The ''Journal of Machine Learning Research'' is a
peer-reviewed
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open access
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scientific journal
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Content
Articles in scientific journals are mostly written by active scientists such as ...
covering
machine learning
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Machin ...
. It was established in 2000 and the first editor-in-chief was
Leslie Kaelbling.
The current
editors-in-chief
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are Francis Bach (
Inria
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It was created under the name ''Institut de recherche en informatiq ...
) and
David Blei (
Columbia University
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).
History
The journal was established as an open-access alternative to the journal
''Machine Learning''. In 2001, forty
editorial board
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Mass media
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members of ''Machine Learning'' resigned, saying that in the era of the
Internet
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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
MIT Press
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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
proceedings
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publication with traditional
academic publishing
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companies, the journal launched a proceedings publication arm in 2007
and now publishes proceedings for several leading machine learning
conferences, including the
International Conference on Machine Learning,
COLT,
AISTATS, and workshops held at the
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
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