Mirco Musolesi
@mircomusolesi.bsky.social
Professor of Computer Science. Machine Intelligence Lab, UCL AI Centre, Department of Computer Science, University College London.
Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Computing | Books
https://www.mircomusolesi.org
Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Computing | Books
https://www.mircomusolesi.org
Rightmove added the strapline “believe it” to its logo. The reference to what an estate agent tells you is clear (don’t).
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Rightmove added the strapline “believe it” to its logo. The reference to what an estate agent tells you is clear (don’t).
More wonders of the natural world. Now some flowers of the plant in my office appear as if suspended in the void. This looks like a “technique” to invite pollinators. Or maybe it is a self-pollinating plant and these flowers contain seeds (?). 1/2
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
More wonders of the natural world. Now some flowers of the plant in my office appear as if suspended in the void. This looks like a “technique” to invite pollinators. Or maybe it is a self-pollinating plant and these flowers contain seeds (?). 1/2
The Singularity is Not Near.
October 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The Singularity is Not Near.
Re the AWS outage, it’s quite cool that the BBC interviewed Ken Birman, who knows a thing or two about distributed systems. 1/2
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Re the AWS outage, it’s quite cool that the BBC interviewed Ken Birman, who knows a thing or two about distributed systems. 1/2
We received the ACM UbiComp 2025 10-Year Impact Award for our paper “Trajectories of Depression: Unobtrusive Monitoring of Depressive States by means of Smartphone Mobility Traces Analysis” co-authored with the great Luca Canzian. Paper here: www.mircomusolesi.org/papers/ubico... #ubicomp2025
October 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
We received the ACM UbiComp 2025 10-Year Impact Award for our paper “Trajectories of Depression: Unobtrusive Monitoring of Depressive States by means of Smartphone Mobility Traces Analysis” co-authored with the great Luca Canzian. Paper here: www.mircomusolesi.org/papers/ubico... #ubicomp2025
New preprint with Charles Westphal and Stephen Hailes: "A Generalized Information Bottleneck Theory of Deep Learning". In this work, we introduce the Generalized Information Bottleneck framework, a synergy-based reformulation of the Information Bottleneck theory. arxiv.org/abs/2509.26327
October 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
New preprint with Charles Westphal and Stephen Hailes: "A Generalized Information Bottleneck Theory of Deep Learning". In this work, we introduce the Generalized Information Bottleneck framework, a synergy-based reformulation of the Information Bottleneck theory. arxiv.org/abs/2509.26327
Received a copy of “The Library of Lost Maps” by my colleague James Cheshire at @uclgeography.bsky.social in the internal mail. Really beautiful (and very interesting) book. Thanks a lot James!
October 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Received a copy of “The Library of Lost Maps” by my colleague James Cheshire at @uclgeography.bsky.social in the internal mail. Really beautiful (and very interesting) book. Thanks a lot James!
For the geeks among you: just discovered the Apple Calculator app has a "Programmer" mode, complete with binary, hex, and related operations.
October 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
For the geeks among you: just discovered the Apple Calculator app has a "Programmer" mode, complete with binary, hex, and related operations.
Wonders of the natural world. I inherited an office cactus from a colleague who left. In a matter of days, out of nothing the cactus has developed a very long stem (with flowers).
September 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Wonders of the natural world. I inherited an office cactus from a colleague who left. In a matter of days, out of nothing the cactus has developed a very long stem (with flowers).
Today Charlie Westphal will present our paper "Feature Selection for Network Intrusion Detection" in the main Research Track of ACM KDD 2025 in Toronto.
Link to the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
#KDD2025
Link to the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
#KDD2025
August 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Today Charlie Westphal will present our paper "Feature Selection for Network Intrusion Detection" in the main Research Track of ACM KDD 2025 in Toronto.
Link to the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
#KDD2025
Link to the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
#KDD2025
Dream jobs and where to find them. linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
June 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Dream jobs and where to find them. linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
Liza Tennant (liza-tennant.github.io) and her #RLDM2025 poster on “Dynamics of Moral Behaviour in Heterogenous Populations of Learning Agents".
Paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
June 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Liza Tennant (liza-tennant.github.io) and her #RLDM2025 poster on “Dynamics of Moral Behaviour in Heterogenous Populations of Learning Agents".
Paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Lorenz Wolf (profiles.ucl.ac.uk/90553-lorenz...) and his #RLDM2025 poster on “Heterogeneous Knowledge for Augmented Modular Reinforcement Learning”.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2306.01158
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2306.01158
June 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Lorenz Wolf (profiles.ucl.ac.uk/90553-lorenz...) and his #RLDM2025 poster on “Heterogeneous Knowledge for Augmented Modular Reinforcement Learning”.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2306.01158
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2306.01158
If you are attending #RLDM2025 in Dublin this week, do not miss the posters by Liza Tennant (liza-tennant.github.io) and Lorenz Wolf (profiles.ucl.ac.uk/90553-lorenz...) showcasing the work of our lab!
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June 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If you are attending #RLDM2025 in Dublin this week, do not miss the posters by Liza Tennant (liza-tennant.github.io) and Lorenz Wolf (profiles.ucl.ac.uk/90553-lorenz...) showcasing the work of our lab!
rldm.org
@rldmdublin2025.bsky.social
rldm.org
@rldmdublin2025.bsky.social
The second call for applications to the CDT in Cyber-Physical Risk is now open. I am offering two projects in the area of AI and cybersecurity. I would be happy to chat about this opportunity if you are interested.
www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...
Closing date: 15 June 2025.
www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...
Closing date: 15 June 2025.
May 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The second call for applications to the CDT in Cyber-Physical Risk is now open. I am offering two projects in the area of AI and cybersecurity. I would be happy to chat about this opportunity if you are interested.
www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...
Closing date: 15 June 2025.
www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...
Closing date: 15 June 2025.
Today our paper with James Rudd-Jones and María Pérez-Ortiz "Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Simulation for Environmental Policy Synthesis" will be presented at the #AAMAS2025 Conference in Detroit.
Time: 2pm ET
Room: Richard
Link to the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12777
@aamasconf.bsky.social
Time: 2pm ET
Room: Richard
Link to the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12777
@aamasconf.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Today our paper with James Rudd-Jones and María Pérez-Ortiz "Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Simulation for Environmental Policy Synthesis" will be presented at the #AAMAS2025 Conference in Detroit.
Time: 2pm ET
Room: Richard
Link to the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12777
@aamasconf.bsky.social
Time: 2pm ET
Room: Richard
Link to the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12777
@aamasconf.bsky.social
Congratulations to Liza Tennant (liza-tennant.github.io) for passing her PhD viva today with a thesis on “Moral Alignment of Agentic AI Systems”! Well done Liza! And thanks to the examiners @jzleibo.bsky.social and John Shawe-Taylor for examining Liza’s dissertation.
May 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Congratulations to Liza Tennant (liza-tennant.github.io) for passing her PhD viva today with a thesis on “Moral Alignment of Agentic AI Systems”! Well done Liza! And thanks to the examiners @jzleibo.bsky.social and John Shawe-Taylor for examining Liza’s dissertation.
Our paper "Partial Information Decomposition for Data Interpretability and Feature Selection" with Charlie Westphal and Steve Hailes will be presented at #AISTAT2025 on Sunday.
Session details: Spot 151 in Session 2 (Sun, May 4).
Link to the paper: openreview.net/attachment?i...
Session details: Spot 151 in Session 2 (Sun, May 4).
Link to the paper: openreview.net/attachment?i...
May 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Our paper "Partial Information Decomposition for Data Interpretability and Feature Selection" with Charlie Westphal and Steve Hailes will be presented at #AISTAT2025 on Sunday.
Session details: Spot 151 in Session 2 (Sun, May 4).
Link to the paper: openreview.net/attachment?i...
Session details: Spot 151 in Session 2 (Sun, May 4).
Link to the paper: openreview.net/attachment?i...
Having been quite interested in the idea of the Animal-AI Olympics (github.com/Kinds-of-Int...) in the past, I am very happy to see that ICLR is colocated with PetExpo this year. #ICLR2025
April 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Having been quite interested in the idea of the Animal-AI Olympics (github.com/Kinds-of-Int...) in the past, I am very happy to see that ICLR is colocated with PetExpo this year. #ICLR2025
This afternoon Liza Tennant will present our paper "Moral Alignment for LLM Agents" at @iclr-conf.bsky.social 2025.
Time: 3pm Singapore time
Location: Hall 3 + Hall 2B #238
Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=MeGDm...
Poster+video: iclr.cc/virtual/2025...
#ICLR2025 #ICLR25
Time: 3pm Singapore time
Location: Hall 3 + Hall 2B #238
Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=MeGDm...
Poster+video: iclr.cc/virtual/2025...
#ICLR2025 #ICLR25
April 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
This afternoon Liza Tennant will present our paper "Moral Alignment for LLM Agents" at @iclr-conf.bsky.social 2025.
Time: 3pm Singapore time
Location: Hall 3 + Hall 2B #238
Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=MeGDm...
Poster+video: iclr.cc/virtual/2025...
#ICLR2025 #ICLR25
Time: 3pm Singapore time
Location: Hall 3 + Hall 2B #238
Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=MeGDm...
Poster+video: iclr.cc/virtual/2025...
#ICLR2025 #ICLR25
Congratulations to Giorgio Franceschelli (giorgiofranceschelli.github.io) for successfully defending his PhD thesis on Deep Reinforcement Learning and AI creativity!
April 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Congratulations to Giorgio Franceschelli (giorgiofranceschelli.github.io) for successfully defending his PhD thesis on Deep Reinforcement Learning and AI creativity!
I am advertising two PhD projects in the area of AI&cybersecurity as part of the new EPSRC CDT in Cyber-Physical Risk at UCL. These are fully-funded PhD studentships starting in September 2025.
Information here: ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...
Closing date: 15 April 2025.
Information here: ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...
Closing date: 15 April 2025.
March 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I am advertising two PhD projects in the area of AI&cybersecurity as part of the new EPSRC CDT in Cyber-Physical Risk at UCL. These are fully-funded PhD studentships starting in September 2025.
Information here: ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...
Closing date: 15 April 2025.
Information here: ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...
Closing date: 15 April 2025.
Our paper with Nayana Dasgupta "Investigating the Impact of Direct Punishment on the Emergence of Cooperation in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Systems" is now out in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
Link to the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Link to the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
March 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Our paper with Nayana Dasgupta "Investigating the Impact of Direct Punishment on the Emergence of Cooperation in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Systems" is now out in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
Link to the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Link to the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Upgraded to Sequoia (always waiting a bit, well, months before updating the OS). I really like redwood forests, but the startup wallpaper is honestly beautiful.
March 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Upgraded to Sequoia (always waiting a bit, well, months before updating the OS). I really like redwood forests, but the startup wallpaper is honestly beautiful.
New paper with Alessandro Staffolani, Victor-Alexandru Darvariu and Paolo Bellavista published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems: "A Cost Aware Adaptive Bike Repositioning Agent Using Deep Reinforcement Learning".
Link to the paper: www.mircomusolesi.org/papers/tist2...
Link to the paper: www.mircomusolesi.org/papers/tist2...
February 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
New paper with Alessandro Staffolani, Victor-Alexandru Darvariu and Paolo Bellavista published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems: "A Cost Aware Adaptive Bike Repositioning Agent Using Deep Reinforcement Learning".
Link to the paper: www.mircomusolesi.org/papers/tist2...
Link to the paper: www.mircomusolesi.org/papers/tist2...