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📄 One paper accepted to ICML 2026

Our paper "Empirical Gaussian Processes" was accepted to ICML 2026.

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📄 One paper accepted to AutoML 2025

Our paper "Ax — A Platform for Adaptive Experimentation" was accepted to AutoML 2025 (ABCD Track).

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Louis Tiao
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💼 Joined Meta CAS Adaptive Experimentation

Started as a Research Scientist at Meta on the Adaptive Experimentation team within Central Applied Science (CAS), based in New York City.

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Louis Tiao
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🎓 PhD thesis completed

Submitted my PhD thesis, *Probabilistic Machine Learning in the Age of Deep Learning*, at the University of Sydney.

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PhD Thesis Acknowledgements (Unabridged)

The unabridged acknowledgments from my PhD thesis.

📄 One paper accepted to ICML 2023

Our paper "Spherical Inducing Features for Orthogonally-Decoupled Gaussian Processes" was accepted to ICML2023 as an Oral Presentation!

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Efficient Cholesky decomposition of low-rank updates

We give a short and practical guide to efficiently computing the Cholesky decomposition of matrices perturbed by low-rank updates.

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📄 One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2022

Our paper "Batch Bayesian Optimisation via Density-ratio Estimation with Guarantees", led by Rafael Oliveira, was paper accepted to NeurIPS2022!

📄 One paper accepted to ICML 2021

Our paper "BORE — Bayesian Optimization by Density-Ratio Estimation" was accepted to ICML 2021 as a Long Talk (top 3% of submissions).

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A Primer on Pólya-gamma Random Variables - Part II: Bayesian Logistic Regression

We use one weird trick — Pólya-Gamma augmentation — to make exact inference in Bayesian logistic regression tractable.

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