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@rmassidda.it.bsky.social

Post Doc researcher at the University of Pisa. Previously PhD student @ellis.eu.

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The faces behind the @auai.org PR machine and cameras:
@nolovedeeplearning.bsky.social @rmassidda.it

28.07.2025 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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let's start day 4 with the oral session on optimization!

๐Ÿ‘‰ www.auai.org/uai2025/sche...

24.07.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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we open day 3 with Elias Bareinboim (causalai.net) giving a keynote on

"Towards Causal Artificial Intelligence"

reprising some of the themes of his upcoming book (causalai-book.net)

23.07.2025 12:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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oral sessions are on! ๐ŸŽ‰

get the schedule of all talks and posters sessions at www.auai.org/uai2025/sche...

22.07.2025 17:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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presentations from the oral session #1 on learning

www.auai.org/uai2025/sche...

22.07.2025 17:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

2) "Causal Inference with Deep Learning and Generative Models"

by Murat Kocaoglu (Purdue University) and Md Musfiqur Rahman (Purdue University)

21.07.2025 17:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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here we go with the very first coffee break! โ˜•
no one can resist these delicious Brazilian snacks ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท

21.07.2025 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

a huge thank you to our amazing volunteers ๐Ÿ’™
working relentlessly to make the conference go smooth!

www.auai.org/uai2025/volu...

21.07.2025 12:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Welcome to Rio ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท!

While we start, enjoy the sun, our local coffee swag โ˜• and our upcoming five tutorials for the day (www.auai.org/uai2025/tuto...) ๐Ÿ’™

stay tuned!

21.07.2025 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

less than one week to go!
Check our schedule comprising:

1 โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿฉนmentoring session
2 ๐Ÿ”‘ keynotes
3 ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ง workshops
5 ๐Ÿ“Š tutorials
20 ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ orals
229 ๐Ÿ“œ posters

๐Ÿ‘‰ www.auai.org/uai2025/schedule

15.07.2025 15:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are you interested in improving the #interpretability, #robustness and #safety of current AI systems with #causality and #RL?

Apply to our PhD position in Amsterdam ๐Ÿšฒ๐ŸŒท๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ

Deadline: June 15

03.06.2025 09:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Vacancy โ€” PhD Position on Learning Concepts with Theoretical Guarantees Using Causality and RL Are you interested in improving the interpretability, robustness and safety of current AI systems? If the answer is yes, please continue reading!

New PhD position at the University of Amsterdam in @amlab.bsky.social on learning concepts with theoretical guarantees using #causality and #RL with me, Frans Oliehoek (TU Delft) and Herke van Hoof ๐Ÿ’ฅ

Deadline: 15 June

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

12.05.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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CAR Causal Abstractions and Representations Workshop @ UAI 2025 July 25th 2025, Rio de Janeiro ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท

๐Ÿ”ฅ Five days left to submit your work to our causality workshop at #UAI2025!

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท You bring the paper, we bring world-class keynote speakers, and Rio brings the iconic Copacabana Beach. What more could you ask for?

โš ๏ธ Extended Deadline โ€“ May 28th!

๐Ÿ‘‰ sites.google.com/view/car-25/

24.05.2025 08:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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CAR Causal Abstractions and Representations Workshop @ UAI 2025 July 25th 2025, Rio de Janeiro ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท

๐Ÿ”ฅ Got a great work on causal representation learning, abstraction, high-dimensional discovery, or other hot topics in causality?

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Donโ€™t miss your chance to present in Rio at the CAR Workshop at #UAI2025!

โฐ Deadline is in 1 week โ€“ May 26!
๐ŸŒ sites.google.com/view/car-25/

19.05.2025 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

If you are into Structural Causal Models, you're going to love Deep SCMs! โค๏ธ

On the next (and last for now!) talk, Audrey Poinsot (INRIA) will review DSCMs, their applications and open challenges.

๐ŸคŒ See you tomorrow April 11th at 16:00 (CET) at meet.google.com/tng-aibh-yuz

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ tinyurl.com/deepscm

10.04.2025 09:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

...donโ€™t know if you noticed, but reviews are out! ๐Ÿ‘€

Good luck with your rebuttal, you're almost there! ๐Ÿ€

07.04.2025 07:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿฅ‡ Accepted workshops are out! www.auai.org/uai2025/work...

Get ready for a day of great talks, panels, and discussions on causality, tractable models, and safe AI.

Don't forget to submit your work, and see you in Rio! ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท

04.04.2025 09:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿšจ Next appointment!

โ†”๏ธ Sergio Hernan Garrido Mejia (DTU, Denmark) will present us how to merge predictors in the causal and anti-causal directions trained from the same data.

๐ŸคŒ See you in Pisa on April 4th at 16:00 (CET) or live at meet.google.com/tng-aibh-yuz

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Add it here! tinyurl.com/anticaus

03.04.2025 10:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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CAR Causal Abstractions and Representations Workshop @ UAI 2025 July 25th 2025, Rio de Janeiro ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท

๐ŸŽ‰ The first edition of the "Causal Abstractions and Representations" workshop is here!

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Proudly hosted by @auai.org, we'll be in Rio de Janeiro on July 25, 2025.

๐Ÿ”จ Check out our invited speakers and the call for papers: we can't wait to see your submissions!

๐ŸŒ sites.google.com/view/car-25/

02.04.2025 14:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Sure! Here's your post to advertise the next Causal Club talk:

๐Ÿค– Tomorrow, Nina Corvelo Benz from MPI-SWS will present her work on counterfactual token generation in LLMs!

๐ŸคŒ See you in Pisa on March 28 at 16:00 (CET) or live at meet.google.com/tng-aibh-yuz

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Add it here: tinyurl.com/ctgllms

27.03.2025 14:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

to all reviewers who kindly accepted the invitation to review for #UAI2025 ๐Ÿ™,

you can do it! one more push! ๐Ÿฆพ

and if you have trouble submitting your reviews by Monday 24th AoE... please contact โšก immediately โšก your area chair!

22.03.2025 17:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Time for the next Causal Club speaker!

โณ Mouad El Bouchattaoui (Paris-Saclay University) will present a novel method for conterfactual regression over time (openreview.net/pdf?id=bKOZY...).

๐ŸคŒ See you in Pisa on March 21 at 16:00 (CET) or live at meet.google.com/tng-aibh-yuz

20.03.2025 08:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

me trying to contribute to the research project out of my area of expertise

17.03.2025 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โฐ Happening today at 4PM!

๐ŸŽฅ See you online at meet.google.com/tng-aibh-yuz

14.03.2025 11:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The second appointment of the year for the Causal Club will feature algorithmic recourse, time, causality, and pizza*! ๐Ÿ•

See you on Friday! ๐ŸŽ‰

*slices for in-presence participants only, as we are still waiting for food teleportation through Google Meet

12.03.2025 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

โฐ Don't miss Mรกtyรกs talk today at 3PM!

๐ŸŽฅ See you online meet.google.com/cqt-ufji-xfz

๐ŸคŒ ...or live in the CS Department of the University of Pisa!

07.03.2025 11:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Here's a talk you can't miss!

๐Ÿ”จ Next Friday, @matyasch.bsky.social will discuss how to efficiently estimate causal effects on large unknown graphs.

๐ŸคŒ See you in Pisa on March 7 at 15:00 (CET) or live at meet.google.com/cqt-ufji-xfz

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Click here to add it to your calendar: tinyurl.com/snapcausclub

28.02.2025 16:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

โš ๏ธ Are a few days more what you need to deliver the perfect workshop proposal?

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ We got you! We just extended the call for workshop proposals to March 7, 2025.

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Don't miss it, and see you in Rio!

๐ŸŒ As always, details at www.auai.org/uai2025/call...

28.02.2025 09:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Are you in Philly for @realaaai.bsky.social 2025, and still do not know what oral to attend? Do not worry. Also, ML models do not know many things. Check what they know they don't know with Salvatore Ruggieri, who will present our joint work in the senior track morning session on Friday!

25.02.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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