This conference is well-known to be the top venue in the field of machine learning and AI (similar quality to NIPS, ICML, UAI) and should be ranked to A*.

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Anyone at the interface of AI, machine learning and Stats will recognize AISTATS as a top conference. Ranking A*, as with NIPS and ICML, is a must.

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A* conference!

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AISTATS is as a top conference. It should be ranked to A*.

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top four conferences in ML/AI: NIPS, ICML, UAI, AISTATS. AISTATS also attracts statisticians. Consider paper quality instead of conference scale, it should be a A* conference.

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This conference is a top-tier conference in MLAI, along with ICML and NIPS. AISTATS have many strongly theoretical results. This should be ranked A*.

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Should be ranked A*. It has high-quality reviews and a lot of good papers. Many experts in the field publish here.

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