Submitted by rudimentarythoughts t3_xshkbf in MachineLearning
I’m an ML software engineer and my work doesn’t involve a lot of research or publishing papers but I do have an interest in doing some research on my own and focusing some time on exploring new approaches, especially in the NLP space. I was wondering if attending Neurips would be a good stepping stone to see what the research world is like? Are the workshops beneficial? Or is it not worth it if I don’t have an accepted paper?
zyl1024 t1_iqkoopm wrote
Can you already understand some papers there by reading them? If so, you could get some interesting discussions with the authors. Not having a paper isn't that important. Most people don't care if you have a paper there, as long as you have good thoughts during discussion. If not, I am afraid that it's not too beneficial. For workshops, the invited talks are typically much better than contributed papers, which are mostly preliminary ideas or rejected conference papers.