62 ranked venues

Best Machine Learning Conferences

The machine learning field of research code separates the learning-theory and methods venues from the broader AI list. In practice the top of this tier is dominated by three conferences — NeurIPS, ICML and ICLR — whose submission volumes now run into five figures per cycle.

COLT and AISTATS remain the natural homes for theory-forward work, and a long tail of applied and workshop-derived venues sits below them. Check the paper archive on each conference page to see what the programme committee has actually accepted before you commit to a venue.

A* tier

8 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers	Acceptance
A*	AAAI	National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence	31,171	23.8% (2024 main track)
A*	COLT	Conference on Learning Theory	2,661
A*	ICDM	IEEE International Conference on Data Mining	7,201
A*	ICLR	International Conference on Learning Representations	11,991	31.7% (2024)
A*	ICML	International Conference on Machine Learning	17,065	27.5% (2024)
A*	IJCAI	International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence	16,536	14.0% (2024)
A*	KDD	ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining	8,232	20.0% (2024 research track)
A*	NeurIPS	Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (was NIPS)		25.8% (2024 main track)

A tier

6 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers	Acceptance
A	AISTATS	International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics	4,516	27.6% (2024)
A	ECAI	European Conference on Artificial Intelligence	5,844
A	ECML PKDD	European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Database (PKDD and ECML combined from 2008)
A	PPSN	Parallel Problem Solving from Nature	1,760
A	SIGSPATIAL	ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
A	WSDM	ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining	2,249	17.0% (2024)

B tier

15 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers
B	ALT	Algorithmic Learning Theory	1,187
B	ASONAM	IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
B	BigData	IEEE International Conference on Big Data	528
B	CBMS	IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems	3,392
B	CoNLL	Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning	1,220
B	DaWaK	Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery	986
B	DS	Discovery Science	280
B	DSAA	IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics	1,125
B	ESANN	European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks	3,038
B	EvoApplications	International Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation
B	ICONIP	International Conference on Neural Information Processing	7,576
B	IDA	Intelligent Data Analysis	955
B	IJCNN	IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks	20,288
B	L@S	ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale
B	SmartComp	IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing	904

C tier

23 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers
C	ACML	Asian Conference on Machine Learning	780
C	ADMA	International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications	1,777
C	AIES	AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society	1,025
C	BDCAT	IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies
C	CBMI	IEEE International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing	819
C	CD-MAKE	International Cross-Domain Conference for Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction
C	CIARP	IberoAmerican Congress on Pattern Recognition	1,859
C	CIDM	IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining	327
C	CIMA	International Workshop on Combinations of Intelligent Methods and Applications
C	COMPASS	The ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies	96
C	DATA	International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications	953
C	EANN	International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks	693
C	ICANN	International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks	5,047
C	ICCI	IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics	364
C	ICMLA	International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications	4,222
C	IDDM	International Conference on Informatics & Data-Driven Medicine	236
C	IEA/AIE	International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
C	IEEE ADPRL	IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
C	IJCCI	International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence	1,493
C	ISNN	International Symposium on Neural Networks	3,955
C	MIG	ACM SIGGRAPH conference on Motion Interaction and Games	483
C	NeSy	International Conference on Neurosymbolic Learning and Reasoning	250
C	PKAW	Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop	248

National

National tier

7 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers
National	AIMSA	International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications	609
National	IC-AI	International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
National	ICDSE	IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Engineering	78
National	ICMLC	International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics	2,872
National	IWANN	International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks	2,670
National	MMAR	International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics	1,833
National	PACBB	International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics	317

Australasian

Australasian tier

2 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers	Acceptance
Australasian	AI	Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence	1,379
Australasian	AusDM	Australian Data Mining Conference	394

Unranked

Unranked tier

1 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers	Acceptance
Unranked	CoRL	Conference on Robot Learning	1,225