2026
- European Commission JRC Disinformation Workshop, September 25, 2026, JRC Ispra, Italy (JRC Disinfo 2026)
- Machine Learning in Nonstandard Settings, September 7-11, 2026, La Villa Clythia, Fréjus, France (ML Nonstandard 2026)
- Global AI Show: AI 2030 - Accelerating Intelligent Futures, June 29-30, 2026, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Global AI Show 2026)
- International Summer School on Generative AI, June 22-26, 2026, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy (GenAI Summer School 2026)
- Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning, June 8-12, 2026, Castiglione della Pescaia, Tuscany, Italy (ACDL 2026)
- Reinforcement Learning and LLMs - Reinforcement Learning Summer School (RLSS), June 11, 2026, Milan, Italy (RLSS 2026)
- Orange Business Conference, June 17, 2026, Bratislava, Slovakia (Orange Biz 2026)
- Artificial Intelligence + Quantum Conference, May 11-12, 2026, Kunsthalle, Košice, Slovakia (AI+Q 2026)
- Statlearn 2026, Apr 1-3, 2026, Grenoble, France (Statlearn 2026)
- GenAI for telecom networks (keynote) - Seine AI 2026, March 10-11, 2026, Paris, France (Seine AI 2026)
- Colloquium talk - New York University Abu Dhabi, January 27, 2026, Abu Dhabi, UAE (NYUAD 2026)
- Machines Can Think - AI Adopters Summit (keynote), Jan 26-27, 2026, Abu Dhabi, UAE (MCT 2026)
2025
- LLM training for low-resource languages - Neurotechnology, Dec 12, 2025, Vilnius, Lithuania (Neurotechnology 2025)
- GenerationAI, Dec 9-10th, 2025, Paris, France (APIdays 2025)
- Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, Nov 27-29th, 2025, Druskininkai, Lithuania (DAMSS 2025)
- Forbes AI, Nov 25th, 2025 (Forbes 2025)
- The OECD conference on AI, Nov 24-26th, 2025, Europe (OECD 2025)

- Forbes Better Slovakia, Nov 21st, 2025, Bratislava, Slovakia (Forbes LS 2025)
- Sword AI Summit, Nov 15th, 2025, Europe (Sword 2025)

- The DOT AI, Nov 13th, 2025, Europe (DOT 2025)
- Newton's RL workshop, Nov 10-14, 2025, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK (INI 2025) video
- Bridging Stochastic Control and RL, Nov 3-7, 2025, Alan Turing Institute, London, UK (ATI 2025)
- The change for education is here!, Oct 11, 2025, Europe (Change 2025)
- IISLab Visit, October 2025, Košice, Slovakia (IISLab 2025)
- Sapie forum: Designing future, Sep 29, 2025, Bratislava (Sapie 2025)

- European Researchers' Night, Sep 25, 2025, Europe (NOC 2025)
- Math reasoning with metacognitive capabilities of LLMs (keynote) - International Artificial Intelligence Summer School, September 21–25, 2025, Castiglione della Pescaia, Tuscany (IAISS 2025)
- AI Innovations - SlovakiaTech, September 17–18, 2025, Kosice, Slovakia (SlovakiaTech 2025)
- Powerful LLM alignment - International #DataFestival in Yerevan, September 12-13, 2025, Yerevan, Armenia (DataFest 2025)
- Deutsche Telkom Conference, September 9th, 2025, Europe (Telkom 2025)
- Festival Atmosféra, Hontianske Nemce, Slovakia (Atmosféra 2025)
- Maths of LLMs (mini-course) - Summer School on Probability, Statistics and Machine Learning, June 29 – July 6, 2025, Tsaghkadzor, Armenia (MSS 2025)

- Next generation of language models (keynote) - European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence, June 2025, Bratislava, Slovakia (ESSAI 2025)
- Carrefour de l'innovation, June 26, 2025, EU (France Diplomatie 2025)
- Globsec, June 12-14 2025, Prague (GLOBSEC 2025)

- World AI Conference Day, June, 2025, Shanghai, China (WAIC 2025)
- firstminute capital Summit, June 9th, 2025, London, UK (firstminute 2025)
- Orange Tech Conference, June 5th, 2025, Europe (Orange 2025)
- Innovations United: Startup Disrupt, June 3rd, 2025, Prague, Czech Republic (United 2025)


- KPMG Board Leadership Conference, June 1st, 2025, San Francisco, California (KPMG 2025)
- Forbes Business Fest, May 29th, 2025 (Forbes 2025)
- TechWolf AI Day, May 27th, 2025, Ghent, Belgium (TechWolf 2025)
- Reflect Festival - The Doers!, May 15-16th, 2025, Limasol, Cyprus (Reflect 2025)
- Ghost Day, May 9-10, 2025, Poznań, Poland (GHOST 2025)
- Slovak Oxford Science conference, May 1 - 4 2025 (SOS 2025)
- John Nash for LLMs and Generation Consistency - Foundation Models for Science, April 30th - May 2nd, 2025, New York City, USA (FLATIRON 2025)
- AI strategy and investment insights - SEB Group, April 2025, Stockholm, Sweden (SEB 2025)
- Uncertainty in LLMs - Advancing Trustworthy ML for Frontier Models, April 5-6 2025, Abu Dhabi, UAE (ATML 2025)
- World models for cybersecurity, March 26, 2025, Las Vegas, USA (ESET 2025)

- Foundation Models in Science - Berlin ELLIS workshop, March 18, 2025, Berlin, Germany (ELLIS 2025)
- Enterprise AI Summit Europe, March 9-11, 2025, Munich, Germany (EAI 2025)
- DeepMind & Beyond: Czech and Slovak Scientists at the AI Frontier, February 26, 2025, Prague, Czech Republic (Kaya 2025)
- Microsoft AI Tour, February 20, 2025, Lisbon, Portugal (MSR 2025)
- LLM and deep RL masterclasses, February 17-22, 2025, Bratislava, Slovakia (FEI 2025)
- Intricacies of game-theoretical LLM alignment - Fondation François Sommer, February 12-13, 2025, Paris, France (MBZUAI Paris 2025)
- Thinking about thinking in LLMs - Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, February 6-7, 2025, Paris, France (AI Action Summit 2025)

- Thinking about thinking (keynote) - XYZ Paris, February 13–14, 2025, Paris, France (XYZ 2025)
- Metacognitive Capabilities of LLMs - xTelliGent One: AI in GxP 2025 Summit, Jan 29–30, 2025, Jacksonville, Florida, USA (xTelliGent 2025)
2024
- Metacognition for the new generation of models - GenerationAI, Dec 3rd, 2024, Paris, France (APIdays 2024)
- Deep reinforcement learning masterclass - IASD ENS PSL M2, Dec 3rd, 2024, Paris, France (IASD 2024)
- Gamification of Large Language Models - Open Source AI Summit, November 26-27th, 2024, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (OS AI 2024) teaser
- Llama 4 training - TEDx Humenné, November 15th, 2024, Humenné, Slovakia (TEDx 2024) video teaser video summary full talk

- Mathematics of Large Language Models - Matfyz Connections, November 13th, 2024, Bratislava, Slovakia (Connections 2024) video
- Aligning LLMs with human preferences - Sword AI Summit, November 9th, 2024, Porto, Portugal (Sword 2024) video full talk
- Graphs in ML minicourse - Graph Laplacians workshop, November 4-8th, 2024, Eindhoven, Netherlands (EURANDOM 2024)
- Llama 3 and its alignment - Nordic Data Science & ML Summit, October 23-24 2024, Stockholm, Sweden (NDSML 2024)
- New era of open-source AI - Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, CZU, September 30th, 2024, Prague, Czech Republic (CZU 2024) teaser feeding
- Algorithmic LLM alignment (keynote) - International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, September 22 – 25, 2024, Castiglione della Pescaia, Tuscany (LOD 2024)
- Uncertainty in LLM alignment - Generative models and uncertainty quantification, September 18-19, 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark (GenU 2024)
- Gamification of Large Language Models (keynote) - Conference on Learning Theory, June 30–July 3, 2024, Edmonton, Canada (COLT 2024)
- Nash learning from human feedback - Ghost Day, April 04-06, 2024, Poznań, Poland (GHOST 2024)
- Algorithmic LLM alignment - Princeton Language + Intelligence, February 1st, 2024, Princeton, USA (Princeton 2024)
2023
- Curious world models - European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning, September 14-16, 2023, Brussels, Belgium (EWRL 2023)
- Learning by bootstrapping: Reinforcement Learning - International #DataFestival in Yerevan, September 2-3, 2023, Yerevan, Armenia (DataFest 2023)
- Deep reinforcement learning - Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning, June 10-14, 2023, Tuscany, Italy (ACDL 2023)
- World Models: Curiosity driven exploration (two master classes) - AI in Africa, January 26-27, 2023, Marrakesh, Morocco (Tech'Innov 2023)
2022
- Learning by bootstrapping - Vedatour, October 11, 2022, Bratislava, Slovakia (ESET 2022)
- Learning by bootstrapping (keynote) - Runtime Verification, September 28-30, 2022, Tbilisi, Georgia (RV 2022)
- Model-free learning for two-player zero-sum partially observable Markov games with perfect recall - ELLIS unit Milan workshop, September 8-9th, 2022, Milan, Italy (Milan 2022)
- Best of both worlds for best-arm identification - Simons program on Data-driven decision processes, September 12-16, 2022, Berkeley, California, USA (Berkeley 2022)
- Reinforcement learning (lecture) and BYOL-Explore (talk) - Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School, July, 6-14 2022, Vilnius Lithuania (EEML 2022)
2021
- Bootstrap your own latent - DataFest Yerevan, Sep 11th, 2021 (DataFest 2021)
- Bootstrapped representation learning on graphs - Turkey Machine Learning Summer School, June, 23 2021, Science Academy of Turkey (BAYÖYO 2021) talk
- Graphs in Machine Learning - Medical University Graz, Austria, June 2021 (HCAI 2021)
- Bootstrap Your Own Latent: A new approach to self-supervised learning - MIST conference in Rajecká Lesná, January, 2021 (MIST 2021)
2020
- Bootstrap Your Own Latent: A new approach to self-supervised learning - Google, December 10, 2020 (Google 2020)
- Bootstrap Your Own Latent: A new approach to self-supervised learning - Reinforcement Learning seminar at Polish Academy of Sciences, November 30, 2020, Warsaw, Poland (PAS 2020)
- BYOL works even without batch statistics - Deep learning seminar at UPJS, November 27, 2020, Kosice, Slovakia (UPJS 2020)
- Reinforcement learning (minicourse) - Math of Machine Learning 2020 Winter School, February 19-22th, 2020, Sochi, Russia (MML 2020)
2019
- Graphs are the new gold: The power of graphs in speeding up online learning and decision making - Global Innovation Forum, October 16-18, 2019, Yerevan, FAST, Armenia (GIF 2019)
- Gaussian process optimization with adaptive sketching: Scalable and no regret - Recent developments in kernel methods, September 26-27, 2019, UCL, London, UK (Gatsby 2019)
- Rotting bandits are not harder than stochastic ones - Lancaster and DeepMind Bandit Workshop, September 25-26, 2019, London, UK (LanDeep 2019) talk paper
- Graphs are the new gold: The power of graphs in speeding up online learning and decision making - Cisco, July 23th, 2019, Kraków, Poland (Cisco 2019)
- How the negative dependence broke the squadratic barrier for learning with graphs and kernels - Yandex HQ, July 5th, 2019, Moscow, Russia (Yandex 2019) talk
- Active multiple matrix completion with adaptive confidence sets - RAAI Summer School 2019, July 3-8, 2019, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (RAAI 2019) talk
- How the negative dependence broke quadratic barrier for learning with graphs and kernels. - ICML workshop on negative dependence, June 14-15th, 2019, Long Beach, USA (ICML 2019) talk video
- Active block-matrix completion with adaptive confidence sets - Theoretical Computer Science seminar, May 28th, 2019, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (CU 2019) talk
- 10 year road to breaking the quadratic barrier for graphs and matrices - Theoretical Computer Science seminar, February 22, 2019, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (CU 2019) talk
- Graphs are the new gold - Data Analytics Meetings, February 20, 2019, P.J. Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia (UPJS 2019)
- The power of graphs in speeding up online learning and decision making - Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, January 25rd, 2019, University of Cambridge, UK (Cambridge 2019)
- A simple parameter-free and adaptive approach to optimization under a minimal local smoothness assumption - Verimag, January 7th, 2019, CNRS Grenoble, France (CNRS 2019) talk paper
- The power of graphs in speeding up online learning and decision making - Verimag, January 8th, 2019, CNRS Grenoble, France (CNRS 2019) talk
2018
- The power of graphs in speeding up online learning and decision making - DeepMind, October 23rd, 2018, London, UK (DeepMind 2018) talk
- Active block-matrix completion with adaptive confidence sets - International Workshop Optimization and Machine Learning, September 10-13th, 2018, CIMI, Toulouse (CIMI 2018) talk
- Online influence maximization - Workshop on Graph Learning, May 14th, 2018, LINCS, Paris (LINCS 2018)
- Recommender systems - Journée Big data, Polytech'Lille, March 22nd, 2018 (Polytech'Lille 2018)
- Pliable rejection sampling - GDR Isis, Télécom ParisTech in Paris, February 8th, 2018 (ISIS 2018) talk
- Graph Bandits - MIST conference in Rajecká Lesná, January 7th, 2018 (MIST 2018)
2017
- SequeL, graphs in ML, and online recommender systems - R&DV du Plateau Inria 2017, November 9th, 2017, Lille, France (Euratechnologies 2017) talk
- Sequential sampling for kernel matrix approximation and online learning - DeepMind, September 19th, 2017, London, UK (DeepMind 2017)
- Active learning on networks and online influence maximization - Decision Theory and Network Science: Methods and Applications, September 18th, 2017, Lancaster, UK (STOR-i 2017) talk
- Side observation in graph bandits - ICML 2017 workshop on Picky Learners, August 11th, 2017, Sydney, Australia (ICML 2017)
- Efficient second-order online kernel learning with adaptive embedding (Impromptu talk) - Conference on Learning Theory, July 9th, 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands (COLT 2017) talk paper
- Distributed sequential sampling for kernel matrix approximation - L'Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, France, June 29nd, 2017 (IMT 2017) talk paper
- Online sequential solutions for recommender systems - Journées Scientifiques Inria 2017, June 14th, 2017, Nice, France (JS 2017)
- Mais où se cache Justin Bieber ? Ou comment maximiser la détection des influenceurs sur les réseaux sociaux ? (Popularization invited talk) - Inria Lille, France, May 30th, 2017 (13:45 2017)
- Dating day 2017, March 30th, 2017, Lille, France (Dating 2017)
- Distributed sequential sampling for kernel matrix approximation - Joint seminar of MuSyAD group of Universität Potsdam and Amazon at Amazon Berlin, Germany, March 22nd, 2017 (Berlin 2017) talk paper
2016
- Graphs in online machine learning - Textkernel talks in Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 21nd, 2016 (TK 2016)
- Where is Justin Bieber? - Seminar of Theoretical Computer Science, September 22nd, 2016, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (CU 2016) talk paper
- Bandit learning - Information technologies - Applications and Theory, September 15-19th, 2016, Tatranské Matliare, High Tatras, Slovakia (ITAT 2016)
- Bandits on Graphs and Structures (Habilitation defense) - ENS Paris-Saclay, France, June 15th, 2016 (ENS Cachan 2016) talk paper
- Decision-making on graphs without graphs - Graph-based Learning and Graph Mining, June 16, 2016, Lille (GBLGM 2016)
- Sequential learning on graphs with limited feedback - Data Driven Approach to Networks and Language, May 11-13th, 2016, ENS Lyon, France (NETSpringLyon 2016) talk
- Benefits of Graphs in Bandit Settings - Multi-armed Bandit Workshop, January 11-12th, 2016, STOR-i, Lancaster University, UK (STOR-i 2016) talk
Demos and Presentations
- Michal Valko: Graph-Based Anomaly Detection with Soft Harmonic Functions - CS Department Research Competition (Research 2011) [#1st place] also at (Grad Expo 2011 and CS Day 2011) talk poster
- Branislav Kveton, Michal Valko, Matthai Philiposse: Real-Time Adaptive Face Recognition - 23rd Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NeurIPS 2009) Video: Adaptation Video: OfficeSpace demo poster #1 poster #2
- Michal Valko, Branislav Kveton, Matthai Philiposse: Robust Face Recognition Using Online Learning - 9th University of Pittsburgh Science conference (SCIENCE 2009) also at (Live Demonstration (Grad Expo 2010) and (CS Day 2010)) talk poster
- Michal Valko: Conditional anomaly detection with adaptive similarity metric - CS Department Research Competition (Research 2008) [#1st place] talk
- Michal Valko, Miloš Hauskrecht, G. Cooper, S. Visweswaran, M. Saul, A. Seybert, J. Harrison, A. Post: Conditional Anomaly Detection - CS Day 2008 (CS Day 2008) [#1st by people, #2nd by faculty] also at (University of Pittsburgh, Arts & Sciences (Grad Expo 2008)) poster
2015 and before
- Online decision-making on graphs - DaSciM, LIX, École Polytechnique, France, April 14th, 2015 (X 2015)
- Bandits on Graphs: Exploiting Smoothness and Side Observations - CMLA at ENS Cachan, France, December 16th, 2014 (ENS 2014) talk
- Optimistic Optimization - MIST conference in Fačkovské sedlo, January 7th, 2014 (MIST 2014)
- Sequential Face Recognition with Minimal Feedback - 30 minutes of Science, Lille, May 2nd, 2013 (30MIN 2013)
- One Class Learning From Streams of Unlabeled Data - Large-scale Online Learning and Decision Making, September 17th, 2012 (LSOLDM 2012)
- Scaling Graph-Based Algorithms - LAMPADA workshop, July 20th, 2012 (LAMPADA 2012)
- Large Scale Sequential Learning - Slovak Oxford Science, April 8th, 2012 (Oxford UK 2012)
- Adaptive Graph-Based Algorithms - Microsoft Research Redmond, July 6th, 2011 (MSR 2011) video video archive
- Online Semi-Supervised Learning - MPI Tuebingen, Germany, July 2011 (MPI 2011)
- Semi-supervised Learning with Random Walks on Graphs - 6th Comenius University Alumni conference (TAM 2009) talk
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