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Challenge

Multi-Agent Image Integrity Audit for Antibody Validation

Automated image manipulation detection in publication figures is critical to biomedical research integrity. Build a multi-agent auditing workflow using AutoGen and Replit Agent to evaluate western blots and microscopy images for duplicate bands and splicing. Achieve greater than 90 percent detection accuracy on synthetic validation sets.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Orchestrate an AutoGen multi-agent system combining computer vision pipelines and Replit Agent execution to detect image manipulation in biomedical literature.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates the accuracy of multi-agent image manipulation detection and audit report generation.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
2 scoring checks
Binary
2 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

valid_json_output

Ensures the agent outputs valid JSON schema matching audit specs.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Dimension 2

f1_score

F1 score of image manipulation anomaly detection. • target: 0.9 • range: 0-1

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Design an AutoGen conversational multi-agent system for automated figure inspection

  • Implement deep learning image forgery detection models using PyTorch and OpenCV

  • Automate code execution environments using Replit Agent tools

  • Generate standardized audit reports detailing integrity confidence scores

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Synthetic and annotated collection of Western blot and microscopy images containing original panels and simulated splicing or duplication anomalies.

Challenge setup

Evaluates the accuracy of multi-agent image manipulation detection and audit report generation.

Challenge input

JSON array of image paths and metadata

AutoGen

Required framework for orchestrating conversational audit agents.

Replit Agent

Used for live code generation and isolated image metric computation.

Evaluated output

JSON array of bounding boxes, anomaly types, and overall verdict

Evaluation checks
  • Ensures the agent outputs valid JSON schema matching audit specs.
  • F1 score of image manipulation anomaly detection. • target: 0.9 • range: 0-1
Configured evaluation evidence
  • Benchmark: BioImageIntegrity-Bench
  • F1 Score target: 0.9
  • 1 public reference case
Configured runtime
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Environment
  • Replit Agent · Required
Action Space
  • Replit Agent · Required
  • AutoGen · Optional
Policy Serving
  • Hunyuan · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • valid_json_output · Weight 1
  • f1_score · Weight 1

Metrics

  • f1_score · Target 0.9

Benchmarks

  • BioImageIntegrity-Bench
  • biotech

Reference cases

  • 1 public reference case

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: JSON array of image paths and metadata

    Output: JSON array of bounding boxes, anomaly types, and overall verdict

    Execution harness: Python

Evaluation tools

  • AutoGen · Multi-agent framework
  • Replit Agent · Sandbox agent environment

Recipe freeze marker

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