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Fusion at CIRM
Today is the first day of the FUSION workshop Rémi Bardenet and myself organised. Due to schedule clashes, I will alas not be there, since [no alas!] at the BNP conference in Chili. The program and...
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séminaire parisien de statistique [09/01/23]
I had missed the séminaire parisien de statistique for most of the Fall semester, hence was determined to attend the first session of the year 2023, the more because the talks were close to my...
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BayesComp²³ [aka MCMski⁶]
The main BayesComp meeting started right after the ABC workshop and went on at a grueling pace, and offered a constant conundrum as to which of the four sessions to attend, the more when trying to...
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ellis unconference [not in Hawai’i]
As ICML 2023 is happening this week, in Hawai’i, many did not have the opportunity to get there, for whatever reason, and hence the ellis (European Lab for Learning {and} Intelligent Systems] board...
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sequential meetings in Edinburgh
There will be not one but two consecutive events in Edinburgh next May²⁴ on sequential Monte Carlo methods! Both hosted by the fantastic International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in...
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futuristic statistical science [editorial]
This special issue of Statistical Science is devoted to the future of Bayesian computational statistics, from several perspectives. It involves a large group of researchers who contributed to...
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simulation as optimization [by kernel gradient descent]
Yesterday, which proved an unseasonal bright, warm, day, I biked (with a new wheel!) to the east of Paris—in the Gare de Lyon district where I lived for three years in the 1980’s—to attend a Mokaplan...
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connection between tempering & entropic mirror descent
The next One World ABC webinar is this Thursday, the 2nd May, at 9am UK time, with Francesca Crucinio (King’s College London, formerly CREST and even more formerly Warwick) presenting “A connection...
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6th Workshop on Sequential Monte Carlo Methods
Very glad to be back to an SMC workshop as it has been nine years since my attending SMC 2015 in Malakoff! The more for the workshop taking place in Edinburgh and at the Bayes Centre. It is one of...
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