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George Bolt
dblp:91/4496
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 first-author · 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.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational social science and digital humanities · 50% Bioinformatics and computational biology · 50% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › structured models › graphical models
bayesian network |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Modelling Populations of Interaction Networks via Distance Metrics · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › biological network › network biology
interaction networks |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Modelling Populations of Interaction Networks via Distance Metrics · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2025 |
Computational social science and digital humanities
social network analysis |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Modelling Populations of Interaction Networks via Distance Metrics · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
markov chain monte carlo · 1.7involutive MCMC · 1.7distance metric · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Modelling Populations of Interaction Networks via Distance MetricsabstractNetwork data arises through the observation of relational information between a collection of entities, for example, friendships (relations) amongst a sample of people (entities). Traditionally, statistical models of such data have been developed to analyse a single network, that is, a single collection of entities and relations. More recently, attention has shifted to analysing samples of networks. A driving force has been the analysis of connectome data, arising in neuroscience applications, where a single network is observed for each patient in a study. These models typically assume, within each network, the entities are the units of observation, that is, more data equates to including more entities. However, an alternative paradigm considers relations—such as edges or paths—as the observational units, exemplified by email exchanges or user navigations across a website. This interaction network framework has generally been applied to single networks, without extending to the case where multiple such networks are observed, for instance, analysing navigation patterns from many users. Motivated by this gap, we propose a new Bayesian modelling framework to analyse such data. Our approach is based on practitioner-specified distance metrics between networks, allowing us to parameterise models analogous to Gaussian distributions in network space, using location and scale parameters. We address the key challenge of defining meaningful distances between interaction networks, proposing two new metrics with theoretical guarantees and practical computation strategies. To enable efficient Bayesian inference, we develop specialised Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms within the involutive MCMC (iMCMC) framework, tailored to the doubly-intractable and discrete nature of the induced posteriors. Through simulation studies, we demonstrate the robustness and efficiency of our approach, and we showcase its applicability with a case study on a location-based social network (LSBN) dataset. George Bolt, Simón Lunagómez, Christopher Nemeth |
J. Mach. Learn. Res. | 1 |
| 1992 | Uniform tuple storage in ADAM
George Bolt, Jim Austin, Gary Morgan |
Pattern Recognit. Lett. | 1 |