Jake Levi

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About

I'm a PhD student on the AIMS CDT supervised by Professor Mark van der Wilk in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford.

Training modern AI systems is absurdly resource intensive, requiring huge datasets and expensive data centres. In contrast, we as humans can learn much more efficiently, in terms of data and memory consumption. How can we develop AI algorithms that can learn as efficiently and robustly as humans can learn? Answering this question is the goal of my research.

Papers

2026 "On The Scalability Of Forward Gradients, Evolution Strategies, And Control Variates" | Jake Levi, Seth Nabarro, Mark van der Wilk | Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) [ pdf | openreview | tweet ]
2025 "SynDaCaTE: A Synthetic Dataset For Evaluating Part-Whole Hierarchical Inference" | Jake Levi, Mark van der Wilk | Methods and Opportunities at Small Scale (MOSS) workshop, ICML 2025 [ abstract | pdf | poster | tweet ]
2024 "Welfare Equilibra As A Solution To Stackelberg Self-Play In Non-Coincidental Games" | Jake Levi, Chris Lu, Timon Willi, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Jakob Foerster | Pre-print [ abstract | pdf ]

Talks

2026-05-13 "Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs)" | OccaMLab reading group [ slides | source | repo ]
2025-02-06 "Parallelisable Recurrent Sequence Models" | OccaMLab x OATML joint-group seminar series [ slides | slides with notes ]

Social

Twitter @jakelevi_ml
LinkedIn @jakelevi1996
GitHub @jakelevi1996
Scholar @Jake Levi

Blog

2025-12-28 Is the future of AI in good hands? An analysis of 3 Tweets
2025-10-21 Thoughts about motivation for research
2025-02-09 What ADHD means to me

Personal

Besides rock climbing (trad + sport + bouldering), cinema, and playing classical guitar, my major passion is designing HTML websites. If you would like me to design your website, email me at
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