The Role of a Conference in Machine Learning Research

The TMLR is a machine learning research journal that you launched with others yeah transactional machine learning research yep in many ways it's an experiment obviously I think we're all obeying Kyung-yung-chou and Raya Hatzel the other editors in chief. The idea here was to try to address a lot of things we didn't like about or a whole that we were seeing in the publishing ecosystem and machine learning so people were either publishing at conferences shorter versions of their paper with only a very few deadlines over the year. A conference does more than this it's certainly wanting to only accept correct science but it's also trying to identify what does the community think is exciting