Connectionists: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (AIML) Contest 2019 and BMI 2019

Tue May 28 17:42:32 EDT 2019

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (AIML) Contest 2019 and BMI 2019

We are pleased to announce the Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (AIML) Contest 2019 which will run July 14 - November 17, 2019.

AIML Contest: The Cresceptron by Weng, Ahuja & Huang 1992 (ICCV) was the first deep learning network for 3D worlds, but such CNNs have many "holes" by e.g., max-pooling and lack of context for autonomous attention.  We need task-independent and modality-independent networks as well as optimality of representations to see what these "holes" are and how to fill them.  The terms such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, signal processing, control, dynamic systems, data mining, big data, and neuroscience projects, often have different task emphases but these subjects all share the same set of problems that now have a unified brain-inspired solution: Developmental Network (DN) framework.  The AIML Contest, annually run since 2016, serves as a practice platform for all these highly related subjects and beyond. You should participate if you are doing deep learning whose CNNs have holes that you can fill after you have gone through AIML Contest 2019. The contest is open but not limited to all researchers, practitioners, students, and even investors who want to find which areas of their investments can best grow. We predict that this contest framework will fundamentally change the landscape of all such subjects although many senior researchers cannot see that at this point of time, just like Google ventured into deep learning for 3D worlds 24 years after the Cresceptron technology was invented. Do not wait to learn what this fundamental change implies when you have an early chance. The Contest aims to provide a hands-on experience for participants to learn and practice such a unified solution to all such subjects.

Unified goal: Full automation in machine learning (brain-like) for general purposes.

Prize and Certificates:  The winning team receives a US$10,000 prize divided among team members.  The winner and runner-ups will receive medals and certificates. BMI courses that are recommended to the participants will issue certificates to those who pass.  Participants have also the opportunity of working or intern in GENISAMA LLC depending on performance.

Book Chapter Inclusion: The top performers will be invited to submit a book chapter about their contest entry to the AI Machine Learning Contest 2019 book. This book project is underway.

BMI Courses: Each of the three courses offered in 2019 is a three-week set of online lectures that you can start any time during 2019.  They offer video lectures, homework and exams. They discuss the theory behind the Developmental Network, such as cognitive science, automata theory, and computational models:

BMI 831 Cognitive Science
BMI 861 Brain Automata
BMI 871 Computational Brain-Mind

Fees: Full-time students get tuition waivers for BMI courses. Each AIML Contest entry (US$150) includes the three BMI courses for all team members. The completion of these courses is not required to participate in the contest but is recommended.

Contest Events:
July 13, 2019: Early registration deadline for AIML Contest
July 14, 2019: AIML Contest Kickoff in conjunction with IJCNN 2019 in Budapest (webcast will be made available through the YouTube channel Brain-Mind Talks and Youku channel Brain_Mind_Talks)
July 28, 2019: Late registration deadline for AIML Contest
July 29 - Aug. 9, 2019: AIML Contest 2019 Workshop
Nov. 17, 2019: Contest results due by 11:59 pm EST

AIML Contest Workshop: This workshop coaches contest participants, either on-site or off-site, on how the DN2 Engine runs.  Some of the topics covered during the workshop are: Implementation details of the network, training and evaluation procedures, and instructions to report the network's performance. Participation is free for registered contestants.

To register for the Contest, send a copy of a recent CV (one for each team member) and a Statement of Team Purpose to Juan L. Castro-Garcia (castrog4 at msu.edu) and cc to Juyang Weng (weng at cse.msu.edu) with "AIML 2019 Contest Registration" in the subject line.

To take BMI courses, you need to be admitted into BMI first. Apply for admission at the BMI site http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/program-registration/
After you are admitted into BMI, you can proceed with registration of BMI courses.

For more information regarding rules and instructions of the Contest, visit the Contest website: http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/AIMLcontest/
Contestants do not have to get admitted into BMI.

Organizers:
Juyang Weng (General Chair)
Juan L. Castro-Garcia (Program Chair, Language Chair)
Zejia Zheng (Vision Chair)
Xiang Wu (Audition Chair)

Feel free to direct any questions to Juyang Weng (weng at cse.msu.edu) and Juan L. Castro-Garcia (castrog4 at msu.edu).

Important dates:
July 13, 2019: Early registration deadline for AIML Contest
July 14, 2019: AIML Contest Kickoff in conjunction with IJCNN 2019 in Budapest (webcast will be made available through the YouTube channel Brain-Mind Talks and Youku channel Brain_Mind_Talks)
July 28, 2019: Late registration deadline for AIML Contest
July 29 - Aug. 9, 2019: AIML Contest 2019 Workshop
Nov. 17, 2019: Contest results due by 11:59 pm EST

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