Charlie B. Tan

DPhil Student @ University of Oxford

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Hi there! I’m Charlie, a third-year DPhil Computer Science student at the University of Oxford. I’m interested in learned samplers—generative methods for drawing samples from Boltzmann densities. My research is supervised by Prof. Michael Bronstein and Dr. Alex Tong.

I’m currently visiting the Mila - Quebec AI Institute, where I am hosted by Dr. Kirill Neklyudov. Last summer I interned at InstaDeep, working on generative protein sequence modeling.

Prior to Oxford, I studied the MPhil in Advanced Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, graduating with distinction. Whilst in Cambridge my research focused on deep learning theory, and was supervised by Prof. Ferenc Huszár.

[name](dot)[surname]@cs.ox.ac.uk

news

Sep 25, 2025 Amortized Sampling with Transferable Normalizing Flows accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
Jul 20, 2025 Presented Scalable Equilibrium Sampling with Sequential Boltzmann Generators at ICML 2025.
Nov 3, 2024 Preprint - applying techniques developed for my MPhil dissertation to RL.
Sep 26, 2024 On the Limitations of Fractal Dimension as a Measure of Generalization accepted to NeurIPS 2024!
May 23, 2024 Started a research internship at InstaDeep, in the Bayesian Flow Networks team.

selected projects

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    Amortized Sampling with Transferable Normalizing Flows
    Charlie B. Tan*, Majdi Hassan*, Leon Klein, Saifuddin Syed, Dominique Beaini, Michael M. Bronstein, Alexander Tong, and Kirill Neklyudov
    2025
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    Scalable Equilibrium Sampling with Sequential Boltzmann Generators
    Charlie B. Tan*, Joey Bose*, Chen Lin, Leon Klein, Michael M. Bronstein, and Alexander Tong
    2025
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    Protein Sequence Modelling with Bayesian Flow Networks
    Timothy Atkinson*, Thomas D. Barrett*, Scott Cameron, Bora Guloglu, Matthew Greenig, Charlie B. Tan, Louis Robinson, Alex Graves, Liviu Copoiu, and Alexandre Laterre
    2025
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    On the Limitations of Fractal Dimension as a Measure of Generalization
    Charlie B. Tan*, Inés García-Redondo*, Qiquan Wang*, Michael M. Bronstein, and Anthea Monod
    2024