Nathanael Bosch
nathanaelbosch.de
Nathanael Bosch
@nathanaelbosch.de
Postdoc at EPFL working on Bayesian optimization for inverse materials design. Interested in probabilistic numerics, Bayesian optimization, Gaussian processes, state-space models, differential equations, and Bayesian ML.

nathanaelbosch.github.io
Two more examples: We can add linear ODEs to the prior to create a probabilistic version of "exponential integrators". onlinear information (e.g. conservation laws) can be included in the likelihood to get more plausible solutions - see gif.

[2] tinyurl.com/2av3e4te
[3] tinyurl.com/bddfkwcu

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The main trick is to reformulate "solving an ODE" as "Bayesian state estimation" by turning the ODE into a nonlinear observation model. With a suitable prior - a Gauss-Markov process - you can solve the resulting problem with Bayesian filtering to obtain a probabilistic numerical ODE solution.

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