Aug 2025
We are exited to see the 3rd edition of Analytical Connectionism taking place at UCL (London, UK) with the goal of connecting bias in ML, neuroscience, and psychology! Three members of the group will be there: Chenxiao (as attendee), Flavio (as TA), and Stefano (as organiser).
Aug 2025
Flavio and Stefano we will be in Cargese (France) for the Statistical Physics & Machine Learning: moving forward event. Flavio will present the work on the Vector Hopfield model, while Stefano will talk about bias propagation and amplification in AI.
Jul 2025
Stefano we will be speaking about the dynamics of bias in the 6th Youth in High-Dimensions Workshop at ICTP (Trieste, Italy).
May 2025
Next week, on May 26th-27th, we will host the Workshop in Advancements in High-Dimensional Methods for Machine Learning. We are looking forward to the event!
Apr 2025
Great news! Stefano will present the work on bias propagation and amplification at the ICLR Workshop on Spurious Correlation and Shortcut Learning!
Apr 2025
Save the date! Stefano and Flavio organised two events on statistical physics of learning here in Gothenburg! This is unfortunately a late announcement for the first event (it was on April 1st), but there is still time to join us for our Workshop in Advancements in High-Dimensional Methods for Machine Learning on May 26-27.
Apr 2025
We are very happy to meet with the local cognitive science community at the G-Cog Seminar Series. Stefano will talk about our recent work accepted to CogSci conference on curriculum learning and what modern ML theory can tell us about it.
Mar 2025
Stefano will talk about our work on learning with prior experience and in particular optimal control in continual learning at the workshop AI for active matter - From plankton to robots.
Mar 2025
Great news! Stefano has been nominated Visiting Lecturer at Wits University. While this collaboration with Wits is older, it is nice to see it formally recognised. Stefano and the CAandL Lab, are organising a master-level course on ML theory for year 2026!
Mar 2025
It is a great pleasure to meet the statistical physics community of the Nordic countries at the Nordic Workshop on Statistical Physics. Stefano will talk about how StatPhys tools can shed lights on ML problems and in particular about how we can understand bias generation and amplification in ML.
Feb 2025
Application for the 3rd edition of Analytical Connectionism! This time we are back to London from Aug 25th to Sep 5th. Application deadline on April 18th.
Jan 2025
Great news! We got two papers accepted at ICLR 2025:: 1. On optimal control theory applied to statphys models, and 2. On the impact of initialisation in representation learning.
Dec 2024
Stefano will present our NeurIPS paper on bias dynamics at the FAIMI Workshop this week!
Nov 2024
Back to Cognitive Science. Stefano will present this aspect of our research at the workshop At the Crossroads of AI and Cognitive Science, here at Chalmers!
Nov 2024
We are very excited about this year's Nobel Prizes (and Physics' one in particular)! Stefano and Devdatt Dubhashi will discuss them in an upcoming Colloquium here in Gothenburg. Join us!
Nov 2024
In Paris, Stefano will speak at the Informal workshop on the problem of Class Imbalance. Looking forward to discussing ideas and starting new projects!
Oct 2024
Stefano will speak at the CHAIR Structured Learning Workshop.
Oct 2024
Exciting news! Congratulations to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for winning the 2024 Nobel Prize! As part of this community, we can’t help but feel a sense of pride and joy. In these two articles, we discuss the achievement with colleagues both at our division and at GU.
Sept 2024
Our paper on bias evolution under SGD dynamics (preprint here) has been accepted to NeurIPS 2024! Congrats everyone and especially Anchit Jain for leading the project!
Sept 2024
This the start of the group! Stefano in today starting in Chalmers as Assistent Professor!
Aug 2024
Today starts the new edition of Analytical Connectionism at the Flatiron Institute in NYC. We have a great set of speakers, TAs and project mentors! Two exciting weeks ahead!
Jul 2024
Our paper on transfer learning, probing the dependance of the best source representation on data abundance and similarity, has been accepted to TMLR! Congrats everybody!
Jul 2024
Excited to announce two available positions: one for a PhD student and one for a Postdoc. Click the links to learn more and apply!
Jun 2024
Delighted that our paper on cognitive fatigue has been accepted to CogSci 2024 as an oral contribution!
May 2024
Last week to apply for the 2nd edition of Analytical Connectionism! Application deadline on Friday 17th.
May 2024
We'll open soon two positions for a Postdoc and a PhD student, stay tuned!
May 2024
ICML decisions are out and we got two papers accepted!
Apr 2024
Stefano is teaching a short lecture series on Statistical Physics of Learning at Wits University.
Mar 2024
Stefano is co-organising the COSYNE Workshop on The geometry & dynamics of learning: Bridging analytical and experimental insights into neural representations.
Feb 2024
Stefano will be visiting Wits University for the next 4 months!
Jan 2024
Stefano is visiting the Department of Computing Sciences of Bocconi University thanks to the UK-Italy Trustworthy AI Visiting Researcher Programme.
Nov 2023
Stefano is in Santa Barbara at UCSB for the next 6 weeks to follow another great KITP program on Deep Learning from the Perspective of Physics and Neuroscience.
Oct 2023
Stefano is co-organising a workshop on Analytical Approaches for Neural Network Dynamics in Paris.