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Empirical Inference Conference Paper Spatially Structured Recurrent Modules Rahaman, N., Goyal, A., Gondal, M. W., Wüthrich, M., Bauer, S., Sharma, Y., Bengio, Y., Schölkopf, B. In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper ’What Do You Want in Life and How Can You Get There?’ An Evaluation of a Hierarchical Goal-Setting Chatbot González Cruz, H., Prentice, M., Lieder, F. 13th Annual meeting of the Society for the Science of Motivation, Abstract of presentation at the 13th SSM Virtual Congress, Society for the Science of Motivation, Virtual Congress, May 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Advancing Trajectory Optimization with Approximate Inference: Exploration, Covariance Control and Adaptive Risk Watson, J., Peters, J. American Control Conference (ACC), :1231-1236, IEEE, ACC, May 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Contextual Latent-Movements Off-Policy Optimization for Robotic Manipulation Skills Tosatto, S., Chalvatzaki, G., Peters, J. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :10815-10821, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021) , May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Differentiable Physics Models for Real-world Offline Model-based Reinforcement Learning Lutter, M., Silberbauer, J., Watson, J., Peters, J. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :4163-4170, IEEE, May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Directed Acyclic Graph Neural Network for Human Motion Prediction Li, Q., Chalvatzaki, G., Peters, J., Wang, Y. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :3197-3204, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper Evaluating Life Reflection Techniques to Help People Set Better Value-Driven Life Goals Prentice, M., González Cruz, H., Lieder, F. 13th Annual Conference of the Society for the Science of Motivation, Society for the Science of Motivation, 13th Annual Conference of the Society for the Science of Motivation , May 2021 () BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Extracting Strong Policies for Robotics Tasks from Zero-order Trajectory Optimizers Pinneri*, C., Sawant*, S., Blaes, S., Martius, G. In The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021) , May 2021, *equal contribution (Published) OpenReview URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Human-like Hand Reaching for Human-Robot Handshaking Prasad, V., Stock-Homburg, R., Peters, J. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :3612-3618, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Meta Attention Networks: Meta-Learning Attention to Modulate Information Between Recurrent Independent Mechanisms Madan, K., Ke, N. R., Goyal, A., Schölkopf, B., Bengio, Y. 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Model Predictive Actor-Critic: Accelerating Robot Skill Acquisition with Deep Reinforcement Learning Morgan, A., Nandha, D., Chalvatzaki, G., D’Eramo, C., Dollar, A., Peters, J. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :6672-6678, IEEE, May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper On the Transfer of Disentangled Representations in Realistic Settings Dittadi*, A., Träuble*, F., Locatello, F., Wüthrich, M., Agrawal, V., Winther, O., Bauer, S., Schölkopf, B. In The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), The 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021) , May 2021, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Practical and Rigorous Uncertainty Bounds for Gaussian Process Regression Fiedler, C., Scherer, C. W., Trimpe, S. In The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the Thirty-Third Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, the Eleventh Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 8:7439-7447, AAAI Press, Palo Alto, CA, Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021), Thirty-Third Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI 2021), Eleventh Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI 2021), May 2021 () URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Recurrent Independent Mechanisms Goyal, A., Lamb, A., Hoffmann, J., Sodhani, S., Levine, S., Bengio, Y., Schölkopf, B. In The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper ResNet After All: Neural ODEs and Their Numerical Solution Ott, K., Katiyar, P., Hennig, P., Tiemann, M. In The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Robot Interaction Studio: A Platform for Unsupervised HRI Mohan, M., Nunez, C. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :3330-3336, Xian, China, May 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Master Thesis Robotic Surgery Training in AR: Multimodal Record and Replay Krauthausen, F. :1-147, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, May 2021, Study Program in Software Engineering () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Learning Group Conference Paper Scaling Guarantees for Nearest Counterfactual Explanations Mohammadi, K., Karimi, A., Barthe, G., Valera, I. AIES ’21: Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, :177-187, (Editors: Marion Fourcade, Benjamin Kuipers, Seth Lazar and Deirdre K. Mulligan), ACM, New York, NY, Fourth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2021), May 2021 (Published) arXiv DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Self-supervised Visual Reinforcement Learning with Object-centric Representations Zadaianchuk*, A., Seitzer*, M., Martius, G. In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), May 2021, *equal contribution () Arxiv Code Paper @ ICLR 2021 (spotlight video) OpenReview BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Spatial Dependency Networks: Neural Layers for Improved Generative Image Modeling Miladinović, D., Stanić, A., Bauer, S., Schmidhuber, J., Buhmann, J. M. In The 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Article Tails, Flails, and Sails: How Appendages Improve Terrestrial Maneuverability by Improving Stability Shield, S., Jericevich, R., Patel, A., Jusufi, A. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(2), May 2021 () DOI BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Technical Report Toward a Science of Effective Well-Doing Lieder, F., Prentice, M., Corwin-Renner, E. May 2021 () Preprint BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Visual Representation Learning Does Not Generalize Strongly Within the Same Domain Schott, L., von Kügelgen, J., Träuble, F., Gehler, P., Russell, C., Bethge, M., Schölkopf, B., Locatello, F., Brendel, W. ICLR 2021 - Workshop on Generalization beyond the training distribution in brains and machines, May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Article Inertial Tail Effects During Righting of Squirrels in Unexpected Falls: From Behavior to Robotics Fukushima, T., Siddall, R., Schwab, F., Séverine, T., Byrnes, G., Nyakatura, J. A., Jusufi, A. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(2):589-602, Oxford University Press, April 2021 () DOI BibTeX

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Article Compliance, Mass Distribution and Contact Forces in Cursorial and Scansorial Locomotion with Biorobotic Physical Models Siddall, R., Fukushima, T., Bardhi, D., Perteshoni, B., Morina, A., Hasimja, E., Dujaka, Y., Haziri, G., Martin, L., Banerjee, H., et al. Advanced Robotics, 35(7):437-449, Taylor & Francis, April 2021 () preprint DOI BibTeX

Embodied Vision Conference Paper Explore the Context: Optimal Data Collection for Context-Conditional Dynamics Models Achterhold, J., Stueckler, J. In Proceedings of The 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2021) , 130, JMLR, Cambridge, MA, Titel The 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2021) , April 2021, preprint CoRR abs/2102.11394 (Published) Preprint Project page Poster URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Large Area Patterning of Nanoparticles and Nanostructures: Current Status and Future Prospects Barad, H., Kwon, H., Alarcon-Correa, M., Fischer, P. ACS Nano, 15(4):5861-5875 , April 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Benchmarking Simulation-Based Inference Lueckmann, J., Boelts, J., Greenberg, D. S., Gonçalves, P. J., Macke, J. H. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 130:343-351, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Arindam Banerjee and Kenji Fukumizu), PMLR, AISTATS, April 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Calibrated Adaptive Probabilistic ODE Solvers Bosch, N., Hennig, P., Tronarp, F. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 130:3466-3474, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Arindam Banerjee and Kenji Fukumizu), PMLR, AISTATS, April 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper DP-MERF: Differentially Private Mean Embeddings with Random Features for Practical Privacy-Preserving Data Generation Harder, F., Adamczewski, K., Park, M. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 130:1819-1827, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Arindam Banerjee and Kenji Fukumizu), PMLR, AISTATS, April 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Data-efficient Domain Randomization with Bayesian Optimization Muratore, F., Eilers, C., Gienger, M., Peters, J. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters , 6(2):911-918, April 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Dirichlet pruning for neural network compression Adamczewski, K., Park, M. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 130:3637-3645, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Arindam Banerjee and Kenji Fukumizu), PMLR, AISTATS, April 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Explicit Regularization of Stochastic Gradient Methods through Duality Raj, A., Bach, F. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 130:1882-1890, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Arindam Banerjee and Kenji Fukumizu), PMLR, AISTATS, April 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Fork or Fail: Cycle-Consistent Training with Many-to-One Mappings Guo, Q., Jin, Z., Wang, Z., Qiu, X., Zhang, W., Zhu, J., Zhang, Z., Wipf, D. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 130:1828-1836, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Arindam Banerjee and Kenji Fukumizu), PMLR, AISTATS, April 2021 (Published) PDF URL BibTeX

Physics for Inference and Optimization Article Generative model for reciprocity and community detection in networks Safdari, H., Contisciani, M., Bacco, C. D. Physical Review Research, 3(2):023209, April 2021 (Published) Preprint Code DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Geometrically Enriched Latent Spaces Arvanitidis, G., Hauberg, S., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 130:631-639, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Arindam Banerjee and Kenji Fukumizu), PMLR, AISTATS, April 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Kernel Distributionally Robust Optimization: Generalized Duality Theorem and Stochastic Approximation Zhu, J., Jitkrittum, W., Diehl, M., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 130:280-288, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Arindam Banerjee and Kenji Fukumizu), PMLR, April 2021 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning with Hyperspherical Uniformity Liu, W., Lin, R., Liu, Z., Xiong, L., Schölkopf, B., Weller, A. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 130:1180-1188, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Arindam Banerjee and Kenji Fukumizu), PMLR, AISTATS, April 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Machine Learning Methods for Modeling Synthesizable Molecules Bradshaw, J. University of Cambridge, UK, Cambridge, April 2021, (Cambridge-Tübingen-Fellowship) (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Article Machine learning time-local generators of open quantum dynamics Mazza, P. P., Zietlow, D., Carollo, F., Andergassen, S., Martius, G., Lesanovsky, I. Physical Review Research, 3(2):023084, April 2021 (Published) pdf DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Multi-Sensory Guidance and Feedback for Simulation-Based Training in Robot Assisted Surgery: A Preliminary Comparison of Visual, Haptic, and Visuo-Haptic Caccianiga, G., Mariani, A., Galli de Paratesi, C., Menciassi, A., De Momi, E. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(2):3801-3808, April 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Article Variable Horizon MPC with Swing Foot Dynamics for Bipedal Walking Control Daneshmand, E., Khadiv, M., Grimminger, F., Righetti, L. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(2):2349-2356, April 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Bioinspired self-healing polypeptides Pena-Francesch, A., Demirel, M., Sitti, M. Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 66(1):V07.00003, APS March Meeting, March 2021 () URL BibTeX

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Article Modeling and Control of a Soft Robotic Fish with Integrated Soft Sensing Lin, Y., Siddall, R., Schwab, F., Fukushima, T., Banerjee, H., Beak, Y., Vogt, D., Park, Y., Jusufi, A. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 5(4):2000244, Wiley Online Library, March 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Progress in robotics for combating infectious diseases Gao, A., Murphy, R., Chen, W., Dagnino, G., Fischer, P., Gutierrez, M., Kundrat, D., Nelson, B., Shamsudhin, N., Su, H., et al. Science Robotics, 6(52):eabf1462, March 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Synchronous activity patterns in the dentate gyrus during immobility Pofahl, M., Nikbakht, N., Haubrich, A. N., Nguyen, T., Masala, N., Distler, F., Braganza, O., Macke, J. H., Ewell, L. A., Golcuk, K., et al. eLife, 10:29, March 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous A Haptic Empathetic Robot Animal for Children with Autism Burns, R. B., Seifi, H., Lee, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. :583-585, Workshop paper (3 pages) presented at the HRI Pioneers Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA, March 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper The Six Hug Commandments: Design and Evaluation of a Human-Sized Hugging Robot with Visual and Haptic Perception Block, A. E., Christen, S., Gassert, R., Hilliges, O., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In HRI ’21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, :380-388, ACM, New York, NY, USA, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2021), March 2021 (Published) Block21-HRI-Commandments.pdf DOI BibTeX