Blue Sky Forum

13:30–16:10Room: Madrid

Track Co-Chairs: Jipeng Qiang (Yangzhou University), Mengke Li (Shenzhen University)

Introduction

The ICDM 2026 BlueSky Track (Vision Track) provides a forum for visionary and transformative ideas that can shape the future of data mining. Moving beyond conventional empirical studies, the track highlights emerging research gaps, challenges long-standing assumptions, and presents bold agendas for advancing the field. Following a rigorous review process, 20 papers were selected from 40 submissions, with each submission evaluated by at least three reviewers. The accepted papers explore forward-looking research directions spanning AI-augmented data-mining paradigms, agent-centric methodologies, foundational challenges, and diverse cross-domain applications.

Schedule

Each paper presentation is 6 minutes. Block Q&A sessions follow each block of talks.

Blue Sky schedule · Saturday, November 14, 2026 · Madrid
TimePaper IDPaper TitleAuthors
13:30–13:33—Opening Remarks
Session 1 (13:30–14:35)
13:33–13:39S32201From Event Logs to Governed Action: A BlueSky Agenda for Agentic Process MiningYiyuan Yang, Zheshun Wu, Yong Chu, Zhenghua Chen, Zenglin Xu, and Qingsong Wen
13:39–13:45S32202Revisiting Self-Attentive Sequential Recommendation Beyond the LLM ParadigmZan Huang
13:45–13:51S32204Data Mining in the Age of World Models: A BlueSky VisionZhihan Xu, Liang Feng, Chao Jiang, Dimitrios K. Gerontitis, Choo-Yee Ting, and Yang Shi
13:51–13:57S32210GraphAgent: From Tool-Using to Graph-Thinking Agents for Autonomous Graph Problem SolvingZhao Li and Ji Zhang
13:57–14:03S32211The Future Is Not One Sequence: A BlueSky Agenda for Future Contingency MiningDapei Chen, Mengda Chu, and Yufan Huang
14:03–14:09S32215Synthetic Data Ecology: Mining Feedback Loops in AI-Generated Data EcosystemsJiayi Yin and Yixi Zhou
14:09–14:15S32218Toward an Industrial Brain: Making Defect Inspection Experience ReusableBowen Li, Wei Li, Yinghui Wang, and Yi Zhu
14:15–14:21S32219When the Miner is the Generator: Rethinking the Separation Axiom in LLM-Driven Data MiningXi Chen and Mengke Li
14:21–14:35—Session 1 Block Q&A
Session 2 (14:35–16:00)
14:35–14:41S32220Explaining Changes in Evolving SystemsEirini Ntoutsi, Mykola Pechenizki, and Jerzy Stefanowski
14:41–14:47S32222From Output Quality to Auditability: A Data Mining Agenda for LLM-Generated ArtifactsMingjia Qian and Limeng Ge
14:47–14:53S32225From Scaling Laws to Evolution Laws: Forecasting and Steering the Fate of Self-Evolving AI SystemsYufei Peng, Yiu-ming Cheung, and Haosen Liu
14:53–14:59S32226Toward Biological Active Memory: A Memory-Centric Paradigm for Future Automated Biological ResearchChunliang Chen, Xinyu Wang, and Xiaoling Wang
14:59–15:05S32227Knowing What They Don't Know: An Agenda for Sample-Frame-Aware Data Mining AgentsShankara Ramasubramanian A S, Subbareddy Batreddy, Giridhar Pamisetty, Ch. Sobhan Babu, Mohit Agrawal, and Saurav Singla
15:05–15:11S32228From Speaking to Communicating: A BlueSky Vision for Paralinguistic IntelligenceShulan Ruan and Huijie Liu
15:11–15:17S32230You'll Never Diagnose Alone: An Evidence-Centric Agenda for Medical MLLMsYiwei Fu, Xiusi Chen, Xiaoda Wang, Yao Ma, Carl Yang, and Xiao Luo
15:17–15:23S32233Mining the Self-Rewriting System: A Vision for Data Mining on AI-Native InfrastructureMayank Darbari, Chiman Salavati, Liang Wu, Dawei Wang, Jiong Zhang, Kelly Wan, Krishna Chakka, and Liangjie Hong
15:23–15:29S32235Memory Has Geometry: Non-Uniform Geometric Memory for Long-Horizon Personalized AIJiahong Liu, Wenhao Yu, Zexuan Qiu, Menglin Yang, and Irwin King
15:29–15:35S32236Keeping Software Knowledge Alive: Toward Shared Semantic Views for Human-Agent Software EvolutionCheng Wen, Kangshuo Yu, Dugang Liu, Bin Yu, Zhi Ma, Zhiwu Xu, Shengchao Qin, and Cong Tian
15:35–15:41S32238When Prediction Shapes the Future: A BlueSky Agenda for Reflexive Time Series AnalysisTao Xie, Yiqun Zhang, and Yiu-ming Cheung
15:41–15:47S32239Mining Evidence-Linked Claims from Software Repositories for Contradiction-Aware Knowledge DiagnosisKangshuo Yu, Xingjian Han, Han Liao, Cheng Wen, Cong Tian, Shengchao Qin, and Ping Chen
15:47–16:00—Session 2 Block Q&A and Closing Remarks