François-Xavier Briol

@fx_briol

Professor of Statistics and Machine Learning @UCL. Interested in computational statistics, machine learning and applications in the sciences & engineering.

London, England fxbriol.github.io Joined March 2015

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François-Xavier Briol @fx_briol May 29

Congratulations Hudson!!!

Zonghao (Hudson) Chen @Hudson19990518 May 28

🚀 New paper at ICML 2026!

For Wasserstein gradient flows with N particles, the cost is N^2 due to interactions.
We reduce the cost from N^2 to N^{1.5}, without sacrificing the quality simulated until convergence.

The key idea is kernel thinning! ✨
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2605.28589
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François-Xavier Briol @fx_briol Apr 27

Taking place today!

François-Xavier Briol @fx_briol Feb 3

The UCL IMSS Annual Lecture will take place on the 27th April with a keynote from @LesterMackey.

The theme is 'Computational Statistics and Machine Learning', and we will have talks from Alessandro Barp, Paula Cordero Encinar & Po-Ling Loh.

imss2026.github.io

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François-Xavier Briol @fx_briol Feb 3

The UCL IMSS Annual Lecture will take place on the 27th April with a keynote from @LesterMackey.

The theme is 'Computational Statistics and Machine Learning', and we will have talks from Alessandro Barp, Paula Cordero Encinar & Po-Ling Loh.

imss2026.github.io

@stats_UCL

François-Xavier Briol @fx_briol Nov 17, 2025

The recording of my talk on 'Multilevel neural simulation-based inference' at the 'One World Approximate Bayesian Inference' seminar series is now available on YouTube.

Link: youtube.com/watch?v=hBWd85…

François-Xavier Briol @fx_briol Aug 28, 2025

Just finished delivering a course on 'Robust and scalable simulation-based inference (SBI)' at Greek Stochastics. This covered an introduction to SBI, open challenges, and some recent contributions from my own group.

The slides are now available here: fxbriol.github.io/pdfs/slides-SB…