07.08.2026
MCML at KDD 2026
Six Accepted Papers (5 Main, and 1 Workshop)
32nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Aug 09-13, 2026
We are happy to announce that MCML researchers have contributed a total of 6 papers to KDD 2026: 5 Main, and 1 Workshop papers. Congrats to our researchers!
Main Track (5 papers)
T. Amico • P. Matthews • L. Krieger • A. Zimek • I. Assent
DCFO: Density-Based Counterfactuals for Outliers.
KDD 2026 - 32nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Aug 09-13, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. DOI
DCFO: Density-Based Counterfactuals for Outliers.
KDD 2026 - 32nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Aug 09-13, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. DOI
D. Frauen • M. Brockschmidt • K. Hess • H. Ma • Y. Ma • A. Maarouf • M. Schröder • J. Schweisthal • Y. Wang • A. Deviyani • S. Parbhoo • R. G. Krishnan • S. Feuerriegel
Causal methods for LLM development and evaluation.
KDD 2026 - 32nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Aug 09-13, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Causal methods for LLM development and evaluation.
KDD 2026 - 32nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Aug 09-13, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
P. Janetzky • T. Schlagenhauf • M. Klar • S. Feuerriegel
Slowing Down Forgetting in Continual Learning: Evidence from Manufacturing.
KDD 2026 - 32nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Aug 09-13, 2026. To be published.
Slowing Down Forgetting in Continual Learning: Evidence from Manufacturing.
KDD 2026 - 32nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Aug 09-13, 2026. To be published.
Y. Ma • Y. Huang • W. Wang • X. Luo • X. Zhang • S. Feuerriegel
Synthetic Interaction Data for Scalable Personalization in Large Language Models.
KDD 2026 - 32nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Aug 09-13, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Synthetic Interaction Data for Scalable Personalization in Large Language Models.
KDD 2026 - 32nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Aug 09-13, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Y. Qu • Q. Wang • Y. Mao • V. T. Hu • B. Ommer • X. Ji
Can Prompt Difficulty be Online Predicted for Accelerating RL Finetuning of Reasoning Models?
KDD 2026 - 32nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Aug 09-13, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Can Prompt Difficulty be Online Predicted for Accelerating RL Finetuning of Reasoning Models?
KDD 2026 - 32nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Aug 09-13, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Workshops (1 paper)
M. Sadeghi • R. Richer • L. H. Rupp • L. Schindler-Gmelch • M. Keinert • F. Rahimi • M. Hager • B. Egger • M. Berking • B. M. Eskofier
Do Depressive Facial Patterns Transfer Across Cultures and Contexts? Evidence from a German RCT and E-DAIC.
AI4Mental @KDD 2026 - International Workshop on AI for Cognitive and Mental Health Support at the 32nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Aug 09-13, 2026. PDF GitHub
Do Depressive Facial Patterns Transfer Across Cultures and Contexts? Evidence from a German RCT and E-DAIC.
AI4Mental @KDD 2026 - International Workshop on AI for Cognitive and Mental Health Support at the 32nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Aug 09-13, 2026. PDF GitHub
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