We are delighted to announce the tutorials that have been accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 Tutorial Track. In total, we selected 19 very strong proposals out of 62 submissions, covering a wide range of topics and sub-disciplines. The tutorials will take place on: All NeurIPS 2026 tutorial proposals underwent a review process comprising the following […]

By Celia Cintas, Harshita Sahni, Sarthak Arora, Yachna Sharma We are excited to announce this year’s affinity events co-located with NeurIPS in Sydney (Australia), Paris (France), and Atlanta (United States). What are affinity groups? At NeurIPS, affinity groups play a crucial role in promoting and supporting the ideas and voices of various communities that are […]

NeurIPS is at its best when people from across our community can participate fully, presenting their work, exchanging ideas, finding collaborators, and helping make the conference possible. We are excited to announce that applications for NeurIPS 2026 Financial Assistance and conference volunteering are now open. NeurIPS 2026 will bring our community together across Sydney, Atlanta, […]

The Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation is excited to announce the recipients of the NeurIPS 2026 Bridging the Future Grants Program, created to support innovative activities that broaden participation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Open to learners at every stage, from grade school students taking their first steps in computational thinking to […]

Welcome to the August 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 […]

With NeurIPS 2026 adopting a distributed, multi-site format across Sydney, Atlanta, and Paris, managing attendance is a significant logistical challenge. Given the size of the conference, our primary goal is to provide fair access to participants worldwide while allocating registrations across the three venues. To help clarify the process, here is a breakdown of how […]

Every year, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) relies on the incredible dedication, vision, and hard work of our volunteer organizing committee. We are so excited to introduce the wonderful group of researchers, practitioners, and leaders who will bring NeurIPS 2026 to life! Earlier this year, we put out a Call for Organizer […]

We are excited to announce the list of NeurIPS 2026 workshops. We received 477 submissions (454 valid), a significant increase over last year’s numbers. From this great batch of submissions, we have accepted 102 workshops: 48, 28, and 26, to be hosted in Sydney, Paris, and Atlanta, respectively. The acceptance rates were 21.5%, 25.4%, and […]

Welcome to the July 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 […]

We are delighted to announce the competitions that have been accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 Competition Track. As in previous years, the selection process was highly competitive, with many outstanding submissions spanning a broad range of machine learning research areas and real-world applications. After a careful review process, we selected 16 exceptional competitions that reflect […]

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 […]

This year, the NeurIPS 2026 Position Paper Track made the decision to require that all papers be substantially human-written, with AI used for only copy-editing or similar peripheral changes to the main text. While we recognize that thoughtful use of AI can result in productivity gains in research, the use of AI to write papers […]

Welcome to the May 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 […]

Ethics in ML research is an important part of ensuring the integrity and impact of scientific work, and NeurIPS 2026 is looking for Ethics Reviewers to support this process. If you are able and willing to participate in the review process, please sign up at this form. Feel free to share this call with your […]

When Joelle Pineau launched the first Machine Learning Reproducibility Challenge at ICLR 2018, it was a small community experiment: could we systematically invite researchers to reproduce published results and share what they found? Eight years and eight editions later, we are delighted to announce that MLRC 2026 will be an official track at NeurIPS 2026 […]

This year, to improve transparency and responsible use of datasets, we are introducing a new requirement for dataset submissions in the NeurIPS 2026 Evaluations and Datasets Track: all dataset submissions must now include Responsible AI (RAI) metadata as part of the dataset’s Croissant file. Dataset submissions to the track are already required to include a […]

Welcome to the April 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 […]

NeurIPS Program Chairs: Marc Deisenroth, Finale Doshi-Velez, Nika Haghtalab, David Rolnick, Jenna Wiens Google Research: Rajesh Jayaram Vincent Cohen-Addad Drew Tyler David Woodruff Google Cloud: Jinsung Yoon Mihir Parmar Palash Goyal Google Sponsors: Corinna Cortes Vahab Mirrokni Tomas Pfister Burak Gokturk NeurIPS Communication Chair: Jean Kossaifi Following positive feedback from other venues, like STOC and […]

The NeurIPS community benefits from a wide diversity of papers and ideas, which can arise and be developed in many different ways. To help cultivate the diversity of papers that belong at NeurIPS, this year the Main Track is asking authors to select a Contribution Type: The review form used is the same across all […]

We are asking community members to self-nominate as Area Chair for the 2026 Position Paper Track! In line with the track’s aim of expanding topical scope, we are looking for experts from a diverse range of disciplines. NeurIPS relies upon the active participation of the community to evaluate submissions and uphold scientific quality. Area chairs […]

We are excited to announce the Position Paper Track is back at NeurIPS 2026 for the second year. Last year was a crucial experiment that created a forum for discussion on hot topics in our field. As a newer track at NeurIPS, we made several experimental decisions last year intended to promote discussion and improve […]

We are excited to announce that the Datasets & Benchmarks Track at NeurIPS 2026 has been officially renamed the Evaluations & Datasets (ED) Track. While the track continues to align with the main conference (see the call for paper) in terms of requirements and timeline, this year we introduce an important refinement; an expanded scope […]

As NeurIPS continues to grow, we recognize that Area Chairs (ACs) are, in many senses, the most essential people in the NeurIPS program creation process. Your judgment about how to synthesize reviews towards an accept or reject decision largely determines our program. Recognizing the pivotal role that ACs play, we are introducing three synergistic initiatives […]

Hsuan-Tien Lin (National Taiwan University) and Razvan Pascanu (Google DeepMind) The planning for NeurIPS 2026 has already begun, and we are excited to have joined this year as co-General Chairs for the conference, and to make our contributions to this important meeting in our field’s annual calendar. NeurIPS is a large conference and its organization […]

By Foundation Board The Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation is announcing today a $500,000 donation to OpenReview, reinforcing our commitment to the infrastructure that enables rigorous scholarly publishing in machine learning and artificial intelligence. A Critical Partnership For years, OpenReview has served as the backbone of peer review for NeurIPS and numerous other premier conferences […]

This post provides an update on the 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track, reflecting on how the new hosting and metadata requirements affected submissions and the review process. We present submission statistics, survey findings from 851 authors and 155 reviewers, and identify areas requiring continued development. This differs from our earlier post on the review process […]

The NeurIPS 2025 organizing committee is actively monitoring the security incident on OpenReview that exposed the identities of some involved in the reviewing process across many conferences in the AI/ML community. We are issuing this statement to clarify our position on the exploitation of this information and to reaffirm our commitment to maintaining the integrity […]

The NeurIPS organizing committee is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Sejnowski-Hinton Prize: Timothy Lillicrap, Daniel Cownden, Douglas Tweed, and Colin Akerman for their groundbreaking 2016 paper “Random synaptic feedback weights support error backpropagation for deep learning” published in Nature Communications (arXiv version). The 2025 Winner: Feedback Alignment Theories of the brain have […]

We are honored to announce the Test of Time Paper Awards for NeurIPS 2025. This award is intended to recognize papers that were published 10 years ago. For us this year that means looking at publications from NeurIPS 2015. that have significantly shaped the research field since then, standing the test of time. This year, […]

The Best Paper Award Committee members were nominated by the Program Chairs and the Database and Benchmark track chairs, who selected leading researchers across machine learning topics. These nominations were approved by the General Chairs and Next Generation and Accessibility Chairs. The best paper award committees were tasked with selecting a handful of highly impactful […]

The NeurIPS 2025 organizing committee is excited to share details about the upcoming invited talks at this year’s conference. Our distinguished lineup includes six leading researchers who will explore critical questions at the frontiers of artificial intelligence, from the foundations of learning in deep networks to the societal implications of AI systems. For more on […]

We are thrilled to announce the accepted workshops and tutorials happening at NeurIPS Mexico City. Workshops will be held on November 30th and December 1st, and Tutorials on December 2nd. Mexico City Workshops on Sunday 30 Nov Vision Language Models: Challenges of Real World Deployment Vision language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in integrating […]

The Newsletter is an easy way to keep up to date with NeurIPS events and planning progress. As a reminder, NeurIPS 2025 will be held in San Diego, from Tuesday, Dec 2 to Sunday, Dec 7, 2025. Welcome to the October edition of the NeurIPS monthly Newsletter! This Newsletter includes: Danielle Belgrave, Cheng Zhang, Jean […]

We are pleased to announce the three social events for NeurIPS 2025 in Mexico City (CDMX). Designed to foster connection and dialogue, these gatherings extend the conference’s collaborative spirit. They provide a vibrant setting for the community to engage in interdisciplinary exchange and celebrate the field’s advances outside the technical program. Accepted Socials at NeurIPS […]

As NeurIPS 2025 approaches, we’re thrilled to announce the eight accepted social events taking place in San Diego. These gatherings bring our community together to discuss, debate, and celebrate the latest advances in AI and machine learning. From interdisciplinary exchanges to focused thematic sessions, the NeurIPS social events serve as vital spaces for connection and […]

The Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation is excited to announce the opening of the Bridging the Future grants program for this year. The program supports innovative activities that broaden participation in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. This initiative reflects NeurIPS’s commitment to expanding access to AI/ML education and research opportunities across all levels, from grade […]

The NeurIPS Journal Track aims to strengthen the bridge between machine learning and statistics communities and enable the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Journals such as JMLR and AoS accept rigorously reviewed papers on a rolling schedule outside of the conference cycle. This track allows the top accepted papers to also be presented at NeurIPS to […]

We are excited to announce this year’s NeurIPS Affinity Events! What are affinity groups? At NeurIPS, affinity groups play a crucial role in promoting and supporting the ideas and voices of various communities that are defined by some axis of joint identity and raise awareness of issues that affect their members. In addition, they provide […]

As we announce decisions for the first-ever NeurIPS Position Paper Track, we find ourselves reflecting on an extraordinary experimental year. When NeurIPS launched this pilot track, we ventured into uncharted territory. The community response was overwhelming and inspiring. Every submission represented not just research, but a vision for how position papers could contribute to broader […]

NeurIPS has grown at an unprecedented pace in recent years, fundamentally reshaping how the conference operates. To provide transparency and share insights into how NeurIPS continues to refine its processes, we—the Program Committee (PC) Chair Team—are publishing this blog post on our experience managing the review process at scale, with support from the Communication Chairs. […]

The Datasets and Benchmarks (DB) track, since introduced in 2021, has played a pivotal role in raising the profile of datasets and benchmarks, which is foundational to machine learning, in the NeurIPS community. As this track continues to grow and refine its processes from year to year, we, the DB Chairs, decided to write this […]

Welcome to the September edition of the NeurIPS monthly Newsletter! The NeurIPS Newsletter keeps you updated on NeurIPS events, planning, feedback requests, and new initiatives. This edition focuses on NeurIPS 2025, happening in San Diego and in Mexico City. This newsletter includes: Congratulations to all authors of accepted papers! We look forward to seeing your […]

The NeurIPS 2025 organizing committee is pleased to announce the invited speakers for this years conference. The lineup includes six researchers representing areas spanning theoretical machine learning, reinforcement learning, AI and society, cognitive science, natural language processing, and deep learning applications. Kyunghyun Cho Glen de Vries Professor of Health Statistics, NYU; Executive Director of Frontier […]

We are excited to be running a Position Paper Track for the first time in NeurIPS history. This track gives our community an important forum for raising and discussing essential topics in machine learning within and around our community of experts. This also means that the Position Paper Track operates a little differently from the […]

Welcome to the July edition of the NeurIPS monthly Newsletter! The NeurIPS Newsletter keeps you updated on NeurIPS events, planning, feedback requests, and new initiatives. This edition focuses on NeurIPS 2025, happening in San Diego and for the first time, in Mexico City. This newsletter includes: Registration for NeurIPS 2025 San Diego is officially open! […]

We are excited to announce an expansion of the reach and accessibility of the conference! For the first time, in 2025, NeurIPS will host a second official physical location for the conference. The conference will be held at the San Diego Convention Center and in Mexico City. This pilot program of a second official location […]

Today, we introduce the competitions that have been accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Competition Track. It seemed especially challenging this year given the number of quality submissions and the limited number that could be accepted compared to last year. We finally selected a total of 18 very strong proposals, covering a wide range of areas and […]

Barbara Engelhardt and Katherine Gorman, Position Paper Track Chairs 2025 As the Position Track Chairs for NeurIPS 2025, we are so excited to bring this new section of the conference to life. Inspired by the fantastic work done at ICML in 2024, the Position Paper Track is intended to spur conversation in the community about […]

Welcome to the May 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. Notably, this newsletter will focus on NeurIPS 2025, held in San Diego, […]

Piotr Koniusz, Nancy Chen, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Razvan Pascanu, Hsuan-Tien Lin (Program Chairs) Lora Aroyo, Francesco Locatello, Konstantina Palla (Datasets & Benchmark Track Chairs) As NeurIPS expands, maintaining review quality and punctuality of the review process is increasingly difficult. While many reviews are thoughtfully written to elevate the quality of submissions, many authors have had experiences […]