# Announcements

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## [About the Announcements category](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/t/about-the-announcements-category/34)

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**Author:** [@paul.buerkner](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/u/paul.buerkner)\
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**Last updated:** [December 13, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/t/about-the-announcements-category/34 "2023-12-13T18:15:44Z")

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Use this category for Bayesflow related announcements, for example, new software releases or newly published papers relevant to BayesFlow.

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## [ONNX Probabilistic Programming Working Group – Collaboration with the BayesFlow Community](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/t/onnx-probabilistic-programming-working-group-collaboration-with-the-bayesflow-community/238)

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**Author:** [@bparbhu](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/u/bparbhu)\
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**Last updated:** [April 15, 2026, 12:16pm UTC](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/t/onnx-probabilistic-programming-working-group-collaboration-with-the-bayesflow-community/238 "2026-04-15T12:16:18Z")

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Hi everyone, I wanted to share that a new ONNX Working Group focused on Probabilistic Programming has recently been formed and invite participation from the BayesFlow community. The goal of this working group is to bri…

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## [Release 2.0.8 - The Dawn of Diffusion Models](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/t/release-2-0-8-the-dawn-of-diffusion-models/230)

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**Author:** [@KLDivergence](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/u/KLDivergence)\
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**Last updated:** [January 29, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/t/release-2-0-8-the-dawn-of-diffusion-models/230 "2026-01-29T15:16:32Z")

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Release notes :sparkles: The next BayesFlow release adds substantial new functionality, largely centered on diffusion models (score-based, flow-matching, consistency) for simulation-based inference (see \[2512.20685\] Dif…

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## [BayesFlow Neo (V2) Now Available](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/t/bayesflow-neo-v2-now-available/134)

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**Author:** [@KLDivergence](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/u/KLDivergence)\
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**Last updated:** [March 19, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/t/bayesflow-neo-v2-now-available/134 "2025-03-19T15:05:29Z")

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Friends, The new version preview (pre-release) of BayesFlow is out there, along with updated tutorials and completely revamped codebase for the next generation of amortized Bayesian inference. You can now use any deep …

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## [Preprint on "Amortized Bayesian Multilevel Models"](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/t/preprint-on-amortized-bayesian-multilevel-models/111)

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**Author:** [@Daniel](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/u/Daniel)\
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**Last updated:** [September 15, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/t/preprint-on-amortized-bayesian-multilevel-models/111 "2024-09-15T18:21:25Z")

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I’m happy to announce our recently published preprint on Amortized Bayesian Multilevel Models: \[2408.13230\] Amortized Bayesian Multilevel Models Any feedback is greatly appreciated. We are also currently working on intr…

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## [New preprint on estimating and comparing models with time-varying parameters](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/t/new-preprint-on-estimating-and-comparing-models-with-time-varying-parameters/51)

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**Author:** [@LuSchumacher](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/u/LuSchumacher)\
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**Last updated:** [January 16, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/t/new-preprint-on-estimating-and-comparing-models-with-time-varying-parameters/51 "2024-01-16T17:02:15Z")

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Hello there, we just published a new preprint on the validation and comparison of non-stationary diffusion decision models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08626 We used BayesFlow for parameter estimation and model comparis…

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## [Our new preprint on consistency models for posterior estimation](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/t/our-new-preprint-on-consistency-models-for-posterior-estimation/30)

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**Author:** [@KLDivergence](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/u/KLDivergence)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 21, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.bayesflow.org/t/our-new-preprint-on-consistency-models-for-posterior-estimation/30 "2023-12-21T21:29:30Z")

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Check out our freshly baked preprint on a new free-form neural sampler based on consistency models! Any feedback is greatly appreciated. :grinning: P.S. Continuous models (along with flow matching and denoising diffus…