A six-day conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) concluded last week in Vancouver, Canada, and attracted more than 16,000 participants, but amid strained relations with the West, Chinese AI researchers and Technology companies made up a notable portion of the participants. field.
This is the third time this year that Liu Feng has participated in NeurIPS. An assistant professor of machine learning at the University of Melbourne told the Post on Friday that the “Asian presence” at this year’s event was significantly larger than in the past.
Meanwhile, Zhejiang University overtook Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the university that received the most papers this year, according to Paper Copilot.
Yang Jing, founder of Paper Copilot and current PhD candidate at the University of Southern California, said his project has been building large-scale language models and embodied intelligence since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022. It said it is tracking the increasing participation of Chinese academics across various AI fields, including: .
