The International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems #IMPRS is currently accepting PhD applications! Join our elite doctoral program to conduct research in machine learning, robotics, HCI, computer vision, and related fields. imprs.is.mpg.de/application Deadline: Nov. 16, 2025

📢 Great news! All #AutoML25 conference recordings are now live, including keynotes and tutorials! Check it out here: www.youtube.com/@automl_conf... Happy learning! 🧑‍🎓 #AutoMLConf #NYC

Join us for the #AutoML25 Online Post-Conference Gathering. It is open to the public! It will include an extra keynote presentation by Pablo Samuel Castro (Google DeepMind) about the potential for AutoRL! 📆 Sept 25 | 8AM to 12PM EST 📍 uni-freiburg.zoom-x.de/j/6448752006... 🌐 2025.automl.cc

Our first keynote speaker was Manuela Veloso! What an inspiring talk with a key message that we will keep for the rest of the conference “aim for 100%”!! #AutoML25 #AutoMLConf

One more time (and now with a working link) 😅 Several PhD positions in two brand-new labs at the Lamarr Intitute / TU Dortmund. Lots of exciting research on #tabulardata, #autom and #benchmarking. 👉 Apply now, there's less than a week left!

The final day of #AutoMLConf is dedicated to tutorials & workshops! ☕ CAFE Workshop: peter-i-frazier.github.io/cafe-worksho... 🔍 Tutorials: foundation models, LLM-driven tuning, HPO & more 👉 2025.automl.cc/tutorials/ Sounds interesting? Register now! 2025.automl.cc/registration...

The program for FOGA 2025 is now available at naco.liacs.nl/foga2025/pro... FOGA = plenary keynotes, poster-based presentations, and networking :-) Hope to see many of you in Leiden at the end of August.

And Erin LeDell, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Atlas Wang, and Juliana Freire 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Hope to see you in New York or at the online post-conference meeting for those who do not want to or cannot travel. Details will be communicated in due time

EurIPS includes a call for both Workshops and Affinity Workshops! We look forward to making #EurIPS a diverse and inclusive event with you. The submission deadlines are August 22nd, AoE. More information at: eurips.cc/call-for-wor... eurips.cc/call-for-aff...

La rêve ! And maybe one day we do not need to provide each and every information in 3 different (badly designed) forms neither. And maybe just one fsd advice and not two? And maybe no triple validation of lab direction needed to buy a train ticket for 40 euros? Oh, dear France, life could be 🏖️

Un jour, les services comptables de l'université arrêteront de demander des "RIB" pour les étrangers et ce jour là, la recherche française fera un bon de productivité avec tout le temps gagné

Registrations for FOGA 2025 are open. Join us for 2.5 days packed with the latest research on foundations of evolutionary computation 🥳 naco.liacs.nl/foga2025//re... The conference will be preceded by a meeting of the ROAR-NET COST Action: naco.liacs.nl/foga2025//ro... We hope to see you in Leiden!

🚨 Late-breaking call for #AutoML 2025! 🚨 Got a fresh paper or want to discuss a new project? The non-archival track is open until Aug 4 (AoE)! We are looking for: 📝 Short papers 🔥 Hot-off-the-press work 🎥 Demos, blog posts, videos & more! Light review and no proceedings.

FOGA notifications are out. We hope that all submitting authors find the reviews useful, regardless of the final decision. As always, feedback on the review process (which is under constant evolution to test different ideas) is welcome and can be addressed to the PC chairs and the organizing team.

Deadline is June 27th for submitting to the AutoML 2025 Non-archival track @automl-conf.bsky.social We are looking for (1) journal/conference papers, (2) original 4-page papers, and (3) non-traditional content on the topic of AutoML. Details: 2025.automl.cc/call-for-non...

Great news!! The non-archival content track was extended to June 27! ⏰ More details on the submission here 👇

📢 The Call for Tutorials & Workshops at #AutoML25 is OPEN! Have a topic to share or want to build community in a subfield of #AutoML? Submit your proposal for a tutorial or workshop at the AutoML Conference in #NYC! 🗓️ Deadline: May 28 🔗 Full call: 2025.automl.cc/call-for-tut...

In fact, the FOGA deadline has now been extended to May 5, AoE. Never say never 🙃🙃 @foga-conf.bsky.social #EvolutionaryComputation #FOGA

I have an opening for a post doc position in machine learning theory, with a deadline of June 1st. Please share and apply: international.au.dk/about/profil...

We’re getting more and more excited for the 5th AutoML School, happening June 10 - 13 in Tübingen, Germany and we’d love for you to be there.

The 5th NAS Unseen-Data Challenge at #AutoML25 is on! 🥊 How well do your #NAS pipelines perform on completely new, unseen datasets? 📊 Phase 1 is open until June - grab the starter kit and start building! Winners will be announced at #AutoMLConf in #NYC 🗽 More info 👉 www.nascompetition.com

🔊 A kind reminder that the (non-extendable!) submission deadline for FOGA 2025 is May 2 ℹ️ FOGA 2025 will be held in Leiden, NL, from August 27-29 Find all details and the full call for papers on our webpage: naco.liacs.nl/foga2025/ pls share/like/spread the word 🙏

When everyone else goes deep learning and foundation models, time for the optimization crowd to become creative 😇 In this PNAS brief report, we introduce an innovative approach to attack the long-standing problem of placing n points in [0,1)^d as uniformly as possible: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

✏️ The 5th AutoML School w/ a focus on #FoundationModels will be in June in Tübingen. With organisers from @ellisinsttue.bsky.social & ELLIS Unit Freiburg, the school will have intro, state-of-the-art, & application lectures. 📍 Tübingen 🇩🇪 📅 June 10-13 🔗 www.automlschool.org

We’d like to announce next week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty! Frank Hutter · University of Freiburg Accurate predictions on small data (and time series) with the tabular foundation model TabPFN Sign-up link below! gp-seminar-series.github.io

Kind reminder for some upcoming deadlines: - Gecco workshop papers: April 2, AoE - FOGA main track: May 2 - AutoML tutorials and workshops: May 28 - AutoML non-archival track: June 16 @automl-conf.bsky.social @foga-conf.bsky.social #GECCO2025

FOGA submission deadline is May 2. If you have a poster accepted to GECCO: yes, it is possible to submit the full paper of your GECCO poster to FOGA. If in doubt about the eligibility of your submission, do not hesitate to reach out to our PC chairs, @francischicano.bsky.social + Jonathan Fieldsend

The deadline for GECCO workshop submissions has been extended to April 2, 2025. List of workshops: gecco-2025.sigevo.org/Workshops about GECCO: July 14 - 18, hybrid conference: in Málaga, Spain, and online

Excited to bring the #AutoML community together in #NYC this September🗽! If you can’t attend, don’t worry - all accepted papers will be included in the proceedings and can be presented online or in person! Details will be shared later on. So... hurry up! ⌛There are only 10 days left to submit!

Deadline extension for the AutoML conference. New deadline March 31. All details available at 2025.automl.cc/call-for-pap... Note that we are aware of difficulties to get US visa. We will accommodate for authors not being able to join us in NYC Please share/quote/like/... @automl-conf.bsky.social

📣 The 5th AutoML School is coming to Tübingen! Whether you are new to #AutoML or an experienced researcher, this is the Summer School for you. Join us for 4 exciting days exploring basic topics, studying cutting edge-research and having fun. 📅 June 10th-13th, Tübingen, Germany 🔗 automlschool.org

Submit to CoG if you like games. Submit to FOGA @foga-conf.bsky.social if you like foundations of randomized search algorithms. If you like both, you can choose between spending the last week of August in Portugal or in Leiden 🙃 And then join us @automl-conf.bsky.social AutoML conference in NYC 🤪😎🤓

Job alert: full-time researcher position for AI with CNRS here in France. Initial contract for 5 years (tenure track). Attractive starting package and better salary than regular positions. I have been w/ @cnrs.fr since 2013, it's great! Applications due 31/03 www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/en/cnrsinfo/...

FOGA 2025 -- Call for Papers :: topics: working principles of randomized search :: Submission deadline: May 2 :: Keynotes by Joshua D. Knowles (Schlumberger), Stephanie Wehner (TU Delft), Tobias Glasmachers (Univ. of Bochum) :: further information at: naco.liacs.nl/foga2025/

Now that the #GECCO2025 deadline has passed, be reminded that the #FOGA2025 submission deadline is May 2 We welcome submissions on iterative optimization algorithms, aka randomized search, black-box optimization, evolutionary computation,... Our scope is NOT limited to theory naco.liacs.nl/foga2025/

Kind reminder that #GECCO abstract submissions are due by the end of tomorrow, AoE [which makes it Thursday 13:00 Paris time, if I am not mistaken]. Do not forget to register your paper :-) Questions about the BBSR track --> do not hesitate to reach out to Mike and me [e-mail preferred]

Join us if you have a passion for (a) theoretical analysis of iterative optimization algorithms (b) empirical development of IOAs (c) blending Machine Learning with optimization (RL, deep learning, supervised learning, .... -- we have questions for everyone 😅)

Job ad: Looking for PostDocs and research engineers/software developers to work with us on the ERC Consolidator project dynaBBO, here @sorbonne-universite.fr and @cnrs.bsky.social Our objective: to develop (dynamically adapting) black-box optimization algorithms, by merging optimization, ML, theory

The #GECCO submission deadline is approaching (Jan 29, abstracts: Jan 22). This year I am chairing the Benchmarking, Benchmarks, Software, and Reproducibility (BBSR) track with Mike Preuss from @unileiden.bsky.social Find our CfP here: gecco-2025.sigevo.org/Tracks#BBSR%... #EvolutionaryComputation

New blog post about the AutoML conference (September 8-11 in New York City) on the newly created AutoML space: automl.space/automl-confe...

Seeking financial support for your active participation in a conference on randomized optimization? You may want to check the Call for Young Researcher and Innovator Conference Grant Applications issued by #COSTaction CA22137 ROAR-NET roar-net.eu/calls/yri-cg...

Videos of the CNRS optimization conference now online (in French): - Claire Mathieu : www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXZ... - Gabriel Peyré : www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQOF... - Jérôme Bolte : www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjkg... - Axel Parmentier : www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohO... Enjoy 🙂

📢 Call for Papers: AutoML 2025 This year features two tracks: advancing state-of-the-art methods and ABCD (applications, benchmarks, challenges, datasets) driving new developments. 📅 Deadline: March 24, 2025 (abstracts due March 19) 🌐 Learn more: 2025.automl.cc/call-for-pap...

Currently making plans for 2025?💶>🚊Consider visiting or hosting a colleague via this STSM funding scheme of our COST action ⁉️Pretty much all topics around (classic or heuristic) randomized optimization algorithms are in scope, as is algo. selection and configuration www.roar-net.eu/calls/stsm-c...

The first video of the conference "L’optimisation, au cœur des défis des sciences informatiques" is now also online (in French): Claire Mathieu @irif-paris.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social shares her results and enthusiasm to work on optimization for societal questions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXZ...

2024 was a special year for optimization in France: it was the thematic focus of CNRS informatics. Through several events and articles, optimization was put in the spotlight. This article (available in French only, sorry..) summarizes our take-aways: www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite... @cnrs.bsky.social

Indeed, Gérard is a source of inspiration. Very happy to see him on this list. Félicitations, Gérard ! 🎉

Missing AutoML 24? We feel the same! 😢 But don’t worry - you can relive the highlights: 🎥 Watch the talks: www.youtube.com/@automl_conf... 📚 Explore the proceedings: proceedings.mlr.press/v256/ And start planning for AutoML 25! 2025.automl.cc/call-for-pap... #AutoML25 #AutoMLConf #NYC #AutoML

👋Hello world/bsky Follow us for updates on the biannual ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA). Our next edition :: Leiden, The Netherlands :: August 27-29, 2025 :: Paper submission deadline May 2, 2025 :: fundamental research on iterative optimization algorithms

The openings for full-time researchers with the CNRS are now officially announced. Consider joining us if you are into fundamental research 🙂 CNRS researchers can be hosted in any joint CNRS-uni/grand école unit. Eg, my office is at Sorbonne Uni and I benefit from both CNRS and Sorbonne environment