James Townsend

Postdoc, University of Amsterdam

Joined

September 2018

Names

James Townsend (Preferred)

Jamie Townsend

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Confirmed)

****@ucl.ac.uk (Confirmed)

****@uva.nl (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Postdoc

University of Amsterdam (uva.nl)

2022 – 2026

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker

Jan-Willem van de Meent

2022 – 2026

Coworker

Julius Kunze

2018 – 2020

Coworker

Thomas Bird

2017 – 2020

PhD Advisor

David Barber

2015 – 2020

Expertise

Machine learning

2015 – 2020

Publications

Linear RNNs for autoregressive generation of long music samples
Konrad Szewczyk, Daniel Gallo Fernández, James Townsend
- AI4Music
- Readers: Everyone
Practical Shuffle Coding
Julius Kunze, Daniel Severo, Jan-Willem van de Meent, James Townsend
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Entropy Coding of Unordered Data Structures
Julius Kunze, Daniel Severo, Giulio Zani, Jan-Willem van de Meent, James Townsend
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Entropy Coding of Unordered Data Structures
Julius Kunze, Daniel Severo, Giulio Zani, Jan-Willem van de Meent, James Townsend
- NCW ICML 2023
- Readers: Everyone
One-Shot Compression of Large Edge-Exchangeable Graphs using Bits-Back Coding
Daniel Severo, James Townsend, Ashish J Khisti, Alireza Makhzani
- ICML 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Pymanopt: A Python Toolbox for Optimization on Manifolds using Automatic Differentiation
Sebastian Weichwald, James Townsend, Niklas Koep
- 17 Jan 2022
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Your Dataset is a Multiset and You Should Compress it Like One
Daniel Severo, James Townsend, Ashish J Khisti, Alireza Makhzani, Karen Ullrich
- Published: 08 Dec 2021, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- DGMs and Applications @ NeurIPS 2021 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Lossless compression with state space models using bits back coding
James Townsend, Iain Murray
- Published: 01 Apr 2021, Last Modified: 22 Jun 2025
- Neural Compression Workshop @ ICLR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Improving Lossless Compression Rates via Monte Carlo Bits-Back Coding
Yangjun Ruan, Karen Ullrich, Daniel Severo, James Townsend, Ashish J Khisti, Arnaud Doucet, Alireza Makhzani, Chris J. Maddison
- Published: 01 Apr 2021, Last Modified: 22 Jun 2025
- Neural Compression Workshop @ ICLR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
A tutorial on the range variant of asymmetric numeral systems
James Townsend
- 2020 (modified: 05 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone

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James Townsend

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