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dianarycai.bsky.social
Machine learning & statistics researcher @ Flatiron Institute. Posts on probabilistic ML, Bayesian statistics, decision making, and AI/ML for science. www.dianacai.com
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1/ Introducing ACE (Amortized Conditioning Engine)! Our new AISTATS 2025 paper presents a transformer framework that unifies tasks from image completion to BayesOpt & simulator-based inference under *one* probabilistic conditioning approach. It's Bayes all the way down!

🚨 #NOAA is essential for weather forecasting, climate research, and public safety. AGU stands with the scientific community in urging Congress to protect and strengthen NOAA, not dismantle it. Our economy, environment, and safety depend on it.

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

The deadline for abstract submission of contributed papers and posters for BayesComp2025 has been extended to 28 February. Decisions by 14 March. Submit here! bayescomp2025.sg/abstract-sub... The deadline for early bird registration has been extended to March 22. Hope to see you in Singapore!

Workshop on Advances in Post-Bayesian methods (May 15--16, UCL): postbayes.github.io/workshop2025/

Are interested in making #computervision models more #reliable and #robust by accounting for #uncertainties? Then consider submitting your awesome work to our @cvprconference.bsky.social workshop! uncertainty-cv.github.io/2025/

πŸ“£ The 11th Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND11) workshop will be held June 11-13, 2025 in New York at the @flatironinstitute.org with generous support from @simonsfoundation.org Submissions for talks+posters are due March 21. See our website for details πŸ‘‡ sandworkshop.github.io

A touch of self-advertisement: I'll be giving a research talk next Tuesday at the Online Monte Carlo Seminar (sites.google.com/view/monte-c...) on one of my favourite topics: the convergence properties of the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm. Please join us!

Registration is now open for BAYESM 2025!

I recently put the style pack for #ProbNum25 on probnum25.github.io. Designing it was an interesting experience. I was tempted to propose a 16:9 screen-centric layout (who still prints papers?), but I got feedback this wouldn't look "serious". So I went for... (1/2)

Big news: you can now submit your papers to the first ever international conference on probabilistic numerics (1-3 September, Southern France)! Don’t miss the chance to get in on the ground floor of this exciting new field! probnum25.github.io/submissions

Interested in reviewing for #TMLR? I am looking for reviewers with expertise in e.g., probabilistic ML, Bayesian statistics, decision making, and AI/ML for science. You can specify a max paper load and mark when you're unavailable to review. Sign up on the google form below:

Our paper "Batch, match, and patch: low-rank approximations for score-based variational inference" is accepted to #AISTATS2025. This paper addresses score-based variational inference with Gaussians (batch and match VI) with low rank + diagonal covariances. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2410.22292

Sad after #AISTATS2025 and #ICLR2025 notifications? As we say in Italy, when a door closes, a bigger one opens ;) If you have a fantastic paper on #uncertainty #AI #ML #causality #statML #probabilisticmodels #reasoning #impreciseprobabilities etc, consider submitting to #UAI2025 πŸ‡§πŸ‡· deadline 10 Feb πŸ’₯

Going to my first ever AISTATS and first time in Thailand! πŸŽ‰πŸŒ΄πŸΎ

AABI is back! This year, for the first time in Asia (co-located with ICLR in Singapore). Send us all your new probabilistic ML papers, the deadline is just a few days after the ICML one!

1/πŸ“―I am hiring! Postdoc position in Probabilistic Machine Learning and Amortized Inference. @univhelsinkics.bsky.social with strong links to the Finnish Center for AI (FCAI) Please see blurb and link in thread below. Applications evaluated on a rolling basis. Please reshare!

Hmm I’ve never been to Greece πŸ€”πŸ˜

πŸ“’ My team at Meta (including Yaron Lipman and Ricky Chen) is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to help us build the next generation of flow, transport, and diffusion models! Please apply here and message me: www.metacareers.com/jobs/1459691...

Merry Bayesmas to those who are celebrating πŸŽ…πŸ»

After watching this beautiful keynote by @arnauddoucet.bsky.social , I *had* to give these Schrodinger bridges a try! Very interesting to be able to "straighten" a basic flow-matching approach. Super cool work by @vdebortoli.bsky.social & co-author!

In yesterday's research thread, I wrote about fusion plasmas, stellarators, and magnetic confinement fusion in general terms. Today, let's start with things I've been directly involved in. We'll begin with coil optimization.

Happening today at #neurips2024 East Exhibit Hall A-C #3900 4:30pm

#NeurIPS2024 check out our work: Cryo-EM images are intrinsically low dimensional at the MLSB workshop with Luke Evans, Octavian-Vlad Murad @larsdingeldein.bsky.social @rocovino.bsky.social & Marina Meila www.mlsb.io/papers_2024/...

Coffee recommendations in Vancouver??

We've updated the schedule for the NeurIPS Workshop for Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty - it now includes all the talk titles! Check it out! Looking forward to seeing everyone on Saturday! gp-seminar-series.github.io/neurips-2024/

Come by our #NeurIPS2024 spotlight poster on EigenVI: score-based variational inference with orthogonal function expansions! Friday 7:30pm, East Exhibit Hall A-C #3900 Link: arxiv.org/abs/2410.24054

Research internships @FlatironInst's Center for Computational Mathematics! We have many researchers working in machine learning and statistics: users.flatironinstitute.org/~lsaul/ml_cc... Apply here to be a summer intern: apply.interfolio.com/159678

Heading to #NeurIPS2024 next week to present EigenVI: score-based variational inference with orthogonal function expansions Link: arxiv.org/abs/2410.24054 Poster: Friday 7:30pm, East Exhibit Hall A-C #3900

The 41st Conference on #Uncertainty in #AI will be held in Rio de Janeiro πŸ‡§πŸ‡·, July 21-25! The CfP is out πŸ‘‰ www.auai.org/uai2025/call... 🚨 Feb 10: Paper submission πŸ—£οΈ Apr 3-10: rebuttal period πŸŽ‰/πŸ’€ May 6: Author notification #UAI2025 #ML #stats #learning #reasoning #uncertainty

Interesting workshops at ICLR, including one on frontiers in probabilistic inference:

Alright, it's time for my annual tweet: Who all is going to @neuripsconf.bsky.social this year??? #NeurIPS2024 πŸ€–β˜ƒοΈ

Check out our new paper from the Blei Lab on probabilistic predictions with conditional diffusions and gradient boosted trees! #Neurips2024

after this announcement and limiting the free version to 1 collaborator per project, it seems like the perfect time to abandon overleaf. removing functionality that made ppl like your product & adding stuff that nobody wanted sounds like a disastrous way to develop your business...

Overleaf now incorporates an AI assistant, as of this morning. It is opt-out, not opt-in. I have very mixed feelings about this: and by "mixed", I mean ranging from annoyance to anger. www.overleaf.com/learn/how-to...

Happy Thanksgiving and AISTATS rebuttals (to those who celebrate)! 🎢

Some years ago, a director at a tech company told me: """ I get so many applicants that if you don't have a NeurIPS paper (or equivalent), I won't even look at the application. """ It's a quite reasonable individual rational response, but the systemic effects lead to what we see now.

The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) has joined Bluesky. You can follow the account at @isba-bayesian.bsky.social to stay updated on events, publications, and discussions within the #Bayesian community. Please add the account to your starter packages.

Anyone else miss bookmarks? πŸ”–

many of the recent successes in #AI #ML are due to #structured low-rank representations! but...What's the connection between #lowrank adapters, #tensor networks, #polynomials and #circuits? join our #AAAI25 workshop to know the answer! and 2 more days to submit! πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡ april-tools.github.io/colorai/

I made a starter pack for machine learning researchers working on Bayesian optimization and Gaussian processes! It's *very* sparse ATM since the migration is still in progress. Please reply to make me aware of people - potentially yourself - who should be added to it! go.bsky.app/QYMEQ52