VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Murray Pollock
dblp:175/4584
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 75% Efficient and distributed learning · 25% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Privacy and data protection · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › statistical inference
bayesian inference |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Divide-and-Conquer Fusion · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2023 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › distributed inference
distributed bayesian inference |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Divide-and-Conquer Fusion · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2023 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning
monte carlo methods |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Divide-and-Conquer Fusion · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2023 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › monte carlo methods
sequential monte carlo |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Divide-and-Conquer Fusion · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2023 |
Privacy and data protection
privacy-preserving data analysis |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | Divide-and-Conquer Fusion · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
sequential monte carlo · 1.3divide-and-conquer · 1.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Divide-and-Conquer FusionabstractCombining several (sample approximations of) distributions, which we term sub-posteriors, into a single distribution proportional to their product, is a common challenge. Occurring, for instance, in distributed 'big data' problems, or when working under multi-party privacy constraints. Many existing approaches resort to approximating the individual sub-posteriors for practical necessity, then find either an analytical approximation or sample approximation of the resulting (product-pooled) posterior. The quality of the posterior approximation for these approaches is poor when the sub-posteriors fall out-with a narrow range of distributional form, such as being approximately Gaussian. Recently, a Fusion approach has been proposed which finds an exact Monte Carlo approximation of the posterior, circumventing the drawbacks of approximate approaches. Unfortunately, existing Fusion approaches have a number of computational limitations, particularly when unifying a large number of sub-posteriors. In this paper, we generalise the theory underpinning existing Fusion approaches, and embed the resulting methodology within a recursive divide-and-conquer sequential Monte Carlo paradigm. This ultimately leads to a competitive Fusion approach, which is robust to increasing numbers of sub-posteriors. Ryan S. Y. Chan, Murray Pollock, Adam M. Johansen, Gareth O. Roberts |
J. Mach. Learn. Res. | 2 |