4 months ago

Participation Prize & Certification Registration

Hi Devs,

We wanted to remind all Warm-up Task participants (participation prize winners) to fill out the awards and certificate registration form https://forms.gle/jhjUetYPqaMY8ePR9. Please provide your full legal name, an available email address, and a Baidu AI Studio UID (see how to sign in to Baidu AI Studio here) for us to award the certificate properly. We'll reach out about the award and certificate soon. 

Congratulations on completing the Task!

4 months ago

Final Results Update

Hi Devs,     Following a mandatory verification of contestant eligibility and submission requirements by the platform, the standings have been updated accordingly. Here are the final results.     For our Model-Building Tasks, congratulations to the following teams/projects:  

• Best ERNIE Fine-Tune using Unsloth:
  • NabuOCR: Teaching AI to Read the World's Oldest Writing
  • Tachiwin Indigenous Languages OCR
  • MeterMind
• Best ERNIE Fine-Tune using LLaMA-Factory:
  • Failure-Aware ERNIE
  • ERNIE Fine-Tune using LlamaFactory
  • FabMi
• Best PaddleOCR-VL Fine-Tune:
  • PaddleOCR_VL_Receipt - A SFT Model Extract Info From Receipt
  • MedOCR-Vision: Medical Document OCR with PaddleOCR-VL
  • Chronos-VL: The 1545 Resurrection Engine

  For our Application-Building Tasks…

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4 months ago

And the winner is...

Hi Devs,     We appreciate all your participation in the ERNIE AI Developer Challenge, and well done on finishing building your ideas. The judges have weighed in, and we're excited to share the news!   For our Model-Building Tasks, congratulations to the following teams/projects:

• Best ERNIE Fine-Tune using Unsloth:
  • NabuOCR: Teaching AI to Read the World's Oldest Writing
  • Tachiwin Indigenous Languages OCR
  • MeterMind
• Best ERNIE Fine-Tune using LLaMA-Factory:
  • Failure-Aware ERNIE
  • ERNIE Fine-Tune using LlamaFactory
  • FabMi
• Best PaddleOCR-VL Fine-Tune:
  • PaddleOCR_VL_Receipt - A SFT Model Extract Info From Receipt
  • DocMindAI
  • MedOCR-Vision: Medical Document OCR with PaddleOCR-VL

  For our Application-Building…

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5 months ago

Final call for submissions

There are only 3 days left to complete your submission for ERNIE AI Developer Challenge.

5 months ago

7 Days Left — Reminder to Submit Your Project

Dear Participants,

 

We are excited to share that the ERNIE AI Developer Challenge is entering its final week!

• Submission DDL：10 PM on December 23, 2025 (ET)
• 7 Days Remaining

To ensure a smooth and successful submission, please carefully review the submission requirements below.

 

What to Submit

If you choose the Warm-up Task:

• The deployed web page generated from your PDF, hosted on GitHub Pages.

 

If you choose the Model-Building Tasks:

• The URL to the open-sourced fine-tuned model weights.
• The URL to the code repository containing your fine-tuning code, including training data, hyperparameters, prompt,…

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6 months ago

Task Preference Survey & New Resources

Dear Participant,

Thank you for joining the ERNIE AI Developer Challenge!

We kindly invite you to complete a short, 3-question survey to let us know which task you plan to participate in. It takes less than one minute.

Your response will greatly help us with event preparation, and we sincerely appreciate your time.

Survey link: https://forms.gle/y5U7RXHR5BnCS83o9

 

Furthermore, we have put together the latest getting-started tutorials — all set for you to jump right in and start creating!

You can find the details here:

Model-Building Tasks

• PaddleOCR-VL Fine-Tune using ERNIEKit:
  • Github: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/ERNIE/blob/release/v1.4/docs/paddleocr_vl_sft.md
  • Google Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1yjbH1zbvBlyUq1wz0pohPaWKHO6szAXb?usp=sharing
• ERNIE Fine-Tune using LLaMA-Factory:
  • …

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