The symposium aims to foster inspiring discussions on recent advancements and future directions in multi-modal machine learning. This event will feature both theoretical contributions and practical applications, focusing on optimizing, combining, and transferring machine learning models across various modalities. The symposium is co-organized by the Pro-TEXT project.

The main objective is to bring together researchers and practitioners to explore how different learning paradigms can be combined and optimized for greater accuracy and adaptability. The symposium will address how each learning approach, with its specific data-driven constraints, can impact the effectiveness of models. This includes discussing challenges like the ill-posedness of learning processes and how partial data can lead to suboptimal or divergent solutions.

Participants will have the opportunity to examine the latest methods and techniques in optimizing multi-modal models, highlighting their efficiency, diversity, and adaptability. The event is structured to encourage collaborative discussions and knowledge exchange, ultimately driving forward the understanding and application of multi-modal learning in real-world scenarios.

The following is a partial list of relevant topics (not limited to) for the symposium: 

• Multi modal learning
• Transfer learning, metric learning, and domain adaptation 
• Optimization of cost functions for ML 
• Bagging and boosting techniques
• Collaborative clustering and learning 
• Mixtures of distributions or experts 
• Modular approaches 
• Multi-task learning 
• Multi-view learning 
• Task decomposition …

• Nistor GROZAVU, Full Professor, CY Cergy Paris University

• Nicoleta ROGOVSCHI, Associate Professor HdR at LIPADE, Université de Paris

• Issam FALIH, Associate Professor at Université Clermont Auvergne

• Faiciel CHAMROUCKI, Full Professor at IRT SystemX

• Georgeta CISLARU, Sorbonne Nouvelle University

This event is supported and organized by:

• CNRS
• Cergy Paris University
• University of Clermont Auvergne
• Pro-TEXT Project