The 29th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning
Theory (ALT 2018) will be held in Lanzarote, Spain, on April 7-9, 2018. The
conference will be co-located with AISTATS 2018, which immediately follows ALT
2018.
This is a new ALT: new submission time, new conference time, new program, and a
new ambition, to substantially grow its audience and let ALT be known as the
best conference in algorithmic and theoretical machine learning.
Please visit http://www.cs.cornell.edu/conferences/alt2018/
for more details.
The ALT 2018 conference is dedicated to all theoretical and algorithmic aspects
of machine learning. We invite submissions with contributions to new or
existing learning problems including, but not limited to:
Design and analysis of learning algorithms.
Statistical and computational learning theory.
Online learning algorithms and theory.
Optimization methods for learning.
Unsupervised, semi-supervised, online and active learning.
Connections of learning with other mathematical fields.
Artificial neural networks, including deep learning.
High-dimensional and non-parametric statistics.
Learning with algebraic or combinatorial structure.
Bayesian methods in learning.
Planning and control, including reinforcement learning.
Learning with system constraints: e.g. privacy, memory or communication
budget.
Learning from complex data: e.g., networks, time series, etc.
Interactions with statistical physics.
Learning in other settings: e.g. social, economic, and game-theoretic.
We are also interested in papers that include viewpoints that are new to the
ALT community. We welcome experimental and algorithmic papers provided they are
relevant to the focus of the conference by elucidating theoretical results, or
by pointing out an interesting and not well understood behavior that could
stimulate theoretical analysis.
Paper submission deadline : October 27, 2017, 11:59PM EST.
Awards
ALT 2018 will have both a best student paper award (E.M. Gold Award) and a best
paper award. Authors must indicate at submission time if they wish their paper
to be eligible for a student award. This does not preclude the paper to be
eligible for the best paper award. The paper can be co-authored by other
researchers.
Policy
Each submitted paper will be reviewed by the members of the program committee
and be judged on clarity, significance and originality. Joint submissions to
other conferences with published proceedings are not allowed. Papers that have
appeared in or are under review for other conferences are not appropriate for
ALT 2018. The same policy applies to journals, unless the submission is a
shorter version of a paper submitted to a journal and has not yet been
published. It is, however, acceptable to submit to ALT work that has been made
available as a technical report or similar, for example on http://www.arxiv.org.
Tutorials
We also invite proposals for a tutorial presentation. These should be dealing
with a learning theory topic covered within two hours. Proposals are limited to
2 pages and should include a one page abstract as well as links to any relevant
material such as existing slides or other teaching material.
Tutorials Submission Deadline : November 17, 2017.
Formatting
There is no page limit for submissions, and submissions should include all
proofs and technical details necessary to understand the results. However,
referees are not required to read beyond the first 12 pages when reviewing
submissions. Therefore, it is recommended that the first 12 pages contain a clear
presentation of the papers main contributions and at least sketches of the main
arguments. All accepted papers will be published as a volume in the JMLR
Workshop and Conference Proceedings series, and will be available online during
the conference. Submissions should be formatted according to the instructions
on the following page: http://www.jmlr.org/format/format.html.
Submission
The reviewing process is not double-blind. Authors should list their names and
affiliations in their submissions. Authors can submit their papers
electronically via our submission page https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alt18
which will be opened for submissions in
October 2017.
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: October 27, 2017, 11:59PM EST.
Tutorial submission deadline: November 17, 2017, 11:59PM EST.
Author notification: December 15, 2017.
Conference: April 7-9, 2018.
Contact
For queries please contact the ALT 2018 PC co-chairs at
alt18@easychair.org
Best,
Mehryar Mohri and Karthik Sridharan
Program co-chairs, ALT 2018
