Black Box Challenge Machine Learning Competition

We'd like to invite you to participate in an unusual machine learning competition -- Black Box Challenge (blackboxchallenge.com/eng). The conception is simple -- one need to program an agent that can play a game with unknown rules. At each time step agent is given an environment state vector and has a few possible actions. The rewards may be delayed and have stochastic nature -- the same actions can lead to different rewards. The competition is created with support of Mail.ru (one of the largest Russian Internet companies) and Data-Centric Alliance (DCA is a Russian company specializing on big data and high-load systems), and the winners will be rewarded with pleasant prizes: You can read about the problem in detail at the site.(blackboxchallenge.com/eng)