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🇨🇦 🇪🇺 ELLIS and @CIFAR are joining forces to expand the ELLIS PhD & Postdoctoral Program in AI CIFAR Fellows and Canada AI Chairs will join ELLIS advisors, connecting PhD students with top AI researchers across Europe & North America. Learn more here: bit.ly/4hFvurq

Akshay Krishnamurthy and I have spring internship openings at MSR for topics around language model alignment and imitation learning. Apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…

The team @jhamrick and I co-lead is hiring a research engineer. If you are interested in improving the capabilities of LLMs in the planning and reasoning space, and building generally capable agents, please apply! boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/…

📢 PhD 🎓 opportunity (Please repost!) Our UKRI AI CDT between Manchester & Cambridge is inviting applications for its second cohort to start in September 2025. Deadline to apply is January 31, 2025. List of proposed projects here👇 ai-decisions-cdt.ac.uk

📢 Exciting News! The Fourth Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs 2025) will be held at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) in Philadelphia, USA 🇺🇸 🗓️ Important Dates: Abstract Deadline: Feb 21, 2025 Submission Deadline: Feb 26, 2025 Conference Dates: Aug 11 - Aug

If you work in continual learning for LLMs, updatable LLMs, or machine unlearning for LLMs, consider submitting your best work to CoLLAs 2025 2025! You will get meaningful feedback from the leading researchers in continual learning!

I am migrating (slowly) to Bluesky. Max Welling (same handle). See y’all there!

📢 Post-Bayesian online seminar series coming!📢 To stay posted, sign up at tinyurl.com/postBayes We'll discuss cutting-edge methods for posteriors that no longer rely on Bayes Theorem. (e.g., PAC-Bayes, generalised Bayes, Martingale posteriors, ...) Pls circulate widely!

All you want to know about spectral transformers in one webpage, papers & code: (& we'll try to keep it updated!) sites.google.com/view/gbrainpri…

I have made a few starter packs for those looking for people on the other site. Differential privacy: bsky.app/starter-pack/t… Waterloo CS faculty: bsky.app/starter-pack/t… NYU CS faculty: bsky.app/starter-pack/t… Let me know if you belong to any of these groups and I missed you!

In case that wasn't explicit enough: I'll be posting more there, and increasingly less here. The combination of the new AI/data sharing policy and noticeable decrease in quality and experience since Twitter was bought have finally proven to be too much.

Dynamic programming alternatives to dynamic programming for optimal control. Replace your Bellman equation with backpropagation. argmin.net/p/twirling-tow…

A very exciting personal update: In January, I’ll be joining @CMUMLD as tenure-track assistant professor! My lab will focus on the mathematical foundations of, and new algorithms, for decision making. This includes everything from reinforcement learning in the physical world

So collusion rings are still a thing at top conferences. Open Review has all the data across all top tier ml conferences — what are they currently do to solve this. What top tier conf is willing to release data of bidding patterns so we can analyze the problem at scale.

I have the honour to chair the tutorial call with Claire Monteleoni this year and we are looking forward to the great proposals you’ll send to us.

EWRL is happening in Tübingen this year! Checkout our 🦋 posts. When? September 17-19, 2025. bsky.app/profile/gmarti…

ICLR 2025 test of time award goes to Adam, and the runner-up to 🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau(-Kyunghyun Cho-Yoshua Bengio) Attention Notes: - Second ICLR ToT in a row for Durk Kingma (last year: VAEs) - Both awards this year feature folks at Canadian schools - Runners up last year and this ft NYU folks

I wrote a short post on some etiquette for a seemingly mundane task: declining an offer (for a job, internship, grad school, etc). Link in next tweet. 1/2