Agenthon 2026

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Key dates

Key dates.

Registration runs from 17 August to 12 October 2026. Registration and Development close together at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE, UTC−12) on 12 October. The last Development runs start by 20:00 UTC on 12 October: an upload that has not started by then is not run. The evaluation fleet is in scheduled maintenance on 13 October from 08:00 to 12:00 UTC, when the Final + Verification phase opens.

17 Aug – 12 Oct
Registration

Sign up and form your team.
28 Aug – 12 Oct
Development

Public practice repositories, iteration, and the validation leaderboard.
30 Sep
Call for papers closed

Papers for the NeurIPS workshop were due at 23:59 AoE.
13 – 25 Oct
Final + Verification

One submission per entered track is evaluated on sealed held-out units; organizers rerun leading submissions and review reproducibility within the same phase.
Sat 12 Dec
Workshop at NeurIPS, Atlanta

The Agenthon workshop, with final presentations by the winners, in Atlanta, Georgia.

The competition closes with a workshop and final presentations from the winning teams at NeurIPS in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday 12 December. All dates are given in the official rules, which govern if anything here is out of step.

Teams

Enter as a team of one to three.

You can compete alone or with up to two teammates. You join one team and stay on it, and that one team can enter as many of the four tracks as it wants.

Registration is per team, and only registered teams can submit solutions or appear on the leaderboard. Your team uses one account on the competition platform, chosen by the team — the FAQ explains what that means for everyone else on the team.

Have a question about entering? Start with the FAQ.

Core question

Can AI agents produce finance answers that can be checked by machine?

Agenthon extends the Alphathon program into its first NeurIPS edition. The competition keeps the four-track structure and hard finance setting, while adding sealed held-out data, automated leakage controls, reproducible reruns, and public leaderboards.

Agents in all four tracks run in sandboxed Docker containers without general internet access. Supported Coding, Forecasting and Explainability submissions can call House Nemotron through a restricted connection. Simulation has no network access. Build required dependencies and permitted artifacts into your image before evaluation.

Four tracks

Same competition spine, four finance problems.

T1 Coding

Quant-finance coding agents

Build a Docker agent that solves quantitative finance coding tasks under pytest and financial-invariant checks.

Verb: solve
Metric: pass@1
Gate: pytest + invariants

T2 Forecasting

Reasoning-augmented time series

Forecast future panels using time-series data plus a time-stamped text corpus. The score evaluates the forecast distribution; information uplift is a research aim.

Verb: forecast
Metric: CRPS composite
Gate: as-of cutoff + calibration

T3 Simulation

Accelerated market simulation

Submit an ABIDES-compatible simulator that is faster while preserving matching-engine semantics and market stylized facts. Development results are practice feedback, not controlled Final timing.

Verb: simulate
Metric: events/sec
Gate: semantic regression

T4 Explainability

Evidence-grounded prediction

Predict labels, values, or rankings over tabular entities, supported by a frozen evidence corpus. Follow the track guide for prediction, evidence and reasoning evaluation.

Verb: analyze
Metric: Track 4 composite
Gate: faithfulness + embargo

Protocol

Submit, check, score.

Each unit is checked for admissibility and evaluated using its track's scoring rules. Participant failures remain in the evaluation denominator; organizer faults are handled separately. If two Final submissions finish a track with the same ranking score, the tie is broken in favour of the one uploaded earlier.

01

Submit

Upload the toolkit-generated ZIP identifying your agent image and proving team registration.

02

Check

g0-g3 verify integrity, schema, cutoff/resource rules, and domain semantics.

03

Score

Track-specific scoring produces Development feedback. Track 1 uses pass@1 without a confidence interval.

Public/private firewall

Transparent grading, sealed answers.

Each track has a public practice repo and a private sealed exam repo. Public repos include practice tasks, examples, local checks, available baselines and participant docs. Private repos hold evaluation tasks, reference answers, scoring material and audit records.

Public practice Private exam

Public practice units Private-test held-out units

Examples, local checks and available baselines Oracle solutions and final scorer

Manifest and canary safety checks Canary registry and audit logs

Leaderboard

Competition scores, one track at a time.

Development leaderboards on agenthon.net are public and visible to everyone. Each track uses its own scale. Higher is better for the displayed leaderboard scores; the raw Forecasting loss is converted for this display. Use CodaBench for uploads and processing status. Follow the logged-in website for submission opening status. From 5 October 2026, 00:00 AoE (12:00 UTC), the Track 1 board ranks only runs uploaded after 25 September 2026 at 05:00 UTC, for every team (Track 1 README, rules 8 and 9).

The leaderboard is updated periodically from the competition platform.

T1 Coding T2 Forecasting T3 Simulation T4 Explainability

Search teams

T1 Coding

T1 Coding: teams 1–25 of 101

Rank Team Score

1 Kaile 0.7674

2 Saifuddin 0.7209

3 Pluvia 0.5349

4 Proxima 0.5000

5 Arsen Ibragimov 0.4535

6 DeepSucc 0.3837

6 Chirayu 0.3837

8 Yan Su 0.3605

9 RandomGuyHavingFun 0.3488

10 MindAlchemist 0.2907

11 RizYL 0.2791

12 abc123 0.2674

12 Nana Champions 0.2674

14 dbuddha 0.2558

15 Cornfield Chase 0.2326

15 Formaggio 0.2326

17 Autonomous Alpha 0.2209

17 fiftyfifty 0.2209

19 Liqourena 0.2093

19 Tengen Toppa 0.2093

19 Pluto 0.2093

22 Anonymous 0.1977

22 in3lab 0.1977

22 APTAPT 0.1977

22 Quiet Signal 0.1977

T1 Coding: teams 26–50 of 101

Rank Team Score

22 Husky River Trading 0.1977

27 eagle 0.1860

27 Submartingale 0.1860

27 CMCCGDYDDICT 0.1860

27 Make It Make Cents 🙏 0.1860

27 eoo0m 0.1860

32 Just-in-Time 0.1744

32 VerityLovityFalsityCruelty 0.1744

32 BoGo 0.1744

32 Paragon 0.1744

36 Undefined 0.1628

36 TappuKiMKC 0.1628

36 Proof of Alpha 0.1628

36 AbangFrabi 0.1628

36 verifiquant 0.1628

36 FedorAzarov 0.1628

36 Powerhouse 0.1628

36 Eyyyyyy 0.1628

44 Sean 0.1512

44 Four Sigma 0.1512

44 Money Miner 0.1512

44 1991 0.1512

44 Give me a job 0.1512

49 gheware 0.1395

49 Warkop PuteraPrakoso 0.1395

T1 Coding: teams 51–75 of 101

Rank Team Score

49 Masato 0.1395

52 iluss 0.1279

52 Duo_tech 0.1279

52 Jade 0.1279

55 MicroCat 0.1163

55 hnhparitosh 0.1163

55 Agent_007 0.1163

55 always win 0.1163

55 Nietzsche 0.1163

60 Jin & Pei 0.1047

60 TEst 0.1047

62 UNIVERSEPLAYER 0.0930

62 Sir Thaddeus 0.0930

62 HTHY 0.0930

62 Banana Kingdom 0.0930

66 Agent Alpha 0.0814

67 The Unscheduled Penguins 0.0698

68 Apex 0.0581

68 The Mockingjay 0.0581

70 GAOKUO 0.0465

71 attention is qkv 0.0349

72 volatility_labs_stony_brook 0.0233

72 Wealth-Building Lab 0.0233

74 Urithiru 0.0116

— Aamir Abdul Azeez — not scored

T1 Coding: teams 76–100 of 101

Rank Team Score

— AgentReady — not scored

— Orrery — not scored

— DeltaNLP — not scored

— 3226 — not scored

— AlbertQuant — not scored

— Verifiable Capital — not scored

— a-team — not scored

— BetterCallSaul — not scored

— FAWDA — not scored

— 9:00pm — not scored

— C_cake — not scored

— huhudawang — not scored

— Quant Science Flow — not scored

— lingsio — not scored

— phtree — not scored

— DaoyuShu4094 — not scored

— Future Ability — not scored

— RRRRRR — not scored

— Echoing — not scored

— Luca — not scored

— Artifical General Invesment — not scored

— Flowfront — not scored

— nogugu — not scored

— Outsiders — not scored

— team — not scored

T1 Coding: teams 101 of 101

Rank Team Score

— IMAnonymous — not scored

No team matches that search.

T2 Forecasting

T2 Forecasting: teams 1–25 of 124

Rank Team Score

1 DuML -1.2002

2 huhudawang -1.2509

3 Yan Su -1.3403

4 Ywin -1.5483

5 Flowfront -1.5548

6 alpha-extractor -1.5725

7 Paragon -1.5813

8 Made in Heaven -1.6351

9 Samoyed -1.6713

10 Chirayu -1.7656

11 Not Today -1.7697

12 Quiet Signal -1.7917

13 Cornfield Chase -1.7953

14 HBIT -1.8222

15 F1_1 -1.8367

16 Jin & Pei -1.8424

17 Proof of Alpha -1.8515

18 labubu666 -1.8693

19 CMCCGDYDDICT -1.8758

20 Pawsibble -1.9221

21 VerityLovityFalsityCruelty -1.9314

22 Apex -1.9618

23 HackStreet Boys -1.9722

24 Nexus of f(x) -2.0134

25 Warkop PuteraPrakoso -2.0303

T2 Forecasting: teams 26–50 of 124

Rank Team Score

26 mikelou1 -2.0579

27 Just-in-Time -2.0898

28 TheAxiom -2.0940

29 DKYnumber1 -2.1028

30 Autonomous Alpha -2.1097

31 Jigglyduck -2.1111

32 Super Debugging -2.1651

33 Saifuddin -2.1769

34 spidy -2.1999

35 Sapien -2.2129

36 urayaha -2.2155

37 lifeisluck -2.2172

38 TradeFlare -2.2310

39 LastDigitsOfPi -2.2338

40 Masato -2.2448

41 HG Market System -2.2556

42 quack -2.2893

43 Money Miner -2.2898

44 Sitadel Insecurities -2.2962

45 JJ LAB -2.3146

46 Formaggio -2.3310

47 iluss -2.3524

48 abc123 -2.3567

49 5 o'clock -2.3690

50 time -2.3694

T2 Forecasting: teams 51–75 of 124

Rank Team Score

51 fiftyfifty -2.3772

52 pranshu rastogi -2.3774

53 1991 -2.3901

54 AsOf Quant -2.3990

55 Tengen Toppa -2.4107

56 Bayes Street -2.4108

57 Auror -2.4301

58 QIE DOG -2.4329

59 Javier Amo -2.4429

60 Dog parents -2.4467

61 lingsio -2.4480

62 hnhparitosh -2.4484

63 C_cake -2.4513

64 in3lab -2.4570

65 LiLaiLai -2.4637

66 randomwalk -2.4666

67 DoublePai -2.4681

68 Aamir Abdul Azeez -2.4722

69 jusep -2.4751

70 JessH -2.4795

71 ZZKK -2.4795

72 In Sync -2.4848

73 Natpaphon -2.4891

74 Verifiable Capital -2.4918

75 GAOKUO -2.4932

T2 Forecasting: teams 76–100 of 124

Rank Team Score

76 Quant Science Flow -2.4933

77 SMTM -2.4938

78 krnb -2.4961

79 Richard Zhu -2.5069

80 LIZARD -2.5086

81 1111 -2.5090

82 PSS_ -2.5096

83 Garros Solo Lab -2.5139

84 GXR123 -2.5169

85 XIII -2.5228

86 Nietzsche -2.5272

87 Yongchang -2.5273

88 Try hard -2.5347

89 AbangFrabi -2.5381

90 Banana Kingdom -2.5388

91 Orrery -2.5402

92 Jade -2.5458

93 JiaxinLi -2.5482

94 pluuuuuus -2.5521

95 Husky River Trading -2.5567

96 Probably Right -2.5643

97 Liqourena -2.5769

98 Launchlane Forecast -2.5799

99 iKun-XinglinForrest -2.5994

100 YIC Quant -2.6067

T2 Forecasting: teams 101–124 of 124

Rank Team Score

101 Luca -2.6137

102 lwz888 -2.6141

103 Undefined -2.6151

104 ARKANE -2.6357

105 OOBs -2.6373

— Reference forecaster M0 reference, not ranked -2.6412

106 SoloTraveler -2.6765

107 HaHaHa -2.6829

107 ah_a1g -2.6829

107 Give me a job -2.6829

110 OffTheTape -2.7369

111 BigWorld -2.7476

112 katharsis -2.7795

113 K-uant -2.7985

114 PA-Agent -2.8354

115 team -2.9680

— 9:00pm — not scored

— ZOLDIK — not scored

— Urithiru — not scored

— phtree — not scored

— RRRRRR — not scored

— Hatenabase — not scored

— Edge-X — not scored

— Artifical General Invesment — not scored

— Outsiders — not scored

No team matches that search.

T3 Simulation

T3 Simulation: teams 1–25 of 48

Rank Team Score

1 fuzz 231024.2407

2 VerityLovityFalsityCruelty 222058.1706

3 abc123 221088.2954

4 IMAnonymous 215963.1445

5 recently rejected 211718.1931

6 Proof of Alpha 211712.3699

7 Cornfield Chase 210201.3605

8 Yan Su 210016.3629

9 Warkop PuteraPrakoso 201094.4945

10 iMak AI Lab 196481.1593

11 DKYnumber1 196323.2757

12 Quantumonster 193044.3011

13 S2WISH 189138.3673

14 Neko's Life 188642.9808

15 Autonomous Alpha 185936.6020

16 Lumia 185889.4276

17 Paragon 184046.5937

18 Made in Heaven 181871.6467

19 Money Miner 179846.1354

20 Verifiable Capital 178103.6278

21 PA-Agent 177343.4124

22 Jin & Pei 176009.6963

23 PumpkinChicken 164722.2406

24 Yongchang 161575.8191

25 Probably Right 157361.2474

T3 Simulation: teams 26–48 of 48

Rank Team Score

26 HackStreet Boys 156661.8792

27 fiftyfifty 152138.2119

28 lingsio 149569.8194

29 huhudawang 139213.3612

30 1991 130999.3163

31 chilli 121630.3250

32 Saifuddin 118112.9705

33 LastDigitsOfPi 97519.7633

34 Quant Science Flow 34835.2849

35 iluss 19429.7240

36 Apex 16467.6082

37 CMCCGDYDDICT 15559.8991

38 Banana Kingdom 14180.6623

39 Just-in-Time 13813.8474

40 Auror 13708.7408

41 Orrery 12998.5100

42 Outsiders 12116.2977

— TEst — not scored

— thalachira — not scored

— Hertz — not scored

— RRRRRR — not scored

— Artifical General Invesment — not scored

— Sequoia — not scored

No team matches that search.

T4 Explainability

T4 Explainability: teams 1–25 of 37

Rank Team Score

1 Genshin, launch! 0.8401

2 huhudawang 0.6237

3 Yan Su 0.5857

4 Just-in-Time 0.5787

5 MALIU 0.5592

6 Proof of Alpha 0.5381

7 Saifuddin 0.5234

8 abc123 0.5231

9 Paragon 0.4920

10 stone stone 0.4902

11 lingsio 0.4893

12 TradeFlare 0.4807

13 Sitadel Insecurities 0.4797

14 Northline 0.4797

15 yohoho 0.4696

16 Quiet Signal 0.4683

17 Winner 0.4520

18 WEI-SPBU 0.4371

19 OmniSync 0.4365

20 iluss 0.4314

21 VerityLovityFalsityCruelty 0.4278

22 Flowfront 0.4094

23 Pluto 0.4091

24 FAWDA 0.4074

25 ccczy 0.4029

T4 Explainability: teams 26–37 of 37

Rank Team Score

26 SignalCraft 0.3993

27 Chaewon-Research 0.3971

28 Apex 0.3954

29 1991 0.3739

30 DeltaNLP 0.3361

31 Quant Science Flow 0.3339

32 Richard Zhu 0.3319

33 scu_statistics 0.2413

34 LOOOONG 0.1475

35 Orrery -0.1788

— RRRRRR — not scored

— AAAA — not scored

No team matches that search.

2026 phases

Development, then Final + Verification.

Development runs through 12 October 2026. The joint Final + Verification phase runs from 13 to 25 October 2026. Registration and Development close on 12 October at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE, UTC−12). Final + Verification closes on 25 October at 23:59 AoE.

Upcoming

Development

Build and test with the public starter packages. Check the logged-in website for submission opening status.

0% complete

Upcoming Aug 28 - Oct 12
Development

Teams practice and iterate with the public starter packages. Submission opening is announced separately.
Upcoming Oct 13 - Oct 25
Final + Verification

One submission per entered track is evaluated on sealed private-test units. Organizers rerun leading submissions and review reproducibility in the same phase. There is no separate verification submission. Run outputs, logs, and score files stay hidden.

Awards

Cash awards in all four tracks.

The top three teams in each track win a cash award, decided by the final standings after verification. That is $3,000 per track and $12,000 in total.

1st place
$1,500

In each of the four tracks.
2nd place
$1,000

In each of the four tracks.
3rd place
$500

In each of the four tracks.

Amounts are in US dollars. A team's award is split equally among its registered members. Eligibility, verification, tax and payment requirements are set by the official rules, and a confirmed winner who accepts an award publishes the code needed to reproduce the method.

Scientific outputs

Agenthon is designed to explain failures, not just rank winners.

Cross-track failure map

Gate failures are labeled and aggregated to show where finance agents break down.

Information uplift

T2 investigates whether text and reasoning improve forecasts; this is not a separate scored component.

Speed-realism frontier

T3 measures throughput only after semantic fidelity and stylized facts survive checks.

Faithfulness under embargo

T4 requires evidence-backed predictions that do not cite future or unsupported facts.

Call for papers

The call for papers is closed.

Accepted papers will be presented as posters at the Agenthon workshop at NeurIPS in Atlanta on Saturday 12 December. The program will follow.

Agenthon 2026

$1,500, $1,000 and $500 in every track.

Key dates.

Registration

Development

Call for papers closed

Final + Verification

Workshop at NeurIPS, Atlanta

Enter as a team of one to three.

Can AI agents produce finance answers that can be checked by machine?

Same competition spine, four finance problems.

Quant-finance coding agents

Reasoning-augmented time series

Accelerated market simulation

Evidence-grounded prediction

Submit, check, score.

Submit

Check

Score

Transparent grading, sealed answers.

Competition scores, one track at a time.

T1 Coding

T2 Forecasting

T3 Simulation

T4 Explainability

Development, then Final + Verification.

Development

Development

Final + Verification

Cash awards in all four tracks.

$1,500

$1,000

$500

Agenthon is designed to explain failures, not just rank winners.

Cross-track failure map

Information uplift

Speed-realism frontier

Faithfulness under embargo

The call for papers is closed.

Sponsor Agenthon 2026.

Thank you from the organizers.

Lead Organizers

Pawel Polak

Christos Koutsoyannis

Industry Co-Organizers

David Rosenberg

Gary Kazantsev

Ioana Boier

Track Leads

Quant-finance coding agents

Reasoning-augmented time series

Accelerated market simulation

Evidence-grounded prediction