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Mattes Mollenhauer

I am a Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Merantix Momentum. My current research focuses on probability, information theory and compression, with applications to efficient and robust foundation models and to high-dimensional inference and hypothesis testing.

About

In recent years, I have worked on modeling problems across molecular dynamics, satellite imaging, forensic genetics, wireless communications, and thermodynamics—sometimes on the experimental side and sometimes in safety-critical production systems.

I received my PhD in Mathematics in 2022 under the supervision of Christof Schütte in the Biocomputing group at Freie Universität Berlin. In my dissertation, I investigated nonparametric models for Markov processes. During my PhD program, I spent some time doing R&D in the aircraft engine development division of Rolls-Royce Deutschland.

During my time as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Claudia Schillings at Freie Universität Berlin, I worked on the mathematical theory of operator learning and conditional mean embeddings, developing statistical guarantees for the theoretical foundation of approaches in causal machine learning, reinforcement learning and uncertainty quantification.

Publications and preprints

Published

Float8@2bits: Entropy Coding Enables Data-Free Model Compression

Patrick Putzky, Martin Genzel, Mattes Mollenhauer, Sebastian Schulze, Thomas Wollmann, Stefan Dietzel

ICML 2026 · Paper ↗

Choose Your Model Size: Any Compression of Large Language Models Without Re-Computation

Martin Genzel, Patrick Putzky, Pengfei Zhao, Sebastian Schulze, Mattes Mollenhauer, Robert Seidel, Stefan Dietzel, Thomas Wollmann

TMLR 2025 · Paper ↗

Regularized least squares learning with heavy-tailed noise is minimax optimal

Mattes Mollenhauer, Nicole Mücke, Dimitri Meunier, Arthur Gretton

NeurIPS 2025 · Paper ↗

Compressing Large Language Models to Any Size Without Re-Computation

Martin Genzel, Patrick Putzky, Pengfei Zhao, Sebastian Schulze, Mattes Mollenhauer, Robert Seidel, Stefan Dietzel, Thomas Wollmann

ICML Workshop 2025 · Paper ↗

Optimal Rates for Vector-Valued Spectral Regularization Learning Algorithms

Dimitri Meunier, Zikai Shen, Mattes Mollenhauer, Arthur Gretton, Zhu Li

NeurIPS 2024 · Paper ↗

Towards Optimal Sobolev Norm Rates for the Vector-Valued Regularized Least-Squares Algorithm

Zhu Li, Dimitri Meunier, Mattes Mollenhauer, Arthur Gretton

JMLR 2024 · Paper ↗

Optimal Reaction Coordinates: Variational Characterization and Sparse Computation

Andreas Bittracher, Mattes Mollenhauer, Péter Koltai, Christof Schütte

SIAM MMS 2023 · Paper ↗

Optimal Rates for Regularized Conditional Mean Embedding Learning

Zhu Li, Dimitri Meunier, Mattes Mollenhauer, Arthur Gretton

NeurIPS 2022 · Paper ↗

Kernel autocovariance operators of stationary processes: Estimation and convergence

Mattes Mollenhauer, Stefan Klus, Christof Schütte, Péter Koltai

JMLR 2022 · Paper ↗

Singular Value Decomposition of Operators on Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces

Mattes Mollenhauer, Ingmar Schuster, Stefan Klus, Christof Schütte

Springer 2020 · Paper ↗

Kernel Conditional Density Operators

Ingmar Schuster, Mattes Mollenhauer, Stefan Klus, Krikamol Muandet

AISTATS 2020 · Paper ↗

Kernel methods for detecting coherent structures in dynamical data

Stefan Klus, Brooke E. Husic, Mattes Mollenhauer, Frank Noé

Chaos 2019 · Paper ↗

Preprints

Asymptotic e-processes

Pierre-François Massiani, Sebastian Schulze, Mattes Mollenhauer

Preprint 2026 · Paper ↗

Fuk–Nagaev inequality in smooth Banach spaces: Optimum bounds for distributions of heavy-tailed martingales

Mattes Mollenhauer, Christian Fiedler

Preprint 2025 · Paper ↗

On the concentration of subgaussian vectors and positive quadratic forms in Hilbert spaces

Mattes Mollenhauer, Claudia Schillings

Preprint 2023 · Paper ↗

Learning linear operators: Infinite-dimensional regression as a well-behaved non-compact inverse problem

Mattes Mollenhauer, Nicole Mücke, Tim Sullivan

Preprint 2022 · Paper ↗

Nonparametric approximation of conditional expectation operators

Mattes Mollenhauer, Péter Koltai

Preprint 2020 · Paper ↗

Miscellaneous

On the Statistical Approximation of Conditional Expectation Operators

Mattes Mollenhauer

PhD thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, 2022 · Thesis ↗

Contact

mattes.mollenhauer (at) merantix-momentum.com