<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Dear all, </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><b>Apologies for crossposting</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(46,41,41)"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(60,59,59)">We invite submissions to the 1st </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(60,59,59)">Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (<span class="gmail-il">CoLLAs</span>)</span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit"> that describe new theory, methodology or </span><em style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">new insights into existing algorithms and/or benchmarks</em><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">. </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(60,59,59)">Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR)</span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">. Topics of submission may include, but are not limited to, reinforcement learning, supervised learning or unsupervised learning approaches for:</span></p></div><br style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(46,41,41);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:initial;color:rgb(46,41,41)"><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Lifelong Learning / Continual Learning</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Meta-Learning</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Multi-task learning</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Transfer Learning</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Domain adaptation</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Few-shot learning</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Out-of-distribution generalization</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Online Learning</li></ul><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(46,41,41)"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">The conference also welcomes submissions at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience and applications of the topics of interest to real-world problems. Submitted papers will be evaluated based on their novelty, technical quality, and potential impact. Experimental methods and results are expected to be reproducible, and authors are strongly encouraged to make code and data available. We also encourage submissions of proof-of-concept research that puts forward novel ideas and demonstrates potential, as well as in-depth analysis of existing methods and concepts.</p></span><br style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(46,41,41);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(46,41,41)"><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px;font-family:Raleway,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.65;margin:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(60,59,59)"><font size="4">Key dates</font></h3><span style="font-size:16px">The planned dates are as follows:</span></div><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:initial;color:rgb(46,41,41)"><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Abstract deadline: March 01, 2022, 11:59 pm (Anywhere on Earth, AoE)</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Paper submission deadline: March 04, 2022, 11:59 pm (AoE)</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Review released: April 08, 2022</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Author rebuttals due: April 15, 2022, 11:59 pm (AoE)</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Notifications: May 06, 2022</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Resubmissions*: July 06, 2022, 11:59 pm (AoE)</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Decisions on resubmissions* : August 06, 2022</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Tentative conference dates: August 29-31, 2022</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2em;line-height:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(46,41,41)"><a href="https://lifelong-ml.cc/call#review" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgba(160,160,160,0.65);border-left-color:initial;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">*For more information, see the review process section.</a></p><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(46,41,41)"><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px;font-family:Raleway,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.65;margin:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(60,59,59)"><font size="4">Review Process</font></h3></div><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(46,41,41)"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">Papers will be selected via rigorous double-blind peer-review process. All accepted papers will be presented at the Conference as contributed talks or as posters and will be published in the Proceedings. <span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">The reviews process will be hosted on OpenReview with submissions and reviews being private until a decision is made. Reviews and discussions of the accepted papers will be made available after acceptance. In addition to accept/reject, a paper can be marked for revision and resubmission. In this case, the authors have a fixed amount of time to update the work and resubmit, to get a final accept/reject decision. If the paper was marked for resubmission but after resubmission it is rejected, then the work will automatically be accepted to a non-archival Workshop track of <span class="gmail-il">CoLLAs</span>. The authors will still be able to present a poster on their work as part of this track. This system is aimed to produce a fairer treatment of borderline papers and to save the time spent in going through the entire reviewing process from scratch when resubmitting to a future edition of the conference or a different relevant conference.</span></p></span><br style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(46,41,41);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(46,41,41)"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">During the rebuttal period, authors are allowed to update their paper once. However, reviewers are not required to read the new version. Any paper which had a substantial update during this period will automatically go to the resubmission stage for a detailed re-review.</p></span><br style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(46,41,41);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(46,41,41)"><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px;font-family:Raleway,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.65;margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:0.9em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(60,59,59)">Formatting and Supplementary Material</h3><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">Submissions should have a recommended length of 9 single-column <span class="gmail-il">CoLLAs</span>-formatted pages, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices. We enforce a maximum length of 10 pages, where the 10th page can be used if it helps with the formatting of the paper. The appendices should be within the same pdf file as the main publication, however an additional zip file can be submitted that can include multiple files of different formats (e.g. videos or code). Note that reviewers are under no obligation to examine the appendix and the supplementary material.</p></div><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(46,41,41)"><br style="box-sizing:inherit"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">Please format the paper using the official LaTeX style files that can be found here: <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(60,59,59)"><a href="https://www.overleaf.com/read/grrjqdpztnpb" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgba(160,160,160,0.65);border-left-color:initial;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.overleaf.com/read/grrjqdpztnpb</a></span>. We do not support submissions in formats other than LaTeX. Please do not modify the layout given by the style file. For any questions, you can reach us at <span style="box-sizing:inherit">.</span></p></div><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(46,41,41)"><br style="box-sizing:inherit"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">Submissions will be through OpenReview (<a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=lifelong-ml.cc/CoLLAs/2022/Conference">https://openreview.net/group?id=lifelong-ml.cc/CoLLAs/2022/Conference</a>).</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">Complete CFP can be found here: <a href="https://lifelong-ml.cc/call" target="_blank">https://lifelong-ml.cc/call</a></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">Regards,</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">Doina Precup, Sarath Chandar, Razvan Pascanu</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><span class="gmail-il">CoLLAs</span> 2022 General and Program Chairs</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><a href="https://lifelong-ml.cc/" target="_blank">https://lifelong-ml.cc/</a></p></div></div></div>