This was one hard, very hard year for all of us. It was a year in which pandemic reshaped our world. It seems that this trend is going to go continue further in 2021. The field of AI, however, was not impacted that much by all these changes. At least not in a negative way. A steady flow of research papers was not stopped, in fact, we saw some quite amazing breakthroughs. That is why, for the last article of 2020, we decided to write about awarded research papers from Neural Information Processing Systems  (NeurIPS ) conference.

Looking at the old logo of _NeurIPS _ conference, my wife asked me “What is that? Is that a witchcraft conference?”. Close, but no, it is one of the most important  machine learning conferences. In fact, the _NeurIPS _ awards are something like the _Oscars _ in the world of machine learning. Every year a bunch of papers is proposed to and the best papers are awarded. This was the thirty-fourth _NeurIPS _ conference and it was held online. Interesting thing is that this years’ conference had the biggest number of submissions ever. This year 38% more papers were accepted than the last, which is 1,903 as compared to 2019’s 1,428. This says a lot about the state of the machine learning industry.

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