Call for Papers: ALT 2013
The 24th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory
Singapore, Republic of Singapore, 6--9 October 2013
http://www-alg.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/~thomas/ALT13/index.html
The 24th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2013)
will be held in Singapore, Republic of Singapore, at the National University
of Singapore, during 6--9 October 2013. The conference is on the theoretical
foundations of machine learning. The conference will be co-located with the
16th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2013).
Topics of Interest.
We invite submissions with theoretical and algorithmic
contributions to new or already existing learning problems including but are
not limited to:
1. Comparison of the strength of learning models and the design and evaluation
of novel algorithms for learning problems in established learning-theoretic
settings such as
- Statistical learning theory,
- On-line learning,
- Inductive inference,
- Query models,
- Unsupervised or semi-supervised learning, clustering and active learning,
- Stochastic optimization,
- High dimensional and non-parametric inference,
- Exploration-Exploitation tradeoff and bandit theory,
- Reinforcement learning and planning.
2. Analysis of the theoretical properties of existing algorithms. These
families could include the following ones:
- Boosting,
- Kernel-based methods and support vector machines,
- Bayesian networks,
- Graph- and/or manifold-based methods,
- Methods for latent-variable estimation and/or clustering,
- Minimum description length,
- Decision tree methods,
- Information-based methods.
3. The analyses could include generalization, speed of convergence,
computational
complexity and sample complexity.
4. Definition and analysis of new learning models. Models might
- Identify and formalise classes of learning problems inadequately addressed
by existing theory or
- Capture salient properties of important concrete applications.
Format.
The submitted paper should be no longer than 15 pages in the
standard format for Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
series. The 15 page limit includes title, abstract, acknowledgements,
references, illustrations and any other parts of the paper; appendixes
bypassing the page limit are not allowed.
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 journals or other conferences are not
appropriate for ALT 2013.
Proceedings.
All accepted papers will be published as a volume in the Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, and will be available at
the conference. Full versions of selected papers of ALT 2013 will be invited
to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science.
E.M. Gold Award.
One scholarship of 555 Euros will be awarded to a
student author of an excellent paper (please mark student submissions
on the title page). The student should have made a significant contribution
to a paper coauthored by senior researchers.
Important Dates.
- Full paper submission: 11 May 2013.
- Author notification: 16 June 2013.
- Camera-ready papers due: 7 July 2013.
- Conference: 6--9 October 2013.
Submission} Authors can submit their papers electronically via the
submission page at Easychair for ALT 2013
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alt2013).
Conference Chair: Frank Stephan, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Local Arrangements Chair:
Lee Wee Sun, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Programme Committee:
Dana Angluin (Yale University),
Andras Antos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest),
Peter Auer (Montanuniversitat Leoben),
Sebastien Bubeck (Princeton University),
Alexander Clark (King's College London),
Corinna Cortes (Google),
Vitaly Feldman (IBM Research),
Claudio Gentile (Universita degli Studi dell Insubria, Varese),
Kohei Hatano (Kyushu University, Fukuoka),
Marcus Hutter (Australian National University),
Sanjay Jain (National University of Singapore, cochair),
Timo Koetzing (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Jena),
Gabor Lugosi (ICREA and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona),
Eric Martin (University of New South Wales, Sydney),
Mehryar Mohri (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences),
Remi Munos (INRIA, Lille, cochair),
Lev Reyzin (University of of Illinois at Chicago),
Daniil Ryabko (INRIA, Lille),
Gilles Stoltz (Ecole normale superieure, Paris),
Masashi Sugiyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology),
Csaba Szepesvari (University of Alberta),
Vladimir Vovk (Royal Holloway, University of London),
Ryo Yoshinaka (Kyoto University),
Sandra Zilles (University of Regina).
