One Venue, Two Conferences: The Separation of Chinese and American Citation Networks

In recent years, the machine learning research landscape has been reshaped by the growth of Chinese AI research. China now consistently stands as the second-largest country in terms of total publications at NeurIPS, after the United States. In 2020, papers from Chinese institutions represented 13.6% of all NeurIPS publications [6]. The following year, this share increased to 17.5%, representing a relative increase of 28.7% [13].