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Empirical Inference Proceedings Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact Field, A., Prabhumoye, S., Sap, M., Jin, Z., Zhao, J., Brockett, C. Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Article Resource-Rational Models of Human Goal Pursuit Prystawski, B., Mohnert, F., Tošić, M., Lieder, F. Topics in Cognitive Science, 14(3):528-549 , Online, Wiley Online Library, August 2021 (Published) Resource-rational models of human goal pursuit DOI URL BibTeX

Robotic Materials Conference Paper Electriflow: Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation Using Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators Purnendu, , Novack, S., Acome, E., Alistar, M., Keplinger, C., Gross, M. D., Bruns, C., Leithinger, D. In SIGGRAPH ’21: ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Labs, :8, ACM, New York, NY, Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference (SIGGRAPH 2021), July 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper CombOptNet: Fit the Right NP-Hard Problem by Learning Integer Programming Constraints Paulus, A., Rolínek, M., Musil, V., Amos, B., Martius, G. In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, 139:8443-8453, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, The Thirty-eighth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2021 () Arxiv Code Pdf Spotlight video @ ICML 2021 Poster @ ICML 2021 URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Ph.D. Thesis Chemically active micromotors Yu, T. University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, July 2021 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Combinatorial growth of multinary nanostructured thin functional films Barad, H., Alarcon-Correa, M., Salinas, G., Oren, E., Peter, F., Kuhn, A., Fischer, P. Materials Today, 50:89-99, July 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Gradient Based Strategy for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Hyperparameter Optimization Campbell*, A., Chen*, W., Stimper*, V., Hernández-Lobato, J. M., Y., Z. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:1238-1248, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Age-Net: An MRI-Based Iterative Framework for Brain Biological Age Estimation Armanious, K., Abdulatif, S., Shi, W., Salian, S., Kustner, T., Weiskopf, D., Hepp, T., Gatidis, S., Yang, B. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 40(7):1778-1791, IEEE, July 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Algorithmic recourse in partially and fully confounded settings through bounding counterfactual effects von Kügelgen, J., Agarwal, N., Zeitler, J., Mastouri, A., Schölkopf, B. ICML 2021 Workshop on Algorithmic Recourse, July 2021 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper An Empirical Analysis of Measure-Valued Derivatives for Policy Gradients Carvalho, J., Tateo, D., Muratore, F., Peters, J. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), :1-10, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, July 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Bayesian Deep Learning via Subnetwork Inference Daxberger, E., Nalisnick, E., Allingham, J., Antorán, J., Hernández-Lobato, J. M. In Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:2510-2521, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Bayesian Quadrature on Riemannian Data Manifolds Fröhlich, C., Gessner, A., Hennig, P., Schölkopf, B., Arvanitidis, G. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:3459-3468, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Causal Curiosity: RL Agents Discovering Self-supervised Experiments for Causal Representation Learning Sontakke, S., Mehrjou, A., Itti, L., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:9848-9858, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Composable Energy Policies for Reactive Motion Generation and Reinforcement Learning Urain, J., Anqi, L., Puze, L., D’eramo, C., Peters, J. Robotics: Science and Systems XVII (R:SS 2021), (Editors: Dylan A. Shell and Marc Toussaint and M. Ani Hsieh), July 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Conditional Distributional Treatment Effect with Kernel Conditional Mean Embeddings and U-Statistic Regression Park, J., Shalit, U., Schölkopf, B., Muandet, K. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:8401-8412, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Convex Regularization in Monte-Carlo Tree Search Dam, T., D’Eramo, C., Peters, J., J., P. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:2365-2375, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Demystifying Inductive Biases for (Beta-)VAE Based Architectures Zietlow, D., Rolinek, M., Martius, G. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:12945-12954, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research , The 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), July 2021 (Published) Arxiv PDF Paper @ ICML 2021 (spotlight video) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Descending through a Crowded Valley - Benchmarking Deep Learning Optimizers Schmidt, R. M., Schneider, F., Hennig, P. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:9367-9376, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper Encouraging far-sightedness with automatically generated descriptions of optimal planning strategies: Potentials and Limitations Becker, F., Skirzynski, J. M., van Opheusden, B., Lieder, F. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Online, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Function Contrastive Learning of Transferable Meta-Representations Gondal, M. W., Joshi, S., Rahaman, N., Bauer, S., Wüthrich, M., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:3755-3765, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper High-Dimensional Gaussian Process Inference with Derivatives de Ross, F., Gessner, A., Hennig, P. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:2535-2545, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, The 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous How Do Expert Hapticians Evaluate Grounded Force-Feedback Devices? Fazlollahi, F., Seifi, H., MacLean, K., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (1 page) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), July 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Article Impedance Optimization for Uncertain Contact Interactions Through Risk Sensitive Optimal Control Hammoud, B., Khadiv, M., Righetti, L. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(3):4766-4773, IEEE, July 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Kernel Two-Sample and Independence Tests for Non-Stationary Random Processes Laumann, F., von Kügelgen, J., Barahona, M. 7th International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting (ITISE 2021), July 2021 (Published) arXiv BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learnable Uncertainty under Laplace Approximations Kristiadi, A., Hein, M., Hennig, P. 37th International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 161:344-353, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Cassio P. de Campos and Marloes H. Maathuis and Erik Quaeghebeur), AUAI Press, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Riemannian Manifolds for Geodesic Motion Skills Beik-Mohammadi, H., Hauberg, S., Arvanitidis, G., Neumann, G., Rozo, L. Robotics: Science and Systems XVII , (Editors: Dylan A. Shell and Marc Toussaint and M. Ani Hsieh), Robotics: Science and Systems 2021 (RSS 2021) , July 2021, * best student paper award (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Lie interventions in complex systems with cycles Besserve, M., Schölkopf, B. ICML 2021 Workshop on Neglected Assumptions in Causal Inference, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Necessary and sufficient conditions for causal feature selection in time series with latent common causes Mastakouri, A. A., Schölkopf, B., Janzing, D. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:7502-7511, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Neighborhood Contrastive Learning Applied to Online Patient Monitoring Yèche, H., Dresdner, G., Locatello, F., Hüser, M., Rätsch, G. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, 139:11964-11974, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, The 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Neural Symbolic Regression that Scales Biggio*, L., Bendinelli*, T., Neitz, A., Lucchi, A., Parascandolo, G. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), 139:936-945, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, The 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), July 2021, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Neuro-algorithmic Policies Enable Fast Combinatorial Generalization Vlastelica, M., Rolinek, M., Martius, G. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), The Thirty-eighth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2021 () arXiv Spotlight PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper On Disentangled Representations Learned From Correlated Data Träuble, F., Creager, E., Kilbertus, N., Locatello, F., Dittadi, A., Goyal, A., Schölkopf, B., Bauer, S. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:10401-10412, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Optimal Grasp Selection, and Control for Stabilising a Grasped Object, with Respect to Slippage and External Forces Pardi, T., E., A. G., Ortenzi, V., Stolkin, R. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2020), :429-436, Munich, Germany, July 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Piezoresistive Textile Layer and Distributed Electrode Structure for Soft Whole-Body Tactile Skin Lee, H., Park, K., Kim, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Smart Materials and Structures, 30(8):085036, July 2021, Hyosang Lee and Kyungseo Park contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper PrendoSim: Proxy-Hand-Based Robot Grasp Generator Abdlkarim, D., Ortenzi, V., Pardi, T., Filipovica, M., Wing, A. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Di Luca, M. In ICINCO 2021: Proceedings of the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, :60-68, (Editors: Gusikhin, Oleg and Nijmeijer, Henk and Madani, Kurosh), SciTePress, Sétubal, 18th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2021), July 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physics for Inference and Optimization Article Principled network extraction from images Baptista, D., Bacco, C. D. Royal Society Open Science, 8(7):210025, July 2021 (Published) Preprint Code DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Proximal Causal Learning with Kernels: Two-Stage Estimation and Moment Restriction Mastouri, A., Zhu, Y., Gultchin, L., Korba, A., Silva, R., Kusner, M., Gretton, A., Muandet, K. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:7512-7523, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Representation Learning for Out-of-distribution Generalization in Reinforcement Learning Learning Träuble*, F., Dittadi*, A., Wüthrich, M., Widmaier, F., Gehler, P., Winther, O., Locatello, F., Bachem, O., Schölkopf, B., Bauer, S. ICML 2021 Workshop on Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning (ICML 2021) , ICML 2021 Workshop on Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning (ICML 2021) , July 2021, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Robust Value Iteration for Continuous Control Tasks Lutter, M., Mannor, S., Peters, J., Fox, D., Garg, A. Robotics: Science and Systems XVII (R:SS 2021), (Editors: Dylan A. Shell and Marc Toussaint and M. Ani Hsieh), July 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Scalable Marginal Likelihood Estimation for Model Selection in Deep Learning Immer, A., Bauer, M., Fortuin, V., Rätsch, G., Khan, M. E. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:4563-4573, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Stochastic and robust mpc for bipedal locomotion: A comparative study on robustness and performance Gazar, A., Khadiv, M., DelPrete, A., Righetti, L. :1-8, IEEE, IEEE-RAS 20th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), July 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper The dynamical regime and its importance for evolvability, task performance and generalization Prosi, J., Khajehabdollahi, S., Giannakakis, E., Martius, G., Levina, A. In The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life, MIT Press, July 2021 () PDF DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Value Iteration in Continuous Actions, States and Time Lutter, M., Mannor, S., Peters, J., Fox, D., Garg, A. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:7224-7234, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Vibrotactile Playback for Teaching Sensorimotor Skills in Medical Procedures Gourishetti, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), July 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article SKID RAW: Skill Discovery From Raw Trajectories Tanneberg, D., Ploeger, K., Rueckert, E., Peters, J. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(3):4696-4703, IEEE, New York, NY, July 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Ph.D. Thesis Röntgenmikroskopische Untersuchungen der Magnetisierungsdynamik in nanoskaligen magnonischen Wellenleiterstrukturen Träger, N. Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart (und Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen), June 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Comment on “Using NMR to Test Molecular Mobility during a Chemical Reaction” Fillbrook, L. L., Günther, J., Majer, G., Price, W. S., Fischer, P., Beves, J. E. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12(25):5932-5937, June 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Free and Forced Vibration Modes of the Human Fingertip Serhat, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Applied Sciences, 11(12):5709, June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Materials Article Synthesis of magnetic Fe and Co nano-whiskers and platelets via physical vapor deposition Huang, W., Gatel, C., Li, Z., Richter, G. Materials & Design, 208:109914, June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Article Hybrid Parallel Compliance Allows Robots to Operate With Sensorimotor Delays and Low Control Frequencies Milad Shafiee Ashtiani, , Alborz Aghamaleki Sarvestani, , Badri-Spröwitz, A. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8(na):645748, (Editors: Dai Owaki, Tohoku University, Japan), June 2021 (Published) CAD spring-mount DOI URL BibTeX