CFP: 1st Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs) 2022 - Deadline March 04.
Razvan Pascanu
Dear All,
We invite submissions to the 1st Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs) that describe new theory, methodology or new insights into existing algorithms and/or benchmarks. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR). Topics of submission may include, but are not limited to, reinforcement learning, supervised learning or unsupervised learning approaches for:
- Lifelong Learning / Continual Learning
- Meta-Learning
- Multi-task learning
- Transfer Learning
- Domain adaptation
- Few-shot learning
- Out-of-distribution generalization
- Online Learning
The conference also welcomes submissions at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience and applications of the topics of interest to real-world problems. Submitted papers will be evaluated based on their novelty, technical quality, and potential impact. Experimental methods and results are expected to be reproducible, and authors are strongly encouraged to make code and data available. We also encourage submissions of proof-of-concept research that puts forward novel ideas and demonstrates potential, as well as in-depth analysis of existing methods and concepts.
Key dates
The planned dates are as follows:- Abstract deadline: March 01, 2022, 11:59 pm (Anywhere on Earth, AoE)
- Paper submission deadline: March 04, 2022, 11:59 pm (AoE)
- Review released: April 08, 2022
- Author rebuttals due: April 15, 2022, 11:59 pm (AoE)
- Notifications: May 06, 2022
- Resubmissions*: July 06, 2022, 11:59 pm (AoE)
- Decisions on resubmissions* : August 06, 2022
- Tentative conference dates: August 29-31, 2022
*For more information, see the review process section.
Review Process
Papers will be selected via rigorous double-blind peer-review process. All accepted papers will be presented at the Conference as contributed talks or as posters and will be published in the Proceedings. The reviews process will be hosted on OpenReview with submissions and reviews being private until a decision is made. Reviews and discussions of the accepted papers will be made available after acceptance. In addition to accept/reject, a paper can be marked for revision and resubmission. In this case, the authors have a fixed amount of time to update the work and resubmit, to get a final accept/reject decision. If the paper was marked for resubmission but after resubmission it is rejected, then the work will automatically be accepted to a non-archival Workshop track of CoLLAs. The authors will still be able to present a poster on their work as part of this track. This system is aimed to produce a fairer treatment of borderline papers and to save the time spent in going through the entire reviewing process from scratch when resubmitting to a future edition of the conference or a different relevant conference.
During the rebuttal period, authors are allowed to update their paper once. However, reviewers are not required to read the new version. Any paper which had a substantial update during this period will automatically go to the resubmission stage for a detailed re-review.
Formatting and Supplementary Material
Submissions should have a recommended length of 9 single-column CoLLAs-formatted pages, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices. We enforce a maximum length of 10 pages, where the 10th page can be used if it helps with the formatting of the paper. The appendices should be within the same pdf file as the main publication, however an additional zip file can be submitted that can include multiple files of different formats (e.g. videos or code). Note that reviewers are under no obligation to examine the appendix and the supplementary material.
Please format the paper using the official LaTeX style files that can be found here: https://www.overleaf.com/read/grrjqdpztnpb. We do not support submissions in formats other than LaTeX. Please do not modify the layout given by the style file. For any questions, you can reach us at .
Submissions will be through OpenReview and will be open approximately 4 weeks before the abstract submission deadline.
Complete CFP can be found here: https://lifelong-ml.cc/call
Regards,
Doina Precup, Sarath Chandar, Razvan Pascanu
CoLLAs 2022 General and Program Chairs