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Membership
MLCommons is the world leader in building benchmarks for AI. We are an open engineering consortium with a mission to make AI better for everyone through benchmarks and data. In collaboration with our 125+ members, global technology providers, academics, and researchers, we focus on collaborative engineering work that builds tools for the entire AI industry through benchmarks and metrics, public datasets, and measurements for AI Safety.
We invite you to join the MLCommons community and our shared mission to make AI better for everyone.
Become a Member
MLCommons is a community-driven and member-funded organization with 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.
MLCommons membership offers several benefits:
- Participation in building MLCommons benchmarks through our working groups, including MLPerf Training and Inference, AI Risk and Reliability, Datasets, Storage, and Research groups.
- Participation in the benchmark review process.
- The ability to submit and share public results for MLPerf Inference, Training, Mobile, and Storage benchmark suites.
- A voice in the direction of MLCommons. A paid membership offers voting rights and eligibility to run for and vote in MLCommons elections.
- Paid membership gives you the opportunity to lead a working group as a working group chair, and co-marketing support for MLPerf results, AI Risk & Reliability, and other MLCommons related activities.
- Paid MLCommons member organizations in the Large and Small Membership categories are also given logo sponsorship placement on the MLCommons website.
We welcome academics, individuals and small startups as non-paying members.
If you are interested in becoming an MLCommons Member and are not yet part of a member organization, please contact [email protected]. If your organization is already a Member and you wish to join a working group, then simply fill out our working group subscription subscription form using your organizational email address, and indicate your areas of interest. You will be guided to our Contributor License Agreement (CLA).
Become an
Affiliate
Become an Affiliate
Any person or organization can become an MLCommons Affiliate member, which offers the right to participate in MLCommons activities as prescribed in the MLCommons Affiliate and Working Group policy. Affiliates have access to open working groups, mailing lists, events, and benchmark files as silent participants. Affiliates are not allowed to participate in MLCommons benchmarks and are excluded from all closed activities. If you or your organization is interested in becoming an Affiliate, please contact [email protected].
BIS-listed entities may join MLCommons as members, but are only allowed to participate as affiliates.
Membership Levels
Membership Level | Benefits | Membership Fees |
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General Member, Large Organization (500+ FT employees) | Major contributions to benchmark or Infra components and future roadmap input Full access to participate in all working groups Working group chair opportunities Benchmark submissions and public results Logo sponsorship recognition on MLCommons website Voting rights | $75,000/year + $75,000 one-time initiation fee |
General Member, Small Organization (10-499 FT employees) | Major contributions to benchmark or Infra components and future roadmap input Full access to participate in all working groups Working group chair opportunities Benchmark submissions and public results Logo sponsorship recognition on MLCommons website Voting rights | $15,000/year + $15,000 one-time initiation fee |
Observer Member, Very Small Organization (1-9 FT employees) | Contributions to benchmark or Infra components Participation in Open working groups Working group chair opportunities Benchmark submissions and public results | Free membership Company size verification required yearly. |
Observer Individual | Participate in all working groups Working group chair opportunities | Free membership |
General Member Academic Primary position is faculty at a non-profit academic institution | Major contributions to benchmark or Infra components and future roadmap input Co-lead a paper, workshop, research challenge Participate in all working groups Working group chair opportunities Advisory board service Voting rights | Academics must apply as an individual. Academic benefits are granted after 6 months as an individual member. Free membership |
Join MLCommons Working Groups
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Fill out our subscription form with your organizational email to join MLCommons working groups, contribute code on GitHub, and gain access to members-only MLCommons Discord channels. You can also subscribe to the MLCommons newsletter and news updates.
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Associate a Google account with your organizational email address (do not create a new Gmail account) to access meetings and documents. You can skip this step if your email address is already provided by Google Workspace.
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Consider becoming a Member of MLCommons. Some working groups require you to join as a Member to participate. If your organization is already a Member you can join any working group. Membership is free for academics and individuals. To join as a Member contact [email protected].
Join our
Discord server
MLCommons uses Discord for group collaboration and communication. Join the MLCommons Discord server here.
What happens after I join?
Once you have joined the server, you will need to accept the server rules, which include the MLCommons Code of Conduct. We also ask that you set your server nickname to identify your name and the company/entity you represent, e.g., John Doe (Initrode).
Which channel do I join?
The Discord server is organized into several channels, and each Working Group has its own category and channels. When you first join the Discord server, the onboarding wizard will ask you to select the Working Groups that interest you and will then make the corresponding categories and channels available based on your answers. If you would like to hide or reveal channels, visit the “Channels & Roles” tab to change your answers or browse the available channels.
Please note that not all channels are available to everyone. Channels corresponding to Working Groups with access restrictions require that users have a “Member” Role. Public channels (e.g., #general-chat) and channels corresponding to Working Groups with no access restrictions are open to anyone.
MLCommons Calendar
The MLCommons Calendar includes dates for all MLCommons activities, including Submission dates for all MLCommons benchmark submissions, Working Group meetings and Public Community events.
Community Events
We hold quarterly community events that are open to members and non-members. Please join us for our next event to learn more about what’s happening at MLCommons, and network with fellow community members.
Community Meeting Date | Location | Slides |
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Thursday, June 27, 2024 | Google, Mountain View | slides |
Thursday, November 30, 2023 | Intel, Santa Clara | slides |
Thursday, September 21, 2023 | Community Happy Hour | N/A |
Thursday, July 20, 2023 | AMD, Santa Clara | slides |
Thursday, April 20, 2023 | VMWare, Palo Alto | slides |
Thursday, December 8, 2022 | Intel, Santa Clara | slides |
Thursday, September 22, 2022 | Nutanix, San Jose | slides |
Thursday, July 14, 2022 | NVIDIA, Santa Clara | slides |
Thursday, April 21, 2022 | Virtual | slides |
Thursday, December 9, 2021 | Virtual | slides |
Thursday, September 30, 2021 | Virtual | slides |
Thursday, July 15, 2021 | Virtual | slides |
Thursday, April 22, 2021 | Virtual | slides |
Thursday, December 17, 2020 | Virtual | slides |
Thursday, May 28, 2020 | Virtual | slides |
Thursday, March 12, 2020 | Virtual | slides |
Thursday, December 12, 2019 | Facebook, Menlo Park | slides |
Thursday, October 10, 2019 | Samsung, San Jose | slides |
Thursday, August 8, 2019 | Cadence, San Jose | slides |
Thursday, June 6, 2019 | AMD, Santa Clara | slides |
Thursday, April 4, 2019 | Synopsys, San Jose | slides |
Thursday, February 14, 2019 | Xilinx, San Jose | slides |
Contact Us
We are a pretty friendly organization and easy to contact.
For any Membership or Affiliate questions, please contact [email protected]
For technical issues around MLCommons projects, please file GitHub issues.
For technical assistance with MLCommons infrastructure such as Google Groups, please contact [email protected].