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Nikolay Malkin

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Algorithms and theory for probabilistic inference and generative modelling: induction of compositional structure in generative models, modelling of posteriors over high-dimensional explanatory variables, and Bayesian neurosymbolic methods for reasoning in language and formal systems.

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  • Bengio, Y., & Malkin, N. (2024). Machine learning and information theory concepts towards an AI mathematician. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 61(3), 457-469.
  • Hu, E. J., Jain, M., Elmoznino, E., Kaddar, Y., Lajoie, G., Bengio, Y., & Malkin, N. (2024). Amortizing intractable inference in large language models. The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations.
  • Lahlou, S., Deleu, T., Lemos, P., Zhang, D., Volokhova, A., Hernández-Garcı́a, A., Ezzine, L.N., Bengio, Y. & Malkin, N.. (2023). A theory of continuous generative flow networks. Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 202:18269-18300.

Institution

University of Edinburgh

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School of Informatics

Education

  • Ph.D. (Mathematics), Yale University
  • M.S. (Mathematics), Yale University
  • B.S. (Mathematics), University of Washington

Country

United Kingdom

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