[CFP] 3rd Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs) 2024 - Deadline Feb 15

[Sarath Chandar]

Dear All,

We invite submissions to the 3rd Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs) that describe new theories, methodologies, applications, or insights into existing algorithms and benchmarks for learning in non i.i.d. and non-stationary settings. 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, Self-supervised Learning, or Unsupervised Learning approaches for:

• Lifelong Learning / Continual Learning
• Meta-Learning
• Multi-Task Learning
• Transfer Learning
• Curriculum Learning
• Domain Adaptation
• Few-Shot Learning
• Out-Of-Distribution Generalization
• Online Learning
• Active 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.

CoLLAs 2024 will be held in Pisa, Italy at Polo Didattico San Rossore 1938, a facility provided by the University of Pisa.

For any questions about the conference, you can contact us at con...@lifelong-ml.cc.

Key Dates:

The planned dates are as follows:

• Abstract deadline: February 09, 2024, 11:59 pm (Anywhere on Earth, AoE) 
• Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2024, 11:59 pm (AoE) 
• Reviews released: March 25, 2024 
• Author rebuttals due: April 05, 2024
• Notifications of decision: April 25, 2024
• Resubmission deadline: May 25, 2024, 11:59 pm (AoE) 
• Decisions on resubmissions: June 10, 2024 
• Main Conference: July 29 - August 01, 2024
  

Review Process

Papers will be selected via a 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 (PMLR).

The reviews process will be hosted on OpenReview with submissions and reviews being private until a decision is made. In addition to accept/reject, a paper can be marked for conditional acceptance. In this case, the authors have a fixed amount of time to incorporate a clear list of demands from the Program Chairs, and if these updates are present, the paper will automatically get accepted. Rejected papers that initially received a conditional acceptance (where authors decided not to add the required modifications) can be presented in the workshop track if the authors choose to. The authors will still be able to present a poster on their work as part of this track. This system aims to produce a fairer treatment of borderline papers and to save the time spent going through the entire reviewing process when resubmitting to a future edition of the conference or a different relevant conference.

During the rebuttal period, authors are allowed to update their papers once. All updates should be clearly marked using the macros provided in the LaTex style files. However, reviewers are not required to read the new version.

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 camera-ready version will have a strict 10-page limit. Accordingly, we ask you not to use the entire 10th page during the initial submission. 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 on Overleaf here or on Git Hub here. 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: con...@lifelong-ml.cc.

Submissions will be through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=lifelong-ml.cc/CoLLAs/2024/Conference

Complete CFP can be found here: https://lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/2024/call

Regards,

Sarath Chandar, Razvan Pascanu (CoLLAs 2024 General Chairs)

Vincenzo Lomonaco, Stefano Melacci, Tinne Tuytelaars (CoLLAs 2024 Program Chairs)