Dates
- Launch: February 1, 2026
- Submissions Due: April 20, 2026
- Results Announced: ACIC 2026
Goal
This year the challenge will focus on the complications that arise in situations with multiple treatments. This will help us to understand how causal inference approaches handle the competing demands of settings with a wide variety of estimands.
Structure
There are two submission tracks
- Curation: Focus on 18 datasets that represent the competition challenges
- The Works: Submit results for all 9000 datasets.
Participation
To participate in the competition at least one participant of every team needs to be a member of the Society for Causal Inference (see here for details on how to become a member of SCI). Please register for the challenge using this form. Registration will provide you access to the data and allow us to assign you a team number (up to 5 submissions per team).
Contact
Questions?? Please review the website to see if it answers your question. If not, feel free to contact us at acic2026datachallenge@gmail.com.