First GOLD $5000

Unlocking the Potential of Global Human Expertise
https://human-competitive.org/sites/default/files/rhea_neurips_paper_0.pdf
38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024)
https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94038
Elliot Meyerson, Olivier Francon, Darren Sargent, Babak Hodjat, Risto Miikkulainen

SILVER $3000

LLaMEA: A Large Language Model Evolutionary Algorithm for Automatically Generating Metaheuristics
https://human-competitive.org/sites/default/files/llamea_a_large_language_model_evolutionary_algorithm_for_automatically_generating_metaheuristics_0.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2024.3497793
Optimizing Photonic Structures with Large Language Model Driven Algorithm Discovery, GECCO LLMfwEC 2025
https://human-competitive.org/sites/default/files/gecco_wksp125_llamea_real_world_application_0.pdf
Niki van Stein, Thomas Baeck, Haoran Yin, Anna V. Kononova

BRONZE $1000

A computational model for multiobjective optimization of multipolar stimulation in cochlear implants: An enhanced focusing approach
https://human-competitive.org/sites/default/files/1-s2.0-s0957417425010942-main_0.pdf
Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 280
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.127472
Marcos Hernandez-Gil, Angel Ramos-de-Miguel, David Greiner, Domingo Benitez, Angel Ramos-Macias, Jose Maria Escobar

BRONZE $1000

Hybrid Generative AI for De Novo Design of Co-Crystals with Enhanced Tabletability
https://human-competitive.org/sites/default/files/hybrid-generative-ai-for-de-novo-design-of-co-crystals-with-enhanced-tabletability-neurips-2024.pdf
The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/95931
Nina Gubina, Andrei Dmitrenko, Gleb Solovev, Lyubov Yamshchikova, Oleg Petrov, Ivan Lebedev, Nikita Serov, Grigorii Kirgizov, Nikolay Nikitin, Vladimir Vinogradov