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C A L L  F O R  P A P E R S (extended deadline: 26th June)

Uncertainty in Machine Learning

Workshop (combined with a tutorial) at ECML/PKDD 2020
September 18, 2020, Ghent, Belgium

https://sites.google.com/view/wuml-2020/

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Motivation and Focus
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The notion of uncertainty is of major importance in machine learning
and constitutes a key element of modern machine learning methodology.
In recent years, it has gained in importance due to the increasing
relevance of machine learning for practical applications, many of
which are coming with safety requirements. In this regard, new
problems and challenges have been identified by machine learning
scholars, which call for new methodological developments. Indeed,
while uncertainty has long been perceived as almost synonymous with
standard probability and probabilistic predictions, recent research
has gone beyond traditional approaches and also leverages more general
formalisms and uncertainty calculi. For example, a distinction between
different sources and types of uncertainty, such as aleatoric and
epistemic uncertainty, turns out to be useful in many machine learning
applications. The workshop will pay specific attention to recent
developments of this kind.

This workshop will be preceded by a tutorial, which provides an
introduction to the topic of uncertainty in machine learning and gives
an overview of existing methods and hitherto approaches to dealing
with uncertainty.

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Aim and Scope
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The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested
in the topic of uncertainty in machine learning. It is meant to
provide a forum for the discussion of the most recent developments in
the modeling, processing, and quantification of uncertainty in machine
learning problems, and the exploration of new research directions in
this field. We welcome papers on all facets of uncertainty in machine
learning. We solicit original work, which can be theoretical,
practical, or applied, and also encourage the submission of work in
progress as well as position papers or critical notes. The scope of
the workshop covers, but is not limited to, the following topics:

-- adversarial examples
-- belief functions
-- calibration
-- classification with reject option
-- conformal prediction
-- credal classifiers
-- deep learning and neural networks
-- ensemble methods
-- epistemic uncertainty
-- imprecise probability
-- likelihood and fiducial inference
-- model selection and misspecification
-- multi-armed bandits
-- online learning
-- noisy data and outliers
-- out-of-sample prediction
-- performance evaluation
-- hypothesis testing
-- probabilistic methods
-- Bayesian machine learning
-- reliable prediction
-- set-valued prediction
-- uncertainty quantification

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Submission and Review Process
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Authors are supposed to submit original work in the form of regular
and short papers written in English. The length of the papers is
limited to 6 pages for short contributions (reporting work in
progress) and 12 pages for regular contributions (reporting on more
mature work) in LNCS format. All papers must be submitted in PDF
format online via the EasyChair submission interface:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wuml2020

Each submission will be evaluated by at least two members of the
programme committee on the basis of its relevance to the workshop, the
significance and technical quality of the contribution, and the
quality of presentation. All accepted papers will be included in the
workshop proceedings and will be publicly available on the conference
web site (unless authors opt out). Currently, possibilities for a
follow-up publication are also explored, for example a special issue
in a journal. At least one author of each accepted paper is required
to attend the workshop to present.

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Current Invited Speakers:
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* Meelis Kull, University of Tartu, Associate Professor in Machine
Learning and Chair of Data Science

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Important Dates:
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26th June 2020 --- paper submission
24th July 2020 --- notification of acceptance or rejection
30th July 2020 --- camera-ready version
18th September --- workshop date

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Organization:
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Eyke Hüllermeier, Paderborn University, e...@upb.de
Sébastien Destercke, Heudiasyc, Compiegne, sebastien.dester...@hds.utc.fr

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Programme Committee:
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* Viktor Bengs, Paderborn University
* Hendrik Boström, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
* Giorgio Corani, Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale
* Ines Couso, University of Oviedo
* Cassio de Campos, Eindhoven University
* Juan J, Del Coz, University of Oviedo
* Thierry Denoeux, University of Technology of Compiègne
* Stefan Depeweg, Siemens
* Peter Flach, Bristol University
* Hanno Gottschalk, University of Wuppertal
* Ulf Johansson, Jönköping University
* Meelis Kull, University of Tartu
* Benjamin Quost, University of Technology of Compiègne
* Steffen Udluft, Siemens
* Vladimir Vovk, Royal Holloway, University of London
* Willem Waegeman, Ghent University
* Marco Zaffalon, Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale

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