Here's some info about the NeurIPS 2019 budget. But yes, it seems like up to $10M are needed to run NeurIPS. https://
neurips.cc/Conferences/20
20/Budget
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@thegautamkamath
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NeurIPS 2019 Conference Budget Reaches Up to $10M
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Machine Unlearning: Enabling ML Models to Comply with Data Regulations
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The field of machine unlearning, though still nascent, addresses exactly this problem. Could be useful in allowing ML models to satisfy data control regulations. Doing it well is still a significant challenge though.
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Conference Accessibility Gap Between Companies and Academics
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Not to mention the fact that, in general, companies can afford these conferences much better than academics.
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Grant funding allocation practices in research
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Technically, we put this down on grant applications. But then they ignore it and give however much they planned to anyway.
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NeurIPS Registration Fees: Industry Pricing Analysis
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1. This seems unusually early for NeurIPS registration to open. 2. The registration fees are $375/$800/$1000 for student/academic/industry, which is a pretty typical breakdown for NeurIPS. Could industry afford to pay more? Cf. @FAccTConference
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Do Published ML Papers Actually Work in Practice?
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This question is for everyone who has published at NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/CVPR/AAAI/ACL/etc. with empirical results/experiments. Have you personally published something that, in your own opinion, "doesn't actually work," but the experiments paint the picture that it does?
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Twitter toxicity threatening integrity of ML research papers
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I fear the day that the toxicity of Twitter seeps out into published ML papers.
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Three Computer Scientists Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
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Congrats to the three Guggenheim Fellows in Computer science: @AnimaAnandkumar
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Israeli University Websites Targeted in Cyber Attack
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I think it is related to this cyber-attack: https://
middleeastmonitor.com/20230404-israe
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ChatGPT misattribution credibility problem
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Corollary: you can make up whatever statement you want, and attribute it to ChatGPT with a citation. Only slightly more credible than my favourite reference: