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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Website:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
<a href="http://www.iclr.cc/">http://www.iclr.cc/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Workshop Track - Extended abstract deadline:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> February 17th, 2017
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Location:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
<a href="http://toulontourisme.com/palais-congres-toulon/en">Palais des Congrès Neptune, Toulon, France</a>, April 24 - 26, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Overview<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">At the workshop track of ICLR 201,7 we solicit the submission of 3 page abstracts.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This year, the Workshop Track will focus and favor
<b>late-breaking developments,</b> <b>very novel ideas and position papers.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Topics covered may include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Unsupervised, semi-supervised, and supervised representation learning<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Representation learning for planning and reinforcement learning<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Metric learning and kernel learning<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sparse coding and dimensionality expansion<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hierarchical models<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Optimization for representation learning<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Learning representations of outputs or states<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Implementation issues, parallelization, software platforms, hardware<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Applications in vision, audio, speech, natural language processing, robotics, neuroscience, or any other field<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Extended abstracts submitted to the Workshop Track should be 2-3 pages long, excluding references. These contributions are considered as workshop papers and can be published elsewhere, i.e., they are
<b>not</b> subject to the dual submission policy restriction of our conference track papers. Selection of abstracts is performed via a light single-blinded review process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Note that some of the conference submissions that are not accepted to the ICLR Conference Track but fit the novelty requirements of this call for abstract, may also be invited to be presented under the Workshop
Track.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">ICLR Submission Instructions - Workshop Track<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">By February 17th, 2016, 5:00 PM Eastern Standard time, authors must submit the PDF of their extended abstract to openreview:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=ICLR.cc/2017/workshop">https://openreview.net/group?id=ICLR.cc/2017/workshop</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For more information on preparing your extended abstract, including style files for the Workshop Track, please see<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.iclr.cc/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=iclr2017:iclr2017_stylefiles_workshop.zip">http://www.iclr.cc/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=iclr2017:iclr2017_stylefiles_workshop.zip</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Acceptance decisions of extended abstract will be sent by March 17th. At least one author of each accepted extended abstract will be required to register to the ICLR event and present their work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Organizers<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montreal, General Chair
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yann LeCun, New York University and Facebook, General Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Marc’Aurelio Ranzato, Facebook, Senior Program Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tara Sainath, Google, Program Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Oriol Vinyals, Google Deepmind, Program Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hugo Larochelle, Google, Program Chair
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Contact<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The organizers can be contacted at iclr2017.programchairs@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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