Multiple Submissions Policies

[Dazhi Peng]

Hello TRL2024 committee,

Thank you for organizing the workshop!

I notice on the website that "The workshop cannot accept submissions that have been published at NeurIPS or other machine learning venues as-is, but we do invite relevant papers from the main conference (NeurIPS) to be submitted to the workshop as 4-page short papers. We also welcome submissions that have been published in, for example, data management or natural language processing venues."

I am wondering will AAAI, CIKM, or WSDM be considered as machine learning venues?

Best,
Dazhi

[Madelon Hulsebos]

Hi Dazhi,

Thanks for reaching out, that is a good question. We expect contributions that are novel in the TRL community, being 1) entirely new papers, or 2) relevant work recently published in for example DB and NLP venues. As NeurIPS main conference papers are presented at the same conference just a few days before the workshop, these papers, if relevant to TRL and shortened to 4 pages (by NeurIPS policies), are still considered new papers and relevant to be discussed in the focused TRL workshop. Papers already presented at ML conferences (ICML, ICLR, etc) will have reached the community already over a longer time window hence lose novelty.

In my view, ICML, ICLR, AAAI are ML conferences, but CIKM and WSDM seem to serve a sufficiently different community and can therefore be acceptable.

Regards,

Madelon