Submission

We provide a submission file for each phase of the Challenge, fuel_rank_submission.parquet for phase 1 and fuel_final_submission.parquet for phase 2.

For phase 1 there are companion trajectories and flight list.

Each team will have to submit its predictions in its own bucket, with a file name template as follows

<team-name>_v<incremental integer>.parquet

The fuel_rank_submission.parquet (fuel_final_submission.parquet) payload looks something like

idx     flight_id                start                  end  fuel_kg
  0  prc770822360  2025-04-13 04:31:04  2025-04-13 05:01:04      0.0
  1  prc770822360  2025-04-13 05:01:04  2025-04-13 05:16:04      0.0
  2  prc770822360  2025-04-13 05:16:04  2025-04-13 05:46:04      0.0
  3  prc770822360  2025-04-13 05:46:04  2025-04-13 06:01:04      0.0
...

Submission format

You should submit a parquet file, named <team-name>_v<incremental integer>.parquet, with your predictions with exactly all entries as in in fuel_rank_submission.parquet (fuel_final_submission.parquet), i.e. something with a payload like:

idx     flight_id                start                  end  fuel_kg
  0  prc770822360  2025-04-13 04:31:04  2025-04-13 05:01:04    250.3 
  1  prc770822360  2025-04-13 05:01:04  2025-04-13 05:16:04    120.8
  2  prc770822360  2025-04-13 05:16:04  2025-04-13 05:46:04   2500 
  3  prc770822360  2025-04-13 05:46:04  2025-04-13 06:01:04   1300.9 
...

We require each row to match idx, flight_id, start and end before fuel_kg will be considered by the ranking script when calculating the RMSE. Errors will be issued in case of mismatch. Errors will also be issued in case of missing or extra rows.

Submission for phase 2/final phase

During phase 2/final phase you can continue to submit predictions with filenames <team-name>_v<incremental integer>.parquet like in phase 1: based on fuel_rank_submission.parquet.

For the eligibility for final prize you should upload your (best) prediction in a file named

<team-name>_final.parquet

The rows in this file are like the ones in fuel_final_submission.parquet which includes the intervals of phase 1 (24289 for 1888 distinct flights) and additional ones for the final phase (37456 for 2836 distinct flights). Total rows is 61745.

VALIDATION

You can overwrite your <team-name>_final.parquet and each time it will be validated with checks like for phase 1, namely missing predictions, NaN, rows match on icao24,…
Feed back is written back to the bucket with the same logic as for phase 1.

Please let us know the URL of your public Github repository either via email at challenge AT opensky-network DOT org or on Discord.
NOTE: we will consider till last commit before the deadline.