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 🏳️🌈🇪🇺
The 5th edition of the Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents is going to Romania in 2026 & I'm happy to serve as program chair
We've just put the CfP online ⬇️ & we're particularly excited to broaden the scope to all facets of adaptation of ML models.
Please check out these exciting additions!
We've just put the CfP online ⬇️ & we're particularly excited to broaden the scope to all facets of adaptation of ML models.
Please check out these exciting additions!
The CoLLAs 2026 website is LIVE!
We invite researchers to explore all facets of ML adaptation, from incorporating new capabilities during continuous training to efficiently removing outdated or harmful data.
📍 Bucharest, Romania, Sep 14–17, 2026
🔗 Call for Papers: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...
We invite researchers to explore all facets of ML adaptation, from incorporating new capabilities during continuous training to efficiently removing outdated or harmful data.
📍 Bucharest, Romania, Sep 14–17, 2026
🔗 Call for Papers: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...
CoLLAs
Collas
lifelong-ml.cc
December 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The 5th edition of the Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents is going to Romania in 2026 & I'm happy to serve as program chair
We've just put the CfP online ⬇️ & we're particularly excited to broaden the scope to all facets of adaptation of ML models.
Please check out these exciting additions!
We've just put the CfP online ⬇️ & we're particularly excited to broaden the scope to all facets of adaptation of ML models.
Please check out these exciting additions!
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...
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
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...
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...
🎉"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
In short, we identified interdisciplinary commonalities & differences with respect to notions of, methods for, & evaluation of generalization
September 16, 2025 at 7:15 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
In short, we identified interdisciplinary commonalities & differences with respect to notions of, methods for, & evaluation of generalization
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!
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
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!
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!
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
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
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
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
Reposted by Martin Mundt
🎉 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
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
🎉 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
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
Reposted by Martin Mundt
🧠 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 👇
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
🧠 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 👇
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 👇
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 ⬇️
Please talk to them! :)
Details below ⬇️
July 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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 ⬇️
Please talk to them! :)
Details below ⬇️
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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
🏳️🌈 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
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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!)
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
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!)
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!)
Reposted by Martin Mundt
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...)
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
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...)
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...)
Reposted by Martin Mundt
📢 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
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
📢 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
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
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...
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
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...
Applications are still open until June 18th, so come join a fantastic set of colleagues!
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
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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
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
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
Volunteer for just 4 hours at the conference!
Apply by June 3, 2025, at 11:59 pm anywhere on Earth: facctconference.org/2025/cfv2
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
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
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
We are facing numerous socio-technical challenges in AI, but with talented fresh minds & increased awareness, there may be a bright future
Reposted by Martin Mundt
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
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.
"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!
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
"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!
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!
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
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
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
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
Reposted by Martin Mundt
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
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!!!
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
🔥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
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
🔥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
Reposted by Martin Mundt
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...
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
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...
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...
🔥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 ⬇️
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
🔥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 ⬇️
arxiv.org/abs/2402.06434
-> we introduce continual confounding + the ConCon dataset, where confounders over time render continual knowledge accumulation insufficient ⬇️
Reposted by Martin Mundt
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 😋
👉 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
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 😋
👉 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 😋
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!⬇️
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 😋
👉 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 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!⬇️
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!⬇️
🚀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/...
It’s a unique opportunity & recognition!
Applications are open until May 26 AOE: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...
April 7, 2025 at 6:28 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/...
It’s a unique opportunity & recognition!
Applications are open until May 26 AOE: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/...