News (Archive)

• 2025-10-03 Invited talk at the RIKEN MLxLLM Workshop, Tokyo, Japan.
• 2025-09-19 Two papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025 (one poster, one spotlight). See you in San Diego!
• 2025-07-28 I am attending ICSP 2025 in Paris (invited talk).
• 2025-07-21 I am visiting David Rügamer's group in Munich.
• 2025-06-30 At a closed research meeting in Atami, Japan.
• 2025-06-23 Attending and giving several talks at the 3rd Bayes-Duality Workshop in Tokyo, Japan.
• 2025-06-16 One paper accepted at TMLR and one new preprint available.
• 2025-05-03 I'm attending the AISTATS Conference, Phuket, Thailand.
• 2025-04-21 I'm in Singapore, attending the ICLR Conference, the AABI Workshop, the A*STAR-RIKEN Joint Workshop and visiting Pierre Alquier at ESSEC Business School.
• 2025-04-01 I got promoted to Senior Research Scientist!
• 2025-03-26 Invited Talks at Flatiron Insitute in New York, US.
• 2025-03-24 I am visiting Vector Institute, Toronto, Canada.
• 2025-03-20 Attending a workshop at University of Washington, Seattle, US for a poster presentation.
• 2025-03-05 At an internal RIKEN AIP Retreat near Mt. Fuji, Japan.
• 2025-02-20 Attending the 6th RIKEN AIP Mathematics Seminar in Miura, Japan for an invited talk.
• 2025-01-23 One paper accepted at ICLR 2025: Uncertainty-Aware Decoding with Minimum Bayes' Risk. See you in Singapore!
• 2025-01-10 Two new preprints: How to Weight Multitask Finetuning? and Natural Variational Annealing for Multimodal Optimization.
• 2024-12-04 Invited talk at OCAMI Workshop, Osaka, Japan.
• 2024-11-29 I will be an area chair for ICML 2025.
• 2024-11-18 I am visiting David Rügamer's group at the University of Munich.
• 2024-11-10 Attending the Dagstuhl seminar on Rethinking the Role of Bayesianism in the Age of Modern AI, Wadern, Germany.
• 2024-11-07 Invited talk at the IBIS 2024 Machine Learning Theory workshop, Tokyo, Japan.
• 2024-09-26 I will be an area chair for ICLR and AISTATS 2025.
• 2024-09-25 Invited talk at KAIST in Daejong, Korea.
• 2024-09-12 Invited talks at the Seminar on Advances in Probabilistic Machine Learning (Aalto University) and the Mathematical Optimization Research Seminar (Saarland University).
• 2024-07-21 I am at ICML 2024 in Vienna, Austria for a spotlight poster presentation on our recent work.
• 2024-07-09 I am visiting the Data Science Group at LMU Munich and gave a talk in the Colloquium of the Department of Statistics.
• 2024-07-18 I am visiting Vincent Fortuin's group at Helmholtz AI for an invited talk.
• 2024-07-08 I visited the Computer Vision Group at TU Munich and gave a talk about our recent IVON optimizer.
• 2024-07-01 Invited talk at the 2024 ISBA World Meeting in Venice, Italy.
• 2024-06-12 I am attending the second Bayes-duality workshop in Tokyo, Japan.
• 2024-06-05 Poster presentation at the LAMDA-RIKENAIP joint workshop at Nanjing University, China.
• 2024-06-04 Guest talk at SambaNova Systems on model merging.
• 2024-05-21 Invited talk at a joint symposium of RIKEN AIP and the Italian Institute of Technology.
• 2024-05-14 I am giving a talk at the Weierstraß-Instutit in Berlin and visiting Jia-Jie Zhu's group.
• 2024-05-07 Presenting two posters at ICLR 2024.
• 2024-05-02 Our paper Variational Learning is Effective for Large Deep Networks is accepted at ICML 2024.
• 2024-02-29 New preprint. We show that large models like GPT-2 can be successfully trained and improved using variational learning
• 2024-01-17 Two papers are accepted at ICLR 2024: [Model Merging by Uncertainty-Based Gradient Matching] and [Conformal Prediction via Regression-as-Classification].
• 2023-12-09 Heading off to the NeurIPS conference, see you there!
• 2023-12-08 Invited talk at the Georgia Tech Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar.
• 2023-10-20 One new preprint [Model Merging by Uncertainty-Based Gradient Matching] available!
• 2023-09-22 One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2023. See you in New Orleans in December!
• 2023-09-14 I gave an invited talk at the JST CREST Yoshida Khan Workshop, University of Tokyo.
• 2023-08-24 I will serve as an area chair for AISTATS '24 and ICLR '24.
• 2023-08-01 The ICML 2023 workshop on duality principles was a success! Here are the slides of all talks.
• 2023-07-22 I'll be attending ICML in Hawaii, reach out if you want to catch up or have a chat!
• 2023-05-25 I gave two invited lectures on Bayesian deep learning at UNIST AIGS (Ulsan, Korea) and at SungKyunKwan University (Seoul, Korea).
• 2023-05-24 The deadline for our ICML 2023 workshop on duality principles for modern ML has been extended until May 29th, anywhere on earth.
• 2023-04-07 The call for papers for our ICML 2023 workshop on duality principles for modern ML is out now!
• 2023-04-01 I got promoted, and am now a tenured research scientist at RIKEN. Thanks to all my collaborators who made this possible!
• 2023-03-17 Our workshop on 'Duality Principles in Modern Machine Learning' got accepted at ICML 2023.
• 2023-03-15 I am visiting the Computer Vision Group at TU Munich.
• 2023-03-11 I will be at the joint Vietnam-Japan AI Workshop (April 20 -- April 22), at AISTATS in Valencia (April 25 -- April 28) and at ICLR in Kigali (May 1 -- May 5). Please reach out if you want to meet up for a chat.
• 2023-03-07 I gave a talk at the Optimization and Machine Learning Systems Group, visiting Aurelien Lucci in Basel.
• 2023-02-07 I am giving talks on SAM as an Optimal Relaxation of Bayes at EPFL (March 10) and the Optimization and Machine Learning Workshop in Nuremberg (March 14).
• 2023-02-06 Got top reviewer award (top 10%) for AISTATS '23!
• 2023-01-21 Our paper on SAM as an Optimal Relaxation of Bayes got accepted at ICLR 2023 (notable top-5%).
• 2023-01-20 Our paper on The Lie-Group Bayesian Learning Rule is accepted at AISTATS 2023.
• 2022-12-15 I gave a talk on SAM as an Optimal Relaxation of Bayes at the Optimization, Systems and Control Group at KU Leuven.
• 2022-10-31 I'll be giving talks on Nov 1st, 10:50 - 11:40 JST in the ABI Team Seminar and on Dec 8th, 23:00 - 24:00 JST at the Mathematical Optimization Group in Tübingen. More talks to be announced soon!
• 2022-10-05 New preprint available: SAM as an Optimal Relaxation of Bayes!
• 2022-02-11 Outstanding reviewer award (top 10%) for AISTATS '22.
• 2021-12-05 We won both tracks of the NeurIPS competition on Approximate Inference in Bayesian Deep Learning! I will give a talk at the NeurIPS '21 competition track (Dec. 9th, 6pm GMT) and at the BDL workshop (Dec. 14th, 4:40pm GMT) on our solution.
• 2021-11-08 I have finally relocated to Tokyo! Please reach out if you are interested in collaborations or want to chat about machine learning.
• 2021-10-15 Got outstanding reviewer award (top 8%) for NeurIPS '21!
• 2021-10-01 Excited to be part of the Bayes-Duality project!
• 2021-09-11 Two new papers available.
• 2020-10-20 New homepage is online.
• 2020-08-13 I successfully defended my thesis and completed my PhD at TU Munich. Moving on, I am joining the Approximate Bayesian Inference Team in Tokyo as a postdoc!