Kakao Launches Machine Learning Competition Platform 'Kakao Arena'... Releases 10 Million Data Points

Kakao has launched 'Kakao Arena', a competition platform for solving problems with machine learning. Similar to Kaggle, this platform continuously hosts and operates competitions featuring high-quality data and clear objectives.

The first competition is 'Shopping Mall Product Category Classification', aiming to improve classification accuracy using product text and image data from Daum Shopping. To support this, Kakao has released approximately 10 million product information entries and over 4,000 category data entries. The competition runs from November 7, 2018, to January 7, 2019, and is judged based on predictive performance and accuracy.

Kakao determined that releasing internal data contributes to technological advancement and open innovation. It differentiates itself by noting that providing a competition platform domestically is rare compared to Kaggle. The platform name is derived from the ancient Roman stadium 'Arena,' symbolizing a space for transparently sharing data and results.