NeurIPS Newsletter – June 2026
Welcome to the June 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:
- Updates in the Position Paper Track
- Reminder of Call for Ethics Reviewers
- Call for Tutorials
- Call for Affinity Events
- Updates in the Position Paper Track
- The Call for Paper of NeurIPS 2026 Position Paper Track requires papers to be substantially human-written, with AI used only for copy-editing or similar peripheral changes to the main text. The Position Paper Track chairs took a conservative approach, noting that excessive AI use in writing submitted position papers may create risks for peer review, including added verification burden for reviewers and questions about attribution.
- To assess whether authors were largely abiding by this policy, the Position Paper Track chairs partnered with Pangram, under an enterprise-level data agreement ensuring that zero data would be retained. After several independent analyses to verify the model and rule out scenarios with significant false positives, the chairs made the difficult decision to uphold the policy: 178 submissions, or 18.4%, will be desk rejected, while 123 submissions, or 12.7%, will be asked to provide evidence of substantial human engagement or risk desk rejection.
- The blog post lays out the analyses informing this decision and shares the organizers’ perspective.
- Reminder of Call for Ethics Reviewers
- NeurIPS is recruiting Ethics Reviewers for NeurIPS 2026!
- If you have experience critically evaluating potential risks and harms in machine learning research, and can provide thoughtful feedback on broader impacts, please read our Call for Reviewers and consider volunteering as an ethics reviewer. You can also directly volunteer here: NeurIPS 2026 Ethics Reviewer Self-Nomination – Fill out form
- Please share with qualified and interested colleagues! The scale of the conference continues to grow, so we are always seeking to grow our pool of ethics reviewers.
- Call for Tutorials
- NeurIPS is calling proposals for in-person tutorials, please send your proposals before July 3rd, 2026, AOE. Read more about this year’s guidelines here: https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/CallForTutorials
- Whether you are planning to send a proposal or not, let us know what topics you would like to see covered in tutorials by filling our survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScG3y-x_I_7nd7FOD9kAsiqnhMW8vsLUe9MivTOzgwXoU-E_Q/viewform?usp=header
- Call for Affinity Events
- NeurIPS is calling proposals for affinity events at NeurIPS 2026. Affinity groups interested in organizing an event are invited to submit the Application Form and signed Agreement Form by June 28th, 2026, AOE, to affinity-chairs@neurips.cc.
- For any questions, concerns, or feedback, please contact affinity-chairs@neurips.cc.
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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