PCNN 2018: International Workshop on Parallel Computations for Neural Networks Orléans, France Orléans, France, July 16-20, 2018 |
Conference website | http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops---hpcs2018/workshop21-pcnn |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pcnn2018 |
Submission deadline | April 20, 2018 |
Camera Ready | May 11, 2018 |
The track on Parallel Computations for Neural Networks provides an international forum for reporting progress and recent advances in parallel neural computing techniques, hardware and software tools for speeding-up functioning and training of traditional and bio-inspired neural network models on the modern high-performance computing systems, reconfigurable computing, data centers, and Cloud.
The PCNN Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Parallel supervised, unsupervised, deep learning, and reinforcement learning algorithms for neural networks (NN) in future Datacenter and HPC systems
- Scalable training and inference schema, including novel parallel Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) methods
- Scalable Spiking NNs and Parallel NN ensembles incl. Generative Adversarial NNs
- Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)
- Machine Learning in HPC: Optimized networks, high-performance transports and protocols for NN, e.g., Infiniband, CEE, OmniPath, NVLink, MPI, RDMA etc.
- Approximate computing
- Big data / Cloud frameworks applied to scalable NNs, e.g., Hadoop/MapReduce, Spark, Flink etc.
- Parallelization & distribution of NN algorithms on many-core systems, HPC clusters, grids, datacenters and cloud
- NN accelerators: Neuromorphic processors, CPU-, GPU-, TPU- and FPGA-implementation for distributed NNs
- Computational neuroscience and models using parallel / distributed NN architectures
- Neurodynamics, Complex Systems, and Chaos
- Modeling of large-scale neural models using parallel computing techniques
- Mixture Models, Graphical Models, Topic Models and Gaussian Processes
- Neural network simulation tools and libraries, including neural simulators in neuroscience
- Novel Approaches and Applications
Submission Guidelines
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to Parallel Computations for Neural Networks. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words (please refer to https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html for IEEE format templates). Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-posters for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the Workshop paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pcnn2018.
Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2018 conference to present the paper at the Workshop as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the professional co-sponsoring organizations.
Important Dates
- Paper and abstract registration:
April 09, 2018 - Paper Submissions:
April 12, 2018(Extended April 20) - Acceptance Notification:
April 27, 2018(Extended April 30) - Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: May 11, 2018
- Conference Dates: July 16 – 20, 2018
Committees
Program Committee
• Andrew Putnam - Microsoft Research, USA
• Aletéia Araújo - University of Brasília, Brazil
• Alireza Saberkari - University of Guilan, Iran
• Cristiano Malossi - IBM Research, Switzerland
• Davide Bacciu - University of Pisa, Italy
• Elias Mizan - Synaptics, USA
• Erkan Diken - Lumileds Netherlands B.V.
• Gabriele Mencagli - University of Pisa, Italy
• Geraldo Pereira - University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Joo-Young Kim - Microsoft Research, USA
• Jó Ueyama - University of São Paulo
• Leandro A. J. Marzulo - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and UMass Amherst, USA
• Lyle Long - Penn State University, USA
• Maria Clicia - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Manohar Paluri, Facebook, USA
• Rosilde Corvino - Intel, The Netherlands
• Sebastian Moreno - Greemsy, Colombia
• Thomas Parnell - IBM Research, Switzerland
• Zhijun Yang - Middlesex University London, UK
Organizing committee
• Alexandre Nery - University of Brasília, Brazil
• Hamid Reza Pourshaghaghi - Technical University of Eindhoven and Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Vinicius Gonçalves - University of Brasília, Brazil
• Leandro Guedes - Federal Institute of MS, Brazil
Venue
The conference will be held in Orléans, France.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to anery@unb.br and h.r.pourshaghaghi@tue.nl