NeurIPS 2026 Productivity Rankings: Open-Source Agent Reveals Two Different Answers
An analysis of NeurIPS 2026 acceptance data using the open-source PilotDeck 2.0 agent reveals Tsinghua leads in institutional participation while overseas institutions dominate high-productivity authors, alongside trends showing 3.4x submission growth, Benchmark papers dominating, and Agent research surging 2.42x.
