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Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social · 27d

Find out more at probnum2026.github.io

The deadline for Submissions will likely be in early March 2026.

Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social · 27d

f you're looking for a place to share your ideas on computation and inference, with likeminded, friendly colleagues who give earnest, technically deep feedback, mark your calendars for 9-11 September 2026, because next year, we're going to Finnland, thanks to Toni Karvonen!

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Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social · 27d

The very first international conference on Probabilistic Numerics is now over. Huge thanks to @motonobu-kanagawa.bsky.social for hosting us at the French Riviera!

It was amazing to see so many contributed works across Europe. Proceedings at proceedings.mlr.press/v271/.

Read on for what's next!

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Jul 16

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅

EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu

eurips.cc

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Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social · Jul 5

Agustinus is hiring! A great place to start a research journey.

Agustinus Kristiadi @agustinus.kristia.de · Jul 4

📣 [Openings] I'm now an Assistant Prof @westernu.ca CS dept. Funded PhD & MSc positions available! Topics: large probabilistic models, decision-making under uncertainty, and apps in AI4Science. More on agustinus.kristia.de/openings/

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Motonobu Kanagawa @motonobu-kanagawa.bsky.social · Jun 24

We've written a monograph on Gaussian processes and reproducing kernel methods (with @philipphennig.bsky.social, @sejdino.bsky.social and Bharath Sriperumbudur).

arxiv.org/abs/2506.17366

Gaussian Processes and Reproducing Kernels: Connections and Equivalences

This monograph studies the relations between two approaches using positive definite kernels: probabilistic methods using Gaussian processes, and non-probabilistic methods using reproducing kernel Hilb...

arxiv.org

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Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social · Apr 16

How is it 2025 and we still don't have established structures for citeable research code, with quality control? This seems like a step in the right direction.

Frank Schneider @fsschneider.bsky.social · Apr 16

Tired of your open-source ML work not getting the academic recognition it deserves? 🤔 Submit to the first-ever CodeML workshop at #ICML2025! It focuses on new libraries, improvements to established ones, best practices, retrospectives, and more.
codeml-workshop.github.io/codeml2025/

CODEML Workshop

Championing Open-source Development in Machine Learning.

codeml-workshop.github.io

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Frank Schneider @fsschneider.bsky.social · Apr 16

Tired of your open-source ML work not getting the academic recognition it deserves? 🤔 Submit to the first-ever CodeML workshop at #ICML2025! It focuses on new libraries, improvements to established ones, best practices, retrospectives, and more.
codeml-workshop.github.io/codeml2025/

CODEML Workshop

Championing Open-source Development in Machine Learning.

codeml-workshop.github.io

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AlgoPerf @algoperf.bsky.social · Apr 3

We're all about acceleration! 😉
Watch @priya-kasimbeg.bsky.social & @fsschneider.bsky.social speedrun an explanation of the AlgoPerf benchmark, rules, and results all within a tight 5 minutes for our #ICLR2025 paper video on "Accelerating Neural Network Training". See you in Singapore!

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AlgoPerf @algoperf.bsky.social · Apr 3

The explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yX1...

ICLR 2025: Accelerating Neural Network Training (AlgoPerf)

YouTube video by Tübingen Machine Learning

www.youtube.com

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Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social · Mar 17

The set of possible solutions to a linear(ized) PDE matching a discretisation can be used as an informed prior for the nonlinear, exact PDE.

If that sentence makes your head spin, the good news is that @timwei.land has already implemented it all for you in Julia, with full #probnum functionality.

Tim Weiland @timwei.land · Mar 17

⚙️ Want to simulate physics under uncertainty, at FEM accuracy, without much computational overhead?

Read on to learn about the exciting interplay of stochastic PDEs, Markov structures and sparse linear algebra that make it possible... 🧵 1/8

A plot comparing the performance of different methods to numerically solve PDEs. The x-axis depicts the compute time in seconds, the y-axis depicts the relative error to the ground-truth solution in percentage. The graph for the "standard" finite element method has the steepest downward slope and thus the best performance. Our methods based on Gaussian Markov Random Fields achieve the same accuracies as the finite element method, but at slight computational overheads, depicted by their graphs having a slightly flatter slope. For instance, the highest accuracy solves require ~8-9 seconds for FEM and ~25 seconds for our GMRF-based method.

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Tim Weiland @timwei.land · Mar 17

⚙️ Want to simulate physics under uncertainty, at FEM accuracy, without much computational overhead?

Read on to learn about the exciting interplay of stochastic PDEs, Markov structures and sparse linear algebra that make it possible... 🧵 1/8

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Andreas Geiger @andreasgeiger.bsky.social · Feb 28

At the Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social we are offering a permanent lecturer position (research+teaching of basic courses in technical computer science). Those are quite rare in Germany. You need to speak German though. Apply here:
tuebingen.ai/careers/teac...

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Feb 24

Job alert: Join Us as a Technology Transfer Project Coordinator!

Would you like to collaborate with Prof. Peter Gehler's team on "Machine Learning in the World"? Check out our open position here: https://buff.ly/3QwIW4p

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ELLIS Institute Finland @ellisinstitute.fi · Feb 14

If you want to start your own research group in AI & machine learning, with access to top resources for research incl. @lumi-supercomputer.eu, generous starting package & professorship affiliation with a university in the world’s happiest country, apply by March 9: www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit

Principal Investigator positions at ELLIS Institute Finland | ELLIS Institute Finland

Now recruiting new PIs in artificial intelligence and machine learning

www.ellisinstitute.fi

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Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social · Feb 16

Good point.

There's a field on the openreview form where you can upload a supplement. Alternatively, you can also add an appendix to the main submission.

We've now updated the website to note this. For camera-ready, we will tune the stylefile a bit to clarify this and harmonize appendices.

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Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social · Feb 12

Just under a month to the deadline, the first submissions are beginning to arrive.

Looking to share your work on Bayesian Quadrature, ODE-Filters, GP-PDE-solvers, computation-aware deep learning, linear algebra, and beyond, with an audience that cares? Consider submitting your work!

Motonobu Kanagawa @motonobu-kanagawa.bsky.social · Feb 11

The submission site for ProbNum 2025 is now open! The deadline is March 5th. We welcome your beautiful work on probabilistic numerics and related areas!

probnum25.github.io/submissions

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Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social · Jan 17

Ah! It's
* 240 pts wide (default height = 240 / golden_ratio, but up to authors)
* computer modern sans serif.
* font size 9pt for axis labels and title, 7pt for ticklabels and legend.

Thanks for pointing this out, I'll expand the stylepack on the webpage with this information.

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Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social · Jan 17

The stylesheets also automatically sets the font, and font sizes for all parts of the figure!

If your cool kids happen to prefer julia over python, they can instead use @nathanaelbosch.de's port `tueplots.jl` using

TuePlots.SETTINGS[:ProbNum25]

github.com/nathanaelbos...

GitHub - nathanaelbosch/TuePlots.jl: A light-weight library to help you create better plots for scientific publications, by taking care of the annoying bits like figure size, font size, and setting th...

A light-weight library to help you create better plots for scientific publications, by taking care of the annoying bits like figure size, font size, and setting the correct font, with minimal overh...

github.com

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Motonobu Kanagawa @motonobu-kanagawa.bsky.social · Jan 17

ProbNum 2025 has its own beautiful style file, developed by @philipphennig.bsky.social ! Enjoy using it if you consider a submission, the deadline of which is the 3rd of March. probnum25.github.io/submissions

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Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social · Jan 15

a more classic, double column layout, in Computer Modern. Sneaked in A4, though.

But ProbNum25 will be the first conference I know with a stylesheet for figures and plots, thanks to @pnkraemer.bsky.social's `tueplots`. No more fontsize 2 figs!

Interested to hear what people think.

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Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social · Jan 15

I recently put the style pack for #ProbNum25 on probnum25.github.io.

Designing it was an interesting experience. I was tempted to propose a 16:9 screen-centric layout (who still prints papers?), but I got feedback this wouldn't look "serious". So I went for... (1/2)

ProbNum25

Coming

probnum25.github.io

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Bálint Mucsányi @bmucsanyi.bsky.social · Dec 3

Thrilled to share our NeurIPS spotlight on uncertainty disentanglement! ✨ We study how well existing methods disentangle different sources of uncertainty, like epistemic and aleatoric. While all tested methods fail at this task, there are promising avenues ahead. 🧵 👇 1/7

📖: arxiv.org/abs/2402.19460

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Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social · Nov 18

I made an account here to repost this! Join us for the first ever international conference on probabilistic numerics. We made a style pack and everything.

Motonobu Kanagawa @motonobu-kanagawa.bsky.social · Nov 17

We are organising the First International Conference on Probabilistic Numerics (ProbNum 2025) at EURECOM in southern France in Sep 2025. Topics: AI, ML, Stat, Sim, and Numerics. Reposts very much appreciated!

probnum25.github.io

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