DEPARTMENTS

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 Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Gaussian Systems Hennig, P. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24, :325-333, (Editors: J Shawe-Taylor and RS Zemel and P Bartlett and F Pereira and KQ Weinberger), Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011), 2011 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper PAC-Bayesian Analysis of Contextual Bandits Seldin, Y., Auer, P., Laviolette, F., Shawe-Taylor, J., Ortner, R. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24, :1683-1691, (Editors: J Shawe-Taylor and RS Zemel and P Bartlett and F Pereira and KQ Weinberger), Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011), 2011 () PDF PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper PILCO: A Model-Based and Data-Efficient Approach to Policy Search Deisenroth, M., Rasmussen, C. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2011, :465-472, (Editors: L Getoor and T Scheffer), Omnipress, 2011 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Parallel Gibbs Sampling: From Colored Fields to Thin Junction Trees Gonzalez, J., Low, Y., Gretton, A., Guestrin, C. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Vol. 15, :324-332, (Editors: G Gordon and D Dunson and M Dudík), JMLR, AISTATS, 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Path Integral Control and Bounded Rationality Braun, D. A., Ortega, P. A., Theodorou, E., Schaal, S. In IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming And Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL), 2011, clmc () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Phase transition in the family of p-resistances Alamgir, M., von Luxburg, U. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24, :379-387, (Editors: J Shawe-Taylor and RS Zemel and P Bartlett and F Pereira and KQ Weinberger), Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011), 2011 () PDF Web BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Piezoelectric polymer fiber arrays for tactile sensing applications Sümer, B., Aksak, B., Şsahin, K., Chuengsatiansup, K., Sitti, M. Sensor Letters, 9(2):457-463, American Scientific Publishers, 2011 () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Pulling and pushing a cargo with a catalytically active carrier Popescu, M. N., Tasinkevych, M., Dietrich, S. Europhysics Letters, 95(2):28004, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Quantum-Cascade Laser-Based Vibrational Circular Dichroism Luedeke, S., Pfeifer, M., Fischer, P. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 133(15):5704-5707, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Empirical Inference Conference Paper Recovering Intrinsic Images with a Global Sparsity Prior on Reflectance Gehler, P., Rother, C., Kiefel, M., Zhang, L., Schölkopf, B. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24, :765-773, (Editors: Shawe-Taylor, John and Zemel, Richard S. and Bartlett, Peter L. and Pereira, Fernando C. N. and Weinberger, Kilian Q.), Curran Associates, Inc., Red Hook, NY, USA, Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011), 2011 () website + code pdf poster BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Reinforcement Learning with Bounded Information Loss Peters, J., Peters, J., Mülling, K., Altun, Y. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1305(1):365-372, 2011 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Restricted boltzmann machines as useful tool for detecting oscillatory eeg components Balderas, D., Zander, T., Bachl, F., Neuper, C., Scherer, R. In Proceedings of the 5th International Brain–Computer Interface Conference, :68-71, (Editors: GR Müller-Putz and R Scherer and M Billinger and A Kkreilinger and V Kaiser and C Neuper), Graz: Verlag der Technischen Universität, 2011 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Rotating magnetic micro-robots for versatile non-contact fluidic manipulation of micro-objects Diller, E., Ye, Z., Sitti, M. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, :1291-1296, 2011 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper STOMP: Stochastic trajectory optimization for motion planning Kalakrishnan, M., Chitta, S., Theodorou, E., Pastor, P., Schaal, S. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, May 9-13, 2011, clmc () URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Second harmonic light scattering from spherical polyelectrolyte brushes Schürer, B., Hoffmann, M., Wunderlich, S., Harnau, L., Peschel, U., Ballauff, M., Peukert, W. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115:18302-18309, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Shape and pose-invariant correspondences using probabilistic geodesic surface embedding Tsoli, A., Black, M. J. In 33rd Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), 6835:256-265, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Mester, Rudolf and Felsberg, Michael), Springer, 2011 () pdf talk BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Skill learning and task outcome prediction for manipulation Pastor, P., Kalakrishnan, M., Chitta, S., Theodorou, E., Schaal, S. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, May 9-13, 2011, clmc () URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Space-resolved dynamics of a tracer in a disordered solid Franosch, T., Spanner, M., Bauer, T., Schröder-Turk, G. E., Höfling, F. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 357(2):472-478, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Statistical estimation for optimization problems on graphs Langovoy, M., Sra, S. Empirical Inference Symposium, 2011 () BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Book Chapter Steerable random fields for image restoration and inpainting Roth, S., Black, M. J. In Markov Random Fields for Vision and Image Processing, :377-387, (Editors: Blake, A. and Kohli, P. and Rother, C.), MIT Press, 2011 () publisher site BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Stochastic dynamics of bacteria propelled spherical micro-robots Arabagi, V., Behkam, B., Sitti, M. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, :3937-3942, 2011 () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Structural investigation of thin diblock copolymer films using time-of-flight grazing-incidence small-angle neutron scattering Metwalli, E., Moulin, J., Rauscher, M., Kaune, G., Ruderer, M. A., Van Bürck, U., Haese-Seiller, M., Kampmann, R., Müller-Buschbaum, P. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 44(1):84-92, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Study of \pi\pi correlations at LHC and RHIC energies in pp collisions within the quark-gluon string model Nilsson, M. S., Bravina, L. V., Zabrodin, E. E., Malinina, L. V., Bleibel, J. Physical Review D, 84(5), 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Support Vector Machines for finding deletions and short insertions using paired-end short reads Grimm, D., Hagmann, J., König, D., Weigel, D., Borgwardt, K. International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2011), 2011 () Web BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Teleoperation Based AFM Manipulation Control Xie, H., Onal, C., Régnier, S., Sitti, M. In Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nanorobotics, :145-235, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 () BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article The Oxidation of Fe(111) Davies, R., Edwards, D., Gräfe, J., Gilbert, L., Davies, P., Hutchings, G., Bowker, M. Surface Science, 605(17-18):1754-1762, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article The effect of aspect ratio on adhesion and stiffness for soft elastic fibres Aksak, B., Hui, C., Sitti, M. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 8(61):1166-1175, The Royal Society, 2011 () BibTeX

Materials Article The filamentary growth of metals Schamel, M., Schopf, C., Linsler, D., Haag, S. T., Hofacker, L., Kappel, C., Strunk, H. P., Richter, G. International Journal of Materials Research, 102(7):828-836, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article The structure and melting transition of two-dimensional colloidal alloys Law, A. D., Horozov, T. S., Buzza, D. M. A. Soft Matter, 7(19):8923-8931, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Tip based robotic precision micro/nanomanipulation systems Onal, C., Sumer, B., Ozcan, O., Nain, A., Sitti, M. In SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, :80580M-80580M, 2011 () BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Book Chapter Tipping the Scales: Guidance and Intrinsically Motivated Behavior Martius, G., Herrmann, J. M. In Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011, :506-513, (Editors: Tom Lenaerts and Mario Giacobini and Hugues Bersini and Paul Bourgine and Marco Dorigo and René Doursat), MIT Press, 2011 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Transfer Learning with Copulas Lopez-Paz, D., Hernandez-Lobato, J. In :2, NIPS 2011, Workshop on Copulas in Machine Learning, 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Transfer Learning with Copulas Lopez-Paz, D., Hernandez-Lobato, J. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011), 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Trapping colloids near chemical stripes via critical Casimir forces Tröndle, M., Zvyagolskaya, O., Gambassi, A., Vogt, D., Harnau, L., Bechinger, C., Dietrich, S. Molecular Physics, 109(7-10):1169-1185, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Under-actuated tank-like climbing robot with various transitioning capabilities Seo, T., Sitti, M. In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, :777-782, 2011 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Waalbot II: Adhesion recovery and improved performance of a climbing robot using fibrillar adhesives Murphy, M. P., Kute, C., Mengüç, Y., Sitti, M. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 30(1):118-133, SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England, 2011 () BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Weak value amplified optical activity measurements Pfeifer, M., Fischer, P. Opt. Express, 19(17):16508-16517, OSA, 2011 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter What You Expect Is What You Get? Potential Use of Contingent Negative Variation for Passive BCI Systems in Gaze-Based HCI Ihme, K., Zander, T. In Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 6975:447-456, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: D’Mello, S., Graesser, A., Schuller, B. and Martin, J.-C.), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper k-NN Regression Adapts to Local Intrinsic Dimension Kpotufe, S. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24, :729-737, (Editors: J Shawe-Taylor and RS Zemel and P Bartlett and F Pereira and KQ Weinberger), Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011), 2011 () PDF Web BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Conference Paper Amorphous grain boundary layers in the ferromagnetic nanograined ZnO films Straumal, B. B., Mazilkin, A. A., Protasova, S. G., Myatiev, A. A., Straumal, P. B., Goering, E., Baretzky, B. In {Thin Solid Films}, 520:1192-1194, Hersonissos, Greece, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article BET specific surface area and pore structure of MOFs determined by hydrogen adsorption at 20 K Streppel, B., Hirscher, M. {Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics}, 13(8):3220-3222, 2011 () DOI BibTeX