Connectionists: Announcing the Second Deep Learning Symposium at NIPS 2016

[Navdeep Jaitly]

Second Deep Learning Symposium at the 30th Annual Conference on Neural
Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016)

December 8, 2016, Barcelona, Spain

https://sites.google.com/site/nips2016deeplearnings/

Program Committee recommendation deadline: Friday, August 26, 2016

OVERVIEW

Deep learning algorithms attempt to discover good representations at
multiple levels of abstraction. This research area has seen an
explosion of progress over the past several years, with significant
algorithmic advances as well as applications to areas as diverse as
vision, speech processing, language understanding, robotics, game
playing, neuroscience, and health. Major machine learning and AI
conferences often dedicate several sessions to deep learning,
attesting to the widespread interest in this area of research.


The rapid (and perhaps bewildering) rate of progress also opens up new
research challenges. This symposium aims to bring together researchers
in deep learning and related areas to discuss the new advances and
challenges and to brainstorm about new solutions and directions.


FORMAT

A selected group of leading experts in the field -- the Program
Committee (PC) members (see the list at
https://sites.google.com/site/nips2016deeplearnings/pc-members ) --
will recommend papers to present at the event. There is no usual
submission/review process, but PCs members will make their
recommendations based on papers they have recently read.

In order to let the broader research community and authors contribute
with links to paper URLs and comments to papers, we will use
OpenReview (http://beta.openreview.net/).

The PCs recommendation deadline is: Friday, August 26, 2016 (although
the recommendation website will remain open for comments and
contributions even after this date to benefit the PCs in their
subsequent discussion to determine the final presenter list, and even
after the Symposium date for the benefit of the whole community).

For more information, please visit:
https://sites.google.com/site/nips2016deeplearnings/

The Deep Learning Symposium Organizers at NIPS 2016,

Yoshua Bengio, Roger Grosse, Navdeep Jaitly, and Yann LeCun