NeurIPS Newsletter – July 2026
Welcome to the July edition of the NeurIPS monthly Newsletter!
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- 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:
- Competition Track Decisions Announced
- Call for Social Events
- Clarification on the Rebuttals and Author Discussion
- Creative AI track deadline Extension
- Upcoming Workshop Decisions
- NeurIPS 2026 Competition Track Decisions Announced
- The NeurIPS 2026 competition track decisions were announced: the program includes competitions ranging from Scientific AI, Physics, and Engineering, to Healthcare, Biology, and Humanitarian Applications, to Foundation Models, Reasoning and AI Evaluation, to Robotics, Agents and Embodied AI.
- For the details and more information on the decisions, read our blog post: https://blog.neurips.cc/2026/07/28/neurips-2026-competitions-announced/
- For any questions, concerns, or feedback, please contact competition-chairs@neurips.cc
- NeurIPS 2026 Call for Social Events
- NeurIPS is soliciting proposals for social events at NeurIPS 2026. NeurIPS social events are community-led events that help attendees connect, exchange ideas, build collaborations, and create lasting memories beyond the technical program. Whether you’re a first-time organizer or a seasoned community builder, we encourage you to submit your idea by September 5, 2026. Let’s make NeurIPS 2026 an unforgettable experience—together! Learn more and submit your proposal: NeurIPS 2026 Call for Socials.
- For any questions, concerns, or feedback, please contact social-chairs@neurips.cc
- Clarification on the Rebuttals and Author Discussion
- A clarification on the timeframe for rebuttals and author discussion, for all three tracks at NeurIPS 2026.
Rebuttals can be posted until August 3rd AOE. This includes any back and forth with the reviewers. The “rebuttal” button and “official comment” button will both be treated equivalently – the difference in terminology between the two is to facilitate discussion during the discussion period on OpenReview. This also means you are allowed to post several comments, with a total of over 10000 characters.
Please post your answers to the Area Chair’s initial-meta reviews via a comment from July 28th and by August 3rd, so that reviewers can see it too.
We emphasize that the entire period from July 27 through August 3 AOE is time for authors to respond to reviews, including with additional results or other responses to reviewers as applicable. It is your choice how you wish to divide this time into initial rebuttals and subsequent discussion with reviewers and ACs.
- A clarification on the timeframe for rebuttals and author discussion, for all three tracks at NeurIPS 2026.
- Creative AI track deadline Extension
- To accommodate submissions that may require additional preparation time, the NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track is extending its submission deadline by one week, to August 10, 2026, Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
For more information, please refer to https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/CallForCreativeAI
- To accommodate submissions that may require additional preparation time, the NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track is extending its submission deadline by one week, to August 10, 2026, Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
- Upcoming Workshop Decisions
- The decisions for the workshops will be posted in early August followed by a blog post – stay tuned!
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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