Challenge library

EpiBenchmark ships with a library of predefined challenges (challenges have fixed hub, target, dates, horizons, quantiles, locations, and scoring settings). Explore each challenge in our library below. You can list them locally via the command line with epibench list, and fully download a challenge from Zenodo with epibench fetch <challenge-id>.

Click a challenge to expand its full definition.

epb_flu_inchosp_2023-2024_v1

Field	Value
Hub	flusight-forecast-hub
Target	wk inc flu hosp
Reference dates	2023-10-14 → 2024-05-04 (30 dates)
Horizons	0, 1, 2, 3
Quantiles	0.05, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 0.95
Locations	52
Baseline model	FluSight-baseline
Scorecard	total wis, 50_coverage, 95_coverage
Zenodo	not yet published to Zenodo

epb_flu_inchosp_2024-2025_dev

Field	Value
Hub	flusight-forecast-hub
Target	wk inc flu hosp
Reference dates	2024-11-23 → 2025-05-31 (27 dates)
Horizons	0, 1, 2, 3
Quantiles	0.05, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 0.95
Locations	52
Baseline model	FluSight-baseline
Scorecard	total wis, 50_coverage, 95_coverage
Zenodo	10.5281/zenodo.21413630

• Note: epb_flu_inchosp_2025-2025_dev has a 1-week date discontinuity at 2025-01-25 due to a US government shutdown.

epb_flu_inchosp_2025-2026_dev

Field	Value
Hub	flusight-forecast-hub
Target	wk inc flu hosp
Reference dates	2025-11-22 → 2026-05-30 (28 dates)
Horizons	0, 1, 2, 3
Quantiles	0.05, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 0.95
Locations	52
Baseline model	FluSight-baseline
Scorecard	total wis, 50_coverage, 95_coverage
Zenodo	10.5281/zenodo.21413852

epb_rsv_inchosp_2025-2026_dev

Field	Value
Hub	rsv-forecast-hub
Target	wk inc rsv hosp
Reference dates	2025-11-22 → 2026-05-30 (28 dates)
Horizons	0, 1, 2, 3
Quantiles	0.05, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 0.95
Locations	52
Baseline model	RSVHub-baseline
Scorecard	total wis, 50_coverage, 95_coverage
Zenodo	10.5281/zenodo.21413793