<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><b class="">ALT 2018 - Call for Papers</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">The 29th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2018) will be held in Lanzarote, Spain, on April 7-9, 2018 (<a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/conferences/alt2018/" class="">http://www.cs.cornell.edu/conferences/alt2018/</a>). The conference will be co-located with AISTATS 2018, which immediately follows ALT 2018.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">This is a new ALT: new submission time, new conference time, new program, and a new ambition, to substantially grow its audience and let ALT be known as the best conference in algorithmic and theoretical machine learning.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">The ALT 2018 conference is dedicated to all theoretical and algorithmic aspects of machine learning. We invite submissions with contributions to new or existing learning problems including, but not limited to:</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Design and analysis of learning algorithms.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Statistical and computational learning theory.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Online learning algorithms and theory.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Optimization methods for learning.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Unsupervised, semi-supervised, online and active learning.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Connections of learning with other mathematical fields.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Artificial neural networks, including deep learning.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">High-dimensional and non-parametric statistics.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Learning with algebraic or combinatorial structure.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Bayesian methods in learning.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Planning and control, including reinforcement learning.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Learning with system constraints: e.g. privacy, memory or communication budget.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Learning from complex data: e.g., networks, time series, etc.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Interactions with statistical physics.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Learning in other settings: e.g. social, economic, and game-theoretic.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">We are also interested in papers that include viewpoints that are new to the ALT community. We welcome experimental and algorithmic papers provided they are relevant to the focus of the conference by elucidating theoretical results, or by pointing out an interesting and not well understood behavior that could stimulate theoretical analysis. </div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Paper submission deadline: <b class="">October 27, 2017, 11:59PM EST</b>.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Awards</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">ALT 2018 will have both a best student paper award (E.M. Gold Award) and a best paper award. 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. The paper can be co-authored by other researchers.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Policy</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Each submitted paper will be reviewed by the members of the program committee and be judged on clarity, significance and originality. Joint submissions to other conferences with published proceedings are not allowed. Papers that have appeared in or are under review for other conferences are not appropriate for ALT 2018. The same policy applies to journals, unless the submission is a shorter version of a paper submitted to a journal and has not yet been published. It is, however, acceptable to submit to ALT work that has been made available as a technical report or similar, for example on <a href="http://www.arxiv.org/" class="">http://www.arxiv.org</a>.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Tutorials</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">We also invite proposals for a tutorial presentation. These should be dealing with a learning theory topic covered within two hours. Proposals are limited to 2 pages and should include a one page abstract as well as links to any relevant material such as existing slides or other teaching material. </div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Tutorials Submission Deadline: November 17, 2017.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Formatting</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">There is no page limit for submissions, and submissions should include all proofs and technical details necessary to understand the results. However, referees are not required to read beyond the first 12 pages when reviewing submissions. Therefore, it is recommended that the first 12 pages contain a clear presentation of the papers main contributions and at least sketches of the main arguments. All accepted papers will be published as a volume in the JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings series, and will be available online during the conference. Submissions should be formatted according to the instructions on the following page: <a href="http://www.jmlr.org/format/format.html" class="">http://www.jmlr.org/format/format.html</a>.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Submission</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">The reviewing process is not double-blind. Authors should list their names and affiliations in their submissions. Authors can submit their papers electronically via our submission page <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alt18" class="">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alt18</a> which will be opened for submissions in October 2017.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Important Dates:</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Paper submission deadline:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>October 27, 2017, 11:59PM EST.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Tutorial submission deadline:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>November 17, 2017, 11:59PM EST.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Author notification:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>December 15, 2017.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Conference:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>April 7-9, 2018.</div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Contact</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">For queries please contact the ALT 2018 PC co-chairs at <a href="mailto:alt18@easychair.org" class="">alt18@easychair.org</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: OpenSans; font-size: 15px;">Best,<br class="">Mehryar Mohri and Karthik Sridharan<br class="">Program co-chairs, ALT 2018</div></body></html>