ICML 2024 wrapped up after the second day of workshops — following three days of the main conference, a day of tutorials, and an expo day.
As always, alongside the official conference programme there were countless meetups, happy hours, dinners, lunches, and other events that happened throughout the week.
As everyone heads home, there will be things from the week sticking in their heads. Based on the polls on the conference app, there was one topic this week more contentious than everything else. The most active community poll — by quite some margin — was titled “Are you freezing?”, in the group “Petition to turn down the air conditioning”.
Opinion was… divided! Over 400 people expressed their views through the poll. There was some speculation as to geographical divides over air con preferences.
All this seemed like an elaborate setup for Jan Ebert, who just left two words in the air con chat: “Icy ML”.