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KDD-MLF 2020 : KDD Workshop on Machine Learning in Finance

San Diego, CA, USA

Event Date:	August 24, 2020 - August 24, 2020
Submission Deadline:	May 20, 2020
Notification of Acceptance:	June 15, 2020

About

The finance industry is constantly faced with an ever evolving set of challenges including credit card fraud, identity theft, network intrusion, money laundering, human trafficking, and illegal sales of firearms. There is also the newly emerging threat of fake news in financial media that can lead to distortions in trading strategies and investment decisions. In addition, traditional problems such as customer analytics, forecasting, and recommendations take on a unique flavor when applied to financial data. A number of new ideas are emerging to tackle all these problems including semi-supervised learning methods, deep learning algorithms, network/graph based solutions as well as linguistic approaches. These methods must often be able to work in real-time and be able handle large volumes of data. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss both the problems faced by the financial industry and potential solutions. This will be the third of a sequence of finance related workshops we have organized at KDD. The first workshop was held at KDD 2017 and the second workshop at KDD 2019. Based on popular request, we have decided to expand the scope from anomaly detection to a broader area of finance.

Call for Papers

We invite papers on machine learning and AI with applications to the financial industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Application areas:

Analysis of financial graphs
Early detection of emerging phenomena
Fraud, anti money laundering and identity theft
Fake news in financial outlets
Fairness in lending
Enhanced risk modeling
Monitoring
Recommendations
Text analytics of financial reports, forecasts and documents
Forecasting
Social media mining
Manipulation in cryptocurrency markets

Technical areas:

Analysis of financial graphs:

Node embeddings for downstream classification and prediction
Link prediction for forecasting
Node classification on partial graphs
Analysis of heterogeneous graphs

Semi-supervised anomaly detection (aka Novelty Detection):

Data available for training does not contain any anomalies and represents expected operation of the system.
Data with “positive only” labels.

Explainable models:

Models that can explain their decisions in interpretable ways
Post-hoc methods that can be used to explain outputs of other detection algorithms

Human-in-the-loop techniques for anti money laundering and other financial crimes:

Interactive ranking techniques
Methods that can handle exploration-exploitation trade-off
Novel human feedback gathering strategies beyond labeling

Adversarially-robust detection:

Methods that are provably robust to evasion and camouflage
Evasion-cost aware fraud and intrusion detection
Analysis of evasion schemes and camouflage mechanisms

Time Series:

Predictions in temporal graphs
Forecasting

Text Analytics and NLP:

Transfer learning for financial text data
Detection of emerging trends
Linguistic approaches for fake news detection
Analysis of unstructured text data within transactional financial data.

Summary

KDD-MLF 2020 : KDD Workshop on Machine Learning in Finance will take place in San Diego, CA, USA. It’s a 1 day event starting on Aug 24, 2020 (Monday) and will be winded up on Aug 24, 2020 (Monday).

KDD-MLF 2020 falls under the following areas: MACHINE LEARNING, FINANCE, AUTOMATION, etc. Submissions for this Workshop can be made by May 20, 2020. Authors can expect the result of submission by Jun 15, 2020.

Please check the official event website for possible changes before you make any travelling arrangements. Generally, events are strict with their deadlines. It is advisable to check the official website for all the deadlines.

Other Details of the KDD-MLF 2020

Short Name: KDD-MLF 2020
Full Name: KDD Workshop on Machine Learning in Finance
Timing: 09:00 AM-06:00 PM (expected)
Fees: Check the official website of KDD-MLF 2020
Event Type: Workshop
Website Link: https://sites.google.com/view/kdd-mlf-2020/home
Location/Address: San Diego, CA, USA

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KDD-MLF 2020 : KDD Workshop on Machine Learning in Finance

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