The ''Journal of Machine Learning Research'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

. It was established in 2000 and the first editor-in-chief was Leslie Kaelbling. The current

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are Francis Bach (

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) and

David Blei David Meir Blei is a professor in the Statistics and Computer Science departments at Columbia University. Prior to fall 2014 he was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. His work is primarily in mach ...

(

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History

The journal was established as an open-access alternative to the journal ''Machine Learning''. In 2001, forty

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members of ''Machine Learning'' resigned, saying that in the era of the

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, it was detrimental for researchers to continue publishing their papers in expensive journals with pay-access archives. The open access model employed by the ''Journal of Machine Learning Research'' allows authors to publish articles for free and retain copyright, while archives are freely available online. Print editions of the journal were published by

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until 2004 and by Microtome Publishing thereafter. From its inception, the journal received no revenue from the print edition and paid no subvention to MIT Press or Microtome Publishing. In response to the prohibitive costs of arranging workshop and conference

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publication with traditional

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companies, the journal launched a proceedings publication arm in 2007 and now publishes proceedings for several leading machine learning

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, including the

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, COLT, AISTATS, and workshops held at the

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (abbreviated as NeurIPS and formerly NIPS) is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December. The conference is currently a double-track meet ...

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