Table of Contents

• Preface [doi]
• Results and findings of the 2021 Image Similarity ChallengeZoë Papakipos, Giorgos Tolias, Tomás Jenícek, Ed Pizzi, Shuhei Yokoo, Wenhao Wang, Yifan Sun, Weipu Zhang, Yi Yang, Sanjay Addicam, Sergio Manuel Papadakis, Cristian Canton-Ferrer, Ondrej Chum, Matthijs Douze. 1-12 [doi]
• MineRL Diamond 2021 Competition: Overview, Results, and Lessons LearnedAnssi Kanervisto, Stephanie Milani, Karolis Ramanauskas, Nicholay Topin, Zichuan Lin, Junyou Li, Jianing Shi, Deheng Ye, Qiang Fu, Wei Yang 0032, Weijun Hong, Zhongyue Huang, Haicheng Chen, Guangjun Zeng, Yue Lin, Vincent Micheli, Eloi Alonso, François Fleuret, Alexander Nikulin, Yury Belousov, Oleg Svidchenko, Aleksei Shpilman. 13-28 [doi]
• The Open Catalyst Challenge 2021: Competition ReportAbhishek Das, Muhammed Shuaibi, Aini Palizhati, Siddharth Goyal, Aditya Grover, Adeesh Kolluru, Janice Lan, Ammar Rizvi, Anuroop Sriram, Brandon M. Wood, Devi Parikh, Zachary W. Ulissi, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Guolin Ke, Shuxin Zheng, Yu Shi, Di He, Tie-Yan Liu, Chengxuan Ying, Jiacheng You, Yihan He, Rostislav Grigoriev, Ruslan Lukin, Adel Yarullin, Max Faleev. 29-40 [doi]
• Insights From the NeurIPS 2021 NetHack ChallengeEric Hambro, Sharada P. Mohanty, Dmitrii Babaev, Minwoo Byeon, Dipam Chakraborty, Edward Grefenstette, Minqi Jiang, Jo Daejin, Anssi Kanervisto, Jongmin Kim, Sungwoong Kim, Robert Kirk, Vitaly Kurin, Heinrich Küttler, Taehwon Kwon, Donghoon Lee, Vegard Mella, Nantas Nardelli, Ivan Nazarov, Nikita Ovsov, Jack Holder, Roberta Raileanu, Karolis Ramanauskas, Tim Rocktäschel, Danielle Rothermel, Mikayel Samvelyan, Dmitry Sorokin, Maciej Sypetkowski, Michal Sypetkowski. 41-52 [doi]
• The Second NeurIPS Tournament of Reconnaissance Blind ChessGino Perrotta, Ryan W. Gardner, Corey Lowman, Mohammad Taufeeque, Nitish Tongia, Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Gregory Clark, Kevin Wang, Eitan Rothberg, Brady P. Garrison, Prithviraj Dasgupta, Callum Canavan, Lucas McCabe. 53-65 [doi]
• VisDA-2021 Competition: Universal Domain Adaptation to Improve Performance on Out-of-Distribution DataDina Bashkirova, Dan Hendrycks, Donghyun Kim, Haojin Liao, Samarth Mishra, Chandramouli Rajagopalan, Kate Saenko, Kuniaki Saito, Burhan Ul Tayyab, Piotr Teterwak, Ben Usman. 66-79 [doi]
• Lessons learned from the NeurIPS 2021 MetaDL challenge: Backbone fine-tuning without episodic meta-learning dominates for few-shot learning image classificationAdrian El Baz, Ihsan Ullah, Edesio Alcobaça, André C. P. L. F. de Carvalho, Hong Chen, Fabio Ferreira, Henry Gouk, Chaoyu Guan, Isabelle Guyon, Timothy M. Hospedales, Shell Hu, Mike Huisman, Frank Hutter, Zhengying Liu, Felix Mohr, Ekrem Öztürk, Jan N. van Rijn, Haozhe Sun, Xin Wang, Wenwu Zhu 0001. 80-96 [doi]
• Traffic4cast at NeurIPS 2021 - Temporal and Spatial Few-Shot Transfer Learning in Gridded Geo-Spatial ProcessesChristian Eichenberger, Moritz Neun, Henry Martin, Pedro Herruzo, Markus Spanring, Yichao Lu, Sungbin Choi, Vsevolod Konyakhin, Nina Lukashina, Aleksei Shpilman, Nina Wiedemann, Martin Raubal, Bo Wang, Hai L. Vu, Reza Mohajerpoor, Chen Cai, Inhi Kim, Luca Hermes, Andrew Melnik, Riza Velioglu, Markus Vieth, Malte Schilling, Alabi Bojesomo, Hasan Al-Marzouqi, Panos Liatsis, Jay Santokhi, Dylan Hillier, Yiming Yang, Joned Sarwar, Anna Jordan, Emil Hewage, David Jonietz, Fei Tang, Aleksandra Gruca, Michael Kopp 0001, David P. Kreil, Sepp Hochreiter. 97-112 [doi]
• Evaluating Approximate Inference in Bayesian Deep LearningAndrew Gordon Wilson, Pavel Izmailov, Matthew D. Hoffman, Yarin Gal, Yingzhen Li, Melanie F. Pradier, Sharad Vikram, Andrew Y. K. Foong, Sanae Lotfi, Sebastian Farquhar. 113-124 [doi]
• HEAR: Holistic Evaluation of Audio RepresentationsJoseph Turian, Jordie Shier, Humair Raj Khan, Bhiksha Raj, Björn W. Schuller, Christian J. Steinmetz, Colin Malloy, George Tzanetakis, Gissel Velarde, Kirk McNally, Max Henry, Nicolas Pinto, Camille Noufi, Christian Clough, Dorien Herremans, Eduardo Fonseca, Jesse H. Engel, Justin Salamon, Philippe Esling, Pranay Manocha, Shinji Watanabe 0001, Zeyu Jin, Yonatan Bisk. 125-145 [doi]
• Interactive Grounded Language Understanding in a Collaborative Environment: IGLU 2021Julia Kiseleva, Ziming Li 0001, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Shrestha Mohanty, Maartje ter Hoeve, Mikhail S. Burtsev, Alexey Skrynnik, Artem Zholus, Aleksandr Panov, Kavya Srinet, Arthur Szlam, Yuxuan Sun, Katja Hofmann, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Linar Abdrazakov, Igor Churin, Putra Manggala, Kata Naszádi, Michiel van der Meer, Taewoon Kim 0002. 146-161 [doi]
• Multimodal single cell data integration challenge: Results and lessons learnedChristopher Lance, Malte D. Lücken, Daniel B. Burkhardt, Robrecht Cannoodt, Pia Rautenstrauch, Anna Laddach, Aidyn Ubingazhibov, Zhi-Jie Cao, Kaiwen Deng, Sumeer Khan, Qiao Liu, Nikolay Russkikh, Gleb Ryazantsev, Uwe Ohler, Angela Oliveira Pisco, Jonathan Bloom, Smita Krishnaswamy, Fabian J. Theis. 162-176 [doi]
• Results of the NeurIPS'21 Challenge on Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor SearchHarsha Vardhan Simhadri, George Williams, Martin Aumüller 0001, Matthijs Douze, Artem Babenko, Dmitry Baranchuk, Qi Chen, Lucas Hosseini, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Gopal Srinivasa, Suhas Jayaram Subramanya, Jingdong Wang 0001. 177-189 [doi]
• Real Robot Challenge: A Robotics Competition in the CloudStefan Bauer, Manuel Wüthrich, Felix Widmaier, Annika Buchholz, Sebastian Stark, Anirudh Goyal, Thomas Steinbrenner, Joel Akpo, Shruti Joshi, Vincent Berenz, Vaibhav Agrawal, Niklas Funk, Julen Urain De Jesus, Jan Peters 0001, Joe Watson, Claire Chen, Krishnan Srinivasan, Junwu Zhang, Jeffrey Zhang, Matthew R. Walter, Rishabh Madan, Takuma Yoneda, Denis Yarats, Arthur Allshire, Ethan K. Gordon, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Animesh Garg, Takahiro Maeda, Harshit Sikchi, Jilong Wang 0008, Qingfeng Yao, Shuyu Yang, Robert McCarthy, Francisco Sanchez, Qiang Wang, David Cordova Bulens, Kevin McGuinness, Noel E. O'Connor, Stephen J. Redmond, Bernhard Schölkopf. 190-204 [doi]
• 2021 BEETL Competition: Advancing Transfer Learning for Subject Independence & Heterogenous EEG Data SetsXiaoxi Wei, A. Aldo Faisal, Moritz Grosse-Wentrup, Alexandre Gramfort, Sylvain Chevallier, Vinay Jayaram, Camille Jeunet, Stylianos Bakas, Siegfried Ludwig, Konstantinos Barmpas, Mehdi Bahri, Yannis Panagakis, Nikolaos A. Laskaris, Dimitrios A. Adamos, Stefanos Zafeiriou, William C. Duong, Stephen M. Gordon, Vernon J. Lawhern, Maciej Sliwowski, Vincent Rouanne, Piotr Tempczyk. 205-219 [doi]
• The Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization Competition (ML4CO): Results and InsightsMaxime Gasse, Simon Bowly, Quentin Cappart, Jonas Charfreitag, Laurent Charlin, Didier Chételat, Antonia Chmiela, Justin Dumouchelle, Ambros M. Gleixner, Aleksandr M. Kazachkov, Elias Khalil, Pawel Lichocki, Andrea Lodi 0001, Miles Lubin, Chris J. Maddison, Christopher Morris 0001, Dimitri J. Papageorgiou, Augustin Parjadis, Sebastian Pokutta, Antoine Prouvost, Lara Scavuzzo, Giulia Zarpellon, Linxin Yang, Sha Lai, Akang Wang, Xiaodong Luo, Xiang Zhou, Haohan Huang, Sheng Cheng Shao, Yuanming Zhu, Dong Zhang, Tao Quan, Zixuan Cao, Yang Xu, Zhewei Huang, Shuchang Zhou, Binbin Chen, Minggui He, Hao Hao, Zhiyu Zhang, Zhiwu An, Kun Mao. 220-231 [doi]
• WebQA: A Multimodal Multihop NeurIPS ChallengeYingshan Chang, Yonatan Bisk. 232-245 [doi]
• Learning by Doing: Controlling a Dynamical System using Causality, Control, and Reinforcement LearningSebastian Weichwald, Søren Wengel Mogensen, Tabitha Edith Lee, Dominik Baumann, Oliver Kroemer, Isabelle Guyon, Sebastian Trimpe, Jonas Peters, Niklas Pfister. 246-258 [doi]
• Retrospective on the 2021 MineRL BASALT Competition on Learning from Human FeedbackRohin Shah, Steven H. Wang, Cody Wild, Stephanie Milani, Anssi Kanervisto, Vinicius G. Goecks, Nicholas R. Waytowich, David Watkins-Valls, Bharat Prakash, Edmund Mills, Divyansh Garg, Alexander Fries, Alexandra Souly, Jun Shern Chan, Daniel Del Castillo, Tom Lieberum. 259-272 [doi]
• Prospective Explanations: An Interactive Mechanism for Model UnderstandingRahul Nair, Pierpaolo Tommasi. 273-277 [doi]
• Interactive Corpora Visualization for 60 Years of AI ResearchHendrik Strobelt, Benjamin Hoover. 278-282 [doi]
• The SenSE Toolkit: A System for Visualization and Explanation of Semantic ShiftMaurício Gruppi, Sibel Adali, Pin-Yu Chen. 283-287 [doi]
• AIMEE: Interactive model maintenance with rule-based surrogatesOwen Cornec, Rahul Nair, Elizabeth Daly, Oznur Alkan, Dennis Wei. 288-291 [doi]
• GANs for All: Supporting Fun and Intuitive Exploration of GAN Latent SpacesWei Jiang, Richard Lee Davis, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Pierre Dillenbourg. 292-296 [doi]
• Lesan - Machine Translation for Low Resource LanguagesAsmelash Teka Hadgu, Abel Aregawi, Adam Beaudoin. 297-301 [doi]
• Exploring Conceptual Soundness with TruLensAnupam Datta, Matt Fredrikson, Klas Leino, Kaiji Lu, Shayak Sen, Ricardo Shih, Zifan Wang. 302-307 [doi]
• Real-Time and Accurate Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation on Mobile DeviceHong Cai, Fei Yin, Tushar Singhal, Sandeep Pendyam, Parham Noorzad, Yinhao Zhu, Khoi Nguyen, Janarbek Matai, Bharath Ramaswamy, Frank Mayer, Chirag Patel, Abhijit Khobare, Fatih Porikli. 308-313 [doi]
• Automated Evaluation of GNN Explanations with Neuro Symbolic ReasoningVanya Bannihatti Kumar, Balaji Ganesan, Muhammed Ameen, Devbrat Sharma, Arvind Agarwal. 314-318 [doi]
• Pylon: A PyTorch Framework for Learning with ConstraintsKareem Ahmed, Tao Li 0039, Thy Ton, Quan Guo, Kai-Wei Chang, Parisa KordJamshidi, Vivek Srikumar, Guy Van den Broeck, Sameer Singh 0001. 319-324 [doi]
• MEWS: Real-time Social Media Manipulation Detection and AnalysisTrenton Ford, Michael Yankoski, William Theisen, Tom Henry, Farah Khashman, Katherine R. Dearstyne, Tim Weninger, Pamela Bilo Thomas. 325-329 [doi]
• An Interactive Visual Demo of Bias Mitigation Techniques for Word Representations From a Geometric PerspectiveArchit Rathore, Sunipa Dev, Vivek Srikumar, Jeff M. Phillips, Yan Zheng, Chin-Chia Michael Yeh, JunPeng Wang, Wei Zhang, Bei Wang 0001. 330-335 [doi]
• Training Transformers TogetherAlexander Borzunov, Max Ryabinin, Tim Dettmers, Quentin Lhoest, Lucile Saulnier, Michael Diskin, Yacine Jernite, Thomas Wolf 0008. 335-342 [doi]
• TripleBlind: A Privacy-Preserving Framework for Decentralized Data and AlgorithmsGharib Gharibi, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye, Ravi Patel, Andrew Rademacher, David Wagner, Jack Fay, Gary Moore, Steve Penrod, Greg Storm, Riddhiman Das. 343-348 [doi]
• Deep Learning Frameworks for Weakly-Supervised Indoor LocalizationFarhad G. Zanjani, Ilia Karmanov, Hanno Ackermann, Daniel Dijkman, Simone Merlin, Ishaque Kadampot, Brian Buesker, Vamsi Vegunta, Fatih Porikli. 349-354 [doi]