| 22 SEP 2025 |
| Afternoon | Opening & welcome reception |
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| 23 SEP 2025 |
| 08:30 - 09:20 | Registration |
| 08:20 - 09:30 | Opening | Sašo Džeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute), Vida Groznik (University of Ljubljana) |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Physics-informed Methods for Science | Chair: TBD |
| Paper ID | Author Names | Paper Title |
| 12 | Pol Timmer (Eindhoven University of Technology)*; Koen Minartz (Eindhoven University of Technology); Vlado Menkovski (Eindhoven University of Technology) | Efficient Probabilistic Modeling of Crystallization at Mesoscopic Scale |
| 47 | Diana Onutu (Eindhoven University of Technology)*; Yue Zhao (SURF); Joaquin Vanschoren (Eindhoven University of Technology); Vlado Menkovski (Eindhoven University of Technology) | Score Matching on Large Geometric Graphs for Cosmology Generation |
| 78 | Sabin Roman (Jožef Stefan Institute)* | Maximum Entropy Models for Unimodal Time Series: Case Studies of Universe 25 and St. Matthew Island |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Learning from Complex Data | Chair: TBD |
| Paper ID | Author Names | Paper Title |
| 74 | Liliana Martirano (ICAR CNR)*; Francesco Scala (ICAR CNR); Carmela Comito (ICAR CNR); Luigi Pontieri (ICAR CNR) | Who Drives Misinformation? Key Node Detection with Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks |
| 31 | Fadwa Idlahcen (Czech Technical University)* | Learning Tree-structured Distributions |
| 14 | Cristian Cosentino (University of Calabria); Merve Gunduz (Manisa Celal Bayar University); Fabrizio Marozzo (Universita' della Calabria); Şule Öztürk Birim (Manisa Celal Bayar University)* | From Reviews to Results: Generative AI for Review-Driven Product and Service Comparisons |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Keynote | Mikel Landajuela | Deep Symbolic Optimization: Reinforcement Learning for Equation Discovery |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Break |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Symbolic Regression for Science | Chair: TBD |
| Paper ID | Author Names | Paper Title |
| 96 | Jannis Brugger (TU Darmstadt)*; Viktor Pfanschilling (TU Darmstadt); David Richter (TU Darmstadt); Mira Mezini (TU Darmstadt); Stefan Kramer (Uni Mainz ) | Prompting Neural-Guided Equation Discovery Based on Residuals |
| 30 | Jure Brence (Jozef Stefan Institute)*; Sašo Džeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute); Ljupčo Todorovski (Faculty of mathematics and physics, University of Ljubljana) | Bayesian Grammar Refinement for Efficient Equation Discovery |
| 11 | Guus Toussaint (Leiden University)*; Arno Knobbe (Leiden University) | EDC: Equation Discovery for Classification |
| 62 | Martin Perčinić (Jožef Stefan Institute)*; Sebastian Mežnar (Jožef Stefan Institute); Ljupčo Todorovski (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana); Sašo Džeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute) | A variational autoencoder for n-ary trees |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Model Design and Optimization: Symbolic Learning, Decision Trees, and NNs | Chair: TBD |
| Paper ID | Author Names | Paper Title |
| 70 | Kiara Stempel (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)*; Mattia Cerrato (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz); Stefan Kramer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) | On the Potential of Deep Symbolic Models for Classification Problems |
| 49 | Florian Beck (JKU Linz)*; Johannes Fürnkranz (JKU Linz); Van Quoc Phuong Huynh (JKU Linz) | Exploring the Design Space of Fair Tree Learning Algorithms |
| 56 | Artem Lunev (ITMO University)*; Nikolay Nikitin (ITMO University) | Neuron-Level Architecture Search for Efficient Model Design |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Poster Session & Aperitif |
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| 24 SEP 2025 |
| 09:30 - 11:00 | Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning | Chair: TBD |
| Paper ID | Author Names | Paper Title |
| 99 | Vangjush Komini (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)*; Nadezhda Koriakina (Uppsala University); Debaditya Roy (Qamcom Research and Technology AB); Sarunas Girdzijauskas (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) | Similarity Learning for Spectral Clustering |
| 22 | Georgios Vardakas (University of Ioannina)*; Antonia Karra (University of Ioannina); Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina); Aristidis Likas (University of Ioannina) | Evaluating Clustering Quality in Centroid-Based Clustering Using Counterfactual Distances |
| 37 | Sintija Stevanoska (Jožef Stefan Institute)*; Katharina Dost (Jožef Stefan Institute); Christian Leonardo Camacho Villalón (Jožef Stefan Institute); Sašo Džeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute) | Selecting Unlabeled Data for Tabular Self-Supervised Learning |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Explainable AI for Science | Chair: Jan N. van Rijn |
| Paper ID | Author Names | Paper Title |
| 41 | Carlos Soares (U. Porto / Fraunhofer AICOS Portugal); Paulo J. Azevedo (U. Minho); Luis Torgo (Dalhousie U.); Vítor Cerqueira (U. Porto)* | Meta Subspace Analysis: understanding model (mis)behavior in the metafeature space |
| 61 | Antónia Brito (Faculty of Engineering University of Porto)*; Moisés Santos ( Faculty of Engineering University of Porto); Carlos Soares (Faculty of Engineering University of Porto); Duarte Folgado (AICOS Fraunhofer) | tsMIST: Model Sensitivity Analysis with Time Series Morphing |
| 28 | Genghua Dong (Kungliga Tekniska högskolan)*; Henrik Boström (Kungliga Tekniska högskolan); Roman Bresson (Kungliga Tekniska högskolan); Amr Alkhatib (Kungliga Tekniska högskolan) | Explaining Deep Neural Networks with Example and Pixel Attribution |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Keynote | Joaquin Vanschoren | Auto-continual learning |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Break |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Few-Shot Learning, Data Streams | Chair: TBD |
| Paper ID | Author Names | Paper Title |
| 3 | Tim van Engeland (Eindhoven University of Technology); Lu Yin (Eindhoven University of Technology); Vlado Menkovski (Eindhoven University of Technology)* | Aspect-Based Few-Shot Learning |
| 36 | Francesco Scala (CNR-ICAR)*; Massimo Guarascio (CNR-ICAR); Carlo Parrotta (UNICAL-DIMES); Luigi Pontieri (CNR-ICAR) | Learning Fast to Detect Slow: A Few-Shot Neural Approach to Slow DDoS Attack Detection |
| 73 | Jia Liu (University of Waikato)*; Guilherme Cassales (University of Waikato); Fei Liu (University of New South Wales); Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato); Albert Bifet (University of Waikato) | Adaptive Isolation Forest |
| 68 | Maik Büttner (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg)*; Myra Spiliopoulou (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg) | Investigating delays of combined feature and label acquisitions on data streams |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Explainable AI for Science | Chair: TBD |
| Paper ID | Author Names | Paper Title |
| 82 | Mustafa Cavus (Eskisehir Technical University)*; Jan N. van Rijn (Leiden University); Przemyslaw Biecek (Warsaw University of Technology) | Beyond the Single-Best Model: Rashomon Partial Dependence Profile for Trustworthy Explanations in AutoML |
| 97 | Matteo Salis (University of Turin)*; Gabriele Sartor (University of Turin); Marco Pellegrino (University of Turin); Rosa Meo (University of Turin); Stefano Ferraris (University of Turin); Abdourrahmane Atto (Université Savoie Mont Blanc) | Extending Model-Agnostic XAI Methods for Regression Tasks in Spatio-Temporal Domains |
| 93 | Luca Corbucci (University of Pisa)*; Francesca Naretto (University of Pisa); Anna Monreale (University of Pisa) | Enhancing Local Explanations with GAN-Based neighborhood generation |
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| 25 SEP 2025 |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Keynote | Iryna Gurevych | Please meet AI, our dear new colleague. In other words: can scientists and machines truly cooperate? |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Foundation Models for Science, LLMs | Chair: TBD |
| Paper ID | Author Names | Paper Title |
| 101 | Ana Gjorgjevikj (Jozef Stefan Institute); Matej Martinc (Jožef Stefan Institute); Gjorgjina Cenikj (Jožef Stefan Institute); Saso Dzeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute); Barbara Koroušić Seljak (Jožef Stefan Institute); Tome Eftimov (Jozef Stefan Institute)* | FoodSEM: Large Language Model Specialized in Food Named-Entity Linking |
| 95 | Laura Pollacci (University of Pisa)*; Giacomo Fidone (University of Pisa); Luca Coda-Giorgio (University of Pisa) | Multi-Domain Validation of LLM-Based Simulators via Interpretable and Latent Representations |
| 38 | Joana Santos (ISEP)*; Nuno Silva (ISEP); Carlos Ferreira (ISEP); João Gama (LIAAD) | Fine-Tuning Transformer-Based LLMs in Hierarchical Text Classification |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Model Uncertainty, Trustworthy and Human-Centered Explainable AI | Chair: TBD |
| Paper ID | Author Names | Paper Title |
| 45 | Diego García (University of Oviedo)*; Zhendong Wang (KTH Royal Institute of Technology); José M. Enguita (University of Oviedo) | CACTUS: A Context-aware Framework for Counterfactual Explanations Across Diverse Prediction Domains |
| 88 | Cátia Teixeira (FEUP)*; Inês Gomes (FEUP); Carlos Soares (FEUP); Jan van Rijn (Leiden University) | Hubris Benchmarking with AmbiGANs: Assessing Model Overconfidence with Synthetic Ambiguous Data |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Break |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Reinforcement Learning, Bandit Optimization | Chair: TBD |
| Paper ID | Author Names | Paper Title |
| 21 | Zhuoyu Cheng (Kyushu University)*; Kohei Hatano (Kyushu University); Eiji Takimoto (Kyushu University) | Adversarial bandit optimization for approximately linear functions |
| 87 | Masaki Hashimoto (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University)*; Atsuyoshi Nakamura (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University) | A Contextual Bandit Algorithm for Recommending Item Sets with High Sum Diversity |
| 50 | Simone Amirato (University of Calabria)*; Fabrizio Angiulli (University of Calabria); Fabio Fassetti (University of Calabria) | Explaining Anomalous Data with Reinforcement Learning |
| 53 | Sidahmed Benabderrahmane (New York Universiy)*; Talal Rahwan (New york university) | Attackers Strike Back? Not Anymore — An Ensemble of RL Defenders Awakens. |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Machine Learning Applications | Chair: TBD |
| Paper ID | Author Names | Paper Title |
| 24 | Veronica Buttaro (Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro")*; Giuseppe Lamanna (Lutech SPA); Donato Massaro (Lutech SPA); Claudio Basilio Caporusso (Lutech SPA); Gianvito Pio (Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"); Michelangelo Ceci (Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro") | A novel AI approach for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease from multi-modal incomplete data |
| 58 | Vanessa Toborek (University of Bonn)*; Florian Seiffarth (University of Bonn); Sebastian Müller (University of Bonn); Tamás Horváth (University of Bonn, Fraunhofer IAIS); Christian Bauckhage (University of Bonn, Fraunhofer IAIS) | Exploring Curriculum Learning for Languages: Lessons from Regular Language Tasks |
| 86 | Julio Corona (Instituto de Telecomunicações)*; Rafael Teixeira (Instituto de Telecomunicações); Mário Antunes (Instituto de Telecomunicações); Rui L. Aguiar (Instituto de Telecomunicações) | Exploring Recommendations Attacks through Blind Optimization |
| 17:30 - 17:40 | Closing | Sašo Džeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute), Vida Groznik (University of Ljubljana) |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Poster Session & Aperitif |