This year’s ICLR featured a few firsts: the first ICLR in Asia, the first top-3 ML conference (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR) in Singapore, and the first ICLR with over 10,000 in-person registrations.
Alongside huge attendee growth, there was an increase in paper submissions of around 60% over 2024. Organisers also doubled the number of workshops — from 20 workshops in 2024, all held on one day, to 40 workshops held across two days this year.
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There was an air of excitement throughout the conference. Talks were well-attended, and poster sessions were buzzing with people asking questions and exchanging ideas.
A few highlights to dive into:
- Insightful talks from the winners and runners-up of the Test of Time Awards, with a mix of nostalgia, optimism, and concern.
- Danqi Chen’s talk on the role of academia in training language models.
- Excitement and realism at the first ICLR workshop on Robot Learning.
There were numerous parties throughout the week, sponsored by quant trading firms, VCs, AI research labs, and big tech companies (many of whom were also sponsors and had booths in the exhibit hall).
See you next year!
Next year’s ICLR is scheduled to take place in Brazil, with the host city yet to be announced.