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We want to speak directly to the concern many of you have expressed, and we owe you a clear explanation of what happened, why it happened, and where we stand now. We understand this situation caused genuine alarm and we take that seriously.
In preparing the NeurIPS 2026 handbook, we included a link to a US government sanctions tool that covers a significantly broader set of restrictions than those NeurIPS is actually required to follow. This error was due to miscommunication between the NeurIPS Foundation and our legal team; there was never an intention to restrict participation beyond our mandatory compliance obligations. The responsibility for that error is ours as an organization, and we deeply apologize for the alarm and impact this miscommunication had on our community.
We have updated the link and clarified the text of our policy, which is consistent with that of ACM and IEEE, as well as other international conferences and NeurIPS in the past. As in previous years, NeurIPS welcomes submissions from all compliant institutions and individuals.
We want to reiterate that NeurIPS is a community-driven event, created by and for the community, and strives to be inclusive. The NeurIPS 2026 organizing committee was particularly saddened to learn of this institutional miscommunication. The organizing committee has taken on the responsibility of running the conference this year with the goal of fostering open communication, knowledge sharing, and global scientific discourse.
We thank the community for bringing this issue to our attention and working with us through this situation.
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🚨 New #CVPR2026 collaboration with Google DeepMind --> Ego2Web bridges egocentric video perception and web execution, enabling agents that see the first-person real-world video of the user’s surroundings, and take actions on the web grounded in the egocentric video:
▪️ Introduces a task where agents must ground egocentric video (first-person view) into concrete web actions (requires visual grounding → entity extraction → planning → real website execution).
▪️Covers realistic cross-domain tasks e.g., e-commerce (find/buy items you saw), media retrieval (find related videos), knowledge lookup (identify & query entities), maps/local (locate places from visual cues).
▪️Proposes Ego2WebJudge to automatically evaluate whether web agent results are correctly grounded in the video context.
▪️Reveals concrete failure modes across 6 strong agents (GPT-5.4, Claude, Gemini-based agents, etc.): weak visual grounding, brittle cross-modal reasoning, and planning breakdowns (only ~58% success rate).
Details 👇👇
Introducing Ego2Web from Google DeepMind and UNC Chapel Hill, accepted to #CVPR2026.
AI agents can browse the web. But can they act based on what you see? Existing benchmarks focus only on web interaction while ignoring the real world.
Ego2Web bridges egocentric video perception and web execution, enabling agents that can see through first-person video, understand real-world context, and take actions on the web grounded in the egocentric video.
This opens a path toward AI assistants that operate seamlessly across physical and digital environments. We hope Ego2Web serves as an important step for building more capable, perception-driven agents.
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Ego2Web
A Web Agent Benchmark Grounded in Egocentric Videos
paper: huggingface.co/papers/2603.2…
Boqing Gong retweeted
Introducing Ego2Web from Google DeepMind and UNC Chapel Hill, accepted to #CVPR2026.
AI agents can browse the web. But can they act based on what you see? Existing benchmarks focus only on web interaction while ignoring the real world.
Ego2Web bridges egocentric video perception and web execution, enabling agents that can see through first-person video, understand real-world context, and take actions on the web grounded in the egocentric video.
This opens a path toward AI assistants that operate seamlessly across physical and digital environments. We hope Ego2Web serves as an important step for building more capable, perception-driven agents.
🧵👇
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I'm recruiting multiple PhD students this cycle to join me at Harvard University and the Kempner Institute! My interests span vision and intelligence, including 3D/4D, active perception, memory, representation learning, and anything you're excited to explore!
Deadline: Dec 15th.
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Thanks for the support Yann! Indeed, our Segment Anything team is still doing open source research, even though we are not in FAIR anymore! We just open sourced SAM 3 and SAM 3D! @nikhilaravi @cfeichtenhofer @PengchuanZ
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Introducing AI Marketing Agent 1.0 – the first AI agent that actually executes your marketing.
Multi-channel campaign drafted. SEO content that ranks. Daily analytics briefs with next steps. Social listening & engagement support.
...and 50+ core workflows translated from real human expertise.
It's Claude Code... but for marketing.
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If you have a fond memory or a note that you'd like to share about Margrit Betke, please add it to this document before 9/20: lnkd.in/gmbbHYzF
We wish to share it in some form with her family during her memorial on Sept 20th!
Margrit Betke, a @BU_CAS professor of computer science, is being remembered as a brilliant BU scholar and a devoted mentor by colleagues and current and former students. She passed away on August 13.
Read more ➡️ spr.ly/6019fIsSN
ALT “Margrit’s legacy lives on through the many students and colleagues she mentored and inspired,” says former student Sarah Bargal (GRS’19), now an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University. “I am forever grateful for her guidance, her brilliance, and her warmth.”
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🚀 Excited to announce our 4th Workshop on Computer Vision in the Wild (CVinW) at @CVPR 2025!
🔗 computer-vision-in-the-wild.…
⭐We have invinted a great lineup of speakers: Prof. Kaiming He, Prof. @BoqingGo, Prof. @CordeliaSchmid, Prof. @RanjayKrishna, Prof. @sainingxie, Prof. @YunzhuLiYZ, Prof. @furongh to talk about the exciting researches to bring vision to the wild!
🌎Join top researchers tackling real-world vision challenges — from dynamic environments to embodied agents! See you all at #CVPR2025!
#CVPR2025 #ComputerVision #AI
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It is just so sad that the #NeurIPS2024 main conference ended with such a racist remark by a faculty when talking about ethics. How ironic!
I also want to commend the Chinese student who spoke up right on spot. She was respectful, decent, and courageous. Her response was exemplary: she began by acknowledging the speaker’s efforts, then gave the speaker an opportunity to clarify (though, regrettably, the speaker’s reply only reinforced her bias), and ultimately called attention to the inappropriate racial bias and offered constructive suggestions. Thank you for speaking out!
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Someone confronted on the spot, and she even dare to reply "Maybe there is one, maybe they are common, who knows what. I hope it was an outlier.” wtf @RosalindPicard resign from @MIT or prepare to get fired!
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NeurIPS acknowledges that the cultural generalization made by the keynote speaker today reinforces implicit biases by making generalisations about Chinese scholars. This is not what NeurIPS stands for. NeurIPS is dedicated to being a safe space for all of us. We want to address the comment made during the invited talk this afternoon, as it is something that NeurIPS does not condone and it doesn't align with our code of conduct. We are addressing this issue with the speaker directly.
NeurIPS is dedicated to being a diverse and inclusive place where everyone is treated equally.
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Who’s going to be our 40k follower? We’re so close. Rumour is us publicity chairs get paid by the new follower. Right @wjscheirer? 😉
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Hi CV friends, we hope to welcome you to #ACCV2024 and Vietnam in December.
Hello computer vision community, #ACCV2024 will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam🇻🇳from Dec 8-12, 2024. We hope to welcome you to attend the conference, share your research📑, connect with other fellow researchers😀, and enjoy the beautiful attractions🏖⛩⛰ and foods🫕☕️ in Vietnam 1/3
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Have a question or concern about #CVPR2024 Seattle 🇺🇸? Tag us with @CVPR.
Also check us out on Weibo! weibo.com/u/7778156717
Hosted by your Publicity Chairs @abby621 @BoqingGo @hi_ice_boy @CSProfKGD
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We did it! From 0 to 7000 followers in under a year.
We know there are many more #computervision researchers out there. FOLLOW today!
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.@HuggingFace works with ICCV23 allowing paper authors to share/discuss their work (models, datasets, and demos) along with claiming their papers on Hugging Face
ICCV page: iccv2023.thecvf.com/hugging.…
demo: huggingface.co/spaces/ICCV20…
