Call for Papers

In recent years, adversarial learning methods are shown to be a key technique that leads to exciting breakthroughs and new challenges of many machine learning and data mining tasks. Examples include improved training of generative models (e.g., generative adversarial nets), adversarial robustness of machine learning systems in different domains (e.g., adversarial attacks, defenses, and property verification), and robust representation learning (e.g., adversarial loss for learning embedding), to name a few. Generally speaking, the idea of “learning with an adversary” is crucial for expanding the learning capability, ensuring trustworthy decision making, and enhancing generalizability of machine learning and data mining methods.

This workshop also aims to bridge theory and practice by encouraging theoretical studies motivated by adversarial ML/DM problems, such as robust (minimax) optimization and game theory. The program of this workshop will include:

  1. invited talks covering different aspects and recent advances in adversarial learning methods

  2. open call track for paper submissions

  3. AdvML Rising Star talks and awards for promoting early-career researchers

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by the technical program committee. All accepted papers will give poster presentations. Top accepted papers will be invited for spotlight talks. Each accepted paper will be made available on a public website and will not be considered as a publication. Short version of a full paper under review by other conferences or journals can be submitted to our workshop, but the authors should check the dual submission policy of the respective venue.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Adversarial attacks and defenses in machine learning and data mining

  • Provably robust machine learning methods and systems

  • Robustness certification and property verification techniques

  • Representation learning, knowledge discovery and model generalizability

  • Generative models and their applications (e.g., generative adversarial nets)

  • Robust optimization methods and (computational) game theory

  • Explainable and fair machine learning models via adversarial learning techniques

  • Transfer learning, multi-agent adaptation, self-paced learning

  • Privacy and security in machine learning systems

  • Adversarail machine learning for (social) good

  • Novel applications and innovations using adversarial machine learning and data mining

  • Workshop Date: August 15th 2022 (half-day event)

  • Paper submission Deadline: May 26th 2022 June 2nd (final)

  • Notification Date: June 20th, 2022

  • Submission Site: CMT

  • Paper submission format: ACM template (sample-sigconf), ACM template (sample-sigconf), 4 pages excluding references and supporting materials in one single pdf file. The authors can choose to anonymize the author information during submission (but are not required to do so)