AID2E bi-weekly technical meeting

Meeting: March 05, 2026

• Announcements:
  • CHEP 2026 abstract has been accepted as invited talk.
  • Cris: Waiting to know if the conference could be hybrid. Continue to keep an eye for any announcements.
  • Final speaker and authors before March 31, 2026.
• Phase I
  • Current milestone for AID2E-framework was Feb 28 2026. Are we still aligned?
  • AID2E-framework pull requests
  • The repo has been super active for the last few weeks. Still yet to merge the 3 pulls into main. That is good. Status updates follow.
  • Derek:
  • Amit: I have added joblib runner in aid2e-framework (branch_name) and initial tests with DTLZ2 tests with joblib runner.
  • Wen: A pull request is in place for PanDA-Runner.
  • DTLZ2 problem with PanDA runner.
  • 2 examples: sequential execution and parallel execution.
  • There is an issue with the Ax resolver. The stable version is 1.2.4, whereas AID2E-framework uses Ax 1.0.0. Mainly due to the fact that the GeneratorStep and generation nodes are defined explicitly, whereas newer versions have a syntax and logic change.
  • Wen: Seems to have found a solution.

[project]
dependencies = [
  "ax-platform<=0.2.10; python_version < '3.9'",
  "ax-platform==0.3.7; python_version >= '3.9' and python_version < '3.11'",
  "ax-platform==1.0.0; python_version >= '3.11'"
]

• Baptiste: EPIC B0 efforts are also happening.
• Round Robin
  • Derek (JLab): have some slides on BIC integration and development status here
  • Amit: Some slides on dRICH-MOBO porting into AID2E framework here
  • Cynthia: adapting dRICH-MOBO with the current framework and questions.
• Phase II
  • Pushing this to the next technical meeting due to time constraints.
  • Karthik Suresh: Literature survey on Agentic Workflows
  • Wen: LLM and MCP ideas
  • Amit: MOGA Plans
• AOB: