The 5th edition of the Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents is going to Romania in 2026 & I'm happy to serve as program chair We've just put the CfP online ⬇️ & we're particularly excited to broaden the scope to all facets of adaptation of ML models. Please check out these exciting additions!

Wonder how LLMs learn over long time horizons & how hate-checks deal with time? Look at our new work "Chronoberg": an open-source dataset spanning 250 years of books with analysis of shifts in meaning & continual learning of LLMs: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22360 huggingface.co/datasets/spa...

🎉"Aligning generalization between humans and machines" (w/ 25 incredible authors) is out now in #Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42... In short, we identified interdisciplinary commonalities & differences with respect to notions of, methods for, & evaluation of generalization

Feeling really inspired after @collasconf.bsky.social: wonderful keynotes, exceptionally talented early-career spotlights & interactions that mattered! And of course our own oral presentation as well :) Very excited to be the next program chair & ensure its success for CoLLAs in Romania next year!

Just arrived in Philadelphia for @collasconf.bsky.social Very excited about a fantastic program! I’ll be around all week, but feel free to drop me a message or catch me directly at the debate on Monday morning, after our oral presentation on Tuesday, or in any of the poster sessions

🎉 Announcing the winners of the #CoLLAs2025 Early-Career Spotlight Program! These rising stars are pushing the boundaries of lifelong & continual learning, adaptation, and embodied AI. 👇 A thread introducing their work & talks. #AI #MachineLearning #ContinualLearning #LifelongLearning

🧠 Don't miss the tutorials at #CoLLAs2025! We’re excited to host two deep dives into the theory and practice of lifelong learning: 📍Information-Theoretic Measures for Multi-Expert FM Adaptation 📍Mathematics of Continual Learning Details below 👇

I'm not at #ICML2025 myself, but @florianbusch.bsky.social & Roshni are presenting our spotlight poster on continual confounding + our respective ConCon dataset on Thursday 17 Jul 4:30 pm - 7 pm PDT in East Exhibition Hall A-B: E-3309 icml.cc/virtual/2025... Please talk to them! :) Details below ⬇️

🏳️‍🌈 Queer in AI is thrilled to announce another season of our affinity workshop at #NeurIPS2025! We announce a Call for Contributions to the workshop, with visa-friendly submissions due by 📅 July 31, 2025 (AOE), all other submissions due by 📅 August 14, 2025. #QueerInAI #CallForPapers

We're happy to officially announce the location of #FAccT2026! Next year's conference will be held in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 Su Lin Blodgett and Zeerak Talat will be General Chairs, and Michael Madaio will be PC Chair 🎉 (thanks to MindView for the photo!)

dear computer vision people, labelling someone* an "activist" is not the disparage you think it is (*there is no claim in our paper that's not supported by empirical evidence so our work adheres to science by any standard. still...)

📢 Present your published work at #CoLLAs2025! Submit recent papers (JMLR, TMLR, NeurIPS, etc.) on lifelong/continual learning, LLMs, online learning & more. 🗓 Deadline: July 5 🔗 lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/... #AI #MachineLearning #LifelongLearning #ContinualLearning

We are hiring a tenure-track prof in the computer science department at University of Bremen for the field of Computer Engineering with a focus on Distributed Systems Applications are still open until June 18th, so come join a fantastic set of colleagues! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Are you based in Greece? 🇬🇷 Do you want to attend #FAccT2025 and have your entire registration fee waived? Volunteer for just 4 hours at the conference! Apply by June 3, 2025, at 11:59 pm anywhere on Earth: facctconference.org/2025/cfv2

We (+ @pranav-nlp.bsky.social) had tremendous fun presenting our cake-AI analogy to a really engaging audience. Thanks for the greatly thoughtful discussions 🙏 We are facing numerous socio-technical challenges in AI, but with talented fresh minds & increased awareness, there may be a bright future

I am at the data story workshop hosted by @martinmundt.bsky.social where we talk about AI as cake! We redefine Yann LeCun's famous analogy beyond just learning types. From ingredients to selling - we break down how AI really works and who gets left out.

"Reasonable AI" got selected as a cluster of excellence www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet... Overwhelmingly happy to be part of RAI & continue working with the smart minds at TU Darmstadt & hessian.AI, while also seeing my new home at Uni Bremen achieve a historic success in the excellence strategy!

You may know batch-norm, but did you know it is a lightweight catalyst for open world learning? In "BOWL: A Deceptively Simple Open World Learner" we leverage BN stats to enable OoD detection & rapid active + continual learning! arxiv.org/abs/2402.04814 🚀 now accepted @collasconf.bsky.social

Exciting news!!! This just got into @icmlconf.bsky.social as a position paper!!! 🎉 More updates to come as we work on the camera-ready version!!!

Horizontal, vertical, hybrid data partitioning: heterogeneity is tough to handle in federated learning! 🔥In “Scaling Probabilistic Circuits via Data Partitioning" - accepted at #UAI25 - we unify the different settings through aggregation of learned client distributions: arxiv.org/abs/2503.08141

Join us this Thursday 8 May for: U n l e a r n i n g ~ in continual scenarios ~ together with: Zhenyi Wang, Sijia Liu, and Kairan Zhao 6 PM CET / 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET Hope to see you there!!! Registration here: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🔥Our work “Where is the Truth? The Risk of Getting Confounded in a Continual World" was accepted with a spotlight poster at ICML! arxiv.org/abs/2402.06434 -> we introduce continual confounding + the ConCon dataset, where confounders over time render continual knowledge accumulation insufficient ⬇️

Join us for a delicious Data Story by @martinmundt.bsky.social on the AI-cake analogy, hosted @dfki.bsky.social in Bremen! 👉 Info and registration: www.bremen-research.de/data-train/c... 👓 Read more about the research in Martin's thread below 🍰 Of course, there will be cake 😋

We are hosting a 3-hour interactive session on our Cake-AI analogy work (arxiv.org/abs/2502.03038) on May 27th @dfki.bsky.social Bremen. If you are around, please consider signing up to learn & discuss how the process of baking helps us understand design & socio-technical tensions of AI systems!⬇️

🚀We’ve created a spotlight program for early Postdoc/starting faculty/industry equivalent researchers to highlight their contributions & vision in a 30 minute spotlight talk at CoLLAs! It’s a unique opportunity & recognition! Applications are open until May 26 AOE: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

Gaming the system? … No paper in my ICML batch with negative ratings has posted rebuttals, in both tracks! I spend lots of time reviewing & give detailed comments. I see people complain about review quality constantly, but with such author behavior, what exactly do we expect?

Still ~8 days to apply for a postdoc position in multimodal foundation models at the University of Edinburgh! (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) -- Fully funded position until 2029 by the Generative AI Hub (@genaihub.bsky.social) to work with outstanding research teams! neuralnoise.com/2025/multimo...

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated. Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

At #CoLLAs2025, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible research community: ✅ Reimbursable early registration & visa support ✅ Travel grants & fee waivers to reduce financial barriers ✅ Mentorship & visibility for early-career researchers Learn more: 🔗 lifelong-ml.cc/blogs/3

It’s striking how continual ML works seem to willingly place themselves in a box. It’s regularization or rehearsal or isolation, despite obvious complementarity w/ brain evidence. There’s no “one lifelong learning mechanism” & it’s honestly holding great ideas back unnecessarily

Join us for our March ContinualAI seminar on 𝐸𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒-𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠 (𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝐿𝑜𝑅𝐴, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑) with Eric Coleman and Wentao Zhang! ♾️ Thursday, March 6th 🕘 9 AM PST | 🕛 12 PM EST | 🕕 6 PM CET Register here 👉 stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

As a reviewer for various ML confs right now, I feel like this needs to be said again: An introduction is not good if it’s so generic that it can be copy-pasted into any other paper on the same topic. The intro motivates me to read the paper carefully - please don’t waste it.

⏳ One Day Left! ⏳ The #CoLLAs2025 abstract deadline is tomorrow! 📅 Still on the fence? Checkout the exciting lineup of invited speakers. This is your chance to share your work and connect with top researchers in the field! Submit your abstract today! 📝 🔗 lifelong-ml.cc

If you are attending #AAAI25 make sure to take part in our 3rd Continual Causality Bridge, tomorrow Feb 25th. I can’t travel myself due to family medical reasons 😢, but we have an exciting program with amazing speakers on #continuallearning & #causality: www.continualcausality.org/program/

📢 Deadline Extension Alert! 📢 Good news! We’re extending the #CoLLAs2025 submission deadlines: 📝 Abstracts: Feb 26, 2025, 23:59 AoE 📄 Papers: Mar 3, 2025, 23:59 AoE More time to refine your work—don't miss this chance to contribute to #lifelong-learning research! 🚀 🔗 lifelong-ml.cc

Are interested in making #computervision models more #reliable and #robust by accounting for #uncertainties? Then consider submitting your awesome work to our @cvprconference.bsky.social workshop! uncertainty-cv.github.io/2025/

Pretty sad. Just got the email that CZI is canceling the second round of Diversity Leadership Awards. Private industry will definitely not fill the hole that NIH and NSF are leaving. 😢💔

Why has continual ML not had its breakthrough yet? In our new collaborative paper w/ many amazing authors, we argue that “Continual Learning Should Move Beyond Incremental Classification”! We highlight 5 examples to show where CL algos can fail & pinpoint 3 key challenges arxiv.org/abs/2502.11927

🍰Super proud of our newest work: “The Cake that is Intelligence and Who Gets to Bake it: An AI Analogy and its Implications for Participation” - arxiv.org/abs/2502.03038 🍰We extend Yann LeCun’s AI cake analogy to relate socio-technical outcomes to the AI life-cycle! More details below ⬇️ 1/4

Our workshop has been extended till Feb 20. We are looking forward for your papers at NAACL's Queer in AI workshop.

Several ML/AI/stats (assistant) professor positions open in Finland including at CS department @csaalto.bsky.social at Aalto University @aalto.fi in connection with the new ELLIS institute Finland!

My advisor warned me that academics trend towards bitterness. He encouraged me to intentionally resist this, remember where I came from, and never forget the privilege of getting to spend a life working with knowledge and ideas. He too said that bitterness and resentment is easy.

Our paper PRISM alignment won a best paper award at #neurips2024! All credits to @hannahrosekirk.bsky.social A.Whitefield, P.Röttger, A.M.Bean, K.Margatina, R.Mosquera-Gomez, J.Ciro, @maxbartolo.bsky.social H.He, B.Vidgen, S.Hale Catch Hannah tomorrow at neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/97804

Queer in AI has grown so much! So many great posters, presenters, topics, participants, and questions at our NeurIPS workshop 🥹 so proud to see this subfield come into its own!

📄 New Paper: "How to Merge Your Multimodal Models Over Time?" arxiv.org/abs/2412.06712 Model merging assumes all finetuned models are available at once. But what if they need to be created over time? We study Temporal Model Merging through the TIME framework to find out! 🧵

Inspired by @wimlds.bsky.social , I looked for a "Women in Machine Learning" starter pack and couldn't find one. So I created one! May have some mistakes. I'll try to do an AI ethics one next. 🤗 go.bsky.app/LT6CwNN

⏰ Reminder: our AAAI-25 Continual Causality Bridge remains open until January 7th for submission to our *non-archival* & *challenge* track! This means you can still submit related previously published works & novel early ideas for presentation & feedback 🔥 www.continualcausality.org/cfp/

Three days left to apply for a PhD in my group! ⬇️⬇️ Come join us to work on the forefront of adaptive AI & lifelong machine learning. We’ve got lots of exciting ideas in store 🤗

The 41st Conference on #Uncertainty in #AI will be held in Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷, July 21-25! The CfP is out 👉 www.auai.org/uai2025/call... 🚨 Feb 10: Paper submission 🗣️ Apr 3-10: rebuttal period 🎉/💀 May 6: Author notification #UAI2025 #ML #stats #learning #reasoning #uncertainty

I will be in Vancouver for #NeurIPS2024 presenting 2 works: one on extending Segment anything model with differentialble logic reasoners (openreview.net/pdf?id=cmSNX...) and one on making GNNs better with simple pre-processing modules (openreview.net/pdf?id=faj2E...) with @kerstingaiml.bsky.social