performing a replication of a recent engineering-heavy paper and putting it on github (including the source code)

building a LLM powered tool and putting it on github (including the source code)

making substantive contributions to one or more existing open source libraries in the space

participating in ML competitions (e.g. Kaggle) and placing highly

implementing and improving upon SOTA models in a specific domain and putting it on github (including the source code)

creating an AI agent that learns to play and excel at a particular video game and putting it on github (including the source code)

running your own, albeit small, ML experiment and publishing an arxiv preprint