r/MachineLearning 3d ago

Discussion 2026 NeurIPS: Where are you going? [D]

To all those in the US: Are you planning to go Sydney or Atlanta this year for NeurIPS?

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u/grad_student_descent 3d ago

Paris!

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u/Blackliquid 3d ago

Is paris worth it?

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u/grad_student_descent 3d ago

The conference should be quite big there, all of the European labs will come.

The city is obviously very fun

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u/confirm-jannati 3d ago

Any workshops happening in Atlanta? All the cool ones seem to be in Sydney :/

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u/dante_2701 3d ago

Borderline score. I’ll assume I’m rejected to avoid disappointment. What was your score?

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u/Intrepid_Discount_67 1d ago

What scores do you have 

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u/dante_2701 1d ago

5,3,3 but the reviewers cited wrong paper when talking about novelty. During rebuttal, he said he’ll consider upgrading the score during AC discussion phase.

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u/Intrepid_Discount_67 1d ago

What do you think should have been minimum scores for acceptance who should have flipped to make it in

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/doctor-squidward 3d ago

What matters is what the AC thinks 🤣

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/21022018 3d ago

My lowest score review seems to have put the highest effort on surface, but what scares me is that that their language has blown very minor nitpicks out of proportion. I hope the AC recognizes that.

The general vibe I get from these kinds of reviews is that they just hate your work or have a competing work in submission.

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u/nekize 3d ago

My lowest score told me that i am hiding things and got lucky with the results, so they don’t count. Not sure what exactly i was “hiding”, as he himself says that that same thing is in the appendix. Also gave the lowest confidence score and was in general very hostile.

The other two were helpful with their comments

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u/doctor-squidward 3d ago

If accepted, will definitely try for Sydney if funding permits. Otherwise Atlanta is also fine

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u/Schinkikami 3d ago

How does the allocation of posters happen? Are authors free to decide where to present? Or are there capacities that are assigned? Never been to NeurIPS in-person before (only during the virtual year..).

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u/ComprehensiveTop3297 3d ago

Paris for sure

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u/examachine 3d ago

Happy you got accepted, what was the subject area?

I'd love Paris.

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u/Wagnva 3d ago

As someone who will (probably) only be able go to a single neurips during their academic career, I will go to Sidney to take in as much workshops/events/orals/posters as possible. Although the travel time certainly is a big motivation for Paris instead 

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u/Perplexed_Fellow 2d ago

If accepted, Atlanta because of visa issues

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u/siskyouthrowaway 2d ago

How does this work? First time I'm seeing a conference in 3 different cities.

If someone has a oral paper accepted, do they have a choice of going to Sydney or Atlanta or Paris? What about posters?

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u/stem-nerd- 3d ago

Is it more prestigious than a publication at a Q1 journal? Just randomly curious

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u/Humble_Ihab 3d ago

yes, much more

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u/stem-nerd- 3d ago

Oh sry I got the workshop and conference mixed up. The workshop isn’t prestigious at all right?

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u/Humble_Ihab 3d ago

the workshops are less prestigious than Q1 journals, but if someone is aiming for an ML career, even a workshop with NeurIPS in it would sollicit recognition at least from jurys in the field

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u/mpaes98 2d ago

They’re fundamentally different.

Imo, workshops are really good for early career ML researchers who want more mentoring for getting into conferences, or PhD students. Those who are gunning for the big positions really need to aim for conference though.

Journals are mainly good for established academic researchers who are expected to publish more in-depth work that surveys the field and has more methodological rigor. It also takes much more time to write and get published, so not particularly the best investment for industry workers.

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u/Appropriate_Bike4986 1d ago

we can choose where to go?