Vision-and-Language Algorithmic Reasoning (VLAR 2023) Workshop and Challenge Call for Papers

Vision-and-Language Algorithmic Reasoning (VLAR 2023)
Workshop and Challenge
October 3, 2023, Paris, France
Held in conjunction with ICCV 2023
https://wvlar.github.io/iccv23


CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

The focus of this workshop is to bring together researchers in
multimodal reasoning and cognitive models of intelligence towards
positioning the current research progress in AI within the overarching
goal of achieving machine intelligence. An important aspect is to
bring to the forefront problems in perception, language modeling, and
cognition that are often overlooked in state-of-the-art research and
that are important for making true progress in artificial
intelligence. One specific problem that motivated our workshop is the
question of how well current deep models learn broad yet simple skills
and how well do they generalize their learned models to solve problems
that are not part of their learning set; such skills even children
learn and use effortlessly (e.g., see the paper “Are Deep Neural
Networks SMARTer than Second Graders?”). In this workshop, we plan
to bring together outstanding researchers to showcase their cutting
edge research on the above topics that will inspire the audience to
bring out the missing pieces in our quest to solve the puzzle of
artificial intelligence.

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IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper Track
 
Submission deadline: ***July 24, 2023*** (11:59PM EDT) (extended from July 20, 2023) 
Paper decisions to authors: August 7, 2023
Camera-ready deadline: August 18, 2023 (11:59PM EDT)

* SMART-101 Challenge Track
 
Challenge open: June 15, 2023.
Submission deadline: September 1, 2023 (11:59PM EDT).
Arxiv paper deadline to be considered for awards: September 1, 2023 (11:59PM EDT).
Public winner announcement: October 3, 2023 (11:59PM EDT).

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TOPICS FOR PAPER TRACK

We invite submissions of original and high-quality research papers in
the topics related to vision-and-language algorithmic reasoning. The
topics for VLAR 2023 include, but are not limited to:

* Large language models, vision, and cognition including children’s cognition
* Foundation models of intelligence, including vision, language, and
other modalities
* Artificial general intelligence / general-purpose problem solving
architectures
* Neural architectures for solving vision & language or language-based
IQ puzzles
* Embodiment and AI
* Large language models, neuroscience, and vision
* Functional and algorithmic / procedural learning in vision
* Abstract visual-language reasoning, e.g., using sketches, diagrams, etc.
* Perceptual reasoning and decision making
* Multimodal cognition and learning
* New vision-and-language abstract reasoning tasks and datasets
* Vision-and-language applications
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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER TRACK

* We are inviting only original and previously unpublished work. Dual
submissions are not allowed.

* All submissions are handled via the workshop’s CMT Website:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VLAR2023.

* Submissions should not exceed four (4) pages in length (excluding
references).

* Submissions should be made in PDF format and should follow the
official ICCV template and guidelines.

* All submissions should maintain author anonymity and should abide by
the ICCV conference guidelines for double-blind review.

* Accepted papers will be presented as either an oral, spotlight, or
poster presentation. At least one author of each accepted submission
must present the paper at the workshop.

* Presentation of accepted papers at our workshop will follow the same
policy as that for accepted papers at the ICCV main conference

* Accepted papers will also be part of the ICCV 2023 workshop
proceedings.

* Authors may optionally upload supplementary materials, the deadline
for which is the same as that of the main paper and should be
submitted separately.

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE SMART-101 CHALLENGE TRACK

As part of VLAR 2023, we are hosting a challenge based on the Simple
Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning Task - SMART-101 - dataset,
which is available for download here:
https://smartdataset.github.io/smart101/. The accompanying CVPR 2023
paper "Are Deep Neural Networks SMARTer than Second Graders" is
available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09993.

* The challenge is hosted on Eval AI and is open to submissions, see
https://eval.ai/web/challenges/challenge-page/2088/overview

* The challenge participants are required to make arXiv submissions
detailing their approach. These are only used to judge the
competition, and will not be reviewed and will not be part of workshop
proceedings.

* Winners of the challenge are determined both by performance on the
leaderboard over a private test set as well as the novelty of the
proposed method (as detailed in the arXiv submission). Details are
made available on the challenge website.

* Prizes will be awarded on the day of the workshop.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Prof. Anima Anandkumar, NVIDIA & Caltech
Dr. François Chollet, Google
Prof. Jitendra Malik, Meta & UC Berkeley
Prof. Elizabeth Spelke, Harvard University
Prof. Jiajun Wu, Stanford University
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Anoop Cherian, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
Kuan-Chuan Peng, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
Suhas Lohit, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
Kevin A. Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ram Ramrakhya, Georgia Institute of Technology
Honglu Zhou, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Tim K. Marks, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
Joanna Matthiesen, Math Kangaroo USA
Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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CONTACT
Email: vlariccv23@googlegroups.com 
SMART-101 project: https://smartdataset.github.io/smart101/
Workshop Website: https://wvlar.github.io/iccv23