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Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


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Autonomous Vision

Autonomous Learning

Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots

Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

Intelligent Control Systems

Learning and Dynamical Systems

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

Organizational Leadership and Diversity

Probabilistic Learning Group


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Empirical Inference Conference Paper Iterative Teaching by Label Synthesis Liu, W., Liu, Z., Wang, H., Paull, L., Schölkopf, B., Weller, A. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS 2021), :21681-21695, (Editors: M. Ranzato and A. Beygelzimer and Y. Dauphin and P.S. Liang and J. Wortman Vaughan), Curran Associates, Inc., 35th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Laplace Redux — Effortless Bayesian Deep Learning Daxberger*, E., Kristiadi*, A., Immer*, A., Eschenhagen*, R., Bauer, M., Hennig, P. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS 2021), :20089-20103, (Editors: M. Ranzato and A. Beygelzimer and Y. Dauphin and P.S. Liang and J. Wortman Vaughan), Curran Associates, Inc., 35th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2021, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Learning to Disambiguate Strongly Interacting Hands via Probabilistic Per-pixel Part Segmentation Fan, Z., Spurr, A., Kocabas, M., Tang, S., Black, M. J., Hilliges, O. 2021 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2021), :1-10, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2021), December 2021 (Published) arXiv project code video DOI BibTeX

Article Learning to solve sequential physical reasoning problems from a scene image Driess, D., Ha, J., Toussaint, M. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 40(12-14):1435-1466, December 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Learning-enhanced robust controller synthesis with rigorous statistical and control-theoretic guarantees Fiedler, C., Scherer, C. W., Trimpe, S. In 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE, December 2021, Accepted (Accepted) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Linear-Time Probabilistic Solution of Boundary Value Problems Kraemer, N., Hennig, P. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS 2021), :11160-11171, (Editors: M. Ranzato and A. Beygelzimer and Y. Dauphin and P.S. Liang and J. Wortman Vaughan), Curran Associates, Inc., 35th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Local policy search with Bayesian optimization Müller, S., von Rohr, A., Trimpe, S. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34, 25:20708-20720, (Editors: Ranzato, M. and Beygelzimer, A. and Dauphin, Y. and Liang, P. S. and Wortman Vaughan, J.), Curran Associates, Inc., Red Hook, NY, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021) , December 2021 (Published) arXiv GitHub URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Locality Sensitive Teaching Xu, Z., Chen, B., Li, C., Liu, W., Song, L., Lin, Y., Shrivastava, A. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS 2021), :18049-18062, (Editors: M. Ranzato and A. Beygelzimer and Y. Dauphin and P.S. Liang and J. Wortman Vaughan), Curran Associates, Inc., 35th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Perceiving Systems Conference Paper MetaAvatar: Learning Animatable Clothed Human Models from Few Depth Images Wang, S., Mihajlovic, M., Ma, Q., Geiger, A., Tang, S. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34, 4:2810-2822, (Editors: Ranzato, M. and Beygelzimer, A. and Dauphin, Y. and Liang, P. S. and Wortman Vaughan, J.), Curran Associates, Inc., Red Hook, NY, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), December 2021 (Published) Project page arXiv URL BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper On the Frequency Bias of Generative Models Schwarz, K., Liao, Y., Geiger, A. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34, 22:18126-18136, (Editors: M. Ranzato and A. Beygelzimer and Y. Dauphin and P. S. Liang and J. Wortman Vaughan), Curran Associates, Inc., Red Hook, NY, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), December 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Planning from Pixels in Environments with Combinatorially Hard Search Spaces Bagatella, M., Olšák, M., Rolínek, M., Martius, G. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34, 30:24707-24718, Curran Associates, Inc., Red Hook, NY, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), December 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Real-time gravitational wave science with neural posterior estimation Dax, M., Green, S. R., Gair, J., Macke, J. H., Buonanno, A., Schölkopf, B. Physical Review Letters, 127(24), December 2021 (Published) arXiv DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Regret Bounds for Gaussian-Process Optimization in Large Domains Wüthrich, M., Schölkopf, B., Krause, A. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS 2021), :7385-7396, (Editors: M. Ranzato and A. Beygelzimer and Y. Dauphin and P.S. Liang and J. Wortman Vaughan), Curran Associates, Inc., 35th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2021 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Robustness via Uncertainty-aware Cycle Consistency Upadhyay, U., Chen, Y., Akata, Z. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS 2021), :28261-28273, (Editors: M. Ranzato and A. Beygelzimer and Y. Dauphin and P.S. Liang and J. Wortman Vaughan), Curran Associates, Inc., 35th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Rods in a lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal: emergence of chirality, symmetry-breaking alignment, and caged angular diffusion Ettinger, S., Dietrich, C. F., Mishra, C. K., Miksch, C., Beller, D. A., Collings, P. J., Yodh, A. G. Soft Matter, 18(3):487-495 , December 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Article Section Patterns: Efficiently Solving Narrow Passage Problems in Multilevel Motion Planning Orthey, A., Toussaint, M. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 37(6):1891-1905, December 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Self-supervised learning with data augmentations provably isolates content from style von Kügelgen*, J., Sharma*, Y., Gresele*, L., Brendel, W., Schölkopf, B., Besserve, M., Locatello, F. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS 2021), :16451-16467, (Editors: M. Ranzato and A. Beygelzimer and Y. Dauphin and P.S. Liang and J. Wortman Vaughan), Curran Associates, Inc., 35th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2021, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Shape As Points: A Differentiable Poisson Solver Peng, S., Jiang, C. M., Liao, Y., Niemeyer, M., Pollefeys, M., Geiger, A. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34, 16:13032-13044, (Editors: M. Ranzato and A. Beygelzimer and Y. Dauphin and P. S. Liang and J. Wortman Vaughan), Curran Associates, Inc., Red Hook, NY, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), December 2021 (Published) Paper URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Sparsely Changing Latent States for Prediction and Planning in Partially Observable Domains Gumbsch, C., Butz, M. V., Martius, G. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34, 21:17518-17531, (Editors: M. Ranzato and A. Beygelzimer and Y. Dauphin and P. S. Liang and J. Wortman Vaughan), Curran Associates, Inc., Red Hook, NY, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), December 2021 (Published) arXiv Openreview URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Intelligent Control Systems Article Task space adaptation via the learning of gait controllers of magnetic soft millirobots Demir, S. O., Culha, U., Karacakol, A. C., Pena-Francesch, A., Trimpe, S., Sitti, M. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 40(12-14):1331-1351, December 2021 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper The Inductive Bias of Quantum Kernels Kübler*, J. M., Buchholz*, S., Schölkopf, B. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS 2021), :12661-12673, (Editors: M. Ranzato and A. Beygelzimer and Y. Dauphin and P.S. Liang and J. Wortman Vaughan), Curran Associates, Inc., 35th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2021, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article The neural coding of face and body orientation in occipitotemporal cortex Foster, C., Zhao, M., Bolkart, T., Black, M. J., Bartels, A., Bülthoff, I. NeuroImage, 246:118783, December 2021 (Published) paper DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Virtual Reality Treatment Displaying the Missing Leg Improves Phantom Limb Pain: A Small Clinical Trial Ambron, E., Buxbaum, L. J., Miller, A., Stoll, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Coslett, H. B. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 35(12):1100-1111, December 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Coupling of hippocampal theta and ripples with pontogeniculooccipital waves Ramirez-Villegas, J., Besserve, M., Murayama, Y., Evrard, H., Oeltermann, A., Logothetis, N. Nature, 589(7840):96-102, Nature, November 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Using Physics Knowledge for Learning Rigid-Body Forward Dynamics with Gaussian Process Force Priors Rath, L., Geist, A. R., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Robot Learning, 164:101-111, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Faust, Aleksandra and Hsu, David and Neumann, Gerhard), PMLR, 5th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2021), November 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Master Thesis Learning Neural Causal Models with Active Interventions Scherrer, N. ETH Zurich, Switzerland, November 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article A pose-independent method for accurate and precise body composition from 3D optical scans Wong, M. C., Ng, B. K., Tian, I., Sobhiyeh, S., Pagano, I., Dechenaud, M., Kennedy, S. F., Liu, Y. E., Kelly, N., Chow, D., et al. Obesity, 29(11):1835-1847, Wiley, November 2021 (Published) Wiley online adress Author Version DOI BibTeX

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Article Body Caudal Undulation measured by Soft Sensors and emulated by Soft Artificial Muscles Schwab, F., Lunsford, E. T., Hong, T., Wiesemüller, F., Kovac, M., Park, Y., Akanyeti, O., Liao, J. C., Jusufi, A. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(5):1955-1965, November 2021 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Causal Direction of Data Collection Matters: Implications of Causal and Anticausal Learning for NLP Jin*, Z., von Kügelgen*, J., Ni, J., Vaidhya, T., Kaushal, A., Sachan, M., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), :9499-9513, (Editors: Marie-Francine Moens and Xuanjing Huang and Lucia Specia and Scott Wen-tau Yih), Association for Computational Linguistics, November 2021, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Conditional De-Identification of 3D Magnetic Resonance Images van der Goten, L., Hepp, T., Akata, Z., Smith, K. 32nd British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), November 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Article Falsification of hybrid systems with symbolic reachability analysis and trajectory splicing Bogomolov, B. S., Frehse, G., Gurung, A., Li, D., Martius, G., Ray, R. Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 42:101093, Elsevier, November 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper How much coffee was consumed during EMNLP 2019? Fermi Problems: A New Reasoning Challenge for AI Kalyan, A., Kumar, A., Chandrasekaran, A., Sabharwal, A., Clark, P. In 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the Conference, :7318-7328, (Editors: Moens, Marie-Francine and Huang, Xuanjing and Specia, Lucia and Wen-tau Yih, Scott), Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021), November 2021 (Published) paper project webpage data DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Human Attention in Fine-grained Classification Rong, Y., Xu, W., Akata, Z., Kasneci, E. 32nd British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), November 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Mining the Cause of Political Decision-Making from Social Media: A Case Study of COVID-19 Policies across the US States Jin, Z., Peng, Z., Vaidhya, T., Schölkopf, B., Mihalcea, R. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP, :288-301, (Editors: Marie-Francine Moens and Xuanjing Huang and Lucia Specia and Scott Wen-tau Yih), Association for Computational Linguistics, November 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Prototype-based Incremental Few-Shot Segmentation Cermelli, F., Mancini, M., Xian, Y., Akata, Z., Caputo, B. 32nd British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), November 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Robotic Materials Article Flexible Seaweed-Like Triboelectric Nanogenerator as a Wave Energy Harvester Powering Marine Internet of Things Wang, Y., Liu, X., Wang, Y., Wang, H., Wang, H., Zhang, S. L., Zhao, T., Xu, M., Wang, Z. L. ACS Nano, 15(10):15700-15709, October 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Medical Systems Physical Intelligence Article Fullerene-Filtered Light Spectrum and Fullerenes Modulate Emotional and Pain Processing in Mice Lazovic, J., Zopf, L. M., Hren, J., Gajdoš, M., Slavkovic, M., Jovic, Z., Stankovic, I., Matovic, V., Koruga, D. Symmetry, 13(11):2004, October 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper GoSafe: Globally Optimal Safe Robot Learning Baumann, D., Marco, A., Turchetta, M., Trimpe, S. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), :4452-4458, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), October 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Master Thesis Study of the Interventional Consistency of Autoencoders Lanzillotta, G. ETH Zurich, Switzerland, October 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Making Higher Order MOT Scalable: An Efficient Approximate Solver for Lifted Disjoint Paths Hornakova, A. K. T. S. P. R. M. R. B. H. R. Proceedings 2021 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION (ICCV 2021), :6310-6320, IEEE, ICCV, October 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Human-centric Vision & Learning Conference Paper Shape-aware Multi-Person Pose Estimation from Multi-View Images Dong, Z. S. J. C. X. G. C. H. O. In Proceedings 18th IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), :11138-11148, IEEE, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Embodied Vision Talk Physically Plausible Tracking & Reconstruction of Dynamic Objects Strecke, M., Stückler, J. KIT Science Week Scientific Conference & DGR-Days 2021, October 2021, Submitted (Submitted) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article A Brake-Based Overground Gait Rehabilitation Device for Altering Propulsion Impulse Symmetry Hu, S., Fjeld, K., Vasudevan, E. V., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Sensors, 21(19), October 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Action-Conditioned 3D Human Motion Synthesis with Transformer VAE Petrovich, M., Black, M. J., Varol, G. In Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), :10965-10975, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, International Conference on Computer Vision, October 2021 (Published) website code paper-arxiv video DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Active Domain Adaptation via Clustering Uncertainty-weighted Embeddings Prabhu, V., Chandrasekaran, A., Saenko, K., Hoffman, J. In Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), :8485-8494, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, International Conference on Computer Vision, October 2021 (Published) paper project webpage Code Video DOI BibTeX

Physics for Inference and Optimization Article Designing optimal networks for multicommodity transport problem Lonardi, A., Facca, E., Putti, M., De Bacco, C. Physical Review Research, 3(4):043010, October 2021 (Published) Code Preprint DOI BibTeX

Neural Capture and Synthesis Conference Paper Dynamic Surface Function Networks for Clothed Human Bodies Burov, A., Nießner, M., Thies, J. In 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), :10734-10744, IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021), October 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Dynamics of Learning and Learning of Dynamics Mehrjou, A. ETH Zürich, Zürich, October 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX