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Karpathy: Google dominates ICLR submissions

From:
Andrej Karpathy
Date:
January 31, 2018
To:
Elon Musk; cc Shivon Zilis
Subject:
Top AI institutions today
The ICLR conference (which is the top deep learning - specific conference (NIPS is larger, but more diffuse)) released their decisions for accepted/rejected papers, and someone made some nice plots that show where the current deep learning / AI research happens at. It's an imperfect measure because not every company might prioritize paper publications, but it's indicative. Here's a plot that shows the total number of papers (broken down by oral/poster/workshop/rejected) from any institution: Long story short, Google is dominating with 83 paper submissions. The academic institutions (Berkeley / Stanford / CMU / MIT) are next, in 20-30 ranges each. Just thought it was an interesting snapshot of where all the action is today. The full data is here: http://webia.lip6.fr/~pajot/dataviz.html -Andrej

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Karpathy sends Musk a breakdown of ICLR paper submissions by institution, showing Google far ahead with 83 submissions and the top universities at 20-30 each.

Notes

Text taken from the LessWrong transcription (habryka, Nov 16 2024), which the compiler states was checked against the originals. Sent Jan 31, 2018 1:20 PM. The original included an embedded plot.

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Court record; attribution confirmed.

OpenAI, executive & internal. Tags: google, research, iclr, competition, musk-v-openai