Section: Dissemination

Scientific Animation

Awards

• Crazy Stone won the 6th edition of the UEC Cup (the most important international computer-Go tournament). It also won the first edition of the Denseisen, by winning a 4-stone handicap game against 9-dan professional player Yoshio Ishida.

• Alexandra Carpentier obtained an AFIA ex-aequo accessit for her PhD, (french machine learning/artificial intelligence second price).

Tutorials

• Tutorial by Rémi Munos at AAAI 2013: From Bandits to Monte Carlo Tree Search: The optimistic principle applied to Optimization and Planning.

Conferences, Workshops and Schools

• Philippe Preux and Marc Tommasi were the main organizers of the Conférence sur l'Apprentissage Automatique (CAP'13).

• Rémi Munos was the main organizer of the 8${}^{ith}$ Journées Francophones sur la Planification, la Décision et l'Apprentissage (JFPDA'13) along with Marta Soare, Raphael Fonteneau, Michal Valko and Alessandro Lazaric.

• Rémi Munos was co-chair of the Algorithmic Learning Conference, in Singapore, 2013.

Invited Talks

• Daniil Ryabko gave a talk entitled “Time-series information and unsupervised representation learning” at SMILE seminar in Paris

• Michal Valko gave an talk “Sequential Face Recognition with Minimal Feedback” which was opening talk of the series named 30 minutes of Science, a new format at Inria Lille to support intra-center collaboration.

• Rémi Munos gave a course (6 hours) at the Summer School Netadis in Hillerod, Denmark in September 2013.

• Rémi Munos was invited to give a talk at CMU in November 2013.

• Alessandro Lazaric was invited to give a talk at CMU in March 2013.

• Pierre Chainais gave a talk "Learning a common dictionary over a sensor network" at GDR Phénix - ISIS workshop about "Analysis and inference for networks" in Paris in november 2013.

• Pierre Chainais gave a tutorial talk on "Multifractal analysis of images and applicaitons" at the "Groupe Image of the company TOTAL in Paris La Défense on sept. 11th, 2013.

• Jérémie Mary gave a invited talk "Recommendation system from a bandit perspective" at GDR "Estimation et traitement statistique en grande dimension" on May 16th, 2013 - Télécom Paristech.

• Jérémie Mary gave an invited talk "Bandit point of view on recommenders" at Large-scale Online Learning and Decision Making Workshop Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK in September, 2013.

• Jeremie Mary gave an invited talk on recommender systems at "Journées rencontres AFIA/IHM" in may 2013.

Review Activities

• Participation to the program committee of international conferences

  • International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2013)

  • Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2013)

  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2013)

  • European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2013)

  • Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2013)

  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2013)

  • European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2013)

  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2013 and 2014)

  • International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2013)

  • French Conference on Planning, Decision-making, and Learning in Control Systems (JFPDA 2013)

  • IEEE FUSION 2013

  • IEEE Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2013)

  • ICML workshop “Prediction with Sequential Models”

• International journal and conference reviewing activities (in addition to the conferences in which we belong to the PC)

  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

  • Journal of Statistical Physics

  • Digital Signal Processing

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

  • IEEE Statistical Signal Processing SSP'2013

  • European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO 2013

  • 10th International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA 2013)

  • IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2013 & 2014)

  • Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2013)

  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2013)

  • European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2013)

  • Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2013)

  • Machine Learning Journal (MLJ)

  • Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)

  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)

  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC)

  • IEEE Transactions of Signal Processing

  • Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS)

  • Mathematics of Operations Research (MOR)

Evaluation activities, expertise

• M. Ghavamzadeh is in the Editorial Board Member of Machine Learning Journal (MLJ, 2011-present).

• M. Ghavamzadeh is in the Steering Committee Member of the European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL, 2011-present).

• P. Preux, R. Gaudel and J. Mary are experts for Crédit Impôt Recherche (CIR).

• E. Duflos is a project proposal reviewer for ANR.

• R. Munos is a Member of the Belgium Commission Evaluation F.R.S-FNRS, 2013.

Other Scientific Activities

• R. Munos was Vice Président du Comité des Projets at Inria Lille-Nord Europe, until July 2013.

• D. Ryabko is a member of COST-GTRI committee at Inria.

• D. Ryabko is a general advisor at Inria Lille.

• E. Duflos is Director of Research of Ecole Centrale de Lille since September 2011.

• E. Duflos is the Head of the Signal and Image Team of LAGIS (UMR CNRS 8219).

• R. Gaudel is board member of LIFL.

• R. Gaudel manages the proml mailing list. This mailing list gathers French-speaking researchers from Machine Learning community.

• P. Chainais is a member of the administration council of GRETSI, the French association of researchers in signal and image processing.

• P. Chainais is co-responsible for the action "Machine Learning" of the GDR ISIS which gathers french researchers in signal and image processing at the national level.