NLP research is migrating to ICML/ICLR/NeurIPS as industry prefers ML venues

BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-09-22

Researchers Blanche Minerva and Jenna Russell discuss how NLP research has been shifting to general ML venues (ICML/ICLR/NeurIPS) as LLMs broaden beyond language. Russell notes submission rates are higher than prior years, driven partly by industry preferring ML venues — many students now submit to ICLR instead of NAACL.

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