May 2026
Final project posters from the DeepFMI 2026 edition are now online! View the gallery.
Teaser for Revisiting Adam for Streaming Reinforcement Learning
Florin Gogianu, Adrian Catalin Lutu, Razvan Pascanu
Accepted at Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC) 2026 May 2026
Links: arXiv Abstract Learning from a sequence of interactions, as soon as observations are perceived and acted upon, without explicitly storing them, …
Teaser for Fine-Tuning Regimes Define Distinct Continual Learning Problems
Paul-Tiberiu Iordache, Elena Burceanu
Under review at CoLLAs 2026 Apr 2026
Links: arXiv Abstract Continual learning (CL) studies how models acquire tasks sequentially while retaining previously learned knowledge. Despite …
Teaser for Temporal Taskification in Streaming Continual Learning: A Source of Evaluation Instability
Nicolae Filat, Ahmed Hussain, Konstantinos Kalogiannis, Elena Burceanu
Under review at CoLLAs 2026 Apr 2026
Links: arXiv Abstract Streaming Continual Learning (CL) typically converts a continuous stream into a sequence of discrete tasks through temporal …
Teaser for JumpLoRA: Sparse Adapters for Continual Learning in Large Language Models
Alexandra Dragomir, Ioana Pintilie, Antonio Barbalau, Marius Dragoi, Florin Brad, Cristian Paduraru, Alexandru Tifrea, Elena Burceanu, Radu Ionescu
Under review at CoLLAs 2026 Apr 2026
Links: arXiv Abstract Adapter-based methods have become a cost-effective approach to continual learning (CL) for Large Language Models (LLMs), by …
Teaser for Bridging Explainability and Embeddings: BEE Aware of Spuriousness
Cristian Daniel Paduraru, Antonio Barbalau, Radu Filipescu, Andrei Liviu Nicolicioiu, Elena Burceanu
Accepted at ICLR 2026 (poster) Apr 2026
Links: OpenReview GitHub Abstract Current methods for detecting spurious correlations rely on data splits or error patterns, leaving many harmful …
Teaser for BEE Aware of Spuriousness: Mechanistic Interpretability for Fine Tuning Foundation Models
[Bitdefender Machine Learning]
Feb 2026
Introduction Fine tuning is usually framed as “adaptation”. In practice, it can also manufacture shortcuts. A model can recognize the “right” object …
Feb 2026
The Deep Learning course at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest is running again in 2026. It is aimed at …
Teaser for Investigating self-supervised representations for audio-visual deepfake detection
Dragos-Alexandru Boldisor, Stefan Smeu, Dan Oneata, Elisabeta Oneata
Accepted at CVPR 2026 Feb 2026
Links: arXiv GitHub Abstract Self-supervised representations excel at many vision and speech tasks, but their potential for audio-visual deepfake …
Teaser for CLewR: Curriculum Learning with Restarts for Machine Translation Preference Learning
Alexandra Dragomir, Florin Brad, Radu Tudor Ionescu
Accepted at ACL 2026 Jan 2026
Links: arXiv GitHub Abstract Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated competitive performance in zero-shot multilingual machine translation …