The six-day Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, or NeurIPS, wrapped last week in Vancouver, Canada, and attracted more than 16,000 participants, with Chinese AI researchers and technology firms making up a notable portion of attendees amid strained ties with Western countries in the field.
Liu Feng attended NeurIPS for the third time this year. The assistant professor in machine learning at the University of Melbourne told the Post on Friday that the “Asian appearance” of the event was noticeably greater this year than in the past.
Meanwhile, Zhejiang University unseated the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to become the institution with most papers accepted this year, according to Paper Copilot.
Paper Copilot founder Yang Jing, who is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California, said that since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022, his project has tracked growing participation from Chinese scholars across various AI disciplines, including large language models and embodied intelligence.