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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 02/02/2026

I wrote a long, detailed blog post on the state of AI and machine learning. The post's purpose is to sharpen my thinking and help ensure I work on the right things over the next few years. You might find parts of it interesting. Comments are welcome. avt.im/blog/where-a...

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 05/12/2025

After a delayed flight and missing my first poster, I have officially arrived at NeurIPS! I’ll present another poster tomorrow at CDE 606 from 11-2. I’ll post more on this soon. If you’re interested in meeting up, let’s get in touch!

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 26/10/2025

Today, I gave a talk at the INFORMS Job Market Showcase! If you're interested, here are the slides - link below! presentations.avt.im/2025-10-26-A...

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 29/09/2025

Paper update: our recent work on Thompson sampling has a shiny new - and I hope much better - name! This new name does much better job of emphasizing what we actually do. Joint work with Jeff Negrea. Thread below!

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 02/06/2025

This week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty is happening now! Noémie Jaquier (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) On Riemannian Latent Variable Models and Pullback Metrics Livestream link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Be...

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 30/05/2025

We've got a major update to our preprint on adversarial regret guarantees for Thompson sampling! As before, I think this is one of the most important projects I've worked on due to new algorithmic primitives that it - in principle - unlocks. Thread below on what's new!

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 29/05/2025

We’d like to announce next week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty! Noémie Jaquier (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) On Riemannian Latent Variable Models and Pullback Metrics Sign-up link: gp-seminar-series.github.io

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 26/05/2025

This week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty is happening now! Marvin Pförtner (University of Tübingen) Computation-Aware Kalman Filtering and Smoothing YouTube livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tG2...

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 23/05/2025

We’d like to announce next week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty! Marvin Pförtner (University of Tübingen) Computation-Aware Kalman Filtering and Smoothing Sign-up link: gp-seminar-series.github.io

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 19/05/2025

This week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty is happening now! Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London) On "Modernising" Sparse Gaussian Processes YouTube livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbGW...

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 14/05/2025

We’d like to announce next week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty! Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London) On Modernising Sparse Gaussian Processes Sign-up link below!

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 12/05/2025

This week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty is happening now! Sebastian Ament (Meta) Unexpected Improvements to Expected Improvement for Bayesian Optimization YouTube livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B71O...

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 07/05/2025

We’d like to announce next week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty! Sebastian Ament (Meta) Unexpected Improvements to Expected Improvement for Bayesian Optimization Sign-up link: gp-seminar-series.github.io

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 05/05/2025

This week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty is happening now! Paul Jensen (University of Michigan) Exploring phenotypes and genotypes with a robot scientist YouTube livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJQ2...

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 01/05/2025

We’d like to announce next week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty! Paul Jensen (University of Michigan) Exploring phenotypes and genotypes with a robot scientist Sign-up link below! gp-seminar-series.github.io

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 14/04/2025

This week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty is happening now! Qian Xie (Cornell University) Cost-aware Bayesian Optimization via the Pandora's Box Gittins Index www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IT... gp-seminar-series.github.io

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 09/04/2025

We’d like to announce next week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty! Qian Xie (Cornell) Cost-aware Bayesian Optimization via the Pandora's Box Gittins Index Sign-up link here: gp-seminar-series.github.io

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 07/04/2025

This week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty is happening now! Frank Hutter (University of Freiburg) Accurate predictions on small data (and time series) with the tabular foundation model TabPFN YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOXK... gp-seminar-series.github.io

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 02/04/2025

We’d like to announce next week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty! Frank Hutter · University of Freiburg Accurate predictions on small data (and time series) with the tabular foundation model TabPFN Sign-up link below! gp-seminar-series.github.io

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 15/12/2024

At the NeurIPS optimization workshop. In my opinion, the “most creative poster design” award should go to these folks:

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 14/12/2024

The NeurIPS Workshop on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty has started - our first talk is by @mvdw.bsky.social! Join us at East Meeting Room 8, 15, or online!

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 11/12/2024

We've updated the schedule for the NeurIPS Workshop for Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty - it now includes all the talk titles! Check it out! Looking forward to seeing everyone on Saturday! gp-seminar-series.github.io/neurips-2024/

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 14/11/2024

Technical content time! Our two-part foundational series of papers on stationary kernels and Gaussian processes on Lie groups and homogeneous spaces is now published at JMLR! If you want to know the geometric roots of phenomena in kernels and Fourier features - with pretty pictures - check it out!

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · 10/11/2024

ML theory/methods folks: have you found ChatGPT useful as a substitute for Google search for technical questions in cases where Google doesn't give the answer? It has not worked well for me. Example below. Please reply if it has worked for you, with what you did so I can learn!

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