Important Dates

Submission Deadline: August 22, 2025 (AoE)

Decision Notification: September 22, 2025 (AoE)

Camera-ready Deadline: October 23, 2025 (AoE)

Workshop: December 6-7, 2026 (9:00 AM EST to 17:40 PM EST)

Submission Guidelines

All papers should follow the NeurIPS template, with an 8-page limitation, excluding references. All submissions are double-blind. The paper describes original research work that has not been published before. Arxiv or other preprints are allowed. Accepted papers will be presented as posters or talks, with the option to be non-archival.

References and appendix should be appended into the same (single) PDF document, and do not count in the page limit.

neurips_2025.tex - LaTeX template
neurips_2025.sty - style file for LaTeX 2e
neurips_2025.pdf - example PDF output

The reviewing process is double-blind, using OpenReview. All submissions will be peer-reviewed based on technical contribution, originality, relevance to areas of interest, and presentation clarity. Papers may be accepted for oral (contributed talks, each 10 minutes) or poster presentation.

Relevant Topics

This workshop aims to promote discussions and collaborations among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers on openness in AI. Researchers are encouraged to explore the technical, ethical, and legal dimensions of openness in AI and associated challgnges. Topics include, but not limited to:

Open source, open data, open model, open tooling
Evaluations of open models
IP ownership and licensing
Model Openness Framework
Safety & Security
Privacy in open-source implementations
Interpretability and explainability of AI models
Reproducibility and transparency
Model watermarking
Ethics of open source AI
Prompting open models in various domains, including but not limited to:
- Open source AI for science discovery
- Operations research and industrial engineering
- Open source AI for education
- Open source AI for medical and healthcare
- Financial services industry and applications