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We do research in both theoretical machine learning, as well as applications of machine learning in various domains, including medical, astronomy, autonomous driving, and more.

Recent publications:
01/2024: "Machine learning for functional protein design" (Pascal Notin, Nathan Rollins, Yarin Gal, Chris Sander, Debora Marks).
01/2024: "Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI" (Katja Grace, Harlan Stewart, Julia Fabienne Sandkühler, Stephen Thomas, Ben Weinstein-Raun, Jan Brauner).
01/2024: "Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training" (Evan Hubinger, Carson Denison, Jesse Mu, Mike Lambert, Meg Tong, Monte MacDiarmid, Tamera Lanham, Daniel M Ziegler, Tim Maxwell, Newton Cheng, Adam Jermyn, Amanda Askell, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Cem Anil, David Duvenaud, Deep Ganguli, Fazl Barez, Jack Clark, Kamal Ndousse, Kshitij Sachan, Michael Sellitto, Mrinank Sharma, Nova DasSarma, Roger Grosse, Shauna Kravec, Yuntao Bai, Zachary Witten, Marina Favaro, Jan Brauner, Holden Karnofsky, Paul Christiano, Samuel R Bowman, Logan Graham, Jared Kaplan, Sören Mindermann, Ryan Greenblatt, Buck Shlegeris, Nicholas Schiefer, Ethan Perez).

Reproducibility and Code

One of our lab's missions is to contribute to the reproducibility effort. Here we provide code for our own research, as well as reproductions of works by others (e.g. ones we implemented as baselines as part of our own research).

Recent code release:
05/2022: Tranception: protein fitness prediction with autoregressive transformers and inference-time retrieval (Pascal Notin).
12/2021: Improving black-box optimization in VAE latent space using decoder uncertainty (Pascal Notin).
11/2021: Disease variant prediction with deep generative models of evolutionary data (Pascal Notin).
07/2020: OATomobile: A research framework for autonomous driving (Angelos Filos, Panagiotis Tigas).
07/2020: Slurm for Machine Learning (Joost van Amersfoort).

Group Members

We are researchers coming from varied backgrounds, including Computer Science, Maths & Stats, Engineering, and Physics.

We come from academia (Oxford, Cambridge, MILA, Manchester, U of Amsterdam, U of Toronto, U of Cape Town, Yale, and others) and industry (Google, DeepMind, Twitter, Qualcomm, and startups).

We include 5 Rhodes Scholars, 3 Clarendon Scholars, 3 DeepMind Scholars, one cancer research UK Scholar, with our students funded by many additional sources (AIMS CDT, Cyber CDT, industry, and more). If you'd like to join us take a look here.

Current group members: Yarin Gal (Associate Professor) ● Freddie Kalaitzis (Senior Research Fellow, 2020) ● Tiarnan Doherty (Postdoc, 2022) ● Hazel Kim (PhD, 2023) ● Luckeciano Carvalho Melo (PhD, 2023) ● Matthew Kearney (PhD, 2023) ● Yonatan Gideoni (PhD, 2023) ● Katrina Dickson (Associate Member (Program Manager), 2023) ● Kunal Handa (MSc by Research, 2023) ● Ilia Shumailov (Associate Member (Senior Research Fellow), 2022) ● Gunshi Gupta (PhD, 2021) ● Kelsey Doerksen (PhD, 2021) ● Ruben Weitzman (PhD, 2021) ● Shreshth Malik (PhD, 2021) ● Jannik Kossen (PhD, 2020) ● Lisa Schut (PhD, 2020) ● Muhammed Razzak (PhD, 2020) ● Tuan Nguyen (Associate Member (PhD), 2020) ● Gabriel Jones (Associate Member (PhD), 2020) ● Freddie Bickford Smith (Associate Member (PhD), 2020) ● Angus Nicolson (Associate Member (PhD), 2020) ● Atılım Güneş Baydin (Associate Member (Faculty), 2020) ● Andrew Jesson (PhD, 2019) ● Jan Brauner (PhD, 2019) ● Jishnu Mukhoti (Associate Member (PhD), 2019) ● Pascal Notin (Associate Member (Senior Research Fellow), 2019) ● Tom Rainforth (Associate Member (Faculty), 2019) ● Tim G. J. Rudner (PhD, 2017) ● Sebastian Farquhar (Associate Member (Senior Research Fellow), 2017)


Group Invited Talks

Recent invited talks:
02 Nov 2021, 15:00, Zoom Owain Evans (Oxford).
18 Oct 2021, 15:00, Oxford Stanislav Fort (Oxford).
06 Jul 2021, 15:00, Zoom Pavel Izmailov (NYU).
16 Jun 2021, 15:00, Zoom Tamara Broderick (MIT).

Group Collaborators and Affiliates

Our group collaborators include:



And our group affiliates include:

Are you looking to do a PhD in machine learning? Did you do a PhD in another field and want to do a postdoc in machine learning? Would you like to visit the group?

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Contact

We are located at
Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Wolfson Building
Parks Road
OXFORD
OX1 3QD
UK
Twitter: @OATML_Oxford
Github: OATML
Email: oatml@cs.ox.ac.uk