AI That Keeps Up
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Continual and Compatible Foundation Model Updates (CCFM)
San Diego, December 6-7th 2025
San Diego, December 6-7th 2025
Foundation models, despite their impressive capabilities, face a critical challenge: they naturally become outdated. Trained on vast datasets, frequently updating these models is expensive. Crucially, these challenges extend beyond the scope of studies in traditional continual learning, as foundation models require rapid and scalable adaptation to dynamic global changes and the emergence of both generalized and specialized tasks. This workshop addresses the urgent need for up-to-date foundation models. We invite researchers to explore cost-effective methods for frequent updates and adaptation, minimizing forgetting and deterioration, ensuring a consistent user experience, and designing dynamic evaluations that remain relevant as models evolve.
Zeynep Akata
Technical University of Munich
Rahaf Aljundi
Toyota Motor Europe
Christopher Kanan
University of Rochester
Irina Rish
Université de Montréal & Mila
Ludwig Schmidt
Stanford & Anthropic
2025/09/01: Submission Deadline is extended to September 2 AOE.
2025/08/22: Submission Deadline is extended to September 1 AOE.
2025/07/22: Submissions are now open at OpenReview.
2025/07/04: Good news! The CCFM Workshop is officially accepted for NeurIPS 2025 and will be held in San Diego!
2025/05/29: Workshop proposal submitted!
More info in our Call for Papers
For any questions or comments about this workshop, please reach out to:
ccfm-neurips2025@googlegroups.com