16 NeurIPS 2026 contests

NeurIPS 2026 is coming, with the Competition Track featuring 16 competitions on various topics:

• Scientific AI, Physics & Engineering: Learn2Design, Smart Buildings, Fusion Equilibrium, RealPDE, FAIR Universe Weak Lensing.
• Healthcare/Bio: SimulacraBench, AMP Challenge, Speech Accessibility Project Challenge 2, Virtual Embryo.
• Foundation Models, Reasoning & AI Evaluation: Steerability, Predictive AI Evaluation, AIMO Interpretability, QuantiPhy.
• Robotics, Agents & Embodied AI: RoboSyn, RoCo-Spring, Agenthon for qunatitative finance

Several more competitions will take place as part of workshops: EEG/EMG Foundation Challenge, AV Causal Reasoning Retrieval Challenge, Lean Refactor Arena, AgentOdyssey.

Most competitions run in September and October. It is a great opportunity for anyone interested—including school students and people outside research—to tackle frontier problems faced by top labs, publish a paper about their solution, and attend the largest AI conference.