Really wondeful ambient synths from Haruomi Hosono - apparently written to be played in Muji's Tokyo shop in 1984, though only one track was used youtube.com/watch?v=34UutD…

Thanks to WIRED UK for talking to us about the vital role real-world simulation can play in supporting international efforts to respond to the world's most pressing challenges.

Really looking forward to this collaboration! Also my first PhD supervision, which I'm very happy to be sharing with Matteo Fasiolo and Mark Beaumont

Saturday morning snack: a 5-minute video by Patrick Cannon summarizing some of our ideas with @SebastianSchmon on connecting generalized Bayesian inference within Approximate Bayesian Inference. youtube.com/watch?v=VWakGn…

ABC is an exact algorithm, targeting a generalised Bayesian posterior arxiv.org/abs/2011.08644 Our new work, accepted at AABI, explores how this view can help us with robustness to misspecification. Joint work with the brilliant @SebastianSchmon & Jeremias Knoblauch.

Approximate Bayesian computation with time series models doesn't have to be difficult! Path signatures can help to automatically design expressive summary statistics. New preprint lead by fantastic PhD student Joel Dyer, joint work with Patrick Cannon: arxiv.org/abs/2106.12555

Black-box Bayesian inference for economic agent-based models - our new working paper by Joel Dyer, Patrick Cannon, Doyne Farmer and Sebastian Schmon is now online inet.ox.ac.uk/publications/n…

I'M HIRING! 2 postdoc positions in agent-based modelling at University of Oxford. Tenable immediately until end Sep 2026... #AIcademiaEurope European Association for Artificial Intelligence [1/n]

If you’re interested in the intersection of AI and agent-based models, make sure to follow AI for Agent-Based Modelling Community (AI4ABM) — a much needed hub for a really exciting area of research! There’s even an upcoming workshop at ICML Conference

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) with more than 10000 agents? We (Jordan, Patrick Cannon) are exploring ways to scale MARL to (tens of) thousands of agents using high-performance ABM simulators. Will be presented AI for Agent-Based Modelling Community (AI4ABM) ICML Conference arxiv.org/abs/2207.03945

Thanks to Christian Schroeder de Witt & the organising committee for a great workshop! Proud to have won Best Proposal Paper w/ Sebastian Schmon Patrick Cannon & #DoyneFarmer for our work on fitting #ABMs to microdata w/ #GNNs. Very nice talks from my INET Oxford colleagues Blas Kolic & Aymeric Vié too!

Simulation-based inference (SBI) methods can perform poorly if the model is misspecified. In our #neurips paper we show that model criticism can help robustifying SBI (with RNPE) by learning what aspects a simulator can explain and where it falls short: arxiv.org/abs/2210.06564

Interested in simulation based inference under misspecification? Check out our poster at 4pm — board 927 #NeurIPS22

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!

Honoured that my paper with Patrick Cannon & Sebastian Schmon received the “Outstanding Paper Award” at UAI 2025 this year! #UAI2024 #Bayes

@MendeleySupport Any chance the password reset will work again soon? Keep seeing "Oops, something went wrong." Thanks

@MendeleySupport My fault - used the wrong email address. Confusingly given "Oops" message rather than "this email address not registered".

Ada Lovelace's dad was Byron! Who knew?!