China deepens footprint at AI conference despite NeurIPS dispute, US tensions

Chinese technology companies and researchers turned out in force at a leading global artificial intelligence conference, despite mounting questions over whether they might avoid the event as a consequence of tense relations between Beijing and Washington.Papers with contributors from mainland China and Hong Kong accounted for over 51 per cent of accepted submissions, compared with just under 32 per cent from the United States, according to statistics compiled from the listed affiliations for 5,355 accepted papers at this year’s International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).ICLR, alongside the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) and the International Conference on Machine Learning, is considered one of the top conferences for AI and computational neuroscience.