Insights from NIPS 2017 – SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Research – Medium

The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) took place between December 4th and 9th in Long Beach, CA, USA. As one of the top machine learning and computational neuroscience conferences, this year' s NIPS was a complete success experiencing an even larger rush of attendees compared to previous years. Apart from the rising number of participants, the conference has also seen a strong increase in submitted papers. Of the total 3240 papers submitted, 679 papers were accepted resulting in a 21% acceptance rate compared to last year's 24%. This is an indicator of the conference remaining highly competitive despite its overall growing popularity.