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Diana Cai @dianarycai.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to be heading to @Princeton @PrincetonSML to talk about my work on variational inference! Event details below:

csml.princeton.edu/events/batch...

Batch and match: score-based approaches for black-box variational inference

Abstract:Black-box variational inference (BBVI) algorithms have become popular due to their ease of application facilitated by automatic differentiation. While effective for factorized variational fam...

csml.princeton.edu

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 6d

Want to work on Trustworthy AI? 🚀

I'm seeking exceptional candidates to apply for the Digital Futures Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with me on Uncertainty Quantification, Bayesian Deep Learning, and Reliability of ML Systems.

The position will be co-advised by Hossein Azizpour or Henrik Boström.

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Martin Trapp - Assistant Professor in Machine Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

trappmartin.github.io

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 7d

EurIPS workshop on AmOrTIzED InfErENcE!!!1!

Luigi Acerbi @lacerbi.bsky.social · 7d

Short abstract submission is open (DL Oct 16, 2025 AoE)
Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters.

🌍 Location: Copenhagen (co-located with #EurIPS)
📅 Date: 2 Dec, 2025
🔗 Website: sites.google.com/view/amortiz...
📝Call for abstracts: sites.google.com/view/amortiz...

Amortized ProbML 2025 - Call for Papers

Accepted papers will be presented as posters during the workshop poster session on 2nd December, 2025. Please be aware that this is not the same as the ELLIS UnConference poster session.

sites.google.com

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International Society for Bayesian Analysis @isba-bayesian.bsky.social · 9d

We have created a resource in the ISBA website where you can find all recorded webinars:

bayesian.org/ba-webinars/

Also, don't forget about the ISBA YouTube channel featuring curated playlists from ISBA World Meetings and specialized workshops and seminars:

www.youtube.com/@isba-intern...

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Diana Cai @dianarycai.bsky.social · 13d

Excited to attend the Fast and Curious II in Toronto! Here’s the workshop page: raducraiu.com/the-fast-and...

The Fast and Curious 2: MCMC in Action

September 25-27, Toronto, Canada Aims: Recent strides in Bayesian inference applied to intricate complex-structured datasets offer a unique opportunity to bring together disparate research communit…

raducraiu.com

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International Society for Bayesian Analysis @isba-bayesian.bsky.social · 14d

Proposals for contributed talks & posters are now being accepted for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting! The world meeting will take place in Nagoya, Japan between 28 June and 3 July, 2026. Proposals may be submitted here: forms.gle/dVTUrdEuVF6g...

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Erik Thiede @erikhthiede.bsky.social · 16d

We are hiring for a postdoc to work on the intersection of molecular simulation, machine learning, and cryo-EM! Please find the job posting here.

thiedelab.github.io/docs/postdoc...

thiedelab.github.io

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 16d

Some fun news: We're hiring!

Lectureship (analogous to Assistant Prof.) in Statistical Science and AI, in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol.

Closing date 13 October 2025; link below!

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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Diana Cai @dianarycai.bsky.social · 26d

The application for a research fellowship at the Flatiron Institute in the Center for Computational Math is now live! This includes positions for ML and stats.

The deadline is Dec 1.

apply.interfolio.com/173401

ML@CCM group: users.flatironinstitute.org/~lsaul/ml_cc...

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apply.interfolio.com

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Kyle Cranmer @kylecranmer.bsky.social · Aug 20

I haven’t had the chance to look closely, but I’m still eager to share this practical guide on Simulation-based Inference 👇

psteinb.bsky.social @psteinb.bsky.social · Aug 19

Looky Looky! 😍🥳👏
arxiv.org/abs/2508.12939
Super fun project, I ❤️ed coauthoring w/ @sbi-devs.bsky.social.
Great lead by @deismic.bsky.social & @janboelts.bsky.social. Contribs by many talented people @jakhmack.bsky.social. 🙏 to #BenjaminKurtMiller for the kickstart! @helmholtzai.bsky.social

Simulation-Based Inference: A Practical Guide

A central challenge in many areas of science and engineering is to identify model parameters that are consistent with prior knowledge and empirical data. Bayesian inference offers a principled framewo...

arxiv.org

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Arno Solin @arnosolin.bsky.social · Aug 12

📣 Please share: We invite submissions to the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (#AISTATS 2026) and welcome paper submissions at the intersection of AI, machine learning, statistics, and related areas. [1/3]

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Dylan Foster 🐢 @djfoster.bsky.social · Aug 11

Announcing the first workshop on Foundations of Language Model Reasoning (FoRLM) at NeurIPS 2025!

📝Soliciting abstracts that advance foundational understanding of reasoning in language models, from theoretical analyses to rigorous empirical studies.

📆 Deadline: Sept 3, 2025

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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 30

AISTATS 2026 will be in Morocco!

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Diana Cai @dianarycai.bsky.social · Aug 4

Sad to miss this!

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Diana Cai @dianarycai.bsky.social · Jul 21

Enjoyed co presenting this tutorial at #uai2025 in Brazil with Yingzhen Li! Enjoyed the conference size and location.
Also great company, weather, and food.

uai2025 @auai.org · Jul 21

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"Modern Approximate Inference: Variational Methods and Beyond"

by Diana Cai (Flatiron Institute) and Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London)

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Diana Cai @dianarycai.bsky.social · Jun 14

Headed to Singapore for BayesComp next week!

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Diana Cai @dianarycai.bsky.social · Jun 2

Congrats! 🎉

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Diana Cai @dianarycai.bsky.social · May 29

Congratulations! 🎉

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Hanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social · May 20

Exciting news: The Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics (FATE) group at Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a predoctoral fellow!!! 🎉

www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

FATE Research Assistant (“Pre-doc”) - Microsoft Research

The Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) Research group at Microsoft Research New York City (MSR NYC) is looking for a pre-doctoral research assistant (pre-doc) to start August 20...

www.microsoft.com

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Diana Cai @dianarycai.bsky.social · May 2

The paper is available here:
Batch, match, and patch: low-rank approximations for score-based variational inference

arxiv.org/abs/2410.22292

Batch, match, and patch: low-rank approximations for score-based variational inference

Black-box variational inference (BBVI) scales poorly to high-dimensional problems when it is used to estimate a multivariate Gaussian approximation with a full covariance matrix. In this paper, we ext...

arxiv.org

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Diana Cai @dianarycai.bsky.social · May 2

Come check out our #AISTATS2025 poster Sunday Hall A—E 79.

Previously we showed how to fit a full cov Gaussian approx via “batch and (score) match.” Here we show how to make the update cheaper using a “patch” step that projects the update to one that is low rank + diagonal.

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Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social · Apr 30

Overfitting is among the conceptually most interesting problems in machine learning.
I am happy of several new phenomena we began to understand with Pierfrancesco Urbani.
Alert: mostly non-rigorous! (Celebrating Jorge Kurchan)
web.stanford.edu/~montanar/OT...

web.stanford.edu

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Neil Shephard @neilshephard.bsky.social · Apr 15

I hope you will read the letter from President Garber

www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

and particularly take up his request that you read what the U.S. Government demanded of Harvard.

The Promise of American Higher Education

No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

www.harvard.edu

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antonio vergari ⚔️ short-circuiting @nolovedeeplearning.bsky.social · Apr 13

props to that reviewer who just spotted that several references of a survey did not exist!

very likely that those refs and (part of) the manuscript have been generated by LLMs without authors thoroughly checking.

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uai2025 @auai.org · Apr 4

🥇 Accepted workshops are out! www.auai.org/uai2025/work...

Get ready for a day of great talks, panels, and discussions on causality, tractable models, and safe AI.

Don't forget to submit your work, and see you in Rio! 🇧🇷

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