Claire Vernade
@claireve.bsky.social
Professor at UT Nuremberg, Germany I’m 🇫🇷 and I work on RL and lifelong learning. Mostly posting on ML related topics.
Summer school on Decisions and Theory for AI! July 13-17 Leiden University Lecturers: Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social Marco Avella Medina Peter Grünwald @petergrunwald.bsky.social Myself Application deadline: April 30 sites.google.com/view/dtailsu...
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Modern AI systems are no longer just engineering artefacts: they are decision-makers operating under uncertainty, constraints, and societal needs. This summer school concerns the intersection of decis...
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Announcing the #ICML2026 tutorials! All ten tutorials will be presented the first day of the conference, Monday July 6. Read the blog post for more details on the selection process! blog.icml.cc/2026/04/02/a...
There will be 3 great workshops at Aistats this year -> consider submitting your work and attending!
🌴📊📈 - AISTATS 2026 workshops For the first time, AISTATS (May 2-5 in Tangier, Morocco) will have a day of workshops! Please submit your best work by Feb. 27th: - calibration-workshop.github.io - optimal-workshop26.github.io - causcale.github.io virtual.aistats.org/virtual/2026... 👇
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!
We're thrilled to share that the Call for Workshops for this year's @rl-conference.bsky.social is now live! As Workshop co-chair (alongside the wonderful Raksha Kumaraswamy and @claireve.bsky.social) we are looking forward to seeing the proposals for workshops that we receive. LINK IN NEXT POST
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
I missed this post but it is pure gold. www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...
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…
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Spotlight talk opening slide by Saeed Salehi on object binding in vision transformers. Real art >> AI generated images
🎤 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/...
ICML 20256 Call For Tutorials
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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...
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...
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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.
📣📣📣 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
MSR NYC is hiring spring and summer interns in AI/ML/RL! Apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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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!
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...
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
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!
🚨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
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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!
📣 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]
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!
📣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!
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
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 👇
✨Introducing SENSEI✨ We bring semantically meaningful exploration to model-based RL using VLMs. With intrinsic rewards for novel yet useful behaviors, SENSEI showcases strong exploration in MiniHack, Pokémon Red & Robodesk. Accepted at ICML 2025🎉 Joint work with @cgumbsch.bsky.social 🧵
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.
✨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? 1/4
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!