I have recently started taking interest in Machine Learning, Deep Learning and AI. I would like to attend good ML and AI conferences in Europe. Any recommendations?
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.<p>ICML and ~ICRL~ ICLR are pretty good too.
For machine learning in general, there's NIPS, ICML, and JMLR. Nowadays these conferences/journal have a nice mix of theory and practice. For natural language processing the top ones are ACL (NACL/EACL) and EMNLP. The computer vision it's CVPR and ICCV. For robotics (which uses lots of machine learning) it's ICRA and IROS. IEEE may also have some relevant material.
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 <a href="http://www.papis.io" rel="nofollow">http://www.papis.io</a> and you can see a selection of talks on the youtube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHMa1aYqXIQPnQD34W-ejQg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHMa1aYqXIQPnQD34W-ejQg</a><p>Disclaimer: I am one of the organizers.
List of conferences on ML (in no particular order)
1. NIPS
2. ICLR
3. ICML<p>List of Conferences on CV (in no particular order)
1. CVPR
2. ECCV
3. ICCV
KDD will be in London next year, this is the top conference in applied ML research. Actually solving problems using AI.<p>WWW will be in Lyon, this is also a tier 1 conference with a similar goal, mostly involved on web problems, eg search ranking.<p>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.
<a href="https://dotai.io" rel="nofollow">https://dotai.io</a> (Paris, May 31st) stands out because it is primarily targeted to developers building apps, not researchers or framework authors.<p>Disclaimer: I'm the organizer, but don't take my word for it, watch the videos from last year: <a href="https://www.dotconferences.com/conference/dotai" rel="nofollow">https://www.dotconferences.com/conference/dotai</a>
The Spark + AI summit is awesome: <a href="https://databricks.com/blog/2017/12/06/spark-summit-is-becoming-the-spark-ai-summit.html" rel="nofollow">https://databricks.com/blog/2017/12/06/spark-summit-is-becom...</a>
SOCML (Self-Organizing Conference on Machine Learning) is really nice. Open discussions and interesting people. It's not the classic academic conference.
For the AI side there's<p>ECAI <a href="https://www.eurai.org/activities/ECAI_conferences" rel="nofollow">https://www.eurai.org/activities/ECAI_conferences</a><p>ECAL <a href="http://alife.org/conferences/ecal" rel="nofollow">http://alife.org/conferences/ecal</a><p>SAB <a href="http://alife.org/conferences/sab" rel="nofollow">http://alife.org/conferences/sab</a>
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.<p>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).
CCF, the counterpart of ACM in China, has an official ranking for computer science conferences and journals classified into ABC.<p>The A class conferences in AI field are: AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, ICML, IJCAI, NIPS, ACL.<p><a href="http://www.ccf.org.cn/xspj/rgzn/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ccf.org.cn/xspj/rgzn/</a>
I already attended two PAPIS conferences in Boston, and are pretty good. It's not a massive conf, so I made great contacts from ML & AI-based companies.<p>Check their website, next conf is in London
<a href="http://www.papis.io/" rel="nofollow">http://www.papis.io/</a>