Jorge Mendez-Mendez
jmendezm.bsky.social
Jorge Mendez-Mendez
@jmendezm.bsky.social
Embodied lifelong learning (compositionality, RL, TAMP, robotics). Assistant Professor at Stony Brook ECE. Postdoc at MIT CSAIL, PhD from GRASP lab at Penn.
https://jorge-a-mendez.github.io
Lots of great intuition in this thread about LLM RL.
I'd say that's because it's not sparse reward in a meaningful way, in the same way Go in self-play is not sparse in a meaningful way.

That is, in Go, your reward is 0 for most time steps and only +1/-1 at end. That sound's sparse, but not from an algorithmic perspective.
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Can Large Language Models solve complex robotics problems with intricate geometric constraints? 🤖

Excited to share our preprint, "A Systematic Study of Large Language Models for Task and Motion Planning With PDDLStream"!

16 LLM planners using Gemini, 4950 TAMP problems.

🧵👇
October 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I will be at @rl-conference.bsky.social this week. If you're around and would like to chat about lifelong learning, robotics, or abstractions, say hi!
bsky.app
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I am looking forward to @collasconf.bsky.social next week, where I will be presenting my work and vision for lifelong robot learning through modularity.
🎉 Announcing the winners of the #CoLLAs2025 Early-Career Spotlight Program!

These rising stars are pushing the boundaries of lifelong & continual learning, adaptation, and embodied AI.

👇 A thread introducing their work & talks.

#AI #MachineLearning #ContinualLearning #LifelongLearning
August 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Looking forward to seeing folks at @collasconf.bsky.social in Philly in a couple of weeks!
July 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Reposted by Jorge Mendez-Mendez
📢 2 weeks until #CoLLAs2025!

Here’s what you need to make the most of it

🗓 Program: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

✅ Papers: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

📍 Venue: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

🔗 Info & registration: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

#AI #ML #ContinualLearning #LifelongLearning
CoLLAs
Collas
lifelong-ml.cc
July 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Submit your tutorial proposal or topic/presenter suggestions to tutorials@lifelong-ml.cc by April 30!
📢 Extended Deadline for Tutorials 📢

You now have until April 30, 2025 (AoE) to submit your tutorial proposals on continual learning, LLMs, neuroscience-inspired AI & more.

🔗 lifelong-ml.cc

💡 Suggest a topic: tutorials@lifelong-ml.cc

#AI #MachineLearning #ContinualLearning #CallForTutorials
CoLLAs
Collas
lifelong-ml.cc
April 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I'll be at @neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2024 next week for workshops and am looking to recruit PhD students for Fall '25. I'm generally interested in lifelong learning, robotics, and RL. If you'll be around and are interested in working with me, please send a note in Whova to meet up!
December 6, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Reposted by Jorge Mendez-Mendez
The call for papers for RLC is now up! Abstract deadline of 2/14, submission deadline of 2/21!
Please help us spread the word.
rl-conference.cc/callforpaper...
RLJ | RLC Call for Papers
rl-conference.cc
December 2, 2024 at 3:39 PM
I'm wrapping up my Deep Learning course this Thursday with a lecture titled "The future of deep learning". What topics should make it in there? (I want to do very little of "the state-of-the-art of deep learning" and much more "things that don't yet work but some believe will be game-changing".)
December 2, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Reposted by Jorge Mendez-Mendez
📢 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 14, 2025 1/
November 28, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Reposted by Jorge Mendez-Mendez
I did a starter pack of people in New York (City) working on ML/AI. Please distribute and feel free to self nominate!

go.bsky.app/BoEtagz
November 19, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Reposted by Jorge Mendez-Mendez
New feed on continual learning, lifelong learning, and related ML topics: bsky.app/profile/did:...

I hope you find it useful. Please let me know if you notice it is missing any posts, so that I can adjust the regular expression.
November 28, 2024 at 4:29 PM
It's almost time for #NeurIPS2024! I'll be there for workshops (and I'll be giving a talk at the Scalable Continual Learning workshop: sites.google.com/view/continu...). If you'll be around and want to chat, please reach out!
Scalable Continual Learning
Abstract
sites.google.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:23 PM
I created a starter pack of folks working on lifelong or continual learning. It's quite sparse, so if you know anybody else who's around (or want to be added yourself) please reply below.

go.bsky.app/QXGY1iT
November 23, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by Jorge Mendez-Mendez
Time to explore a new social media site! Follow along for updates about RLC 2025
November 22, 2024 at 10:18 PM
As a new assistant professor, I have a nearly empty bookshelf in my office. What are must-have textbooks I should have there? Especially in AI, robotics, ML...
November 22, 2024 at 2:00 PM
I'm teaching "AI for robotics" next semester. What should I cover? I'd love to hear from industry practitioners / faculty / students...
November 20, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Exciting time to join here! I'm a new faculty at Stony Brook, and I'm on a mission to transform robots into lifelong learners. 🤖
November 18, 2024 at 8:20 PM