Read the latest news and find out about our events.
NEWS
Andrew Saxe named as 2023 Blavatnik Awards in the UK Finalists for Life Sciences - 18 Jan 2023
Papers by researchers at the Gatsby Unit accepted to NeurIPS 2022 - 29 September 2022
Andrew Saxe named Schmidt Science Polymath - 30 June 2022
SWC and the Gatsby Unit receive an Athena Swan Bronze Award - 13 January 2022
Peter Orbanz has been promoted to Professor of Machine Learning - 20 July 2021
Andrew Saxe joins the Gatsby Unit and SWC as Joint Group Leader - 7 June 2021
Grace Lindsay authors new book on modelling the mind with mathematics - 4 March 2021
Papers by researchers at the Gatsby Unit accepted into NeurIPS 2020 - 7 October 2020
UCL joins ELLIS Network -14 September 2020
The Gatsby Unit celebrates its 21st anniversary - 30 August 2019
EVENTS
Events are subject to change. We are currently running our external seminars series in a hybrid format; for updates on the series, please contact Barry Fong (b.fong@ucl.ac.uk) to be added to the mailing list.
- External seminar series
1st February 2023 Francesco Locatello
Ground Floor Seminar Room 25 Howland Street and Zoom
Causal Representation Learning31st Janaury 2023 Ema Perkovic
Ground Floor Seminar Room 25 Howland Street and Zoom
Identifying and estimating causal effects with incomplete causal information.18th January 2023 Boris Hanin
Ground Floor Seminar Room 25 Howland Street and Zoom
Bayesian Interpolation with Deep Linear Networks16th November 2022 Rui Ponte Costa
Ground Floor Seminar Room 25 Howland Street and Zoom
Unlocking efficient credit assignment in the brain9th November 2022 Aldo Pacchiano
Zoom only
Unpacking Reward Shaping: Understanding the Benefits of Reward Engineering on Sample Complexity2nd November 2022 Richard J Samworth
Ground Floor Seminar Room 25 Howland Street and Zoom
Optimal nonparametric testing of Missing Completely At Random, and its connections to compatibility26th October 2022 David Firth
Ground Floor Seminar Room 25 Howland Street and Zoom
Multiple deprivation meets sport climbing: Exponential scores for ranking and weighted indices19th October 2022 Uri Shalit
Ground Floor Seminar Room 25 Howland Street and Zoom
Learning invariant models for out-of-domain generalization: good news and bad news12th October 2022 Sadra Sadeh
Ground Floor Seminar Room 25 Howland Street and Zoom
Perturbative analysis of neural dynamics in brain networks5th October 2022 Samory Kpotufe
Ground Floor Seminar Room 25 Howland Street and Zoom
Tracking Most Significant Changes in Bandits26th September 2022 Mark van Rossum
(Via Zoom)
Energy efficient plasticity14th September 2022 Bhaswar Bhattacharya
(Via Zoom)
Distribution-Free Nonparametric Inference Based on Optimal Transport: Efficiency Lower Bounds and Rank-Kernel Tests2nd September 2022 Eero Simoncelli
Ground Floor Seminar Room 25 Howland Street
Photographic Image Priors in the Era of Machine Learning Eero Simoncelli, NYU & Flatiron Institute31st August 2022
(Postponed Date TBC)Wang Miao
(Via Zoom)
Confounding adjustment for causal inference in observational studies17th August 2022 Weijie Su
(Via Zoom)
When Will You Become the Best Reviewer of Your Own Papers? A Truthful Owner-Assisted Scoring Mechanism6th July 2022 Yashar Ahmadian
Ground Floor Seminar Room 25 Howland Street and Via Zoom
Excitatory-inhibitory balance, normalization, and adaptation30th June 2022 Emmanuel Candès
Ground Floor Seminar Room 25 Howland Street and Via Zoom
Sailing through data: Discoveries and mirages21st June 2022 Misha Ahrens
Ground Floor Seminar Room 25 Howland Street and Via Zoom
Brain-wide computation for navigation, learning, and autonomic control25th May 2022 Srini Turaga
(Via Zoom)
Visual selectivity emerges from connectome and task constraints in the fruit fly visual system18th May 2022 (3pm) Lei Jing
(Via Zoom)
Bias-adjusted spectral clustering in multi-layer stochastic block models20th April 2022 (3pm) Juan Álvaro Gallego
(Via Zoom)
Understanding the emergence of neural population dynamics underlying behaviour6th April 2022 (3pm) Kevin Miller
(Via Zoom)
Structured Reinforcement Learning in the Brain30th March 2022 (3pm) Alberto Bietti
(Via Zoom)
Statistical benefits of convolutional models: a kernel perspective1st March 2022 (3.30pm) Anna Sadnicka
(Via Zoom)
Exploring the feature space and mechanistic bounds of phenotype in movement disorders23rd February 2022 (3pm) Simon Tavaré
(Via Zoom)
Some statistical problems in cancer genome evolution9th February 2022 (3pm) Ann Hermundstad
(Via Zoom)
Design principles of adaptable neural codes26th January 2022 (10am) Zoltan Szabo
(Via Zoom)
When Kernel Machines Meet Shape Constraints12th January 2022 Scott Linderman
(Via Zoom)
Reconciling empirical, algorithmic, and theoretically optimal models of mouse behavior in a time-varying two-armed bandit task8th December 2021 Stefano Ermon
(Via Zoom)
Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution24th November 2021 Jeff Beck
(Via Zoom)
Probabilistic codes and their predictions for neural activity3rd November 2021 Ralf Haefner
(Via Zoom)A perceptual confirmation bias as the result of approximate online hierarchical inference
27th October 2021 (5pm) Marcelo Mattar (5pm)
(Via Zoom)
Prioritized experience replay supports planning and non-local learning.27th October 2021 (10am) Taiji Suzuki (10am)
(Via Zoom)
Optimization and generalization theories of deep learning and its connection to kernel methods20th October 2021 Alison Etheridge
(Via Zoom)
Infinitesimal progress.29th September 2021 Nathan Kallus
(Via Zoom)
Smooth Contextual Bandits8th September 2021 Sam McDougle
(Via Zoom)
Space and time in movement planning and sensorimotor adaptation21st July 2021 Po-Ling Loh
(Via Zoom)
A modern take on Huber regression14th July 2021 Persi Diaconis
(Via Zoom)
Tales from the Trenches of Foundations17th June 2021 Emmanuel Candès
(Via Zoom)
Reliable predictions? Equitable treatment? Some recent progress in predictive inference9th June 2021 Gabrielle Gutierrez
(Via zoom)
Smart compression in the retina: a theoretical study of recoding inputs in neural circuits2nd June 2021 Morgane Austern
(Via zoom)
Asymptotics of cross-validation12th May 2021 Helen Barron
(Via zoom)
Neuronal computation underlying inferential reasoning in humans and mice29th April 2021 Puneet Dokania
(Via zoom)
Impact of Parameter Regularization and Overfitting in Neural Network's Robustness.27th April 2021 Christopher Tosh
(Via zoom)
Doing more with less: Machine learning with precious data21st April 2021 Gabriel Koch Ocker
(Via zoom)
Decomposition of higher-order correlations by nonlinear Hebbian learning.24th March 2021 Ilija Bogunovic
(Via zoom)
Robust Learning Algorithms for Sequential Decision Making15th March 2021 Wei Hu
(Via zoom)
Opening the Black Box: Towards Theoretical Understanding of Deep Learning10th March 2021 (10am) Volkan Cevher
(Via zoom)
Limits of Robbins-Monro-type algorithms: From minimization to minimax optimization23rd February 2021 Tuan-Anh Le
(Via zoom)
Building AI with Neuro-Symbolic Generative Modeling10th February 2021 Erik Bodin
(Via Zoom)
Black-box density function estimation using recursive partitioning3rd February 2021 Cristina Savin
(Via zoom)
Task-specific routing of information in neural circuits viastructured noise20th January 2021 Robert Rosenbaum
(Via zoom)
Universal Properties of Strongly Coupled Neuronal Networks13th January 2021 Wuchen Li
(Via Zoom)Innovations in Mean-Field Game Theory for Scalable Computation and Diverse Applications
25th November 2020 Le Song and Xinshi chen
(Via Zoom)
Understanding Deep Architectures with Reasoning Layer11th November 2020 Josh McDermott
(Via Zoom)
Successes and Failures of Neural Network Models of the Auditory System4th November 2020 Alessandro Rudi
(Via Zoom)
Non-parametric Models for Non-negative Functions14th October 2020 (3pm) John Murray
(Via Zoom)
Modeling large-scale dynamics of human cortex16th March 2020 (12.00 - 1pm) Robert Guangyu Yang
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG (12-1pm)
Understanding brains by building artificial networks12th March 2020 Emtiyaz Khan
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG 4pm
TBC9th March 2020 (12.00 - 1pm) Eric Nalisnick
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG (12-1pm)
Building and Critiquing Models for Probabilistic Deep Learning5th March 2020 (2pm) Ahmed El Alaoui
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG (2pm)
Reconstruction problems on amenable graphs4th March 2020 Arnak Dalalyan
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG 4pm
All-In-One Robust Estimator of the Gaussian Mean (arXiv:2002.01432)24th February 2020 (12 - 1pm) Yixin Wang
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG (12-1pm)
The Blessings of Multiple Causes21st February 2020 (12 - 1pm) Yingzhen Li
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG (12-1pm)
Deep probabilistic modelling for reliable machine learning systems26th February 2020 **Cancelled** Mihaela van der Schaar
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG 4pm
**Cancelled**22nd January 2020 Michael Bronstein
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG 4pm
Deep learning on graphs and manifolds: going beyond Euclidean data15th January 2020 (Talk 2) **4pm** Wei Ji Ma (Talk 2)
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG **4pm**
Human planning in large state spaces15th January 2020 (Talk 1) **1pm** Wei Ji Ma (Talk 1)
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG **1pm**
Growing up in Science: Wei Ji Ma's unofficial story8th January 2020 Chand Chandrasekaran
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG 4pm
Single Trial Neural Circuit Dynamics Underlying Perceptual Decision-Making18th December 2019 Irina Gaynanova
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG 4pm
Simultaneous Non-Gaussian Component Analysis (SING) for Data Integration in Neuroimaging11th December 2019 David Freedman
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG 4pm
Neural Circuits of Cognition in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks27th November 2019 Matthew Chalk
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG 4pm
Inferring the function performed by a recurrent neural network20th November 2019 Benjamin Guedj
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG 4pm
A walkthrough of advanced PAC-Bayes results13th November 2019 Omri Barak
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG 4pm
Structure in the randomness of trained recurrent neural networks23rd October 2019 Rajen Shah
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG 4pm
Low-priced lunch in conditional independence testing2nd October 2019 Christian Walder
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG 4pm
New Tricks for Estimating Gradients of Expectations24th September 2019 (Tuesday) Gergely Neu
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG 4pm
A unified view of entropy-regularized Markov decision processes19th September 2019 (Thursday) Emtiyaz Khan
Ground Floor Seminar Room, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG 4pm
Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian Principle- Upcoming workshops
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- Past workshops