Connectionists: New Pattern Recognition Competition

[Isabelle Guyon]

  Dear colleagues,

We are organizing a new machine learning challenge entitled:

        Performance Prediction Challenge
see:
        http://www.modelselect.inf.ethz.ch/

How good are you at predicting how good you are?

Find out: compete to predict accurately your generalization 
performance.  This problem, which is of great practical importance e.g. 
in pilot studies,  poses theoretical and computational challenges. Is 
cross-validation the best solution? What should k be in k-fold? Can one 
use theoretical performance bounds to better assess generalization?

You will have opportunities to publish at WCCI 2006 (Vancouver, July 
2006) and in JMLR under the new "model selection" special topic. Check 
the web site!

Isabelle Guyon