Joaquin Vanschoren and Serena Yeung There are no good models without good data (Sambasivan et al. 2021). The vast majority of the NeurIPS community focuses on algorithm design, but often can’t easily find good datasets to evaluate their algorithms in a way that is maximally useful for the community and/or practitioners. Hence, many researchers resort […]

Alina Beygelzimer, Yann Dauphin, Percy Liang, and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, NeurIPS 2021 Program Chairs Welcome! This is the first in a series of blog posts that will take you behind the scenes to explore the organization, review process, and program for NeurIPS 2021. As Program Chairs, we have spent the past few months immersing ourselves […]

Douwe Kiela, Barbara Caputo, Marco Ciccone, NeurIPS 2021 Competitions Chairs This year will mark the fifth year of NeurIPS having a dedicated competitions track! The competition and demo chairs for 2021 are Douwe Kiela, Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), and Barbara Caputo, Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino, where she leads the Visual […]

NeurIPS 2020 was held online in December 2020. Attendees had reported mixed experiences with poster sessions from previous online conferences, and found mentor-mentee matching very valuable. We aimed to craft a smoother experience by re-designing poster sessions and making mentorship connections easier through a new matching platform. We wanted to lean into the unique opportunities […]

The NeurIPS Foundation believes in the principles of ethics, fairness, and inclusivity, and is dedicated to providing a safe space where research can be shared, reviewed, and debated by the AI / ML community.Having observed recent discussions taking place across social media, we feel the need to reiterate that, as a community, we must be […]

In this blog post, we are excited to announce the various awards that are presented at NeurIPS 2020 and to share information about the selection processes for these awards.NeurIPS 2020 Best Paper AwardsThe winners of the NeurIPS 2020 Best Paper Awards are:No-Regret Learning Dynamics for Extensive-Form Correlated Equilibrium by Andrea Celli (Politecnico di Milano), Alberto […]

The conference is here and we’re very excited to bring you a fantastic experience! For the past couple of years the conference has started to think more actively about how it can communicate both with the public and with the attendee community, we wanted to bring you a quick peek into how those efforts have […]