Publications of the Institute

2021


Eimer, T., Biedenkapp, A., Reimer, M., Adriaensen, S., Hutter, F., & Lindauer, M. T. (2021). DACBench: A Benchmark Library for Dynamic Algorithm Configuration. In Z.-H. Zhou (Ed.), Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21) (pp. 1668-1674). (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence). https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/230
Eimer, T., Benjamins, C., & Lindauer, M. T. (2021). Hyperparameters in Contextual RL are Highly Situational. In International Workshop on Ecological Theory of RL (at NeurIPS) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.10876
Eimer, T., Biedenkapp, A., Hutter, F., & Lindauer, M. (2021). Self-Paced Context Evaluation for Contextual Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the international conference on machine learning (ICML) (pp. 2948-2958). (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research; Vol. 139). ML Research Press. http://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/eimer21a/eimer21a.pdf
Guerrero-Viu, J., Hauns, S., Izquierdo, S., Miotto, G., Schrodi, S., Biedenkapp, A., Elsken, T., Deng, D., Lindauer, M., & Hutter, F. (2021). Bag of Baselines for Multi-objective Joint Neural Architecture Search and Hyperparameter Optimization. In ICML 2021 Workshop AutoML https://openreview.net/forum?id=yEGlj93aLFY
Hutter, F., Fuks, L., Lindauer, M., & Awad, N. (2021). Method, device and computer programm for producing a strategy for a robot. (Patent No. US2021008718). https://at.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?FT=D&date=20210114&DB=EPODOC&locale=de_AT&CC=US&NR=2021008718A1&KC=A1&ND=4
Hutter, F., Fuks, L., Lindauer, M., & Awad, N. (2021). Verfahren, Vorrichtung und Computerprogramm zum Erstellen einer Strategie für einen Roboter. (Patent No. DE102019210372A1). Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA). https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search?q=pn%3DCN112215363A
Kadra, A., Lindauer, M., Hutter, F., & Grabocka, J. (2021). Well-tuned Simple Nets Excel on Tabular Datasets. In Proceedings of the international conference on Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11189
Lindauer, M., Hutter, F., Burkart, M., & Zimmer, L. (2021). Verfahren, Vorrichtung und Computerprogramm zum Erstellen eines künstlichen neuronalen Netzes. (Patent No. DE102019214625A1). Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA). https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/074846095/publication/DE102019214625A1?q=DE102019214625A1
Liu, Z., Pavao, A., Xu, Z., Escalera, S., Ferreira, F., Guyon, I., Hong, S., Hutter, F., Ji, R., Junior, J. C. S. J., Li, G., Lindauer, M., Luo, Z., Madadi, M., Nierhoff, T., Niu, K., Pan, C., Stoll, D., Treguer, S., ... Zhang, Y. (2021). Winning Solutions and Post-Challenge Analyses of the ChaLearn AutoDL Challenge 2019. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 43(9), 3108-3125. Article 9415128. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2201.03801, https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3075372
Moosbauer, J., Herbinger, J., Casalicchio, G., Lindauer, M., & Bischl, B. (2021). Explaining Hyperparameter Optimization via Partial Dependence Plots. In Proceedings of the international conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/file/12ced2db6f0193dda91ba86224ea1cd8-Paper.pdf
Schubert, F., Eimer, T., Rosenhahn, B., & Lindauer, M. (2021). Automatic Risk Adaptation in Distributional Reinforcement Learning. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2106.06317
Souza, A., Nardi, L., Oliveira, L. B., Olukotun, K., Lindauer, M., & Hutter, F. (2021). Bayesian Optimization with a Prior for the Optimum. In N. Oliver, F. Pérez-Cruz, S. Kramer, J. Read, & J. A. Lozano (Eds.), Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Research Track: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2021, Proceedings (Vol. 3, pp. 265-296). (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science); Vol. 12977). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86523-8_17
Souza, A., Nardi, L., Oliveira, L. B., Olukotun, K., Lindauer, M., & Hutter, F. (2021). Prior-guided Bayesian Optimization. In Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Research Track: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2021 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.14608
Speck, D., Biedenkapp, A., Hutter, F., Mattmüller, R., & Lindauer, M. (2021). Learning Heuristic Selection with Dynamic Algorithm Configuration. In S. Biundo, M. Do, R. Goldman, M. Katz, Q. Yang, & H. H. Zhuo (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) (pp. 597-605). (Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS; Vol. 2021-August). https://doi.org/10.1609/icaps.v31i1.16008
Spitz, J., Biedenkapp, A., Speck, D., Hutter, F., Lindauer, M., & Mattmueller, R. (2021). Device and method for planning an operation of a technical system. (Patent No. US2021383245A1). United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/071016460/publication/CN113759710A?q=CN113759710A
Spitz, J., Biedenkapp, A., Speck, D., Hutter, F., Lindauer, M., & Mattmueller, R. (2021). Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Planung eines Betriebs eines technischen Systems. (Patent No. DE102020207). Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA). https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/078605309/publication/DE102020207114A1?q=DE102020207114A1
Stürenburg, L., Denkena, B., Lindauer, M., & Wichmann, M. (2021). Maschinelles Lernen in der Prozessplanung. VDI-Z Integrierte Produktion, 163(11-12), 26-29. https://doi.org/10.37544/0042-1766-2021-11-12-26
Zimmer, L., Lindauer, M., & Hutter, F. (2021). Auto-PyTorch: Multi-Fidelity MetaLearning for Efficient and Robust AutoDL. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 43(9), 3079-3090. Article 9382913. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3067763

2020


Awad, N., Shala, G., Deng, D., Mallik, N., Feurer, M., Eggensperger, K., Biedenkapp, A., Vermetten, D., Wang, H., Doerr, C., Lindauer, M., & Hutter, F. (2020). Squirrel: A Switching Hyperparameter Optimizer. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2012.08180
Biedenkapp, A., Bozkurt, H. F., Eimer, T., Hutter, F., & Lindauer, M. T. (2020). Dynamic Algorithm Configuration: Foundation of a New Meta-Algorithmic Framework. In G. De Giacomo, A. Catala, B. Dilkina, M. Milano, S. Barro, A. Bugarin, & J. Lang (Eds.), ECAI 2020 - 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 427-434). (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 325). https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA200122
Biedenkapp, A., Rajan, R., Hutter, F., & Lindauer, M. T. (2020). Towards TempoRL Learning When to Act. Paper presented at ICML 2020 Inductive biases, invariances and generalization in RL workshop. https://www.tnt.uni-hannover.de/papers/data/1455/20-BIG-TempoRL.pdf
Denkena, B., Dittrich, M.-A., Lindauer, M. T., Mainka, J. M., & Stürenburg, L. K. (2020). Using AutoML to Optimize Shape Error Prediction in Milling Processes. SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3724234
Eggensperger, K., Haase, K., Müller, P., Lindauer, M., & Hutter, F. (2020). Neural Model-based Optimization with Right-Censored Observations. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2009.13828
Lindauer, M., & Hutter, F. (2020). Best Practices for Scientific Research on Neural Architecture Search. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 21. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02453
Lindauer, M., Hutter, F., Biedenkapp, A., & Bozkurt, F. (2020). Verfahren, Vorrichtung und Computerprogramm zum Einstellen eines Hyperparameters. (Patent No. EP3748551A1). Europäisches Patentamt (EPA). https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/066821016/publication/EP3748551A1?q=EP3748551A1
Shala, G., Biedenkapp, A., Awad, N., Adriaensen, S., Lindauer, M., & Hutter, F. (2020). Learning Step-Size Adaptation in CMA-ES. In T. Bäck, M. Preuss, A. Deutz, M. Emmerich, H. Wang, C. Doerr, & H. Trautmann (Eds.), Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XVI: 16th International Conference, PPSN 2020, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 5-9, 2020, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 691-706). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12269). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58112-1_48

2019


Biedenkapp, A., Bozkurt, H. F., Hutter, F., & Lindauer, M. (2019). Towards White-box Benchmarks for Algorithm Control. Advance online publication. https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07644
Eggensperger, K., Lindauer, M., & Hutter, F. (2019). Pitfalls and Best Practices in Algorithm Configuration. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 64, 861-893. https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.1.11420
Fuks, L., Awad, N., Hutter, F., & Lindauer, M. (2019). An evolution strategy with progressive episode lengths for playing games. In S. Kraus (Ed.), Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2019 (pp. 1234-1240). (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence). AAAI Press/International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/172
Lindauer, M., Eggensperger, K., Feurer, M., Biedenkapp, A., Marben, J., Müller, P., & Hutter, F. (2019). BOAH: A Tool Suite for Multi-Fidelity Bayesian Optimization & Analysis of Hyperparameters. Advance online publication. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.06756
Lindauer, M., van Rijn, J. N., & Kotthoff, L. (2019). The algorithm selection competitions 2015 and 2017. Artificial intelligence, 272, 86-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2018.10.004
Lindauer, M., Feurer, M., Eggensperger, K., Biedenkapp, A., & Hutter, F. (2019). Towards Assessing the Impact of Bayesian Optimization’s Own Hyperparameters. In DSO Workshop at IJCAI Advance online publication. https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06674
Mendoza, H., Klein, A., Feurer, M., Springenberg, J. T., Urban, M., Burkart, M., Dippel, M., Lindauer, M. T., & Hutter, F. (2019). Towards Automatically-Tuned Deep Neural Networks. In Automated Machine Learning https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05318-5_7

2018


Biedenkapp, A., Marben, J., Lindauer, M., & Hutter, F. (2018). CAVE: Configuration Assessment, Visualization and Evaluation. In P. M. Pardalos, R. Battiti, M. Brunato, & I. Kotsireas (Eds.), Learning and Intelligent Optimization (pp. 115-130). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11353 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05348-2_10
Eggensperger, K., Lindauer, M., Hoos, H. H., Hutter, F., & Leyton-Brown, K. (2018). Efficient benchmarking of algorithm configurators via model-based surrogates. Machine learning, 107(1), 15-41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-017-5683-z
Eggensperger, K., Lindauer, M., & Hutter, F. (2018). Neural Networks for Predicting Algorithm Runtime Distributions. In J. Lang (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 1442-1448). AAAI Press/International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/200
Feurer, M., Eggensperger, K., Falkner, S., Lindauer, M. T., & Hutter, F. (2018). Practical Automated Machine Learning for the AutoML Challenge 2018. https://www.tnt.uni-hannover.de/papers/data/1407/18-AUTOML-AutoChallenge.pdf
Lindauer, M., Hoos, H., Hutter, F., & Leyton-Brown, K. (2018). Selection and Configuration of Parallel Portfolios. In Handbook of Parallel Constraint Reasoning (pp. 583-615). Springer International Publishing AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63516-3_15
Lindauer, M. T., van Rijn, J. N., & Kotthoff, L. (2018). The Algorithm Selection Competition Series 2015-17. Advance online publication. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01214v1
Lindauer, M., & Hutter, F. (2018). Warmstarting of Model-Based Algorithm Configuration. In 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2018 (pp. 1355-1362). (Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence). AAAI Press/International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04636v3