2025 Machine Learning Marathon (MLM25)

The 2025 Machine Learning Marathon (MLM25) is a 12-week ML/AI hackathon (Sept. 11 - Dec. 11) where teams of 2-5 tackle real-world challenges, share tools and insights, and build practical skills along the way. Weekly meetings feature workshops, advisor support, and presentations to help teams make steady progress. All participants also receive AWS credits and training to support their ML/AI experiments using cloud resources.

Open to anyone with ML fundamentals, MLM25 explores a wide range of methods and domains — including computer vision, time-series forecasting, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), safety-aligned LLMs, protein language models, and more.

Explore 2025 challenges: Review challenge-specific prerequisites and find something that fits your skills, interests, and learning goals: ml-marathon.wisc.edu/challenges

Register individually by Sept 10. Tickets are limited and available on a first-come basis — we recommend registering early to secure your spot. Team registration isn't due until Sept. 18th (1 week after kickoff). Learn more and register: ml-marathon.wisc.edu 

Interested in advising a challenge? Contact us (endemann@wisc.edu)— we'd love to hear from you.