Description

This ITU challenge, hosted on Zindi, asks participants to improve TelcoRetrieve, an open, vendor-neutral retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline developed by GSMA. The pipeline retrieves information directly from telecommunications standards and cites source documents, addressing inaccurate citations, confusion between releases, and outdated model knowledge.

Participants can improve retrieval through chunking, enrichment, hybrid search, and reranking, or fine-tune the generator and embedding models within the challenge’s model constraints. Evaluation prioritises standards-grounded answer accuracy and token efficiency, with public testing followed by held-out private evaluation. The goal is to help engineers, vendors, and standards bodies navigate specifications, check implementations, support interoperability testing, and reduce manual cross-referencing across the telecoms ecosystem.