Connectionists: MESS 2024 ~ autoDL meets HPC ~ New application deadline

[Mario Pavone]

Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies)

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MESS 2024 - Metaheuristics Summer School
- Automated Deep Learning meets High-Performance Computing -

15-18 July 2024, Catania, Italy

https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2024/
mess.school at ANTs-lab.it
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/
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** NEW APPLICATION DEADLINE: 16th April 2024 **


MESS 2024 is aimed at qualified and strongly motivated MSc and PhD  
students; post-docs; young researchers, and both academic and  
industrial professionals to provide them with an overview on the  
metaheuristics techniques, and an in-depth analysis of the  
state-of-the-art. It is a full-immersion four-days course in the  
beautiful city of Catania whose goal is to offer all participants with  
a stimulating environment to study and learn advanced concepts and  
recent research in the fields of Metaheuristics, Optimization, Machine  
Learning and Artificial Intelligence, in general.

The main theme of this edition is focused on ?Automated Deep Learning  
Meets High-Performance Computing?, that is how these research areas  
may interact and affect each other in order to develop reliable and  
robust solving methodologies for Big Data analysis, and data-driven  
problems.

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating  
the number of hours of lectures (36-40 hours of lectures). In  
according to the academic system all PhD and master students attending  
to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points.


** LECTURERS

+ Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, TH Koln, Germany
      Lecture#1: Introduction to Surrogate-Based Hyperparameter Tuning  
in Classical Machine Learning, Online Machine Learning, and Deep  
Learning
      Lecture#2: Exploring Hyperparameter-Tuning Applications:  
Optimizing scikit-learn, River, and PyTorch with SPOT and Other Tuning  
Techniques

+ Aaron Klein, AWS Research Berlin, Germany
      Lecture#1: Introduction into AutoML: Hyperparameter Optimization
      Lecture#2: Introduction into AutoML: Neural Architecture Search

+ Eric Medvet, University of Trieste, Italy
      Lecture#1: Metaheuristics for policy search in continuous control
      Lecture#2: Beyond policy search: optimizing body and brain of  
simulated robotic agents

+ David Salinas, University of Freiburg, Germany
      Lecture#1: Multi-objective optimization
      Lecture#2: Speeding-up Hyperparameter Optimization with transfer  
and meta learning

+ El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille1, France
      Lecture#1: Metaheurististics for neural architecture search and  
hyperparameter optimization
      Lecture#2: Parallel and multi-objective metaheuristics for  
neural architecture search and hyperparameter optimization


~ More Lecturers will be announced soon ~



** METAHEURISTICS COMPETITION

All participants will be involved in the ?Metaheuristics Competition  
Race?, where each of them, individually or divided in working groups  
(no more than 3 people), will develop a metaheuristic solution for a  
given problem presented during the school.

The top three of the competition ranking will receive the MESS 2024  
award and will be involved in the writing of a manuscript dedicated to  
the competition that, afterwards, will be submitted to an  
international journal for possible publication. In addition, the  
remaining best ten in the ranking (excluding the top three, of course)  
will be invited to report their work in a manuscript which will be  
published in the special MESS 2024 Volume of the AIRO Springer Series.



** SHORT ORAL PRESENTATION

All participants may submit an abstract of their recent results, or  
works in progress, for presentation and having the opportunities for  
debate and interact with leaders in the field. The Workshop Organizers  
and Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and will recommend  
for the format of the presentation (oral or poster). All abstracts  
will be published on the electronic hands-out book of the summer school.

The Abstracts must be submitted during the application by *April 16, 2020*.


** MESS 2024 DIRECTORS:
- Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy
- Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
- Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy
- El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille1, France
- Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy


** METAHEURISTICS COMPETITION CHAIRS:
- Raffaele Cerulli, University of Salerno, Italy
- Sara Ceschia, University of Udine, Italy
- Carmine Cerrone, University of Genoa, Italy
- Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy


** MORE INFORMATION:

https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2024/   --   mess.school at ANTs-lab.it
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/

-- 
Mario F. Pavone, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Catania
V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy
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MESS 2024 - Metaheuristics Summer School
~ autoDL meets HPC ~
15-18 July 2024, Catania, Italy
mess.school at ANTs-lab.it
https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2024/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/
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