We are happy to announce that the papers “Impact of the Characteristics of Multi-Source Entity Matching Tasks on the Performance of Active Learning Methods” by Anna Primpeli and Christian Bizer and the paper “Supervised Knowledge Aggregation for Knowledge Graph Completion” by Patrick Betz, Christian ...

The paper “NuPS: A Parameter Server for Machine Learning with Non-Uniform Parameter Access” by Alexander Renz-Wieland, Rainer Gemulla, Zoi Kaoudi, and Volker Markl  has been accepted at the 2022 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. Abstract: Parameter servers (PSs) ...

The paper “Parallel Training of Knowledge Graph Embedding Models: A Comparison of Techniques” by Adrian Kochsiek and Rainer Gemulla has been accepted at the 2022 Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB). Abstract: Knowledge graph embedding (KGE) models represent the entities and relations of a ...

The paper “Efficient Learning of Discrete-Continuous Computation Graphs” by David Friede and Mathias Niepert (NEC Research Labs) has been accepted for the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021).

Michael Pernpeinter, PhD Student in the AI Group successfully applied for a Fulbrigth Scholarship to visit Texas A&M University and work with Prof. Guni Sharon on Governance of Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems.

The paper “Winning at Any Cost – Infringing the Cartel Prohibition With Reinforcement Learning” was accepted at the 19th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

The paper “Dual-Objective Fine-Tuning of BERT for Entity Matching” by Ralph Peeters and Christian Bizer has been accepted for publication by the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 2021. The paper will be presented at the VLDB 2021 conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in August.

Goran Glavaš has received the best (long) paper award at one of the most renowned conferences in NLP, the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL).

We are happy to announce the release of the WDC Schema.org Table Corpus.