Apple’s teams will share key AI & ML research at NEURIPS 25
Apple’s researchers will present a series of important research papers at one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) events, NeurIPS 2025 in December.
Making models great again
Apple’s papers hint at elements of the direction of travel the company is taking in ML and AI, principally around efficiency and privacy. Apple research teams will share their research at NeurIPS to help accelerate industry progress.
In a blog on the company’s machine learning website, Apple pays particular attention to three of the many papers it will present at the event:
- STARFlow, which focuses on a scalable approach that generates comparable quality high-resolution images without the computational cost and complexity of prior methods. “STARFlow produces images at resolutions and quality levels previously thought unreachable for NF models, rivaling top diffusion and autoregressive methods while maintaining exact likelihood modeling and faster inference,” Apple said.
- The Illusion of Thinking, which explores how current AI models handle complex reasoning tasks. The work systematically tests how these models’ performance changes as problems increase in complexity, finding that the accuracy of frontier Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) collapses beyond certain complexities.
- Instance-Optimality for Private KL Distribution Estimation, which explores how to estimate probability distributions accurately while protecting privacy.
NeurIPS attendees will be able to experience demonstrations of Apple’s ML research at booth 1103, during exhibition hours. Apple is also sponsoring and participating in several affinity group-hosted events that support underrepresented groups in the ML community.
A huge industry event
A comprehensive overview of Apple’s participation in and contributions to NeurIPS 2025 can be found here. You can explore the vast – and it really is vast – collection of 6,000+ research papers to be presented at the event thanks to this useful online infographic.
Like the history of AI, NeurIPS goes back a long way. It held its first meeting in 1987. Originally focused on biological and artificial neural networks, much of the event focus these days has been on machine learning and AI. Expect talks, demonstrations, symposia, and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers, along with tutorials, workshops and more.
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