[CfP GECCO 2023] Keep Learning Workshop

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renau.quentin

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Mar 20, 2023, 5:58:04 AM3/20/23

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Dear Colleagues,

Below you can find the call for papers for the Keep Learning Workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/klearning-workshop/home)

Feel free to distribute, and thank you for your time.

Best wishes,

Quentin Renau

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Overview:

The goal of this workshop is to discuss mechanisms by which optimisers can “keep on learning”. This includes mechanisms to enable an optimisation system to:

Improve with practice as it solves more and more instances
Learn & adapt from its experience of solving problem instances
Detect drift in instance characteristics and respond accordingly, e.g. by tuning solvers and/or models
Detect “surprise” in instance characteristics and respond accordingly, e.g. generation of new solvers
Predict empty regions of an instance-space where future instances might appear; generate new synthetic instances in this space to provide training data for solvers
Learn across multiple domains, e.g. transfer learning
Learn to optimise in unseen domains

Developing such a system will likely require an interdisciplinary approach that mixes machine-learning and optimisation techniques. The workshop solicits short papers that address mechanisms by which any of the above can be achieved. We also invite short position papers that do not contain results but propose novel avenues of work might enable the creation of life-long learners.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Per-instance Algorithm Selection
Developing dynamic algorithm portfolios
Algorithm Generation
Algorithm Tuning
Cross-Domain and/or Multi-Task Optimisation
Methods for Warm-Starting Optimisers
Methods for detecting change in instance characteristics
Feature-generation and selection
Synthetic Instance generation
Creating instance space maps

Submissions:
The submission deadline is April 14, 2023
We invite submissions of the following types of papers: