This was pointed out by someone working in ML—but I can’t find major conference deadlines that this would have been in response to, so maybe it’s not a useful explanation.
But NeurIPS submissions open this week—these may have been intended for that, or precede that to claim priority in case someone else submits something similar. I’d be interested in looking at release dates / times for previous big advances compared to conferences.
This was pointed out by someone working in ML—but I can’t find major conference deadlines that this would have been in response to, so maybe it’s not a useful explanation.
But NeurIPS submissions open this week—these may have been intended for that, or precede that to claim priority in case someone else submits something similar. I’d be interested in looking at release dates / times for previous big advances compared to conferences.