<div dir="ltr"><p style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">Dear All,</p><p style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">We invite submissions to the <b><a href="https://lifelong-ml.cc/" target="_blank">3rd Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs)</a></b> that describe new theories, methodologies, applications, or insights into existing algorithms and benchmarks for learning in non i.i.d. and non-stationary settings. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR). Topics of submission may include, but are not limited to, Reinforcement Learning, Supervised Learning, Self-supervised Learning, or Unsupervised Learning approaches for:<br></p><ul style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;list-style:none;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem 1.5rem;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><li style="margin-left:15px;border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:disc">Lifelong Learning / Continual Learning</li><li style="margin-left:15px;border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:disc">Meta-Learning</li><li style="margin-left:15px;border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:disc">Multi-Task Learning</li><li style="margin-left:15px;border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:disc">Transfer Learning</li><li style="margin-left:15px;border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:disc">Curriculum Learning</li><li style="margin-left:15px;border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:disc">Domain Adaptation</li><li style="margin-left:15px;border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:disc">Few-Shot Learning</li><li style="margin-left:15px;border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:disc">Out-Of-Distribution Generalization</li><li style="margin-left:15px;border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:disc">Online Learning</li><li style="margin-left:15px;border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:disc">Active Learning</li></ul><p style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;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><p style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-weight:700;color:rgb(17,24,39);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium;text-align:justify">CoLLAs 2024 will be held in Pisa, Italy at Polo Didattico San Rossore 1938, a facility provided by the University of Pisa.</p><p style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-weight:700;color:rgb(17,24,39);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;font-weight:normal">For any questions about the conference, you can contact us at </span><a href="mailto:contact@lifelong-ml.cc" target="_blank" style="font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:inherit">contact@lifelong-ml.cc</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;font-weight:normal">.</span><br></p><p style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-weight:700;color:rgb(17,24,39);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;font-weight:normal"><br></span></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;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;verti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itial submission. 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><p style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">Please format the paper using the official LaTeX style files that can be found on Overleaf <a href="https://www.overleaf.com/read/rbhvqxxsdgrg#af2b46" target="_blank" style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:inherit">here</a> or on Git Hub<a href="https://github.com/collas-conf/collas_2024_latex_template" target="_blank" style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:inherit"> here</a>. 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: <a href="mailto:contact@lifelong-ml.cc" target="_blank" style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:inherit">contact@lifelong-ml.cc</a>.</p><p style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><br></p><p style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">Submissions will be through OpenReview: <a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=lifelong-ml.cc/CoLLAs/2024/Conference" target="_blank">https://openreview.net/group?id=lifelong-ml.cc/CoLLAs/2024/Conference</a></p><p style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">Complete CFP can be found here: <a href="https://lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/2024/call" target="_blank">https://lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/2024/call</a></p><p style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><br>Regards,</p><p style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">Sarath Chandar, Razvan Pascanu (CoLLAs 2024 General Chairs)</p><p style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">Vincenzo Lomonaco, Stefano Melacci, Tinne Tuytelaars (CoLLAs 2024 Program Chairs)</p></div>