Connectionists: COLT 2010 Call for Papers

[Sandra Zilles]

COLT 2010 - Call for Papers

The 23rd Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2010) will take  
place in Haifa, Israel, on June 27-29, 2010 and will be co-located  
with ICML 2010. We invite submissions of papers addressing theoretical  
aspects of machine learning and empirical inference. We strongly  
support a broad definition of learning theory, including:

	• Analysis of learning algorithms and their generalization ability
	• Computational complexity of learning
	• Bayesian analysis
	• Statistical mechanics of learning systems
	• Optimization procedures for learning
	• Kernel methods
	• Inductive inference
	• Boolean function learning
	• Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning and clustering
	• On-line learning and relative loss bounds
	• Learning in planning and control, including reinforcement learning
	• Learning in games, multi-agent learning
	• Mathematical analysis of learning in related fields, e.g., game  
theory, natural language processing, neuroscience, bioinformatics,  
privacy and security, machine vision, data mining, information retrieval

We are also interested in papers that include viewpoints that are new  
to the COLT community. We welcome experimental and algorithmic papers  
provided they are relevant to the focus of the conference by  
elucidating theoretical results in learning. Also, while the primary  
focus of the conference is theoretical, papers can be strengthened by  
the inclusion of relevant experimental results.

Papers that have previously appeared in journals or at other  
conferences, or that are being submitted to other conferences, are not  
appropriate for COLT. Papers that include work that has already been  
submitted for journal publication may be submitted to COLT, as long as  
the papers have not been accepted for publication by the COLT  
submission deadline (conditionally or otherwise) and that the paper is  
not expected to be published before the COLT conference (June 2010).


Feedback on Review Quality
There will be no rebuttal phase this year. However, authors will be  
given the opportunity to assess the quality of reviews and provide  
feedback to the reviewers, after the decisions have been made. These  
assessments will be used in particular to determine the Best Reviewer  
award (see below).


Paper and Reviewer Awards
This year, COLT will award both best paper and best student paper  
awards. Best student papers must be authored or coauthored by a  
student. 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.

To further emphasize the importance of the reviewing quality, this  
year, COLT will also award a best reviewer award to the reviewer who  
has provided the most insightful and useful comments.


Open Problems Session
We also invite submission of open problems (see separate call). These  
should be constrained to two pages. There is a shorter reviewing  
period for the open problems. Accepted contributions will be allocated  
short presentation slots in a special open problems session and will  
be allowed two pages each in the proceedings.


Paper Format and Electronic Submission Instructions
Formatting and submission instructions will be available in early  
December at the conference website. Submissions should include the  
title, authors' names, and a 200-word summary of the paper suitable  
for the conference program. Papers should not exceed 13 pages  
(including bibliography) and should be formatted according to the  
following style file and sample LaTeX source (colt10e.sty, colt10- 
sample.tar.gz).  Authors not using latex should ensure that their  
document complies with similar formatting (similar margins, 11pt font,  
single column). Shorter papers are strongly encouraged. Additional  
material beyond the 13 page limit can be placed in the appendix and  
might be read, at the discretion of the program committee.


Important Dates
Preliminary call for papers issued						October 15, 2009
Electronic submission of papers (due by 5:59pm PST)	February 19, 2010
Electronic submission of open problems				March 13, 2010
Notice of acceptance or rejection						May 07, 2010
Submission of final version							May 21, 2010
Feedback on reviews due								May 28, 2010
Joint ICML/COLT workshop day						June 25, 2010
2010 COLT conference								June 27-29, 2010


OrganizationProgram Co-chairs:
	• Adam Tauman Kalai (Microsoft Research)
	• Mehryar Mohri (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and  
Google Research)

Program Committee:
Shivani Agarwal 			Mikhail Belkin
Shai Ben-David			Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi
Ofer Dekel				Steve Hanneke
Jeff Jackson				Sham Kakade
Vladimir Koltchinskii		Katrina Ligett
Phil Long				Gabor Lugosi
Ulrike von Luxburg		Yishay Mansour
Ryan O’Donnell			Massimiliano Pontil
Robert Schapire			Rocco Servedio
Shai Shalev-Shwartz		John Shawe-Taylor
Gilles Stoltz				Ambuj Tewari
Jenn Wortman Vaughan	Santosh Vempala
Manfred Warmuth		Robert Williamson
Thomas Zeugmann		Tong Zhang

Publicity Chair:
	• Sandra Zilles (University of Regina)

Local Arrangements Chair:
	• Shai Fine (IBM Research Haifa)