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     <h4 class="heading-2">Vision & Mission</h4>
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         <b>ICBINB’s vision</b> is to create and foster a community that goes beyond benchmark climbing and new algorithms
         with bold numbers. In the long-term, we want to influence and be an example for other venues on the promotion of
         good science in machine learning; science that is collaborative and advances the understanding, the elegance,
         and the diversity of the field rather than just rewarding science that proves to be better
         than previous work on a given benchmark.

         The desired outcome is to create a ML sub-community with a much more diverse set of values, highlighting
         the importance of unexpected negative results, questioning well-established default practices, re-evaluating
         and understanding existing methods; defining entirely new problems, or challenging formulations of existing
         problems; rewarding simplicity over unnecessary complexity.
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     <h5 class="heading-3">How to get there?</h5>
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         <b>ICBINB organizes activities</b> that provide a space for beautiful ideas that advance the understanding of the ML
         field even when those ideas did not result in a new leaderboard on the latest benchmark. Furthermore,
         ICBINB takes <b>actions to create a supportive community</b> that can help junior scientists, or simply help ideas that
         are stuck, to emerge and flourish.

         ICBINB organizes <b>workshops</b> to allow researchers to showcase their works whose characteristics fit under the values expressed
         by the initiative, as they would likely be undervalued in existing venues. ICBINB also organizes <b>seminar series</b>, where speakers
         will normally discuss projects that fit into the description of undervalued works, as per ICBINB’s values.

         In the future, ICBINB will <b>expand and diversify its activities</b>, to cover more aspects of the long-term vision and
         further spread values to the broader ML community. This includes: <b>local events</b> at the organizers’ host institutions;
         <b>mentoring activities</b>, such as an “adopt  a paper” initiative; a special issue in an existing <b>journal</b>;
         an entirely brand-new journal, focused on works currently undervalued as per ICBINB’s values; a <b>repository</b>
         for dissemination and tracking of valuable negative results in machine learning, a <b>podcast and/or blog</b>,
         for researchers and ICBINB’s organizers to share their stories of works which do not fit the “bold numbers” paradigm.
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     <h4 class="heading-2">In the longer-term…</h4>
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       Here a list of events/activities that we would like to promote moving forward. If any of these resonate with you and you would
       like to help us make it a reality, please reach out!
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       <li>A <b>monthly seminar series</b> for sharing stories from or about research</li>
       <li>A <b>journal special issue</b> for <it>“beautiful ideas without bold numbers”</it></li>
       <li>A <b>matchmaking</b> platform: supportive reviewing process to help papers reach the final line</li>
       <li>A <b>blog</b> for sharing stories from or about research, unexpected negative results that would otherwise be forgotten</li>
       <li>... and much more! Stay tuned 🙂</li>
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