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Marvin Pförtner

6 accepted papers

2025

Computation-Aware Kalman Filtering and Smoothing

AISTATS 2025poster

Kalman filtering and smoothing are the foundational mechanisms for efficient inference in Gauss-Markov models. However, their time and memory complexities scale prohibitively with the size of the state space. This is particularly problematic in spatiotemporal regression problems, where the state dim…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Flexible and Efficient Probabilistic PDE Solvers through Gaussian Markov Random Fields

AISTATS 2025poster

Mechanistic knowledge about the physical world is virtually always expressed via partial differential equations (PDEs). Recently, there has been a surge of interest in probabilistic PDE solvers---Bayesian statistical models mostly based on Gaussian process (GP) priors which seamlessly combine empi…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Linearization Turns Neural Operators into Function-Valued Gaussian Processes

ICML 2025spotlight

Neural operators generalize neural networks to learn mappings between function spaces from data. They are commonly used to learn solution operators of parametric partial differential equations (PDEs) or propagators of time-dependent PDEs. However, to make them useful in high-stakes simulation scenar…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

FSP-Laplace: Function-Space Priors for the Laplace Approximation in Bayesian Deep Learning

NeurIPS 2024poster

Laplace approximations are popular techniques for endowing deep networks with epistemic uncertainty estimates as they can be applied without altering the predictions of the trained network, and they scale to large models and datasets. While the choice of prior strongly affects the resulting posterio…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Reparameterization invariance in approximate Bayesian inference

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Current approximate posteriors in Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) exhibit a crucial limitation: they fail to maintain invariance under reparameterization, i.e. BNNs assign different posterior densities to different parametrizations of identical functions. This creates a fundamental flaw in the appli…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2022

Posterior and Computational Uncertainty in Gaussian Processes

NeurIPS 2022accept

Gaussian processes scale prohibitively with the size of the dataset. In response, many approximation methods have been developed, which inevitably introduce approximation error. This additional source of uncertainty, due to limited computation, is entirely ignored when using the approximate posterio…