Télécom Paris
19 Place Marguerite Perey
91120 Palaiseau, France
Room: 1A440
Location: Building A, 1st floor, wing 4
Thursday, January 15, 2026 – Afternoon
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Administrative and organizational aspects (Samir)
Topics: project website, integration of new members, progress on Tasks 1, 2, and 3.
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Presentation of M2R internship results – Graph Neural Networks
(Task 2 – Samuel, Simon, Thomas)
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Coffee break
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Brainstorming session 1
Presentation of the CL-LNS paper (Huang et al., ICML 2023) and possible connections with Task 1 (Roumassia, Task 1)
5:30 pm – 5:45 pm
Brainstorming session 2
Demonstration of the Irace tool for automatic configuration
(Coralie, Task 2)
7:30 pm
Dinner (venue to be confirmed)
Friday, January 16, 2026 – Morning
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Learning cost function networks
(Marianne Defresne, Thomas, Task 3)
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Brainstorming session 3
Initial ideas on using patterns in VNS and possible links with David’s internship
(Abdelkader, David, Samir)
11:00 am – 11:15 am
Coffee break
11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Closing session
Summary of discussions, next steps, and planning
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch break at the cafeteria