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🌟 New at CoLLAs2025! 🌟 We’re inviting applications for our Early-Career Spotlight Program—a chance for rising researchers to present their vision & trajectory in lifelong learning. 📅 Apply by May 26, 2025 📢 30-min invited talk + blog feature 🔗 lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/20…

(1/2) We just had a new FlockMTL 0.2.4 release. FlockMTL aims to integrate semantic operations (LLMs and RAG) within SQL. In our latest arXiv paper (arxiv.org/abs/2504.01157), we motivate its use and give an overview of the capabilities. FlockMTL is available as a @DuckDB

🚀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 ⬇️⬇️

We have an amazing lineup of speakers, who will share their experience in deploying RL for power systems, industrial processes, nuclear fusion, logistics and more! Consider submitting!

Do you care about applying RL to real systems? You should consider attending our RLC 2025 workshop on RL for real systems!

If you are passionate about applying RL to real-world problems, consider submitting! Looking forward to organizing this workshop at RL_Conference this year!

👏 A huge thank you to our co-organizers who made the 2025 Mila Techaide AI Conference possible and to Centraide du Grand Montréal and our generous sponsors for supporting AI research! The event is just days away. Buy your tickets now: ow.ly/41I750VwUJy

Woo hoo.. Our first #TMLR paper!🤗 On the planning and scheduling abilities of LRMs o1 & R1 (w/ Karthik Valmeekam kstechly Atharva) 👉 openreview.net/forum?id=FkKBx… Even a jaded researcher like me has to admit that Transactions on Machine Learning Research is a veritable oasis among #AI publication venues! 🙏

Check out this really cool work by my PhD student Artem Zholus! Tracking any point in videos as next token prediction achieves SOTA! Prior to this, Artem developed BindGPT, which was yet another next token prediction idea that challenged all SOTA in 3D molecule generation!

🤝 IVADO and Inria are pleased to launch the 1st edition of the IVADO-Inria Initiative: Franco-Quebec Exchange Semester on #AI, a joint effort to strengthen collaboration between AI research communities in #France and #Quebec. ➡️ Full details here: ivado.ca/en/call-for-ap…

The annual Mila Techaide charity event was a resounding success today, bringing together more than 100 people from Montreal's tech community! We're proud to have come together to support Centraide du Grand Montréal and its mission to fight poverty and social exclusion.

just released embzip, a new python library for embedding quantization!😎 if you've ever worked with embeddings (or other large representation vectors) – you know storing them on disk can be a huge pain. this is especially frustrating since they contain so much redundancy

Very special being back in Montreal ✨ Huge thank you to Hugo Larochelle Sarath Chandar Marc-Alexandre Cote for bringing us together for MILA techaide.

I will be at ICLR 2026 next week! If you are interested in any of these four postdoc positions, reach out to me via whova app so that we can meet during the conference!

Excited that our paper "safety alignment should be made more than just a few tokens deep" recognized as an #ICLR2025 Outstanding Paper! We identified a common root cause to many safety vulnerabilities and pointed out some paths forward to address it!

If you are at #ICLR2025, don’t forget to check our poster on generalist hanabi agent at 10 am today!! Poster number 399!

arxiv.org/abs/2504.17963 Our recent tutorial on mathematical aspects of continual learning in light of its connection to "adaptive filtering" (1960 - now). There are a few reasons why you might like it. #ICLR2025 CoLLAs 2025 ICLR 2025

⏳ 1 week left to submit to the CoLLAs 2025 Workshop Track! Perfect for early-stage ideas, interdisciplinary work, or papers under review. This year’s spotlight: 🧠 Lifelong Learning in Cognitive Science 📅 Deadline: May 22, 2025 (AoE) 📍 Posters at CoLLAs 2025 🔗

It is trivial to explain why a LLM can never ever be conscious or intelligent. Utterly trivial. It goes like this - LLMs have zero causal power. Zero agency. Zero internal monologue. Zero abstracting ability. Zero understanding of the world. They are tools for conscious beings.