A retrospective on the 2025 SBI Hackathon
You walk into a bakery, take one bite of a still-warm pastry, and think: βWhoa - thereβs rye flour, a hint of orange zest, maybe cardamomβ¦ and is that buckwheat honey?β From that single taste you begi...
Sharing this here a bit late, but @vstaros.bsky.social and I wrote a little something about our experience contributing to the @sbi-devs.bsky.social (simulation-based inference) hackathon. @mlcolab.org @mackelab.bsky.social
We were obviously very hungry while writing.
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My first paper on simulation-based inference (SBI) as part of @mackelab.bsky.social!
Exciting work on adapting state-of-the-art foundation models for posterior estimation. Almost plug-and-play, and surprisingly effective.
Paper/code in thread below π§΅
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I have been genuinely amazed how well tabpfn works as a density estimator, and how helpful this is for SBI ... Great work by @vetterj.bsky.social, Manuel and @danielged.bsky.social!!
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A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI
Information technology is in the midst of a revolution in which omnipresent data collection and machine learning are impacting the human world as never before. The word "intelligence" is being used as...
What if AI isnβt about building solo geniuses, but designing social systems?
Michael Jordan advocates blending ML, economics, and uncertainty management to prioritize social welfare over mere prediction.
A must-read rethink.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.062...
13.07.2025 13:10 β π 36 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0
The members of the Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science" raise their glasses and celebrate securing another funding period.
We're super happy: Our Cluster of Excellence will continue to receive funding from the German Research Foundation @dfg.de ! Hereβs to 7 more years of exciting research at the intersection of #machinelearning and science! Find out more: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... #ExcellenceStrategy
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Jobs - mackelab
The MackeLab is a research group at the Excellence Cluster Machine Learning at TΓΌbingen University!
πHiring now! π§ Join us at the exciting intersection of ML and Neuroscience! #AI4science
Weβre looking for PhDs, Postdocs and Scientific Programmers that want to use deep learning to build, optimize and study mechanistic models of neural computations. Full details: www.mackelab.org/jobs/ 1/5
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Compositional simulation-based inference for time series
Amortized simulation-based inference (SBI) methods train neural networks on simulated data to perform Bayesian inference. While this strategy avoids the need for tractable likelihoods, it often requir...
Excited to present our work on compositional SBI for time series at #ICLR2025 tomorrow!
If you're interested in simulation-based inference for time series, come chat with Manuel Gloeckler or Shoji Toyota
at Poster #420, Saturday 10:00β12:00 in Hall 3.
π°: arxiv.org/abs/2411.02728
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π Exciting news! We are lauching an sbi office hour!
Join the sbi developers Thursdays 09:45-10:15am CET via Zoom (link: sbi Discord's "office hours" channel).
Get guidance on contributing, explore sbi for your research, or troubleshoot issues. Come chat with us! π€
github.com/sbi-dev/sbi/...
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Jens SjΓΆlund giving the opening remarks for the LoG meetup
Audience of the LoG meetup
Poster session at the LoG meetup
Organizing team of the LoG meetup
This week, we had the pleasure of hosting Swedenβs first @logconference.bsky.social meetup at Uppsala University! Over two days, we brought together researchers and industry professionals working at the intersection of machine learning, graphs, and geometry.
14.02.2025 09:32 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Ok, so I can finally talk about this!
We spent the last year (actually a bit longer) training an LLM with recurrent depth at scale.
The model has an internal latent space in which it can adaptively spend more compute to think longer.
I think the tech report ...π¦ββ¬
10.02.2025 16:47 β π 23 π 7 π¬ 1 π 1
1) Some exciting science in turbulent times:
How do mice distinguish self-generated vs. object-generated looming stimuli? Our new study combines VR and neural recordings from superior colliculus (SC) π§ π to explore this question.
Check out our preprint doi.org/10.1101/2024... π§΅
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π Please help us improve the SBI toolbox! π
In preparation for the upcoming SBI Hackathon, weβre running a user study to learn what you like, what we can improve, and how we can grow.
π Please share your thoughts here: forms.gle/foHK7myV2oaK...
Your input will make a big differenceβthank you! π
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π Join the 4th SBI Hackathon! π
The last SBI hackathon was a fantastic milestone in forming a collaborative open-source community around SBI. Be part of it this year as we build on that momentum!
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March 17β21, 2025
π TΓΌbingen, Germany or remote
π Details: github.com/sbi-dev/sbi/...
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Ruoqi Zhang, Ziwei Luo et al. Entropy-regularized diffusion policy with q-ensembles for offline reinforcement learning.
Poster #6305 (West; Wed 11 Dec 11PT)
10.12.2024 16:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
From my PhD group:
Sofia Ek, and Dave Zachariah. Externally Valid Policy Evaluation from Randomized Trials Using Additional Observational Data.
Poster #6609 (West; Wed 11 Dec 4.30PT)
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Check out all three NeurIPS papers from our lab! Cool stuff from simulating neural data to source distribution estimation.
Also, great work from my PhD group: papers on (1) generalizable policy evaluations from trial data and (2) entropy-regularized diffusion policies for RL.
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@mackelab.bsky.social is always well represented and there to entertain
05.12.2024 07:39 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Congrats, so well deserved! π₯³
Curious what will come out of the lab!!
28.11.2024 11:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
sbi reloaded: a toolkit for simulation-based inference workflows
Scientists and engineers use simulators to model empirically observed phenomena. However, tuning the parameters of a simulator to ensure its outputs match observed data presents a significant challeng...
The sbi package is growing into a community project π 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 π Check it out, and reach out if you want to get involved: arxiv.org/abs/2411.17337
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TΓΌbingen AI
Join the conversation
Here's a fledgling starter pack for the AI community in TΓΌbingen. Let me know if you'd like to be added!
go.bsky.app/NFbVzrA
19.11.2024 13:14 β π 24 π 13 π¬ 18 π 0
You can already find many from our group here.
@jakhmack.bsky.social @rdgao.bsky.social @deismic.bsky.social @auschulz.bsky.social @matthijspals.bsky.social @jkapoor.bsky.social @gmoss13.bsky.social
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Let's start this blue journey π¦
I recently started as a postdoc in AI for science in TΓΌbingen at @mackelab.bsky.social. I will focus on model discovery, but I am more broadly interested in developing ML methods for science for some hopeful breakthroughs!
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