Call for Papers

We welcome submissions to the workshop under the general theme of “Beyond First-Order Methods in ML systems”. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,

• Second-order methods

• Quasi-Newton methods

• Derivative-free methods

• Distributed methods beyond first-order

• Online methods beyond first-order

• First-order methods going beyond the standardized GD procedures

• Applications of methods beyond first-order to diverse applications (e.g., training deep neural networks, natural language processing, dictionary learning, etc)

We encourage submissions that are theoretical, empirical or both.

Submissions should be up to 4 pages excluding references, acknowledgements, and supplementary material, and should follow ICML format. The CMT-based review process will be double-blind to avoid potential conflicts of interests; submit here.

Accepted submissions will be presented as posters + spotlight talks.

*** COVID-19 Update***

We will follow the instructions provided by the ICML organizers on how we will set up and execute the workshop (workshop time, video recordining, poster sessions, etc.)

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: July 2nd, 2021 (23:59 ET)

Acceptance notification: July 9th, 2021

Final papers due: July 19th, 2021

Registration:

Please refer to the ICML website for registration details as they become available.