Carola Doerr

Program

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

The sad truth is that whenever I push against recommendation letters, the proposal is outvoted by colleagues who say that "every honorable Institution asks for recommendation letters" 🤷 (and there is little correlation between seniority and this attitude 🤷). Anyway, I keep suggesting this ...

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

Registration

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...

Congratulations, @klein-aaron.bsky.social ! Exciting times ahead. Tübingen growing even stronger.

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

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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

FOGA 2025

🔊 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 🙏

Point sets of low discrepancy are useful in a number of applications. Essentially, wherever you use Sobol sampling, you could replace by more specifically optimized sets. We have tons of ideas for how to improve further, using classic optimization, learning, heuristics. Happy to collaborate :-)

Searching permutations for constructing uniformly distributed point sets | PNAS Uniformly distributed point sets of low discrepancy are heavily used in experimental design and across a very wide range of applications such as nu...

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...

AutoML School 2025 Scope AutoML has become a cornerstone in the toolkit of many developers and researchers. With the rise of foundation models, AutoML's potential has expanded even further, enabling smarter, more powerf...

✏️ 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 🤪😎🤓

AI is broadly understood, broad range of profiles will be considered. Ideal candidate is PhD+x where x can be anything.
Do not hesitate to reach out, should you have questions about the job offer.
And please help spreading the word 🙏 French research environment is pretty awesome