Note to self to write short concise emails. Reason: Long emails tend to create complications. Can be obstacles to effective comms. Even if intended to explain or clarify something, the outcome of a long email can be confusion and complications

We have been working with Michal Klein on pushing a module to train *flow matching* models using JAX. This is shipped as part of our new release of the OTT-JAX toolbox (github.com/ott-jax/ott) The tutorial to do so is here: ott-jax.readthedocs.io/tutorials/ne...

See you in January 2026 in Abu Dhabi with @yann-lecun.bsky.social @jpvert.bsky.social, Ivan Laptev, and other friends at Machine Can See!

cette marge est trop étroite, monsieur

Most decorated expectation I ever saw!

Went to Oxford

👋 Meet the ELLIS Board! This episode features @samikaski.bsky.social, Director of the @ellisinstitute.fi 🇫🇮 & Prof at @aalto.fi 🇫🇮 & @manchester.ac.uk 🇬🇧 He answers rapid-fire questions about the future of #AI and recommends this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.07259 Watch now 👉 youtu.be/ZP7HuurCDIU

🏹 Job alert: Postdocs/research fellows in probabilistic machine learning at @ellisinstitute.fi & Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals 📍 Helsinki 🇫🇮 & Manchester 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📅 Apply by Dec 1st 🔗 https://bit.ly/3LEl5Ri

✍ Earlier this week I was at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, attending the workshop "Bridging Stochastic Control and Reinforcement Learning: Theories and Applications" 🔗 www.newton.ac.uk/event/SCLW01/

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🗳️ The results are in! Meet the 7 newly elected trustees joining our Council in Jan 2026: rss.org.uk/news-publica... Big congrats to all! 🎉 And thank you to everyone who voted or stood—your voice shapes our future.

✨ Looking forward to visiting Finland 🇫🇮 this month for the AI Summit (17 Nov) and the scientific seminar and launch (18 Nov) of the ELLIS Institute Finland

Booked my trip to Cambridge for this one

Intriguing results of a PhD student experience survey across a number of countries. Brazil and Australia scored high on "satisfaction" and UK didn't fall too far behind. Quality of mentoring reported as very important feature, and so was quality of human connections www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Reminder of the preferred approach when sharing arXiv preprint links

📢 New preprint alert - This work with collaborators is on Reinforcement Learning + PAC-Bayes for Markov Chain data. Had been in the oven for some months and received feedback from NeurIPS'25. We uploaded the preprint in arXiv for visibility and comments would be welcome! arxiv.org/abs/2510.10544

If you haven't already, there's still time for members to vote in our Council elections and have your say in our future! 🗣️ Meet this year's candidates 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica... ✉️ Check your email for your personalised voting link. Voting closes midnight on Sunday 12 October.

Mathematics Today dropped through the letterbox this morning. Contains a cute piece on quantum computing illustrated with maths topics taught in A-levels (UK school system). Recommendable for those who teach maths to connect with the trendy topic! ima.org.uk

TIL The reference for Donsker-Varadhan variational formula is Donsker and Varadhan's "Asymptotic evaluation of certain Markov process expectations for large time-IV" (1983), not the previous parts I, II, III from years 1975 and 1976 that are commonly cited onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Good Morning! "All models are wrong, but some are useful.". --George E. P. Box x.com/probnstat/st...

In 1950, Alan Turing - while at @manchester.ac.uk - proposed a simple but profound experiment: can a machine convincingly imitate human thought? We now call it the Turing Test. 🧠💻

Greetings from Stockport

I have experience with Entropy MDPI I'm convinced this is a predatory publisher

In case everybody didn't notice, the Royal Statistical Society's Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) section now has a bluesky account: @rss-csml.bsky.social

Earlier this week attended the Non-Reversible Sampling workshop at Newcastle University. A very nice event! Thanks to the organisers Sam Power (Bristol), Giorgos Vasdekis (Newcastle) and Andi Wang (Warwick) sites.google.com/view/probai-...

✨ We kicked off a new season of talks, the AI FUN with ELLIS Invited Speaker Lecture series, brought to you by the Centre for AI FUNdamentals and the #ELLIS Unit at Manchester 🐝 The 1️⃣st talk was given by our guest speaker Rafael Izbicki (@rafael-izbicki.bsky.social) from UFSCar in Brazil 🇧🇷

Our 2025 Council Elections are now open! Fellows can vote until 12 Oct to help shape the future of the Society. 🔗 Check your email for your voting link 📄 Meet the candidates: rss.org.uk/news-publica...

Just finished delivering a course on 'Robust and scalable simulation-based inference (SBI)' at Greek Stochastics. This covered an introduction to SBI, open challenges, and some recent contributions from my own group. The slides are now available here: fxbriol.github.io/pdfs/slides-....

The institute's opening is part of the AI Summit, with distinguished speakers from across European business and government, as well as top researchers and leadership from the @ellis.eu network. An exciting two-day program that marks a milestone for AI & ML research. More info at aisummit.fi

Are you curious about what makes some Markov chain Monte Carlo samplers run fast? Then perhaps you will consider joining us in Toronto, Sept 25-27 for the "Fast and Curious 2: MCMC in action" conference. Registration information is available at: raducraiu.com/the-fast-and...

I want to advertise some relatively recent work which I really like, and have been fortunate to play a small role in. The paper is titled "A New Proof of Sub-Gaussian Norm Concentration Inequality" (arxiv.org/abs/2503.14347), led by Zishun Liu and Yongxin Chen at Georgia Tech.

ICYMI The University of Manchester's 2025 Magazine is out. There is plenty of interesting content in there. Don't miss taking a look at the opinion piece article on the past, present, and future of computer intelligence 👉 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazi...

The 2025 Magazine is out now! Featuring: - @duncanivison.bsky.social on Manchester’s bold future - Simon Johnson on the journey to his Nobel Prize - Dr Leo Geyer revives music composed more than 80 years ago in Auschwitz Read it now! 👇 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazi...

ICYDK what clouds are made of

I am pleased to announce that together with some friends, we are organising a workshop on Non-Reversible MCMC Sampling, taking place at Newcastle University from 8–10 September 2025. Details on the programme and registration can be found at the workshop website (sites.google.com/view/probai-...).

If anyone is, or knows anyone who is, looking for a postdoc position to work on the foundations of scalable inference and such... applications for a postdoctoral position at Warwick as a part of the OCEAN project (oceanerc.com) are open until 20th August at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre....

Remember that computers use bitstrings to represent numbers? We exploit this in our recent @auai.org paper and introduce #BitVI. #BitVI directly learns an approximation in the space of bitstring representations, thus, capturing complex distributions under varying numerical precision regimes.

🚨 A few days left to apply for Research Associate and Research Fellow positions in probabilistic machine learning with the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals. The deadline is 27.July.2025⌛️

🚨 Still time to apply for Research Associate and Research Fellow positions in probabilistic machine learning with the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals. The deadline is 27.July. 2025⌛️

🏹 Job alert: Research Associate or Research Fellow in Probabilistic Machine Learning 📍Manchester 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📅 Apply by July 27 🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/3TH28xZ

Have ppl caught up with the fun riot Grok is driving around its own platform?

The post-Bayesian approach is nearly 50 years old. Will be 50 years in July 2026, judging by the publication date of "Econometric Policy Model Construction: The Post-Bayesian Approach" (Ann. Econ. Soc. Meas., 5/ 3, 1976) by Arnold M. Faden and Gordon C. Rausser.

The AI FUN with ELLIS Seminar Series wrapped up the season earlier this week with a great talk by Google DeepMind's Laurent Orseau. Thanks, Laurent, for visiting the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals! #AIFunManchester #ELLISManchester

🗳️ Meet the candidates for the 2026 RSS Council! From AI to climate, finance to global health, this year’s nominees bring serious stats power and fresh ideas. Ready to shape the future of the Society—and the field. 📍Check out who’s standing: rss.org.uk/news-publica...

Looks like a good initiative and has a cool name too! #EurIPS #EurIPS2025

NeurIPS is endorsing EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present NeurIPS work in Europe concurrently with NeurIPS. Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n... eurips.cc

🚨 In other news, a paper titled "Regularized Gradient Clipping Provably Trains Wide and Deep Neural Networks" has been accepted in TMLR and the final camera-ready version is now up in OpenReview. @tmlrorg.bsky.social @tmlr-pub.bsky.social openreview.net/forum?id=ABT...

Postdocs and Research Fellows: Probabilistic machine learning, Centre for AI Fundamentals, Manchester, UK, DL July 27, 2025 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Funded by UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship, in the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals.

📢 AI FUN & ELLIS seminar series alert. The next speaker is Laurent Orseau from Google DeepMind, who will tell us about "Learning to Search Fast" on Wednesday 16 July at 11:00 am UK time. #AIFunManchester #ELLISManchester Further details in the link: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

Two NeurIPS submissions in my batch don't yet meet the target of having at least 3 high quality reviews. I'll be hunting for emergency reviewers soon. Posting here to hopefully reach reviewers and please DM me if you have bandwidth and willingness to help