<div dir="ltr"><div><div><b>Call for papers: NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Information-Theoretic Principles in Cognitive Systems</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><li><b>Submission deadline: September 29, 2022</b><br></li><li><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/infocog-neurips2022" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/infocog-neurips2022</a></li></div><div><br></div><div>We are thrilled to invite submissions to the NeurIPS 2022 workshop on Information-Theoretic Principles in Cognitive Systems.
This interdisciplinary workshop aims to explore new avenues for
progress toward an integrative computational theory of human and
artificial cognition, by leveraging information-theoretic principles as
bridges between various cognitive functions and neural representations.
To this end, we aim to bring together researchers from machine learning,
cognitive science,
neuroscience, linguistics, economics, and other fields, who are
interested in information-theoretic approaches to cognitive systems.</div><br><b>Submissions:</b>
We invited short paper submissions (up to 4 pages), describing either
unpublished work, including preliminary work in progress, or work that
has recently been published at non machine learning venues. The workshop
is considered a non-archival venue, which means that acceptance should
not interfere with future submissions to journals or conference
proceedings. A subset of accepted papers will be invited for a
full-length article submission to a special issue of <a href="https://direct.mit.edu/opmi" target="_blank">Open Mind</a>,
dedicated to the topic of the workshop.</div><div><br></div><div>Examples of specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:<br><ul><li>Novel
information-theoretic approaches to cognitive functions (e.g.,
perception, decision making, language, social reasoning, etc.)</li><li>Machine learning tools for scaling up information-theoretic models of cognition</li><li>Applications
of information theory to training human-aligned artificial agents,
i.e., agents that can better communicate and cooperate with humans</li><li>Challenges and limitations of the use of information theory in studying cognitive systems</li></ul></div><div>The full call for papers and submission guidelines can be found here:<br>
<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/infocog-neurips2022/call-for-papers" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/infocog-neurips2022/call-for-papers</a></div><br><div><b>Funding and participation:</b>
The workshop will be hybrid, welcoming both virtual and in-person
participants, as part of NeurIPS 2022 in New Orleans. To facilitate in-person participation, we
expect to have a limited amount of funding to support a few selected
presenters of accepted papers.</div><br><b>Important dates</b><br><ul><li>Submission deadline: September 29, 2022 (anywhere on earth)</li><li>Author notification: October 15, 2022</li><li>Workshop date: December 3, 2022</li></ul><div><div>Questions and correspondence pertaining to the workshop should be addressed to <a href="mailto:infocog.neurips@gmail.com" target="_blank">infocog.neurips@gmail.com</a></div></div><div><br></div>We hope to see you all at the workshop!<br><br>Best regards,<br>The Organizers<br><br>Noga Zaslavsky, MIT<br>Mycal Tucker, MIT<br>Irina Higgins, DeepMind<br>Sarah Marzen, Claremont<br>Stephanie Palmer, University of Chicago<br><div>Sam Gershman, Harvard</div><div><br></div></div>