André Biedenkapp

PhD Student

Postal address:: Institut für Informatik
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Sekretariat Hutter/Maschinelles Lernen
Georges-Köhler-Allee 074
79110 Freiburg, Germany
Room:: Building 074, Room 00-012
Coordinates:: 48.014278, 7.831361 (DD)
Email:: biedenka@cs.uni-freiburg.de
Phone:: +49 761 203-54074
Fax:: +49 761 203-74217

About

Since October 2017 I am a PhD student at the Machine Learning Group under the supervision of Frank Hutter and Marius Lindauer. Before that I completed my master and bachelor degrees in computer science at the University of Freiburg.

Research Interests

I am interested in all facets of artificial intelligence. My research focuses on new ways to control the behavior of algorithms online. More precisely my research areas include:

Algorithm Control
Learning to Learn
(Deep) Reinforcement Learning
Bayesian Optimization
Automated Hyperparameter Optimization

Publications

Code

PyImp: A python package to determine parameter importance based on configuration data.
CAVE: CAVE aims to help algorithm and configurator developers to better understand their experimental setup in an automated fashion. An example of a CAVE result can be found here. The video presentation for the corresponding CAVE paper as shown at LION'18 can be viewed here.

Misc

Erdös number: 4 (Frank Hutter -> Anne Condon -> Michael E. Sacks -> Paul Erdös)