congratulations to Paula Cordero Encinar, Francesca Romana Crucinio and O. Deniz Akyildiz (@odakyildiz.bsky.social‬) for winning the 🏆 Best Student Paper Award 🏆 at #UAI2025 with

"Proximal Interacting Particle Langevin Algorithms"

👉 openreview.net/forum?id=rTq...

Late - but better than never.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrPy...

Hi, many thanks for interest. It is a bit late to arrange for online registration - but I will investigate if we can record the talks. I'll keep you posted about this if we could do it - so it could be made online later.

Luca (Martino) once told me (when I said "MCMC does not have weights") that this is incorrect (in his Sicilian style): When you reject in MCMC, you increase the weight of the current sample. Chains do have replicates, can be written like a weighted sample. High rejection rate *is* weight degeneracy.

this warms my heart as a telecom engineer :)

Correct at the moment we have not set up an online registration option...

Indeed, this is a great question. In the averaging setting, this seems to help at various stages of the proof - but I think, in the settings I think of (where slow and fast system has the same drift), one should be able to get away with usual conditions to prove similar stuff...

Great stuff indeed