

ML Collective open picnic lunch at ICLR 2025
ML Collective open picnic lunch at ICLR 2025
It's been a conference or few since our last in-person lunch, so let's get together and eat!
Everyone welcome, no need to pretend you want a job at AnthroMetaGooMind to get in!
Meet friends from around the world
This is a casual, bring-your-own-lunch meetup
Feel free to bring your favorite hot take, latest plot, or to schlep your own RFP!
🕐 When: leave posters a little early to grab your lunch from the catering or food hall at 12:00, then let's meet at the tables at 12:30.
📍Where: the tables near Predot area one the 2nd floor of Hall 2, Foyer 1, just in front of the conference organizing committee rooms 210-211.
🥙 Please bring your own lunch!
🍽️ When you arrive, join one of the standing tables and introduce yourself to others at your table. If someone new arrives, welcome them and ask them for a quick intro. Icebreaker questions:
What are you working on?
What's something you probably know more about than everyone at the table? (Does not have to be about ML)
At the end of the lunch we'll probably do a group pic before breaking for the invited talk at 2:30.
✨ About ML Collective
We're a nonprofit that gives early-career ML researchers a default research home, including a place to present research results, meet friends, start projects together, strategize on where to publish, and show off projects.
Photo from last year's social at ICLR 2024: