All regular talks are 15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A. 

16 August (09.00-17.00)

09:00 - 09:10: Opening

09:10-10:30 Session 1 

• Formulations and Implementations, by Ali Irfan Mahmutogulları, Jayanta Mandi, Tias Guns

• Simplicity Suffices for Parameter Noise Injection in Stochastic Gradient Descent, by Benjamin Leblanc, Louis-Jacob Lebel

• Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Solving Clustered Vehicle Routing Problems, by Yue Yu, Yaoxin Wu 

• DROVER: Diffusion Routing with Verbal Reasoning, by Jesse van Remmerden, Zaharah Bukhsh, Yingqian Zhang

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:45 Keynote 1:  Understanding the Algorithmic Bias of Graph Neural Networks, by Christopher Morris (Aachen University, Germany) 

11:45-12:45 Session 2: 

• Forge: Foundational Optimization Representations from Graph Embeddings, by Zohair Shafi, Serdar Kadioglu

• Supervised Learning of Model Aware Variable Orderings in CP, by Georg Ringwelski, Julian Kirsch, Benedict Lelanz

• Scheduling That Speaks: An Interpretable Programmatic Reinforcement Learning Framework, by Chengpeng Hu, Hendrik Baier, Yingqian Zhang

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:45 Keynote 2:  Combinatorial Optimization is Fundamental to Decision-Making across Science, by Wen Song  (Shandong University, China)

14:45 - 15:25 Session 3: 

• Manifold Sampling via Entropy Maximization, by Cornelius V. Braun, Tilman Burghoff, Marc Toussaint

• Prompt Segmentation and Annotation Optimisation: Controlling LLM Behaviour via Optimised Segment-Level Annotations, by Henry Xiao, Tong Li, Devika Prasad, Luke Gerschwitz, Anjin Liu, Coco Wu, Anna Leontjeva

15:25 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 Session 4:  

• Scalable Decision-Focused Learning through Cost-Sensitive Regression, by Noah Schutte, Senne Berden, Tias Guns, Neil Yorke-Smith, Krzysztof Postek

• Optimizing Emergency Blood Distribution: A Novel Multiplex Network Modeling Framework, by Suman Nandi, Giridhar Maji, Animesh Dutta

• Learning-Guided State Partitioning for Decision Diagram Relaxations in Two-Stage Robust Optimization, by Michael Römer, Merve Bodur