Amir Rezaei Balef
PhD Candidate supervised by Katharina Eggensperger University of Tübingen & Lamarr Institut, TU Dortmund
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. |
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| 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) |
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| May 22, 2024 | Hurry Up, We're Dreamin |
| May 20, 2024 | Get To Heaven |