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Strong Interim Results in the IDEaS Fast Forward Challenge

Interim results are in for the IDEaS Forecasting Global Emerging Threats challenge: out of ten teams selected through the nationally competitive program, Erode AI ranks second at the three-month horizon and third at the six-month horizon.

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Saeed presenting Erode AI’s model performance results at the IDEaS Showcase in Ottawa

Interim results were just released for the IDEaS Forecasting Global Emerging Threats challenge, and we’re really happy with our performance at Erode AI! Out of ten teams selected through the nationally competitive program, the latest evaluation ranks us second at the three-month horizon and third at the six-month horizon.

Interim three-month-horizon rankings for the IDEaS Fast Forward challenge, with erode ranked second of ten teams
Interim rankings at the three-month horizon.

What we’re most excited about is that this demonstrates our modelling frameworks can adapt to very different problems and climate-related datasets, working across both gridded and national scales while balancing predictive performance with interpretable forecast explanations.

Read our original IDEaS announcement
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