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Empirical Inference Conference Paper Moûsai: Efficient Text-to-Music Diffusion Models Schneider, F., Kamal, O., Jin, Z., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Volume 1: Long Papers:8050-8068, (Editors: Lun-Wei Ku and Andre Martins and Vivek Srikumar), Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Re-Thinking Inverse Graphics with Large Language Models Kulits, P., Feng, H., Liu, W., Abrevaya, V., Black, M. J. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, August 2024 (Published) pdf URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper CausalCite: A Causal Formulation of Paper Citations Agrawal, I., Jin, Z., Mokhtarian, E., Guo, S., Chen, Y., Sachan, M., Schölkopf, B. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), :8395-8410, (Editors: Ku, Lun-Wei and Martins, Andre and Srikumar, Vivek), Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2024 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Sparsity Principle for Partially Observable Causal Representation Learning Xu, D., Yao, D., Lachapelle, S., Taslakian, P., von Kügelgen, J., Locatello, F., Magliacane, S. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:55389-55433, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Accuracy on the wrong line: On the pitfalls of noisy data for OOD generalisation Sanyal, A., Hu, Y., Yu, Y., Ma, Y., Wang, Y., Schölkopf, B. ICML 2024 Next Generation of AI Safety Workshop (Oral), July 2024 (Published) arXiv PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper All-in-one simulation-based inference Gloeckler, M., Deistler, M., Weilbach, C. D., Wood, F., Macke, J. H. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:15735-15766, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Allocation Requires Prediction Only if Inequality Is Low Shirali, A., Abebe, R., Hardt, M. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), PMLR, The Forty-First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2024, *equal contribution (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Causal Action Influence Aware Counterfactual Data Augmentation Urpi, N. A., Bagatella, M., Vlastelica, M., Martius, G. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:1709-1729, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Causal Inference from Competing Treatments Stoica, A., Nastl, V. Y., Hardt, M. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), PMLR, The Forty-First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2024 (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Learning and Dynamical Systems Empirical Inference Article Deep Backtracking Counterfactuals for Causally Compliant Explanations Kladny, K., Kügelgen, J. V., Schölkopf, B., Muehlebach, M. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, July 2024 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Detecting and Identifying Selection Structure in Sequential Data Zheng, Y., Tang, Z., Qiu, Y., Schölkopf, B., Zhang, K. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:61498-61525, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Diffusion Tempering Improves Parameter Estimation with Probabilistic Integrators for ODEs Beck, J., Bosch, N., Deistler, M., Kadhim, K. L., Macke, J. H., Hennig, P., Berens, P. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:3305-3326, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Diffusive Gibbs Sampling Chen*, W., Zhang*, M., Paige, B., Hernández-Lobato, J. M., Barber, D. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:7731-7747, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Do Language Models Exhibit the Same Cognitive Biases in Problem Solving as Human Learners? Opedal, A., Stolfo, A., Shirakami, H., Jiao, Y., Cotterell, R., Schölkopf, B., Saparov, A., Sachan, M. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:38762-38778, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Don’t Label Twice: Quantity Beats Quality when Comparing Binary Classifiers on a Budget Dorner, F. E., Hardt, M. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), PMLR, The Forty-First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2024 (Published) ArXiv URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Master Thesis Estimating Contact Forces Across Soft Capacitive Tactile Sensors Using Machine Learning Tiwari, A. :1-99, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, July 2024, M.Sc. in Embedded Systems (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Geometry-Aware Instrumental Variable Regression Kremer, H., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:25560-25582, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Implicit meta-learning may lead language models to trust more reliable sources Krasheninnikov, D., Krasheninnikov, E., Mlodozeniec, B. K., Maharaj, T., Krueger, D. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, 235:25534-25559, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Improving Neural Additive Models with Bayesian Principles Bouchiat, K., Immer, A., Yèche, H., Rätsch, G., Fortuin, V. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:4416-4443, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Inherent Trade-Offs between Diversity and Stability in Multi-Task Benchmarks Zhang, G., Hardt, M. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), PMLR, The Forty-First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2024 (Published) ArXiv Code URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper LPGD: A General Framework for Backpropagation through Embedded Optimization Layers Paulus, A., Martius, G., Musil, V. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:39989-40014, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Learning with 3D rotations, a hitchhiker’s guide to SO(3) Geist, A. R., Frey, J., Zhobro, M., Levina, A., Martius, G. In Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Proceedings of the Forty-First International Conference on Machine Learning , 235:15331-15350, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), Forty-First International Conference on Machine Learning , July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Modelling Microbial Communities with Graph Neural Networks Ruaud, A., Sancaktar, C., Bagatella, M., Ratzke, C., Martius, G. In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:42742-42765, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Intelligent Control Systems Article Multimodal Multi-User Surface Recognition with the Kernel Two-Sample Test Khojasteh, B., Solowjow, F., Trimpe, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 21(3):4432-4447, July 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper On the Growth of Mistakes in Differentially Private Online Learning: A Lower Bound Perspective Dmitriev, D., Szabó, K., Sanyal, A. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 247:1379-1398, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Agrawal, Shipra and Roth, Aaron), PMLR, July 2024, (talk) (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Robust Machine Learning Conference Paper Position: Understanding LLMs Requires More Than Statistical Generalization Reizinger, P., Ujváry, S., Mészáros, A., Kerekes, A., Brendel, W., Huszár, F. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:42365-42390, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Probabilistic pathway-based multimodal factor analysis Immer, A., Stark, S. G., Jacob, F., Bonilla, X., Thomas, T., Kahles, A., Goetze, S., Milani, E. S., Wollscheid, B., Consortium, T. T. P., et al. Bioinformatics, 40(Supplement 1):i189-i198, July 2024 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Products, Abstractions and Inclusions of Causal Spaces Buchholz, S., Park, J., Schölkopf, B. 40th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 244:430-449, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Kiyavash, Negar and Mooij, Joris M.), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Provable Privacy with Non-Private Pre-Processing Hu, Y., Sanyal, A., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:19402-19437, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Miscellaneous Real-time gravitational-wave inference for binary neutron stars using machine learning Dax, M., Green, S. R., Gair, J., Gupte, N., Pürrer, M., Raymond, V., Wildberger, J., Macke, J. H., Buonanno, A., Schölkopf, B. July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Reflectance Outperforms Force and Position in Model-Free Needle Puncture Detection L’Orsa, R., Bisht, A., Yu, L., Murari, K., Westwick, D. T., Sutherland, G. R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Orlando, USA, July 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Robustness of Nonlinear Representation Learning Buchholz, S., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:4785-4821, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Learning and Dynamical Systems Robotics Conference Paper Safe & Accurate at Speed with Tendons: A Robot Arm for Exploring Dynamic Motion Guist, S., Schneider, J., Ma, H., Chen, L., Berenz, V., Martus, J., Ott, H., Grüninger, F., Muehlebach, M., Fiene, J., et al. Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, July 2024 (Published) arXiv Project Page DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Simultaneous identification of models and parameters of scientific simulators Schröder, C., Macke, J. H. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:43895-43927, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Stitching Manifolds: Leveraging Interaction to Compose Object Representations into Scenes Keurti, H., Schölkopf, B., Aceituno, P. V., Grewe, B. ICML 2024 Workshop on Geometry-grounded Representation Learning and Generative Modeling (GRaM), July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Targeted Reduction of Causal Models Kekić, A., Schölkopf, B., Besserve, M. 40th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 244:1953-1980, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Kiyavash, Negar and Mooij, Joris M.), PMLR, July 2024 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Human Aspects of Machine Learning Empirical Inference Conference Paper The Role of Learning Algorithms in Collective Action Ben-Dov*, O., Fawkes*, J., Samadi, S., Sanyal, A. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235:3443-3461, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix), PMLR, July 2024, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Unveiling CLIP Dynamics: Linear Mode Connectivity and Generalization Abdolahpourrostam, A., Sanyal, A., Moosavi-Dezfooli, S. ICML 2024 Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild, July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper What Makes Safety Fine-tuning Methods Safe? A Mechanistic Study Jain, S., Lubana, E. S., Oksuz, K., Joy, T., Torr, P. H. S., Sanyal, A., Dokania, P. K. ICML 2024 Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability (Spotlight), July 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper ContourCraft: Learning to Resolve Intersections in Neural Multi-Garment Simulations Grigorev, A., Becherini, G., Black, M., Hilliges, O., Thomaszewski, B. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Conference Papers, :1-10, SIGGRAPH ’24, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, July 2024 (Published) paper arXiv project video code DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Airship Formations for Animal Motion Capture and Behavior Analysis Price, E., Ahmad, A. Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Design and Engineering of Lighter-Than-Air systems (DELTAS2024), 2nd International Conference on Design and Engineering of Lighter-Than-Air systems (DELTAS2024), June 2024 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Article PaSTS An Operational Dataset for Domestic Solar Thermal Systems Ebmeier, F., Ludwig, N., Martius, G., Franz, V. H. PaSTS An Operational Dataset for Domestic Solar Thermal Systems, June 2024, Accepted (Accepted) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper A Unified Approach for Text- and Image-guided 4D Scene Generation Zheng, Y., Li, X., Nagano, K., Liu, S., Hilliges, O., Mello, S. D. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), CVPR, June 2024 (Published) paper project code BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Advancing Normalising Flows to Model Boltzmann Distributions Stimper, V. University of Cambridge, UK, Cambridge, June 2024, (Cambridge-Tübingen-Fellowship-Program) (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Analyzing the Role of Semantic Representations in the Era of Large Language Models Jin*, Z., Chen*, Y., Gonzalez*, F., Liu, J., Zhang, J., Michael, J., Schölkopf, B., Diab, M. Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Volume 1: Long Papers:3781-3798, (Editors: Duh, Kevin and Gomez, Helena and Bethard, Steven), Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2024, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Automatic Generation of Model and Data Cards: A Step Towards Responsible AI Liu, J., Li, W., Jin, Z., Diab, M. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), Volume 1: Long Papers:1975-1997, (Editors: Duh, Kevin and Gomez, Helena and Bethard, Steven), Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2024 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Generative Proxemics: A Prior for 3D Social Interaction from Images Müller, L., Ye, V., Pavlakos, G., Black, M., Kanazawa, A. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :9687-9697, CVPR, June 2024 (Published) arXiv project code data DOI URL BibTeX