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Human Aspects of Machine Learning

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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

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Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

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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

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Dynamic Acoustic Levitator Based On Subwavelength Aperture Control Lu, X., Twiefel, J., Ma, Z., Yu, T., Wallaschek, J., Fischer, P. Advanced Science, 8(15):2100888, June 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Probabilistic robust linear quadratic regulators with Gaussian processes von Rohr, A., Neumann-Brosig, M., Trimpe, S. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control, :324-335, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), Vol. 144, (Editors: Jadbabaie, Ali and Lygeros, John and Pappas, George J. and Parrilo, Pablo A. and Recht, Benjamin and Tomlin, Claire J. and Zeilinger, Melanie N.), PMLR, Brookline, MA 02446 , 3rd Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), June 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Modern Magnetic Systems Article Light- and magnetically actuated FePt microswimmers Kadiri, V. M., Günther, J., Kottapalli, S. N., Goyal, R., Peter, F., Alarcon-Correa, M., Son, K., Barad, H., Börsch, M., Fischer, P. The European Physical Journal E, 44(6):74, June 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Implementation of a Reactive Walking Controller for the New Open-Hardware Quadruped Solo-12 Leziart, P. F. T. G. F. M. N. S. P. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :5007-5013, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Panoramic imaging assessment of different bladder phantoms – an evaluation study Hackner, R., Suarez-Ibarrola, I., Qiu, T., Lemke, N., Pohlmann, P., Wilhelm, K., Fischer, P., Miernik, A., Wittenberg, T. Urology, 156:e103-e110, June 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Approximate Distributionally Robust Nonlinear Optimization with Application to Model Predictive Control: A Functional Approach Nemmour, Y., Schölkopf, B., Zhu, J. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), 144:1255-1269, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Jadbabaie, Ali and Lygeros, John and Pappas, George J. and Parrilo, Pablo A. and Recht, Benjamin and Tomlin, Claire J. and Zeilinger, Melanie N.), PMLR, June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Automated Morphometric Analysis of the Hip Joint on MRI from the German National Cohort Study Fischer, M., Walter, S. S., Hepp, T., Zimmer, M., Notohamiprodjo, M., Schick, F., Yang, B. Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, 3(5), June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Causal Inference in Vision Meding, K. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, June 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Deep Learning-Based Automated Abdominal Organ Segmentation in the UK Biobank and German National Cohort Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies Kart, T., Fischer, M., Küstner, T., Hepp, T., Bamberg, F., Winzeck, S., Glocker, B., Rueckert, D., Gatidis, S. Investigative Radiology, 56(6):401-408, June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper DeepQ Stepper: A framework for reactive dynamic walking on uneven terrain Meduri, A., Khadiv, M., Righetti, L. The 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Discrimination of simple objects decoded from the output of retinal ganglion cells upon sinusoidal electrical stimulation Corna, A., Ramesh, P., Jetter, F., Lee, M., Macke, J. H., Zeck, G. Journal of Neural Engineering, 18(4), June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Distilling Audio-Visual Knowledge by Compositional Contrastive Learning Chen, Y., Xian, Y., Koepke, A. S., Akata, Z. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :7016-7025, Computer Vision Foundation / IEEE, CVPR, June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper GIRAFFE: Representing Scenes as Compositional Generative Neural Feature Fields Niemeyer, M., Geiger, A. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :11448-11459 , IEEE, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2021 (Published) pdf suppmat video Project Page DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper High-frequency nonlinear model predictive control of a manipulator Kleff, S., Meduri, A., Budhiraja, R., Mansard, N., Righetti, L. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :7330-7336 , The 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Autonomous Learning Article How to Train Your Differentiable Filter Kloss, A., Martius, G., Bohg, J. Autonomous Robots, 45(4):561-578, Springer, June 2021 (Published) arXiv paper DOI URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Talk Improving Human Decision-Making by Discovering Efficient Strategies for Hierarchical Planning Heindrich, L., Consul, S., Stojcheski, J., Lieder, F. Tübingen, Germany, The first edition of Life Improvement Science Conference, June 2021, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Decision Trees Recurrently Through Communication Alaniz, S., Marcos, D., Schiele, B., Akata, Z. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :13518-13527, Computer Vision Foundation / IEEE, CVPR, June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Graph Embeddings for Compositional Zero-shot Learning Naeem, M. F., Xian, Y., Tombari, F., Akata, Z. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :953-962, Computer Vision Foundation / IEEE, CVPR, June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Learning a Centroidal Motion Planner for Legged Locomotion Viereck, J., Righetti, L. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :4905-4911 , IEEE, The 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper Leveraging AI to support the self-directed learning of disadvantaged youth in developing countries Teo, J., Pauly, R., Heindrich, L., Amo, V., Lieder, F. The first Life Improvement Science Conference, Tübingen, Germany, The first Life Improvement Science Conference, June 2021, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Leveraging Forward Model Prediction Error for Learning Control Bechtle, S., Hammoud, B., Rai, A., Meier, F., Righetti, L. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , :4445-4451 , IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Neural Lyapunov Redesign Mehrjou, A., Ghavamzadeh, M., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), 144:459-470, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Jadbabaie, Ali and Lygeros, John and Pappas, George J. and Parrilo, Pablo A. and Recht, Benjamin and Tomlin, Claire J. and Zeilinger, Melanie N.), PMLR, 3rd Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC) , June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper On Self-Contact and Human Pose Müller, L., Osman, A. A. A., Tang, S., Huang, C. P., Black, M. J. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :9985-9994, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 2021 (Published) project arXiv poster video code DOI BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper On exploration requirements for learning safety constraints Massiani, P., Heim, S., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control, :905-916, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), Vol. 144, (Editors: Jadbabaie, Ali and Lygeros, John and Pappas, George J. and Parrilo, Pablo A. and Recht, Benjamin and Tomlin, Claire J. and Zeilinger, Melanie), PMLR, 3rd Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX