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NeurIPS 2024 Fact Sheet
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This fact sheet provides statistical context on AI research volume and community size at NeurIPS 2024; useful as a reference for understanding the scale of contemporary AI research output and the growth trajectory of the field.
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Summary
Official fact sheet for the 38th NeurIPS conference held in Vancouver, Canada, summarizing key statistics including 19,756 total registrations and 4,497 accepted papers. The document provides a high-level overview of the scale and scope of one of AI's most prominent research conferences.
Key Points
- •19,756 total registrations, reflecting the massive and growing scale of AI research community participation
- •4,497 papers accepted across the main conference and datasets & benchmarks tracks
- •Held in Vancouver, Canada as the 38th annual NeurIPS conference
- •Featured diverse keynote speakers covering cutting-edge AI research topics
- •Serves as an official record of conference metrics useful for tracking AI research growth over time
Review
NeurIPS 2024 represents a significant milestone in AI research, demonstrating continued growth and diversification in the field. The conference saw a 21% overall registration increase, with 16,777 in-person attendees, reflecting the sustained interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence. The program was comprehensive, featuring 11 conference tracks, including 6 on Creative AI, 7 invited talks, and multiple workshops and competitions. The conference's academic rigor was evident in its paper selection process, with an acceptance rate of around 25% for both main conference and datasets tracks. Notably, the event emphasized diversity and inclusion through nine affinity groups and a new high school projects initiative. The invited keynote speakers, including luminaries like Alison Gopnik and Fei-Fei Li, covered diverse topics ranging from child learning to visual intelligence, underscoring the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary AI research. Best paper awards highlighted innovative work in areas such as visual autoregressive modeling, stochastic derivative estimation, and large language model alignment.
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38th Annual Conference of Neural Information Processing Systems
(NeurIPS)
10-15 December 2024
Fact Sheet
2024 Location: British Columbia, Canada,The Vancouver Convention Centre
Registration numbers:
● Total: 19,756
● In-person registrations: 16,777
● Virtual registrations: 2978
● In-person registration was up 27% (the lottery prevented this from being even higher) overall
registration was up 21% while virtual registrations were down 4%
Past attendance and location:
● 16,382 Hybrid - 13,307 in-person, 3075 virtual - New Orleans, Louisiana, United States 2023
● 15,390 Hybrid - 9,835 in-person and 5,555 virtual - New Orleans, Louisiana, United States 2022
● 17,091 Virtual Conference 2021
● 22,823 Virtual Conference 2020
● 13,000 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2019
● 8,648 Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2018
● 8,008 Long Beach, California, United States 2017
● 5,231 Barcelona, Spain 2016
● 3,852 Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2015
● 2,581 Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2014
● 1,994 Lake Tahoe, California, United States 2013
● 1,676 Lake Tahoe, California, United States 2012
● 1,452 Granada, Spain 2011
● 1,354 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2010
2025 Location: San Diego California, United States
2024 Program:
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● 11 conference tracks
○ 6 Creative AI
○ 7 Invited Talks
○ 8 Socials
○ 11 Affinity Events
○ 14 Tutorials
○ 16 Competitions
○ 56 Workshops
○ 69 Oral Sessions
● Paper reviews
○ 4497 total accepted combined papers
■ 4,037 main conference track
■ 460 datasets and benchmarks track
○ 17,491 total submissions
■ 15,671 main conference track
■ 1,820 datasets and benchmarks (about double the previous year's 987
submissions)
○ Paper acceptance rate:
■ 25.8% main conference track
■ 25.3% datasets and benchmark
○ Reviewers
■ 1,393 main conference Area Chairs
■ 195 main conference Senior Area Chairs
■ 13,640 main conference reviewers
■ 203 datasets and benchmark Area Chairs
■ 36 datasets and benchmark Senior Area Chairs
■ 1,844 datasets and benchmark reviewers
■ 377 Ethics reviewers - 958 papers ( 5.48% of all submissions) were flagged for
ethics review, increased from 502 papers ( 3.77% of all submissions) in 2023
○ Papers are available in the NeurIPS Proceeding - https://proceedings.neurips.cc/
● Invited Keynote Speakers 2024
○ Alison Gopnik, The Golem vs. Stone Soup: Understanding How Children Learn Can Help
Us Understand And Improve AI
○ Sepp Hochreiter, Toward Industrial Artificial Intelligence
○ Fei-Fei Li, From Seeing to Doing: Ascending the Ladder of Visual Intelligence
○ Lidong Zhou, A Match Made in Silicon: The Co-Evolution of Systems and AI
○ Arnaud Doucet, From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges
○ Danica Kragic, Learning for Interaction and Interaction for Learning
○ Rosalind Picard, How to optimize what matters most?
● New - NeurIPS High School Projects
○ Launched to get the next generation excited and thinking about how Machine Learning
can benefit society
■ Theme: Machine learning for social impact
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■ 330 total projec
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