NeurIPS 2020. Comprehensive analysis of authors, organizations, and countries.

Welcome!

This post analyzes what authors and organizations publish at NeurIPS 2020 this December, similar to the analysis I did for ICML 2020.

Papers are available here. The code is available here.

Disclaimer: As before, such analysis is prone to minor errors due to how people write their names and affiliations in CMT. So this analysis is good to get global insights rather than pinpoint exact numbers❕

Okay, let’s go.

General stats

There are in total 9454 submissions of which 1900 papers were accepted, making it 20% acceptance rate.

The number of submissions continues to grow exponentially with 40% YoY. With this rate in 2025, we may have 50K submissions (good luck to reviewers 😜).

Despite the growing number of submissions, the acceptance rate remains suspiciously constant.

Organizations

Similar to ICML 2020, Google, Stanford, and MIT maintain their status of most publishing organizations.