Microsoft at NeurIPS 2021

Competitions

• Day 1: December 7, 10:00 – 12:05
• Day 2: December 8, 02:00 – 03:45
• Day 3: December 9, 10:00 – 12:05
• Day 4: December 10, 02:00 – 04:05

Organizers: Douwe Kiela, Marco Ciccone, Barbara Caputo
Program Committee Members: Evelyne Viegas, Noboru Kuno, Sai Vemprala

Learn more about the NeurIPS 2021 Competition Track >

Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Challenge
Organizers: Harsha Vardhan Simhadri, George Williams, Martin Aumüller, Artem Babenko, Dmitry Baranchuk, Qi Chen, Matthijs Douze, Lucas Hosseini, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Gopal Srinivasa, Suhas Jayaram Subramanya, Jingdong Wang

Diamond: A MineRL Competition on Training Sample-Efficient Agents
Organizer: William H. Guss, Alara Dirik, Byron V. Galbraith, Brandon Houghton, Anssi Kanervisto, Noboru Sean Kuno, Stephanie Milani, Sharada Mohanty, Karolis Ramanauskas, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Rohin Shah, Nicholay Topin, Steven H. Wang, Cody Wild
Advisory Committee: Sam Devlin, Katja Hofmann

Evaluating Approximate Inference in Bayesian Deep Learning
Organizer: Andrew Gordon Wilson, Pavel Izmailov, Matthew D. Hoffman, Yarin Gal, Yingzhen Li, Melanie F. Pradier, Sharad Vikram, Andrew Foong, Sanae Lotfi, Sebastian Farquhar

IGLU: Interactive Grounded Language Understanding in a Collaborative Environment
Organizers: Julia Kiseleva, Ziming Li, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Maartje ter Hoeve, Mikhail Burtsev, Alexey Skrynnik, Artem Zholus, Shrestha Mohanty, Aleksandr Panov, Katja Hofmann, Kavya Srinet, Arthur Szlam, Yuxuan Sun, Michel Galley, Ahmed Awadallah
Advisory Board: Bill Dolan, Ryen W. White

Reconnaissance Blind Chess
Organizer: Ryan W. Gardner, Gino Perrotta, Corey Lowman, Casey Richardson, Andrew Newman, Jared Markowitz, Nathan Drenkow, Barton Paulhamus, Ashley J. Llorens, Todd W. Neller, Raman Arora, Bo Li, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

WebQA Competition
Organizers: Yingshan Chang, Yonatan Bisk, Mridu Narang, Jared Fernandez, Levi Melnick, Guihong Cao, Hisami Suzuki, Jianfeng Gao