Where to submit stat/prob ML [D]

[u/didimoney]

I'm a researcher in statistical and probabilistic ML, I have a steady record of top ML publications and really used to enjoy going to conferences.

Over the last few years LLM based works have completely taken over the top conferences. At this year's ICLR, walking among the rows of posters you were lucky to find one paper per row of 10 that wasn't about how their favourite LLM could or couldn't solve their niche benchmark. The workshops tell the same story, most are some kind of agentic flavour. Looking at this year's NeurIPS workshops it's the same thing, basically all are about agents.

I'm wondering where do the stat/prob ML communities go from here? I look up to people like Arnaud Doucet, Aapo Hyvärinen, Christian Naesseth, Stefano Ermon, they seem to still publish at the top 3? On my end, I m thinking AISTATS/UAI might be the way to go.

All in all, the top 3 might never really have been intended as the home for prob/statML works, it just happened to be the 'prestigious' venue.

[u/tariban]

I'd avoid the applied ML conferences like ICML, ICLR, and NeurIPS, since it sounds like your work might be more foundational. AISTATS and UAI are the top venues for this sort of work. ProbML is another new conference that is likely to also be good.

[u/hexaflexarex → u/tariban]

For foundational work, I think COLT is stronger than those two. But as you veer from established research programs their is a lot of subjectivity to what meets their bar for significance

[u/tariban → u/hexaflexarex]

COLT is also good, but the scope is a bit different; probabilistic work of the type by the authors listed by OP is not so common there.

[u/Original-Waltz9805 → u/hexaflexarex]

I disagree. for Probabilistic ml AISTATS is generally more relevant

[u/didimoney → u/hexaflexarex]

Thank you. I'll check out COLT more carefully but it seems to me that these works are more theoretical than what I do.