International Workshop on Resource-Efficient Learning for Knowledge Discovery
Call for Papers
Modern machine learning techniques, especially deep neural networks, have demonstrated excellent performance for various knowledge discovery and data mining applications. However, the development of many of these techniques still encounters resource constraint challenges in many scenarios, such as limited labeled data (data-level), small model size requirements in real-world computing platforms (model-level), and efficient mapping of the computations to heterogeneous target hardware (system-level). Addressing all of these metrics is critical for the effective and efficient usage of the developed models in a wide variety of real systems, such as large-scale social network analysis, large-scale recommendation systems, and real-time anomaly detection. Therefore, it is desirable to develop efficient learning techniques to tackle challenges of resource limitations from data, model/algorithm, or (and) system/hardware perspectives. The proposed international workshop on "Resource-Efficient Learning for Knowledge Discovery (RelKD 2025)" will provide a great venue for academic researchers and industrial practitioners to share challenges, solutions, and future opportunities of resource-efficient learning.
The goal of this workshop is to create a venue to tackle the challenges that arise when modern machine learning techniques (e.g., deep neural networks) encounter resource limitations (e.g., scarce labeled data, constrained computing devices, low power/energy budget). The workshop shall focus on machine learning techniques used for knowledge discovery and data science applications, with a focus on efficient learning from three angles: data, algorithm/model, and system/hardware. The topics of interest will include:
  • Data-efficient learning: Self-supervised/unsupervised learning, semi/weakly-supervised learning, few-shot learning, and their applications to various data modalities (e.g., graph, user behavior, text, web, image, time series) and data science problems (e.g., social media, healthcare, recommendation, finance, multimedia)
  • Algorithm/model-efficient learning: Neural network pruning, quantization, acceleration, sparse learning, neural network compression, knowledge distillation, neural architecture search, and their applications on various data science problems.
  • System/hardware-efficient learning: Neural network-hardware co-design, real-time and energy-efficient learning system design, hardware accelerators for machine learning, and their applications on various data science problems.
  • Joint-efficient learning: Any kind of joint-efficient learning algorithms/methods (e.g., data-model joint learning, algorithm-hardware joint learning) and their application on various data science problems.
The workshop will be a half-day session comprising several invited talks from distinguished researchers in the field, spotlight lightning talks and a poster session where contributing paper presenters can discuss their work, and a concluding panel discussion focusing on future directions. Attendance is open to all registered participants.
Submitted technical papers should be at least 4 pages long. All papers must be submitted in PDF format (any template is ok). Papers will be peer-reviewed and selected for spotlight and/or poster presentation. We welcome any kinds of submissions, e.g., papers already accepted to or currently under review by other venues, ongoing studies, and so on. We will also select the Best Paper award. Submission site:
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline:
5/31/2026
Notification of Acceptance:
06/10/2026
Workshop Date:
08/09/2026
Contact us
For any questions, please reach out to the organization's email address: chuxuzhang@gmail.com or any organizer’s email address.
Accepted Paper List
A Review of Visual Feature-Guided Semantic Enhancement Methods for Multimodal Named Entity Recognition
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Tokens: A Practitioner’s Guide to Visual Token Compression
Curriculum Learning for Efficient Training of Medical Report Generation Models
SSONN: Self-Scaled Optimized Neural Network, A Lightweight NAS
ComputerAgent: A Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Framework for Computer Control
Resource-Efficient Causal Root Cause Attribution in Large-Scale Systems
The Hidden Ratio in Adam: Stable Structure, Compression, and Sign Dynamics
Extreme Low-Bit Inference in Reasoning Models: Failure Modes and Targeted Recovery
MORL-A2C: Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Reranker for Optimizing Healthiness in MOPI-HFRS
Why and When Visual Token Pruning Fails? A Study on Relevant Visual Information Shift in MLLMs Decoding
Co-Activation Predicts Functional Coherence: Pairwise Fusion for Compression in Mixture-of-Experts
Wisdom of Committee: Diverse Distillation from Large Foundation Models and Domain Experts
Risk-Aware Data Auditing for Resource-Efficient Learning under Distribution Shift
Whose Geometry? When Learner-Relative Data Selection Beats Input-Space Selection for Efficient Fine-Tuning
Anomaly-Guided Local Prompt Learning For Open-Set Industrial Defect Recognition
One-Shot Domain Calibration of MoE Routers via Gradient Bias Steering
Brick-DICL: Dynamic In-Context Learning for Automated Brick Schema Classification
Agenda
1:00pm
Opening remarks
1:10pm-1:50pm
Invited talk 1:  Yizhou Sun (UCLA)
Talk Title: TBD
1:50am-02:30pm
Invited talk 2:  Peng Cui (Tsinghua)
Talk Title: TBD
2:30pm-3:10pm
Spotlight paper presentations
Curriculum Learning for Efficient Training of Medical Report Generation Models
Why and When Visual Token Pruning Fails? A Study on Relevant Visual Information Shift in MLLMs Decoding
Brick-DICL: Dynamic In-Context Learning for Automated Brick Schema Classification
Wisdom of Committee: Diverse Distillation from Large Foundation Models and Domain Experts
3:10pm-3:50pm
Invited talk 3:  Meng Jiang (Notre Dame)
Talk Title: TBD
3:50pm-4:30pm
Invited talk 4:  Liangjie Hong (Nokia)
Talk Title: TBD
4:30pm
Closing remarks
4:30pm - 5:00pm
Poster session
Invited Speakers
Yizhou Sun
Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Talk Title: TBD
Peng Cui
Professor
Tsinghua University
Talk Title: TBD
Meng Jiang
Professor
University of Notre Dame
Talk Title: TBD
Liangjie Hong
VP of Engineering
AI at Nokia
Talk Title: TBD
Organizing Chairs
Associate Professor
University of Connecticut
Assistant Professor
North Carolina State University
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Assistant Professor
University at Albany
Principal Scientist
Google DeepMind
Associate Professor
University of Virginia
Senior Chair
Professor
Arizona State University
CMT Acknowledgement
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.