Martin Mundt
martinmundt.bsky.social
Martin Mundt
@martinmundt.bsky.social
Professor for Lifelong Machine Learning @ Uni Bremen | OWL-ML Lab: https://owl-ml.com | Board @ ContinualAI | QueerInAI | CoLLAs 2026 Program Chair | He/him 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺
Wonder how LLMs learn over long time horizons & how hate-checks deal with time?

Look at our new work "Chronoberg": an open-source dataset spanning 250 years of books with analysis of shifts in meaning & continual learning of LLMs:

arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22360

huggingface.co/datasets/spa...
October 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🎉"Aligning generalization between humans and machines" (w/ 25 incredible authors) is out now in #Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

In short, we identified interdisciplinary commonalities & differences with respect to notions of, methods for, & evaluation of generalization
September 16, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Feeling really inspired after @collasconf.bsky.social: wonderful keynotes, exceptionally talented early-career spotlights & interactions that mattered!
And of course our own oral presentation as well :)

Very excited to be the next program chair & ensure its success for CoLLAs in Romania next year!
August 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Just arrived in Philadelphia for @collasconf.bsky.social

Very excited about a fantastic program!

I’ll be around all week, but feel free to drop me a message or catch me directly at the debate on Monday morning, after our oral presentation on Tuesday, or in any of the poster sessions
August 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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🎉 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 5:17 PM
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🧠 Don't miss the tutorials at #CoLLAs2025!

We’re excited to host two deep dives into the theory and practice of lifelong learning:

📍Information-Theoretic Measures for Multi-Expert FM Adaptation

📍Mathematics of Continual Learning

Details below 👇
July 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'm not at #ICML2025 myself, but @florianbusch.bsky.social & Roshni are presenting our spotlight poster on continual confounding + our respective ConCon dataset on Thursday 17 Jul 4:30 pm - 7 pm PDT in East Exhibition Hall A-B: E-3309 icml.cc/virtual/2025...

Please talk to them! :)

Details below ⬇️
July 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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🏳️‍🌈 Queer in AI is thrilled to announce another season of our affinity workshop at #NeurIPS2025! We announce a Call for Contributions to the workshop, with visa-friendly submissions due by 📅 July 31, 2025 (AOE), all other submissions due by 📅 August 14, 2025. #QueerInAI #CallForPapers
July 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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We're happy to officially announce the location of #FAccT2026!

Next year's conference will be held in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦

Su Lin Blodgett and Zeerak Talat will be General Chairs, and Michael Madaio will be PC Chair 🎉

(thanks to MindView for the photo!)
June 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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dear computer vision people,

labelling someone* an "activist" is not the disparage you think it is

(*there is no claim in our paper that's not supported by empirical evidence so our work adheres to science by any standard. still...)
June 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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📢 Present your published work at #CoLLAs2025!

Submit recent papers (JMLR, TMLR, NeurIPS, etc.) on lifelong/continual learning, LLMs, online learning & more.

🗓 Deadline: July 5
🔗 lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...

#AI #MachineLearning #LifelongLearning #ContinualLearning
CoLLAs
Collas
lifelong-ml.cc
June 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
We are hiring a tenure-track prof in the computer science department at University of Bremen for the field of Computer Engineering with a focus on Distributed Systems

Applications are still open until June 18th, so come join a fantastic set of colleagues!

www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen
Offene Stellen
www.uni-bremen.de
June 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Are you based in Greece? 🇬🇷 Do you want to attend #FAccT2025 and have your entire registration fee waived?

Volunteer for just 4 hours at the conference!

Apply by June 3, 2025, at 11:59 pm anywhere on Earth: facctconference.org/2025/cfv2
June 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We (+ @pranav-nlp.bsky.social) had tremendous fun presenting our cake-AI analogy to a really engaging audience. Thanks for the greatly thoughtful discussions 🙏

We are facing numerous socio-technical challenges in AI, but with talented fresh minds & increased awareness, there may be a bright future
@martinmundt.bsky.social SERVING 🍰 cake 🍰 in his Data Story @dfki.bsky.social today 🙌
May 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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I am at the data story workshop hosted by @martinmundt.bsky.social where we talk about AI as cake! We redefine Yann LeCun's famous analogy beyond just learning types. From ingredients to selling - we break down how AI really works and who gets left out.
May 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Reasonable AI" got selected as a cluster of excellence www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet...

Overwhelmingly happy to be part of RAI & continue working with the smart minds at TU Darmstadt & hessian.AI, while also seeing my new home at Uni Bremen achieve a historic success in the excellence strategy!
May 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
You may know batch-norm, but did you know it is a lightweight catalyst for open world learning?

In "BOWL: A Deceptively Simple Open World Learner" we leverage BN stats to enable OoD detection & rapid active + continual learning!

arxiv.org/abs/2402.04814

🚀 now accepted @collasconf.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Exciting news!!! This just got into @icmlconf.bsky.social as a position paper!!! 🎉 More updates to come as we work on the camera-ready version!!!
Remember this @neuripsconf.bsky.social workshop paper? We spent the past month writing a newer, better, longer version!!! You can find it online here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.00561
May 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Horizontal, vertical, hybrid data partitioning: heterogeneity is tough to handle in federated learning!

🔥In “Scaling Probabilistic Circuits via Data Partitioning" - accepted at #UAI25 - we unify the different settings through aggregation of learned client distributions: arxiv.org/abs/2503.08141
May 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Join us this Thursday 8 May for:

U n l e a r n i n g
~ in continual scenarios ~

together with:
Zhenyi Wang, Sijia Liu, and Kairan Zhao

6 PM CET / 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET

Hope to see you there!!!

Registration here: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
May 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🔥Our work “Where is the Truth? The Risk of Getting Confounded in a Continual World" was accepted with a spotlight poster at ICML!
arxiv.org/abs/2402.06434

-> we introduce continual confounding + the ConCon dataset, where confounders over time render continual knowledge accumulation insufficient ⬇️
May 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Join us for a delicious Data Story by @martinmundt.bsky.social on the AI-cake analogy, hosted @dfki.bsky.social in Bremen!

👉 Info and registration: www.bremen-research.de/data-train/c...

👓 Read more about the research in Martin's thread below

🍰 Of course, there will be cake 😋
April 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We are hosting a 3-hour interactive session on our Cake-AI analogy work (arxiv.org/abs/2502.03038) on May 27th @dfki.bsky.social Bremen.

If you are around, please consider signing up to learn & discuss how the process of baking helps us understand design & socio-technical tensions of AI systems!⬇️
Join us for a delicious Data Story by @martinmundt.bsky.social on the AI-cake analogy, hosted @dfki.bsky.social in Bremen!

👉 Info and registration: www.bremen-research.de/data-train/c...

👓 Read more about the research in Martin's thread below

🍰 Of course, there will be cake 😋
April 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🚀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: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...
April 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Gaming the system? …
No paper in my ICML batch with negative ratings has posted rebuttals, in both tracks!

I spend lots of time reviewing & give detailed comments.

I see people complain about review quality constantly, but with such author behavior, what exactly do we expect?
April 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM