THE CONFERENCE The 31st International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2020) will take place in San Diego, CA, USA between February 9-11, 2020, collocated with the 2020 edition of the Information Theory and Applications (ITA 2020) workshop. The two events will overlap on February 8 for a day-long symposium on Information Theory Applied to Learning Theory (ITALT), featuring invited talks by distinguished speakers and a poster session, giving authors of ALT papers the opportunity to present their research to an extended audience.
CALL FOR PAPERS The ALT 2020 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 and active learning. - Interactive learning, planning and control, and reinforcement 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. - Learning with system constraints: e.g. privacy, memory or communication budget. - Learning from complex data: e.g., networks, time series. - Interactions with statistical physics. - Learning in other settings: e.g. social, economic, and game-theoretic. We are also interested in papers that present 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. Accepted papers will be published electronically in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), and will be presented at the conference as a full-length talk and optionally also as a poster. POSTER SESSION This year, the conference will feature a poster session set to take place on the overlap day with ITA, February 8. The poster session will be open to attendees of both events, enabling authors to present their work to a broader audience. All authors of accepted papers at ALT will be invited to present a poster, and rejected papers will also be considered. Additionally, we will invite abstracts for a non-archival poster track at ALT, where we also will welcome submissions under review at other venues and recently published papers. AWARDS ALT 2020 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. VENUE The conference will be held at the Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa in San Diego, CA, USA between February 9-11, 2020. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES * DUAL SUBMISSION POLICY 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 2020. 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 https://arxiv.org/. * 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. * REVIEW Each submitted paper will be reviewed by the members of the program committee and be judged on clarity, significance and originality. There will be no author rebuttal phase. The reviewing process is not double-blind: authors should list their names and affiliations in their submissions. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission deadline: September 20, 2019, 4:59PM EST. - Author notification: November 24, 2019 CONTACT All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC chairs at [email protected]. CONFERENCE WEBSITE http://alt2020.algorithmiclearningtheory.org/ Best regards, Aryeh Kontorovich and Gergely Neu Program co-chairs, ALT 2020
