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* The 8th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for
* Large-Scale Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics (ParLearning 2019)
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https://parlearning.github.io
* August 5, 2019
* Anchorage, Alaska, USA
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* Co-located with
* The 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
* Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2019)
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https://www.kdd.org/kdd2019/
* August 4 - August 8, 2019
* Dena’ina Convention Center and William Egan Convention Center
* Anchorage, Alaska, USA
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Call for Papers
Scaling up machine-learning (ML), data mining (DM) and reasoning
algorithms from Artificial Intelligence (AI) for massive datasets is a
major technical challenge in the time of "Big Data". The past ten years
have seen the rise of multi-core and GPU based computing. In parallel
and distributed computing, several frameworks such as OpenMP, OpenCL,
and Spark continue to facilitate scaling up ML/DM/AI algorithms using
higher levels of abstraction. We invite novel works that advance the
trio-fields of ML/DM/AI through development of scalable algorithms or
computing frameworks. Ideal submissions should describe methods for
scaling up X using Y on Z, where potential choices for X, Y and Z are
provided below.
Scaling up
o Recommender systems
o Optimization algorithms (gradient descent, Newton methods)
o Deep learning
o Distributed algorithms and AI for Blockchain
o Sampling/sketching techniques
o Clustering (agglomerative techniques, graph clustering, clustering heterogeneous data)
o Classification (SVM and other classifiers)
o SVD and other matrix computations
o Probabilistic inference (Bayesian networks)
o Logical reasoning
o Graph algorithms, graph mining and knowledge graphs
o Semi-supervised learning
o Online and streaming learning
o Generative adversarial networks
Using
o Parallel architectures/frameworks (OpenMP, OpenCL, OpenACC, Intel TBB)
o Distributed systems/frameworks (GraphLab, Hadoop, MPI, Spark)
o Machine learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Theano, Caffe)
On
o Clusters of conventional CPUs
o Many-core CPU (e.g. Xeon Phi)
o FPGA
o Specialized ML accelerators (e.g. GPU and TPU)
Workshop Proceedings
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM and also appear in the ACM Digital Library.
Awards
Best Paper Award: The program committee will nominate a paper for
the Best Paper award. In past years, the Best Paper award included a
cash prize. Stay tuned for this year!
Travel awards: Students with accepted papers have a chance to apply
for a travel award. Please find details on the ACM KDD 2019 web page.
Important Dates
o Paper submission: May 5, 2019 (Anywhere on Earth)
o Author notification: June 1, 2019
o Camera-ready version: June 8, 2019
Paper Guidelines
Submissions are limited to a total of 10 pages, including all
content and references, and must be in PDF format and formatted
according to the new Standard ACM Conference Proceedings Template.
Additional information about formatting and style files is available
online at:
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Papers
that do not meet the formatting requirements will be rejected without
review.
Keynote Speakers
o Professor V.S. Subrahmanian (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA)
Organizing Committee
o General Chairs: Arindam Pal (TCS Research and Innovation, Kolkata,
India) and Henri Bal (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
o Program Chairs: Azalia Mirhoseini (Google AI, Mountain View, CA, USA), Thomas Parnell (IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland)
o Publicity Chair: Anand Panangadan (California State University, Fullerton, USA)
o Steering Committee Chairs: Sutanay Choudhury (Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, USA), and Yinglong Xia (Huawei Research America,
USA)