Connectionists: [Deadline Extended] TPM @ UAI 2022: Deadline Extended to June 13th

[YooJung Choi]

We have extended the paper submission deadline for TPM 2022 to *June 13th,
2022*.

 *Important Dates*


   - *Submission deadline: *June 9th, 2022 AoE *June 13th, 2022 AoE*
   - *Notification of acceptance: *July 5th, 2022
   - *Camera-ready version: *August 12th, 2022
   - *Workshop date:* August 5th, 2022


****The 5th Workshop on Tractable Probabilistic Modeling (TPM): **From
Theory to Practice (and Back)******

https://tractable-probabilistic-modeling.github.io/tpm2022/

AI and ML systems designed and deployed to support decision-making in the
real world need to perform *complex reasoning under uncertainty*. For
safety-critical systems, such as applications in healthcare and finance, it
is crucial that this reasoning is *reliable*, i.e. either *exact* or coming
with approximation guarantees. At the same time, it is important that these
guarantees can be carried out *efficiently*. For this, tractable
probabilistic models (TPMs) are very appealing because they support
reliable and efficient reasoning for a wide range of reasoning scenarios, *by
design*. Therefore, it is no wonder that research on modeling and learning
different TPMs has been flourishing recently. The variegated TPM spectrum
includes models that deliver tractable computation of likelihoods such
as *normalizing
flow*, *Gaussian processes* and *autoregressive models*; tractable
marginals, such as *mixture models*, *bounded-treewidth models*, and
*determinantal
point processes*; and models supporting more complex reasoning scenarios
such as *probabilistic circuits*. As the subtitle of this year’s Workshop
proposal suggests, we are particularly interested in bridging the latest
theoretical advancements in this spectrum with the burgeoning literature on
applying TPMs to real-world problems. In particular, TPMs have been
successfully used in image classification, completion and generation,
activity recognition, language and speech modeling, verification and
diagnosis of physical systems, and more recently in computational life
science, e.g., for drug discovery and epidemiology modeling.

The workshop will be held *in person* on August 5th, 2022, co-located with
UAI 2022 in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

*Topics of interest*

Prospective authors are invited to submit *novel research*, *retrospective
papers,* or *recently accepted papers* on relevant topics including, but
not limited to:

   - New tractable representations in logical, continuous and hybrid domains
   - Learning algorithms for TPMs
   - Theoretical and empirical analysis of tractable models
   - Connections between TPM classes
   - TPMs for responsible, robust and explainable AI
   - Approximate inference algorithms (with guarantees)
   - Applications of TPMs to real-world problems

 *Submission Instructions*
Original papers and retrospective papers are required to follow the style
guidelines of UAI 2022 and should be using the following adjusted template TPM
format
<https://tractable-probabilistic-modeling.github.io/tpm2022/assets/tpm2022-template.zip>.
Submitted papers should be up to 4 pages long, excluding references.
Already accepted papers can be submitted in the format of the venue they
have been accepted to. Supplementary material can be put in the same pdf
paper (after references); it is entirely up to the reviewers to decide
whether they wish to consult this additional material.

All submissions must be electronic (through the link below), and must
closely follow the formatting guidelines at
https://tractable-probabilistic-modeling.github.io/tpm2022/cfp/; otherwise
they will automatically be rejected. Reviewing for TPM 2022 is
single-blind; i.e., reviewers will know the authors’ identity but authors
won't know the reviewers' identity. However, we recommend that you refer to
your prior work in the third person wherever possible. We also encourage
links to public repositories such as GitHub to share code and/or data.

*Submission Link:*
https://openreview.net/group?id=auai.org/UAI/2022/Workshop/TPM

 ****Accepted papers will be considered for a** best paper award****

*Organizers*
YooJung Choi (UCLA)
Eric Nalisnick (University of Amsterdam)
Martin Trapp (Aalto University)
Fabrizio Ventola (TU Darmstadt)
Antonio Vergari (University of Edinburgh)

*For any questions, contact us at **tpmworkshop2022 at gmail.com
<tpmworkshop2022 at gmail.com>*

****Please consider sharing this CFP in your network****
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