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Andrea Pugnana @andrepugni.bsky.social · 20d

Deferring Concept Bottleneck Models go to
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
2025! Thanks to all my amazing coauthors (especially @rmassidda.it who is the only one on 🦋 as far as I know) who believed in the marriage between CBMs and Learning to Defer! See u in San Diego! 😄🌊🏖️

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Sara Magliacane @smaglia.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

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uai2025 @auai.org · Jul 24

let's start day 4 with the oral session on optimization!

👉 www.auai.org/uai2025/sche...

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uai2025 @auai.org · Jul 23

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)

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uai2025 @auai.org · Jul 22

oral sessions are on! 🎉

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

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uai2025 @auai.org · Jul 22

presentations from the oral session #1 on learning

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

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uai2025 @auai.org · Jul 21

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

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

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uai2025 @auai.org · Jul 21

here we go with the very first coffee break! ☕
no one can resist these delicious Brazilian snacks 🇧🇷

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uai2025 @auai.org · Jul 21

a huge thank you to our amazing volunteers 💙
working relentlessly to make the conference go smooth!

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

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uai2025 @auai.org · Jul 21

Welcome to Rio 🇧🇷!

While we start, enjoy the sun, our local coffee swag ☕ and our upcoming five tutorials for the day (www.auai.org/uai2025/tuto...) 💙

stay tuned!

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uai2025 @auai.org · Jul 15

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

1 ❤️‍🩹mentoring session
2 🔑 keynotes
3 🧑‍🔧 workshops
5 📊 tutorials
20 🗣️ orals
229 📜 posters

👉 www.auai.org/uai2025/schedule

www.auai.org

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Sara Magliacane @smaglia.bsky.social · Jun 3

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 🚲🌷🇳🇱

Deadline: June 15

Sara Magliacane @smaglia.bsky.social · May 12

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 💥

Deadline: 15 June

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

Vacancy — 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!

werkenbij.uva.nl

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Sara Magliacane @smaglia.bsky.social · May 12

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 💥

Deadline: 15 June

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

Vacancy — 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!

werkenbij.uva.nl

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Riccardo @rmassidda.it · May 24

🔥 Five days left to submit your work to our causality workshop at #UAI2025!

🇧🇷 You bring the paper, we bring world-class keynote speakers, and Rio brings the iconic Copacabana Beach. What more could you ask for?

⚠️ Extended Deadline – May 28th!

👉 sites.google.com/view/car-25/

CAR

Causal Abstractions and RepresentationsWorkshop @ UAI 2025July 25th 2025, Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷

sites.google.com

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Riccardo @rmassidda.it · May 19

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

🇧🇷 Don’t miss your chance to present in Rio at the CAR Workshop at #UAI2025!

⏰ Deadline is in 1 week – May 26!
🌐 sites.google.com/view/car-25/

CAR

Causal Abstractions and RepresentationsWorkshop @ UAI 2025July 25th 2025, Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷

sites.google.com

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Causal Club @handle.invalid · Apr 10

If you are into Structural Causal Models, you're going to love Deep SCMs! ❤️

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

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

🗓️ tinyurl.com/deepscm

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uai2025 @auai.org · Apr 7

...don’t know if you noticed, but reviews are out! 👀

Good luck with your rebuttal, you're almost there! 🍀

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uai2025 @auai.org · Apr 4

🥇 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! 🇧🇷

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Causal Club @handle.invalid · Apr 3

🚨 Next appointment!

↔️ 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.

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

🗓️ Add it here! tinyurl.com/anticaus

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Riccardo @rmassidda.it · Apr 2

🎉 The first edition of the "Causal Abstractions and Representations" workshop is here!

🇧🇷 Proudly hosted by @auai.org, we'll be in Rio de Janeiro on July 25, 2025.

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

🌐 sites.google.com/view/car-25/

CAR

Causal Abstractions and RepresentationsWorkshop @ UAI 2025July 25th 2025, Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷

sites.google.com

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Causal Club @handle.invalid · Mar 27

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

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

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

🗓️ Add it here: tinyurl.com/ctgllms

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uai2025 @auai.org · Mar 22

to all reviewers who kindly accepted the invitation to review for #UAI2025 🙏,

you can do it! one more push! 🦾

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

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Causal Club @handle.invalid · Mar 20

Time for the next Causal Club speaker!

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

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

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Jacob Schreiber @jmschreiber91.bsky.social · Mar 17

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

Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · Mar 16

#Doves with jobs: Home builder

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Causal Club @handle.invalid · Mar 14

⏰ Happening today at 4PM!

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

Causal Club @handle.invalid · Mar 12

Still thinking about that denied loan?

🏦 Then you can't miss @giovannidetoni.bsky.social talk on the causal role of time in algorithmic recourse

🤌 See you in Pisa on March 14 at 16:00 (CET) or live at meet.google.com/tng-aibh-yuz

🗓️ Click here to add it to your calendar: tinyurl.com/timecausalclub

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