Foreword: Special issue for the Journal Track of the 8th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2016)

We, the guest editors, welcome you to this special issue of Machine Learning comprising papers accepted to the journal track of the 8th Asian conference on machine learning (ACML 2016), held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. This year’s ACML was the first to run a dedicated journal track alongside the usual proceedings track: We believe the experiment was a success and we are delighted to share these contributions with you