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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">Please join the 7th Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference (NLDL) on 9-11 January 2024 in Tromsø, Norway, organized by Visual Intelligence and the UiT Machine
Learning Group.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">We look forward to gathering the deep learning community again in the cool arctic air for a physical conference.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">In addition, the NLDL winter school, which is a part of the NORA research school </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://nora.ai/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1D1C1D">http://nora.ai</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">,
starts on Jan 8, ends on Jan 12, and incorporates events during the main conference days. The winter school includes scientific topics, industry event, women in AI event, and transferable skills. Speakers include Mihaela van der Schaar, Gitta Kutyniok, and
Rogelio Andrade Mancisidor. More information is available at </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.nldl.org/winter-school" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1D1C1D">http://www.nldl.org/winter-school</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">We invite submissions presenting new and original research on all aspects of Deep Learning. The topics include but are not limited to the following:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">General Machine Learning (active learning, clustering, online learning, ranking, reinforcement learning, supervised, semi- and
self-supervised learning, time series analysis, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">Optimization (convex and non-convex optimization, matrix/tensor methods, stochastic, online, non-smooth, composite, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">Deep Learning for Sciences (biology and medicine, environment and ecology, physics, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">As always, we are happy to have top international speakers. This year:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">Mark Girolami - University of Cambridge & the Alan Turing Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">We are accepting two alternatives for contributions: (1) Full paper submissions (6 pages) will be presented either as orals or as posters and will be published in the conference proceedings.
The proceedings are approved as a level 1 publication in the Norwegian national list of authorized research publication channels; (2) Extended abstracts (2 pages) will be presented as posters (but not published in the conference proceedings). The review process
is double-blind.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">Submission website: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=NLDL.org/2024" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1155CC">https://openreview.net/group?id=NLDL.org/2024</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">Deadline for both types of submissions: September 15th, 2023.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">Instructions on template etc. can be found on </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nldl.org/call-for-papers" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1155CC">https://www.nldl.org/call-for-papers</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">A tentative program will be available soon at </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.nldl.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1155CC">http://www.nldl.org/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"> and
will include keynotes, scientific talks, an industry event, a Women in AI event and social events.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">We hope to see many participants for a nice scientific gathering on the “north pole”, including social events, and hopefully some northern lights.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">We thank our sponsors: G-Research, Kongsberg Satellite Services, Norwegian Computing Center, and DIPS AS.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">Kind regards,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">Adín Ramírez Rivera, Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, Benjamin Ricaud, Ahcene Boubekki, Kristoffer Wickstrøm, Sigurd Løkse</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">The NLDL 2024 program committee</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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