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One of the biggest annual gatherings where AI researchers present their work.
As stated in the literature
The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, a leading machine-learning research venue; cited here for the Yue et al. result on whether RL expands model capability.
Why it matters: As a top venue, what appears there shapes the field's direction and signals which findings the community takes seriously.
For example, a team with a major new result might aim to present it at NeurIPS, where thousands of researchers gather each year.
Heard on the show
“Roughly one in four papers accepted at NeurIPS in 2025 cites at least one work that doesn't seem to exist.”Episode 201 — One in Four NeurIPS Papers Cites a Reference That Doesn't Exist