Session (16:30 - 18:00)

Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)

Overview of the Lab (13 mins, including questions)

QuantumCLEF 2025: Overview of the Second Quantum Computing Challenge for Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems at CLEF

Andrea Pasin, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Washington Cunha, Marcos André Goncalves, Paolo Cremonesi, Nicola Ferro

16:32 - 16:45

Participant presentations (13 mins, including questions)

Team GPLSI at QClef 2025: Quantum-Inspired Instance Selection and Clustering

Juan Pablo Consuegra-Ayala, Aitana Morote-Martínez, Francisco Valero-Abellón, Elena Lloret, Paloma Moreda, Manuel Palomar

16:45 - 16:58

Quantum Feature Selection from Interpretable Models using a QUBO Formulation

Flavio Giobergia, Claudio Savelli, Alkis Koudounas, Elena Baralis

16:58 - 17:11

SINAI team at QuantumCLEF 2025: Quantum Feature Selection Based on Energy with D-Wave

Lucas Molino-Piñar, Jaime Collado-Montañez, Arturo Montejo-Ráez

17:11 - 17:24

Quantum Annealing for Machine Learning: Applications in Feature Selection, Instance Selection, and Clustering

Chloe Pomeroy, Aleksandar Pramov, Karishma Thakrar, Lakshmi Yendapalli

17:24 - 17:37

Feature Selection Using Quantum Annealing: A Mutual Information Based QUBO Approach

Muhammad Talha Shaikh, Muhammad Hamza, Syed Bilal Ali, Muhammad Rafi, Sumaiyah Zahid

17:37 - 17:50

Discussion, future prospects and closing (10 mins)