DEPARTMENTS

Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


Research Groups

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


Topics

Robot Learning

Conference Paper

2022

Autonomous Learning

Robotics

AI

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Empirical Inference Article Impact of Large-Scale Climate Extremes on Biospheric Carbon Fluxes: An Intercomparison Based on MsTMIP Data Zscheischler, J., Michalak, A., Schwalm, M., Mahecha, M., Huntzinger, D., Reichstein, M., Berthier, G., Ciais, P., Cook, R., El-Masri, B., et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2014 () Web DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Incremental Local Gaussian Regression Meier, F., Hennig, P., Schaal, S. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27, :972-980, (Editors: Z. Ghahramani, M. Welling, C. Cortes, N.D. Lawrence and K.Q. Weinberger), 28th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2014), 2014, clmc () PDF URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Indirect Robot Model Learning for Tracking Control Bocsi, B., Csató, L., Peters, J. Advanced Robotics, 28(9):589-599, 2014 () PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Inferring latent structures via information inequalities Chaves, R., Luft, L., Maciel, T., Gross, D., Janzing, D., Schölkopf, B. In Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, :112-121, (Editors: NL Zhang and J Tian), AUAI Press, Corvallis, Oregon, UAI, 2014 () PDF BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Influence of Magnetic Fields on Magneto-Aerotaxis Bennet, M., McCarthy, A., Fix, D., Edwards, M. R., Repp, F., Vach, P., Dunlop, J. W., Sitti, M., Buller, G. S., Klumpp, S., et al. PLoS One, 9(7):e101150, Public Library of Science, 2014 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Information-Theoretic Bounded Rationality and ϵ-Optimality Braun, D., Ortega, P. Entropy, 16(8):4662-4676, August 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Interaction Primitives for Human-Robot Cooperation Tasks Ben Amor, H., Neumann, G., Kamthe, S., Kroemer, O., Peters, J. In Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, :2831-2837, IEEE, ICRA, 2014 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Juggling revisited — A voxel based morphometry study with expert jugglers Gerber, P., Schlaffke, L., Heba, S., Greenlee, M., Schultz, T., Schmidt-Wilcke, T. NeuroImage, 95:320-325, 2014 (Published) Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Kernel Mean Estimation and Stein Effect Muandet, K., Fukumizu, K., Sriperumbudur, B., Gretton, A., Schölkopf, B. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning, W&CP 32 (1), :10-18, (Editors: Eric P. Xing and Tony Jebara), JMLR, ICML, 2014 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Kernel Mean Estimation via Spectral Filtering Muandet, K., Sriperumbudur, B., Schölkopf, B. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27, :1-9, (Editors: Z. Ghahramani, M. Welling, C. Cortes, N.D. Lawrence and K.Q. Weinberger), Curran Associates, Inc., 28th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2014), 2014 (Published) Web URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Kernel methods in system identification, machine learning and function estimation: A survey Pillonetto, G., Dinuzzo, F., Chen, T., De Nicolao, G., Ljung, L. Automatica, 50(3):657-682, 2014 () Web DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Lateral critical Casimir force in 2D Ising strip with inhomogeneous walls Nowakowski, P., Napiorkowski, M. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 141(6), 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Manipulation by Sequencing Motor Primitives with a Two-Armed Robot Lioutikov, R., Kroemer, O., Peters, J., Maeda, G. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, 302:1601-1611, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, (Editors: Menegatti, E., Michael, N., Berns, K., Yamaguchi, H.), Springer, IAS, 2014 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Learning Motor Skills: From Algorithms to Robot Experiments Kober, J., Peters, J. 97:191, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Springer, 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Learning Strategies in Table Tennis using Inverse Reinforcement Learning Mülling, K., Boularias, A., Mohler, B., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J. Biological Cybernetics, 108(5):603-619, 2014 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning coupling terms for obstacle avoidance Rai, A., Meier, F., Ijspeert, A., Schaal, S. In International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, :512-518, IEEE, 2014, clmc () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Ph.D. Thesis Learning objective functions for autonomous motion generation Kalakrishnan, M. University of Southern California, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 () BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Article Learning of grasp selection based on shape-templates Herzog, A., Pastor, P., Kalakrishnan, M., Righetti, L., Bohg, J., Asfour, T., Schaal, S. Autonomous Robots, 36(1-2):51-65, January 2014 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning to Deblur Schuler, C. J., Hirsch, M., Harmeling, S., Schölkopf, B. In NIPS 2014 Deep Learning and Representation Learning Workshop, 28th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2014), 2014 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning to Predict Phases of Manipulation Tasks as Hidden States Kroemer, O., van Hoof, H., Neumann, G., Peters, J. In Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, :4009-4014, IEEE, ICRA, 2014 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning to Unscrew a Light Bulb from Demonstrations Manschitz, S., Kober, J., Gienger, M., Peters, J. In Proceedings for the joint conference of ISR 2014, 45th International Symposium on Robotics and Robotik 2014, 2014 (Published) BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Liftoff of a Motor-Driven, Flapping-Wing Microaerial Vehicle Capable of Resonance Hines, L., Campolo, D., Sitti, M. IEEE Trans. on Robotics, 30(1):220-232, IEEE, 2014 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Magnetic steering control of multi-cellular bio-hybrid microswimmers Carlsen, R. W., Edwards, M. R., Zhuang, J., Pacoret, C., Sitti, M. Lab on a Chip, 14(19):3850-3859, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Mask-Specific Inpainting with Deep Neural Networks Köhler, R., Schuler, C., Schölkopf, B., Harmeling, S. In Pattern Recognition (GCPR 2014), :523-534, (Editors: X Jiang, J Hornegger, and R Koch), Springer, 2014, Lecture Notes in Computer Science () PDF DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Mechanics of Load–Drag–Unload Contact Cleaning of Gecko-Inspired Fibrillar Adhesives Abusomwan, U. A., Sitti, M. Langmuir, 30(40):11913-11918, American Chemical Society, 2014 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Monte Carlo methods for exact & efficient solution of the generalized optimality equations Ortega, P., Braun, D., Tishby, N. :4322-4327, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014), June 2014 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Multi-Task Feature Selection on Multiple Networks via Maximum Flows Sugiyama, M., Azencott, C., Grimm, D., Kawahara, Y., Borgwardt, K. In Proceedings of the 2014 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining , :199-207, SIAM, 2014 () Web PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Multi-Task Policy Search for Robotics Deisenroth, M., Englert, P., Peters, J., Fox, D. In Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, :3876-3881, IEEE, ICRA, 2014 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Multi-modal filtering for non-linear estimation Kamthe, S., Peters, J., Deisenroth, M. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, :7979-7983, IEEE, ICASSP, 2014 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article MultiMo-Bat: A biologically inspired integrated jumping–gliding robot Woodward, M. A., Sitti, M. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 33(12):1511-1529, SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England, 2014 () BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Nanohelices by shadow growth Gibbs, J. G., Mark, A. G., Lee, T., Eslami, S., Schamel, D., Fischer, P. NANOSCALE, 6(16):9457-9466, 2014 () Video - Fabrication of Designer Nanostructures DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Natural Evolution Strategies Wierstra, D., Schaul, T., Glasmachers, T., Sun, Y., Peters, J., Schmidhuber, J. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 15:949-980, 2014 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter Nonconvex Proximal Splitting with Computational Errors Sra, S. In Regularization, Optimization, Kernels, and Support Vector Machines, :83-102, 4, (Editors: Suykens, J. A. K., Signoretto, M. and Argyriou, A.), CRC Press, 2014 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Occam’s Razor in sensorimotor learning Genewein, T., Braun, D. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 281(1783):1-7, May 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article On power law distributions in large-scale taxonomies Babbar, R., Metzig, C., Partalas, I., Gaussier, E., Amini, M. SIGKDD Explorations, Special Issue on Big Data, 16(1):47-56, 2014 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article On the Quantification Accuracy, Homogeneity, and Stability of Simultaneous Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance Imaging Systems Schmidt, H., Schwenzer, N., Bezrukov, I., Mantlik, F., Kolb, A., Kupferschläger, J., Pichler, B. Investigative Radiology, 49(6):373-381, 2014 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Open Problem: Finding Good Cascade Sampling Processes for the Network Inference Problem Gomez Rodriguez, M., Song, L., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Learning Theory, 35:1276-1279, (Editors: Balcan, M.-F. and Szepesvári, C.), JMLR.org, COLT, 2014 () PDF BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Order of wetting transitions in electrolyte solutions Ibagon, I., Bier, M., Dietrich, S. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 140(17):174713, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Periodic dynamics, localization metastability, and elastic interaction of colloidal particles with confining surfaces and helicoidal structure of cholesteric liquid crystals Varney, M. C. M., Zhang, Q., Tasinkevych, M., Silvestre, N. M., Bertness, K. A., Smalyukh, I. I. Physical Review E, 90(6), American Physical Society, Melville, NY, 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Perspective: Intelligent Systems: Bits and Bots Spatz, J. P., Schaal, S. Nature, (509), 2014, clmc () PDF URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Photoactive rolled-up TiO2 microtubes: fabrition, characterization and applications Giuducatti, S., Marz, S. M., Soler, L., Madani, A., Jorgensen, M. R., Sanchez, S., Schmidt, O. G. Journal of Materials Chemistry C: Materials for Optical and Electronic Devices, :5892-5901, Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK, 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Policy Evaluation with Temporal Differences: A Survey and Comparison Dann, C., Neumann, G., Peters, J. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 15:809-883, 2014 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Policy Search For Learning Robot Control Using Sparse Data Bischoff, B., Nguyen-Tuong, D., van Hoof, H., McHutchon, A., Rasmussen, C., Knoll, A., Peters, J., Deisenroth, M. In Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, :3882-3887, IEEE, ICRA, 2014 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Predicting Motor Learning Performance from Electroencephalographic Data Meyer, T., Peters, J., Zander, T., Schölkopf, B., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 11:24, 2014 () PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Principles of PET/MR Imaging Disselhorst, J. A., Bezrukov, I., Kolb, A., Parl, C., Pichler, B. J. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 55(6, Supplement 2):2S-10S, 2014 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Probabilistic Shortest Path Tractography in DTI Using Gaussian Process ODE Solvers Schober, M., Kasenburg, N., Feragen, A., Hennig, P., Hauberg, S. In Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2014, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 8675, :265-272, (Editors: P. Golland, N. Hata, C. Barillot, J. Hornegger and R. Howe), Springer, Heidelberg, MICCAI, 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Probabilistic ODE Solvers with Runge-Kutta Means Schober, M., Duvenaud, D., Hennig, P. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27, :739-747, (Editors: Z. Ghahramani, M. Welling, C. Cortes, N.D. Lawrence and K.Q. Weinberger), Curran Associates, Inc., 28th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2014), 2014 (Published) Web URL BibTeX