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The open door for conference organisers, quoted: 'As a NeurIPS researcher, we provide additional complimentary compute and support by filling out. Just mention \"NeurIPS 2026\" in the form for expedited approvals.' The platform is self-serve, quoted: 'Getting started is quick and entirely self-serve. 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It composes with the free notebook quota in dossier/compute/kaggle-notebooks.json, because the SDK runs inside Kaggle Notebooks.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"the compute is attached to a published benchmark rather than to a person: the quota pays for evaluations that run on Kaggle, so it cannot be spent on a training run, and the larger NeurIPS allocation needs an accepted conference submission.","source":"https://www.kaggle.com/page/neurips-2026"}],"limits_note":"the compute is attached to a published benchmark rather than to a person: the quota pays for evaluations that run on Kaggle, so it cannot be spent on a training run, and the larger NeurIPS allocation needs an accepted conference submission.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"the compute is attached to a published benchmark rather than to a person: the quota pays for evaluations that run on Kaggle, so it cannot be spent on a training run, and the larger NeurIPS allocation needs an accepted conference submission.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.kaggle.com/page/neurips-2026","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'High compute quota & model access: We provide a very high complimentary compute quota and access to leading models for your evaluations'; 'As a NeurIPS researcher, we provide additional complimentary compute and support by filling out. 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The page states the first two in its own words ('Managed infrastructure', 'Grow exposure to the Kaggle community'). 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