NeurIPS Newsletter – May 2026
Welcome to the May edition of the NeurIPS monthly Newsletter!
The NeurIPS Newsletter aims to provide an easy way to keep up to date with NeurIPS events and planning progress, respond to requests for feedback and participation, and find information about new initiatives. This newsletter will focus on NeurIPS 2026, held in Sydney, Australia, with official Satellites in Atlanta, USA and Paris, France. The conference will be held on the following dates:
- Sydney, Australia: from Sunday, Dec 6th to Saturday, Dec 12th
- Atlanta, USA: from Tuesday Dec 8th to Sunday Dec 13th
- Paris, France: from Wednesday Dec 9th to Sunday Dec 13th
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This NeurIPS Newsletter includes:
- CFP of Machine Learning Reproducibility Challenge (MLRC) 2026
- Call for Ethics Reviewers
- Responsible AI (RAI) fields for Evaluations and Datasets (ED) track:
- Call for Papers: Creative AI Track
- NeurIPS 2026 Competition Track Reviewing Guidelines
- Clarification on the Workshop Call for Paris and Atlanta
- CFP of Machine Learning Reproducibility Challenge (MLRC) 2026
NeurIPS is committed to promoting reproducibility, replicability, and generalizability of published claims in its conference and machine learning (ML) conferences/journals. In order to formalize the process further, we are delighted to officially partner with the Machine Learning Reproducibility Challenge (MLRC). In particular, we will experiment with integrating MLRC 2026 as an official track of NeurIPS 2026. MLRC has been the primary venue for publishing reproducibility studies and research over many years, and we are happy to add MLRC as an official track at NeurIPS 2026.
To be eligible for MLRC 2026, your reproducibility paper must be accepted as is / with minor revisions to TMLR and must have been submitted to TMLR between June 20, 2025 23:59 AOE and September 30, 2026, 23:59 AOE. Please check our CFP for more details.
For more details, please check https://blog.neurips.cc/2026/05/04/mlrc-2026-reproducibility-as-an-official-track-at-neurips/ and feel free to write to the reproducibility chairs at reproducibility-chairs@neurips.cc. - Call for Ethics Reviewers
Ethics in ML research is an important part of ensuring the integrity and impact of scientific work, and NeurIPS 2026 is looking for Ethics Reviewers to support this process. If you are able and willing to participate in the review process, please sign up at this form. Feel free to share this call with your colleagues.
Further details on the responsibilities and deadlines can be found here https://blog.neurips.cc/2026/05/12/neurips-2026-call-for-ethics-reviewers/. Please reach out to ethics-review-chairs@neurips.cc for any questions.
- Responsible AI (RAI) fields for Evaluations and Datasets (ED) track:
This year, to improve transparency and responsible use of datasets, we are introducing a new requirement for dataset submissions in the NeurIPS 2026 Evaluations and Datasets Track: all dataset submissions must now include Responsible AI (RAI) metadata as part of the dataset’s Croissant file. The detailed blog post can be found here: https://blog.neurips.cc/2026/05/04/responsible-ai-metadata-requirements-for-the-evaluations-and-datasets-track-neurips-2026/
For more questions, please see the Evaluations and Datasets Track FAQs. - Call for Papers: Creative AI Track
In its fourth year, and following previous years’ success, NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track invites research papers and artworks that explore emerging applications, methods, and critiques of artificial intelligence and machine learning in art, design, and creative practice.
Focusing on the theme of Agency, this year’s track asks: how agency emerges, is exercised, is negotiated, and is contested through creative practice with AI. Agency may belong to an artist, a collaborator, a model, an audience, a platform, a community, or even a larger social and technical system, and may be asserted, resisted, constrained, or redistributed. We welcome submissions from artists, designers, creatives, researchers, and critical thinkers who question and explore.
More info at https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/CallForCreativeAI. To stay up-to-date with all future announcements, please join our mailing list creativeaiml@googlegroups.com. For other inquiries, please contact creative-ai-chairs@neurips.cc. - NeurIPS 2026 Competition Track Reviewing Guidelines
Strong competition should generate scientific insight and lasting community resources, not just a leaderboard. Evaluate proposals as infrastructure for advancing the field, not as research papers. A strong proposal enables scientific progress, provides rigorous and fair evaluation, and delivers lasting community value.
Evaluate proposals along the following dimensions:
1. Scientific relevance and task
2. Data, environments, and resources
3. Evaluation protocol
4. Logistics and organization
5. Ethics and risk
Read more details on the call for competition track reviewing guidelines at: https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/CompetitionReviewerGuideline - Clarification on the Workshop Call location
There is likely some confusion on the location of the accepted workshops, and we already asked workshop proposers to indicate their preferred location in the 3-page main proposal draft: https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/WorkshopsGuidance
But please note, we do not promise to respect the location; we can only try our best to respect it. Feel free to reach out to NeurIPS 2026 Workshop Chairs workshop-chairs@neurips.cc for any remaining questions.
Hsuan-Tien Lin, Razvan Pascanu, Jean Kossaifi, Aadirupa Saha, Khimya Khetarpal, Feng Liu, Christian Wolf
NeurIPS 2026 General Chairs, Communication Chairs, and Local Communication Chairs
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