David J. Nott

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4ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0002-5416-0005ORCID · corroborated

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 2 · 2 first-authorDatabases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 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 · 100%
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Computational science and engineering · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › statistical inference › bayesian inference
approximate bayesian inference
0.912025
Bayesian Score Calibration for Approximate Models · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2025
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › statistical inference › bayesian inference
posterior calibration
0.912025
Bayesian Score Calibration for Approximate Models · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2025
Computational science and engineering › scientific machine learning
surrogate modeling
0.912025
Bayesian Score Calibration for Approximate Models · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

scoring rules · 1.7bayesian score calibration · 1.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Bayesian Score Calibration for Approximate Models
abstract
Scientists continue to develop increasingly complex mechanistic models to reflect their knowledge more realistically. Statistical inference using these models can be challenging since the corresponding likelihood function is often intractable and model simulation may be computationally burdensome. Fortunately, in many of these situations it is possible to adopt a surrogate model or approximate likelihood function. It may be convenient to conduct Bayesian inference directly with a surrogate, but this can result in a posterior with poor uncertainty quantification. In this paper, we propose a new method for adjusting approximate posterior samples to reduce bias and improve posterior coverage properties. We do this by optimizing a transformation of the approximate posterior, the result of which maximizes a scoring rule. Our approach requires only a (fixed) small number of complex model simulations and is numerically stable. We develop supporting theory for our method and demonstrate beneficial corrections to approximate posteriors across several examples of increasing complexity.
Joshua J. Bon, David J. Warne, David J. Nott, Christopher C. Drovandi
J. Mach. Learn. Res.3
2024 Dropout Regularization in Extended Generalized Linear Models Based on Double Exponential Families
Benedikt Lütke Schwienhorst, Lucas Kock, Nadja Klein, David J. Nott
ECML/PKDD (6)4
2000 Multi-phase image modelling with excursion sets
David J. Nott, Richard J. Wilson 0001
Signal Process.1
1997 Parameter estimation for excursion set texture models
David J. Nott, Richard J. Wilson 0001
Signal Process.1