NeurIPS: Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Premier interdisciplinary AI and machine learning conference featuring cutting-edge research in neural computation, reinforcement learning, and robotics. Includes invited talks, workshops, tutorials, and poster presentations covering machine learning applications in robotics, decision-making, and autonomous systems.
- Organiser: Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation
- Founded: 1987
- Frequency: annual
- Usually held in: December
- Duration: 7 days
- Typical attendance: 15000-17000
- Audience: AI/ML researchers, data scientists, industry practitioners
- Topics: machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, neural networks, AI, robotics, computer vision, natural language processing
- Tags: machine-learning, ai, neural-networks, deep-learning
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Keynote speakers
- Karl Pertsch (Physical Intelligence): Invited speaker, 8th Robot Learning Workshop (Sydney)
- Maria Bauza Villalonga (Google DeepMind): Invited speaker, 8th Robot Learning Workshop (Sydney)
- Ingmar Posner (University of Oxford): Invited speaker, 8th Robot Learning Workshop (Sydney)
- Michael Milford (QUT): Invited speaker, 8th Robot Learning Workshop (Sydney)
- Huazhe Xu (Tsinghua University): Invited speaker, 8th Robot Learning Workshop (Sydney)
- Weiming Zhi (University of Sydney): Invited speaker, 8th Robot Learning Workshop (Sydney)
- Mengdi Xu (Tsinghua University): Invited speaker, 8th Robot Learning Workshop (Sydney)
- Yadan Luo (University of Queensland): Invited speaker, 8th Robot Learning Workshop (Sydney)
- Kristen Grauman (UT Austin): Invited speaker, Robot Learning with World Models workshop (Sydney)
- Jie Tan (Google DeepMind): Invited speaker, Robot Learning with World Models workshop (Sydney)
- Roberto Calandra (TU Dresden): Invited speaker, Robot Learning with World Models workshop (Sydney)
- Tsung-Yi Lin (NVIDIA Research): Invited speaker, Robot Learning with World Models workshop (Sydney)
- Hang Zhao (Tsinghua University / Galaxia AI): Invited speaker, Robot Learning with World Models workshop (Sydney)
- Wei-Chiu Ma (Cornell University): Invited speaker, Robot Learning with World Models workshop (Sydney)
- Franziska Meier (Waymo): Invited speaker, Robot Learning with World Models workshop (Sydney)
- Ivan Laptev (MBZUAI): Invited speaker, RoboPAD workshop (Paris)
- Gim Hee Lee (National University of Singapore): Invited speaker, RoboPAD workshop (Paris)
- Elliot Chane-Sane (Mistral AI): Invited speaker, RoboPAD workshop (Paris)
Workshops
- 8th Robot Learning Workshop: Is Physical AI Going Zero-Shot? (Sydney), 12 December 2026
- Robot Learning with World Models: Capabilities, Frontiers, and Challenges (Sydney), 11 December 2026
- World Models in Physical AI (Sydney), 11 December 2026
- 2nd Embodied Spatial Reasoning (ESR) Workshop (Sydney), 12 December 2026
- NEmo: Neuro-Symbolic Embodied Intelligence (Sydney), 11 December 2026
- Continual Learning in the Era of Foundation Models and Embodied Agents (Sydney), 12 December 2026
- Physical Understanding for Decision-Making: Bridging Foundation Models and Reliable Agents (Sydney), 11 December 2026
- PTA: From Pretrained Representations to Acting Agents (Sydney), 12 December 2026
- Continual World Models (Sydney), 12 December 2026
- Open, Collaborative, and Decentralized Training of Foundation Models (Sydney), 11 December 2026
- RoboPAD: Post-Training Adaptation of Robot Foundation Models (Paris), 12 December 2026
- Sim2Science: ML with Imperfect Scientific Models (Paris), 12 December 2026
- 1st Workshop on Physical World AI: Geometry, Characteristics, and Multimodal Sensing (Atlanta), 13 December 2026
- The Third Workshop on Agents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond (Sydney), 11 December 2026
Editions
- NeurIPS 2026, Dec 6 – 12, 2026, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- NeurIPS 2025, Dec 2 – 7, 2025, San Diego, CA, USA
- NeurIPS 2024, Dec 9 – 15, 2024, Vancouver, Canada
- NeurIPS 2023, Dec 10 – 16, 2023, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- NeurIPS 2022, Nov 28 – Dec 9, 2022, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- NeurIPS 2021, Dec 6 – 14, 2021, Virtual
- NeurIPS 2020, Dec 6 – 12, 2020, Virtual
- NeurIPS 2019, Dec 8 – 14, 2019, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- NeurIPS 2018, Dec 3 – 8, 2018, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- NIPS 2017, Dec 4 – 9, 2017, Long Beach, California, USA
- NIPS 2016, Dec 5 – 10, 2016, Barcelona, Spain
- NIPS 2015, Dec 7 – 12, 2015, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- NIPS 2014, Dec 8 – 13, 2014, Montreal, Quebec, Canada