The 23rd International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2012) will be held in Lyon, France, at Université Lumière Lyon 2, on October 29-31, 2012. The conference is on the theoretical foundations of machine learning. The conference will be co-located with the 15th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2012).

Topics of Interest: We invite submissions that make a wide variety of contributions to the theory of learning, including the following:

• Comparison of the strength of learning models and the design and evaluation of novel algorithms for learning problems in established learning-theoretic settings such as
  • statistical learning theory,
  • on-line learning,
  • inductive inference,
  • query models,
  • unsupervised, semi-supervised and active learning.
• Analysis of the theoretical properties of existing algorithms:
  • families of algorithms could include
    • boosting,
    • kernel-based methods, SVM,
    • Bayesian networks,
    • methods for reinforcement learning or learning in repeated games,
    • graph- and/or manifold-based methods,
    • methods for latent-variable estimation and/or clustering,
    • MDL,
    • decision tree methods,
    • information-based methods,
  • analyses could include generalization, convergence or computational efficiency.
• Definition and analysis of new learning models. Models might
  • identify and formalize classes of learning problems inadequately addressed by existing theory or
  • capture salient properties of important concrete applications.

Format. The submitted paper should be no longer than 15 pages in the standard format for Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. The 15 page limit includes title, abstract, acknowledgements, references, illustrations and any other parts of the paper; appendixes bypassing the page limit are not allowed.

Policy. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by the members of the program committee and be judged on clarity, significance and originality. Joint submissions to other conferences with published proceedings are not allowed. Papers that have appeared in journals or other conferences are not appropriate for ALT 2012.

Proceedings. All accepted papers will be published as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, and will be available at the conference. Full versions of selected papers of ALT 2012 will be invited to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science.

E.M. Gold Award. One scholarship of 555 € will be awarded to a student author of an excellent paper (please mark student submissions on the title page).

Important Dates.

Submission. Authors can submit their papers electronically via our submission page (which is already closed).