Preface

摘要

This volume contains the papers presented at the twenty-seventh1 annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), held at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, December 5th through 8th, 2013. NIPS is a premier interdisciplinary conference that highlights information processing research from computational, biological, physical, and mathematical perspectives. This synthesis of backgrounds enables unique insights into learning processes, and we are pleased to present the exciting results in this volume. The papers were accepted to NIPS following a thorough, highly competitive and rigorous review process. We had 1420 submissions of which only 360 were accepted to the conference. NIPS is a very selective and high-quality conference thanks to the outstanding efforts of the group of people who evaluate, select and improve the papers: the program chairs, the program committee, and the reviewers. Every paper received at least three double-blind reviews, and a meta-review by a program committee member. In cases where reviews were contradictory or the reviewers were uncertain, additional reviewers were assigned. After the initial reviews were entered into the system, the authors were given the opportunity to respond to the reviews, and an electronic discussion was initiated in which the reviewers and the program committee member responsible for that paper tried to resolve any differences of opinion regarding the paper. In case major disagreement still existed after the discussion, additional reviewers could be assigned to the paper. Final decisions were made on September 5th, 2013 after series of group teleconferences between program committee members.