NeurIPS 2023 and the State of AI Research

The thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) will take place from December 10th-16th, 2023 in New Orleans. With 3,584 accepted papers, researchers worldwide will discuss various topics such as Bayesian optimization and adversarial attacks. An analysis of the abstracts reveals that "generative" (508), "transformer" (271), and "agent" (280) are popular terms, while "foundation" (111) is less common than "efficient" (963). The number of authors per paper has increased over the past decade, with an average of 4.98 in 2023. Titles have also grown longer, from an average of 7.39 words in 2017 to 8.72 in 2023.