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Re: Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI

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Post by nyecarr » Mon, Dec 18, 2017, 5:03 PM UTC

an_account wrote: post #8

Anyone know how good qcon.ai is?

This is their first time running it. I went to qCon SF this year and I thought it was alright. They talked a bit about qCon AI and said that it was a machine learning conference that is targeted towards software engineers, not data scientists. They also mentioned that they would have a hands on lesson track.

Re: Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI

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Post by downer123 » Mon, Dec 18, 2017, 5:22 PM UTC

KDD will be in London next year, this is the top conference in applied ML research. Actually solving problems using AI.

WWW will be in Lyon, this is also a tier 1 conference with a similar goal, mostly involved on web problems, eg search ranking.

I've always felt that ECML was the top Europe specific ML conference. Basically the little brother to ICML. ECML will be in Ireland, ICML will be in Sweden.

Re: Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI

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Post by pretty_dumn_guy » Mon, Dec 18, 2017, 5:26 PM UTC

List of conferences on ML (in no particular order) 1. NIPS 2. ICLR 3. ICML

List of Conferences on CV (in no particular order) 1. CVPR 2. ECCV 3. ICCV

Re: Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI

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Post by nmca » Mon, Dec 18, 2017, 5:27 PM UTC

NIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR. Can't recall which are will be jn Europe off the top of my head..

Re: Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI

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Post by goldenbeet » Mon, Dec 18, 2017, 5:27 PM UTC

philfrasty wrote: post #9

vishalzone2002 wrote: post #5

there is ai.withthebest.com which is all online. it had some good talks.

do you know how to access the actual content? Clicking on „access replays“ brings you to „sale ended“. Clicking on „access platform“ leads to nowhere...

replays are available to people who purchased tickets, I dont think they were posted publicly anywhere. But you should keep your eye on them to see if they have another conference. It is suuuper cheap and online so its convenient (maybe not the highest quality talks, but still good).

Re: Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI

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Post by robotresearcher » Mon, Dec 18, 2017, 5:53 PM UTC

PeterStuer wrote: post #4

For the AI side there's ECAI https://www.eurai.org/activities/ECAI_conferences ECAL http://alife.org/conferences/ecal SAB http://alife.org/conferences/sab

ECAL and SAB are not mainstream AI conferences. They are niche artificial life / adaptive behaviour meetings and have a very different flavour and history.

IJCAI and AAAI are the mainstream long-running AI meetings.

NIPS and ICML are the recently-ascendent NN-heavy meetings.

Re: Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI

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Post by rhaps0dy » Mon, Dec 18, 2017, 5:56 PM UTC

vowelless wrote: post #7

Not sure about conferences in Europe, but NIPS will likely be held in Montréal in December 2018. NIPS is quite focussed on neural networks and tends to get attended by alot of heavy weights in the industry. ICML and ~ICRL~ ICLR are pretty good too.

ICLR* (IC Learning Representations) but yeah. I had to check whether there was something called "International Conference on Reinforcement Learning".

Re: Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI

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Post by vishalzone2002 » Mon, Dec 18, 2017, 5:59 PM UTC

philfrasty wrote: post #9

vishalzone2002 wrote: post #5

there is ai.withthebest.com which is all online. it had some good talks.

do you know how to access the actual content? Clicking on „access replays“ brings you to „sale ended“. Clicking on „access platform“ leads to nowhere...

Some of the content is paid and some of the talks are posted on their youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAKID7sQr-EVjCu-Bg62Hjg

Re: Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI

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Post by GlenTheMachine » Mon, Dec 18, 2017, 6:03 PM UTC

For a robotics focus, ICRA and IROS are the big ones. IMHO ICRA is a bit bigger and better than IROS but it's close.

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) is smaller but its paper acceptance is much more selective and it is becoming a very prestigious conference. It's also single-track, which makes it nice as an attendee (ICRA and IROS run probably eight to ten parallel tracks).

Re: Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI

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Post by cowhi » Mon, Dec 18, 2017, 6:35 PM UTC

So there is a great conference series on practical Machine Learning and Data Science called PAPIs. It's organized in locations all over the world. The next one is PAPIs EUROPE in London in April and then PAPIs LATAM in São Paulo in June. The website is http://www.papis.io and you can see a selection of talks on the youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHMa1aYqXIQPnQD34W-ejQg

Disclaimer: I am one of the organizers.