2026
Wever, M. D., Muschalik, M., Fumagalli, F., & Lindauer, M. (Angenommen/im Druck). HyperSHAP: Shapley Values and Interactions for Explaining Hyperparameter Optimization. In Proceedings of the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026)
2025
Becktepe, J., Hennig, L., Oeltze-Jafra, S., & Lindauer, M. (Angenommen/im Druck). Auto-nnU-Net: Towards Automated Medical Image Segmentation. In International Conference on Automated Machine Learning 2025 https://openreview.net/pdf?id=XSTIEVoEa2
Deng, D., & Lindauer, M. (2025). Neural Attention Search. In The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Vorabveröffentlichung online. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.13251
Deng, D., & Lindauer, M. (2025). Optimizing Time Series Forecasting Architectures: A Hierarchical Neural Architecture Search Approach. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2025-October. Vorabveröffentlichung online. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.05088
Dierkes, J., Eimer, T., Lindauer, M., & Hoos, H. (2025). Performance Prediction In Reinforcement Learning: The Bad And The Ugly. In 18th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL) Vorabveröffentlichung online. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=L9J6Xmta4J
Eimer, T., Schäpermeier, L., Biedenkapp, A., Tornede, A., Kotthoff, L., Leyman, P., Feurer, M., Eggensperger, K., Maile, K., Tornede, T., Kozak, A., Xue, K., Wever, M. D., Baratchi, M., Pulatov, D., Trautmann, H., Kashgarani, H., & Lindauer, M. (2025). Best Practices For Empirical Meta-Algorithmic Research: Guidelines from the COSEAL Research Network. Vorabveröffentlichung online. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16491
Fehring, L., Eimer, T., & Lindauer, M. (Angenommen/im Druck). Growing with Experience: Growing Neural Networks in Deep Reinforcement Learning. In 2025 Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM 2025)
Fehring, L., Wever, M., Spliethöver, M., Hennig, L., Wachsmuth, H., & Lindauer, M. (2025). Towards Dynamic Priors in Bayesian Optimization for Hyperparameter Optimization. In Workshop Track of the AutoML Conference https://openreview.net/pdf?id=mQ0IENZRx2
Graf, H., Fehring, L., Tornede, T., Tornede, A., Wever, M. D., & Lindauer, M. (2025). Towards Exploiting Early Termination for Multi-Fidelity Hyperparameter Optimization. In Workshop Track of the AutoML Conference Vorabveröffentlichung online. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=apxqygZeFV
Hasebrook, N., Morsbach, F., Kannengießer, N., Zöller, M., Franke, J., Lindauer, M., Hutter, F., & Sunyaev, A. (2025). Practitioner Motives to Use Different Hyperparameter Optimization Methods. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 32(6), Artikel 59. https://doi.org/10.1145/3745771, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.01717
Henheik, M., Eimer, T., & Lindauer, M. (2025). Revisiting Learning Rate Control. In International Conference on Automated Machine Learning 2025 Vorabveröffentlichung online.
Hennig, L., & Lindauer, M. (2025). Leveraging AutoML for Sustainable Deep Learning: A MultiObjective HPO Approach on Deep Shift Neural Networks. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2025-July.
Hennig, L., & Lindauer, M. (2025). Leveraging AutoML for Sustainable Deep Learning: A Multi- Objective HPO Approach on Deep Shift Neural Networks. In Transactions on Machine Learning Research Vorabveröffentlichung online. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=vk7b11DHcW
Jabs, D., Mohan, A., & Lindauer, M. (Angenommen/im Druck). Moments Matter: Stabilizing Policy Optimization using Return Distributions. In 2025 Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM 2025)
Kocher, N., Wassermann, C., Hennig, L., Seng, J., Lindauer, M., Hoos, H., Kersting, K., & Müller, M. (2025). Guidelines for the Quality Assessment of Energy-Aware NAS Benchmarks. In Castanet 2025 Workshop on Challenges Advances and Sustainability in AI HPC Interaction: In conjunction with the 25th IEEE ACM International Symposium on Cluster Cloud and Internet Computing (S. 50-59) https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGridW65158.2025.00017, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.15631
Margraf, V., Lappe, A., Wever, M. D., Benjamins, C., Hüllermeier, E., & Lindauer, M. (2025). SynthACticBench: A Capability-Based Synthetic Benchmark for Algorithm Configuration. In GECCO 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (ACM Conferences). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Vorabveröffentlichung online.
Mladenovic, S., Lindauer, M., & Doerr, C. (2025). Automated Data Preparation for Machine Learning. In 4th International Conference on Automated Machine Learning: Non-Archival Track Vorabveröffentlichung online. https://openreview.net/forum?id=qjLJgQNipN
Mohan, A., Eimer, T., Benjamins, C., Lindauer, M., & Biedenkapp, A. (2025). Mighty: A Comprehensive Tool for studying Generalization, Meta-RL and AutoRL. In 18th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL) Vorabveröffentlichung online. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=QlDXH5NkUx
Neutatz, F., Lindauer, M., & Abedjan, Z. (2025). How Green is AutoML for Tabular Data? In Proceedings 28th International Conference on Extending Database Technology ( EDBT 2025 ) (S. 350–363) https://openproceedings.org/2025/conf/edbt/paper-97.pdf
Rook, J., Benjamins, C., Bossek, J., Trautmann, H., Hoos, H., & Lindauer, M. (2025). MO-SMAC: Multi-objective Sequential Model-based Algorithm Configuration. Evolutionary computation, 25(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1162/evco_a_00371
Schaller, M. C., Kruse, M., Ortega, A., Lindauer, M., & Rosenhahn, B. (2025). Automl for Multi-Class Anomaly Compensation of Sensor Drift. Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 250, Artikel 117097. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2025.117097
Segel, S., Graf, H., Bergman, E., Thieme, K., Wever, M. D., Tornede, A., Hutter, F., & Lindauer, M. (Angenommen/im Druck). DeepCAVE: A Visualization and Analysis Tool for Automated Machine Learning. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2025(26). http://jmlr.org/papers/v26/24-1353.html
Zöller, M., Lindauer, M., & Huber, M. (2025). auto-sktime: Automated Time Series Forecasting. In P. Festa, D. Ferone, T. Pastore, & O. Pisacane (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 18TH Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION) (S. 456–471). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Band 14990 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75623-8_35, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.08528
2024
Becktepe, J., Dierkes, J., Benjamins, C., Mohan, A., Salinas, D., Rajan, R., Hutter, F., Hoos, H., Lindauer, M., & Eimer, T. (2024). ARLBench: Flexible and Efficient Benchmarking for Hyperparameter Optimization in Reinforcement Learning. In 17th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2024) Vorabveröffentlichung online. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.18827
Benjamins, C., Surana, S., Bent, O., Lindauer, M., & Duckworth, P. (2024). Bayesian Optimisation for Protein Sequence Design: Gaussian Processes with Zero-Shot Protein Language Model Prior Mean. Beitrag in The 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Kanada.
Benjamins, C., Surana, S., Bent, O., Lindauer, M., & Duckworth, P. (2024). Bayesian Optimization for Protein Sequence Design: Back to Simplicity with Gaussian Processes. In AI for Accelerated Materials Design - NeurIPS Workshop 2024 Vorabveröffentlichung online.
Benjamins, C., Cenikj, G., Nikolikj, A., Mohan, A., Eftimov, T., & Lindauer, M. (2024). Instance Selection for Dynamic Algorithm Configuration with Reinforcement Learning: Improving Generalization. In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) (S. 563 - 566). Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). https://doi.org/10.1145/3638530
Bergman, E., Feurer, M., Bahram, A., Rezaei, A., Purucker, L., Segel, S., Lindauer, M., & Eggensperger, K. (2024). AMLTK: A Modular AutoML Toolkit in Python. The Journal of Open Source Software, 9(100), Artikel 6367. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06367
Eimer, T., Hutter, F., Lindauer, M., & Biedenkapp, A. (2024). Verfahren zum Trainieren eines Algorithmus des maschinellen Lernens durch ein bestärkendes Lernverfahren. (Patent Nr. DE102022210480A1). Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA). https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/090246319/publication/DE102022210480A1?q=pn%3DDE102022210480A1
Giovanelli, J., Tornede, A., Tornede, T., & Lindauer, M. (2024). Interactive Hyperparameter Optimization in Multi-Objective Problems via Preference Learning. In M. Wooldridge, J. Dy, & S. Natarajan (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 38th conference on AAAI (S. 12172-12180). (Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; Band 38, Nr. 11). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2309.03581, https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i11.29106
Hennig, L., Tornede, T., & Lindauer, M. (2024). Towards Leveraging AutoML for Sustainable Deep Learning: A Multi-Objective HPO Approach on Deep Shift Neural Networks. In 5th Workshop on practical ML for limited/low resource settings Vorabveröffentlichung online. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.01965
Lindauer, M., Karl, F., Klier, A., Moosbauer, J., Tornede, A., Müller, A., Hutter, F., Feurer, M., & Bischl, B. (2024). A Call to Action for a Human-Centered AutoML Paradigm. In Proceedings of the international conference on machine learning (S. 30566 - 30584). Artikel 1231 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3692070.3693301
Mohan, A., Zhang, A., & Lindauer, M. (2024). Structure in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Survey and Open Problems. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 79, 1167-1236. https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.1.15703
Mohan, A., & Lindauer, M. (Angenommen/im Druck). Towards Enhancing Predictive Representations using Relational Structure in Reinforcement Learning. In The 17th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2024)
Neutatz, F., Lindauer, M., & Abedjan, Z. (2024). AutoML in Heavily Constrained Applications. VLDB Journal, 33(4), 957–979. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.16913, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00778-023-00820-1
Theodorakopoulos, D., Stahl, F., & Lindauer, M. (2024). Hyperparameter Importance Analysis for Multi-Objective AutoML. In U. Endriss, F. S. Melo, K. Bach, A. Bugarin-Diz, J. M. Alonso-Moral, S. Barro, & F. Heintz (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the european conference on AI (ECAI) (S. 1100-1107). (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Band 392). https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA240602, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.07640
Tornede, A., Deng, D., Eimer, T., Giovanelli, J., Mohan, A., Ruhkopf, T., Segel, S., Theodorakopoulos, D., Tornede, T., Wachsmuth, H., & Lindauer, M. (2024). AutoML in the Age of Large Language Models: Current Challenges, Future Opportunities and Risks. Transactions on Machine Learning Research. Vorabveröffentlichung online. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.08107
2023
Benjamins, C., Eimer, T., Schubert, F. G., Mohan, A., Döhler, S., Biedenkapp, A., Rosenhahn, B., Hutter, F., & Lindauer, M. (2023). Contextualize Me – The Case for Context in Reinforcement Learning. Transactions on Machine Learning Research. Vorabveröffentlichung online. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2202.04500
Benjamins, C., Eimer, T., Schubert, F. G., Mohan, A., Döhler, S., Biedenkapp, A., Rosenhahn, B., Hutter, F., & Lindauer, M. (2023). Extended Abstract: Contextualize Me -- The Case for Context in Reinforcement Learning. In The 16th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2023) Vorabveröffentlichung online. https://openreview.net/forum?id=DJgHzXv61b
Benjamins, C., Raponi, E., Jankovic, A., Doerr, C., & Lindauer, M. (Angenommen/im Druck). Self-Adjusting Weighted Expected Improvement for Bayesian Optimization. In AutoML Conference 2023 PMLR.
Benjamins, C., Raponi, E., Jankovic, A., Doerr, C., & Lindauer, M. (2023). Towards Self-Adjusting Weighted Expected Improvement for Bayesian Optimization. In GECCO '23: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (S. 483 - 486). Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). https://doi.org/10.1145/3583133
Bischl, B., Binder, M., Lang, M., Pielok, T., Richter, J., Coors, S., Thomas, J., Ullmann, T., Becker, M., Boulesteix, A.-L., Deng, D., & Lindauer, M. (2023). Hyperparameter Optimization: Foundations, Algorithms, Best Practices and Open Challenges. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 13(2), Artikel e1484. https://doi.org/10.1002/widm.1484
