Connectionists: The UAI 2022 competition

[Rina Dechter]

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*Dear members of AI Inference and Machine Learning Communities,*

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After several years of slumber, we are pleased to announce the 
resurrection of the UAI inference competition. This year we introduce a 
new machine learningcomponent to the competition (read more below).

The goal of this competition is to explore our communities’ various 
approaches to approximating quantities of graphical models such as the 
partition function or probability of evidence,  the MAP and the  
marginal MAP values, evaluating the algorithms on an array of problems 
with varying difficulties. As alluded to, this year we also include a 
new category that hosts the machine learning challenge: multi-label 
classification (MLC), extending the competition to exploring various 
learning algorithms.  We hope this event will continue to stimulate 
algorithms development and especially assess the state of the art in 
solvers for inference and learning  in graphical models.


The timeline for the competition is as follows:

June, 2022

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    sample benchmarks to be released

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    solver submission opens (June 15th)

July, 2022

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    solver evaluations begin

August, 2022

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    mid-competition update (to be announced at UAI-2022)

October, 2022

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    solver submissions close

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    final competition results announced!


More information can be found on this year’s competition website: 
https://uaicompetition.github.io/uci-2022/ 
<https://uaicompetition.github.io/uci-2022/>


We encourage anyone interested - whether new to the field or veterans - 
to join!  Please reach out to us via uaicompetition at gmail.com 
<mailto:uaicompetition at gmail.com>with any questions.


We look forward to hearing from you and including your solvers in the 
competition!



UAI-2022 Competition Organizers

Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine)
*Vibhav Gogate (University of Texas, Dallas)*

Alexander Ihler (University of California, Irvine)

Junkyu Lee (IBM Research)

Bobak Pezeshki (University of California, Irvine)

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Rina Dechter
Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3425
(949) 824-6556
dechter at ics.uci.edu
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dechter
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