Learning over Time (LOT2.0) Spring School - Barcelona, April 27-30 2026
Paolo Dini
Dear all,
The second edition of the Spring School on Learning Over Time
(LOT 2.0) will be held in Barcelona from April 27 to 30,
2026. Save the date! (Previous edition: Siena, Italy - https://collectionless.ai/school)
The school focuses on machines that continuously and sustainably
learn over time, with a particular emphasis on rethinking the role
of data in this process and on lean learning solutions, inspired
by Collectionless AI (https://collectionless.ai/).
The school is organized by:
- Paolo Dini (CTTC)
- Marco Miozzo (CTTC)
- Vincenzo Lomonaco (LUISS University)
- Stefano Melacci (University of Siena)
Fees:
500€ Academy, 700€ Industry (50€ Gala Dinner).
Are you planning to participate?
Register
your contact here now!
More info (we will send a new message soon with further details)
...Beyond training, test and deploy
...Beyond datasets
...Beyond CENTRALIZED LEARNING (and energy-hungry datacenters)
...Back to lean and optimized learning algorithms
Topics
- Collectionless AI
- Continual/Lifelong Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Time Series
- Representation Learning and Universal Representation
- Collaborative Learning
- Distributed / Decentralized Learning
- Brain-inspired Computing
- Online Learning
- Active Learning
- Curriculum Learning
- Domain Adaptation
- Transfer Learning
- In-Context Learning
- On-device Learning
When:
April 27-30, 2026
Where:
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia
Castelldefels, Barcelona (Spain)
See you there!
Paolo Dini, Marco Miozzo, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Stefano Melacci
--Paolo Dini
Researcher (R4)
Sustainable Artificial Intelligence (SAI) research unit
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 7 - Building B4
08860 - Castelldefels
Tel.: +34 93 645 29 00
Paolo Dini
Dear all,
News from the second edition of the Spring School on Learning
Over Time (LOT 2.0), Barcelona, April 27 to 30, 2026 held in
CTTC.
We have talks’ abstracts and the preliminary program.
Prof. Joost Van de Weijer will present a talk on “Toward Lifelong
Learning in Foundation Models”
Prof. Stefano Melacci & Prof. Alessandro Betti will present a
talk on “Collectionless AI - Hamiltonian Learning: From Optimal
Control to Perpetual Generation and Continual Memory"
You may find the full abstracts on the webpage https://lot2-spring-school.cttc.es/index.php/lecturers-staff
Other confirmed speakers: prof. Egidio Falotico (bio-robotics), prof. David Kappel (efficient state space models), Dr. Lars Krupp (efficient LLMs), prof. Oriol Pujol (human centric AI): https://lot2-spring-school.cttc.es/index.php/lecturers-staff
The preliminary program is available https://lot2-spring-school.cttc.es/index.php/program
More talks’ abstracts and events will be announced soon, stay tuned!
Remember to save your place at the school by registering
(deadline April 5th).
Register here now! https://lot2-spring-school.cttc.es/index.php/registration
For people who cannot join in person due to the current geo-political situation, we are setting up LOT2.0
online version! Let us know if you are interested.
If you wish to present a poster, please submit a short abstract
(max. 2 pages) including title, authors, and affiliation by April 5th via lot2s...@cttc.es.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the April 12thl.
There will be a Best Poster Award selected by the
scientific committee during the school.
We look forward to your contributions and an engaging poster
session.
Remember that if you are enrolled in a PhD program that requires
a final exam for credit assignments, just let us know. We will organize a final exam for
all the students who want to participate.
For any comments and questions, please contact lot2s...@cttc.es.
See you there!