Journal of Machine Learning Research

What Journal of Machine Learning Research does

The Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) is an international open-access academic journal founded in 2000 and based in Norfolk, United States, that publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles across all areas of machine learning. All papers are made freely available online through the journal's website (jmlr.org) and are published electronically (ISSN 1533-7928) immediately upon acceptance, with the journal committed to rigorous yet rapid peer review. Print volumes (ISSN 1532-4435) were historically distributed by MIT Press through the end of 2004 and are now sold by Microtome Publishing to libraries and individual subscribers.

JMLR operates as a non-profit academic publication and does not function as a revenue-generating business — all content is free to readers, and the journal maintains no disclosed pricing model, headcount, or financial reporting. Its primary users are machine learning researchers at universities and research institutions who submit and review papers, along with ML practitioners who access the published research. Beyond the core JMLR journal, the organization has built out an adjacent publication ecosystem that includes PMLR (conference proceedings), DMLR (data papers), TMLR (transactions), and the MLOSS section for open source software papers, all linked through the jmlr.org website and managed by an international editorial board.

Name

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Legal name

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Website

https://jmlr.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Short description

The Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) is a non-profit, open-access academic journal founded in 2000 that publishes peer-reviewed machine learning research papers freely online. It serves ML researchers and practitioners globally and operates an adjacent publication ecosystem including PMLR, DMLR, and TMLR.

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Headquarters

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Norfolk

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Open Access Publishing: JMLR operates as a non-profit open access journal where all published papers are freely available online. Revenue generation is not the primary focus - the journal serves as an academic forum for machine learning research.

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Core offering

JMLR is an international open-access academic journal that publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly articles in all areas of machine learning. Established in 2000, it maintains a commitment to rigorous yet rapid reviewing, with final versions published electronically (ISSN 1533-7928) immediately upon receipt and made freely available online to readers worldwide.

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Products and services

• JMLR (Journal of Machine Learning Research) An international open-access academic journal providing rigorous peer review and publication of high-quality scholarly articles in all areas of machine learning; all papers are freely available online.
• PMLR (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research) Associated conference proceedings publication venue linked from the JMLR ecosystem.
• DMLR (Data) Associated data repository publication venue within the JMLR ecosystem.
• TMLR (Transactions of Machine Learning Research) Associated transactions journal linked to the JMLR publication network.

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Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered historical, current and related organization.

• MIT PresshistoricalOthersUntil the end of 2004, paper volumes (ISSN 1532-4435) were published 8 times annually and sold to libraries and individuals by the MIT Press.
• Microtome PublishingcurrentOthersPaper volumes (ISSN 1532-4435) are now published and sold by Microtome Publishing for libraries and individuals who prefer paper copies.
• Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR)related organizationTechnology or IntegrationPMLR is a related publication venue for conference proceedings in machine learning, linked from the JMLR website.
• Transactions of Machine Learning Research (TMLR)related organizationTechnology or IntegrationTMLR is a related open access journal for machine learning research, linked from the JMLR website.

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Direct peers

• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR): Open-access peer-reviewed journal covering AI and machine learning research; comparable open-access model and overlapping author community with JMLR.
• Journal of the ACM: Top-tier computer science journal covering theoretical and methodological research including ML; serves as a prestige venue comparable to JMLR for high-impact submissions.
• Machine Learning (Springer journal): Long-established peer-reviewed journal publishing original research in machine learning, directly overlapping with JMLR's subject scope and author community.
• Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR): Open-access journal for machine learning research associated with JMLR; publishes journal-style ML papers as a sibling venue within the same publication network.
• Neural Computation (MIT Press): MIT Press journal publishing computational neuroscience and machine learning research; overlaps with JMLR's ML theoretical scope and historically shared MIT Press as JMLR's former print partner.
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI): Premier IEEE journal covering machine learning, pattern analysis, and AI; serves the same ML research author and reader base as JMLR with a subscription-based model.
• Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier journal): Established peer-reviewed journal covering AI and machine learning; competes for ML theory and methodology submissions from the same academic author pool.
• Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR): Conference proceedings publication venue closely tied to the JMLR ecosystem; publishes peer-reviewed ML conference papers as a sibling outlet to JMLR.

Emerging players

• OpenReview: Open peer-review platform hosting major ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR); represents a structural alternative to traditional journal publishing that competes for ML research dissemination.
• arXiv (Cornell University): Open-access preprint repository where most ML papers are posted before or instead of journal submission; alternative dissemination channel that affects JMLR's submission funnel.

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Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

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