Claire Vernade

There will be 3 great workshops at Aistats this year -> consider submitting your work and attending!

The Reinforcement Learning workshop at U Mannheim was a lot of fun and highly recommended if you are looking for an engaging exchange of ideas, thanks to the organizers: Leif Döring, @theo-vincent.bsky.social, @claireve.bsky.social, and Simon Weißmann! www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/doering/conf...

Check out the Call for Workshops at RLC this year. There is still nearly a month before the deadline, we are looking forward to your proposals!

Following our previous #ICML2026 call for tutorial topics, we now welcome tutorial proposals!

📆Deadline: February 6, but proposals will be reviewed as they arrive

Courtesy the tutorial chairs Claire Vernade (@claireve.bsky.social) and Adam White

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…

I missed this post but it is pure gold. www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

Spotlight talk opening slide by Saeed Salehi on object binding in vision transformers.
Real art >> AI generated images

Workshop on Reinforcement Learning 2025

www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/doering/conf...

🎤 Announcing the 3rd workshop on Reinforcement Learning in Mannheim 🎤

We have an amazing lineup of speakers: @Mathieugeist, @gio_ramponi, Theresa Eimer, @SarahKeren_, @araffin2, @c_rothkopf, and @AdrienBolland

⏰ Friday 6th February
📍University of Mannheim

📣 #ICML tutorials: We want to know what *you* would like to learn. This year, Adam White and I are calling for nominations of topics and/or presenters.

Until December 7th, you can send us your suggestions, and we will use them to shape the program.

icml.cc/Conferences/...

The program is still under construction, I’ll post more as we make progress.
@mlcv-at-ista.bsky.social
@neu-rips.bsky.social

ILIR Workshop, Dec 2, 2025 This workshop covers current research topics in reinforcement learning and causality, and in particular questions at the interface of these research areas. Of particular interest this year are also qu...

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...

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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MSR NYC is hiring spring and summer interns in AI/ML/RL!

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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
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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!