Competition Track NeurIPS 2023

We are glad to announce the seventh edition of the competition track at NeurIPS 2023. Through this call, we solicit competition proposals on topics of interest to the NeurIPS community.

We especially encourage submissions with a clear scientific question and from fields with a positive societal impact promoting causes that use AI to help disadvantaged communities. Besides societal impact, we seek proposals in areas where machine learning can positively influence other scientific, technological, or business domains. We hope that interesting competitions will attract a significant cross-section of interdisciplinary and diverse communities to our NeurIPS 2023 competition track.

Technological advances in our field can have the potential to disproportionately hurt marginalized sectors in society — including people of color, people from working-class backgrounds, women, and LGBTQ people. Hence, we strongly encourage proposals that address these problems, especially from researchers with these identities or who are members of other marginalized or under-represented communities.

Proposals should highlight an inclusiveness plan to promote diverse participation among both the organizing team and competitors. Organizers are encouraged to collaborate with affinity groups to host on-site bootcamps and other initiatives aimed at promoting diversity of participation.

NeurIPS 2023 will be hosting a dedicated Competition Track, where results will be presented and discussed by participants and organizers. The Competition Track is currently planned to be held in person at NeurIPS. New this year, the competition analysis paper should be submitted to the NeurIPS 2024 D&B track; there will be no separate proceedings. Further details on the organization will be released in the following months.