Checklist INAIO 2025 Stage 2 · Task 4
SmogCast: Forecasting Air Pollution in Bangalore & Delhi
Forecast weekly PM2.5 levels in Bangalore and Delhi at a given lead time from temperature, vehicle volume and petrol price.
The task
Weekly observations give PM2.5, temperature and vehicle volume for each city and a common petrol price. Q1 asks for exploratory observations (cross-city correlation, relationships with temperature and traffic, effect of petrol price); Q2 asks for learn_air_pollution_forecast_model(train_file_path, lead_time) and forecast_air_pollution; Q3 evaluates on a public test period; Q4 is a private evaluation (14 points in total).
Abridged by SOTA from the official materials. The official statement has the exact rules, and it wins wherever this summary differs.
At a glance
- You get
air_pollution_train.csvandair_pollution_test_public.csv.- You submit
- Completed notebook functions and reported metrics.
- Scoring
- MAPE and MSE for each city.
- Rules
- Make a copy of the notebook, share it with the organisers and report LLM chats and external resources used in the main test form.
- Format
- INAIO 2025 Stage 2, 2 March 2025, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM IST (from the test form). Theory problems in a Google Form plus ML coding problems in Colab notebooks shared with the organisers.