Mon 28 Sep Main programme
09:00Registration
09:15Conference opening & welcomeRoom PA
10:15Keynote 1 — Carola Doerr CNRS · Sorbonne UniversitéRoom PA
11:00Ice-breaker with coffeeRoom PA
12:00Paper Session IRoom PA
12:30Lightning I Late-Breaking Abstracts & Hot-off-the-PressRoom PA
13:30LunchFRI hallway
14:30Best Paper Nominee TalksRoom PA
16:00Poster Session I with coffeeFRI hallway
17:00Keynote 2 — Jure Leskovec Stanford University · EurAI talkRoom P01
Tue 29 Sep Main programme
09:00Registration
10:00Keynote 3 — Alex Vitvitskyi Google DeepMindRoom P01
10:30Paper Session IIRoom P01
11:00Coffee breakFRI hallway
12:00Paper Session IIIRoom P01
12:30Lightning II Late-Breaking Abstracts & Hot-off-the-PressRoom P01
13:30LunchFRI hallway
15:00Poster Session IIFRI hallway
15:15Coffee breakFRI hallway
16:00Industry talk Prior LabsRoom P01
17:00Mentoring Session + Focused DiscussionsRoom P01
17:45Transfer to city center
Wed 30 Sep Main programme + close
10:00Keynote 4 — Niki van Stein Leiden UniversityRoom P01
10:30Paper Session IVRoom P01
11:00Coffee breakFRI hallway
12:00Paper Session VRoom P01
12:30Lightning IIIRoom P01
13:30LunchFRI hallway
15:00Poster Session IIIFRI hallway
15:30Coffee breakFRI hallway
16:15ELLIS Unit Slovenia Keynote — Cees G. M. Snoek University of AmsterdamRoom P01
17:15AutoML CONF — Feedback / FutureRoom PA
18:00Competition resultsRoom PA
18:45Awards & closingRoom PA
Thu 1 Oct Tutorials + Workshop
10:30Workshop — AutoML, Benchmarking & Open Science Infrastructure for Earth ObservationRoom P03
11:00Coffee breakFRI hallway
13:30LunchFRI hallway
15:30Farewell / departures
Monday, 28 September
Paper Session I
BBOmix: A Tabular Benchmark for Hyperparameter Optimization in Unsupervised Biological Representation Learning
Luca Thale-Bombien, Jan Ewald, Ralf König, Aaron Klein
Evolutionary Architecture Search Through Grammar-Based Sequence Alignment
Adri Gómez, Felix Möller, Steven McDonagh, Monica Abella, Manuel Desco, Elliot J. Crowley, Aaron Klein, Linus Ericsson
OpenGNS: An Open Dataset of the Gradient Noise Scale across Vision, Language, and Diffusion Models
Marcel Aach, Jiangtao Wang, Stefan Kesselheim, Andreas Lintermann
Dynamic Priors in Bayesian Optimization for Hyperparameter Optimization
Lukas Fehring, Marcel Wever, Maximilian Spliethöver, Leona Hennig, Henning Wachsmuth, Marius Lindauer
Equally Good, Yet Different: Benchmarking Rashomon sets in AutoML packages
Katarzyna Woźnica, Katarzyna Rogalska, Zuzanna Sieńko, Mustafa Cavus
Lightning I
Auto-prepper: An Automated Data Preparation Toolkit for Real-world AutoML
Sasa Mladenovic, Marius Lindauer, Carola Doerr
Efficient Leakage-Free Neural Architecture Search under Leave-One-Subject-Out Evaluation
Heinke Hihn
Automating Privacy-Constrained RAG Pipelines with AIP-1 and AIP-2
Gregor Molan, Martin Molan
Automated Structure Learning for Predicting Influence Spread from Observed Cascades
Matic Požar, Miklós Krész
The Cost of Consensus: Isolated Self-Correction Prevails Over Unguided Homogeneous Multi-Agent Debate
Blaž Bertalanič, Carolina Fortuna
Best Paper Nominee Talks
Algorithm Selection with Zero Domain Knowledge via Text Embeddings
Stefan Szeider
IBUS: Overcoming Structural Biases in Hierarchical NAS with Iterative Bottom-Up Sampling
Abay Artykbayev, Martin Rapp, Benedikt Staffler, Margret Keuper
whittle: A Library for Sub-Network Extraction from Large Language Models
Arjun Krishnakumar, Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker, Hannan Javed Mahadik, Gabriela Kadlecová, Vladyslav Moroshan, Timur Carstensen, Frank Hutter, Aaron Klein
Tabular-DC-Bench: A Large-Scale Meta-Dataset for Hyperparameter Optimization in Deep Clustering
Mamdouh Aljoud, Gabriel Marques Tavares, Sandra Gilhuber, Collin Leiber, Thomas Seidl
Poster Session I
All papers presented on Monday are also presented as posters in Poster Session I.
Tuesday, 29 September
Paper Session II
FS-DCM: Frequency-Separated Dual-Context Modeling with Dynamic Local Volatility Weighting for Time-Series AutoML
Jonghyun Lee, Moonsu Kim
NATS-Bench-MCU: A Tabular Hardware Benchmark for Neural Architecture Search on Microcontrollers
Sebastian Zimmermann, René Groh, Andreas M Kist
Towards Predicting Hyperparameter Importance from Dataset Meta-Features
Maha Ksouri, Daphne Theodorakopoulos, Marius Lindauer
Paper Session III
A Large-Scale Study of Overtuning Mitigation Strategies in Hyperparameter Optimization
Sietse Schröder, Zubin Zellmann, Matthias Feurer, Mitra Baratchi, Jan N. van Rijn, Bernd Bischl
MLJAR AutoML: Transparent and Fairness-Aware AutoML for Tabular Data with Automatic Documentation
Aleksandra Płońska, Piotr Płoński
ONNX-Net: Towards Universal Representations and Instant Performance Prediction for Neural Architectures
Shiwen Qin, Alexander Auras, Shay B Cohen, Elliot J. Crowley, Michael Moeller, Linus Ericsson, Jovita Lukasik
Synthesizing Feature Extractors: An Agentic Approach for Algorithm Selection
Hai Xia, Carlos Ansótegui, Stefan Szeider
Efficient ensemble inference
Nick Kocher, Janek Paeßens, Anja Jankovic, Holger H. Hoos
Lightning II
An Open-Source Training Dataset for Foundation Models for Hyperparameter Optimization
Aaron Klein, Herilalaina Rakotoarison, Luca Thale-Bombien, David Salinas
Flow of solution procedure in DARTS for robust neural architecture search
Yitong Guo, Marie Anastacio, Jan N. van Rijn, Holger Hoos
Invariance of Violation-Ranking Maps in Constrained Black-Box Optimization
Kaichi Irie, Shuhei Watanabe, Kaito Baba
Heterogeneous Structured Pruning under Resource Constraints for Hardware Efficient LLMs
Cameron Barker, Andreas Paraskeva, Jan N. van Rijn, Elliot J. Crowley, Henry Gouk
MOEns: Multi-Objective Post-Hoc Ensembling for Predictive Accuracy and Adversarial Robustness in AutoML
Berkay Akay, Marie Anastacio, Jan N. van Rijn, Holger Hoos
Learning to Solve and Optimize by Evolving Code
Veronika Semmelrock, Benedetta Strizzolo, Francesco Zuccato, Gerhard Friedrich, Patrick Rodler, Konstantin Schekotihin
TabPFN-ScAn-Bench: A Surrogate Benchmark for Scaling Analysis Algorithms
Nastaran Alipour, Donat Sinani, Artin Sermaxhaj, Johannes Hog, Danny Stoll
α-PFN: Fast Entropy Search via In-Context Learning
Herilalaina Rakotoarison, Steven Adriaensen, Tom Julian Viering, Carl Hvarfner, Samuel Müller, Frank Hutter, Eytan Bakshy
Poster Session II
All papers presented on Tuesday are also presented as posters in Poster Session II.
Wednesday, 30 September
Paper Session IV
Large Language Models for Automated Cross-Domain Machine Learning Task Type Identification: A Benchmark Dataset and Evaluation
Petros Tsialis, Steffen Limmer, Tobias Rodemann, Martin Heckmann
Does Preprocessing Quality Matter for AutoML? A Case Study on Time Series Forecasting with Environmental Data
Guilherme Castro Dallasta, Jan N. van Rijn, Andre Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira De Carvalho
Transfer Learning of Robustness for Image Classification: An Experimental Study using Robustness Distributions
David P. Wünsch, Annelot Willemijn Bosman, Holger H. Hoos, Jan N. van Rijn
Paper Session V
Zero-Shot Bayesian Optimization with TabPFN: Competitive with State-of-the-Art without Per-Task Training
Theodore Rogers, Srividya Ponnada
SNAC-Pack 2.0: Scaled-Out Surrogate Neural Architecture Codesign
Jason Weitz, Dmitri Demler, Benjamin Hawks, Aaron Wang, Nhan Tran, Javier Duarte
TACTICL: Task-Aware Compression of Tabular ICL Models
Mykhailo Koshil, Matthias Feurer, Katharina Eggensperger
SAMLB: A Streaming AutoML Benchmark
Nilesh Verma, Albert Bifet, Bernhard Pfahringer, Maroua Bahri
From Tables to Runtime: Predicting Algorithm Runtime Distributions with TabPFN
Hagverdi Ibrahimli, Katharina Eggensperger, Steven Adriaensen
Lightning III
Hyperparameter Optimization in the Age of Large Models
Erlis Lushtaku, Ali Elganzory, Danny Stoll
Search More or Confirm Better? Reliable Selection in Small-Budget LoRA Hyperparameter Optimization
Pece Georgiev, Biljana Tojtovska
Towards Unifying AutoML: Introducing Neural Pipeline Search Spaces
Lum Birinxhiku, Anton Geburek, Steven Adriaensen, Danny Stoll
ShaplEIG: Bayesian Experimental Design for Shapley Value Estimation
David Rundel, Fabian Fumagalli, Maximilian Muschalik, Bernd Bischl, Matthias Feurer
Semi-supervised learning from tabular data with autoencoders: when does it work?
Sintija Stevanoska, Jurica Levatić, Sašo Džeroski
Poster Session III
All papers presented on Wednesday are also presented as posters in Poster Session III.