[D] What Happened to Neurips Creative AI Track? [R]
Official track announced, but papers nowhere to be found—what happened?
At NeurIPS 2025, the Creative AI Track was prominently announced as an official component of the conference proceedings. The call for papers (neurips.cc/Conferences/2025/CallForCreativeAI) stated: "Please note that this year the Creative AI track will be part of the NeurIPS conference proceedings and papers will be presented as posters during the conference." This signaled a major step in legitimizing AI creativity research within the premier machine learning venue.
However, now that the proceedings are live at papers.nips.cc, the Creative AI papers are conspicuously absent. A Reddit post by user Routine-Scientist-38 sparked the discussion, linking to both the original announcement and the missing papers. The community is speculating whether the track was dropped last-minute, delayed for a separate publication, or simply omitted due to a logistical error. As of now, no official explanation has been provided by NeurIPS organizers, leaving authors and attendees in confusion.
- NeurIPS 2025 officially announced the Creative AI Track as part of proceedings with poster presentations.
- Published proceedings at papers.nips.cc contain no Creative AI papers, contrary to the announcement.
- Reddit user Routine-Scientist-38 raised the issue, linking to the call and the empty proceedings.
Why It Matters
This raises questions about transparency and reliability in top AI conferences' publication processes.