Bellatrix- Cognizance 2026
IIT Roorkee
📌 About the Event
BELLATRIX is a premier Reinforcement Learning (RL) hackathon where participants design and optimize intelligent agents for a mystery control system in real time. The competition focuses on reward engineering, parameter tuning, efficiency, robustness, and stability. Participants compete on a live automated leaderboard evaluating agents based on performance and mathematical certainty.
ℹ️ Event Details
- Category: Reinforcement Learning (RL) Hackathon
- Eligibility:
- Undergraduate/Postgraduate students of any discipline
- Working professionals
- School students are not eligible
- Team Size:
- Maximum 5 members per team
- Effort Level: High
- Reinforcement Learning-only mandate
- Reward shaping requirement
- Parameter optimization
- Automated stress-testing evaluation
- Live leaderboard ranking
- Trained model + report submission
- Submission Type: Participants must submit:
- Source code (well-documented and modular)
- A trained model checkpoint
- A short report (2–3 pages) including:
- Algorithm used
- Reward design
- Training strategy
- Observations and results
📅 Important Dates
Registration – Ongoing
Deadline – March 12, 2026
This contest is part of Cognizance 2026, held on 13th March 2026 – 15th March 2026.
🏆 Prize Details and Value
| Prize Component | Details |
|---|---|
| Total Prize Pool | ₹40,000 |
📑Problem Statement
🎯Execution Details
- Codebase revealed only at commencement of hackathon
- Reward system modification mandatory
- Parameter optimization required
- Automated backend evaluation
- Stress-testing with randomized seeds and edge cases
- Python programming language
- CPU-based training (No GPU required)
- Pre-trained models strictly prohibited
- RL-only approaches allowed
- Single submission rule
- Zero plagiarism policy
📞Point of Contacts
Harshal – +91 98715 43550
Jitesh Jatawat – +91 79766 70331