Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind | Organiser @DeepIndaba | Machine Learning PhD @CambridgeMLG | 🇿🇦
London, England
Joined July 2009
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I'll be at NeurIPS next week, presenting our work "A Generative Model of Symmetry Transformations." In it, we propose a symmetry-aware generative model that discovers which (approximate) symmetries are present in a dataset, and can be leveraged to improve data efficiency.
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Applications for #DLI2026 are officially OPEN!
We are excited to open applications for the annual meeting of the African machine learning and AI community: The Deep Learning Indaba 2026 in Lagos, Nigeria!
⏳ Deadline: 29 March 2026
Apply here: baobab.deeplearningindaba.co…
👉 Details: deeplearningindaba.com/2026/…
#DLI2026 #Indaba2026
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The countdown to #DLI2026 begins! 🇳🇬 🔥
We are so excited to officially announce the venue and dates for Deep Learning Indaba 2026. This year, we are proud to partner with @pau_nigeria to host the Indaba at their beautiful campus in Lagos, Nigeria. Join us in Lagos for a week of world-class learning, collaboration, and research exchange as we convene the African AI community once again alongside friends and peers from around the world.
📍 Venue: Pan-Atlantic University (PAU), Lagos, Nigeria
🗓️ Dates: 2–7 August 2026
Important Update: All open calls have been extended by 10 days!
Check them out here 👉 deeplearningindaba.com/2026/
🤝 Partner with us: We are inviting sponsors and partners to help make #DLI2026 accessible and impactful. If your organisation is interested, we’d love to hear from you.
💬 A message from our hosts:
"We are super excited that Pan-Atlantic University (PAU) is hosting Deep Learning Indaba 2026, bringing together the global Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence community to our campus, to continue the process of owning and shaping this space. We look forward to welcoming you all."
#DLI2026 #Indaba2026
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Gemini 2.5 Pro is currently making a ton of progress live in finishing Pokémon, lots of fun to watch : )
twitch.tv/gemini_plays_pokem…
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Think you know Gemini? 🤔 Think again.
Meet Gemini 2.5: our most intelligent model 💡 The first release is Pro Experimental, which is state-of-the-art across many benchmarks - meaning it can handle complex problems and give more accurate responses.
Try it now → goo.gle/4c2HKjf
In case you missed it, we extended the submission deadline for AABI 2025! You’ve got until Feb 14th to send us your workshop and proceedings track submissions! Looking forward to seeing you all in Singapore 🇸🇬
Eagerly waiting for #ICLR2025 or #AISTATS2025 results? Are you working on probabilistic #ML, #GenAI, approximate methods, or #UQ?
Then check out #AABI held on Apr 29 co-located with #ICLR2025 + Fast-Track for accepted ICLR/AISTATS submissions -> approximateinference.org
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Eagerly waiting for #ICLR2025 or #AISTATS2025 results? Are you working on probabilistic #ML, #GenAI, approximate methods, or #UQ?
Then check out #AABI held on Apr 29 co-located with #ICLR2025 + Fast-Track for accepted ICLR/AISTATS submissions -> approximateinference.org
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Our call for workshops proposals is still open ! 🌟
Make sure to submit your proposal before the 24th February 2025 👉deeplearningindaba.com/2025/…
#DLI2025
#Indaba2025
🪘Call for workshops proposals🪘
We're looking for proposals to be presented during the DLI annual event in Rwanda this August. Workshops serve as focused forums to discuss emerging research, share novel ideas, and encourage active engagement across the African AI community.
We welcome all areas of machine learning and AI including but not limited to: Trustworthy AI, Generative models, NLP and Reinforcement Learning.
For more details, check 👉deeplearningindaba.com/2025/…
Make sure to submit your proposal before the 24th February 2025 !
#DLI2025
#Indaba2025
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The deadlines for the proceedings track and workshop track have both been delayed to *Feb 14th* (approximateinference.org/).
Looking forward to seeing people's work in probabilistic ML and approximate inference, and chatting with people in Singapore!
Eagerly waiting for #ICLR2025 or #AISTATS2025 results? Are you working on probabilistic #ML, #GenAI, approximate methods, or #UQ?
Then check out #AABI held on Apr 29 co-located with #ICLR2025 + Fast-Track for accepted ICLR/AISTATS submissions -> approximateinference.org
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Submit your work to the 7th Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference! #AABI
This year, #AABI will be co-located with #ICLR2025!
Workshop Track: February 7, AoE
Proceedings Track: February 7, AoE
Fast Track: February 18 / March 14, AoE
approximateinference.org/cal…
James Allingham retweeted
Eagerly waiting for #ICLR2025 or #AISTATS2025 results? Are you working on probabilistic #ML, #GenAI, approximate methods, or #UQ?
Then check out #AABI held on Apr 29 co-located with #ICLR2025 + Fast-Track for accepted ICLR/AISTATS submissions -> approximateinference.org
Apart from our non-archival Workshop Track, we also have a Proceedings Track published by PMLR through the @JmlrOrg 🔥
In case you already present something related at @iclr_conf or @aistats_conf, consider submitting your paper to our Fast Track 🚀
Our great team of chairs and advisory committee are looking forward to your submission @akristiadi7 @canaesseth @davidruegamer.bsky.social @liyzhen2 @ruqi_zhang @siddharthswar @StephanMandt @timrudner @vincefort
James Allingham retweeted
🪘Call for workshops proposals🪘
We're looking for proposals to be presented during the DLI annual event in Rwanda this August. Workshops serve as focused forums to discuss emerging research, share novel ideas, and encourage active engagement across the African AI community.
We welcome all areas of machine learning and AI including but not limited to: Trustworthy AI, Generative models, NLP and Reinforcement Learning.
For more details, check 👉deeplearningindaba.com/2025/…
Make sure to submit your proposal before the 24th February 2025 !
#DLI2025
#Indaba2025
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Highly recommend people consider participating and/or sponsoring! Looking forward to my third Indaba.
AI has such tremendous potential to help Africa/Africans + this is the place to go/support if that is important to you (which it should be!).
Rwanda here we go ! 🇷🇼
We are excited to announce that the Deep Learning Indaba 2025 annual event will be back for its 7th edition taking place in Kigali, Rwanda from the 17th to 22nd of August, 2025 at @Uni_Rwanda. 🌍✨
As always, our team is hard at work crafting our amazing gathering packed with inspiring talks, interactive workshops, and incredible opportunities to connect with our African AI community.
The applications launch is just around the corner! Stay tuned and don’t miss out—follow us on our social media channels and visit our official website for the latest updates: 👉 deeplearningindaba.com/2025/ 🚀
#DLI2025
#Indaba2025
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🎉Announcing... the 2024 TMLR Outstanding Certifications! (aka, our "best paper" awards!)
Are you bursting with anticipation to see what they are? Well Twitter link down-weighting requires us to keep you in suspense, so read down-thread to see what they are!! 🎉🧵👇1/n
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If you are interested in doing a #PhD with me at Imperial College London and qualify as a home student, please reach out (before end of 2024)! Potential topics: spatial statistics, deep generative models, probabilistic programming and more.
I'll keep this thread short, but if you are interested in chatting further please get in touch or visit the poster at NeurIPS on Fri 13 Dec at 4:30 p.m. PST (East Exhibit Hall A-C #3710)
Here are a few diagrams more diagrams from the paper to tempt you!
A big shoutout to all of my amazing collaborators who made this paper happen! @kayembruno @shreyaspadhy @JaviAC7 @DavidSKrueger Richard Turner @eric_nalisnick @jmhernandez233
This project was 2 years from conception to publication, but I am very excited about the result!