As machine learning conferences grow, we as a community need to put more thought and planning into maintaining a fair review process. During the recent round of reviews, several issues pertaining to academic integrity came to our attention.  This prompted us to conduct an investigation, including, e.g., partnering with sister conferences for checking for dual submissions.  […]

Hugging Face is hosting a demo site for authors to find and claim their papers on the Hugging Face website and discuss those papers on dedicated pages:https://huggingface.co/spaces/ICLR2024/ICLR2024-papersThe page includes all accepted papers, along with linked datasets, models, and demos. If you have any questions, please contact the Hugging Face team via ahsen@huggingface.co

We are pleased to announce the Invited Speakers for ICLR 2024.  These speakers were selected to cover a range of topics, both within core machine learning, and also in adjacent areas of interest (e.g., legal considerations, sustainability, and drug design).  Those attending ICLR can see the full schedule here (if attending in person, please set […]

The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is proud to announce the third edition of its pioneering Blogposts Track, a unique publication venue established in 2022 to address the lack of up-to-date educational material in the fast-paced field of Artificial Intelligence. The Blogposts Track aims to incentivize researchers to engage in reflective, critical discourse about […]

By ICLR 2024 Workshop Chairs: Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Luis Oala, Stephanie Muller and Mercy Asiedu We thank everyone who prepared and submitted a workshop proposal to ICLR 2024. We were impressed by the quality of the proposals. This year, we received an unprecedented number of submissions, 103, and were able to accept 20 […]

1. Philosophy: why we do this The year 2023 will be remembered as one where unprecedented and unparalleled advances on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are made, by having a major machine learning conference successfully held in the African continent, for the first time in history. According to the Closing Remark, this simple change of […]

ICLR has long been experimenting with the process of organizing its conferences. For example, recently ICLR joined NeurIPS and ICML in showcasing poster presentations of JMLR publications, through a joint Journal-to-Conference Track. Today, the ICLR 2024 organizing committee and the TMLR Editors-in-Chief are happy to announce that authors of TMLR publications that have been given […]

Part of the ICLR experience is meeting people and talking with them about their experience, why they are attending, what they want to see the most, what’s trending, etc. In an effort to un-conference ICLR and open the conversation, we are thrilled to announce a new addition to this year’s program: Office Hours.  Office Hours […]

By ICLR Program Chairs and Ethics Review Chair In the interest of transparency, below is the ethics review process we used in ICLR 2023, as major AI/ML conferences are beginning to attend to this crucial work.  This write-up is also meant to help raise awareness about this important yet thorny domain.  Ethics is now more […]