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Blog by Shakir Mohamed, a Research Scientist in Statistical Machine Learning. Bayesian reasoning, variational inference, deep learning, reinforcement learning, AI. South African.
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The next generation of probabilistic machine learning for weather called GenCast is published in @Nature today ?. Amazing to see the collective progress in ML for weather as a field over the last 5 years ..read more
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@DeepIndaba has made significant progress over the last few years. This piece in @techreview paints a great picture of the opportunities and tensions we face ??. And Lots more work for us still ..read more
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LearnLM - our work on AI in Education - is a finalist in this year's @anthemawards which honors mission-driven social impact work. We'd love your vote before the closing date on Oct 31 at 11:59pm PT in these 2 categories ..read more
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We have been busy this month @FAccTConference. We’ve released the Call for Papers - consider submitting your best work in fairness, interpretability, safety, trustworthiness and other topics in sociotechnical AI ?. also see the new contributor Guides ..read more
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Keynote at the AI for Science Summit hosted by Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery. Video TBC. Hello and thank you for having me today. I love coming back to Cambridge so it’s a real treat for me to be here today ..read more
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Keynote for the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023). Links to the Video (requires login till Sep 2023), and Slides (pdf, 30MB). Abstract: This talk talk has a single objective: to advocate for machine learning infused with social ..read more
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Keynote for AISTATS 2023 in Valencia. You can find the slides here. Video coming soon. Abstract: Evaluation in Machine Learning does not always get the attention it deserves. I hope to focus our attention for the time of this talk ..read more
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Keynote at Climate Informatics on 19 April 2023 in Cambridge. Abstract: Generative models are probabilistic models of data that allow easy sampling and exploration of a data distribution using a learned model. In fields, like environment and climate, where access ..read more
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A Talk for the 2021 ICML Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with AI. I am extremely grateful to the organisers for the invitation. This is the text of the talk and also has links to the video. Hello everyone and ..read more
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An Invited Talk for NACCL-HLT 2021, 8 June 2021. I am extremely grateful to the organisers for the invitation, and a special thanks to Prof. Luke Zettlemoyer who hosted the Q&A session that was so much fun. This is the ..read more