Dear Friends,
We are happy to announce that the submission site for the 31st
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2014) is open with a
deadline for Cycle I papers on October 4th. Please follow the link below to
proceed with account creation and manuscript submission:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICML2014
When preparing your manuscript, please follow the formatting instructions
available at http://icml.cc/2014/14.html where you will find a downloadable
template folder you to use. Submissions not complying with page limit and
format requirements will not be reviewed and will be automatically
rejected.
This year, ICML has reached an agreement with the Journal of Machine
Learning Research (JMLR) to facilite a "JMLR fast-track" for selected ICML
accepted papers. For papers accepted during the first cycle, the ICML
program committee will recommend a small subset of excellent papers to be
considered for publication at JMLR through a fast-track reviewing process.
Therein, authors of selected papers are invited to submit an expanded full
version at the same time that the conference camera-ready version is
submitted. The expanded version will be reviewed again by the same Area
Chair, two reviewers who originally reviewed the conference version of the
recommended paper, plus one additional reviewer who will be determined by
the AC. We expect that this fast-track approach will significantly reduce
the journal review time. It also provides a more consistent evaluation as
the processing of the full journal paper and the conference paper will be
better aligned. The journal version may still be rejected if it does not
meet the standards of JMLR.
Authors will be asked during their ICML paper submission to indicate
whether or not they want their submission to be considered for the JMLR
fast-track. With this consent, authors commit to submitting a full journal
version before or on the camera-ready deadline.
For your information, an updated CFP is attached. We look forward to
receiving your submissions!
Eric Xing and Tony Jebara
Program Co-Chairs, ICML 2014
http://icml.cc/2014/
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Call for Papers
International Conference on Machine Learning
http://icml.cc/2014/
Beijing, June 21-26, 2014
The 31st International Conference on Machine
Learning (ICML 2014) will be held in Beijing, China,
from June 21 to 26, 2014. The conference will,
tentatively, consist of one day of tutorials, followed
by three days of main conference sessions,
followed by two days of workshops. We invite
submissions of papers on all topics related to
machine learning for the conference proceedings,
and proposals for tutorials and workshops.
After reviewing author and reviewer feedback from
the previous conference, ICML 2014 will adopt a
two-cycle submission/review format, of which the
first submission/review cycle will facilitate both
regular one-time review/rebuttal of submissions, as
well as invitation-only resubmission into the second
cycle, whereas the second cycle will only allow
regular first-time submission plus resubmission of
papers invited from the first cycle. We are also
exploring the possibility of a JMLR track at ICML
that allows direct submission of papers intended
for JMLR to be reviewed under the same time
frame of ICML, more detail will be available soon
once agreement with JMLR has been reached.
Accepted papers will be announced and posted
online shortly after acceptance and will be
considered published and available for citation at
that time.
Paper Format and Electronic Submission
The submission of papers and the management of
the paper reviewing process for the main conference
will be entirely electronic. Submissions for a given
reviewing cycle will be accepted until 23:59
Universal Time (3:59pm Pacific Daylight Time) on
the date of the deadline. Detailed formatting and
submission instructions for authors will be available
soon on the conference web site.
Submitted papers can be up to eight pages long,
not including references, and up to nine pages when
references are included. Any paper exceeding this
length will automatically be rejected. Authors have
the option of submitting a supplementary file
containing further details of their work; it is entirely
up to the reviewers to decide whether they wish to
consult this additional material.
All submissions must be anonymized and must
closely follow the formatting guidelines in the
templates; otherwise they will automatically be
rejected.
Dual Submission Policy
Submitted papers must not be substantially similar
to another paper currently under review, or accepted
for publication, in a journal, conference or workshop
with peer-reviewed proceedings. Similarly, authors
must withdraw their papers if they submit an
overlapping paper to a different peer-reviewed
venue during the ICML review period. If a paper
submitted to ICML 2014 is found to significantly
overlap with a published or submitted paper at
another peer-reviewed venue, then the submission
may be rejected and the incident will be recorded
with further consequence at the conference
organizers’ discretion.
JMLR fast-track
We are happy to announce that an agreement with
JMLR has been reached to facilite a
"JMLR fast-track" for selected ICML accepted
papers. For papers accepted during the first cycle,
the ICML program committee will recommend a
small subset of excellent papers to be considered
for publication at JMLR through a fast-track
reviewing process. Therein, authors of selected
papers are invited to submit an expanded full
version at the same time that the conference
camera-ready version is submitted. The expanded
version will be reviewed again by the same Area
Chair, two reviewers who originally reviewed the
conference version of the recommended paper,
plus one additional reviewer who will be determined
by the AC. We expect that this fast-track approach
will significantly reduce the journal review time. It
also provides a more consistent evaluation as the
processing of the full journal paper and the
conference paper will be better aligned. The journal
version may still be rejected if it does not meet the
standards of JMLR.
Authors are asked during their ICML paper
submission to indicate whether or not they want
their submission to be considered for the JMLR
fast-track. With this consent, authors commit to
submitting a full journal version before or on the
camera-ready deadline.
Reviewing Criteria
Accepted papers must contain significant novel
results. Results can be either theoretical or
empirical. Results will be judged on the degree to
which they have been objectively established and/or
their potential for scientific and technological
impact.
Main Conference Paper Dates
Cycle I:
Cycle I paper submissions due October 4, 2013
Cycle I author response period November 13 – 17, 2013
Cycle I author notification December 9, 2013
Cycle I final version submission due TBA
Cycle II:
Cycle II paper submissions due January 31, 2014
Cycle II author response period March 12-16, 2014
Cycle II author notification April 9, 2014
Cycle II final version submission due TBA
Some fraction of papers rejected in cycle I will be
invited to resubmit with modifications in cycle II.
Papers rejected in cycle II will not be eligible
for resubmission to ICML 2014.
ORGANIZATION
GENERAL CHAIR
David McAllester (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Eric Xing (Carnegie Mellon University)
Tony Jebara (Columbia University)
WORKSHOP CHAIR
Alex Ihler (University of California Irvine)
TUTORIAL CHAIR
Ruslan Salakhutdinov (University of Toronto)
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Jingrui He (Stevens Institute of Technology)
VOLUNTEER CHAIR
John Paisley (Columbia University)
FINANCIAL CHAIR
Artur Dubrawski (Carnegie Mellon University)
Charles Isbell (Georgia Institute of Technology)
WORKFLOW CHAIR
Kui Tang (Columbia University)
Junming Yin (Carnegie Mellon University)
LOCAL CHAIRS
Changshui Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Jun Zhu (Tsinghua University)
Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia)
