Workshop
ICML 2025 Workshop on Computational Optimization of Buildings (CO-BUILD)
Judah A Goldfeder · Philippe M. Wyder · J. Nathan Kutz · John Sipple · Victoria Dean · Hod Lipson · Na Li · Bing Dong
East Ballroom A
Fri 18 Jul, 8:45 a.m. PDT
Buildings account for 37% of US carbon emissions, and roughly 15% of global energy consumption. Despite transformative advances in AI across industries, most buildings today still operate as they did 40 years ago. Building optimization research is ongoing but mostly confined to dedicated conferences such as BuildSys or ASHRAE, limiting ML community engagement. Despite many open research problems, the potential for ML-driven impact on climate change, in both the short and long term, is enormous, perhaps more so than any other optimization problem. This workshop will engage the ML community in tackling building optimization and fostering collaboration across ML, HVAC, dynamic systems, and smart buildings. Our confirmed speakers from the smart buildings community, the ML community, and its emerging intersection will lead discussions around benchmarking standards, methodologies, and scalable solutions. Reducing the carbon footprint of buildings provides a direct way for the ICML community to benefit humanity and offset the carbon cost of AI. To engage the community, we will host a $$10,000 Kaggle competition, where competitors predict building dynamics on an unreleased, real-world dataset from multiple buildings. The contest winner(s) will be invited to give a talk and share their methods.
Chat is not available.
Timezone: America/Los_Angeles
Schedule
Fri 8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
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Opening Remarks
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Judah A Goldfeder 🔗 |
Fri 9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
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One Policy to Rule Them All: Towards Foundation Models for Building Control
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Invited Talk
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Anaïs Berkes 🔗 |
Fri 9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
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Harvard HouseZero Project
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Invited Talk
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Na Li 🔗 |
Fri 10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Coffee Break
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Fri 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
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Safe, Robust, and Generalizable Machine Learning for Power Systems
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Invited Talk
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Priya Donti 🔗 |
Fri 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
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Panel: Fostering Collaboration: Dynamic Systems, AI, and Buildings
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Panel Discussion
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John Sipple · Bianca Howard · Michael Kane · Chris Develder · Donna Vakalis 🔗 |
Fri 11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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BEAVER: Building Environments with Assessable Variation for Evaluating Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
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Contributed Talk
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Fri 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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Lunch
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Lunch
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Fri 1:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.
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Interpretable LLM Control for Sustainable Liquid Cooling in HPC Data Centers
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Contributed Talk
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Soumyendu Sarkar 🔗 |
Fri 1:20 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.
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HVAC Fouling Detection with Root-Expansion Tiling-based Image Augmentation for Predictive Maintenance (RETINA-PdM)
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Fri 1:40 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Reinforcement Learning with Transfer Learning for Cross-Context Building Design Optimization
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Piragash Manmatharasan 🔗 |
Fri 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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BESTOpt: A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Based Building Simulation, Control and Optimization Platform
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Invited Talk
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Bing Dong 🔗 |
Fri 2:30 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.
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Poster Session
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Fri 3:40 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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Scalable Attention-based Reinforcement Learning Method for Multi-asset Control
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Chris Develder 🔗 |
Fri 4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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How Benchmarks Drive Science
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Invited Talk
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Fri 4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
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Contest Winner Talks
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Contributed Talk
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Fri 5:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
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Closing Remarks
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Closing Remarks
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Philippe M. Wyder 🔗 |
Fri 5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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Networking
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Networking
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