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Hugh Dance

4 accepted papers

2025

Distinguishing Cause from Effect with Causal Velocity Models

ICML 2025poster

Bivariate structural causal models (SCM) are often used to infer causal direction by examining their goodness-of-fit under restricted model classes. In this paper, we describe a parametrization of bivariate SCMs in terms of a *causal velocity* by viewing the cause variable as time in a dynamical sys…

2025

Efficiently Vectorized MCMC on Modern Accelerators

ICML 2025spotlight

With the advent of automatic vectorization tools (e.g., JAX's vmap), writing multi-chain MCMC algorithms is often now as simple as invoking those tools on single-chain code. Whilst convenient, for various MCMC algorithms this results in a synchronization problem---loosely speaking, at each iteration…

2022

Fast and Scalable Spike and Slab Variable Selection in High-Dimensional Gaussian Processes

AISTATS 2022poster

Variable selection in Gaussian processes (GPs) is typically undertaken by thresholding the inverse lengthscales of automatic relevance determination kernels, but in high-dimensional datasets this approach can be unreliable. A more probabilistically principled alternative is to use spike and slab pri…