📃 My latest paper "Stochastic Localization via Iterative Posterior Sampling" (arxiv.org/abs/2402.10758) has been accepted at #ICML2024. 👏 It was a real team work between me and my co-authors Maxence Noble, Marylou Gabrié (Marylou Gabrié) and Alain Durmus.

Just arrived at Venice for the ISBA World Meeting. I will be presenting my work on sampling with stochastic localization during the "Monte Carlo algorithms for modern hardware" invited session chaired by Charles Margossian Charles Margossian (Thursday 4:30pm, Room 6A). See you there!

Early bird deadline for StanCon has been extended from July 1st to July 15th! This is gives the scientific committee time to review the last wave of proposals and lets participants with an accepted talk register at a discounted price. mc-stan.org/events/stancon…

Reconnected with two former mentees ISBA: Emmanuel Mokel (left) and Stanislas Du Ché (right), who have done stellar work on MCMC using massive parallelization during their summer internships. Congrats Emmanuel Mokel on this year's best poster award!!

We have a spotlight paper at #ICML2024 on batch and match: black box variational inference with a score-based divergence. Our poster is Thursday 11:30a Hall C 4–9 #1307. 1/n

Training LLMs involves learning associations. We study training dynamics in a simple model that yields useful insight on the role of token interference and imbalance. Go talk to Vivien Cabannes and Berfin Simsek @ ICML at our #ICML poster #1114 tmrw 11:30! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2402.18724

StanCon Oxford is in 32 days! Some updates: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/08/09/sta… Highlights: - We're finalizing the program: great talks and great tutorials - StanCon is where veteran and beginner Stan users meet - Thank you to our sponsors and supporting institutions! Stan

It was a fun (and difficult) exercise proposed by neptune.ai to summarize our paper in 100 seconds without any rehearsal. I liked it! Thread about the paper: x.com/oharub/status/…

Details from Aki Vehtari - @[email protected] on the upcoming StanCon 2024 model selection tutorial: discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stancon-2024…

I'm making the hierarchical models tutorial at Stan-con and it's coming along great in quarto

Live Pierre-Simon Laplace episode with Alexandre Andorra at #StanCon 2024 in Oxford.

Big thanks to Alexandre Andorra & Chris Wymant @chriswymant.bsky.social for a great #StanCon 2024 panel! We covered epidemiology vs biology, infectious diseases vs NCDs, generative emulators, graph GPs, sequential data collection, and, of course, #ProbabilisticProgramming.

20 years of blogging . . . What have been your favorite posts? statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/17/20-…