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.
I’m 🇫🇷 and I work on RL and lifelong learning. Mostly posting on ML related topics.
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ICML 20256 Call For Tutorials
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📣 #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/...
Until December 7th, you can send us your suggestions, and we will use them to shape the program.
icml.cc/Conferences/...
📣 #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/...
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
icml.cc
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
📣 #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/...
Until December 7th, you can send us your suggestions, and we will use them to shape the program.
icml.cc/Conferences/...
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...
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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October 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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...
If you want to talk about RL, causality, bandits, online learning, join us there on December 2nd
sites.google.com/view/ilir-wo...
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.
I’ll be there, the whole week, and I’m truly looking forward to this local parallel event.
October 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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.
I’ll be there, the whole week, and I’m truly looking forward to this local parallel event.
Reposted by Claire Vernade
MSR NYC is hiring spring and summer interns in AI/ML/RL!
Apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
Apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
Microsoft Research Lab - New York City - Microsoft Research
Apply for a research position at Microsoft Research New York & collaborate with academia to advance economics research, prediction markets & ML.
www.microsoft.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
MSR NYC is hiring spring and summer interns in AI/ML/RL!
Apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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
#Robot #Harvesting #Learning
September 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Here at #EWRL: demonstration of autonomous tomato harvesting by polybot.eu
#Robot #Harvesting #Learning
#Robot #Harvesting #Learning
Reposted by Claire Vernade
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...
aihub.org/2025/09/12/m...
Memory traces in reinforcement learning - ΑΙhub
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September 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I wrote a short post on our newest ICML paper addressed at people who are not experts in machine learning. Check it out!
Reposted by Claire Vernade
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
September 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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
🚨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
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
virtual.aistats.org
August 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🚨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
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
Reposted by Claire Vernade
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!)
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!)
August 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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!)
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]
August 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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!
Reposted by Claire Vernade
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...
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...
August 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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...
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!
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!
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!
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August 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
EWRL in Tübingen on Sept 17-19:
Registrations are open!
Registrations are open!
Reposted by Claire Vernade
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
August 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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
Reposted by Claire Vernade
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...
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...
July 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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...
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...
Reposted by Claire Vernade
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.)
(Multiple people have asked me why their reviews aren’t visible. PCs should send a mass email and change the CFP.)
July 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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.)
(Multiple people have asked me why their reviews aren’t visible. PCs should send a mass email and change the CFP.)
Reposted by Claire Vernade
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)
This is his *fifth* (and final) IMO representing Canada, with three golds and two silvers. (➡️ MIT undergrad in the fall)
July 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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)
This is his *fifth* (and final) IMO representing Canada, with three golds and two silvers. (➡️ MIT undergrad in the fall)
Reposted by Claire Vernade
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
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July 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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
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👇
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).
July 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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?
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👀 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
EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅
EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu
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EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu
eurips.cc
July 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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.
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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!
🕒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!
July 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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!
🕒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!
Onno and I will be presenting our poster at # W1005 tomorrow (Wed) morning.
He made a great thread about it, come chat with us about POMDP theory :)
He made a great thread about it, come chat with us about POMDP theory :)
I am in Vancouver at ICML, and tomorrow I will present our newest paper "Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning with Memory Traces". We argue that eligibility traces are more effective than sliding windows as a memory mechanism for RL in POMDPs. 🧵
July 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Onno and I will be presenting our poster at # W1005 tomorrow (Wed) morning.
He made a great thread about it, come chat with us about POMDP theory :)
He made a great thread about it, come chat with us about POMDP theory :)
At #ICML, you can just use scholar inbox to help you find your way through the poster sessions. It just sorts the papers according to your preferences and it really works.
www.scholar-inbox.com/conference/i... ICML 2025 Planner
www.scholar-inbox.com/conference/i... ICML 2025 Planner
July 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
At #ICML, you can just use scholar inbox to help you find your way through the poster sessions. It just sorts the papers according to your preferences and it really works.
www.scholar-inbox.com/conference/i... ICML 2025 Planner
www.scholar-inbox.com/conference/i... ICML 2025 Planner
Reposted by Claire Vernade
Will be at ICML and looking to hire a postdoc to help us scale up and deploy RL in self-driving. So, hit me up to chat.
July 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Will be at ICML and looking to hire a postdoc to help us scale up and deploy RL in self-driving. So, hit me up to chat.
Reposted by Claire Vernade
This is a question that deserves a blog post answer, but I'm going to do a quick response here.
Gather around children as I tell you a story from ancient times. The year was 2015... at that point, it appeared that you needed Google scale to build competitive computer vision systems. 1/x
Gather around children as I tell you a story from ancient times. The year was 2015... at that point, it appeared that you needed Google scale to build competitive computer vision systems. 1/x
i don't see any mystery: the American companies seek rents and an American DeepSeek doesn't produce rents. what do you see that complicates the picture?
July 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This is a question that deserves a blog post answer, but I'm going to do a quick response here.
Gather around children as I tell you a story from ancient times. The year was 2015... at that point, it appeared that you needed Google scale to build competitive computer vision systems. 1/x
Gather around children as I tell you a story from ancient times. The year was 2015... at that point, it appeared that you needed Google scale to build competitive computer vision systems. 1/x
The only way I can navigate the ML literature these days is #ScholarInbox. At conferences, it builds a list of relevant posters for each session and I don’t know what I’d do without it. I 100% recommend this tool.
www.scholar-inbox.com
www.scholar-inbox.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The only way I can navigate the ML literature these days is #ScholarInbox. At conferences, it builds a list of relevant posters for each session and I don’t know what I’d do without it. I 100% recommend this tool.
www.scholar-inbox.com
www.scholar-inbox.com