Happy to announce yet another workshop on Gradient Flows -- register when it is still available :-) gradientflows.com
Deniz Akyildiz
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assoc prof of stats at Imperial College London https://odakyildiz.com
📣 We are recruiting! A 26-month postdoctoral position at Warwick as part of the “Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence” hub on the mathematical foundations of AI. 🔗 Further details available here: warwick-careers.tal.... Closing date: Sunday 6th September 2026 at 11:55pm (UK Time)
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Springer about to hijack Statistics & Computing
I recently learned that Springer Nature is about to make the reference journal Statistics and Computing, where I published close to twenty papers over the years, fully “open access”, wh…
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We are recruiting for two roles at Imperial College London (Department of Mathematics) to join the PRISM (Probabilistic Rare-event Inference for Safety of Models) project: www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Two assistant prof. vacancies at Warwick Statistics: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre... (deadline 25 January 2025 at 11:55pm). CSML applications very welcome!
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Applications are invited for Chapman Fellow in Mathematics (Statistics Section) at the Department of Mathematics. Closing date: 11 November 2025 www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs//search...
We are hiring! We are inviting applications for the Chapman Fellowship in Statistics at Imperial College London. This is a kind of super-postdoc: 3 years contract, excellent working conditions, and candidates are expected to propose an independent research plan. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs//search...
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congratulations to Paula Cordero Encinar, Francesca Romana Crucinio and O. Deniz Akyildiz (@odakyildiz.bsky.social) for winning the 🏆 Best Student Paper Award 🏆 at #UAI2025 with "Proximal Interacting Particle Langevin Algorithms" 👉 openreview.net/forum?id=rTq...
Here's how the gradient flow for minimizing KL(pi, target) looks under the Fisher-Rao metric. I thought some probability mass would be disappearing on the left and appearing on the right (i.e. teleportation), like a geodesic under the same metric, but I was very wrong... What's the right intuition?
If anyone missed the RSS Gradient Flow workshop back in March, videos are now available...
Late - but better than never.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrPy...
Tim Y. J. Wang, Juan Kuntz, O. Deniz Akyildiz Training Latent Diffusion Models with Interacting Particle Algorithms https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12412
This afternoon I was privileged to examine Alex Glyn-Davies, who produced a great thesis on aspects of physics-informed inference for DE models (arxiv.org/abs/2209.15609, arxiv.org/abs/2409.07101 and arxiv.org/abs/2409.06560) and some anomaly detection for good measure doi.org/10.1016/j.pa....
$Φ$-DVAE: Physics-Informed Dynamical Variational Autoencoders for Unstructured Data Assimilation
Incorporating unstructured data into physical models is a challenging problem that is emerging in data assimilation. Traditional approaches focus on well-defined observation operators whose functional...
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If anyone is thinking of registering for this, I understand that there are still some spaces available, but the room this event is taking place in has a limited capacity which is likely to be reached... so to avoid disappointment it would be safer to register sooner rather than later ;-).
Registration is now open for the 2nd RSS/Turing Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning at rss.org.uk/training-eve.... Date: Monday 24 March 2025, 10.00AM - 5.00PM Location: The Alan Turing Institute
Very happy to announce the 2nd RSS/Turing Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning to take place on 24th of March, 2025! Registration is open now: tinyurl.com/rss-turing-g... Please see the webpage for topics and speakers. Hope to see you all there!
Registration is now open for the 2nd RSS/Turing Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning at rss.org.uk/training-eve.... Date: Monday 24 March 2025, 10.00AM - 5.00PM Location: The Alan Turing Institute
2nd RSS/Turing Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning
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This review paper by @guillaume-garrigos.com on SGD-related algorithms is a fantastic resource, offering elegant, self-contained, and concise proofs in a single, accessible reference. arxiv.org/pdf/2301.11235
O. Deniz Akyildiz, Pierre Del Moral, Joaqu\'in Miguez Gaussian entropic optimal transport: Schr\"odinger bridges and the Sinkhorn algorithm https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18432
Splendid stuff; very digestible and usable: arxiv.org/abs/2412.05239 'Conditions for uniform in time convergence: applications to averaging, numerical discretisations, and mean-field systems' - Katharina Schuh, Iain Souttar