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NeurIPS 2026 Attendee Guide

NeurIPS 2026 · News and updates

News and updates

What has changed for NeurIPS 2026: announcements, deadlines and every change to the schedule, newest first.

Summary

Latest, Thu 5 Nov: Presenting pages: deadlines, templates and AI prompts. There are now three pages for presenters. Presenting lists every task with its deadline and where to do it, and every template and guide marked official or made by QRS. Posters covers sizes and printing in each city. Oral covers the oral sessions, slide rules, free 16:9 LaTeX and PowerPoint templates, and prompts for an AI assistant.

Checked against official pages on Thu 5 Nov 2026.

Latest news

  1. · This guide

    Presenting pages: deadlines, templates and AI prompts

    There are now three pages for presenters. Presenting lists every task with its deadline and where to do it, and every template and guide marked official or made by QRS. Posters covers sizes and printing in each city. Oral covers the oral sessions, slide rules, free 16:9 LaTeX and PowerPoint templates, and prompts for an AI assistant. More

  2. · From NeurIPS

    Registration reopens for Sydney and Atlanta

    After clearing its waitlists, NeurIPS reopened registration to the general public for the remaining Sydney and Atlanta places. Paris is still sold out to non-presenting authors and expects to release some tickets to its waitlist in the week of 9 November. NeurIPS 2026 More

  3. · From NeurIPS

    Paris poster and oral sessions move

    All six Paris poster sessions now run at new times, most of them earlier: Session 1 on 9 December moved from 12:30 to 11:00 Paris time. Several Paris oral sessions moved to a different day. My plan flags the ones that affect you. Schedule More

  4. · From NeurIPS

    Oral sessions scheduled, Paris tutorials moved

    The schedule now lists 33 oral sessions with their papers. Atlanta orals are in Hall C3 and C111-C112, and Paris orals in the Grand Amphithéâtre. Two Paris tutorials moved to a different day and to the Grand Amphithéâtre, and the other two changed time and no longer list a room. Schedule More

  5. · This guide

    Presenting page and free poster templates

    No poster template is on the public NeurIPS pages as of 5 November 2026 (Poster Information points to the Main Track Handbook, which says specifications will be posted there), so we made LaTeX and PowerPoint templates at the official sizes, with printing, SlidesLive and talk advice on one page. More

  6. · From NeurIPS

    MLRC 2026 papers announced

    The Machine Learning Reproducibility Challenge is an official track presented in Sydney, with a poster session on Thursday 10 December, 17:00 to 20:00. NeurIPS blog

  7. · From NeurIPS

    Sydney and Atlanta waitlists activated

    From 27 October NeurIPS activated every Sydney and Atlanta waitlist entry, public and author, with more places released daily. The latest update was on 3 November. Waitlist

  8. · This guide

    Hotels compared in all three cities

    The Hotels page now compares 59 hotels: Sydney in AUD or USD, Atlanta in USD and Paris in EUR or USD, each read in that currency. More

  9. · This guide

    Guide rebuilt for attendees

    Start here, a guide for each city, tickets, visas and a personal checklist, with every fact linked to its source. More

  10. · From NeurIPS

    Invited speakers and their topics

    NeurIPS named its invited speakers: six in Sydney, four in Paris and three in Atlanta, one each morning, with talk topics. NeurIPS blog

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Coming up

  • Final paper by 6 November (Fri 6 Nov)
  • Send your video by 13 November (Fri 13 Nov)
  • Set your poster topic by 15 November (Sun 15 Nov)
  • Order your poster by 25 November (Wed 25 Nov)
  • Order your poster by 30 November (Mon 30 Nov)

Deadlines that apply to presenters or to one city are marked as such in your checklist.

Schedule changes

Every change to times, rooms and sessions since this guide first read the official schedule, in each venue's local time. My plan flags any that touch your plan.

Seen on Thu 5 Nov 2026

70 papers changed session, time or room

Seen on Tue 3 Nov 2026

10 papers changed session, time or room

Seen on Mon 2 Nov 2026

10 papers changed session, time or room

Seen on Sun 1 Nov 2026

2 papers changed session, time or room

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