Next week I’ll be UAI 2025 #UAI2024 & AABI #AABI2024 in Vienna to present my Spotlight paper w/ Patrick Cannon & Sebastian Schmon on approx. Bayesian inference for time series simulators using path signatures: openreview.net/forum?id=MsU6s…. Come chat about simulators & #Bayes!

.Nick Bishop will also be at #UAI2024 to present our Oral paper w/ FMZennaro @yfelekis Michael Wooldridge #AniCalinescu @TDamoulas on causally-abstracted multi-armed bandits: openreview.net/forum?id=Uxrxz…

arXiv -> alphaXiv Students at Stanford have built alphaXiv, an open discussion forum for arXiv papers. alphaXiv You can post questions and comments directly on top of any arXiv paper by changing arXiv to alphaXiv in any URL!

My Statement on the introduction of the Long COVID Research Moonshot Act #LongCovidMoonshot I fully support this bill and urge the U.S. Congress and our community to support it. Short thread:

Warwick PhD wins international award Jeremias Knoblauch has been awarded the 2023 Savage Award of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for his Warwick PhD thesis “Optimization-centric Generalizations of Bayesian Inference” supervised by Theo Damoulas.

This is insane! My PhD student, who got 2 accepted first-authored papers to #NeurIPS2024, cannot attend the conf because the visa processing time in Canada is 10 months (sic!). What’s happening in Canada? It’s time to look for better accessible places to host Neurips!!

We are seeking PhD candidates in the topic of Multiagent Systems and related areas, with particular emphasis on one or more of: computational social choice, algorithmic game theory, multiagent learning, and social and economic networks. More info: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/ne…

More #NeurIPS papers. This time from Theo Damoulas and collaborators. "Physics-Informed Variational State-Space Gaussian Processes" with Oliver Hamelijnck (Warwick) and Arno Solin. arxiv.org/abs/2409.13876 1/3

"Generating Origin-Destination Matrices in Neural Spatial Interaction Models" with Ioannis Zachos and Mark Girolami. #NeurIPS 2/3

"Interventionally Consistent Surrogates for Agent-based Simulators" with Joel Dyer, Nicholas Bishop, Yorgos Felekis (Warwick), Fabio Massimo Zennaro, Anisoara Calinescu, Theodoros Damoulas, Michael Wooldridge arxiv.org/abs/2312.11158 #NeurIPS 3/3

i always thought that physicists were weird, but i had no idea they had so little respect for their own field. wow

The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever

PLS SHARE: I'm hiring a PhD student to work on ML theory, to begin in Fall 2025. Topics include: generalization bounds & statistical inference via online prediction, representation learning via optimal transport, sequential decision making... More info: cs.bme.hu/~gergo/jobs.ht…

This Friday at #ICAIF 2024, together with Nick Bishop and #AniCalinescu, we'll give a tutorial on building and calibrating differentiable agent-based models of financial systems! Notebooks and materials are freely available on our tutorial website: largeagentcollider.github.io/icaif_tutorial/

Our BlackBIRDS python package implements inference methods for differentiable simulators in PyTorch, and features heavily in the tutorial. You can play with it yourself by installing from pypi.org/project/blackb…, and check out an example use case at github.com/joelnmdyer/gra…

New work on causal abstraction by Willem Schooltink: looking at how graphical abstraction and functional abstraction are related! arxiv.org/abs/2412.17080

Wow, Turing Award 2024 for Reinforcement Learning. A long awaited and deserved recognition: acm.org/media-center/2…

Lads, it’s Man United!

Looking for prospective students & collaborators to work towards *An Agent Foundation Model*! 👨‍💻👩‍💻 Keywords: Active model discovery, active learning & model based planning. More details: lancelotdacosta.com/research (bottom of page). If you’re interested, get in touch! 💡

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