Tec-Do and MiniMax are sponsoring the MARS2 Multimodal Reasoning Competition with a total prize pool of $100,000 USD, held alongside the MARS2 Workshop at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026) in Malmö, Sweden. The competition features three tracks—Multimodal Advertisement Comprehension, Video Temporal Grounding, and Marketing Strategy Decoding and Conversion Analysis—designed to test complex, open-world reasoning and long-chain inference in enterprise-level environments. Keynote speakers include Paul Liang from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mihaela van der Schaar from the University of Cambridge, and Louis-Philippe Morency from Carnegie Mellon University. The workshop also invites paper submissions on topics such as multimodal reasoning and agentic systems, with a submission deadline of August 1, 2026. The event will take place on September 8–9, 2026, and registration is hosted on the EvalAI Challenge Page.
MiniMax Group IncSponsoring a $100k multimodal reasoning competition showcases AI research leadership and attracts talent.
Sponsoring a $100k multimodal reasoning competition showcases AI research leadership and attracts talent.