publications

2025

1. 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},
   }

2. 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

   Mixtera: A Data Plane for Foundation Model Training

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

   2025

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   @article{Bother2025Mixtera,
     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},
     year = {2025},
     eprinttype = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2502.19790},
     preprint = {true}
   }