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<div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38;">First Deep Learning Symposium at the 29th Annual Conference on Neural</span></div>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2015)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 10, 2015, Montreal, Canada</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/nips2015deeplearnings/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://sites.google.com/site/nips2015deeplearnings/</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Program Committee nomination deadline: Friday, August 28, 2015</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deep Learning algorithms attempt to discover good representations, at
multiple levels of abstraction. Deep Learning is a topic of broad interest, both to researchers who develop new algorithms and theories, as well as to the rapidly growing number of practitioners who apply these algorithms to a wider range of applications,
from vision and speech processing, to natural language understanding, neuroscience, health, etc.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There has been very rapid and impressive progress in this area in recent
years, in terms of both algorithms and applications, but many challenges remain. This symposium aims at bringing together researchers in Deep Learning and related areas to discuss the new advances, the challenges we face, and to brainstorm about new solutions
and directions.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Format</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A selected group of leading experts in the field -- the Program Committee
(PC) members (see the list at </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/nips2015deeplearnings/home/pc-members" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://sites.google.com/site/nips2015deeplearnings/home/pc-members</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
) -- will recommend papers to present at the event. There is no usual submission/review process, but PCs members will make their recommendations based on papers they have recently read.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to let the broader research community and authors contribute
with links to paper URLs and comments to papers, we have set up a recommendation website at
</span><a href="https://recommend-papers.org" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://recommend-papers.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The PCs recommendation deadline is: Friday, August 28, 2015 (although
the recommendation website will remain open for comments and contributions even after this date to benefit the PCs in their subsequent discussion to determine the final presenter list, and even after the Symposium date for the benefit of the whole community).</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more information, please visit:
</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/nips2015deeplearnings/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://sites.google.com/site/nips2015deeplearnings/</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Deep Learning Symposium Organizers at NIPS 2015,</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yoshua Bengio, Marc’Aurelio Ranzato, Honglak Lee, Max Welling, Andrew
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