*Dear members of AI Inference and Machine Learning Communities,*
*Earlier this year, the UAI conference announced a renewed UAI
competition for 2022. See the message below, and
***https://uaicompetition.github.io/uci-2022/
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uaicompetition.github.io/uci-2022/__;!!CzAuKJ42GuquVTTmVmPViYEvSg!LEx6oIcxOgcdkLwqeWJ7XvLszHDZHxralAKUuOd0Ski5gCrw_QHtNxJQWOY1CR_CsTnDbpdCyksLPQEScLZMQdBeJ9qeHA$>*.
The purpose of this message is to provide a quick update and to strongly
encourage you to participate *now*. While things developed more slowly
than we hoped due to summer activities, we are now ready for an
increased pace of participation! *Overall we see this competition as an
exploration opportunity for everyone in the community who has worked on
solvers or on classification learning and in that spirit we would like
to encourage participation in each of the categories. *Please send your
solver to us and we will do the work of evaluating and comparing for you!.*
*To refresh: in addition to the traditional tasks **of evaluating
summation and optimization queries over graphical models, this year we
introduced a second learning task, a **multi-label classification
learning challenge.*
Update: in the traditional categories**(pr, mar, map, and mmap tasks) we
have received several solvers, allowing us to test and update our
website, establish evaluation criteria etc. You can see the current
results on the leader board at
*https://uaicompetition.github.io/uci-2022/
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uaicompetition.github.io/uci-2022/__;!!CzAuKJ42GuquVTTmVmPViYEvSg!LEx6oIcxOgcdkLwqeWJ7XvLszHDZHxralAKUuOd0Ski5gCrw_QHtNxJQWOY1CR_CsTnDbpdCyksLPQEScLZMQdBeJ9qeHA$>*.
*The MLC track is now open, ready for your favourite Multi-label
Classifier*.
Looking forward for your participation,
**
*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)
Nicholas Cohen *(University of California, Irvine)*
*Anna K. Raichev ***(University of California, Irvine)**
*
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: The UAI 2022 competition
Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 21:42:35 -0400
From: Rina Dechter <dech...@ics.uci.edu> <mailto:dech...@ics.uci.edu>
To: connectioni...@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu
CC: Rina Dechter <dech...@ics.uci.edu> <mailto:dech...@ics.uci.edu>,
Bobak Pezeshki <pezes...@uci.edu> <mailto:pezes...@uci.edu>, Junkyu Lee
<junk...@ics.uci.edu> <mailto:junk...@ics.uci.edu>, Vibhav Gogate
<vgog...@gmail.com> <mailto:vgog...@gmail.com>
**
*Dear members of AI Inference and Machine Learning Communities,*
*
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
*
sample benchmarks to be released
*
solver submission opens (June 15th)
July, 2022
*
solver evaluations begin
August, 2022
*
mid-competition update (to be announced at UAI-2022)
October, 2022
*
solver submissions close
*
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 uaicompetit...@gmail.com
<mailto:uaicompetit...@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
dech...@ics.uci.edu
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dechter
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