This year’s Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing (NeurIPS 2020) is held 100% virtually from December 6th to 12th, 2020. Historically NeurIPS sells out quickly and can be a challenge to register for. But, this year’s virtual format welcomes everyone with an affordable ticket price of $100.2020 is our third year of TOPBOTS covering the conference. To … [Read more...] about TOPBOTS Guide to NeurIPS 2020
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Highlights of ACL 2020
ACL Trends Visualization by Wanxiang Che With ACL becoming virtual this year, I unfortunately spent less time networking and catching up with colleagues, but as a silver lining I watched many more talks than I usually do. I decided to share the notes I took and discuss some overall trends. The list is not exhaustive, and is based on my research interests. I recommend also … [Read more...] about Highlights of ACL 2020
The Best NLP Papers From ICLR 2020
I went through 687 papers that were accepted to ICLR 2020 virtual conference (out of 2594 submitted - up 63% since 2019!) and identified 9 papers with the potential to advance the use of deep learning NLP models in everyday use cases.Here are the papers found and why they matter.ELECTRA: Pre-training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than GeneratorsKevin … [Read more...] about The Best NLP Papers From ICLR 2020
Top 10 Technical AI and Machine Learning Conferences in 2020
The AI & ML field is growing at a very fast rate, and as a research scientist or ML engineer, you definitely want to keep track of the latest research advances, especially in your area of interest. To stay aware of the most important research breakthroughs, you can follow our regular research summaries across the main ML research fields.For connecting with other … [Read more...] about Top 10 Technical AI and Machine Learning Conferences in 2020
TOPBOTS Guide To NeurIPS 2019
This year’s Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing (NeurIPS 2019) will be held in Vancouver, Canada from December 8th to 14th, 2019. The popularity of this conference is growing rapidly, with the number of submitted papers getting to the record-breaking number of 6743, almost 40% more than last year.The TOPBOTS team is also going to NeurIPS again this year. To … [Read more...] about TOPBOTS Guide To NeurIPS 2019
Top NLP Research Trends From ACL 2019
This year, I had the chance to attend the ACL 2019 conference in Florence. It was my first NLP academic conference, and I was eager to attend as many sessions as possible. In contrast to most of the attendees, I was not interested in any particular research area. Instead, I wanted to pick up on the general NLP trends - so I was happy to hear about the latest advances in … [Read more...] about Top NLP Research Trends From ACL 2019
Top 8 Trends From ICLR 2019
1. InclusivityThe organizers pressed the importance of inclusivity in AI by making sure that the first two main talks, the Sasha Rush’s opening remarks and Cynthia Dwork’s invited talk, were about fairness and equality. Some of the worrisome statistics include:Only 8.6% of presenters and 15% of participants are women.2/3rd of all the LGBTQ+ researchers aren’t out … [Read more...] about Top 8 Trends From ICLR 2019
Best Artificial Intelligence Conferences For Business Leaders In 2019
Everyone’s excited about AI and machine learning these days, so new conferences are popping up everywhere. We’ve identified more than 150 events on our ultimate AI conference list, but which ones are actually worth your time?Which AI Conferences Have The Most ROI For Business Leaders?As a business leader, you want to learn about new technologies from experienced … [Read more...] about Best Artificial Intelligence Conferences For Business Leaders In 2019