German Center for Open Source AI

Project ideas

18 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 18 that state a difficulty: 2 easy, 9 medium, 7 hard. Sizes: 2 small, 4 medium, 9 large. 14 mentors named.

1. Pairwise Causal Discovery Algorithms large medium
2. Implement a Benchmarking framework large medium
3. Expand Causal Discovery Algorithms large medium
4. Expand Causal Identification Module large hard
5. Implement a modern p-value computation. medium
6. Scikit-Learn Interface. medium
7. Centered Feature Functions. medium
8. Project 1: Migrate tapnet, resnet, and cntc tensorflow based models to torch and enhance the torch m large medium
9. Project 2: Migrate fcn, cnn TensorFlow based models to Torch and enhance the torch models in sktime large medium
10. Project 3: Interface foundations models - development, interfaces, research large hard
11. Project 4: Interface foundations models - development, interfaces, research medium hard
12. Project 5: Hierarchical models and hierarchical distributions medium hard
13. Project 6: Stream and online support for forecasting and detection tasks small easy
14. Project 7: Detection framework with sktime and skchange small easy
15. Foundation Models large hard
16. pytorch-forecasting & dsipts - redesign, sktime integration medium medium
17. Pre-training, Global Learning and fine-tuning API large hard
18. Probabilistic forecasting, survival models, Bayesian interfaces medium hard

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2026, 1 year. Projects per year: '26: 5.

On GitHub

8 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: CSS (1), Jupyter Notebook (1), Python (1).

Links and channels

• Website: https://gcos.ai/
• Ideas page: https://github.com/gc-os-ai/mentoring-projects/blob/main/2026/ideas_list.md
• Contributor guide: https://github.com/gc-os-ai/mentoring-projects/blob/main/README.md#contributor-guides
• Source code: https://github.com/gc-os-ai/.github/blob/main/profile/README.md
• Chat: https://discord.gg/7uKdHfdcJG

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