Dear Colleague, Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please kindly help forward it to potentially interested authors/attendees, thanks. -- The 10th International Conference on Learning, Optimization and Data - LOD 2024, 22-25 September, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy LOD 2024, An Interdisciplinary Conference: Deep Learning, Foundation Models & Artificial Intelligence without Borders https://lod2024.icas.events/ lod@icas.cc SATELLITE EVENTS: 2nd International Meeting on Foundation Models - IMFM2024 https://lod2024.icas.events/imfm2024/ 1st Workshop AI in Life Sciences - WAILS2024 https://lod2024.icas.events/wails2024/ 24 TRACKS: https://lod2024.icas.events/tracks/ PAPERS SUBMISSION: All papers must be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2024 *Paper Submission deadline: April 23 (Anywhere on Earth)* CALL FOR PAPERS: https://lod2024.icas.events/call-for-papers/ Please prepare your paper using the Springer Nature - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) template. Papers must be submitted in PDF. TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS: When submitting a paper to LOD 2024, authors are required to select one of the following three types of papers: * long paper / Late breaking paper: original novel and unpublished work (min. 12 pages, max. 15 pages in Springer LNCS format); the long papers and the late breaking papers, if accepted, will be published in the Springer-Nature LNCS conference proceedings; * short paper: an extended abstract of novel work (min. 6 pages, max. 11 pages in Springer LNCS format); the short papers, if accepted, will be published in the Springer-Nature LNCS conference proceedings; * work for oral presentation only (no page restriction; any format). For example, work already published elsewhere, which is relevant, and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference; LOD 2024 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Vivek Natarajan, Google Health AI, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA "How LLMs might accelerate biomedical discovery and help scale world class healthcare to everyone" Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Twente, The Netherlands "Towards a statistical foundation for machine learning methods" Michal Valko, Google DeepMind Paris, INRIA & École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, France "Fine Tuning Large Language Models & Gemini" https://lod2024.icas.events/keynote/ PAST LOD KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: https://lod2023.icas.cc/past-keynote-speakers/ BEST PAPER AWARD: Springer sponsors the LOD 2024 Best Paper Award with a cash prize of 1,000 Euro. https://lod2024.icas.events/best-paper-award/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 150+ confirmed PC members! https://lod2024.icas.events/program-committee/ VENUE: https://lod2024.icas.events/venue/ The venue of LOD 2024 will be Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany - Italy. LOD 2024 is a Residential Conference, all participants (invited speakers, authors, organizers, chairs, participants) must book and stay at the Riva del Sole Resort and Spa. No exceptions are allowed. https://lod2024.icas.events/lod-2024-a-residential-conference/ Riva del Sole Resort & SPA a: Località Riva del Sole - Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto, CAP 58043‚ Tuscany - Italy p: +39-0564-928111 f: +39-0564-935607 e: booking.events@rivadelsole.it w: www.rivadelsole.it/en ACTIVITIES: https://lod2024.icas.events/activities/ Submit your research work today! https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2024 See you in the beautiful Tuscany in September! Best regards, LOD 2024 Organizing Committee. Past Editions: https://lod2024.icas.events/past-editions/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2236577489686309/ https://twitter.com/TaoSciences https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12092025/ https://lod2024.icas.events/ lod@icas.cc LOD2024 Poster: https://lod2024.icas.events/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2023/11/LOD-2024-pos... * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested * --