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<div class="badge">ECML PKDD 2026 Workshop</div>
<h1><span>Is Bigger Always Better? (IBAB)</span></h1>
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Model Capacity for Task-Specific AI: Theory, Practice, and Applications
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September 2026
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<a href="#overview">Overview</a>
<a href="#speakers">Speakers</a>
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<a href="#dates">Dates</a>
<a href="#submission">Submission</a>
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This workshop is not yet confirmed. The proposal is currently under review.
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<h2>Overview</h2>
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Do we always need bigger models? As the AI community pushes toward ever-larger architectures, a fundamental question remains underexplored: <em>How much model capacity does a specific task actually require?</em>
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This workshop explores the fundamental question of how much capacity (in terms of parameters, architecture, and data) an AI model requires to effectively solve a specific task. This question is central to the ongoing community debate between large multi-task foundation models and smaller task-specific models. We will bring together researchers and practitioners from machine learning and a broad spectrum of applications, including but not limited to geosciences, healthcare, robotics, and biology to discuss theoretical foundations, empirical findings, and real-world applications. We welcome contributions to the full spectrum from TinyML on microcontrollers to Large Language Models, with a focus on principled approaches to right-sizing AI systems. Ideally, workshop contributions should investigate for a specific application scenario or task the tradeoffs in various performance metrics, including but not limited to predictive performance, inference speed, energy efficiency or robustness.
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<strong>Keywords:</strong> model capacity, model selection, multi-objective optimization, tinyML, green AI, domain-specific AI, small language models
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<h2>Invited Speakers</h2>
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<div class="name">Emmanuel Baccelli</div>
<div class="affiliation">INRIA / FU Berlin</div>
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<div class="name">David Salinas</div>
<div class="affiliation">Ellis, University of Freiburg</div>
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<div class="name">Jacek Gołębiowski</div>
<div class="affiliation">distil labs</div>
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<h2>Topics of Interest</h2>
<p class="section-lead">We invite submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics.</p>
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<h3>Theory and Methodology</h3>
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<li>Theoretical and empirical bounds on model capacity (scaling laws, VC theory, PAC-Bayes)</li>
<li>Model selection and neural architecture search for right-sized models</li>
<li>Multi-objective optimization balancing accuracy, efficiency, robustness, and fairness</li>
<li>Benchmarks and evaluation protocols for capacity-performance trade-offs</li>
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<h3>Model Compression and Efficiency</h3>
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<li>Knowledge distillation, pruning, and quantization</li>
<li>TinyML and efficient models for edge devices and resource-constrained environments</li>
<li>Green AI: energy consumption, carbon footprint, and sustainability of model sizing decisions</li>
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<h3>Domain Applications</h3>
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<li>Geosciences: climate modeling, remote sensing, sensor networks</li>
<li>Healthcare: medical imaging, wearable diagnostics, clinical decision support</li>
<li>Robotics: manipulation and grasping, human-robot interaction</li>
<li>Biology: protein folding, genomic analysis, drug discovery</li>
<li>Other domains with specific capacity constraints or requirements</li>
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<h3>Empirical Studies</h3>
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<li>Comparative studies of small specialized models vs. large general-purpose models</li>
<li>Task-specific capacity analysis across model families</li>
<li>Case studies on deploying right-sized models in production</li>
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<h2>Important Dates</h2>
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<div class="date">June 5, 2026</div>
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<div class="date">June 27, 2026</div>
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<div class="label">Camera-Ready</div>
<div class="date">July 10, 2026</div>
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<div class="date">Sep 7 or 11, 2026</div>
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<p class="date-note">All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).</p>
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<h2>Submission Guidelines</h2>
<p class="section-lead">Submission guidelines will be announced soon.</p>
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<h2>Workshop Schedule</h2>
<p class="section-lead">Preliminary schedule — details to be confirmed.</p>
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<div class="schedule-time">09:00</div>
<div class="schedule-title">Opening Remarks</div>
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<div class="schedule-time">09:10</div>
<div class="schedule-title">Keynote Talk 1: Emmanuel Baccelli - "TinyML: Pushing the Limits of Model Capacity on Edge Devices"</div>
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<div class="schedule-time">09:30</div>
<div class="schedule-title">Keynote Talk 2: David Salinas - "Multi-Objective Optimization for Robust and Efficient AI"</div>
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<div class="schedule-time">10:50</div>
<div class="schedule-title">Keynote Talk 3: Jacek Gołębiowski - "Benchmarking Small Language Models"</div>
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<div class="schedule-time">11:15</div>
<div class="schedule-title">Contributed Talks (3 presentations)</div>
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<div class="schedule-time">12:00</div>
<div class="schedule-title">Panel Discussion: "Is Bigger Always Better?"</div>
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<div class="schedule-time">12:30</div>
<div class="schedule-title">Domain Breakout Groups (LLMs, Geosciences, Healthcare, Biology, Robotics)</div>
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<div class="name">Emmanuel Baccelli</div>
<div class="affiliation">INRIA, FU Berlin</div>
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<div class="name">Giovanni Zappella</div>
<div class="affiliation">AWS</div>
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<div class="name">Antonino Freno</div>
<div class="affiliation">ebay</div>
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<div class="name">David Salinas</div>
<div class="affiliation">University Freiburg</div>
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<div class="name">Jacek Golebiowski</div>
<div class="affiliation">distil labs</div>
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<div class="name">Alexander Binder</div>
<div class="affiliation">University Leipzig</div>
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<div class="name">Helena Mihaljevic</div>
<div class="affiliation">Einstein Center Digital Future, HTW Berlin</div>
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<div class="name">Amy Siu</div>
<div class="affiliation">BHT Berlin</div>
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<div class="name">Felix Biessmann</div>
<div class="affiliation">BHT / Einstein Center Digital Future</div>
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<div class="name">Erik Rodner</div>
<div class="affiliation">HTW Berlin / Merantix Momentum</div>
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<div class="name">Kristian Hildebrand</div>
<div class="affiliation">BHT Berlin</div>
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<div class="name">Peter Gehler</div>
<div class="affiliation">Tübingen AI Center</div>
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<div class="name">Alexander Binder</div>
<div class="affiliation">University of Leipzig</div>
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<div class="name">Golzar Atefi</div>
<div class="affiliation">BHT</div>
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<div class="name">Pallavi Mitra</div>
<div class="affiliation">AUMOVIO</div>
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<div class="name">Vipin Singh</div>
<div class="affiliation">BHT Berlin</div>
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<div class="name">Mario Koddenbrock</div>
<div class="affiliation">HTW Berlin</div>
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<div class="name">Ricardo Knauer</div>
<div class="affiliation">HTW Berlin</div>
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<p>IBAB Workshop @ <a href="https://ecmlpkdd.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ECML PKDD 2026</a> · Naples, Italy</p>
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