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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Aug 5

👏 Join us in celebrating these early-career researchers at #CoLLAs2025!

📍 Aug 11–14 @ University of Pennsylvania

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#AI #ML #LifelongLearning #ContinualLearning #CoLLAs2025

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Aug 5

🧩 @jmendezm.bsky.social (Stony Brook University)

Talk: Unlocking Lifelong Robot Learning With Modularity

Jorge shows how modularity in robotics enables scalable lifelong learning for robots.

#RobotLearning #Modularity #EmbodiedAI

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Aug 5

🔍 @tylerlhayes.bsky.social (Georgia Tech)

Talk: Adapting to the Unknown: Lifelong Learning, Novelty Discovery, & Beyond

Tyler presents two complementary paradigms for enabling adaptation in neural networks: dynamic adaptation and static adaptation.

#NoveltyDiscovery #OpenWorld #LifelongLearning

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Aug 5

🤖 Jaehong Yoon (NTU Singapore)

Talk: Toward Continually Growing Embodied AIs via Selective and Purposeful Experience

From multimodal LLMs to LLM-generated training environments, Jaehong shows how purposeful experience helps agents grow efficiently.

#EmbodiedAI #ContinualLearning #LLMs

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Aug 5

🧠 @khimya.bsky.social (Google DeepMind)

Talk: Navigating the Affordance Landscape for Continual Agent Adaptation

She propose rethinking the agent-environment interaction through the lens of affordances and using that to develop data-efficient agents.

#RL #Affordances #ContinualLearning

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Aug 5

🎉 Announcing the winners of the #CoLLAs2025 Early-Career Spotlight Program!

These rising stars are pushing the boundaries of lifelong & continual learning, adaptation, and embodied AI.

👇 A thread introducing their work & talks.

#AI #MachineLearning #ContinualLearning #LifelongLearning

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Jul 31

🧠 Don't miss the tutorials at #CoLLAs2025!

We’re excited to host two deep dives into the theory and practice of lifelong learning:

📍Information-Theoretic Measures for Multi-Expert FM Adaptation

📍Mathematics of Continual Learning

Details below 👇

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Jul 31

📘 Mathematics of Continual Learning
by Liangzu Peng & René Vidal

A deep dive into the mathematical principles behind continual learning and adaptive filtering. Highlights connections between the two fields and proposes directions grounded in rigorous theory.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2504.17963

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Jul 31

🔍 Information-Theoretic Measures for Multi-Expert FM Adaptation by Yang Li & Shao-Lun Huang

How much should we transfer from each expert model? This tutorial explores info-theoretic tools (KL, HGR, entropy, etc.) to measure and guide expert utility in multi-source & continual learning.

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Jul 31

🧠 Don't miss the tutorials at #CoLLAs2025!

We’re excited to host two deep dives into the theory and practice of lifelong learning:

📍Information-Theoretic Measures for Multi-Expert FM Adaptation

📍Mathematics of Continual Learning

Details below 👇

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Jul 27

📢 2 weeks until #CoLLAs2025!

Here’s what you need to make the most of it

🗓 Program: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

✅ Papers: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

📍 Venue: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

🔗 Info & registration: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

#AI #ML #ContinualLearning #LifelongLearning

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Jun 28

📢 Present your published work at #CoLLAs2025!

Submit recent papers (JMLR, TMLR, NeurIPS, etc.) on lifelong/continual learning, LLMs, online learning & more.

🗓 Deadline: July 5
🔗 lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

#AI #MachineLearning #LifelongLearning #ContinualLearning

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Jun 17

📢 Only 8 weeks to #CoLLAs2025!

Tackle the real-world challenges of ML: catastrophic forgetting, dist. shift, continual RL, lifelong learning & more.

📍 Aug 11–14 @upenn.edu
🧠 Talks, workshops, posters, tutorials & community

🔗 lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

#ContinualLearning #AI #MachineLearning

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · May 29

⏰ Reminder: Only 5 days left to apply for CoLLAs Early-Career Spotlight Program for rising researchers to present their vision & trajectory in #lifelonglearning.

📅 Deadline: June 2, 2025, 23:59 AoE

🔗 lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

#CoLLAs2025 #EarlyCareer #ContinualLearning #AI #MachineLearning

collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · May 15

📢 1 week left! Submit to the #CoLLAs2025 Workshop Track — ideal for early work & papers under review.

🧠 Spotlight: #LifelongLearning in Cognitive Science
🗓 Deadline: May 22, 2025 (AoE)

🔗 openreview.net/group?id=lifelong-ml.cc/CoLLAs/2025/Workshop_Track

#ContinualLearning #WorkshopCFP

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Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for CoLLAs 2025 Workshop Track

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · May 4

📢 Reminder: Submit to the #CoLLAs2025 Workshop Track!

Great venue for early work & papers under review. This year’s spotlight: Lifelong Learning in Cognitive Science 🧠✨

🗓 Deadline: May 22, 2025 (AoE)

🔗 openreview.net/group?id=lif...

#ContinualLearning #LifelongLearning #AI #CognitiveScience

CoLLAs 2025 Workshop Track

Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for CoLLAs 2025 Workshop Track

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Jorge Mendez-Mendez @jmendezm.bsky.social · Apr 15

Submit your tutorial proposal or topic/presenter suggestions to [email protected] by April 30!

collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Apr 15

📢 Extended Deadline for Tutorials 📢

You now have until April 30, 2025 (AoE) to submit your tutorial proposals on continual learning, LLMs, neuroscience-inspired AI & more.

🔗 lifelong-ml.cc

💡 Suggest a topic: [email protected]

#AI #MachineLearning #ContinualLearning #CallForTutorials

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Apr 15

📢 Extended Deadline for Tutorials 📢

You now have until April 30, 2025 (AoE) to submit your tutorial proposals on continual learning, LLMs, neuroscience-inspired AI & more.

🔗 lifelong-ml.cc

💡 Suggest a topic: [email protected]

#AI #MachineLearning #ContinualLearning #CallForTutorials

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Martin Mundt @martinmundt.bsky.social · Apr 7

🚀We’ve created a spotlight program for early Postdoc/starting faculty/industry equivalent researchers to highlight their contributions & vision in a 30 minute spotlight talk at CoLLAs!

It’s a unique opportunity & recognition!

Applications are open until May 26 AOE: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Apr 7

We’re inviting applications for our Early-Career Spotlight Program—a chance for rising researchers to present their vision & trajectory in #lifelonglearning.

📅 Apply by May 26, 2025
📢 30-min invited talk + blog feature

🔗 lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

#AI #MachineLearning #ContinualLearning

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Mar 19

Got ongoing work or a paper under review? Submit to the #CoLLAs2025 Workshop Track! This year, we’re also highlighting Lifelong Learning in Cognitive Science 🧠✨

🔹 Deadline: May 22, 2025 (AoE)
🔗 lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

#ContinualLearning #LifelongLearning #AI #CognitiveScience

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Mar 14

📢 Call for Tutorials 📢

We’re inviting 2-hour tutorial proposals on continual learning, non-stationary learning, LLMs, neuroscience & more! 🧠📚

🔹 Deadline: April 15, 2025 (AoE)

💡 Suggest a topic: [email protected]

🔗 lifelong-ml.cc

#MachineLearning #ContinualLearning #AI #CallForTutorials

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Mar 11

Excited to announce that Dr. Cristina Savin will be an invited speaker at #CoLLAs2025! 🎤

A Professor at @nyu.edu, she works at intersection of neuroscience & ML to study how bio. & artificial systems learn & adapt in dynamic environments.

Stay tuned for more details on her talk!
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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Mar 9

Excited to announce that Dr. Qiang Yang will be an invited speaker at #CoLLAs2025! 🎤

An Emeritus Professor at HKUST and Chief AI Officer at WeBank renowned for his pioneering work in data mining, transfer learning, and federated learning.

Stay tuned for more details on his talk!

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collasconf.bsky.social @collasconf.bsky.social · Mar 9

Excited to announce that Dr. Stephanie Chan (@scychan.bsky.social) will be an invited speaker at #CoLLAs2025! 🎤

A researcher at Google Deepmind, she is working to build systems at the intersection of neuroscience & AI.

Stay tuned for more details on her talk!

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