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Benjamin Peherstorfer

10 accepted papers

2026

A Dirac-Frenkel-Onsager principle: Instantaneous residual minimization with gauge momentum for nonlinear parametrizations of PDE solutions

ICML 2026spotlight

Dirac-Frenkel instantaneous residual minimization evolves nonlinear parametrizations of PDE solutions in time, but ill-conditioning can render the parameter dynamics non-unique. We interpret this non-uniqueness as a gauge freedom: nullspace directions that leave the time derivative unchanged can be …

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2026

Leveraging Gauge Freedom for Learning Non-Gradient Population Dynamics of Stochastic Systems

ICML 2026poster

In existing works on population dynamics inference, there is a focus on flows arising from vector fields that are the gradients of scalar potentials. Among all admissible flows that are compatible with the population dynamic, gradient flows are optimal in a specific sense: they minimize kinetic ener…

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2026

Stochastic Lifting for Generating Trajectories of Stochastic Physical Systems

ICML 2026poster

Many stochastic physical systems evolve smoothly over time in the sense that the distribution of states changes regularly with time. The precise transition from current to next state is often modeled as the interplay of a smooth map and an explicit source of randomness. Stochastic Lifting leverages …

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2026

Two-Parameter Flows for Learning Population Dynamics of Physical Systems

ICML 2026poster

This work addresses the problem of learning the dynamics of high-dimensional probability densities over time using unlabeled samples, without assuming access to trajectory information. We introduce two-parameter flows that learn only sampling-time transports from a base distribution to each marginal…

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2025

Hankel Singular Value Regularization for Highly Compressible State Space Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Deep neural networks using state space models as layers are well suited for long-range sequence tasks but can be challenging to compress after training. We use that regularizing the sum of Hankel singular values of state space models leads to a fast decay of these singular values and thus to compres…

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2024

CoLoRA: Continuous low-rank adaptation for reduced implicit neural modeling of parameterized partial differential equations

ICML 2024poster

This work introduces reduced models based on Continuous Low Rank Adaptation (CoLoRA) that pre-train neural networks for a given partial differential equation and then continuously adapt low-rank weights in time to rapidly predict the evolution of solution fields at new physics parameters and new ini…

2024

Parametric model reduction of mean-field and stochastic systems via higher-order action matching

NeurIPS 2024poster

The aim of this work is to learn models of population dynamics of physical systems that feature stochastic and mean-field effects and that depend on physics parameters. The learned models can act as surrogates of classical numerical models to efficiently predict the system behavior over the physics…

2023

Multi-Fidelity Covariance Estimation in the Log-Euclidean Geometry

ICML 2023poster

We introduce a multi-fidelity estimator of covariance matrices that employs the log-Euclidean geometry of the symmetric positive-definite manifold. The estimator fuses samples from a hierarchy of data sources of differing fidelities and costs for variance reduction while guaranteeing definiteness, i…

2023

Randomized Sparse Neural Galerkin Schemes for Solving Evolution Equations with Deep Networks

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Training neural networks sequentially in time to approximate solution fields of time-dependent partial differential equations can be beneficial for preserving causality and other physics properties; however, the sequential-in-time training is numerically challenging because training errors quickly a…

2021

An Extensible Benchmark Suite for Learning to Simulate Physical Systems

NeurIPS 2021poster

Simulating physical systems is a core component of scientific computing, encompassing a wide range of physical domains and applications. Recently, there has been a surge in data-driven methods to complement traditional numerical simulation methods, motivated by the opportunity to reduce computationa…

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