🚨 A follow-up note on my paper "Semi-pessimistic Reinforcement Learning" which was accepted in the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) The accepted manuscript is now publicly available, here's the link, for anyone interested: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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📣 News flash: My offline reinforcement learning paper (with collaborators) has been accepted in JASA, the Journal of the American Statistical Association. Shared in case anyone missed the Sunday news ☺️ PS. I'll be sharing the camera-ready paper later on.

This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...

KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS

Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler

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Heron photo, in Manchester, by Monica Naughton Crimmins

📢 Fantastic opportunity to apply to join the Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester as a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in AI/Machine Learning ✨ www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

📢 The Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester is hiring a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in AI/Machine Learning ✨ Further details in the LinkedIn job advert: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

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📣 News flash: My offline reinforcement learning paper (with collaborators) has been accepted in JASA, the Journal of the American Statistical Association. Shared in case anyone missed the Sunday news ☺️ PS. I'll be sharing the camera-ready paper later on.

That's a wrap! We hope you had a fun, productive, and idea-filled Gangnam-styled #ICML2026! It's been a pleasure posting with you -- stay tuned for more content. We wish you a safe trip home, and see you next year!

Psy's Gangnam Style Dance in Horse Stable

ALT: Psy's Gangnam Style Dance in Horse Stable

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📜 PAC-Bayesian Reinforcement Learning Trains Generalizable Policies by Abdelkrim Zitouni, Mehdi Hennequin, Juba Agoun, Ryan Horache, Nadia Kabachi, Omar Rivasplata Accepted to ICML 2026 The camera ready is now available 👇 🔗 openreview.net/forum?id=5Zw...

Plan for Monday 25 May bank holiday...

📢 We are recruiting for a fully-funded PhD studentship (UK home students only) for a project titled: Generative and Hybrid AI for Pharmaceutical Reactors 💊 💻 To be supervised by the wonderful Nuasheen Basha, Dongda Zhang and Yours Truly. Further details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Generative and Hybrid AI for Pharmaceutical Reactor Design at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Generative and Hybrid AI for Pharmaceutical Reactor Design at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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I run a google search for "if researchturer was a word, what would it mean" and the result pinned exactly the meaning I had in mind...

Satisfying moment when seeing the news that this paper is now accepted to @icmlconf.bsky.social 📜 PAC-Bayesian Reinforcement Learning Trains Generalizable Policies 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10544 A very good collaboration between Lyon 🇫🇷 and Manchester 🇬🇧

🔎 I google searched for "Is Manchester an attractive university for AI / Machine Learning programmes at masters and PhD levels?" I share the result to (brag and) catch the attention of qualified candidates seeking training in AI / ML at masters and PhD levels in the near future

Is Manchester considered England's second city? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Is Manchester considered England's second city after London?

The question over the unofficial title has fiercely divided the Brummies and Mancunians for decades.

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Apropos my eye surgery, I got this from family

✍ Discussion and brainstorming meetings are very good for keeping the research alive. Here is a pic taken this afternoon after such meeting in Atlas room, Kilburn building, The University of Manchester ✨

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How to deal with clinical flow cytometry data with batch effects, changing markers, multiple panels per sample, incomplete cell-type labelling and large differences in cell-type proportions across patients? Mike Phuycharoen developed the UVAE method to solve this problem www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Plenty of good company in the Senior Program Committee for this year's Conference on Learning Theory #COLT2026 The picture shows part of the list only, the whole list in the link: 🔗 learningtheory.org/colt2026/pro...

📢 The Spärck AI Scholarship is a new, prestigious UK government programme designed to attract top home and global talent to study artificial intelligence (AI) and related subjects at master's level. A great opportunity to come to #Manchester AI FUN for your MSc! www.manchester.ac.uk/study/master...

Spärck AI Scholarship | The University of Manchester

Research. Teaching and learning. Social responsibility. Discover more about The University of Manchester here.

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📢 Turing AI Global Fellowship - Call for EoI Excellent funding scheme to attract exceptional AI researchers currently based outside the UK to relocate to the UK, to #Manchester 🐝 obviously (!) to join the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals @aifunmcr.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

EOI: Turing AI Global Fellowship | Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals

Turing AI Global Fellowship Call - Expression of Interest This UKRI funded scheme seeks to attract exceptional Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers currently based outside of the UK to build new ...

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Unreasonably satisfied to notice the first couple of citations of the year

Note to self to write short concise emails. Reason: Long emails tend to create complications. Can be obstacles to effective comms. Even if intended to explain or clarify something, the outcome of a long email can be confusion and complications

We have been working with Michal Klein on pushing a module to train *flow matching* models using JAX. This is shipped as part of our new release of the OTT-JAX toolbox (github.com/ott-jax/ott) The tutorial to do so is here: ott-jax.readthedocs.io/tutorials/ne...

See you in January 2026 in Abu Dhabi with @yann-lecun.bsky.social @jpvert.bsky.social, Ivan Laptev, and other friends at Machine Can See!

cette marge est trop étroite, monsieur

Most decorated expectation I ever saw!

Went to Oxford

👋 Meet the ELLIS Board! This episode features @samikaski.bsky.social, Director of the @ellisinstitute.fi 🇫🇮 & Prof at @aalto.fi 🇫🇮 & @manchester.ac.uk 🇬🇧 He answers rapid-fire questions about the future of #AI and recommends this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.07259 Watch now 👉 youtu.be/ZP7HuurCDIU

Meet the Board: Samuel Kaski (ELLIS Board Member | ELLIS Institute Finland)

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