Definition
Plain language
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
“The pessimistic story from last year — Yue and colleagues at NeurIPS twenty-twenty-five — was that RL doesn't teach a model anything new.”Episode 011 — When RL Actually Teaches Agents Something New, And When It Doesn't