The ICML 2016 Space Fight « Machine Learning (Theory)

At ICML last year and the year before the amount of capacity that needed to fit everyone on any single day was about 1500. My advice was to expect 2000 and have capacity for 2500 because "New York" and "Machine Learning". I was not involved in the venue negotiations, but my understanding is that they were difficult, with liabilities over 1M for IMLS the nonprofit which oversees ICML year to year. The result was a conference plan with a maximum capacity of 1800 for the main conference, a bit less for workshops, and perhaps 1000 for tutorials. Then the NIPS registration numbers came in: 3900 last winter.