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Empirical Inference Technical Report International AI Safety Report Bengio, Y., Mindermann, S., Privitera, D., Besiroglu, T., Bommasani, R., Casper, S., Choi, Y., Fox, P., Garfinkel, B., Goldfarb, D., et al. (DSIT 2025/001), 2025 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Synchronizing Machine Learning Algorithms, Realtime Robotic Control and Simulated Environment with o80 Berenz, V., Widmaier, F., Guist, S., Schölkopf, B., Büchler, D. Robot Software Architectures Workshop (RSA) 2023, ICRA, 2023 (Published) arxiv poster URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Cosmology from Cosmic Shear with DES Science Verification Data Abbott, T., Abdalla, F. B., Allam, S., Amara, A., Annis, J., Armstrong, R., Bacon, D., Banerji, M., Bauer, A. H., Baxter, E., et al. arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05552, 2015 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report The DES Science Verification Weak Lensing Shear Catalogs Jarvis, M., Sheldon, E., Zuntz, J., Kacprzak, T., Bridle, S. L., Amara, A., Armstrong, R., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bonnett, C., et al. arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05603, 2015 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Technical Report Animating Samples from Gaussian Distributions Hennig, P. (8), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany, 2013 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Maximizing Kepler science return per telemetered pixel: Detailed models of the focal plane in the two-wheel era Hogg, D. W., Angus, R., Barclay, T., Dawson, R., Fergus, R., Foreman-Mackey, D., Harmeling, S., Hirsch, M., Lang, D., Montet, B. T., et al. arXiv:1309.0653, 2013 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Maximizing Kepler science return per telemetered pixel: Searching the habitable zones of the brightest stars Montet, B. T., Angus, R., Barclay, T., Dawson, R., Fergus, R., Foreman-Mackey, D., Harmeling, S., Hirsch, M., Hogg, D. W., Lang, D., et al. arXiv:1309.0654, 2013 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report High Gamma-Power Predicts Performance in Brain-Computer Interfacing Grosse-Wentrup, M., Schölkopf, B. (3), Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Tübingen, February 2012 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Non-stationary Correction of Optical Aberrations Schuler, C., Hirsch, M., Harmeling, S., Schölkopf, B. (1), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany, May 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report PAC-Bayesian Analysis of Martingales and Multiarmed Bandits Seldin, Y., Laviolette, F., Shawe-Taylor, J., Peters, J., Auer, P. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, May 2011 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Multiple Kernel Learning: A Unifying Probabilistic Viewpoint Nickisch, H., Seeger, M. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, March 2011 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Multiple testing, uncertainty and realistic pictures Langovoy, M., Wittich, O. (2011-004), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, January 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Nonconvex proximal splitting: batch and incremental algorithms Sra, S. (2), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany, 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Computationally efficient algorithms for statistical image processing: Implementation in R Langovoy, M., Wittich, O. (2010-053), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, December 2010 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Fast Convergent Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian Inference Seeger, M., Nickisch, H. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, December 2010 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report A PAC-Bayesian Analysis of Graph Clustering and Pairwise Clustering Seldin, Y. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2010 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Robust nonparametric detection of objects in noisy images Langovoy, M., Wittich, O. (2010-049), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, September 2010 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Sparse nonnegative matrix approximation: new formulations and algorithms Tandon, R., Sra, S. (193), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2010 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Cooperative Cuts for Image Segmentation Jegelka, S., Bilmes, J. (UWEETR-1020-0003), University of Washington, Washington DC, USA, August 2010 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Fast algorithms for total-variationbased optimization Barbero, A., Sra, S. (194), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, August 2010 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Large Scale Variational Inference and Experimental Design for Sparse Generalized Linear Models Seeger, M., Nickisch, H. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, August 2010 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Gaussian Mixture Modeling with Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models Nickisch, H., Rasmussen, C. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, June 2010 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Generalized Proximity and Projection with Norms and Mixed-norms Sra, S. (192), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, May 2010 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Cooperative Cuts: Graph Cuts with Submodular Edge Weights Jegelka, S., Bilmes, J. (189), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, March 2010 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Information-theoretic inference of common ancestors Steudel, B., Ay, N. Computing Research Repository (CoRR), abs/1010.5720:18, 2010 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Learning an Interactive Segmentation System Nickisch, H., Kohli, P., Rother, C. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, December 2009 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report An Incremental GEM Framework for Multiframe Blind Deconvolution, Super-Resolution, and Saturation Correction Harmeling, S., Sra, S., Hirsch, M., Schölkopf, B. (187), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, November 2009 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Efficient Filter Flow for Space-Variant Multiframe Blind Deconvolution Hirsch, M., Sra, S., Schölkopf, B., Harmeling, S. (188), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, November 2009 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Consistent Nonparametric Tests of Independence Gretton, A., Györfi, L. (172), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, July 2009 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Semi-supervised subspace analysis of human functional magnetic resonance imaging data Shelton, J., Blaschko, M., Bartels, A. (185), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, May 2009 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Frequent Subgraph Retrieval in Geometric Graph Databases Nowozin, S., Tsuda, K. (180), Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, November 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Simultaneous Implicit Surface Reconstruction and Meshing Giesen, J., Maier, M., Schölkopf, B. (179), Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, November 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Taxonomy Inference Using Kernel Dependence Measures Blaschko, M., Gretton, A. (181), Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, November 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Approximation Algorithms for Bregman Clustering Co-clustering and Tensor Clustering Sra, S., Jegelka, S., Banerjee, A. (177), Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Block-Iterative Algorithms for Non-Negative Matrix Approximation Sra, S. (176), Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Large Scale Variational Inference and Experimental Design for Sparse Generalized Linear Models Seeger, M., Nickisch, H. (175), Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Combining Appearance and Motion for Human Action Classification in Videos Dhillon, P., Nowozin, S., Lampert, C. (174), Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, August 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Example-based Learning for Single-image Super-resolution and JPEG Artifact Removal Kim, K., Kwon, Y. (173), Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, August 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report A New Non-monotonic Gradient Projection Method for the Non-negative Least Squares Problem Kim, D., Sra, S., Dhillon, I. (TR-08-28), University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA, June 2008 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Non-monotonic Poisson Likelihood Maximization Sra, S., Kim, D., Schölkopf, B. (170), Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, June 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Unsupervised Bayesian Time-series Segmentation based on Linear Gaussian State-space Models Chiappa, S. (171), Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, June 2008 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report A Kernel Method for the Two-sample Problem Gretton, A., Borgwardt, K., Rasch, M., Schölkopf, B., Smola, A. (157), Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen, April 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Energy Functionals for Manifold-valued Mappings and Their Properties Hein, M., Steinke, F., Schölkopf, B. (167), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, January 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Learning with Transformation Invariant Kernels Walder, C., Chapelle, O. (165), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2007 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Scalable Semidefinite Programming using Convex Perturbations Kulis, B., Sra, S., Jegelka, S. (TR-07-47), University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA, September 2007 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Efficient Subwindow Search for Object Localization Blaschko, M., Hofmann, T., Lampert, C. (164), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, August 2007 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Sparse Multiscale Gaussian Process Regression Walder, C., Kim, K., Schölkopf, B. (162), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, August 2007 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Cluster Identification in Nearest-Neighbor Graphs Maier, M., Hein, M., von Luxburg, U. (163), Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, May 2007 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Dirichlet Mixtures of Bayesian Linear Gaussian State-Space Models: a Variational Approach Chiappa, S., Barber, D. (161), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, March 2007 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Automatic 3D Face Reconstruction from Single Images or Video Breuer, P., Kim, K., Kienzle, W., Blanz, V., Schölkopf, B. (160), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, February 2007 () PDF BibTeX