Claire Vernade

Registrations for EurIPS in Copenhagen are open !
I’ll be there, the whole week, and I’m truly looking forward to this local parallel event.

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Here at #EWRL: demonstration of autonomous tomato harvesting by polybot.eu
#Robot #Harvesting #Learning

I wrote a short post on our newest ICML paper addressed at people who are not experts in machine learning. Check it out!

Should you be in the RL grad student / postdoc starter pack and aren't? This makes adding you much easier if you want to comment below

🚨AISTATS workshop proposals open!

Big News: For the first time, there will be a day of workshops at #AISTATS 2026, in Tangier, Morocco 🌴🇲🇦

Quentin Berthet @qberthet.bsky.social and I are workshop chairs.

virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/...
Deadline: Oct 17, AOE

Where do some of Reinforcement Learning's great thinkers stand today?

Find out! Keynotes of the RL Conference are online:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Wanting vs liking, Agent factories, Theoretical limit of LLMs, Pluralist value, RL teachers, Knowledge flywheels
(guess who talked about which!)

AISTATS CfP is out, and this year @qberthet.bsky.social and I are the first Workshop chairs! Call for Workshops to come very soon, but in short: aistats will have one more day dedicated to contributed workshops. Prepare your submissions!

We are excited to bring #EurIPS 2025 to Copenhagen in December.

Consider becoming a sponsor and support us in making this inaugural event a success! Sponsorship packages are available and can be further customized if necessary.

Reach out if you have any questions ❔
Info: eurips.cc/become-spons...

EWRL in Tübingen on Sept 17-19:
Registrations are open!

hey wasn't this the same company that made a beautiful shiny "research" post about how AI evals should include error bars or something like that. or did they decide the CLT didn't apply here

@neu-rips.bsky.social what’s wrong with Bellman?

EurIPS includes a call for both Workshops and Affinity Workshops!
We look forward to making #EurIPS a diverse and inclusive event with you.

The submission deadlines are August 22nd, AoE.

More information at:
eurips.cc/call-for-wor...
eurips.cc/call-for-aff...

PSA: NeurIPS position track has no rebuttal period so reviews won’t be released until August. Don’t bother emailing the PCs!

(Multiple people have asked me why their reviews aren’t visible. PCs should send a mass email and change the CFP.)

Everyone's talking about AI performance on the IMO. Let me highlight 🇨🇦Canadian 11th grader Warren Bei🇨🇦, one of five participants with a *perfect* 42/42.

This is his *fifth* (and final) IMO representing Canada, with three golds and two silvers. (➡️ MIT undergrad in the fall)

Sergey Levine was just presenting in the Exploration in AI @ #ICML2025 and promoted that exploration needs to be grounded, and that VLMs are a good source ;-) Check our paper below
👇

Such an inspiring talk by @arkrause.bsky.social at #ICML today. The role of efficient exploration in Scientific discovery is fundamental and I really like how Andreas connects the dots with RL (theory).

I generally agree with the points made here. I am not sure what are the arguments from the neurips side, probably mainly the fear that the community would split. But right now it’s effectively split since so many people cannot travel to the US.

Hello #ICML2025👋, anyone up for a diffusion circle? We'll just sit down somewhere and talk shop.

🕒Join us at 3PM on Thursday July 17. We'll meet here (see photo, near the west building's west entrance), and venture out from there to find a good spot to sit. Tell your friends!

Oh I’m looking forward to reading this too! Really happy you like the idea. Also happy to chat about it at icml or later, @onnoeberhard.com is here too and he knows all the details better than me.

Onno and I will be presenting our poster at # W1005 tomorrow (Wed) morning.
He made a great thread about it, come chat with us about POMDP theory :)

At #ICML, you can just use scholar inbox to help you find your way through the poster sessions. It just sorts the papers according to your preferences and it really works.

www.scholar-inbox.com/conference/i... ICML 2025 Planner

Will be at ICML and looking to hire a postdoc to help us scale up and deploy RL in self-driving. So, hit me up to chat.

This is a question that deserves a blog post answer, but I'm going to do a quick response here.

Gather around children as I tell you a story from ancient times. The year was 2015... at that point, it appeared that you needed Google scale to build competitive computer vision systems. 1/x

The only way I can navigate the ML literature these days is #ScholarInbox. At conferences, it builds a list of relevant posters for each session and I don’t know what I’d do without it. I 100% recommend this tool.

www.scholar-inbox.com

Open Call for ELLIS Fellows and Scholar Nominations 2025 The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

🚨The ELLIS Fellow & Scholar nomination call is now open! 👏

❗Please review the updated evaluation guidelines before submitting: https://bit.ly/4lmzRIN

ℹ️ Instructions for submission and eligibility criteria: https://bit.ly/3HRdcWJ

🗓️ Submit by: Sept 30th, 2025

Help make RLC even more fun!

📣Join us at COLT 2025 in Lyon for a community event!
📅When: Mon, June 30 | 16:00 CET
What: Fireside chat w/ Peter Bartlett & Vitaly Feldman on communicating a research agenda, followed by mentorship roundtable to practice elevator pitches & mingle w/ COLT community!
let-all.com/colt25.html

Come hang out with us at COLT 2025 and think about crafting and communicating your research agenda!

Teaching in the Age of AI how I avoided a shitty semester

So, looks like @seva.bsky.social has a ‘stack, and it’s excellent. Subscribe early, subscribe often! hegemon.substack.com/p/teaching-i...