DEADLINE APPROACHING! Apply to Brains, Minds, and Machines by March 23. This three-week course is designed for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in computer science or neuroscience. 🔗More info here: go.mbl.edu/BMM

📣 Reinforcement Learning Summer School is returning to Milan in 2026! Co-organized with @ellisunitmilan.bsky.social & designed for Master's and PhD students on RL theory, multi-agent systems, RL & LLMs, real-world applications... 📍 Milan 🇮🇹 📅 3-12 June ⏰ Apply by 27 March 🔗 https://bit.ly/4b2Plhp

Need a crash course on the fundamental concepts and algorithms of machine learning? Consider visiting Genoa 🇮🇹 this summer for the MaLGa Machine Learning Crash Course! Suitable for undergrad/grad students, as well as professionals. 📅 June 15-19 📍 MaLGa Center, Genova 🇮🇹 🔗 https://bit.ly/4rddwRq

I will be pleased to present the following work as a poster at the ELLIS UnConference in Copenhagen next Tuesday: D'Elia, E., ... Pucci, D., "Stabilizing Humanoid Robot Trajectory Generation via Physics-Informed Learning and Control-Informed Steering". IEEE/RSJ IROS 2025

The JMLR story and operating model should be widely known in academia as a clear success story for full open access. I have friends in the humanities and pure sciences that have no clue this is even possible

Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi and Matteo Papini are putting together a great unconference workshop at the @ellis.eu day at @euripsconf.bsky.social If you want to talk about RL, causality, bandits, online learning, join us there on December 2nd sites.google.com/view/ilir-wo...

One-day workshop on Diffusion models and Flow matching, October 24th at @ensdelyon.bsky.social Registration and call for contributions (short talk and poster) are open at gdr-iasis.cnrs.fr/reunions/mod...

Vapnik-Chervonenkis candy bar

📽️ youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=cOX7rS_6-Eg

Just in case there was any doubt, ChatGPT 5.0 still makes up completely random citations that don't exist and should not be used for literature search.

NeurIPS is endorsing EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present NeurIPS work in Europe concurrently with NeurIPS. Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n... eurips.cc

Our computer vision textbook is now available for free online here: visionbook.mit.edu We are working on adding some interactive components like search and (beta) integration with LLMs. Hope this is useful and feel free to submit Github issues to help us improve the text!

Students using AI to write their reports is like me going to the gym and getting a robot to lift my weights

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

Applications are now open for the RAS #Sustainability Grant! Do you have a project that promotes eco-friendly #robotics? Get up to US$10,000 in funding, plus travel support to RAS conferences. Let’s build a greener future in robotics! Learn how to apply and stay updated: https://loom.ly/xEeZ-eA

🚨 We're hiring a Postdoc in Robot Learning @ PEARL Lab, TU Darmstadt 🚨 Join our ERC-funded project SIREN (Structured Interactive Perception and Learning for Holistic Robotic Embodied Intelligence). #robotics #AI #postdoc #ERCgrant #RobotLearning #EmbodiedAI #AIRobots #MachineLearning#roboticsjobs

I can't wait for AI to take one of my seven jobs.

Dino Buzzati’s 1960 _Il Grande Ritratto_ (recently translated as _The Singularity_) mentions in passing the ideas of Silvio Ceccato, Italian cyberneticist who built the first Italian AI system, Adamo II, in 1956. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_...

🎤 Join us for the next ELLIS Turin Talk! Patrick Pérez, CEO of @kyutai-labs.bsky.social (Paris), will present: “A multistream multimodal foundation model for real-time voice-based applications” 🗓 May 12th, 2025 🕙 10:00 AM CET 🌐 Online (Zoom) @ptrkprz.bsky.social

La Repubblica interview “La bellezza dell'IA generativa, che è tra le molte forme di IA, è che per la prima volta permette a chiunque di dialogare con un computer www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2... I was talking with Arcangelo Rociola

More on the NSF censorship of misinformation research, broader cuts (esp social science & education), & now overhead reductions. This is a full attack on science. In addition to #saveNSF, we need to actively inform the public about the value of taxpayer investments in STEM across all fed agencies 🧵

Worth your time to read this characteristically thoughtful blog post by Leon Bottou on LLM research. leon.bottou.org/news/two_les...

ICYMI: Georgetown Law students made a 853-row spreadsheet of Trump-caving firms. It drew national headlines. Recruiters noticed some talent looked elsewhere. Firms lobbied to change their designation. An organizer tells @www.AllRiseNews.com the background www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

HUMANOID HALF MARATHON!!

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

Trump ha bloccato 2,2 mld $ a Harvard dopo che l’Università ha respinto definendole illegali e incostituzionali le direttive della Casa Bianca: ampia supervisione, cambiamenti a governance, regole di ammissione e assunzioni La guerra agli intellettuali, un classico dei fascismi

I have complained about both of my alma maters frequently so I want to share praise where praise is due. I'm proud of Harvard for finding their backbone. It's a big deal because everyone else looks to them. And godspeed to them in fighting this shakedown bullshit from the Trump administration.

MIT following Harvard's lead here

Check out the updated Harvard University website, which speaks to the breadth and depth of the research we do and its contributions to human health and beyond: www.harvard.edu

10. This is the reality of being an academic in the United States today. But Vought and Rufo are missing something. We aren't cowards. And we know we are not the enemies of the American people either, much as these ideologues might like to claim that.

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

❗️Our next workshop will be on April 3rd, 6 pm CEST on Devops for Data Scientists (R & #Python) by @rika-gorn.bsky.social! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Congratulations to the latest Turing award winners Barto and Sutton! At this point, all three Canadian national AI institutes have a pioneering Turing winner in leadership: Amii - Rich Sutton Vector - Geoff Hinton Mila - Yoshua Bengio Canada AI haters real quiet right now.

🎓🌞 Join the PhD course on Theoretical Foundations of Machine Learning at 🇮🇹 ELLIS Unit Genoa, June 23-27, 2025, hosted by Machine Learning Genoa Center. 🗓️ Apply by: March 16, 2025 📍 University of Genoa (in-person only) 💡 More info: malga.unige.it/education/sc...

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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

I will keep repeating this until I convince everyone I work with or I will die trying.

Today I was told to take out a line about being a mentor to students from diverse backgrounds and historically underrepresented groups from my biosketch for a proposal, because it might damage our chances of getting federal funding. How has it come to this? I feel absolutely sick.

🐱 Learning Over Time (LOT) Spring School 📅 24-27 March 2025 | 📍 Siena, Italy 💡 Are you considering models that continuously adapt over time instead of learning "offline" from pre-designed-huge collections of data? 🚀 🔗 sites.google.com/unisi.it/lot... #ContinualLearning #CL #LifelongLearning

🖥️🦾 We are pleased to announce that our paper "Long-Term Upper-Limb Prosthesis Myocontrol via High-Density sEMG and Incremental Learning" has been published in the November 2024 issue of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

simons.berkeley.edu/talks/taiji-... Learning Theory of Transformers: Generalization and Optimization of In-Context Learning Speaker(s) Taiji Suzuki (University of Tokyo)

My book is (at last) out, just in time for Christmas! A blog post to celebrate and present it: francisbach.com/my-book-is-o...

I hereby celebrate the exequies of my Hellsite profile. 🏺

🔔 IAS-19 will take place in Genoa, Italy, Jun 30 - Jul 4 '25, with stimulating sessions, activities, and invited speakers! We invite you to submit recent work on intelligent systems, autonomy, robot learning, & more. CfP: ias-19.org/call-for-pap... Deadline for paper submissions: Feb 15, 2025

i recently gave a talk about questions like this at a workshop organized by the amazing "learning theory alliance" (let-all.com), and several students reached out to tell me how much my talk resonated with them. link to the slides here: docs.google.com/presentation...