Back from Pre-NeurIPS 2024

On Dec. 4, Pre-NeurIPS took place at Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, with 25 posters from upcoming NeurIPS 2024, ECCV 2024, ECAI 2024, CoRL 2024 and WACV 2025 conferences presented by researchers of PW and IDEAS NCBR. The event was part of Pre-NeurIPS series organized in ELLIS Units across the continent.

‘It will probably be my first time at such a large conference as NeurIPS. So far, I have visited smaller conferences where people know each other better, but are also in the same area of ​​interest. At large conferences, there is a chance to meet people dealing with other areas of knowledge, which gives an opportunity for more interdisciplinary projects,’ says Andrzej Mizera, post-doc at IDEAS NCBR.

‘A good poster encourages a guest to interact with the author. The poster is supposed to interest a person from a distance of 2-3 meters. Poster can help our paper get attention. Personal interactions at conferences offer a great advantage over journal publications.’ adds Jan Dubiński.

‘This year, NeurIPS has an acceptance rate just over 23%. There were 15,000 submissions. There was even a randomized lottery registration system for participants without papers due to the high interest.’

During the event, votes were cast for the best posters (and presentations). Wojciech Łapacz was the winner, while Jan Dubiński and Karol Rzepka took second place ex aequo. Congratulations and good luck! (Wojciech was recently in the IDEAHACK winning team as well).

Winning posters and co-authors:
1. Exploring the Stability Gap in Continual Learning: The Role of the Classification Head
Wojciech Łapacz Daniel Marczak Filip Szatkowski Tomasz Trzcinski
2. Generative modelling forHigh Energy Physics simulations at CERN
Jan Dubiński Patryk Będkowski Mikołaj Kita Karol Rogoziński Filip Szatkowski Tomasz Trzciński Kamil Deja Przemysław Rokita
2. DTLS performance evalution in IoT environments
Karol Rzepka Przemysław Szary Łukasz Pietraszak Natan Orzechowski Krzysztof Cabaj Wojciech Mazurczyk

‘We are delighted that the Pre-NeurIPS session is organized not only in Warsaw, but also takes place this week in 17 centers of the ELLIS network, including Zurich, Amsterdam and Oxford. Pre-NeurIPS helps researchers practice their ability to present results and share knowledge,’ says Agata Bader, coordinator for academic and international cooperation at IDEAS NCBR.

Read more about ELLIS Pre-NeurIPS Fest 2024.