Beijing, June 21-26, 2014
The 31st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2014) will be held in Beijing, China, from June 21 to 26, 2014. The conference will, tentatively, consist of one day of tutorials, followed by three days of main conference sessions, followed by two days of workshops. We invite submissions of papers on all topics related to machine learning for the conference proceedings, and proposals for tutorials and workshops.
After reviewing author and reviewer feedback from the previous conference, ICML 2014 will adopt a two-cycle submission/review format, of which the first submission/review cycle will facilitate both regular one-time review/rebuttal of submissions, as well as invitation-only resubmission into the second cycle, whereas the second cycle will only allow regular first-time submission plus resubmission of papers invited from the first cycle. We are also exploring the possibility of a JMLR track at ICML that allows direct submission of papers intended for JMLR to be reviewed under the same time frame of ICML, more detail will be available soon once agreement with JMLR has been reached. Accepted papers will be announced and posted online shortly after acceptance and will be considered published and available for citation at that time.
The submission of papers and the management of the paper reviewing process for the main conference will be entirely electronic. Submissions for a given reviewing cycle will be accepted until 23:59 Universal Time (3:59pm Pacific Daylight Time) on the date of the deadline. Detailed formatting and submission instructions for authors will be available soon on the conference web site.
Submitted papers can be up to eight pages long, not including references, and up to nine pages when references are included. Any paper exceeding this length will automatically be rejected. Authors have the option of submitting a supplementary file containing further details of their work; it is entirely up to the reviewers to decide whether they wish to consult this additional material.
All submissions must be anonymized and must closely follow the formatting guidelines in the templates; otherwise they will automatically be rejected.
The submission of papers and the management of the paper reviewing process for the main conference will be entirely electronic. Submissions for a given reviewing cycle will be accepted until 23:59 Universal Time (3:59pm Pacific Daylight Time) on the date of the deadline. Detailed formatting and submission instructions for authors will be available soon on the conference web site.
Submitted papers can be up to eight pages long, not including references, and up to nine pages when references are included. Any paper exceeding this length will automatically be rejected. Authors have the option of submitting a supplementary file containing further details of their work; it is entirely up to the reviewers to decide whether they wish to consult this additional material.
All submissions must be anonymized and must closely follow the formatting guidelines in the templates; otherwise they will automatically be rejected.
We are happy to announce that an agreement with JMLR has been reached to facilite a "JMLR fast-track" for selected ICML accepted papers. For papers accepted during the first cycle, the ICML program committee will recommend a small subset of excellent papers to be considered for publication at JMLR through a fast-track reviewing process. Therein, authors of selected papers are invited to submit an expanded full version at the same time that the conference camera-ready version is submitted. The expanded version will be reviewed again by the same Area Chair, two reviewers who originally reviewed the conference version of the recommended paper, plus one additional reviewer who will be determined by the AC. We expect that this fast-track approach will significantly reduce the journal review time. It also provides a more consistent evaluation as the processing of the full journal paper and the conference paper will be better aligned. The journal version may still be rejected if it does not meet the standards of JMLR.
Authors are asked during their ICML paper submission to indicate whether or not they want their submission to be considered for the JMLR fast-track. With this consent, authors commit to submitting a full journal version before or on the camera-ready deadline.
Accepted papers must contain significant novel results. Results can be either theoretical or empirical. Results will be judged on the degree to which they have been objectively established and/or their potential for scientific and technological impact.
Some fraction of papers rejected in cycle I will be invited to resubmit with modifications in cycle II. Papers rejected from Cycle I submissions will not be eligible for resubmission to ICML 2014. Cycle II is the final cycle and will only entail accept/reject decisions.