Advance Rewards

Advance rewards are the rewards earned by Innovators for making Advance Submissions, i.e, discovering novel algorithmic methods in TIG. Innovators are rewarded for these rewards when their Method UAI is referenced by algorithms, and those algorithms are adopted by Benchmarkers.

For further details, check Advance Submissions.

Eligibility for Rewards

Rewards are calculated per block based on adoption. A Method $m$ is eligible to earn rewards based on the adoption of all algorithms that reference it. Let $K_m$ be the set of all algorithms that reference the Method $m$. If the Method $m$ is active, then to earn rewards it must have an adoption of more than $50\%$ i.e.

if a Method is in the merged state then it automatically is eligible for rewards.

Calculating Rewards

A fraction ${AR\%}$ of every block reward funds the Advance reward pool:

This pool is split equally across all challenges:

Where $AR\_reward\_pool\_pc$ is the portion of the Advance reward pool for each challenge.

This means that on any given challenge ${AR\%}$ of the block rewards are designated for the Advance submissions. Let $K_m$ be the set of all algorithms which reference an eligible Method $m$. Then the reward for Method $m$ is

If $K_m$ is empty, then $\text{reward}_m$ is set to zero.

Uncaptured Rewards

When the total rewards claimed by eligible Methods is less than the available reward pool, the remaining amount is directed to the TIG bootstrap fund. Let $M$ be the set of all eligible Methods at the current block. Specifically, for each challenge, any uncaptured reward:

is transferred to the TIG bootstrap fund. This happens when the total adoption of algorithms referencing eligible Methods is less than $1$.

This mechanism ensures that all allocated rewards are distributed, either to Innovators with Advance submissions or back to the TIG ecosystem through the bootstrap fund.