CiML 2014

NIPS 2014 workshop

December 12, 2014, Montreal, Canada

Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Convention and Exhibition Center

Level 5; room 511 c

The videos of the workshop are available in Youtube (and downloadable)

The slides are also downloadable (bottom of page)

[AutoML challenge][Schedule][Invited Speakers][Committee][Organizers]

Motivations

Challenges in Machine Learning have proven to be efficient and cost-effective ways to quickly bring to industry solutions that may have been confined to research. In addition, the playful nature of challenges naturally attracts students, making challenge a great teaching resource. Challenge participants range from undergraduate students to retirees, joining forces in a rewarding environment allowing them to learn, perform research, and demonstrate excellence. Therefore challenges can be used as a means of directing research, advancing the state-of-the-art or venturing in completely new domains.

Important dates

Yet, despite initial successes and efforts made to facilitate challenge organization with the availability of competition platforms, little effort has been put into the theoretical foundations of challenge design and the optimization of challenge protocols. This workshop will bring together challenge organizers, platform providers, and participants to discuss best practices in challenge organization and new methods and application opportunities to design high impact challenges. The themes to be discussed will include new paradigms of challenge organization to tackle complex problems (e.g. tasks involving multiple data modalities and/or multiple levels of processing).

Abstract submission deadline: October 9th, 2014.

Acceptance decisions: October 23rd, 2014.

Finalized program: October 30th, 2014.

Early bird registration: November 7, 2014 (attendants must register to the NIPS workshop)

Invited speakers