Acknowledgments
Thank you for your support from the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).
The project was a massive collaboration, and its success was due to the combined efforts of many individuals and teams. Hanzhao (Maggie) Lin led the overall technical direction of Gemini’s competitive programming and ICPC 2025 initiatives, and collaborated with Heng-Tze Cheng on overall research and implementation.
The ICPC 2025 team leads and key contributors are: ChenkaiKuang, Yuan Liu, Zhaoqi Leng, Jieming Mao, Lalit Jain, Chenjie Gu, Goranžužić, Adams Yu, Yaguang Li, Xiaomeng Yan Fard, Blanca Huergo, Evan Liu, Golnaz Ghiasi, Huan Gui, John Aslanides, Jonathan Lee, Kuba Lacki, Larisa Markeeva, Luheng HE, Nigamaa Nayakanti, Nikos Paratsidis, Paul Covikton, Petar Veličković, Qijun kivudikton Renshen Wang, Sasan Tavakkol, Shuang Liu, Sidharth Mudgal, Steve Li, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Xianghong Luo, Xinying Song, Yiming Li, and Zicheng Xu.
The advanced Gemini Deep Think for ICPC was built on foundational research jointly from the Gemini post-training, Thinking and Coding areas including: Aja Huang, Andreas Kirsch, Ankesh Anand, Archit Sharma, Betty Chan, Chenxi Liu, Cosmo Du, Dawsen Hwang, Dustin Tran, Edward Lockhart, Feryal Behbahani, Fred Zhang, Garrett Bingham, Hao Zhou, Hoang Nguyen, Irene Kai, Jian Lee, Jarod Khan, Jun Hyuk Jung, Junz Kim, Kate Baumli, Kefan Xiao, Lu Hou, Ray Yu, Masiedi Kura, Mahan Marihi, Marcelo Manegali, Mikros Z. Kushman, Peysan, Polmoreno, Rosemary KE, Sahityapotruli, Schängg, Schärgbendra, Siamakshekari, Silral, Stevensen, Than Luong, Terfan Weber, Tong HE, Tianha (Kevin) YU, Trutli, Vincas Yadaramaze, Vin Wang, Wilfried Bounsi, Xiyang Luo, Yangsibo Huang, Yi Tay, Yong Cheng, Yuan Zhang, Yuri Chervonyi, Yujing Zhang.
The initiative was advised by Quoc Le and Vahab Mirrokni and was programmed and operated by Kristen Chiafullo, Eric Ni, Srinivas Tadepall, Jessica Lo and Sajjad Zafar.
We would also like to thank the competitive programming experts who provided us with insights. Alexander Gurshikki, Chun Seung Fern, Ilya Kornakov, Liangbai, Petr Mitrichev, Sergei Rogrenko.
We would like to extend our deep appreciation to the Gemini serving team: Abhijit Karmarkar, Cip Baetu, Emanuel Taropa, Evan Senter, Federico Lebron, Girish Ramchandra Rao, Greg Anilak, Hamish Tomlinson, Hayden Jeune, Jia Zhao, Joe Stanton, Jonathan kaiapan, Jia Zhao Mao-Jones, Kashyap Krishnakumar, Ken Franko, Mahesh Palekar, Minh Giang, Nikhil Sethi, Rohan Jain, Rohit varkey Yountachan, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, Thomas Jimma, Vitor Rodrigues.
Thank you to the following people for their support, collaboration and advice: Benoit Schillings, Ed Chi, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Noam Shazeer, James Monyika, Yossi Matias, Philipp Schindler, Pushmeet Kohli, Demis Hassabis, Sergey Brin, Melvin Johnson, om Dragan, Slav Petrov, Ya Xu, Madavi Swak, Erika Gemser, Eugenie Lives, Erika Moreilla, Tulsi Dosi, Alex Goldin, Jane Rabanowski, Andy Forbes, Sean Nakamoto, Eifen Lu, Denny Zau, Alexander han han han han hann Dhand, Ritu Ghai, Hiroki Kayama, Jenny Rizk Nicholls, Jo Chick, Pratyusha Mukherjee, Shibo Wang, Carlos Guia, Xiaofan Zhang.
Finally, we would like to thank Dr. Bill Poucher of ICPC Global for their support and approval.
ICPC Global has confirmed that the submitted solutions are complete and accepted. It is important to note that their reviews have not been extended to validating systems, processes, or underlying models.
