The CoLLAs Early-Career Spotlight Program is back! Showcasing early-stage scholars with an invited 30-min in-person talk & blog feature. Submit your motivation letter, outline, & CV to [email protected] by June 1, 2026 (AoE). lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/2…

📢 Next at #CoLLAs2026 Day 4, Ali Ayub’s Early Career Talk tackled Personalized Continual Learning Agents and their integration with real-world robotic systems! We explored few-shot learning, active learning and foundation models. 🚀 🎙️ Huge thanks to Ali for the amazing talk!

📢 Is Continual Learning trapped in obsolete abstractions? 🤔 We kicked off Day 4 of #CoLLAs2026 with a fantastic keynote from Amos Storkey on "The Art of Forgetting." We moved beyond old benchmarks to see how forgetting impacts modern AI frontiers! 🌍🤖 🎙️ Huge thanks for an amazing talk and insightful discussions!

📢 We’ve just wrapped up Poster Session II at #CoLLAs2026! 🚀 A huge thank you to everyone who presented and attended. We loved the insightful discussions and we hope everyone sparked some productive new connections! 🌍🧠

📢 How do we build agents that know what they know? 🤔 At #CoLLAs2026, Joseph Campbell’s Early Career Talk explored introspection for lifelong agents. We learned that interpretability is more than transparency: it's a core mechanism for agents to reuse & acquire knowledge! 🤖✨ 🎙️ Huge thanks for the amazing talk!

In our second keynote of Day 3 at #CoLLAs2026, Claire Vernade unpacked the online learning foundations of Continual Learning, using dynamic regret & explicit resource constraints to formalize non-stationarity and adaptation. 🧠📊 🎙️ Huge thanks for the inspiring talk!

📢 We continued our Day 3 at #CoLLAs2026 with a wonderful session of Oral presentations, covering: 🧠 NORACL: Neurogenesis for Oracle-free Resource-Adaptive Continual Learning (Karthik Charan Raghunathan, Christian Metzner, Laura Kriener, Melika Payvand) 🎯 TOOD: Task-Aware Out-of-Distribution Score Calibration for Continual Learners (Mostafa ElAraby, Samer B. Nashed, Liam Paull) ⚡ Beyond Single-Model Optimization: Preserving Plasticity in Continual Reinforcement Learning (Lute Lillo, Nick Cheney) 🌐 Federated Continual Learning as a Distributed Drift-Plus-Penalty Control Problem (Nazreen Shah, Naveen Kumar Reddy Somireddy, Zubair Shaban, Ranjitha Prasad, Bharath B N) Congrats to all the authors on their fantastic presentations! 👏🚀

📢 A big thank you to Saba Ahmadi and our Platinum sponsor @Huawei for their insightful presentation at #CoLLAs2026! 🚀 It was great to look at their latest research on attention modulation, retrieval memory control for Long Context Transformers and Trajectory-Balanced Post-Training for Diffusion LMs. Thank you to the @Huawei team for supporting the Lifelong Learning community! 👏

📢 How do we build Lifelong Foundation Models? 🧠 At #CoLLAs2026, Li Shen tackled Continual Model Merging in our first keynote of Day 3! We explored merging sequentially arriving models using subspace modeling, low-rank experts, and Pareto frontiers for scalable knowledge reuse. 🚀 🎙️ Huge thanks for the amazing talk!

📢 Next at #CoLLAs2026: Learning from streams, evolving over time! 🌊🧬 Andrea Cossu (@Cossu94) showed us how diversity becomes a resource for Continual Learning. By combining streaming environments, complex physical systems, and neuroevolution, we can achieve true open-ended adaptation! 🧠⚡ 🎙️ Huge thanks to Andrea for the visionary insights!

📢 Poster Session I is a wrap! 🚀 Thank you to everyone who presented and attended our first poster session at #CoLLAs2026. The lobby at our Precis Center host venue in Bucharest was packed with brilliant ideas, deep discussions, and new connections in the Lifelong Learning community! 🌍🧠

📢 Is memorization essential for generalization? 🤔 Next at #CoLLAs2026, Karolina Dziugaite unpacked the complex dynamics of memorization in Deep Learning. Since eliminating it entirely might be impossible, she shared powerful strategies for data curation, unlearning, and pruning! ✂️🧠 🎙️ Huge thanks to Karolina for a brilliant talk!

📢 Our first Oral Presentations session at #CoLLAs2026 was packed with top-tier research! We heard 4 brilliant talks: 🧠 Forgetting is Everywhere (Ben Sanati, Thomas L Lee, Trevor McInroe, Aidan Scannell, Esmeralda S. Whitammer, David Abel, Amos Storkey) 💤 SHARP: Sleep-based Replay for Pattern Recognition (Jayanta Dey, Shikhar Srivastava, Itamar Lerner, Christopher Kanan, Dhireesha Kudithipudi) 🔠 LLMs Can't Play Hangman: On the Necessity of a Private Working Memory for Language Agents (Davide Baldelli, Ali Parviz, Amal Zouaq, Sarath Chandar) 👁️ Benchmarking Unlearning for Vision Transformers (Kairan Zhao, Iurie Luca, Peter Triantafillou) Congrats to all the speakers on their amazing work and great presentations!

📢 Next up at #CoLLAs2026, we looked beyond model training with our Platinum Sponsor, @UiPath! 🚀 Andrei Rusu delivered an incredible keynote, sharing real-world "Lessons from Adapting Enterprise Agentic Systems." 🏢🤖 Huge thanks to Andrei and the @UiPath team for the fantastic insights and for supporting the event!

📢 Day 2 at #CoLLAs2026 debuted with a fantastic keynote by Masashi Sugiyama on looking beyond clean data! Real-world AI faces noisy supervision, shifts, & non-stationary feedback. We explored unifying these challenges to build robust lifelong agents in imperfect environments. 🌍🤖 🎙️ Huge thanks for the great talk!

We wrapped up Day 1 of #CoLLAs2026 with an insightful panel discussion with Claire Vernade, Masashi Sugiyama, Karolina Dziugaite, Michael Bowling, Amos Storkey and Joost van de Weijer.