Amir Rezaei Balef

PhD Candidate supervised by Katharina Eggensperger University of Tübingen & Lamarr Institut, TU Dortmund

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Maria-von-Linden-Str. 6

University of Tübingen

72076 Tübingen, Germany

Hi!

I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Tübingen and the Lamarr Institut at TU Dortmund, supervised by Prof. Katharina Eggensperger, and a member of the IMPRS-IS. I received my M.Sc. in Digital Systems from Sharif University of Technology, and my B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology.

news

Jun 4, 2026 📝 Our paper “Do Tabular Foundation Models Learn Rules or Memorize Exemplars?” got accepted at the 2nd ICML Workshop on Foundation Models for Structured Data.
May 1, 2026 📝 Our paper “Is One Layer Enough? Understanding Inference Dynamics in Tabular Foundation Models” got accepted at ICML’26. See you in Seoul!
Dec 1, 2025 Meet me at NeurIPS and EurIPS! Presenting “Put CASH on Bandits: A Max K-Armed Problem for Automated Machine Learning” at NeurIPS and the ELLIS Unconference, and “Towards Understanding Layer Contributions in Tabular In-Context Learning Models” at the AI for Tabular Data workshop at EurIPS.
Oct 1, 2025 📝 Our paper “Put CASH on Bandits: A Max K-Armed Problem for Automated Machine Learning” got accepted at NeurIPS’25. We will present this work in San Diego and Copenhagen.
Aug 1, 2025 📝 Our paper “In-Context Decision Making for Optimizing Complex AutoML Pipelines” got accepted at ECAI’25. We will present this work also at EWRL’25. See you in Bologna and Tübingen!

latest posts

May 29, 2024 Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)
May 22, 2024 Hurry Up, We're Dreamin
May 20, 2024 Get To Heaven

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