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Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

April 04, 2023

The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (abbreviated as NeurIPS and formerly NIPS) is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December. The conference is currently a double-track meeting (single-track until 2015) that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers, followed by parallel-track workshops that up to 2013 were held at ski resorts.

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
AbbreviationNeurIPS (formerly NIPS)
DisciplineMachine learning, statistics, artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience
Publication details
History1987–present
FrequencyAnnual
Websiteneurips.cc

History

The NeurIPS meeting was first proposed in 1986 at the annual invitation-only Snowbird Meeting on Neural Networks for Computing organized by The California Institute of Technology and Bell Laboratories. NeurIPS was designed as a complementary open interdisciplinary meeting for researchers exploring biological and artificial Neural Networks. Reflecting this multidisciplinary approach, NeurIPS began in 1987 with information theorist Ed Posner as the conference president and learning theorist Yaser Abu-Mostafa as program chairman.[1] Research presented in the early NeurIPS meetings included a wide range of topics from efforts to solve purely engineering problems to the use of computer models as a tool for understanding biological nervous systems. Since then, the biological and artificial systems research streams have diverged, and recent NeurIPS proceedings have been dominated by papers on machine learning, artificial intelligence and statistics.

From 1987 until 2000 NeurIPS was held in Denver, United States. Since then, the conference was held in Vancouver, Canada (2001–2010), Granada, Spain (2011), and Lake Tahoe, United States (2012–2013). In 2014 and 2015, the conference was held in Montreal, Canada, in Barcelona, Spain in 2016, in Long Beach, United States in 2017, in Montreal, Canada in 2018 and Vancouver, Canada in 2019. Reflecting its origins at Snowbird, Utah, the meeting was accompanied by workshops organized at a nearby ski resort up until 2013, when it outgrew ski resorts.

The first NeurIPS Conference was sponsored by the IEEE.[2] The following NeurIPS Conferences have been organized by the NeurIPS Foundation, established by Ed Posner. Terrence Sejnowski has been the president of the NeurIPS Foundation since Posner's death in 1993. The board of trustees consists of previous general chairs of the NeurIPS Conference.

The first proceedings was published in book form by the American Institute of Physics in 1987, and was entitled Neural Information Processing Systems,[3] then the proceedings from the following conferences have been published by Morgan Kaufmann (1988–1993), MIT Press (1994–2004) and Curran Associates (2005–present) under the name Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.

The conference was originally abbreviated as "NIPS". By 2018 a few commentators were criticizing the abbreviation as encouraging sexism due to its association with the word nipples, and as being a slur against Japanese. The board changed the abbreviation to "NeurIPS" in November 2018.[4]

Topics

 
Judea Pearl at his poster at the 2013 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

Along with machine learning and neuroscience, other fields represented at NeurIPS include cognitive science, psychology, computer vision, statistical linguistics, and information theory. Over the years, NeurIPS became a premier conference on machine learning and although the 'Neural' in the NeurIPS acronym had become something of a historical relic, the resurgence of deep learning[5] in neural networks since 2012, fueled by faster computers and big data, has led to achievements in speech recognition, object recognition in images, image captioning, language translation and world championship performance in the game of Go, based on neural architectures inspired by the hierarchy of areas in the visual cortex (ConvNet) and reinforcement learning inspired by the basal ganglia (Temporal difference learning).

Notable affinity groups have emerged from the NeurIPS conference and displayed diversity, including Black in AI (in 2017), Queer in AI (in 2016), and others.[6][7]

Named lectures

In addition to invited talks and symposia, NeurIPS also organizes two named lectureships to recognize distinguished researchers. The NeurIPS Board introduced the Posner Lectureship in honor of NeurIPS founder Ed Posner; two Posner Lectures were given each year up to 2015.[8] Past lecturers have included:

In 2015, the NeurIPS Board introduced the Breiman Lectureship to highlight work in statistics relevant to conference topics. The lectureship was named for statistician Leo Breiman, who served on the NeurIPS Board from 1994 to 2005.[9] Past lecturers have included:

NIPS experiment

In NIPS 2014, the program chairs duplicated 10% of all submissions and sent them through separate reviewers to evaluate randomness in the reviewing process.[10] Several researchers interpreted the result.[11][12] Regarding whether the decision in NIPS is completely random or not, John Langford writes: "Clearly not—a purely random decision would have arbitrariness of ~78%. It is, however, quite notable that 60% is much closer to 78% than 0%." He concludes that the result of the reviewing process is mostly arbitrary.[13]

Editions

Past editions:

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The first NeurIPS
  2. ^ Sponsors of the first NeurIPS
  3. ^ The first NeurIPS Proceedings
  4. ^ Else, Holly (19 November 2018). "AI conference widely known as 'NIPS' changes its controversial acronym". Nature News. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07476-w. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  5. ^ The Deep Learning Revolution. MIT Press. October 2018. ISBN 9780262038034. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  6. ^ "How one conference embraced diversity". Nature. 564 (7735): 161–162. 2018-12-12. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07718-x. PMID 31123357. S2CID 54481549.
  7. ^ "Why you can't just take pictures at the Queer in AI workshop at NeurIPS". VentureBeat. 2019-12-10. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  8. ^ "24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Vancouver 2010 - VideoLectures - VideoLectures.NET". videolectures.net. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  9. ^ NIPS 2015 Conference (PDF). Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation. 7 December 2015. p. 10. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  10. ^ Lawrence, Neil (2014-12-16). . Inverse Probability. Archived from the original on 2015-04-03. Retrieved 2015-03-31.
  11. ^ Fortnow, Lance (2014-12-18). "The NIPS Experiment". Computational Complexity. Retrieved 2015-03-31.
  12. ^ Hardt, Moritz (2014-12-15). "The NIPS Experiment". Moody Rd. Retrieved 2015-03-31.
  13. ^ Langford, John (2015-03-09). "The NIPS Experiment". Communications of the ACM. Retrieved 2015-03-31.
  14. ^ Nips.cc - 2016 Conference
  15. ^ Nips.cc - 2017 Conference
  16. ^ Nips.cc - 2018 Conference
  17. ^ a b "Vancouver Named NeurIPS 2019 & 2020 Host as Visa Issues Continue to Plague the AI Conference". 5 December 2018.
  18. ^ Nips.cc - 2022 Conference

External links

  • 2019 Conference
  • NeurIPS proceedings
  • NIPS 2011 video lectures
  • NIPS 2012 video lectures
  • Video Journal of Machine Learning Abstracts – Volume 3

April 04, 2023
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The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems abbreviated as NeurIPS and formerly NIPS is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December The conference is currently a double track meeting single track until 2015 that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers followed by parallel track workshops that up to 2013 were held at ski resorts Conference on Neural Information Processing SystemsAbbreviationNeurIPS formerly NIPS DisciplineMachine learning statistics artificial intelligence computational neurosciencePublication detailsHistory1987 presentFrequencyAnnualWebsiteneurips wbr cc Contents 1 History 2 Topics 2 1 Named lectures 3 NIPS experiment 4 Editions 5 See also 6 Notes 7 External linksHistory EditThe NeurIPS meeting was first proposed in 1986 at the annual invitation only Snowbird Meeting on Neural Networks for Computing organized by The California Institute of Technology and Bell Laboratories NeurIPS was designed as a complementary open interdisciplinary meeting for researchers exploring biological and artificial Neural Networks Reflecting this multidisciplinary approach NeurIPS began in 1987 with information theorist Ed Posner as the conference president and learning theorist Yaser Abu Mostafa as program chairman 1 Research presented in the early NeurIPS meetings included a wide range of topics from efforts to solve purely engineering problems to the use of computer models as a tool for understanding biological nervous systems Since then the biological and artificial systems research streams have diverged and recent NeurIPS proceedings have been dominated by papers on machine learning artificial intelligence and statistics From 1987 until 2000 NeurIPS was held in Denver United States Since then the conference was held in Vancouver Canada 2001 2010 Granada Spain 2011 and Lake Tahoe United States 2012 2013 In 2014 and 2015 the conference was held in Montreal Canada in Barcelona Spain in 2016 in Long Beach United States in 2017 in Montreal Canada in 2018 and Vancouver Canada in 2019 Reflecting its origins at Snowbird Utah the meeting was accompanied by workshops organized at a nearby ski resort up until 2013 when it outgrew ski resorts The first NeurIPS Conference was sponsored by the IEEE 2 The following NeurIPS Conferences have been organized by the NeurIPS Foundation established by Ed Posner Terrence Sejnowski has been the president of the NeurIPS Foundation since Posner s death in 1993 The board of trustees consists of previous general chairs of the NeurIPS Conference The first proceedings was published in book form by the American Institute of Physics in 1987 and was entitled Neural Information Processing Systems 3 then the proceedings from the following conferences have been published by Morgan Kaufmann 1988 1993 MIT Press 1994 2004 and Curran Associates 2005 present under the name Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems The conference was originally abbreviated as NIPS By 2018 a few commentators were criticizing the abbreviation as encouraging sexism due to its association with the word nipples and as being a slur against Japanese The board changed the abbreviation to NeurIPS in November 2018 4 Topics Edit Judea Pearl at his poster at the 2013 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Along with machine learning and neuroscience other fields represented at NeurIPS include cognitive science psychology computer vision statistical linguistics and information theory Over the years NeurIPS became a premier conference on machine learning and although the Neural in the NeurIPS acronym had become something of a historical relic the resurgence of deep learning 5 in neural networks since 2012 fueled by faster computers and big data has led to achievements in speech recognition object recognition in images image captioning language translation and world championship performance in the game of Go based on neural architectures inspired by the hierarchy of areas in the visual cortex ConvNet and reinforcement learning inspired by the basal ganglia Temporal difference learning Notable affinity groups have emerged from the NeurIPS conference and displayed diversity including Black in AI in 2017 Queer in AI in 2016 and others 6 7 Named lectures Edit In addition to invited talks and symposia NeurIPS also organizes two named lectureships to recognize distinguished researchers The NeurIPS Board introduced the Posner Lectureship in honor of NeurIPS founder Ed Posner two Posner Lectures were given each year up to 2015 8 Past lecturers have included 2010 Josh Tenenbaum and Michael I Jordan 2011 Rich Sutton and Bernhard Scholkopf 2012 Thomas Dietterich and Terry Sejnowski 2013 Daphne Koller and Peter Dayan 2014 Michael Kearns and John Hopfield 2015 Zoubin Ghahramani and Vladimir Vapnik 2016 Yann LeCun 2017 John Platt 2018 Joelle PineauIn 2015 the NeurIPS Board introduced the Breiman Lectureship to highlight work in statistics relevant to conference topics The lectureship was named for statistician Leo Breiman who served on the NeurIPS Board from 1994 to 2005 9 Past lecturers have included 2015 Robert Tibshirani 2016 Susan Holmes 2017 Yee Whye Teh 2018 David Spiegelhalter 2019 Bin Yu 2020 Marloes MaathuisNIPS experiment EditIn NIPS 2014 the program chairs duplicated 10 of all submissions and sent them through separate reviewers to evaluate randomness in the reviewing process 10 Several researchers interpreted the result 11 12 Regarding whether the decision in NIPS is completely random or not John Langford writes Clearly not a purely random decision would have arbitrariness of 78 It is however quite notable that 60 is much closer to 78 than 0 He concludes that the result of the reviewing process is mostly arbitrary 13 Editions EditPast editions 1987 2000 Denver Colorado United States 2001 2010 Vancouver British Columbia Canada 2011 Granada Spain EU 2012 amp 2013 Stateline Nevada United States 2014 amp 2015 Montreal Quebec Canada 2016 Barcelona Spain EU 14 2017 Long Beach California United States 15 2018 Montreal Quebec Canada 16 2019 Vancouver British Columbia Canada 17 2020 Vancouver British Columbia Canada 17 virtual conference 2021 Virtual conference 2022 New Orleans Louisiana United States 18 See also EditAAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI Computational and Systems Neuroscience COSYNE International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics CIBB International Conference on Learning Representations ICLR International Conference on Machine Learning ICML Notes Edit The first NeurIPS Sponsors of the first NeurIPS The first NeurIPS Proceedings Else Holly 19 November 2018 AI conference widely known as NIPS changes its controversial acronym Nature News doi 10 1038 d41586 018 07476 w Retrieved 17 February 2021 The Deep Learning Revolution MIT Press October 2018 ISBN 9780262038034 Retrieved 30 April 2020 How one conference embraced diversity Nature 564 7735 161 162 2018 12 12 doi 10 1038 d41586 018 07718 x PMID 31123357 S2CID 54481549 Why you can t just take pictures at the Queer in AI workshop at NeurIPS VentureBeat 2019 12 10 Retrieved 2021 12 22 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems NIPS Vancouver 2010 VideoLectures VideoLectures NET videolectures net Retrieved 17 July 2017 NIPS 2015 Conference PDF Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation 7 December 2015 p 10 Retrieved 17 July 2017 Lawrence Neil 2014 12 16 The NIPS Experiment Inverse Probability Archived from the original on 2015 04 03 Retrieved 2015 03 31 Fortnow Lance 2014 12 18 The NIPS Experiment Computational Complexity Retrieved 2015 03 31 Hardt Moritz 2014 12 15 The NIPS Experiment Moody Rd Retrieved 2015 03 31 Langford John 2015 03 09 The NIPS Experiment Communications of the ACM Retrieved 2015 03 31 Nips cc 2016 Conference Nips cc 2017 Conference Nips cc 2018 Conference a b Vancouver Named NeurIPS 2019 amp 2020 Host as Visa Issues Continue to Plague the AI Conference 5 December 2018 Nips cc 2022 ConferenceExternal links Edit2019 Conference NeurIPS proceedings NIPS 2011 video lectures NIPS 2012 video lectures Video Journal of Machine Learning Abstracts Volume 3 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems amp oldid 1144371669, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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