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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 6d

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.

EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · 7d

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You have waited patiently and now #EurIPS Registration is OPEN

We are happy to announce that we are at this stage releasing 1500 EurIPS tickets.

So get your ticket now! We look forward to welcoming you to #EurIPS in Copenhagen, Denmark.

eurips.cc

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Dylan Foster 🐢 @djfoster.bsky.social · 6d

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

Apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Microsoft Research Lab - New York City - Microsoft Research

Apply for a research position at Microsoft Research New York & collaborate with academia to advance economics research, prediction markets & ML.

www.microsoft.com

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Georg Martius @ ICML @gmartius.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Onno Eberhard @onnoeberhard.com · 26d

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

AIhub.org @aihub.org · 26d

In our latest blog post, @onnoeberhard.com writes about work presented at #ICML2025 on partially observable reinforcement learning which introduces an alternative memory framework - “memory traces”.
aihub.org/2025/09/12/m...

Memory traces in reinforcement learning - ΑΙhub

aihub.org

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

Bluesky @bsky.app · Sep 3

You can now add people to a Starter Pack directly from their profile.

Starter Packs make it easy to recommend accounts to follow. They already drive nearly 20% of all follows on Bluesky!

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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨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

Call for Workshops

virtual.aistats.org

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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · Aug 27

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!)

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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · Aug 13

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!

Arno Solin @arnosolin.bsky.social · Aug 12

📣 Please share: We invite submissions to the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (#AISTATS 2026) and welcome paper submissions at the intersection of AI, machine learning, statistics, and related areas. [1/3]

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Aug 13

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...

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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

EWRL18 @ewrl18.bsky.social · Aug 13

📣Registration for EWRL is now open📣
Register now 👇 and join us in Tübingen for 3 days (17th-19th September) full of inspiring talks, posters and many social activities to push the boundaries of the RL community!

PheedLoop

PheedLoop: Hybrid, In-Person & Virtual Event Software

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jessica dai @jessica.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Jul 28

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...

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · Jul 25

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.)

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · Jul 21

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)

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Georg Martius @ ICML @gmartius.bsky.social · Jul 19

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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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · Jul 17

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).

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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · Jul 17

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.

Pierre Marion @pierremarion.bsky.social · Jul 17

✨Thrilled to see EurIPS launch — the first officially endorsed European NeurIPS presentation venue!

👀 But NeurIPS now requires at least one author to attend in San Diego or Mexico (and not just virtually as before). This is detrimental to many. Why not allow presenting at EurIPS or online?
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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Jul 16

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅

EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu

eurips.cc

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Sander Dieleman @sedielem.bsky.social · Jul 15

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!

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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · Jul 16

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.

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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · Jul 16

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 :)

Onno Eberhard @onnoeberhard.com · Jul 16

I am in Vancouver at ICML, and tomorrow I will present our newest paper "Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning with Memory Traces". We argue that eligibility traces are more effective than sliding windows as a memory mechanism for RL in POMDPs. 🧵

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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · Jul 15

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

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Jul 10

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.

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · Jul 4

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

grand theft eigenvalue 🔆 @akhilrao.bsky.social · Jul 4

i don't see any mystery: the American companies seek rents and an American DeepSeek doesn't produce rents. what do you see that complicates the picture?

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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

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