# Hugging Face — Announcing NeurIPS 2025 E2LM Competition: Early Training Evaluation of Language Models

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-07-04T12:25:00+00:00
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/tiiuae/e2lm-competition
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1669-announcing-neurips-2025-e2lm-competition-early-training-evaluation-of-language

This post announces the NeurIPS 2025 E2LM Competition, focused on building benchmarks for early-stage evaluation of language models, particularly for scientific knowledge. Participants will use Small Language Models of 0.5B, 1B, and 3B parameters and submit solutions via Hugging Face. The competition includes multiple phases and cash prizes.

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> Announcing  NeurIPS 2025 E2LM Competition: Early Training Evaluation of Language Models

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Record: https://forck.live/items/1669-announcing-neurips-2025-e2lm-competition-early-training-evaluation-of-language
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