antonio vergari ⚔️ short-circuiting

we are!
we play tractable punk

Many thanks for the best paper award at the #TPM workshop!

then on The Workshop on Causal Abstractions and Representations #CAR25

sites.google.com/view/car-25/

likely one of the best editions of #TPM ever!

big thanks to @poorvagarg.bsky.social @jsleland.bsky.social @javaloyml.bsky.social @zzhe.bsky.social @lennertds.bsky.social Lingyun Yao and Christoph Staudt for organizing it

and to everyone who attended it!

from the memories from Rio, when with @leanderk.bsky.social and @paolomorettin.bsky.social we were on the beach wondering if to use the Best Student Paper Runner-up Award as a surfing board.

*owe

a huge thanks to @rmassidda.it who not only flawlessly managed to update the #UAI2025 website, but also wrote an amazing pipeline (with docker!) from scratch to do so.

All future publicity chairs will own Riccardo!

The faces behind the @auai.org PR machine and cameras:
@nolovedeeplearning.bsky.social @rmassidda.it

and to @leanderk.bsky.social @paolomorettin.bsky.social Roberto Sebastiani, @andreapasserini.bsky.social @nolovedeeplearning.bsky.social
for the ✨Best Student Paper Runner Up Award✨ for

"A Probabilistic Neurosymbolic Layer for Algebraic Constraint Satisfaction"

👉 openreview.net/forum?id=9Uk...

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...

congratulations to Frédéric Koriche, Jean-Marie Lagniez and Chi Tran for winning the 🏆 Best Paper Award 🏆 at #UAI2025 for

"Probabilistic Explanations for Regression Models"

👉 openreview.net/forum?id=ipn...

presentations from the oral session #1 on learning

www.auai.org/uai2025/sche...

a big thanks to our sponsors!

Huawei, Google, AI journal, DE Shaw & co and ‪@cnpq-oficial.bsky.social‬

and to our chairs @smaglia.bsky.social @csilviavr.bsky.social and Daniel Ratton Figueiredo

✨ our General chair Negar Kiyavash and Program chairs @csilviavr.bsky.social and @smaglia.bsky.social kicking off Day 2 ✨

First #UAI2025 keynote by Francesca Dominici (hsph.harvard.edu/profile/fran...) on

"""
Uncertainty in AI: Solution or Obstacle for Climate Action?
"""

I love the #eurips initiative! But to live up to its potential, it should be accepted an official #neurips conference location (similar to Mexico City) and not just an addon! Then we would save C02, rather than adding to it!!! What can we do to achieve this?

Enjoyed co presenting this tutorial at #uai2025 in Brazil with Yingzhen Li! Enjoyed the conference size and location.
Also great company, weather, and food.

and

"Modern Approximate Inference: Variational Methods and Beyond"

by Diana Cai (Flatiron Institute) and Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London)

"""
This is the best conference swag I've ever seen!
"""

@yjchoi1.bsky.social on the local coffee bag we give each participant

time for our mentoring session!

where young researchers can ask more experienced ones about how to navigate academia, conferences, work in industry and more!

Moderated by Eli Carrami and Isabela Albuquerque (virtual)

Panel: @cassiodecampos.bsky.social @sabinasloman.bsky.social Yingzhen Li

here we go with the very first coffee break! ☕
no one can resist these delicious Brazilian snacks 🇧🇷

a nice morning crowd attending

(we will release the slides in the afternoon, so also you can have an indirect look at the tutorials)

and

"Counterfactuals in Minds and Machines"

by ‪@tobigerstenberg.bsky.social‬ (Stanford), ‪@autreche.bsky.social‬ (MPI SS) and ‪@stratiss.bsky.social‬ (MPI SS)

time to educate the #UAI2025 crowd on

"Hyperparameter Optimization and Algorithm Selection: Practical Techniques, Theory, and New Frontiers"

by Dravyansh Sharma (TTIC)

a huge thank you to our amazing volunteers 💙
working relentlessly to make the conference go smooth!

www.auai.org/uai2025/volu...

Welcome to Rio 🇧🇷!

While we start, enjoy the sun, our local coffee swag ☕ and our upcoming five tutorials for the day (www.auai.org/uai2025/tuto...) 💙

stay tuned!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our work! If you missed it and want to know more, just drop me a message! #ICML2025

@neuripsconf.bsky.social is physical presence mandatory?

by applying a QR decomposition, any matrix can be written as a QR code multiplied by an upper triangular matrix

here's my modest proposal to fix the broken system of publishing & citation hype 👇

to submit a paper, each author has to pay with a number of their citations, once paid, these citations are gone.

Here is the pay list, as a percentage of their citations:

- students: 5%
- postdocs: 10%
- profs: 15%