Louis Sharrock
Lecturer (Assistant Prof) in Statistical Science at UCL.
Previously Postdoc @ Lancaster Uni, PhD @ Imperial College London, MA @ Cambridge Uni.
Interested in computational stats, probabilistic ML, optimisation.
Website: louissharrock.github.io
- Reposted by Louis SharrockThe UCL IMSS Annual Lecture will take place on the 27th April with a keynote from @lestermackey.bsky.social. The theme is 'Computational Statistics and Machine Learning' and we'll have talks from Alessandro Barp, Paula Cordero Encinar & Po-Ling Loh. imss2026.github.io @statisticsucl.bsky.social
- Reposted by Louis SharrockSome fun news: We're hiring! Lectureship (analogous to Assistant Prof.) in Statistical Science and AI, in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol. Closing date 13 October 2025; link below! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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- Exciting to see our ICML 2024 spotlight on Sequential Neural Score Estimation feature in OpenAI’s PaperBench! openai.com/index/paperb...
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- Reposted by Louis SharrockA touch of self-advertisement: I'll be giving a research talk next Tuesday at the Online Monte Carlo Seminar (sites.google.com/view/monte-c...) on one of my favourite topics: the convergence properties of the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm. Please join us!
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- Very interesting stuff!
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- Reposted by Louis Sharrock🔊 Super excited to announce the first ever Frontiers of Probabilistic Inference: Learning meets Sampling workshop at #ICLR2025 @iclr-conf.bsky.social! 🔗 website: sites.google.com/view/fpiwork... 🔥 Call for papers: sites.google.com/view/fpiwork... more details in thread below👇 🧵
- Missed this when it dropped earlier in the week but looks like a v interesting read (+ answers a long standing open question relating to SVGD): arxiv.org/abs/2412.10295
- Reposted by Louis SharrockOne #postdoc position is still available at the National University of Singapore (NUS) to work on sampling, high-dimensional data-assimilation, and diffusion/flow models. Applications are open until the end of January. Details: alexxthiery.github.io/jobs/2024_di...
- Reposted by Louis SharrockThe slides of my NeurIPS lecture "From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges - Generative Modeling meets Optimal Transport" can be found here drive.google.com/file/d/1eLa3...
- Looks very nice: arxiv.org/abs/2412.07877
- Massive congrats to Jack Simons for passing his PhD Viva today 🎉🎉🎉 His thesis is entitled: “Simulation-Based Inference Using Contemporary Generative Methods”. Jack was supervised by Dr Song Liu and Prof Mark Beaumont at Bristol Uni with a helping hand from me at points along the way.
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- Looks like an excellent event!
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- Very cool stuff!
- Looks like a nice (& concise) paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.01952
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- Reposted by Louis SharrockThe sbi package is growing into a community project 🌍 To reflect this and the many algorithms, neural nets, and diagnostics that have been added since its initial release, we have written a new software paper 📝 Check it out, and reach out if you want to get involved: arxiv.org/abs/2411.17337
- Somehow missed this when it popped up last week, looks very nice: arxiv.org/abs/2411.15067
- Reposted by Louis SharrockAnne Gagneux, Ségolène Martin, @quentinbertrand.bsky.social Remi Emonet and I wrote a tutorial blog post on flow matching: dl.heeere.com/conditional-... with lots of illustrations and intuition! We got this idea after their cool work on improving Plug and Play with FM: arxiv.org/abs/2410.02423
- Very cool stuff: arxiv.org/abs/2411.17668
- Looks very interesting: arxiv.org/abs/2411.17084
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