In case someone doesn't believe my observations from conferences. Just look below. Neither INRIA nor EP are in the top 30 institutions with publications at ICM

In case someone doesn't believe my observations from conferences. Just look below. Neither INRIA nor EP are in the top 30 institutions with publications at ICML and only INRIA is in the top 50 (at 14, not bad!) at NIPS. EP isn't in the top 50 institutions with papers at NIPS. https://medium.com/@karpathy/icml-accepted-papers-institution-stats-bad8d2943f5d https://medium.com/@karpathy/icml-accepted-papers-institutio... https://medium.com/machine-learning-in-practice/nips-accepted-papers-stats-26f124843aa0 https://medium.com/machine-learning-in-practice/nips-accepte... EP isn't a player in academic CS basically. (the numbers work out to be the same if you attend CVPR or ICRA or any number of other conferences).