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  • Lorenz Presents at GLOW

    Lorenz Presents at GLOW

    Graph Learning on Wednesdays (GLOW) is a new reading group designed to foster discussions on the foundations and latest developments in Graph Machine Learning. We were thankful for the opportunity to present our research and engage in the interesting discussions.

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  • Group Excursion to AKW Zwentendorf

    Group Excursion to AKW Zwentendorf

    On Friday the 24th October 2025, the KriegeGroup set out to explore the Nuclear Reactor Facilities in Zwentendorf (Lower Austria). The Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant was a fully built 700 MW boiling-water reactor near Vienna, completed in 1978 but never put into operation. On November 5, 1978, a referendum resulted in a narrow majority (50.47%)…

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  • Franka Presents Poster at ECML/PKDD

    Franka Presents Poster at ECML/PKDD

    Franka presented the paper Maximally Expressive GNNs for Outerplanar Graphs by Franka Bause, Fabian Jogl, Patrick Indri, Tamara Drucks, David Penz, Nils Kriege, Thomas Gärtner, Pascal Welke, and Maximilian Thiessen (published at TMLR earlier this year) at the ECML/PKDD 2025 Nectar Track! Our paper proposes a linear time graph transformation that enables the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL)…

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  • Franka Successfully Defends Thesis

    Franka Successfully Defends Thesis

    On Thursday, 7th of August, Franka successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Efficient and Expressive Graph Learning”. Congratulations Franka!!

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  • Lorenz and Anatol Present at ICML 2025

    Lorenz and Anatol Present at ICML 2025

    We were amazed by the amount of attention our latest work, “Weisfeiler and Leman Go Gambling: Why Expressive Lottery Tickets Win” received at ICML 2025, Vancouver, Canada and want to thank everyone involved in the interesting and inspiring discussions we had. In short, our paper shows theoretically how successful pre-training parameter pruning combined with sparse…

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  • “Best of the Best”-Award for Franka

    “Best of the Best”-Award for Franka

    We are happy to announce that Franka was honored in the category Publications in highest ranking venues 2024 (Gruppe PraeDoc). The award recognizes outstanding research contributions by PhD students from the faculty of computer science.

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  • Anatol Presents Poster at 13th ICCS

    Anatol Presents Poster at 13th ICCS

    Anatol Presents his poster titled “Bio-Isostere Guided Molecular Property Prediction” at the 13th International Conference on Chemical Structures in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. The poster proposes a novel idea to pre-train a GNN by creating bio-isosteres from a large unlabeled dataset. These bio-isosteres are dynamically sampled during training to form triplets, where the anchor and positive…

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  • Group Excursion to Mödling

    Group Excursion to Mödling

    Last week, the Kriegegroup went on an excursion to the beautiful hilltops of Mödling in Lower Austria. After arriving at the central station, Charlotte led us to the Bergruine Mödling, followed by a steep ascent to the Husar Temple, where we took the image below. Finally we ended up at the excellent Heuriger called Pferschy-Seper…

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  • MLG Workshop at ECML/PKDD

    MLG Workshop at ECML/PKDD

    We are happy to announce, that the 22nd Mining and Learning with Graphs workshop will be held at ECML/PKDD on September 15th 2025 in Porto! We will have exciting keynotes by Rebekka Burgholz and Matthias Fey, as well as plenty of time for socializing. Submit your work until 14th of June at http://mlg-europe.github.io! The European…

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  • Paper accepted at ICML 2025

    Paper accepted at ICML 2025

    We’re thrilled to share that our paper “Weisfeiler and Leman Go Gambling: Why Expressive Lottery Tickets Win” by Lorenz Kummer, Samir Moustafa, Anatol Ehrlich, Franka Bause, Nikolaus Suess, Wilfried Gansterer and Nils Kriege has been accpted at the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning, July 13th-19th 2025, Vancouver, Canada! This work bridges two important areas…

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