We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
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—Alan Turing
NeurIPS 2026 has selected 102 workshops from 454 valid submissions, with workshops in Sydney, Paris and Atlanta highlighting a shift in AI research beyond large language models toward autonomous agents, physical AI, adaptive foundation models, robotics, AI for science and more reliable and efficient systems.
The world’s premier machine learning conference opens in Seoul with record-breaking numbers — 23,918 paper submissions, more than double last year — and an unprecedented experiment: formal rules on whether AI can help review AI research, enforced by watermarks hidden inside the papers themselves.
The Creative AI Track at NeurIPS 2026 is calling for artworks and papers that examine how agency emerges, is shared, contested or constrained when humans and AI systems make things together.
NeurIPS Foundation says the decision to prohibit certain US sanctioned institutes based in China from submissions was an internal mistake,.
