OPT 2011: 4th International Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning


Call for Participation

We invite high quality submissions for presentation (talks or poster presentations), or open problems during the workshop. We are especially interested in participants who can contribute theory / algorithms, applications, or implementations with a machine learning focus in the following areas:

  • Stochastic, Parallel and Online Optimization:
    • Large-scale learning, massive data sets
    • Distributed algorithms
    • Optimization on massively parallel architectures
    • Optimization using GPUs, Streaming algorithms
    • Decomposition for large-scale, message-passing and online learning
    • Stochastic approximation
    • Randomized algorithms
  • Non-Convex Optimization:
    • Nonsmooth, nonconvex optimization
    • Non-convex quadratic programming, including binary QPs
    • Convex Concave Decompositions, D.C. Programming, EM
    • Training of deep architectures and large hidden variable models
    • Approximation Algorithms
  • Algorithms and Techniques (application oriented):
    • Global and Lipschitz optimization
    • Algorithms for non-smooth optimization
    • Linear and higher-order relaxations
    • Polyhedral combinatorics applications to ML problems
  • Combinatorial Optimization:
    • Optimization in Graphical Models
    • Structure learning
    • MAP estimation in continuous and discrete random fields
    • Clustering and graph-partitioning
    • Semi-supervised and multiple-instance learning
  • Practical techniques
    • Optimization software and toolboxes
    • GPU, Multicore, Distributed implementations
  • Applications close to machine learning
    • Sparse learning, compressed sensing, signal processing
    • Computational Statistics
    • Large scale scientific computing

Submission Instructions

  • The submissions should be ideally 4 pages long. Hard-limit: 6 pages.
  • Open Problems may be of any length within the hard-limits
  • The review process will be double-blind
  • Please use the NIPS 2010 format for your submissions
  • Submission Website

Notes

The planned submission/reviewing dates are planned as follows.
  • Deadline for submission of papers: 24th October 2011
  • Notification of acceptance: 12th November 2011
  • Final version of submission: 20th November 2011
  • Workshop date: 16th December 2011

Submission Instructions

  • The submissions should be ideally 4 pages long. Hard-limit: 6 pages.
  • The review process will be double-blind
  • Please use the NIPS 2011 format for your submissions
  • Submission Website
  • At least one author of each accepted paper must be available to present the paper at the workshop.
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