our Team Up feature.
\nRemember: Kaggle is for everyone. Whether you're teaming up or sharing tips in the competition forum, we expect everyone to follow our Kaggle community guidelines.
", "messages": [ { "id": "3140754", "postDate": "03/04/2025 23:14:36", "content": "New to machine learning and data science? No question is too basic or too simple. Feel free to start your own thread, or use this thread as a place to post any first-timer clarifying questions for the Kaggle community to help you with!
\nNew to Kaggle? Take a look at a few videos to learn a bit more about site etiquette, Kaggle lingo, and how to enter a competition using Kaggle Notebooks. Publish and share your models on Kaggle Models (and request to have them made public)!
\nLooking for a team? Express your interest in joining a team through our Team Up feature.
\nRemember: Kaggle is for everyone. Whether you're teaming up or sharing tips in the competition forum, we expect everyone to follow our Kaggle community guidelines.
", "rawMarkdown": "**New to machine learning and data science?** No question is too basic or too simple. Feel free to start your own thread, or use this thread as a place to post any first-timer clarifying questions for the Kaggle community to help you with!\n\n**New to Kaggle?** Take a look at a few videos to learn a bit more about [site etiquette](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIus8si_Et0), [Kaggle lingo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJHyuWKd-s), and [how to enter a competition using Kaggle Notebooks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=GJBOMWpLpTQ). Publish and share your models on Kaggle Models (and request to have them made public)!\n\n**Looking for a team?** Express your interest in joining a team through our [Team Up](https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-feedback/341195?_gl=1*107iaqp*_ga*MTc5NDE4Njg4My4xNzE5MjU5ODg0*_ga_T7QHS60L4Q*MTc0MTEyOTYwMC4zMDUuMS4xNzQxMTI5OTk5LjAuMC4w) feature.\n\n**Remember**: Kaggle is for everyone. Whether you're teaming up or sharing tips in the competition forum, we expect everyone to follow our Kaggle community guidelines.", "votes": null }, { "id": "3150250", "postDate": "03/15/2025 08:30:36", "content": "I am experiencing some bugs with kaggle notebooks that is making it very difficult to operate:
\nI did not have these bugs prior to a kaggle update that I believe came out around late Jan. These issues are making the kaggle notebooks very frustrating to use.
", "rawMarkdown": "I am experiencing some bugs with kaggle notebooks that is making it very difficult to operate:\n- when creating new code or markdown cells, they will be created multiple cells away not directly under the cell from which I've created\n- when moving cells they will be moved multiple cells away from the expected location\n- the UI will jump around when scrolling or creating new cells\n- when running multiple cells via shift+enter, the page does not move as new cells are ran\n\nI did not have these bugs prior to a kaggle update that I believe came out around late Jan. These issues are making the kaggle notebooks very frustrating to use.", "votes": null }, { "id": "3151265", "postDate": "03/16/2025 13:38:08", "content": "i build my model in my notebook and next day when i open it, all my work disappear. It's really unbelieveable…..
\n@elizabethpark
Hello @daphne4sg,
\nSave version is the right tool to train your model, rather than an interactive session. Please ensure you are using the correct version. Thank you!
", "rawMarkdown": "Hello @daphne4sg,\n\nSave version is the right tool to train your model, rather than an interactive session. Please ensure you are using the correct version. Thank you!", "votes": null }, { "id": "3152497", "postDate": "03/17/2025 21:45:06", "content": "Hi @homiecal ,
\nThank you for sharing these issues. Can you please repost to Our Product Feedback page with more details (ex. your browser, screenshots, etc. if possible) as you deem helpful for us to resolve?
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi @homiecal ,\n\nThank you for sharing these issues. Can you please repost to [Our Product Feedback page](https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-feedback/new) with more details (ex. your browser, screenshots, etc. if possible) as you deem helpful for us to resolve?", "votes": null }, { "id": "3153955", "postDate": "03/19/2025 11:23:28", "content": "I am looking for teaming up. Anyone wanna join me?
", "rawMarkdown": "I am looking for teaming up. Anyone wanna join me?", "votes": null }, { "id": "3155567", "postDate": "03/21/2025 07:00:23", "content": "Dear @karan23258 Guten Morgen!
\nAbsolutely - I would be more than happy to team up with you!
\nTschuss
One very novice question. As i can see i am able to use the internet turned on to install missing packages. However, when submitting it it will not work, specifically i mean the ultralytics package. Anyone has a smart way how to solve this? Or do i have to download the whl files and upload them as well. Very much confused, and any help very much appreciated!
", "rawMarkdown": "One very novice question. As i can see i am able to use the internet turned on to install missing packages. However, when submitting it it will not work, specifically i mean the ultralytics package. Anyone has a smart way how to solve this? Or do i have to download the whl files and upload them as well. Very much confused, and any help very much appreciated!", "votes": null }, { "id": "3158276", "postDate": "03/24/2025 11:46:56", "content": "Hey Don! I think, since ultralytics isn't a pre-installed Kaggle package + internet off during submission, you’ll need to download the .whl or .tar.gz file for it (and dependencies), then upload them to your notebook.
\nEasiest way:
\npip download ultralytics, zip them, upload to Kaggle, and !pip install from that folder.
That did it. Thank you!
", "rawMarkdown": "That did it. Thank you!", "votes": null }, { "id": "3214622", "postDate": "05/31/2025 21:50:37", "content": "I’m new to Kaggle. Why are my submissions always timing out and getting killed? Even the pinned notebook submission fails. I have no idea how to get started
", "rawMarkdown": "I’m new to Kaggle. Why are my submissions always timing out and getting killed? Even the pinned notebook submission fails. I have no idea how to get started", "votes": null }, { "id": "3214649", "postDate": "06/01/2025 00:02:43", "content": "Hi Edith
\nSubmissions time out normally because they are either in the incorrect format or the notebook raised some exception. I would go in the output and dig in the logs to see what happened.
\nRun one epoch first to ensure that works.
\nHope this helps.
one round finish need wait 12-13 hours to see reasults and debug, then how many days to finish debug? The scoring takes so long, any way to shorten it for check?
", "rawMarkdown": "one round finish need wait 12-13 hours to see reasults and debug, then how many days to finish debug? The scoring takes so long, any way to shorten it for check?", "votes": null }, { "id": "3214716", "postDate": "06/01/2025 01:56:36", "content": "this happened to me also. When a round takes so long, it means that the technique is either not optimized for Kaggle notebooks, or there is something overly complicated.
\nLet's put it this way - From other code submissions of other developers, I see them finish 1 epoch in 15 -20 min. When mine was taking long like yours, I had to see what the others are doing and borrow their technique..
\nIf 1 round takes 12 hours, its already a problem because the limit for the competition cannot exceed 12 hours (In total)
", "rawMarkdown": "this happened to me also. When a round takes so long, it means that the technique is either not optimized for Kaggle notebooks, or there is something overly complicated. \n\nLet's put it this way - From other code submissions of other developers, I see them finish 1 epoch in 15 -20 min. When mine was taking long like yours, I had to see what the others are doing and borrow their technique.. \n\nIf 1 round takes 12 hours, its already a problem because the limit for the competition cannot exceed 12 hours (In total)", "votes": null }, { "id": "3214722", "postDate": "06/01/2025 02:06:54", "content": "Happy to see you the same feedback, I just try out to use pinned notebook latest version can be ok, within 3-4 hours ok. I think I come here to compete my AI skills, but turns out most time spend is to compete how run successfully in Kaggle notebook environment….
", "rawMarkdown": "Happy to see you the same feedback, I just try out to use pinned notebook latest version can be ok, within 3-4 hours ok. I think I come here to compete my AI skills, but turns out most time spend is to compete how run successfully in Kaggle notebook environment….", "votes": null }, { "id": "3214724", "postDate": "06/01/2025 02:12:21", "content": "Well at least you submitted something and you have a score.
\nI still have nothing - my submission is failing and with only 4 days left, I am currently in trouble…
\nReally not in good shape.. But we don't give up ;)
\nTry reduce it as much as you can, and continue submitting.
Try this one https://www.kaggle.com/code/andrewjdarley/submission-notebook, use its version 15 copy and edit, run all with GPU on, save version with GPU on, submit ok when scoring turn off GPU.
", "rawMarkdown": "Try this one https://www.kaggle.com/code/andrewjdarley/submission-notebook, use its version 15 copy and edit, run all with GPU on, save version with GPU on, submit ok when scoring turn off GPU.", "votes": null }, { "id": "3214749", "postDate": "06/01/2025 03:02:55", "content": "Only 4 days, I think later train model need also 2 days, I need rest today, seems can not get very good result this project also. next time need give at least 1 month or 2 weeks time for a project. Kaggle recently so little project has money prize.
", "rawMarkdown": "Only 4 days, I think later train model need also 2 days, I need rest today, seems can not get very good result this project also. next time need give at least 1 month or 2 weeks time for a project. Kaggle recently so little project has money prize.", "votes": null }, { "id": "3214885", "postDate": "06/01/2025 08:20:28", "content": "Hi everyone another novice question. For the final submission, do we need to upload also the entire code containing the processing of images, training the model up to the inference, or, is it enough if we just upload a trained model that will run only the inference. Thank you :)
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi everyone another novice question. For the final submission, do we need to upload also the entire code containing the processing of images, training the model up to the inference, or, is it enough if we just upload a trained model that will run only the inference. Thank you :)", "votes": null }, { "id": "3214930", "postDate": "06/01/2025 09:42:13", "content": "Hi Don Yes - All the code.
\nActually whatever the output is, it will be submitted. When you submit, this competition runs the pipeline again
But you made amazing progress since we spoke first this morning. You were 9xx th position and now at the moment of writing you are 355th!! great work. in the meantime I am still struggling to even score..
", "rawMarkdown": "But you made amazing progress since we spoke first this morning. You were 9xx th position and now at the moment of writing you are 355th!! great work. in the meantime I am still struggling to even score..", "votes": null }, { "id": "3214932", "postDate": "06/01/2025 09:46:01", "content": "I will try it as a last resort.. If I see that I am still stuck, Ill copy and switch to this.
", "rawMarkdown": "I will try it as a last resort.. If I see that I am still stuck, Ill copy and switch to this.", "votes": null }, { "id": "3214935", "postDate": "06/01/2025 09:53:05", "content": "Thank you!
", "rawMarkdown": "Thank you!", "votes": null }, { "id": "3214938", "postDate": "06/01/2025 09:58:57", "content": "That also means that the entire processing time i.e. image preprocessing, training and inference must take <12h? That is indeed a challenge for larger models. I am really amazed how accurate some people managed to get, i am really interested to see their solutions at the end.
", "rawMarkdown": "That also means that the entire processing time i.e. image preprocessing, training and inference must take <12h? That is indeed a challenge for larger models. I am really amazed how accurate some people managed to get, i am really interested to see their solutions at the end.", "votes": null } ], "comments": [ { "id": 3150250, "author_name": "homiecal", "author_url": "", "post_date": "03/15/2025 08:30:36", "content": "I am experiencing some bugs with kaggle notebooks that is making it very difficult to operate:
\nI did not have these bugs prior to a kaggle update that I believe came out around late Jan. These issues are making the kaggle notebooks very frustrating to use.
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3152497, "author_name": "elizabethpark", "author_url": "", "post_date": "03/17/2025 21:45:06", "content": "Hi @homiecal ,
\nThank you for sharing these issues. Can you please repost to Our Product Feedback page with more details (ex. your browser, screenshots, etc. if possible) as you deem helpful for us to resolve?
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 3151265, "author_name": "daphne4sg", "author_url": "", "post_date": "03/16/2025 13:38:08", "content": "i build my model in my notebook and next day when i open it, all my work disappear. It's really unbelieveable…..
\n@elizabethpark
Hello @daphne4sg,
\nSave version is the right tool to train your model, rather than an interactive session. Please ensure you are using the correct version. Thank you!
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 3153955, "author_name": "karan23258", "author_url": "", "post_date": "03/19/2025 11:23:28", "content": "I am looking for teaming up. Anyone wanna join me?
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3155567, "author_name": "nicholas33", "author_url": "", "post_date": "03/21/2025 07:00:23", "content": "Dear @karan23258 Guten Morgen!
\nAbsolutely - I would be more than happy to team up with you!
\nTschuss
One very novice question. As i can see i am able to use the internet turned on to install missing packages. However, when submitting it it will not work, specifically i mean the ultralytics package. Anyone has a smart way how to solve this? Or do i have to download the whl files and upload them as well. Very much confused, and any help very much appreciated!
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3158276, "author_name": "nicholas33", "author_url": "", "post_date": "03/24/2025 11:46:56", "content": "Hey Don! I think, since ultralytics isn't a pre-installed Kaggle package + internet off during submission, you’ll need to download the .whl or .tar.gz file for it (and dependencies), then upload them to your notebook.
\nEasiest way:
\npip download ultralytics, zip them, upload to Kaggle, and !pip install from that folder.
That did it. Thank you!
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] } ] }, { "id": 3214622, "author_name": "edith2025", "author_url": "", "post_date": "05/31/2025 21:50:37", "content": "I’m new to Kaggle. Why are my submissions always timing out and getting killed? Even the pinned notebook submission fails. I have no idea how to get started
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3214649, "author_name": "nicholas33", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/01/2025 00:02:43", "content": "Hi Edith
\nSubmissions time out normally because they are either in the incorrect format or the notebook raised some exception. I would go in the output and dig in the logs to see what happened.
\nRun one epoch first to ensure that works.
\nHope this helps.
one round finish need wait 12-13 hours to see reasults and debug, then how many days to finish debug? The scoring takes so long, any way to shorten it for check?
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3214716, "author_name": "nicholas33", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/01/2025 01:56:36", "content": "this happened to me also. When a round takes so long, it means that the technique is either not optimized for Kaggle notebooks, or there is something overly complicated.
\nLet's put it this way - From other code submissions of other developers, I see them finish 1 epoch in 15 -20 min. When mine was taking long like yours, I had to see what the others are doing and borrow their technique..
\nIf 1 round takes 12 hours, its already a problem because the limit for the competition cannot exceed 12 hours (In total)
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3214722, "author_name": "edith2025", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/01/2025 02:06:54", "content": "Happy to see you the same feedback, I just try out to use pinned notebook latest version can be ok, within 3-4 hours ok. I think I come here to compete my AI skills, but turns out most time spend is to compete how run successfully in Kaggle notebook environment….
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3214724, "author_name": "nicholas33", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/01/2025 02:12:21", "content": "Well at least you submitted something and you have a score.
\nI still have nothing - my submission is failing and with only 4 days left, I am currently in trouble…
\nReally not in good shape.. But we don't give up ;)
\nTry reduce it as much as you can, and continue submitting.
Try this one https://www.kaggle.com/code/andrewjdarley/submission-notebook, use its version 15 copy and edit, run all with GPU on, save version with GPU on, submit ok when scoring turn off GPU.
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3214749, "author_name": "edith2025", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/01/2025 03:02:55", "content": "Only 4 days, I think later train model need also 2 days, I need rest today, seems can not get very good result this project also. next time need give at least 1 month or 2 weeks time for a project. Kaggle recently so little project has money prize.
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3214931, "author_name": "nicholas33", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/01/2025 09:45:15", "content": "But you made amazing progress since we spoke first this morning. You were 9xx th position and now at the moment of writing you are 355th!! great work. in the meantime I am still struggling to even score..
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 3214932, "author_name": "nicholas33", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/01/2025 09:46:01", "content": "I will try it as a last resort.. If I see that I am still stuck, Ill copy and switch to this.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] } ] } ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": 3214885, "author_name": "edonisraci", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/01/2025 08:20:28", "content": "Hi everyone another novice question. For the final submission, do we need to upload also the entire code containing the processing of images, training the model up to the inference, or, is it enough if we just upload a trained model that will run only the inference. Thank you :)
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3214930, "author_name": "nicholas33", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/01/2025 09:42:13", "content": "Hi Don Yes - All the code.
\nActually whatever the output is, it will be submitted. When you submit, this competition runs the pipeline again
Thank you!
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 3214938, "author_name": "edonisraci", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/01/2025 09:58:57", "content": "That also means that the entire processing time i.e. image preprocessing, training and inference must take <12h? That is indeed a challenge for larger models. I am really amazed how accurate some people managed to get, i am really interested to see their solutions at the end.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] } ] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "3140754": "**New to machine learning and data science?** No question is too basic or too simple. Feel free to start your own thread, or use this thread as a place to post any first-timer clarifying questions for the Kaggle community to help you with!\n\n**New to Kaggle?** Take a look at a few videos to learn a bit more about [site etiquette](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIus8si_Et0), [Kaggle lingo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJHyuWKd-s), and [how to enter a competition using Kaggle Notebooks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=GJBOMWpLpTQ). Publish and share your models on Kaggle Models (and request to have them made public)!\n\n**Looking for a team?** Express your interest in joining a team through our [Team Up](https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-feedback/341195?_gl=1*107iaqp*_ga*MTc5NDE4Njg4My4xNzE5MjU5ODg0*_ga_T7QHS60L4Q*MTc0MTEyOTYwMC4zMDUuMS4xNzQxMTI5OTk5LjAuMC4w) feature.\n\n**Remember**: Kaggle is for everyone. Whether you're teaming up or sharing tips in the competition forum, we expect everyone to follow our Kaggle community guidelines.", "3150250": "I am experiencing some bugs with kaggle notebooks that is making it very difficult to operate:\n- when creating new code or markdown cells, they will be created multiple cells away not directly under the cell from which I've created\n- when moving cells they will be moved multiple cells away from the expected location\n- the UI will jump around when scrolling or creating new cells\n- when running multiple cells via shift+enter, the page does not move as new cells are ran\n\nI did not have these bugs prior to a kaggle update that I believe came out around late Jan. These issues are making the kaggle notebooks very frustrating to use.", "3151265": "i build my model in my notebook and next day when i open it, all my work disappear. It's really unbelieveable..... \n@elizabethpark", "3152493": "Hello @daphne4sg,\n\nSave version is the right tool to train your model, rather than an interactive session. Please ensure you are using the correct version. Thank you!", "3152497": "Hi @homiecal ,\n\nThank you for sharing these issues. Can you please repost to [Our Product Feedback page](https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-feedback/new) with more details (ex. your browser, screenshots, etc. if possible) as you deem helpful for us to resolve?", "3153955": "I am looking for teaming up. Anyone wanna join me?", "3155567": "Dear @karan23258 Guten Morgen! \nAbsolutely - I would be more than happy to team up with you! \nTschuss", "3158259": "One very novice question. As i can see i am able to use the internet turned on to install missing packages. However, when submitting it it will not work, specifically i mean the ultralytics package. Anyone has a smart way how to solve this? Or do i have to download the whl files and upload them as well. Very much confused, and any help very much appreciated!", "3158276": "Hey Don! I think, since ultralytics isn't a pre-installed Kaggle package + internet off during submission, you’ll need to download the .whl or .tar.gz file for it (and dependencies), then upload them to your notebook. \nEasiest way:\npip download ultralytics, zip them, upload to Kaggle, and !pip install from that folder.", "3158294": "That did it. Thank you!", "3214622": "I’m new to Kaggle. Why are my submissions always timing out and getting killed? Even the pinned notebook submission fails. I have no idea how to get started", "3214649": "Hi Edith \nSubmissions time out normally because they are either in the incorrect format or the notebook raised some exception. I would go in the output and dig in the logs to see what happened. \nRun one epoch first to ensure that works. \nHope this helps.", "3214711": "one round finish need wait 12-13 hours to see reasults and debug, then how many days to finish debug? The scoring takes so long, any way to shorten it for check?", "3214716": "this happened to me also. When a round takes so long, it means that the technique is either not optimized for Kaggle notebooks, or there is something overly complicated. \n\nLet's put it this way - From other code submissions of other developers, I see them finish 1 epoch in 15 -20 min. When mine was taking long like yours, I had to see what the others are doing and borrow their technique.. \n\nIf 1 round takes 12 hours, its already a problem because the limit for the competition cannot exceed 12 hours (In total)", "3214722": "Happy to see you the same feedback, I just try out to use pinned notebook latest version can be ok, within 3-4 hours ok. I think I come here to compete my AI skills, but turns out most time spend is to compete how run successfully in Kaggle notebook environment….", "3214724": "Well at least you submitted something and you have a score. \nI still have nothing - my submission is failing and with only 4 days left, I am currently in trouble... \nReally not in good shape.. But we don't give up ;) \nTry reduce it as much as you can, and continue submitting.", "3214747": "Try this one https://www.kaggle.com/code/andrewjdarley/submission-notebook, use its version 15 copy and edit, run all with GPU on, save version with GPU on, submit ok when scoring turn off GPU.", "3214749": "Only 4 days, I think later train model need also 2 days, I need rest today, seems can not get very good result this project also. next time need give at least 1 month or 2 weeks time for a project. Kaggle recently so little project has money prize.", "3214885": "Hi everyone another novice question. For the final submission, do we need to upload also the entire code containing the processing of images, training the model up to the inference, or, is it enough if we just upload a trained model that will run only the inference. Thank you :)", "3214930": "Hi Don Yes - All the code. \nActually whatever the output is, it will be submitted. When you submit, this competition runs the pipeline again", "3214931": "But you made amazing progress since we spoke first this morning. You were 9xx th position and now at the moment of writing you are 355th!! great work. in the meantime I am still struggling to even score..", "3214932": "I will try it as a last resort.. If I see that I am still stuck, Ill copy and switch to this.", "3214935": "Thank you!", "3214938": "That also means that the entire processing time i.e. image preprocessing, training and inference must take <12h? That is indeed a challenge for larger models. I am really amazed how accurate some people managed to get, i am really interested to see their solutions at the end." }, "source": "meta" }