​Following SF, Singapore, and Busan, this 5th edition celebrates ICML. This time, the theme is Auto Research. One track creates papers, and the other builds Review Agents that review them.

​SF, Singapore, Busan에 이어 ICML을 기념해 열리는 5번째 에디션. 이번에는 Auto Research입니다. 한쪽에서는 페이퍼를 생성하고, 다른 한쪽에서는 페이퍼를 리뷰하는 Review Agent를 만듭니다.

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​About Event (English)

​Once the Ralph Loop starts, you cannot touch your coding agent directly. If you want to touch your laptop, you have to wear the lobster costume first.

​After SF, Singapore, and Busan, this 5th edition celebrates ICML week in Seoul.

​This time, the theme is Auto Research.

​There are two tracks:

• ​Track 1: AI Scientist — Build an agent that creates a paper-style research artifact.

• ​Track 2: Review Agent — Build an agent that reviews the papers from Track 1 in an ICML-style review format.

​The core experiment:

​Can AI agents write papers, review papers, and help produce better research loops?

​The papers made by AI Scientist agents will be reviewed by Review Agent agents. Judges will look at the papers, the reviews, and the agent workflows behind them.

​Prizes

• ​Grand Prize: $10,000 API credits + 6 months of ChatGPT Pro

• ​Track 1 Prize: $5,000 API credits + 6 months of ChatGPT Pro

• ​Track 2 Prize: $5,000 API credits + 6 months of ChatGPT Pro

​Reviewers(Judges)

• ​Younghoon Kim — Planar, ex-OpenAI Trust & Safety

• ​Kyoung Whan Choe, PhD — Research Engineer at RLWRLD, robotics and cognitive neuroscience

• ​Mathew Vanherreweghe - Logical Intelligence, Member of Technical Staff

• ​Jae Gon Kim - Xenoscube, Lead Member of Technical Staff

• ​Sigrid Jin - Founder of instruct.kr

• ​Jungyoon Lim - Math Inc, Founding Engineer

• ​Daniel Nam - NeuroFusion, Researcher

​more reviewers will be anounced...

​Previous Ralphthon Editions:

• ​Ralphthon @SF supported by OpenAI: https://luma.com/kxoq82yq

• ​Ralphthon @Singapore supported by OpenAI: https://luma.com/4hx7p0vs

​Sponsors

​Presented Partner: OpenAI Codex https://openai.com/codex/

​Observability Partner: https://wandb.ai/

​GPU Compute Partner: https://vessl.ai/

​Want to become a sponsor? Contact [email protected], or connect with Goobong Jeong on LinkedIn.

​랄프톤에 대해 (Korean)

​랄프톤은 일반적인 해커톤이 아닙니다.

​Ralph Loop가 시작되면 코딩 에이전트를 직접 만질 수 없습니다. 노트북을 만지고 싶다면 먼저 랩스터 코스튬을 입어야 합니다.

​이번 주제는 Auto Research입니다.

​두 개의 트랙

• ​Track 1: AI Scientist — 논문 형태의 연구 결과물을 만드는 에이전트를 만듭니다.

• ​Track 2: Review Agent — Track 1에서 만들어진 페이퍼를 ICML 리뷰 포맷으로 리뷰하는 에이전트를 만듭니다.

​핵심 실험은 이것입니다.

​AI 에이전트가 논문을 쓰고, 논문을 리뷰하고, 더 나은 연구 루프를 만들 수 있을까?

​AI Scientist 에이전트가 만든 페이퍼를 Review Agent 에이전트가 실제로 리뷰합니다. 심사위원은 페이퍼, 리뷰, 그리고 그 뒤의 에이전트 워크플로우를 함께 봅니다.

• ​Grand Prize: $10,000 API credits + 6 months of ChatGPT Pro

• ​Track 1 Prize: $5,000 API credits + 6 months of ChatGPT Pro

• ​Track 2 Prize: $5,000 API credits + 6 months of ChatGPT Pro

​Host: Team Attention

​Team Attention runs Ralphthon, RalphWOD, clubs, and AI-native community experiments across Seoul, SF, Singapore, and Busan. We build formats where people learn new ways of working with agents by doing them in public.

​Team Attention은 서울, SF, Singapore, Busan에서 Ralphthon, RalphWOD, 클럽, AI-native 커뮤니티 실험을 운영하는 팀입니다. 사람들이 에이전트와 함께 일하는 새로운 방식을 말로 배우는 것이 아니라, 직접 실행하면서 배우는 포맷을 만듭니다.

​Founder: Goobong Jeong