Hutter Prize

The Hutter Prize is a cash prize funded by Marcus Hutter which rewards data compression improvements on a specific 1 GB English text file, with the goal of encouraging research in artificial intelligence (AI).

Launched in 2006, the prize awards 5000 euros for each one percent improvement (with 500,000 euros total funding)[1] in the compressed size of the file enwik9, which is the larger of two files used in the Large Text Compression Benchmark (LTCB);[2] enwik9 consists of the first 109 bytes of a specific version of English Wikipedia.[3] The ongoing[4] competition is organized by Hutter, Matt Mahoney, and Jim Bowery.[1]

The prize was announced on August 6, 2006[1] with a smaller text file: enwik8 consisting of 100MB. On February 21, 2020 it was expanded by a factor of 10, to enwik9 of 1GB, the prize went from 50,000 to 500,000 euros.

  1. ^ a b c "500'000€ Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge". Hutter Prize. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  2. ^ Mahoney, Matt (2022-12-02). "Large Text Compression Benchmark". Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  3. ^ Mahoney, Matt (2011-09-01). "About the Test Data". Retrieved 2022-11-16.
  4. ^ "Human Knowledge Compression Contest Frequently Asked Questions & Answers". Hutter Prize. Retrieved 14 Oct 2022.