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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* long paper / Late breaking paper: original novel and unpublished work (min. 12 pages, max. 15 pages in Springer LNCS format); the long papers and the late breaking papers, if accepted, will be published in the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/
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LOD2024 Poster:
https://lod2024.icas.events/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2023/11/LOD-2024-poster.png

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