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The machine learning summer school series was started in 2002 with the motivation to promulgate modern methods of statistical machine learning and inference. It was motivated by the observation that while many students are keen to learn about machine learning, and an increasing number of researchers want to apply machine learning methods to their research problems, only few machine learning courses are taught at universities. Machine learning summer schools present topics which are at the core of modern Machine Learning, from fundamentals to state-of-the-art practice. The speakers are leading experts in their field who talk with enthusiasm about their subjects. This page contains links to past and upcoming schools.

Upcoming Schools

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March 1-12, 2027 Onna (Okinawa), Japan
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Organizers: Makoto Yamada, Kenji Fukumizu, Masashi Sugiyama, Amedeo Roberto Esposito
August 31st to September 11th, 2026 Tübingen, Germany
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Organizers: Lancelot Da Costa, Kateryna Kononenko, Vincent Berenz, Hsiao-Ru Pan, Simon Buchholz, Bernhard Schölkopf
June 15-26, 2026 New York City, USA
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Organizers: Ali Hirsa, Gary Kazantsev, David Rosenberg, Alex Smola, Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Carlos Fernandez-Granda, Andrew Owens

Past Schools

February 2-13, 2026 Melbourne, Australia
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Organizers: Lukas Wesemann, Fabian Waschkowski, Dave Lemphers
August 2-13, 2025 Arequipa, Perú
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Organizers: Pablo Martinez-Olmos, Mariano Gabitto, Fernando Pérez-Cruz, Efraín Mayhua-López, Antonio Artés-Rodríguez
July 1-6, 2025 Kraków, Poland
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Organizers: GMUM, ML in PL
June 23 - July 4, 2025 Mbour, Senegal
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Organizers: Coura Balde, Adil Salim, Eugene Ndiaye
March 4-15, 2024 Onna (Okinawa), Japan
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Organizers: Makoto Yamada, Masashi Sugiyama, Kenji Doya
June 26 - July 2, 2023 Kraków, Poland
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Organizers: Tomasz Trzciński, GMUM, NCBR IDEAS, ML in PL
January 9-20, 2023 Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Organizer: McElory Hoffman
June 28 - July 1, 2022 Krakow, Poland
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Organizers: Tomasz Trzcinski, Jacek Tabor
August 2-20, 2021 Taipei, Taiwan
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Organizer: Edward Duh
August 3-8, 2020 Indonesia
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Organizers: Said Al Faraby, Ade Romadhony, Max Welling
June 28 - July 10, 2020 Tübingen, Germany
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Organizers: Mijung Park, Wittawat Jitkrittum, Georgios Arvanitidis, Bernhard Schölkopf
August 26 - September 6, 2019 Moscow, Russia
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Organizers: Fernando Perez Cruz, Evgeny Burnaev, Rodrigo Rivera Castro
July 15-26, 2019 London, UK
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Organizers: Marc Deisenroth, Arthur Gretton
January 7-18, 2019 Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Organizer: McElory Hoffmann
August - September 2018 Madrid, Spain
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Organizers: D. Hernández-Lobato, J.M. Hernández-Lobato
June - July 2018 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Organizer: Mariano Gabitto
June 19-30, 2017 Tübingen, Germany
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Organizers: Ruth Urner, Michael Hirsch, Ilya Tolstikhin and Bernhard Schölkopf
August 2-13, 2016 Arequipa, Peru
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Organizer: Fernando Perez-Cruz
May 11-21, 2016 Cadiz, Spain
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Organizers: Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Joan Bruna
August 23 - September 4, 2015 Kyoto, Japan
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Organizers: Marco Cuturi, Masashi Sugiyama, Akihiro Yamamoto
July 13-24, 2015 Tübingen, Germany
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Organizers: Michael Hirsch, Philipp Hennig, Bernhard Schölkopf
February 16-25, 2015 Sydney, Australia
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Organizers: Edwin Bonilla, Fabio Ramos, Yang Wang
January 7-16, 2015 Austin, Texas, USA
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Organizers: Peter Stone, Pradeep Ravikumar
June 15-21, 2014 Beijing, China (colocated with ICML)
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Organizers: Stephen Gould, Hang Li, Zhi-Hua Zhou
July 6-18, 2014 Pittsburgh, USA
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Organizers: Alex Smola & Zico Kolter
April 26 - May 4, 2014 Reykjavik, Iceland (colocated with AISTATS)
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Organizer: Sami Kaski
August 26 - September 7, 2013 Tübingen, Germany
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Organizers: Philipp Hennig, Stefan Harmeling, Bernhard Schölkopf
August 27 - September 7, 2012 Kyoto, Japan
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Organizers: Akihiro Yamamoto, Masashi Sugiyama, Marco Cuturi
July 9-20, 2012 Santa Cruz, USA
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Organizer: Manfred Warmuth
April 11-19, 2012 La Palma, Canary Islands (followed by AISTATS)
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Organizers: Fernando Perez-Cruz, Bernhard Schölkopf, Neil Lawrence and Emilio Parrado-Hernandez
September 4-17, 2011 France
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Organizers: François Caron, Manuel Davy, Pierre Del Moral, Pierrick Legrand, Manuel Lopes, Rémi Munos
June 13-24, 2011 Purdue, USA
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Organizer: Vishy Vishwanathan
June 13-17, 2011 Singapore
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Organizers: Wray Buntine, Cuntai Guan, David Hardoon, Wee Sun Lee, John Shawe-Taylor
September 27 - October 6, 2010 Canberra, Australia
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Organizers: School of Computer Science of the Australian National University, the Statistical Machine Learning program of the National ICT (Australia), the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the Pascal Netwok
May 6-12, 2010 Sardinia, Italy
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Organizers: Pascal2, University College London, Cambridge University, UC Berkeley, Manchester University, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, MIT
August 29 - September 10, 2009 Cambridge, UK
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Organizers: Zoubin Ghahramani, Carl Edward Rasmussen, Christopher M. Bishop, A. Philip Dawid, David J.C. Mackay, Peter Orbanz, Joaquin Quiñonero Candela
January 26 - February 6, 2009 Canberra, Australia
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Organizers: Gunnar Rätsch, Alex Smola
September 1-15, 2008 Isle de Re, France
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Organizers: Manuel Davy, Jérémie Mary
March 3-14, 2008 Kioloa, Australia
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Organizers: Marcus Hutter, Li Cheng and Alex Smola
August 20-31, 2007 Tübingen, Germany
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Organizers: Arthur Gretton, Gunnar Rätsch, Bernhard Schölkopf and Florian Steinke
July 24 - August 2, 2006 Taipei, Taiwan
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Organizers: Chun-Nan Hsu, Yuh-Jye Lee
February 6-17, 2006 Canberra, Australia
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Organizers: Alex Smola, Vishy Vishwanathan, Robert C. Williamson
May 16-27, 2005 Chicago, USA
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Organizers: Yasemin Altun, Mikhail Belkin, John Langford, David McAllester, Partha Niyogi, Dinoj Surendan
January 23 - February 5, 2005 Canberra, Australia
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Organizers: Alex Smola, Vishy Vishwanathan
September 12-25, 2004 Berder, France
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Organizers: Olivier Bousquet, Manuel Davy, Frederic Desobry, Bernhard Schölkopf, Alex Smola
August 4-16, 2003 Tübingen, Germany
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Organizers: Olivier Bousquet, Manuel Davy, Frederic Desobry, Ulrike von Luxburg, Bernhard Schölkopf
February 2-14, 2003 Canberra, Australia
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Organizers: Gunnar Raetsch, Alex Smola
February 11-22, 2002 Canberra, Australia
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Organizers: Shahar Mendelson, Alex Smola
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