Thanks so much for the wonderful opportunity to share our work! Looking forward to it! 🤖

Thank you so much Talking Robotics (Riddhi, Nitin, sooraj krishnakumar, & Silvia Tulli) for inviting me to talk about our work in SCALE and causal skill learning as a part of Talking Robotics #71! I'm so grateful for the opportunity, and it was a blast! 🤖

OpenAI's Sora has reignited discussions on causal reasoning in today's ML systems. Seems a binary divide: do they have causal reasoning/a world model? Or not? But reality is much more complicated. Here's a 🧵summarizing last year's research on generative models and causality.

I had a wonderful time visiting Robotics@GT to present my work on "Planning What to Learn". Thank you Matthew Gombolay for inviting. CORE Robotics Lab is doing fantastic inter-disciplinary work on robot skill learning, multi-agent RL and HRI. Slides @ tinyurl.com/ykphcwt9

I am hiring another postdoc for my lab. Consider applying if you have #foundationalmodels, #robotics, or #reinforcementlearning skills. You will help create generalist real-world agents (robots) with a team of 20 working on these problems and overly competitive go-karting.

🚨 We’re thrilled to announce our NeurIPS 2025 workshop: CausCien: Uncovering Causality in Science 🔍✨ We’re uniting ML + science communities to explore how causal learning advances: 🌿 Ecology 🧬 Biology 📊 Social Science & more! 📝 Submit by Aug 22 👉 sites.google.com/view/causcien

Is "scaling is all you need" the right path for robotics? Announcing our Conference on Robot Learning workshop on "Resource-Rational Robot Learning", where we will explore how to build efficient intelligent systems that learn & thrive under real-world constraints. Submission deadline: Aug 8 🧵

Finally, a good modern book on causality for ML: causalai-book.net by Elias Bareinboim. This looks like a worthy successor to the ground breaking book by Judea Pearl which I read in grad school. (h/t Joshua Safyan for the ref).

RL_Conference will be in Montréal next year at Université de Montréal. We are looking forward to welcoming you all! Bienvenue!

We are extending the paper submission deadline to August 18, 2025. Submit your latest work on resource-rational robot learning to our workshop! Details + updated speaker lineup:: rational-robots.github.io Don’t miss our exciting panel discussion!

Mila's annual supervision request process is now open to receive MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026 admission! For more information, visit mila.quebec/en/prospective…

For those interested in joining my lab, submit your application via the Mila form. This year, I am particularly interested in students with skills/interests in robotics, reinforcement learning and foundational models, which will push forward the abilities of real-world agents.