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Hello Amazon KDD Cup 2023 Community,

We are delighted to celebrate the remarkable performances exhibited during the Amazon KDD Cup 2023. It has been inspiring to witness the ingenious methodologies and pioneering solutions youโ€™ve brought to the table in this data competition. Weโ€™re thrilled to extend a warm invitation to all participants to submit a workshop paper summarising your remarkable approaches.

All Top-10 leaderboard participants will be guaranteed an opportunity for an in-person oral/poster presentation. Other submissions are also highly encouraged as we seek novel insights into session-based recommendation, large language models, and graph neural networks.

The submissions will be evaluated by a committee based on their novelty and unique insights.

The deadline for submissions is July 20, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth time). You can submit your work via this link. Accepted submissions will be notified latest by August 1, 2023. Please note that the KDD Cup workshop will have no proceedings and the authors retain full rights to submit or post the paper at any other venue.

Link to the submission website.

Please make sure your submissions adhere to the following format:

  • A maximum of 4 pages for 1-2 tasks.
  • Up to 6 pages for 3 tasks.
  • PDF format, using the ACM Conference template (two-column format).
  • Last date to submit: July 20, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth time)

To help with formatting, you can refer to the ACM Proceedings Template here. The recommended LaTeX setting is \documentclass[sigconf, review]{acmart}. We also welcome an optional one-page supplement focusing on reproducibility to be included in the same PDF file.

If you used our dataset in your research, please cite our dataset paper:

@article{jin2023amazon,
title={Amazon-M2: A Multilingual Multi-locale Shopping Session Dataset for Recommendation and Text Generation},
author={Wei Jin and Haitao Mao and Zheng Li and Haoming Jiang and Chen Luo and Hongzhi Wen and Haoyu Han and Hanqing Lu and Zhengyang Wang and Ruirui Li and Zhen Li and Monica Xiao Cheng and Rahul Goutam and Haiyang Zhang and Karthik Subbian and Suhang Wang and Yizhou Sun and Jiliang Tang and Bing Yin and Xianfeng Tang},
year={2023},
archivePrefix={arXiv}
}

Please note that to be eligible to receive the cash prize/AWS credit, it is mandatory to submit a workshop paper summarising your approaches. We highly encourage you to take advantage of this requirement and share your valuable insights and methodologies with the wider community.

For those participants who request an invitation letter from the conference for their visa application process, feel free to contact us for help.

We look forward to receiving your workshop paper and eagerly anticipate the opportunity to learn from your valuable insights and experiences. Should you have any questions or require further clarification, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

Once again, congratulations on your exceptional performance in the Amazon KDD Cup 2023, and we sincerely appreciate your contribution to the advancement of data science and machine learning.

Best regards,
Amazon KDDCup Team