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2025 MLSys Young Professionals Symposium

Monday, May 12th, 2025

Santa Clara Convention Center

Overview

The MLSys 2025 welcomes the participation of the Young Professionals Symposium (YPS). The symposium will be held on Monday, May 12, 2025 as part of the MLSys conference program. Different from the multi-track symposiums before, YPS is a single-track full-day event with keynote, invited talks, panels, and poster sessions.

YPS provides an informal forum for young professionals, including undergraduate and graduate students, early career researchers in industry and academia, to discuss important research questions, challenges, controversial issues, and open problems. YPS will have invited speakers, and panelists with diverse backgrounds covering a variety of topics including technical discussions on large model training and inference algorithms, systems, and hardware, industry vs. academia, entrepreneurship development, and etc.

Important Dates

  • Submission Open: Feb. 21, 2025
  • Submission Deadline: Apr 07 2025 11:59PM
  • Notification to Authors: Apr 18 2025 11:59PM

Submission Format and Instructions

We strongly encourage students and early-career researchers to submit an abstract (1 page PDF) describing new, previously, or concurrently published research. We welcome abstract submissions in all topics in MLSys. Submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind setting. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to present their work in an in-person poster session. There are no formal proceedings. Abstracts are non-archival: they may describe completed research or work-in-progress.

Submission Site

Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=MLSys.org/2025/YPS

For newly created profiles, please create a profile with an institutional email if possible. New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically, while new profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks.

Registration

You can use the registration pass for the full conference to participate in YPS. For students, we provide a special one-day pass. For more details on pricing and registrations, please refer to the MLSys.org website.

Symposium Co-Chairs

  • Dan Fu, UCSD
  • Hui Guan, UMass Amherst

Contact

Email: mlsys-yps-organizers@googlegroups.com

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