Apologies for multiple postings Preliminary call for participation in the 2010 UAI approximate inference evaluation
We are pleased to announce an upcoming evaluation of probabilistic inference algorithms, as part of the UAI conference this July. All researchers working on inference in graphical models are encouraged to participate. The evaluation will focus on the following computational tasks: - calculating MAP/MPE assignments, - calculating partition functions (i.e., probability of evidence), and - calculating marginals. Submitted algorithms can compete in some or all of these tasks. More details can be found at the conference website <http://event.cwi.nl/uai2010/> We look forward to your participation, The organizers New features in this year's competition - There will be separate tracks for approximate algorithms that provide upper or lower bound guarantees and those that do not. Exact algorithms are of course invited to participate in any of these tracks. - A special track will assess the merit of the submitted inference algorithms when used as a black box for parameter learning. - Participants will receive automated performance reports and will be able to submit improvements during the entire competition period. Dates May3 Dataset and submission format announced May10 Submissions accepted on website June25 Final deadline for submissions July1 Final results and winners announced July8-11 Results reported at the UAI conference Organizers Gal Elidan <http://pluto.huji.ac.il/%7Egalelidan/> Hebrew University Amir Globerson <http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/%7Egamir/> Hebrew University Program committee Jeff Bilmes<http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/%7Ebilmes/> Univ. of Washington Rina Dechter <http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7Edechter/> UC Irvine Peter Grünwald<http://homepages.cwi.nl/%7Epdg/> CWI Isabelle Guyon <http://www.clopinet.com/isabelle/> Clopinet Peter Spirtes <http://www.hss.cmu.edu/philosophy/faculty-spirtes.php> CMU
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