Compositional Foundations of Statistics & Machine learning Workshop 2026
Compositional Foundations of Statistics & Machine learning
Overview
This workshop is co-funded by the Prob_AI Hub through a Discipline Hopping Award and by CRiSM.
Date: 8-10 July 2026 at Warwick University. Events will happen in the Zeeman Building (the maths department).
Website under construction!
Discussion Topics
Categorical probability
Imprecise probabilities
Markov categories
Applications to statistics and machine learning
Schedule
An outline schedule is below.
All events will take place in the Zeeman building B3.03. The lunches and coffee breaks will take place outside B3.03.
| Weds 8 July | Location | Subject to minor edits |
|---|---|---|
| 0900-1000: Registration | MSB Atrium | |
| 1000-1200: Talk/discussion (inc coffee break) : Andi Wang | B3.03 (Zeeman) | Introductions and applications of categorical probability to MCMC |
| 1200-1300: Lunch | ||
| 1300-1430: Talk/discussion: Michele Caprio | B3.03 (Zeeman) | A category-theoretic analysis of conformal prediction |
| 1430-1500: Coffee break | ||
| 1500-1630: Talk/discussion: Sean Moss | B3.03 (Zeeman) | A category-theoretic perspective on the ergodic decomposition theorem. |
| 1830: Dinner | Scarman | |
| Thurs 9 July | ||
| 1000-1200: Talk/discussion (inc coffee break): Darren Wilkinson | B3.03 (Zeeman) | Functional and compositional approaches to scalable statistical computing |
| 1200-1300: Lunch | ||
| 1300-1430: Talk+discussion: Zev Shirazi / Ruben van Belle | B3.03 (Zeeman) | How to prove Fubini's theorem (once) / TBC |
| 1430-1500: Coffee break | ||
| 1500-1630: Talk/discussion: Jim Smith | B3.03 (Zeeman) | Graphical models, networks of stochastic probability models, categorical probabilities & string diagrams |
| 1830: Dinner | Scarman | |
| Friday 10 July | ||
| 1000-1200: Concluding discussion (inc coffee break) | B3.03 (Zeeman) | |
| 1200-1300: Lunch |
Organisers
Any queries should be directed to & Kathrin Schütrumpf.