WPSM 2013 - Workshop on Prediction with Sequential Models

Supervised and unsupervised function learning is a vast domain with a plethora of standard algorithmic solutions. Most of these methods learn a monolithic predictor function in the sense that each test instance is processed in a single-step, atomic process. In contrast, some recent studies have proposed a different paradigm in which *prediction is reformulated as a sequential decision process* and *learning the predictor function corresponds to solving a dynamic control problem*. These new approaches bridge “classical” supervised and unsupervised learning problems with the fields of control theory and reinforcement learning (RL), and raise interesting questions on different domains ranging from reinforcement learning to representation learning.
This workshop aims at gathering the various machine learning sub-communities that have worked around the subject and discuss the aforementioned issues. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
? Generic topics:
? Classification, ranking,
? Budgeted and/or cost-sensitive classification
? Structured prediction
? Sparse coding with sequential models
? Feature selection.
? Reinforcement learning applied to learning sequential functions:
? RL with many discrete actions
? RL in high-dimensional spaces
? Inverse RL
? Applications:
? Real-time detection and classification
? Text/image classification and information extraction
? Trigger design in high-energy particle physics
? Web-page ranking
? Medical diagnosis
Program Committee
Francis Bach ? Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Ecole Normale Superieure ? INRIA-Sierra - France
Aaron Courville ? University of Montreal ? Canada
Jason Eisner ? Johns Hopkins University ? USA
Damien Ernst ? University of Liege ? Belgium
Hugo Larochelle ? University of Sherbrooke ? Canada
Francis Maes ? Catholic University of Leuven ? Belgium
Rémi Munos ? INRIA Sequel ? France
Philippe Preux ? University Lille 3 ? INRIA Sequel ? France
Thomas Rückstieß ? Technische Universitat Munchen ? Germany
Csaba Szepesvári ? University of Alberta ? Canada
Kilian Weinberger ? Washington University ? USA
Organizers
Djalel Benbouzid (Paris Sud - CNRS)
Ludovic Denoyer (UPMC - LIP6)
Gabriel Dulac-Arnold (UPMC - LIP6)
Patrick Gallinari (UPMC - LIP6)
Balàzs Kégl (Paris Sud - CNRS)
Michèle Sébag (Paris Sud - CNRS)