AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning publishes exclusively long (for example, 75+ pages) review and tutorial papers.

Aims and Scope

The growth in all aspects of research has led to a multitude of new publications and an exponential increase in published research. Finding a way through the excellent existing literature and keeping up to date has become a time-consuming problem. Researchers have instant access to more articles than ever before. But which articles are the essential ones that should be read to understand and keep abreast with developments of any topic? To address this problem, Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning publishes high-quality short monographs that provide a starting point for a graduate student or researcher new to a particular topic. Each issue of Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning comprises a monograph of at least (75+) pages written by research leaders in the field. We aim to publish monographs that provide an in-depth, self-contained treatment of topics where there have been significant new developments. Typically, this means that the monographs we publish will contain a significant level of mathematical detail (to describe the central methods and/or theory for the topic at hand), and will not eschew these details by simply pointing to existing references. Literature surveys and original research papers do not fall within these aims.

Foundations and Trends welcomes monographs that touch on fundamental problems in machine learning from theoretical, methodological, and/or computational perspectives. We are particularly interested in monographs that seek to bridge such problems and perspectives with those from related fields, including (but not limited to) statistics, economics, and optimization.

Initial Submission

If you intend to write, or are in the process of writing, a paper that meets the criteria in editorial aims and scope, we will be pleased to hear from you. In the first instance, send an abstract and table of contents for initial review to the publisher. Also, clearly specify (in the body of the email or in a separate cover letter) your motivation for writing the monograph in question. In short, a successful monograph in Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning is shaped by the tastes of the author(s). Explain how this will be carried out for the topic at hand.

After this initial submission, a preliminary acceptance may follow. The full draft paper will undergo a peer-review process to ensure quality standards and balance before being finally accepted.

AI Policy

Authors should disclose if and how AI tools were used when they created the submission, and this will be eventually published alongside the monograph if accepted. Authors are solely responsible for the entire content and correctness of the submission, regardless of how the text is produced (i.e., with the help of AI tools).

Manuscript Preparation

Once you have received preliminary acceptance, you can submit your full manuscript. Below are the manuscript preparation and submission instructions. To provide rapid publication, we ask our authors to create their articles in LaTeX. We encourage you to use our FnT LaTeX style files but we also accept manuscripts in general LaTeX format.

Ready to submit? Email the publisher.