Association for Constraint Programming (ACP) Summer School 2023

Machine Learning for Constraint Programming

10 Jul 2023 - 14 Jul 2023

The summer school will offer a wide range of talks and hands-on sessions on the use of Machine Learning for Constraint Programming. The program consists of a mix of invited talks and hands-on lab sessions.

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10 Jul 2023 - 14 Jul 2023

Van den Heuvel Institute, Dekenstraat 2, 3000 Leuven

English

Target audience: researchers in constraint solving as well as those at the intersection of constraint solving and machine learning

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Price: free for ADS Students; €250 for PhD Students; €450 if you are not a student

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Programme

Monday 10th of July

09:00 - 10:30: Welcome and Intro to Constraint Programming by Tias Guns, KU Leuven
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30: Introduction to Machine Learning by Hendrik Blockeel, KU Leuven
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30: Lab Session: Perception-based solving with CPMpy by Tias Guns, KU Leuven
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30: TBA by Ferdinando Fioretto, Syracuse University

Tuesday 11th of July

09:00 - 10:30: Getting the Best out of your Constraint Solver: Portfolios and Automated Tuning by Lars Kotthoff, University of Wyoming
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30: Lab Session on Algorithm Portfolios and Automated Tuning by Lars Kotthoff, University of Wyoming
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30: TBA by Elias Khalil, University of Toronto
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30: Lab session on decision-focussed learning by Elias Khalil, University of Toronto

Wednesday 12th of July

09:00 - 10:30: Deep Learning & Combinatorial Optimization by Wouter Kool, ORTEC
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30: Lab Session: Learning to Improve a Hybrid Genetic Search Algorithm by Wouter Kool, ORTEC
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30: TBA by Michele Lombardi, Università di Bologna
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 - 18:00: Spotlight session
18:00 - 19:00: Poster session

Thursday 13th of July

09:00 - 10:30: Learning a Value-Selection Heuristic Inside a Constraint Programming Solver by Quentin Cappart, Polytechnique Montreal
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30: Lab Session: Solving combinatorial problems with SeaPearl by Quentin Cappart, Polytechnique Montreal
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30: TBA by Yingqian Zhang, TU Eindhoven
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 - ... : Introduction Hackathon

Friday 14th of July

09:00 - 10:30: Constraint Acquisition: Learning Constraint Models from Data by Dimos Tsouros, KU Leuven
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30: Hackathon
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30: Hackathon