COLT 2011 - The 24rd Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2011)

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Category COLT 2011

Deadline: February 11, 2011 | Date: July 09, 2011-July 11, 2011

Venue/Country: Budapest, Hungary

Updated: 2010-10-27 14:26:01 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

place in Budapest, Hungary, on July 9-11, 2011. It will be co-located

with the Foundations of Computational Mathematics conference (FOCM

2011, Budapest, July 4th - 14th, 2011).

We invite submissions of papers addressing theoretical aspects of

machine learning and empirical inference. We strongly support a broad

definition of learning theory, including:

* Analysis of learning algorithms and their generalization ability

* Computational complexity of learning

* Bayesian analysis

* Statistical mechanics of learning systems

* Optimization procedures for learning

* Kernel methods

* Boolean function learning

* Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning and clustering

* On-line learning and relative loss bounds

* Planning and control, including reinforcement learning

* Learning in social, economic, and game-theoretic settings

* Analysis of learning in related fields: natural language processing,

neuroscience, bioinformatics, privacy and security, machine vision,

data mining, information retrieval

We are also interested in papers that include viewpoints that are new

to the COLT community. We welcome experimental and algorithmic papers

provided they are relevant to the focus of the conference by

elucidating theoretical results. Also, while the primary focus of the

conference is theoretical, papers can be strengthened by the inclusion

of relevant experimental results.

Papers that have previously appeared in journals or at other

conferences, or that are being submitted to other conferences, are not

appropriate for COLT. Papers that include work that has already been

submitted for journal publication may be submitted to COLT, as long as

the papers have not been accepted for publication by the COLT

submission deadline (conditionally or otherwise) and that the paper is

not expected to be published before the COLT conference (June 2010).

Papers will be published electronically without printed proceedings.

Paper awards:

COLT will award both the best paper and best student paper. Best

student papers must be authored or coauthored by a student. Authors

must indicate at submission time if they wish their paper to be

eligible for a student award. This does not preclude the paper to be

eligible for the best paper award.

Open Problems Session:

We also invite submission of open problems (see separate call). These

should be constrained to two pages. There is a shorter reviewing

period for the open problems. Accepted contributions will be allocated

short presentation slots in a special open problems session and will

be allowed two pages each in the proceedings.

Submission Instructions:

Formatting and submission instructions will be available at the

conference website.

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: February 11, 2011

Author notification: May 2, 2011

Conference: Jul 9 - 11, 2011

Program Chairs:

Sham Kakade and Ulrike von Luxburg