Unprecedented technological advances lead to increasingly high dimensional data sets in all areas of science, engineering and businesses. These include genomics and proteomics, biomedical imaging, signal processing, astrophysics, finance, web and social networks analysis, among many others. Propelled by the new awareness in the importance of data, practitioners from all areas maintain large repositories of high-dimensional data, albeit only some of them are tagged/labelled, most are unlabelled raw data waiting to be taken advantage of. The number of features in such data is often of the order of thousands or millions, that is much larger than the available (labelled or unlabelled) sample size.


This workshop aims to bring together researchers from databases, data science, machine learning, statistics to cross-pollinate ideas, facilitate collaboration, and expand the breadth and reach of methods and technology to address the curses, exploit the blessings of high dimensionality in data mining, and forge new directions in data mining research.
This year we would like to particularly encourage work that counters the issues of low sample size and takes advantage of unlabelled or auxiliary data for high dimensional data mining. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Learning and mining with weak supervision, exploiting unlabelled data in high dimensional settings.
- Managing the tradeoff between computation cost and statistical efficiency.
- Models of low intrinsic structure, such as sparse representation, manifold models, latent structure models, overparametrised models, compressible models.
- Effect and mitigation of noise and the curse of dimensionality on data mining methods.
- Theoretical underpinning of data mining where the data dimension can be larger than the sample size.
- New data mining techniques that exploit properties of high dimensional data spaces.
- Adaptive and non-adaptive dimensionality reduction for high dimensional data sets.
- Random projections, and random matrix theory applied to high dimensional data mining.
- Functional data mining.
- Data mining applications to real problems in science, engineering, businesses, and the humanities, where the data is high dimensional.

Submissions are solicited for oral and poster presentation at the workshop. The author guidance and paper format of the main conference should be followed. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and the papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the workshop proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. We also envisage that the best submissions will be suitable for extension for a journal special issue after the workshop.