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Pedro J Goncalves

5 accepted papers

2026

Multifidelity Simulation-based Inference for Computationally Expensive Simulators

ICLR 2026poster

Across many domains of science, stochastic models are an essential tool to understand the mechanisms underlying empirically observed data. Models can be of different levels of detail and accuracy, with models of high-fidelity (i.e., high accuracy) to the phenomena under study being often preferable.…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

Meta-learning families of plasticity rules in recurrent spiking networks using simulation-based inference

NeurIPS 2023poster

There is substantial experimental evidence that learning and memory-related behaviours rely on local synaptic changes, but the search for distinct plasticity rules has been driven by human intuition, with limited success for multiple, co-active plasticity rules in biological networks. More recently,…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2022

GATSBI: Generative Adversarial Training for Simulation-Based Inference

ICLR 2022poster

Simulation-based inference (SBI) refers to statistical inference on stochastic models for which we can generate samples, but not compute likelihoods. Like SBI algorithms, generative adversarial networks (GANs) do not require explicit likelihoods. We study the relationship between SBI and GANs, and i…

2022

Truncated proposals for scalable and hassle-free simulation-based inference

NeurIPS 2022accept

Simulation-based inference (SBI) solves statistical inverse problems by repeatedly running a stochastic simulator and inferring posterior distributions from model-simulations. To improve simulation efficiency, several inference methods take a sequential approach and iteratively adapt the proposal di…

2017

Flexible statistical inference for mechanistic models of neural dynamics

NeurIPS 2017poster

Mechanistic models of single-neuron dynamics have been extensively studied in computational neuroscience. However, identifying which models can quantitatively reproduce empirically measured data has been challenging. We propose to overcome this limitation by using likelihood-free inference approache…