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MBZUAI Machine Learning Winter School 2026: Representation Learning & GenAI (mlws.mbzuai.ac.ae) on Feb. 9-13, 2026, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Application Deadline: Oct. 20, 2025! Join us for an exciting 5-day program with world-class researchers! Funding available! #MBZUAI

🏹 Job alert: PhD Position on Learning Concepts with Theoretical Guarantees Using Causality and RL in Amsterdam Join @AmlabUva and cooperate with @tudelft. 📍 Amsterdam 🇳🇱 📅 Apply by: June 15th bit.ly/3SfkNQP

New PhD position at @AmlabUva on learning concepts with theoretical guarantees using #causality and #RL with me, Frans Oliehoek (TU Delft) and @herkevanhoof 💥 Deadline: 15 June werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/p…

@phillip_lippe Congrats, Phillip!

Personal update: Excited to have joined @GoogleDeepMind in Mountain View, working with the amazing @m__dehghani and team on training the next-gen Gemini models. Looking forward to the incredible work ahead! 🚀🤖

Super excited to announce our Causal-Copilot: an LLM-driven toolkit for automatic causal analysis! Gain precise insights effortlessly, without requiring deep expertise in causality!😀

@RuiYang53922541 @NatureComms Congrats!

Out in @NatureComms ! ChromaFold predicts 3D contact maps using single-cell ATAC-seq alone. nature.com/articles/s4146…

RLBReW@RLC workshop talks are now live for everyone to watch 👇. We had a large participation, and this wouldn't have been possible without our organizers Caleb Chuck, @agsidd10 @harshit_sikchi @g_k_swamy @ffeng01 @YuchenCui1 @AkankshaSaran @JoeyHejna @robertarail

🥳RLBReW Social🥳 @ RLC (@RL_Conference ) Socials are 🧡 of any conference. We invite you to join us on the evening of August 9 to discuss wacky RL ideas, and find friends and collaborators! RSVP here: lu.ma/500nd7gj

It is officially less than a week before the workshop begins⌛️ The workshop schedule is posted here: rlbrew-workshop.github.io/schedule.html A complete list of accepted papers can be found here: rlbrew-workshop.github.io/papers.html

The main issues with the RL framework are the low information content of the reward signal, the task-specificity / lack of generality of reward signals, and the question where reward comes from in the first place (especially for abstract goals where recognizing success itself requires intelligence). This workshop looks at various ways to do RL without handcrafted rewards, and it looks like they've accepted a bunch of very interesting papers.

⚠️ Final call for submitting your ideas on RL beyond Rewards at the Reinforcement Learning Conference @RL_Conference! Check out our earlier posts for more info and call for papers.

The submission deadline for RL Beyond Rewards @RL_Conference is approaching fast in 10 days (3rd May 11:59 AOE). The submission link is open here: openreview.net/group?id=rl-co…

Announcing the Reinforcement Learning Beyond Rewards workshop at the first @RL_Conference. Think that rewards aren't enough for RL? Working on RLHF? Thinking of alternative ways of alignment? Creating a foundational model for RL? or have ideas on task-agnostic RL algo? Join us

@davidetalon94 @alessiodelbue @sttujames Congrats Davide!! 🎉🍾🎈

🎓 Exciting News! 🎓 Last week, I successfully defended my thesis on "Structured Representation Learning for Visual Data"! 🌟 It's been a hell of a ride! Thanks to my advisors @alessiodelbue and @sttujames, all mentors and colleagues who supported me throughout this journey! 🚀

@MadelonHulsebos @pgroth Big congrats, Madelon!!

🚨The Amsterdam Machine learning group @AmlabUva is hiring 2 PhDs on #AI4Fintech in collaboration with @Adyen 🚨 - 1 PhD on #causalML with @saramagliacane - 1 PhD on #RL with @herkevanhoof Deadline: **11 March 2024** Details: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/2-PhD-…

A massive thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of our #NeurIPS23 Workshop! To our authors, reviewers, speakers, attendees, advisors, and especially to our workshop organizers! @ekellbuch @RuiYang53922541 @ffeng01 Andreas Kriegler @Yubin_Xie @ianxmason @tuelwer

@MadelonHulsebos @Berkeley_EECS @UCBIDS @adityagp @UCBEPIC @UCBerkeley Congrats Madelon!

Excited to reunite with everyone at #NeurIPS2023 next month! Don't forget to check out our workshop @ICBINBWorkshop on the failure modes of foundation models: shorturl.at/qrtJM (Looks like we added one more foundation model failure mode after last weekend!) 🤓