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Having observed recent discussions taking place across social media, we feel the need to reiterate that, as a community, we must be mindful of the impact that statements and actions have on our peers, and future generations of AI / ML students and researchers.
It is incumbent upon NeurIPS and the AI / ML community as a whole to foster a collaborative, welcoming environment for all. Therefore, statements and actions contrary to the NeurIPS mission and its Code of Conduct cannot and will not be tolerated. For any conference attendee failing to abide by our Code of Conduct, NeurIPS reserves its right to rescind that person’s ability to participate in any future NeurIPS-organized events. …
Hsuan-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 Paper Awards are:
- No-Regret Learning Dynamics for Extensive-Form Correlated Equilibrium by Andrea Celli (Politecnico di Milano), Alberto Marchesi (Politecnico di Milano), Gabriele Farina (Carnegie Mellon University), and Nicola Gatti (Politecnico di Milano). This paper will be presented on Tuesday, December 8th at 6:00 AM PST in the Learning Theory track.
- Improved Guarantees and a Multiple-Descent Curve for Column Subset Selection and the Nyström Method by Michal Derezinski (UC Berkeley), Rajiv Khanna (UC Berkeley), and Michael W. Mahoney (UC Berkeley). …
Katherine Gorman, Collective Next
Michael Littman, Brown University
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 evolved.
One of our major efforts this year has been this very blog! …
Hsuan-Tien Lin, Maria Florina Balcan, Raia Hadsell and Marc’Aurelio Ranzato
NeurIPS 2020 Program Chairs
With Y-Lan Boureau and Hendrik Strobelt, NeurIPS 2020 Online Experience Chairs
And Hugo Larochelle, General Chair
We are now just a few weeks away from the start of the conference and we are very excited to announce the schedule and how NeurIPS 2020 will unfold. Back in June, we made the difficult decision that NeurIPS would be a virtual event. We invited two Online Experience Chairs to join the organising committee, and began to plan for a virtual rather than a physical meeting.
There are several challenges when organizing a virtual event. First and foremost, presenters and attendees are spread around the world, and it is difficult to have them all come together at a time that is convenient for everybody. There are further issues related to basic accessibility in areas with low bandwidth internet connection and accessibility to apps that are not permitted in certain geographic areas. Another major challenge is the lack of social interaction, since one of the major drives to attend a conference is to meet people and exchange ideas, and the experience of virtual attendees can be impoverished in comparison. Finally, there are challenges related to improving the user interface of the communication tools and teaching people these tools, and to be able to release the schedule well in advance so that people have the warning they need to plan their attendance. …
Pablo Samuel Castro (@pcastr) — Google Research
Neil Lawrence (@lawrennd) — Cambridge University
Yale Song (@yalesong) — Microsoft Research
EXPO Chairs NeurIPS 2020
The NeurIPS EXPO will be held on Sun, Dec 6, 2020, the day before the NeurIPS 2020 main conference tutorials. This is the third year of the Expo, which aims to showcase the industrial application of the research topics discussed during the main conference.
The tenets of the EXPO are:
- Present what is taking place in the field of AI/ML research and applications generally.
- Help the practitioner community gain a wider perspective on the context in which algorithms are being used to solve the real-world problems. …
Dr. Katja Hofmann, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, and head of the Game Intelligence group
Dr. Hugo Jair Escalante, Principal Researcher at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Mexico.
NeurIPS 2020 competition and demonstration co-chairs
It’s our great pleasure to announce the NeurIPS 2020 demonstration program. We particularly like this track of the conference. …
Katherine Heller (Google Brain) and Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research)
Diversity and Inclusion Chairs
While a virtual NeurIPS with reduced registration fees and no registration cap provides unprecedented access to one of the most popular conferences in the field, the new format and underlying pandemic present a host of challenges for diversity and inclusion (D&I). Obstacles include the
- lack of available childcare,
- time zone mismatch amongst presenters and participants,
- variability in access to high-bandwidth internet for constant video streaming, and
- reduced ability to connect socially, brainstorm internationally, and cross-pollinate conveniently.
In spite of these challenges, we are taking a number of important steps to support and improve D&I in the upcoming conference. …
Hsuan-Tien Lin, Maria Florina Balcan, Raia Hadsell and Marc’Aurelio Ranzato
NeurIPS 2020 Program Chairs
Now that the reviewing period is over, we would like to share with you some statistics and insights about the reviewing process we used this year.
We received 12115 abstract submissions, which resulted in 9467 full paper submissions. Compared to 2019, the number of submissions increased by 40%, which is very similar to the growth from 2018 to 2019.
After more than three months of hard work from our reviewers, area chairs and senior area chairs (thank you, all!!), we have accepted exactly 1900 papers, including 105 oral presentations and 280 spotlight presentations. …
Maria Skoularidou & Vukosi Marivate
NeurIPS 2020 Social Chairs
We are excited to announce that we are extending our call for social events until October 30th, 2020 AOE (anywhere on earth). We have had a number of wonderful applications, which are currently in review, but are extending the deadline to also reach more of our community.
The social events provide an excellent opportunity for those with a common interest to meet up, discuss, collaborate, argue, or celebrate. People are also encouraged to provide mentorship sessions, but many topics can work to bring members of the community together in an engaging and informal way. Given the unprecedented times that we are going through, we are happy to consider any creative idea. We solicit proposals on any scientific or non-scientific topic intended to enrich the community. Note that organizers of accepted socials are expected to register for the conference. …
Louvere Walker-Hannon (Senior Application Engineer, MathWorks)
Anoush Najarian (Software Engineering Manager, MathWorks)
Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan (Team Leader, RIKEN Center for AI project)
The Meetup Chairs
The Meetup Chairs would like to update you about NeurIPS meetups, an initiative pioneered at NeurIPS last year that we are excited to be building on. NeurIPS meetups are intended to construct a worldwide, distributed presence for NeurIPS.
The goal of this blog post is to share the revised format for NeurIPS Meetups 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The new changes in the format are
- The meetups are virtual only.
- There will only be regular meetups and no supermeetups. …
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