COLT 2015 - 28th Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2015)

28th Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2015) will take place in Paris, France, on July 3-6, 2015.
Conference website:
http://orfe.princeton.edu/conferences/colt2015/
We invite submissions of papers addressing theoretical aspects of
machine learning and related topics. Submissions by authors who are
new to COLT are encouraged. We strongly support a broad definition of
learning theory, including, but not limited to:
? Design and analysis of learning algorithms and their generalization ability
? Statistical and computational complexity of learning
? Optimization models and algorithms for learning
? Unsupervised, semi-supervised learning, and clustering
? Online learning
? Deep learning and artificial neural networks
? Decision making under uncertainty
? Bayesian Theory
? Kernel Methods
? High dimensional and non-parametric empirical inference, including sparsity methods
? Planning and control, including reinforcement learning
? Learning with additional constraints: E.g. privacy, time or memory budget, communication
? Learning in other settings: E.g. social, economic, and game-theoretic
? Analysis and applications of learning theory in related fields: natural language processing, neuroscience, bioinformatics, privacy and security, machine vision, data mining, information retrieval.
We are also interested in papers that include viewpoints that are new
to the COLT community. We welcome experimental and algorithmic papers
provided they are relevant to the focus of the conference by
elucidating theoretical results. Also, while the primary focus of the
conference is theoretical, papers can be strengthened by the inclusion
of relevant experimental results.
COLT will award both best paper and best student paper awards. Best
student papers must be authored or coauthored by a student. Authors
must indicate (using a footnote on the first page of the paper) 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 program committee may decline to make these awards,
or may split them among several papers.
Papers that are currently under review or have already been accepted
or published in a refereed venue, including conferences and journals,
may not be submitted.
Accepted papers will be published electronically, in the JMLR Workshop
and Conference Proceedings series. Selected papers will be invited to
a special issue of JMLR and/or MLJ. The authors of accepted papers
will have the option of opting-out of the proceedings in favor of a
1-page abstract. The full paper reviewed for COLT will then be placed
on the ArXiV repository and linked from the conference webpage.
All accepted papers will be plenarily presented at the conference,
either as a long or as a short talk. At least one of the paper's
authors should be present at the conference to present the work.
Rebuttal Phase:
As in the previous years, we will have a rebuttal phase during the
review process. Initial reviews will be sent to authors before final
decisions have been made. Authors will have the opportunity to provide
a short response on the PC's initial evaluation.
Open Problems Session:
We also invite submission of open problems. A separate call for open
problems will be made available at the conference website.
Submission Instructions:
Submissions are limited to 12 JMLR-formatted pages, plus additional
pages for references and appendices. All details, proofs and
derivations required to substantiate the results must be included in
the submission, possibly in the appendices. However, the contribution,
novelty and significance of submissions will be judged primarily based
on the main text (without appendices), and so enough details,
including proof details, must be provided in the main text to convince
the reviewers of the submissions' merits.
Formatting and submission instructions can be found here.
Important Dates:
? Paper submission deadline: February 19th, 2015, 11:00 PM EST
? Author Feedback: April 7-12, 2014
? Author notification: May 1, 2015
? Conference: July 3-6, 2015
On behalf of the COLT oraganizers,
Program Chairs
? Peter Grünwald (CWI)
? Elad Hazan (Princeton University)
Local Arrangements Chairs
? Vianney Perchet (University Paris Diderot - INRIA)
Program Committee
? Jacob Abernethy (University of Michigan)
? Alekh Agarwal (Microsoft Research New York)
? Peter Bartlett (Queensland Univ./Univ. of California at Berkeley)
? Shai Ben-David (University of Waterloo)
? Alina Beygelzimer (Yahoo! New York)
? Sebastien Bubeck (Princeton University)
? Constantine Caramanis (University of Texas)
? Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Milano)
? Kamalika Chaudhuri (University of California, San Diego)
? Arnak Dalalyan (ENSAE/CREST - Paris)
? Sanjoy Dasgupta (University of California, San Diego)
? John Duchi (Stanford University)
? Tim van Erven (Leiden University)
? Vitaly Feldman (IBM Almaden Research Center)
? Claudio Gentile (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria)
? Andras György (University of Alberta)
? Steve Hanneke (independent researcher)
? Daniel Hsu (Columbia University)
? Prateek Jain (Microsoft Research Bangalore)
? Satyen Kale (Yahoo! New York)
? Zohar Karnin (Yahoo! Haifa)
? Aryeh Kontorovich (Ben Gurion University)
? Wouter Koolen (Queensland Univ./Univ. of California at Berkeley)
? Wojciech Kotlowski (Poznan University of Technology)
? Samory Kpotufe (Princeton University)
? Phil Long (Microsoft Research)
? Shie Mannor (Technion)
? Remi Munos (Google Deepmind)
? Vianney Perchet (Paris Diderot - INRIA)
? Massimiliano Pontil (University College London)
? Alexander Rakhlin (University of Pennsylvania)
? Philippe Rigollet (Princeton University)
? Lorenzo Rosasco (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
? Robert Schapire (Microsoft Research New York/Princeton University)
? Ohad Shamir (Weizmann Institute)
? Nati Srebro (TTI Chicago)
? Karthik Sridharan (Cornell University)
? Ingo Steinwart (University of Stuttgart)
? Ambuj Tewari (University of Michigan)
? Assaf Zeevi (Columbia University)
? Sandra Zilles (University of Regina)
Publication Chair
? Satyen Kale (Yahoo! New York)
Open Problems Chair
? Jacob Abernethy (University of Michigan)