CFP: Workshop Meta-Knowledge Transfer/Communication in Different Systems

[Jan N. van Rijn]

Workshop Meta-Knowledge Transfer/Communication in Different Systems

Friday 23rd of Sept. 2022, Grenoble, France
associated with ECML/PKDD 2022

https://janvanrijn.github.io/metalearning/workshop2022

Objectives

Meta-knowledge normally captures different aspects of existing (or potential) solutions, including, for instance: which preprocessing methods should be used for the given data; which machine learning algorithms are relevant; which hyperparameters should be considered and how these should be set; and how all these elements should be combined into useful pipelines or procedures. The aim of this workshop is to address the issues related to how (meta-)knowledge can be generated and transferred among different ML and AutoML systems, so that their joint capability to solve problems can be enhanced.

Main research areas:

• Controlling the learning processes

• Definitions of configuration spaces

• Few-shot learning

• Exploiting hierarchy of features in learning

• Meta-learning

• Conditional meta-learning

• Meta-knowledge transfer

• Transfer learning

• Transfer of meta-knowledge between systems

• Symbolic vs subsymbolic meta-knowledge

• Neuro-symbolic learning and meta-learning

• Explainable and interpretable meta-learning

Invited speakers

• Pascal Hitzler, Kansas State University
  Some advances regarding ontologies and neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence
  

• Timothy Hospedales, University of Edinburgh
  Meta-learning for Knowledge Transfer

Important dates

• Paper submission deadline: 20 June 2022

• Paper acceptance notification: 13 July 2022

• Early registration deadline: July 22th

• Program and papers will be available online by: 5 Sep 2022

Accepted formats of submissions

Original paper track
Authors can submit novel papers that have not been accepted elsewhere. All submissions should follow the LaTeX Lecture Notes in Computer Science format, maximal 12 pages.

Poster tack of already published work:
Authors can apply for a poster spot for a paper that has recently (in 2021-22) been published elsewhere. During submission, please send a link to the already published version of the work, and the peer-review will determine whether it is a good match based on the topics of the workshop.

Format of the workshop

The workshop will last a half a day, as it forms part of a combined tutorial-workshop. It will include:

• Invited talks

• Short oral presentations

• Poster session

• Panel discussions on
  “Main challenges of communication of (meta)-knowledge among different systems”
  
  

Proceedings

The organizers are planning to prepare formal proceedings. The authors of accepted papers can decide whether they wish to have their full paper included or not. In the latter case, publication of a short abstract would be possible.

Organization

Workshop Chairs

Pavel Brazdil, Univ. of Porto, Portugal

Jan N. van Rijn, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Felix Mohr, Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia

Henry Gouk, Postdoc. School of Informatics, Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland

Program Committee

To be provided soon