Archive for Bayesian computational methods
Bayes on the Beach 2026 (University of Wollongong, NSW, 9-11 Feb.)
Posted in Kids, Mountains, pictures, R, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags Australia, Bayes on the Beach, Bayesian computational methods, Bayesian statistics, beach, BoB, collaborative workshop, conference, Dharawal language, Grand Pacific Drive, Illawarra escarpment, New South Wales, Pacific Ocean, Queensland University of Technology, QUT, University of Wollongong on September 18, 2025 by xi'an
off to Singapore (BayesComp 2025)
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags AF256, BayesComp 2023, BayesComp 2025, Bayesian computational methods, conference, flight mode, Indian food, ISBA, Malay food, NUS, Singapore on June 16, 2025 by xi'an
registration open for BayesComp 2025
Posted in pictures, R, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags 1⁰ North, BayesComp 2025, Bayesian computational methods, ISBA, National University Singapore, NUS, poster session, registration, satellite workshop, Singapore, South East Asia on January 29, 2025 by xi'an
The registration for the incoming, exciting, Bayes Comp 2025 conference (and its satellites) is now open, including information regarding accommodations for the conference. Early bird rates run till 15 March. Furthermore, the call for contributed talks is open till 17 February.
IISA 2024
Posted in Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Bayes factor, Bayesian bootstrap, Bayesian computational methods, Bayesian GANs, Bayesian lasso, Bayesian nonparametrics, betel nut, BNP, Cochin University of Science and Technology, difference in differences model, EM algorithm, IISA 2024, India, insufficient statistic, ISI, Kerala, Kochi, privacy, random walk, Wasserstein distance on January 12, 2025 by xi'an
The IISA 2024 conference was held at the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), where talks and posters took place. Among the sessions I attended, I attended a talk on colliding random walks that made three or more impossible in the limit, missed the only privacy talk that I could have attended by Vinayak Rao for indulging into a dawnish swimming session in the very decent hotel pool. In the first session I organised, loosely connected with BNP, Antonietta Mira presented a recent work on predicting EU carbon compensation rates, using a information imbalance rank substitute to correlation that could prove quite interesting in privacy settings, albeit no invariant to reparameterisations (with potential connections with Wasserstein distances), Sonia Petrone gave an overview on her substantial amount of work on empirical Bayes in Bayes (EBIB), making me wonder at natural ABC or EM ways to bypass the computation of the empirical Bayes hyperparameter computation (but also on measuring the overfitting degree of EBIB-ing), maybe exploiting the representation of the marginal as an average of predictive, and Debdeep Pati argued towards an interpretable and robust ML, using for estimation divergence a mixture of two KL’s that is remindful of GANs (as well as of Lasso and exponentially tilted empirical likelihood à la Chib & al.), implemented by a form of Bbootstrap. Plus enjoying a locally flavoured acronym, namely BETEL.
The second session I organised was centred on Bayesian computations, with both Sid Chib and Ritabrata Dutta (U Warwick) presenting a Bayesian modelling of difference-in-difference models in clinical trials and several works on (score based) generalized Bayes models with Shreya Roy (U Warwick), who further won a poster prize at IISA 2024. I terminated the session with a talk on our insufficient Gibbs sampler, which connected with some aspects of both Sid’s and Rito’s talks.
As in earlier editions of IISA I attended, the local organisation was most enjoyable, from supportive staff and students, relaxed atmosphere, easy commutes, heaps of great food, and unlimited chai! Plus meeting and listening to participants I had met in these earlier editions. Looking forward the 2026 edition!
2025 Computational Methods in Bayesian Statistics [plus ‘gators]
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags alligators, bats, BayesComp 2020, Bayesian computational methods, Florida, Gainesville, Lake Alice, University of Florida, USA, Winter is coming, workshop on October 30, 2024 by xi'an
My friends from the Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, who beautifully organised BayesComp 2020, are running their annual Statistics Winter Workshop next year on Bayesian computational methods. On 17 and 18 January 2025. (Registration fees are $75 and $200 for students and non-students.) With a diverse range of speaker. I wish I could attend!
