publications

2026

1. SIGMOD

   Mixtera: A Data Plane for Foundation Model Training

   Böther, Maximilian, Yao, Xiaozhe,  Kerimoglu, Tolga and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2026

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   @inproceedings{Bother2026Mixtera,
     author = {B{\"{o}}ther, Maximilian and Yao, Xiaozhe and Kerimoglu, Tolga and Graur, Dan and Gsteiger, Viktor and Klimovic, Ana},
     title = {Mixtera: A Data Plane for Foundation Model Training},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)},
     url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786668},
     year = {2026},
   }

2025

1. DB-Spektrum

   Opinion Pieces of the BTW 2025 Workshop On Advances in Cloud Data Management

   Bodner, Thomas, Böhm, Alexander,  Böther, Maximilian and 13 more authors

   Datenbank-Spektrum 2025

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   @article{Bodner2025CloudDM,
     author = {Bodner, Thomas and B\"{o}hm, Alexander and B\"{o}ther, Maximilian and Klimovic, Ana and Durner, Dominik and Grund, Martin and Kipf, Andreas and Oukid, Ismail and Schiefer, Berni and Parchas, Panos and Gildhoff, Hinnerk and Unterbrunner, Philipp and Karnagel, Tomas and Giceva, Jana and Ziegler, Tobias and Hentschel, Martin},
     title = {Opinion Pieces of the BTW 2025 Workshop On Advances in Cloud Data Management},
     volume = {25},
     journal = {Datenbank-Spektrum},
     pages = {187–195},
     number = {3},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.14778/3611479.3611485},
     url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13222-025-00516-6},
   }

2. MLSys

   On Distributed Larger-Than-Memory Subset Selection With Pairwise Submodular Functions

   Böther, Maximilian, Sebastian, Abraham,  Awasthi, Pranjal and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys) 2025

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   @inproceedings{Bother2025Submod,
     author = {B{\"{o}}ther, Maximilian and Sebastian, Abraham and Awasthi, Pranjal and Klimovic, Ana and Ramalingam, Srikumar},
     title = {On Distributed Larger-Than-Memory Subset Selection With Pairwise Submodular Functions},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Machine Learning and Systems ({MLSys})},
     year = {2025},
   }

3. SIGMOD

   Modyn: Data-Centric Machine Learning Pipeline Orchestration

   Böther, Maximilian, Robroek, Ties,  Gsteiger, Viktor and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2025

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   @inproceedings{Bother2025Modyn,
     author = {B\"{o}ther, Maximilian and Robroek, Ties and Gsteiger, Viktor and Ma, Xianzhe and T\"{o}z\"{u}n, P{\i}nar and Klimovic, Ana},
     title = {Modyn: Data-Centric Machine Learning Pipeline Orchestration},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.1145/3709705},
     url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3709705},
   }

2024

1. HotInfra @ SOSP

   Decluttering the data mess in LLM training

   Böther, Maximilian, Graur, Dan,  Yao, Xiaozhe and 1 more author

   In Non-Archival Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in System Infrastructure (HotInfra) at SOSP 2024

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   @inproceedings{Bother2024MixteraVision,
     author = {B\"{o}ther, Maximilian and Graur, Dan and Yao, Xiaozhe and Klimovic, Ana},
     title = {Decluttering the data mess in LLM training},
     booktitle = {Non-Archival Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in System Infrastructure (HotInfra) at SOSP},
     year = {2024},
   }

2. DMLR @ ICLR

   Deploying Data Selection Techniques on Dynamic Datasets

   Böther, Maximilian,  and Klimovic, Ana

   In Non-Archival Proceedings of the Workshop on Data-Centric Machine Learning (DMLR) at ICLR 2024

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   @inproceedings{Bother2024DMLRModyn,
     author = {B\"{o}ther, Maximilian and Klimovic, Ana},
     title = {Deploying Data Selection Techniques on Dynamic Datasets},
     booktitle = {Non-Archival Proceedings of the Workshop on Data-Centric Machine Learning (DMLR) at ICLR},
     year = {2024},
   }

2023

1. VLDB

   Analyzing Vectorized Hash Maps Across CPU Architectures

   Böther, Maximilian, Benson, Lawrence,  Klimovic, Ana and 1 more author

   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 2023

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   @article{Bother2023Hashmaps,
     author = {B\"{o}ther, Maximilian and Benson, Lawrence and Klimovic, Ana and Rabl, Tilmann},
     title = {Analyzing Vectorized Hash Maps Across CPU Architectures},
     journal = {Proceedings of the {VLDB} Endowment},
     pages = {2755 - 2768},
     number = {11},
     volume = {16},
     year = {2023},
     doi = {10.14778/3611479.3611485},
     url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.14778/3611479.3611485},
   }

2. EuroMLSys

   Towards A Platform and Benchmark Suite for Model Training on Dynamic Datasets

   Böther, Maximilian, Strati, Foteini,  Gsteiger, Viktor and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems (EuroMLSys) 2023

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   @inproceedings{Bother2023Modyn,
     doi = {10.1145/3578356.3592585},
     year = {2023},
     author = {B\"{o}ther, Maximilian and Strati, Foteini and Gsteiger, Viktor and Klimovic, Ana},
     title = {Towards A Platform and Benchmark Suite for Model Training on Dynamic Datasets},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the  Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems (EuroMLSys)},
     url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3578356.3592585},
   }

3. ALENEX

   Efficiently Computing Directed Minimum Spanning Trees

   Böther, Maximilian, Kißig, Otto,  and Weyand, Christopher

   In Proceedings of the Symposium on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX) 2023

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   @inproceedings{Bother2023DMST,
     author = {B{\"{o}}ther, Maximilian and Ki{\ss}ig, Otto and Weyand, Christopher},
     title = {Efficiently Computing Directed Minimum Spanning Trees},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Symposium on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX)},
     year = {2023},
     url = {https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/1.9781611977561.ch8},
     doi = {10.1137/1.9781611977561.ch8},
   }

4. AI&Law

   Law Smells: Defining and Detecting Problematic Patterns in Legal Drafting

   Coupette, Corinna, Hartung, Dirk,  Beckedorf, Janis and 2 more authors

   Artificial Intelligence and Law 2023

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   @article{Coupette2023LS,
     author = {Coupette, Corinna and Hartung, Dirk and Beckedorf, Janis and B{\"{o}}ther, Maximilian and Katz, Daniel Martin},
     title = {Law Smells: Defining and Detecting Problematic Patterns in Legal Drafting},
     year = {2023},
     url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10506-022-09315-w},
     doi = {10.1007/s10506-022-09315-w},
     journal = {Artificial Intelligence and Law}
   }

2022

1. TEVC

   Evolutionary Minimization of Traffic Congestion

   Böther, Maximilian, Schiller, Leon,  Fischbeck, Philipp and 3 more authors

   IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 2022

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   @article{Bother2022EvoRouting,
     author = {B{\"{o}}ther, Maximilian and Schiller, Leon and Fischbeck, Philipp and Molitor, Louise and Krejca, Martin S. and Friedrich, Tobias},
     title = {Evolutionary Minimization of Traffic Congestion},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation},
     year = {2022},
     doi = {10.1109/TEVC.2022.3228750},
     url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9983847},
   }

2. ICLR

   What’s Wrong with Deep Learning in Tree Search for Combinatorial Optimization

   Böther, Maximilian, Kißig, Otto,  Taraz, Martin and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2022

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   @inproceedings{Boether2022TreeSearch,
     author = {Böther, Maximilian and Kißig, Otto and Taraz, Martin and Cohen, Sarel and Seidel, Karen and Friedrich, Tobias},
     title = {What's Wrong with Deep Learning in Tree Search for Combinatorial Optimization},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations ({ICLR})},
     year = {2022},
     url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=mk0HzdqY7i1},
   }

2021

1. GECCO

   Evolutionary Minimization of Traffic Congestion

   Böther, Maximilian, Schiller, Leon,  Fischbeck, Philipp and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2021

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   @inproceedings{Bother2021EvoRouting,
     author = {B{\"{o}}ther, Maximilian and Schiller, Leon and Fischbeck, Philipp and Molitor, Louise and Krejca, Martin S. and Friedrich, Tobias},
     title = {Evolutionary Minimization of Traffic Congestion},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)},
     year = {2021},
     doi = {10.1145/3449639.3459307},
     url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3449639.3459307},
   }

2. DaMoN @ SIGMOD

   Drop It In Like It’s Hot: An Analysis of Persistent Memory as a Drop-in Replacement for NVMe SSDs

   Böther, Maximilian, Kißig, Otto,  Benson, Lawrence and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware (DaMoN) at SIGMOD. 2021

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   @inproceedings{Bother2021PMem,
     author = {B{\"{o}}ther, Maximilian and Ki{\ss}ig, Otto and Benson, Lawrence and Rabl, Tilmann},
     title = {Drop It In Like It's Hot: An Analysis of Persistent Memory as a Drop-in
                    Replacement for NVMe SSDs},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Management
                    on New Hardware (DaMoN) at SIGMOD.},
     year = {2021},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3465998.3466010},
     doi = {10.1145/3465998.3466010},
   }

3. BiDEDE @ SIGMOD

   Scale-Down Experiments on TPCx-HS

   Böther, Maximilian,  and Rabl, Tilmann

   In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments (BiDEDE) at SIGMOD. 2021

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   @inproceedings{Bother2021Pi,
     author = {B{\"{o}}ther, Maximilian and Rabl, Tilmann},
     title = {Scale-Down Experiments on TPCx-HS},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data
                    in Emergent Distributed Environments (BiDEDE) at SIGMOD.},
     year = {2021},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3460866.3461774},
     doi = {10.1145/3460866.3461774},
   }

4. CiE

   Learning Languages with Decidable Hypotheses

   Berger, Julian,  Böther, Maximilian,  Doskoc, Vanja and 9 more authors

   In Proceedings of the Conference on Computability in Europe (CiE) 2021

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   @inproceedings{Berger2021DeHyp,
     author = {Berger, Julian and B{\"{o}}ther, Maximilian and Doskoc, Vanja and Harder, Jonathan Gadea and Klodt, Nicolas and K{\"{o}}tzing, Timo and L{\"{o}}tzsch, Winfried and Peters, Jannik and Schiller, Leon and Seifert, Lars and Wells, Armin and Wietheger, Simon},
     title = {Learning Languages with Decidable Hypotheses},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Computability in Europe (CiE)},
     year = {2021},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80049-9\_3},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-80049-9\_3},
   }

2020

1. ATMOS

   A Strategic Routing Framework and Algorithms for Computing Alternative Paths

   Bläsius, Thomas,  Böther, Maximilian,  Fischbeck, Philipp and 9 more authors

   In Proceedings of the Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS) 2020

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   @inproceedings{Blaesius2020StrategicRouting,
     doi = {10.4230/OASICS.ATMOS.2020.10},
     url = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2020/13146/},
     author = {Bl\"{a}sius, Thomas and B\"{o}ther, Maximilian and Fischbeck, Philipp and Friedrich, Tobias and Gries, Alina and H\"{u}ffner, Falk and Kißig, Otto and Lenzner, Pascal and Molitor, Louise and Schiller, Leon and Wells, Armin and Wietheger, Simon},
     title = {A Strategic Routing Framework and Algorithms for Computing Alternative Paths},
     year = {2020},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems ({ATMOS})},
   }

2. Computability

   Maps for Learning Indexable Classes

   Berger, Julian,  Böther, Maximilian,  Doskoc, Vanja and 9 more authors

   Computability 2020

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   @article{Berger2020Index,
     author = {Berger, Julian and B{\"{o}}ther, Maximilian and Doskoc, Vanja and Harder, Jonathan Gadea and Klodt, Nicolas and K{\"{o}}tzing, Timo and L{\"{o}}tzsch, Winfried and Peters, Jannik and Schiller, Leon and Seifert, Lars and Wells, Armin and Wietheger, Simon},
     title = {Maps for Learning Indexable Classes},
     journal = {Computability},
     volume = {13},
     number = {3-4},
     pages = {237-261},
     year = {2020},
     doi = {10.3233/COM-220421},
     url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3233/COM-220421},
   }

1. arXiv

   Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments

   Hernández-Cano, Alejandro, Hägele, Alexander,  Huang, Allen Hao and 99 more authors

   2025

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   @article{Hernandez2025Apertus,
     author = {Hernández-Cano, Alejandro and Hägele, Alexander and Huang, Allen Hao and Romanou, Angelika and Solergibert, Antoni-Joan and Pasztor, Barna and Messmer, Bettina and Garbaya, Dhia and Ďurech, Eduard Frank and Hakimi, Ido and Giraldo, Juan García and Ismayilzada, Mete and Foroutan, Negar and Moalla, Skander and Chen, Tiancheng and Sabolčec, Vinko and Xu, Yixuan and Aerni, Michael and AlKhamissi, Badr and Mariñas, Inés Altemir and Amani, Mohammad Hossein and Ansaripour, Matin and Badanin, Ilia and Benoit, Harold and Boros, Emanuela and Browning, Nicholas and Bösch, Fabian and Böther, Maximilian and Canova, Niklas and Challier, Camille and Charmillot, Clement and Coles, Jonathan and Deriu, Jan and Devos, Arnout and Drescher, Lukas and Dzenhaliou, Daniil and Ehrmann, Maud and Fan, Dongyang and Fan, Simin and Gao, Silin and Gila, Miguel and Grandury, María and Hashemi, Diba and Hoyle, Alexander and Jiang, Jiaming and Klein, Mark and Kucharavy, Andrei and Kucherenko, Anastasiia and Lübeck, Frederike and Machacek, Roman and Manitaras, Theofilos and Marfurt, Andreas and Matoba, Kyle and Matrenok, Simon and Mendonça, Henrique and Mohamed, Fawzi Roberto and Montariol, Syrielle and Mouchel, Luca and Najem-Meyer, Sven and Ni, Jingwei and Oliva, Gennaro and Pagliardini, Matteo and Palme, Elia and Panferov, Andrei and Paoletti, Léo and Passerini, Marco and Pavlov, Ivan and Poiroux, Auguste and Ponkshe, Kaustubh and Ranchin, Nathan and Rando, Javi and Sauser, Mathieu and Saydaliev, Jakhongir and Sayfiddinov, Muhammad Ali and Schneider, Marian and Schuppli, Stefano and Scialanga, Marco and Semenov, Andrei and Shridhar, Kumar and Singhal, Raghav and Sotnikova, Anna and Sternfeld, Alexander and Tarun, Ayush Kumar and Teiletche, Paul and Vamvas, Jannis and Yao, Xiaozhe and Zhao, Hao and Ilic, Alexander and Klimovic, Ana and Krause, Andreas and Gulcehre, Caglar and Rosenthal, David and Ash, Elliott and Tramèr, Florian and VandeVondele, Joost and Veraldi, Livio and Rajman, Martin and Schulthess, Thomas and Hoefler, Torsten and Bosselut, Antoine and Jaggi, Martin and Schlag, Imanol},
     title = {Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments},
     year = {2025},
     eprinttype = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2509.14233},
     preprint = {true}
   }