On July 18, 2025, the new ELIZA Master students in Freiburg gathered for the Decentralized ELIZA Welcome Networking Event, joining other sites via video conference. After a warm welcome and inspiring remarks from the School Director, students took part in interactive team-building activities that helped everyone connect and collaborate across Read more
ELLIS Unit Freiburg paticipated in the Pre-ICML Fest TIME: Friday, 3rd July 2025, 17:30 PM.LOCATION: IMBIT NEXUS Lab, Georges-Köhler-Allee 201, 79110 Freiburg In the lead-up to the 2025 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), several ELLIS Units across Europe organized the inaugural ELLIS Pre-ICML Fest—a decentralized initiative aimed at providing ELLIS researchers with Read more
Experience top speaker, innovative network formats, action, and lots of inspiring talks! The Käpsele Innovation Festival is the largest innovation festival in southwest Germany and will take place on June 26, 2025 in the SICK Arena at Messe Freiburg.The festival’s motto is “Out of the bubble – into the future” Read more
Date: March 13th, 2025 At BrAInWorlds, around 250 participants embarked on an interactive journey into the fascinating interplay between brain, environment, and perception. Through two immersive installations, visitors experienced firsthand how surroundings shape our internal world models in real time. In the Connected Thinking space, warm yellows, greens, and lively activities encouraged openness Read more
Date: June 3rd, 17:30Location: Building 80 Room 00-021 The unit invites everyone interested to the next social event on June 3rd! Get ready for an engaging gathering filled with insightful discussions. A great event to connect with the AI community in Freiburg! This time, there are two ten-minute presentations. The talks are followed by a Read more
In 2022 and 2023 we Prof. Dr. Frank Hutter, together with other postdocs and PhD students from the AutoML lab in the ELLIS Unit Freiburg, have organized the AutoML conference, the premier gathering of professionals focussed on the progressive automation of machine learning (ML), aiming to develop automated methods for Read more
Speaker: Arber ZelaDate: 29th April 2024 Pareto front profiling in multi-objective optimization (MOO), i.e. finding a diverse set of Pareto optimal solutions, is challenging, especially with expensive objectives like neural network training. Typically, in MOO neural architecture search (NAS), we aim to balance performance and hardware metrics across devices. Prior Read more
Speaker: Josif GrabockaDate: 2022-09-23 Josif Grabocka from the Representation Learning Research Group at Uni Freiburg will give a talk titled “Efficient Hyperparameter Optimization in the Age of Deep Learning“. Abstract Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) is essential in designing state-of-the-art Machine Learning systems. Unfortunately, existing HPO techniques are not efficient enough for Read more
Samuel Müller from the Machine Learning Lab will give a talk titled “Prior-data Fitted Networks (PFNs): Use neural networks for 100x faster Bayesian predictions“. Abstract Bayesian methods can be expensive and complicated to approximate with e.g. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) or Variational Inference (VI) approaches. Prior-data Fitted Networks (PFNs) Read more
Speaker: Daniel HonerkampDate: 2022-08-26 Abstract Mobile manipulation remains a critical challenge across both service and industrial settings and is a key component to visions such as household assistants. But for this it requires the combination of a wide range of capabilities, such as perception and exploration in unknown environments while Read more