DTL 2018 - First International Workshop on Deep and Transfer Learning (DTL 2018)

Deep learning approaches have caused tremendous advances in many areas of computer science. Deep learning is a branch of machine learning where the learning process is done using deep and complex architectures such as recurrent convolutional artificial neural networks. Many computer science applications have utilized deep learning such as computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, social network analysis, and robotics. The success of deep learning enabled the application of learning models such as reinforcement learning in which the learning process is only done by trial-and-error, solely from actions rewards or punishments. Deep reinforcement learning come to create systems that can learn how to adapt in the real world. As deep learning utilizes deep and complex architectures, the learning process usually is time and effort consuming and need huge labeled data sets. This inspired the introduction of transfer and multi-task learning approaches to better exploit the available data during training and adapt previously learned knowledge to emerging domains, tasks, or applications.
Despite the fact that many research activities is ongoing in these areas, many challenging are still unsolved. This workshop will bring together researchers working on deep learning, working on the intersection of deep learning and reinforcement learning, and/or using transfer learning to simplify deep leaning, and it will help researchers with expertise in one of these fields to learn about the others. The workshop also aims to bridge the gap between theories and practices by providing the researchers and practitioners the opportunity to share ideas and discuss and criticize current theories and results.
Proceedings of the workshops will be published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries.
Topics of interest
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We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to deep learning, deep reinforcement learning, and transfer and multi-task learning, with special interest in but not limited to:
Deep learning for innovative applications such machine translation, computational biology
Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
Deep Learning for Recommender Systems
Deep learning for computer vision
Deep learning for systems and networks resource management
Optimization for Deep Learning
Deep Reinforcement Learning
o Deep transfer learning for robots
o Determining rewards for machines
o Machine translation
o Energy consumption issues in deep reinforcement learning
o Deep reinforcement learning for game playing
o Stabilize learning dynamics in deep reinforcement learning
o Scaling up prior reinforcement learning solutions
Deep Transfer and multi-task learning:
o New perspectives or theories on transfer and multi-task learning
o Dataset bias and concept drift
o Transfer learning and domain adaptation
o Multi-task learning
o Feature based approaches
o Instance based approaches
o Deep architectures for transfer and multi-task learning
o Transfer across different architectures, e.g. CNN to RNN
o Transfer across different modalities, e.g. image to text
o Transfer across different tasks, e.g. object recognition and detection
o Transfer from weakly labeled or noisy data, e.g. Web data
Datasets, benchmarks, and open-source packages