NeurIPS 2026
The largest machine learning research conference, held this year as three simultaneous events in Sydney, Atlanta and Paris. It is where AlexNet, GANs and the Transformer were first presented.
Three cities
Each city runs its own main conference days and workshops. Registration opened in September for Sydney and Atlanta, with Paris opening separately.
Sydney
International Convention Centre
Main conference Dec 8–10
48 workshops · Dec 11–12
Atlanta
Georgia World Congress Center
Main conference Dec 9–11
26 workshops · Dec 12–13
Paris
Palais des Congrès de Paris
Main conference Dec 9–11
28 workshops · Dec 12–13
Key dates
Paper submissions for 2026 are closed. NeurIPS deadlines usually fall in May, and the 2027 dates will be added here once announced.
- May 4, 2026Abstract deadlineDone
- May 6, 2026Full paper deadlineDone
- Sep 24, 2026Author notificationsDone
- Dec 6, 2026Opens in Sydney with Expo dayUpcoming
- Dec 8–11, 2026Main conference days across the three citiesUpcoming
- Dec 11–13, 2026Workshops across the three citiesUpcoming
Checked against neurips.cc · last verified 15 Oct 2026
Landmark papers from NeurIPS
Nine of the 25 papers in the AIooze reading paths first appeared at NeurIPS.
- 02ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (AlexNet)
Path 1 · Deep learning foundations
- 06Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
Path 2 · Transformers and language models
- 08Attention Is All You Need
Path 2 · Transformers and language models · Paper card
- 10Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3)
Path 2 · Transformers and language models
- 11Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
Path 2 · Transformers and language models
- 13Generative Adversarial Nets
Path 3 · Computer vision and generative models
- 14Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
Path 3 · Computer vision and generative models
- 23Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models (Chinchilla)
Path 5 · Scaling, alignment and efficiency
- 24Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback (InstructGPT)
Path 5 · Scaling, alignment and efficiency
About this page
Dates come from the official NeurIPS site. After the conference ends, this page will carry a short recap and then roll forward to NeurIPS 2027. Always confirm details on the official site.