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Office A-544

Maria-von-Linden-Str. 1

D-72076 Tübingen

Marvin Pförtner

I am a PhD student in Philipp Hennig’s group at the University of Tübingen and the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS). My research interests lie at the intersection of Bayesian machine learning and numerical analysis. More specifically, my work revolves around

  • algorithms for scalable (approximate) Gaussian process inference,
  • Gaussian process theory (sample path properties, Gaussian measure theory),
  • probabilistic numerical methods for partial differential equations, and
  • Bayesian deep learning with Laplace approximations.

I’m also interested in applications of all the above to scientific inference tasks.

I like to tackle problems using the framework of matrix-free (probabilistic) numerical linear algebra, which often leads to elegant and efficient algorithms.

news

Aug 12, 2025 I will present our work on Constructive Disintegration and Conditional Modes at ProbNum 2025.
Jun 6, 2025 I will present our work on uncertainty quantification for neural operators (spotlight) and Laplace approximations in JAX (CODEML workshop) at ICML 2025 in Vancouver, Canada.
Mar 12, 2025 I will present our work on Computation-Aware Kalman Filtering and Smoothing at AISTATS 2025 in Mai Khao, Thailand.

selected publications

  1. Nathaël Da CostaMarvin Pförtner, and Jon Cockayne
    2025
  2. Marvin PförtnerJonathan WengerJon Cockayne, and Philipp Hennig
    In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025
  3. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
  4. Marvin PförtnerIngo SteinwartPhilipp Hennig, and Jonathan Wenger
    2022