Get Involved
Getting Started
Follow these seven steps to become part of the MLCommons™ community and get access to meetings, documents, and code.
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Please use your organizational (e.g., corporate or academic) email account to join all mailing lists. If you do not have an organizational email address, please contact participation@mlcommons.org.
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Associate a GSuite account with your email address so you can access meetings and documents. You can skip this step if your email address is provided by GSuite.
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Join the public@mlcommons.org mailing list. Click the mailing list, then the "Ask to Join" button. Note that personal email addresses are allowed on this mailing list.
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Consider becoming a Member or Affiliate of MLCommons. Some lists and working groups require you to join as a Member or register as an Affiliate. Your organization might already be a Member; check the logos on the MLCommons homepage. Membership is free for academics. To join as a Member or register as an Affiliate, contact participation@mlcommons.org.
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If you or your organization are a Member or Affiliate, join the community@mlcommons.org mailing list. Joining this group will give you access to the portions of the Google drive that are available to all Affiliates and Members (be sure to check that Google drive is on your allow list for corporate accounts).
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Join working groups you are interested in below. Requests are manually reviewed, so please be patient.
- If you want to contribute code, you or your org must sign the CLA. Contact support@mlcommons.org for more information.
Attend Events
MLCommons organizes community meetings every quarter, typically in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a global organization, we also host annual community events in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA) regions to reach everyone regardless of geography. The meetings are open to anyone (by joining as a MLCommons Member, registering as an Affiliates, or signing up for the public mailing list). The dates and locations are shown below. More specific information is available on the public MLCommons mailing list.
| Community Meeting Date | Location | Slides |
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| Thursday, February 14, 2019 | Xilinx, San Jose | slides |
| Thursday, April 4, 2019 | Synopsys, San Jose | slides |
| Thursday, June 6, 2019 | AMD, Santa Clara | slides |
| Thursday, August 8, 2019 | Cadence, San Jose | slides |
| Thursday, October 10, 2019 | Samsung, San Jose | slides |
| Thursday, December 12, 2019 | Facebook, Menlo Park | slides |
| Thursday, March 12, 2020 | Virtual | slides |
| Thursday, May 28, 2020 | Virtual | slides |
| Thursday, December 17, 2020 | Virtual | slides |
| Thursday, April 22, 2021 | Virtual | slides |
| Thursday, July 15, 2021 | Virtual | slides |
| Thursday, September 30, 2021 | TBD | Upcoming |
| Thursday, December 9, 2021 | TBD | Upcoming |
During the COVID-19 pandemic, our community meetings have been converted to virtual events.
Become a Member
MLCommons is a community-driven and community-funded effort and we are proud to include a variety of Members and Affiliates from across the globe. As an open engineering consortium, Member or Affiliate status is available on a non-discriminatory basis to all organizations, corporations, academic researchers, nonprofits, government organizations, and individuals.
Membership offers several benefits
- Access to and influence on all working groups, including MLPerf™ Training and Inference, Datasets, and Best Practices
- MLPerf Training, Inference, and Mobile require Membership to submit results
- Representatives of voting Members are eligible to run for and vote in elections for the board of directors
- MLCommons Members get a voice in the direction of the organization
- All paid MLCommons Members are listed on the website
If you are interested in Membership, please contact participation@mlcommons.org.
BIS-listed entities can join MLCommons as Members and enjoy nearly all of the benefits, but cannot participate in closed activities.
Closed activities are activities and information reserved solely for members and staff, including the following:
- Non-public benchmark review process
- Inference Mobile working group
- Datasets working group
- Serving as a working group chair or on the board of directors
Become an Affiliate
Affiliates have access to all working groups and associated GitHub repositories, mailing lists, meetings, events, documents, and files, excluding closed activities (as defined below). If you or your organization is interested in becoming an Affiliate, please contact participation@mlcommons.org.
BIS-listed entities can join MLCommons as Affiliates and enjoy nearly all of the benefits, but cannot participate in closed activities.
Submit MLPerf Results
If you are interested in submitting MLPerf benchmark results, please join the appropriate working group. Note that many of our benchmarks require that your company be a Member in good standing to submit.
Typically, the registration deadline is several weeks in advance of submission to ensure that all submitters are aware of benchmark requirements and to provision the necessary resources.
Use MLPerf Results
MLPerf is a trademark of MLCommons. The use of the MLPerf results and trademark are described in our Policies.
Sign or Get Authorized on the CLA
Generally we encourage people to become Members if they wish to contribute to MLCommons projects. However, if you are interested in contributing to one of our open source projects and do not think your organization would be a good fit as a Member, please fill out this CLA sign up form.
If your organization is already a Member of MLCommons, you can also use the CLA sign up form to request authorization to commit code in accordance with the CLA.
Contact
We are a pretty friendly organization and easy to contact.
For any Membership or Affiliate questions, please contact participation@mlcommons.org.
For technical issues around MLCommons projects, please file GitHub issues.
For technical assistance with MLCommons infrastructure such as Google Groups, please contact support@mlcommons.org.