Checkout some impressions from the workshop in this photo collage.
Overview
The COSEAL Workshop series offers a forum for discussing recent advances in automated algorithm configuration and selection. Its 10th edition took place
March 6-8, 2023 in Paris,
on the Jussieu campus of Sorbonne University (Paris city center, 5th arrondissement).
COSEAL workshops provide the chance to discuss on-going research and recent results with other researchers. Presentation formats are oral presentations (very limited number) and poster sessions.
There are no paper submissions and no formal proceedings.
Scope of the Workshop
The scope of COSEAL includes, but is not limited to:
- Algorithm selection
- Algorithm configuration
- Algorithm portfolios
- Performance predictions and empirical performance models
- Bayesian optimization
- Hyperparameter optimization
- Automated machine learning (AutoML)
- Neural architecture search
- Meta-learning
- Algorithm and parameter control
- Explorative landscape analysis
- Programming by optimization
- Hyper-heuristics
Important dates
- Registration deadline was January 31, 2023
- Workshop dates: March 6-8, 2023
Workshop Location
COSEAL 2023 was held on the Jussieu campus of Sorbonne University in Paris (5th arrondissement, next to the Botanical Garden, metro stop Jussieu, served by metro lines 7 and 10).
All presentations and poster sessions were held at the International Conference Center of Sorbonne Université on the Jussieu campus. When you enter the campus, find tower 44 to your right. Walk up to the first floor, find corridor 44-45. You will find COSEAL activities in room 108.
Registration Fees
No registration fees. That is, registration is free, but mandatory (we need it to plan the coffee breaks, the welcome reception, etc.)
Presentation Formats
Three types of presentations:
- poster
- regular talk (20 minutes slot)
- short talk (5 minutes slot)
Workshop Schedule
The poster program is available here: https://webia.lip6.fr/~doerr/COSEAL-2023-PosterSessions.pdf
The short talks program is available here: https://webia.lip6.fr/~doerr/COSEAL-2023-ShortTalks.pdf
Day 1: Monday, March 6, 2023
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 09:00-09:20 | Workshop Opening |
| 09:20 – 09:50 | Invited Presentation by Lars Kotthoff Opening the Black Box: Automated Software Analysis for Algorithm Selection |
| 09:50 – 10:10 | 3 short talks (session 1) |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | Kevin Tierney Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems with Deep Reinforcement Learning |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Poster Session 1 |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Marius Lindauer Human-Centered AutoML |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | 3 short talks (session 2) |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Quentin Renau, Emma Hart Keep on Learning: Towards the development of optimisers that continually adapt |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Poster Session 2 |
| 17:15 – 18:00 | optional walk through the botanical garden (next to the campus) |
| 18:15 – 21:00 | Welcome Reception (Tour Zamansky, Jussieu campus) |
Day 2: Tuesday, March 7, 2023
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:20 | Joseph Giovanelli HAMLET: Human-centered AutoMl via Logic and argumEnTation |
| 09:20 – 09:40 | 3 short talks (session 3) |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Saso Dzeroski Semi-supervised learning for CoSeAl |
| 10:00 – 10:10 | 1 short talk (session 4) |
| 10:10-10:30 | Frank Hutter TabPFN: A Transformer That Solves Small Tabular Classification Problems in a Second |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Poster Session 3 |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Holger Hoos News from the frontier of neural network robustness verification (based on joint work with Matthias König, Annelot Bosman and Jan van Rijn) |
| 14:20 – 15:00 | 5 short talks (session 5) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Poster Session 4 |
Day 3: Wednesday, March 8, 2023
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 9:20 | Tanja Tornede Green AutoML: introduction and discussion |
| 09:20 – 09:50 | 4 short talks (session 6) |
| 9:50 – 10:30 | Plenary discussion |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Poster Session 5 |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Goodbye session |
Main Contact
COSEAL 2023 was organized by Carola Doerr, Elena Raponi, Anja Jankovic, Koen van der Blom, and Maria Laura Santoni.
For all administrative questions, please contact: carola.doerr@lip6.fr
Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge support of the following institutions:
- Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI)
- LiP6 Computer Science laboratory at Sorbonne Université
- CNRS French National Center for Scientific Research
Want to attend more COSEAL-centered activities in 2023? Here’s a list:
- Conferences:
- AutoML conference, September 12-15, HPI Potsdam, Germany
https://automl.cc/
- AutoML conference, September 12-15, HPI Potsdam, Germany
- Summer Schools:
- Summer School on Automatic Algorithm Design, June 12-16, Lille (Villeneuve d’Ascq), France
https://ssaad2023.sciencesconf.org/
- Summer School on Automatic Algorithm Design, June 12-16, Lille (Villeneuve d’Ascq), France