May 14, 2021NeurIPS 2021 Deadline ExtensionAlina Beygelzimer, Yann Dauphin, Percy Liang, and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan NeurIPS 2021 Program Chairs In recent weeks, members of the NeurIPS community have reached out to us to express their concern about the toll that the pandemic is taking on our international community. We have heard from researchers — including…3 min read3 min read
May 13, 2021NeurIPS 2021 CompetitionsDouwe Kiela, Barbara Caputo, Marco Ciccone Today, we introduce the competitions that have been accepted at NeurIPS 2021. We selected a total of 23 competitions out of 46 very strong proposals, covering a wide range of areas and subdisciplines. We are super excited about this year’s program and the set…2 min read2 min read
Apr 9, 2021NeurIPS 2021: Changes to the Review ProcessAlina Beygelzimer, Yann Dauphin, Percy Liang, and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan NeurIPS 2021 Program Chairs The review process for NeurIPS 2021 starts soon! NeurIPS has a long history of experimentation, and this year we are making several changes that we hope will inform and improve the review process going forward. …4 min read4 min read
Apr 7, 2021Announcing the NeurIPS 2021 Datasets and Benchmarks TrackJoaquin 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…4 min read4 min read
Mar 26, 2021Introducing the NeurIPS 2021 Paper ChecklistAlina 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…6 min read6 min read
Mar 23, 2021NeurIPS 2021 Call for CompetitionsDouwe Kiela, Barbara Caputo, Marco Ciccone 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…3 min read3 min read
Feb 12, 2021NeurIPS 2020 Online Experiments: Gather Town Poster Sessions and MementorY-Lan Boureau, Facebook AI Research Hendrik Strobelt, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab at IBM Research NeurIPS 2020 Online Experience Chairs 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…8 min read8 min read
Dec 16, 2020NeurIPS Statement on Ethics, Fairness, Inclusivity, and Code of ConductThe 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…Neurips1 min readNeurips1 min read
Dec 7, 2020Announcing the NeurIPS 2020 award recipientsHsuan-Tien Lin, Maria Florina Balcan, Raia Hadsell and Marc’Aurelio Ranzato NeurIPS 2020 Program Chairs 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 Awards The winners of the NeurIPS 2020 Best…6 min read6 min read
