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

Today I am celebrating 1️⃣ year of joining the Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, and being a core academic at the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals 🤙 #AIFunManchester www.ai-fun.manchester.ac.uk

📢 Everyone's attention please... Reminder that I am now based at the Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester. Accordingly, my current webpage is in the UoM server 👇 personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/omar.r...

🚨 NeurIPS 2025 Reviewers - A reminder that his year the Responsible Review Initiative is in effect. To learn what this implies for reviewers who fail to submit high quality reviews within the timeline, see the link. Reviews are due 2nd July 11.59pm AOE blog.neurips.cc/2025/05/02/r...

📢 The Research Fellowships of the Royal Academy of Engineering #RAEng provide funding for five years to outstanding ECRs worldwide. Could be the ticket to Manchester 🇬🇧 to shape the future of your career at the Centre for AI Fundamentals #AIFunManchester 👉 raeng.org.uk/programmes-a...

📢 ML / AI postdoc The EU 🇪🇺 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships is your ticket to join the fun research at our Centre for AI Fundamentals in Manchester 🇬🇧 The 2025 call is open until Sep. 10 #AIFunManchester marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Welcoming our @raeng.org.uk Google DeepMind 'Research Ready' interns today. @omarrivasplata.bsky.social gave an overview of the scheme and a little about what AI researchers @manchester.ac.uk do. Welcome all (3 supervisors also pictured!)! #ai #artificialintelligence #aifunmanchester

Earlier this week I was at the Prob_AI Hub Research Retreat, which took place at the Wychwood Park Hotel & Golf Club. Was very good to catch up with work of others, share mine, and to have fun playing Foot Golf! Learn more about the Hub: 👉 www.probai.uk/about-us/

wanna know how to do inverse Q-learning right? read this paper then!! joint work with the best team of students ever ♥️

📢 ML / AI postdoc The EU 🇪🇺 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships is your ticket to join the fun research at our Centre for AI Fundamentals in Manchester 🇬🇧 The 2025 call is open until Sep. 10 #AIFunManchester marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

📢 Machine Learning postdoc Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 🇪🇺 could be your ticket to move to Manchester 🇬🇧 to join the fun at our Centre for AI FUN 😎 The 2025 call is open until Sep. 10 #AIFunManchester marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

new work on computing distances between stochastic processes ***based on sample paths only***! we can now: - learn distances between Markov chains - extract "encoder-decoder" pairs for representation learning - with sample- and computational-complexity guarantees read on for some quick details.. 1/n

Proofs for Folklore Theorems on the Radon-Nikodym Derivative

📢 One week left to apply for a position of Research Associate or Research Fellow in Machine Learning at the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals (AI Fun). Click the link to find out details. Deadline: 19/05/2025 ⌛️ #AIFunManchester www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The unbearable lightness of the difference between \KwInit and \kwInit

📢 Reminder that the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals (AI Fun) has an open 2-year position as Research Associate or Research Fellow in Machine Learning. Click the link to find out details. Deadline: 19/05/2025 ⌛️ #AIFunManchester www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Pope Leo XIV: - Studied mathematics - Lived in the Peruvian North (~20 yrs) - Took an interest in studying priors (doctoral thesis "The Role of the Local Prior [...]") ME: - Studied mathematics - Lived in the Peruvian North (~20 yrs) - Took an interest in studying priors

📢 Neat opportunity to join the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals as Research Associate or Research Fellow. Deadline to apply: 19/05/2025 ⌛️ Click to find out details 👇 #AIFunManchester www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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