Bayesian Nonparametrics: The Next Generation
NIPS 2015 Workshop
Montreal, Canada
Level 5, Room 515 bc
Sat Dec 12, 2015
This workshop will bring together core researchers in Bayesian nonparametrics (BNP) across a number of fields (machine learning, statistics, engineering, applied mathematics, etc.) with researchers working in a variety of application domains. We aim to focus on the next generation of BNP research by highlighting the contributions of younger researchers in the BNP community.

Important Dates

  Oct 20: Paper submission deadline
  Oct 20: Travel award application deadline 
  Nov 2: Author notification of acceptance
  Nov 2: Travel award notification
  Nov 2: Author notification of presentation type
  Nov 6: NIPS early registration deadline
  Dec 1: Final paper due
  Dec 12: Workshop!


This workshop invites paper submissions that will be presented in either oral or poster form. We welcome submissions from the following (non-exhaustive) list of areas:


  • New Bayesian nonparametric models, including new theoretical developments.

  • Computational inference algorithms applicable to new or existing Bayesian nonparametric models including MCMC, SMC, variational methods, and others.

  • Software packages that allow the widespread use of BNP methods, including probabilistic programming languages and implementations of general-purpose inference algorithms.

  • The application of Bayesian nonparametric methods to new application domains.


Poster instructions:

Please keep posters to size A1 in portrait format (841mm height by 594mm width).


Submission Details:


Submissions are solicited in the form of an extended abstract of 2–4 pages in PDF format using the NIPS style available here (author names do not need to be anonymized and references may extend as far as needed beyond the 4 page upper limit). If authors' research has previously appeared in a journal, workshop, or conference (including the NIPS 2014 conference), their workshop submission should extend that previous work. Submissions may include a supplement/appendix, but reviewers are not responsible for reading any supplementary material.


Submissions will be accepted either as contributed talks or poster presentations.  There will be no published proceedings for this workshop; we hope that authors will find discussion and feedback at the workshop beneficial for developing the research they present, and we encourage authors to submit their resulting work for publication in other venues after the workshop.