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Claire Vernade

@claireve.bsky.social
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Professor at UT Nuremberg, Germany I’m 🇫🇷 and I work on RL and lifelong learning. Mostly posting on ML related topics.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
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A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 21/04/2026
Summer school on Decisions and Theory for AI! July 13-17 Leiden University Lecturers: Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social Marco Avella Medina Peter Grünwald @petergrunwald.bsky.social Myself Application deadline: April 30 sites.google.com/view/dtailsu...
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Modern AI systems are no longer just engineering artefacts: they are decision-makers operating under uncertainty, constraints, and societal needs. This summer school concerns the intersection of decis...
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ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Announcing the #ICML2026 tutorials! All ten tutorials will be presented the first day of the conference, Monday July 6. Read the blog post for more details on the selection process! blog.icml.cc/2026/04/02/a...
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
There will be 3 great workshops at Aistats this year -> consider submitting your work and attending!
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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The Reinforcement Learning workshop at U Mannheim was a lot of fun and highly recommended if you are looking for an engaging exchange of ideas, thanks to the organizers: Leif Döring, @theo-vincent.bsky.social, @claireve.bsky.social, and Simon Weißmann! www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/doering/conf...
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Check out the Call for Workshops at RLC this year. There is still nearly a month before the deadline, we are looking forward to your proposals!
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ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Following our previous #ICML2026 call for tutorial topics, we now welcome tutorial proposals! 📆Deadline: February 6, but proposals will be reviewed as they arrive Courtesy the tutorial chairs Claire Vernade (@claireve.bsky.social) and Adam White
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Rémi Flamary @rflamary.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I missed this post but it is pure gold. www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...
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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Spotlight talk opening slide by Saeed Salehi on object binding in vision transformers. Real art >> AI generated images
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🎤 Announcing the 3rd workshop on Reinforcement Learning in Mannheim 🎤 We have an amazing lineup of speakers: @Mathieugeist, @gio_ramponi, Theresa Eimer, @SarahKeren_, @araffin2, @c_rothkopf, and @AdrienBolland ⏰ Friday 6th February 📍University of Mannheim
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
📣 #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/...
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ICML 20256 Call For Tutorials
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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...
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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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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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.
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Dylan Foster 🐢 @djfoster.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
MSR NYC is hiring spring and summer interns in AI/ML/RL! Apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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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.
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Georg Martius @gmartius.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Here at #EWRL: demonstration of autonomous tomato harvesting by polybot.eu #Robot #Harvesting #Learning
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Onno Eberhard @onnoeberhard.com · 12/09/2025
I wrote a short post on our newest ICML paper addressed at people who are not experts in machine learning. Check it out!
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🚨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
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Call for Workshops
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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!)
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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!
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NeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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...
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
EWRL in Tübingen on Sept 17-19: Registrations are open!
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jessica dai @jessica.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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
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NeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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...
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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.)
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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 21/07/2025
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)
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Georg Martius @gmartius.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
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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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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).
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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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Sander Dieleman @sedielem.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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!
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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 :)
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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.
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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
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Scholar Inbox
Scholar Inbox is a personal paper recommender which enables researchers to stay up-to-date with the most relevant progress in their field based on their personal research interests. Scholar Inbox is f...
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 26/06/2025
🚨The ELLIS Fellow & Scholar nomination call is now open! 👏 ❗Please review the updated evaluation guidelines before submitting: bit.ly/4lmzRIN ℹ️ Instructions for submission and eligibility criteria: bit.ly/3HRdcWJ 🗓️ Submit by: Sept 30th, 2025
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Open Call for ELLIS Fellows and Scholar Nominations 2025
The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Help make RLC even more fun!
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let-all.com @let-all.com · 24/06/2025
📣Join us at COLT 2025 in Lyon for a community event! 📅When: Mon, June 30 | 16:00 CET What: Fireside chat w/ Peter Bartlett & Vitaly Feldman on communicating a research agenda, followed by mentorship roundtable to practice elevator pitches & mingle w/ COLT community! let-all.com/colt25.html
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Jess Sorrell @optimistsinc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Come hang out with us at COLT 2025 and think about crafting and communicating your research agenda!
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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
So, looks like @seva.bsky.social has a ‘stack, and it’s excellent. Subscribe early, subscribe often! hegemon.substack.com/p/teaching-i...
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Teaching in the Age of AI
how I avoided a shitty semester
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Gokul Swamy @gokul.dev · 20/06/2025
It was a dream come true to teach the course I wish existed at the start of my PhD. We built up the algorithmic foundations of modern-day RL, imitation learning, and RLHF, going deeper than the usual "grab bag of tricks". All 25 lectures + 150 pages of notes are now public!
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Claas Voelcker @cvoelcker.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Works that use #VAML/ #MuZero losses often use deterministic models. But if we want to use stochastic models to measure uncertainty or because we want to leverage current SOTA models such as #transformers and #diffusion, we need to take care! Naively translating the loss functions leads to mistakes!
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Claas Voelcker @cvoelcker.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Give @pedanana.bsky.social a follow everybody (and put her on some RL lists!) She was our longest running undergrad intern, showed incredible dedication on the hardest and most frustrating projects, and is now starting her grad school career with the amazing Martha White (who is not on Bluesky?!)
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Onno Eberhard @onnoeberhard.com · 13/06/2025
Great talk by @claireve.bsky.social about our joint work on memory traces this morning. Come join me at poster 94 if you want to know more! #RLDM2025
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This morning at #RLDM I talked about Memory Traces, a simple representation for POMDPs that’s probably good at remembering old observations. arxiv.org/abs/2503.15200
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Eau de Q-Network: a smart transformation of a Landscape poster into a Portrait format, and also cool NN distillation for Deep RL. #RLDM
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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Wild cool stuff going on at RLDM in Dublin this week!
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RL Theory Virtual Seminars @rl-theory.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Join us for Nneka's presentation tomorrow! Last talk before the summer break.
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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 06/06/2025
Accepted papers for #COLT2025 learningtheory.org/colt2025/acc...
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COLT 2025 - Accepted Papers
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Aleksander Molak @alxndrmlk.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Hey folks, if anyone's interested, there are still a few hours to submit your papers for Royal Stat Society's event on innovative usages of natural experimewnts: rss.org.uk/news-publica... #CausalSky #StatSky
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Call for discussion papers 2025: Innovative usages of natural experiments and causal inference in st
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