Session 1 (14:00 - 15:30)
Welcome and Introduction (5 mins)
Overview of the Lab (25 mins, including questions)
QuantumCLEF 2026: Overview of the Third 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
Participant presentations (15 mins, including questions)
Team R2AI at QuantumCLEF 2026: Interaction-Aware Feature Selection and Complementary-Signal Instance Selection via QUBO Optimization
Jiayang Niu, Yan Wang, Jie Li, Ke Deng, Azadeh Alavi, Yongli Ren
Balancing Relevance and Redundancy: An Optuna-Tuned QUBO Formulation for Feature Selection in Recommender Systems
Bhavishya Prajapat, Alapan Kuila
QUBO Based Quantum Annealing for Feature Selection, Instance Selection and Clustering
Sumaiyah Zahid, Muhammad Atif Tahir, Muhammad Rabeet Sagri
Entropy of Void at QuantumCLEF 2026: Hardware-Aware QUBO Decomposition via Quantum Annealing - Instance Selection and Document Clustering
Gaurav Jain, Hitesh Hitesh, Srishty Bedi, Sparsh Sundriyal
Coffee break (30 mins)
Session 2 (16:00 - 17:00)
Team GPLSI at QClef 2026: Quantum-Inspired Instance Selection and Clustering
Santiago Galiano-Segura, Francisco Valero-Abellón, Mónica Sánchez-Bellido, Jairo Madrigal-Cutillas, Juan Pablo Consuegra-Ayala, Olga Francés, Manuel Palomar, Paloma Moreda, Elena Lloret
Team SYZYGY at QuantumCLEF 2026: Feature Selection Using Quantum Annealing
Dhruv Khemani, Benedikt Kantz
Cluster-Aware QUBO Instance Selection with Representativeness Scoring and Noise Pre-Filtering for the QuantumCLEF 2026 Sentiment Classification Task
Prateek Awate