Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Machine learning

This volume, which is also available from http://www.machinelearning.org, the home page of the International Machine Learning Society, contains the technical papers accepted for presentation at ICML-2006, the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning. ICML is an international forum for presentation and discussion of the latest results in the field of machine learning. This year, ICML was held at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was co-located with COLT-2006, the 19th Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory.Coincidentally, Carnegie Mellon University was also the venue for the first ICML---the First Machine Learning Workshop, which was held in 1980. Instead of…