Dear Organizers,
Could you please kindly let us know more about the details on the final submission? For example, what will be the features we use in the final submission dataset and how many models are allowed to submit for each team?
Thanks!
Haoze
Created by Haoze Li talhz Hello Haoze,
Final\_model\_3 was received and successfully scored. Thank you very much for participating in the challenge. You can submit the supplementary material by emailing challenges@cstructure.io with the subject line Covid Causal Diagram DREAM Challenge Supplementary Material.
Best,
Erick Hi Erick,
We have resubmitted our `Final_model_3`, could you please kindly confirm whether you can see it now?
Also, how can we submit the 3-page supplementary material (if we did not write the methodology in the causal edge)?
Best,
Haoze Hello Tsai-Min,
Final\modelSS was successfully scored.
Cheers,
Erick Hello Haoze,
Final\_Model\_1 and Final\_Model\_2 were successfully scored. I do not see Fina\l_model\_3.
Cheers,
Erick Hi Erick,
Thank you so much for your email. Also, we have submitted our another model -- `Final_model_3`. Could you please kindly confirm whether it can be scored successfully?
Best,
Haoze Hi Erick,
Thanks for your reply.
We have submitted our another final model, "Final_modelSS".
Could you please help us check if it is valid?
Yours,
Tsai-Min, on behalf of team Metformin-121 Hi Erick,
Thank you so much for letting us know. However, I did not receive your email. Did you send the email to li4456@purdue.edu?
Best,
Haoze Hello Haoze,
I sent you an email regarding Final_model_1. I hope you will submit additional models, Final_model_1 was unable to converge.
Best,
Erick Dear Organizers,
Our team has just submissted our first model -- `Final_model_1`. Could you please kindly confirm that it can be scored successfully?
Thank you!
Best,
Haoze Hello Tsai-Min,
We have received your final model and we can confirm that it can be successfully scored. As a reminder, a team can submit up to 3 final models.
Best regards,
Erick Dear organizers,
Thanks for your reply.
We have submitted our final model, "Final_modelS", but we don't know how to confirm that you received it and scored it successfully.
Could you please help us here?
Yours,
Tsai-Min, on behalf of team Metformin-121 Hello Tsai-Min,
Yes, write-ups assist in authorship for the paper describing the challenge. Typically the write-ups are collected at the conclusion of the challenge. We do encourage you to describe your methodology in the causal edge (treatment -> outcome) narrative when submitting your final model, but it is optional.
Thank you for the question and your participation. Dear organizers,
Should we need to submit a write-up to become one of the authors of the challenge papers you are going to publish according to the DREAM OFFICIAL CHALLENGE RULE?:
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Yours,
Tsai-Min Hello Haoze,
The final submission will utilize the same features as the mid-point evaluation. Each team may submit up to 3 models. Additional details have been posted on the Challenge Wiki:
**Final Submission**: Final model submission due by **August 6th, 2025**
- Each team may submit up to 3 separate models
- The feature set for the final models is the same as the mid-point evaluation (sdy1760)
- Each adjusted node and edges for adjusted nodes should include a narrative describing your causal reasoning for including the node/edge in your adjustment set
- The submitted model name should include the word 'Final'
- Supplementary materials describing your methodological approach (optional) can be provided in the narrative section of the causal edge (e.g. steroids -> 28 day survival)
Thank you for participating in the challenge.