Martin Trapp

Martin Trapp

Almost surely

Assistant Professor in Machine Learning & WASP Fellow

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

I am an Assistant Professor in Machine Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, WASP fellow, and a member of the ELLIS society. Before joining KTH, I was an Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University working with Arno Solin. My research is centred around representing, quantifying, and reducing uncertainties to make machine learning more trustworthy. I am particularly interested in efficient and principled approaches for large-scale models such as LLMs & VLMs.

See biography for more details.

Research Interests

  • Tractable Models: Probabilistic circuits, neurosymbolics, and exact & approximate Bayesian inference.
  • Bayesian Learning: Uncertainty quantification & reduction in deep learning, inductive biases, and non-parametric & function-space methods.
  • Probabilistic Numerics: Probabilistic programming, numerical imprecision, error and uncertainty quantification.

News & Updates

ICLR Paper accepted!

January 2026

Our paper on Post-hoc Probabilistic Vision-Language Models (BayesVLM) has been accepted to ICLR 2026. Check out the paper

CVPR Workshop on Uncertainty Quantification for Computer Vision.

June 2025

UAI Paper accepted!

May 2025

Our BitVI paper has been accepted to UAI 2025. Check out the paper, the code will be released soon.

Selected Publications

  1. Post-hoc probabilistic vision-language models  

    Baumann, Anton and Li, Rui and Klasson, Marcus and Mentu, Santeri and Karthik, Shyamgopal and Akata, Zeynep and Solin, Arno and Trapp, Martin

    The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , 2026
  2. Approximate Bayesian Inference via Bitstring Representations  

    Sladek, Aleksanteri and Trapp, Martin and Solin, Arno

    Proceedings of the 41st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) , 2025
  3. Streamlining Prediction in Bayesian Deep Learning  

    Li, Rui and Klasson, Marcus and Solin, Arno and Trapp, Martin

    The 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , 2025
  4. Subtractive Mixture Models via Squaring: Representation and Learning  

    Loconte, Lorenzo and Sladek, Aleksanteri M. and Mengel, Stefan and Trapp, Martin and Solin, Arno and Gillis, Nicolas and Vergari, Antonio

    The 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , 2024 Spotlight