Call for Participation

The workshop is a one-day event with invited speakers, oral presentations, and posters. The event brings together faculty, graduate students, research scientists, and engineers for an opportunity to connect and exchange ideas. There will be a panel discussion and a mentoring session to discuss current research trends and career choices in artificial intelligence and machine learning. While all presenters will identify primarily as latinx, all are invited to attend.

Submission Instructions

We strongly encourage students, post-docs, and researchers who primarily identify as Latinx in all areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to submit a paper describing new research. We welcome paper submissions in theory, methodology, and applications. We also welcome papers currently under preparation or submitted for review elsewhere, as the purpose of this workshop is to disseminate Latin X in AI work within the broader community.

While the presenting author need not be the first author of the work, we encourage authors to highlight the contribution of Latinx individuals — particularly the presenting author. While the event focuses primarily on researchers who identify as Latinx, everyone is invited to attend. Authors are also encouraged to sign up to review for LXAI, with a sign-up option available upon submission.

Authors of accepted papers will be asked to present their work in a poster session. A few authors will be selected to give 10–15 minute oral spotlight presentations. 

All accepted extended abstracts and paper submissions will be published as workshop proceedings by LatinX in AI (LXAI) Research. Full papers may be invited for full publication as journal articles if not previously published elsewhere.

Submission Requirements

Following the conference, this year we are using OpenReview to manage submissions and the corresponding peer-review process by our program committee. You may upload your submission here.

1. Length: Submissions may be up to six pages, including all figures and tables. Submissions under 4 pages of content will be considered extended abstracts for reviewing purposes, otherwise will be considered as full papers. In all circumstances, pages 7 and above may only contain references or appendices. Submissions should be uploaded as a single PDF.

2. Appendix: Your submission may contain an appendix with an unrestricted number of pages. You may use this appendix to include details on your experimental setups, complementary results, additional theorem proofs, etc. Please note that reviewers are not required to read the appendix sections, thus the main content of your submission should remain mostly self-contained.

3. Style: Submissions must  follow the guidelines provided by the NeurIPS 2021 Style Template. Submissions should state the research problem, motivation, and technical contribution. All submissions must be in English.

4. Desk rejection: Submissions that do not follow the length or style requirements above shall be automatically rejected without consideration of their merits. 

5. (Optional) Source code: We encourage authors of accepted submissions to provide a link to their source code. To maintain a double-blind review process, you will be allowed to submit or link your code in the camera-ready stage.

The submission deadline is 23:59 GMT (19:59 EDT), October 15, 2021. Please note that no extensions will be offered for submissions.

Mentoring Program

LatinX in AI is hosting a new mentoring program alongside our official workshops. The LatinX in AI Mentoring Program requires mentors and mentees to meet once a month, premiering October 16th to the day of the workshop at NeurIPS on December 7th, 2021. On this day, some mentees will be asked to share their experience and the learnings they obtained from the program.

Following the completion of this program, you'll be asked to complete a quick survey about your experience and opportunities for our improvement. Mentors who complete the program and survey are eligible to receive a $25 gift voucher as a token of appreciation on behalf of LatinX in AI.

Please see FAQs page here.