Modern Trends in Nonconvex Optimization for Machine Learning

Call for Papers

EXTENDED DEADLINE:

Due to high volume of requests for extending the submission deadline, the IMPORTANT DATES are adjusted as follows:

• Submission deadline: May 25, 2018 (23:59 PDT)
• Acceptance notification: June 5, 2018

We welcome paper submissions to this workshop, which will be held as a part of the Federated Artificial Intelligence Meeting (FAIM), which includes following major AI conferences: IJCAI-ECAI, ICML, AAMAS, ICCBR, SOCS. Topics of interest in this workshop include but are not limited to:

• Landscape analysis/design of nonconvex models
• New nonconvex algorithms
• Novel analysis/understanding of nonconvex methods
• Robust optimization
• Generalization performance of nonconvex methods
• Application of nonconvex optimization to diverse application domains such as vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, social networks, health informatics.

Submissions will be accepted as poster and (or) spotlight presentations.

An award (sponsored by Google) will be given to the best paper.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

All submissions must be in PDF format using the ICML 2018 style. The length is limited to at most 4 pages, excluding references. The submissions may include an optional supplementary appendix. The submissions should follow double blind policy and dual submission policy in ICML. Formal submissions should be sent via Email to icml2018nonconvex@gmail.com before deadline.