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Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

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Robotic Materials

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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

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Empirical Inference Article Influence Estimation and Maximization in Continuous-Time Diffusion Networks Gomez-Rodriguez, M., Song, L., Du, N., Zha, H., Schölkopf, B. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 34(2):9:1-9:33, 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Influence of initial fixation position in scene viewing Rothkegel, L. O. M., Trukenbrod, H. A., Schütt, H. H., Wichmann, F. A., Engbert, R. Vision Research, 129:33-49, 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Materials Article KB scanning of X-ray beam for Laue microdiffraction on accelero-phobic samples: application to in situ mechanically loaded nanowires Leclere, C., Cornelius, T. W., Ren, Z., Robach, O., Micha, J. S., Davydok, A., Ulrich, O., Richter, G., Thomas, O. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 23:1395-1400, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Kernel Mean Shrinkage Estimators Muandet, K., Sriperumbudur, B., Fukumizu, K., Gretton, A., Schölkopf, B. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 17(48):1-41, 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Learning Taxonomy Adaptation in Large-scale Classification Babbar, R., Partalas, I., Gaussier, E., Amini, M., Amblard, C. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 17(98):1-37, 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Learning to Deblur Schuler, C. J., Hirsch, M., Harmeling, S., Schölkopf, B. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 38(7):1439-1451, IEEE, 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Book Chapter Locally Weighted Regression for Control Ting, J., Meier, F., Vijayakumar, S., Schaal, S. In Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining, :1-14, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2016 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article MERLiN: Mixture Effect Recovery in Linear Networks Weichwald, S., Grosse-Wentrup, M., Gretton, A. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 10(7):1254-1266, 2016 (Published) Arxiv Code PDF DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Article Map-Based Probabilistic Visual Self-Localization Brubaker, M. A., Geiger, A., Urtasun, R. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2016 () pdf BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Mechanical stability of bipolar spindle assembly Malgaretti, P., Muhuri, S. EPL, 115(2), EDP Science, Les-Ulis, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Methods for causal inference from gene perturbation experiments and validation Meinshausen, N., Hauser, A., Mooij, J. M., Peters, J., Versteeg, P., Bühlmann, P. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(27):7361-7368, 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Microfluidic fuel cells for energy generation Safdar, M., Jänis, J., Sanchez, S. Lab on a Chip, 16(15):2754-2758, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Miniaturized soft bio-hybrid robotics: a step forward into healthcare applications Patino, T., Mestre, R., Sanchez, S. Lab on a Chip, 16(19):3626-3630, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Modeling Confounding by Half-Sibling Regression Schölkopf, B., Hogg, D., Wang, D., Foreman-Mackey, D., Janzing, D., Simon-Gabriel, C. J., Peters, J. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 113(27):7391-7398, 2016 (Published) Code DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Modeling Variability of Musculoskeletal Systems with Heteroscedastic Gaussian Processes Büchler, D., Calandra, R., Peters, J. Workshop on Neurorobotics, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016), 2016 (Published) NIPS16Neurorobotics BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Molecular dynamics simulation of a binary mixture near the lower critical point Pousaneh, F., Edholm, O., Maciolek, A. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 145(1), American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Article Momentum Control with Hierarchical Inverse Dynamics on a Torque-Controlled Humanoid Herzog, A., Rotella, N., Mason, S., Grimminger, F., Schaal, S., Righetti, L. Autonomous Robots, 40(3):473-491, 2016 () DOI URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Motion Control of Urea-Powerde Biocompatible Hollow Microcapsule Ma, X., Wang, X., Hahn, K., Sanchez, S. ACS Nano, 10(3):3597-3605, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Motion in microfluidic ratchets Caballero, D., Katuri, J., Samitier, J., Sanchez, S. Lab on a Chip, 16(23):4477-4481, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Nonadditivity of critical Casimir forces Paladugu, S., Callegari, A., Tuna, Y., Barth, L., Dietrich, S., Gambassi, A., Volpe, G. Nature Communications, 7:11403, Nature Publishing Group, London, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter Nonlinear functional causal models for distinguishing cause from effect Zhang, K., Hyvärinen, A. In Statistics and Causality: Methods for Applied Empirical Research, :185-201, 8, 1st, (Editors: Wolfgang Wiedermann and Alexander von Eye), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016 (Published) BibTeX

Materials Article Notch insensitive strength and ductility in gold nanowires Ensslen, C., Brandl, C., Richter, G., Schwaiger, R., Kraft, O. Acta Materialia, 108:317-324, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper On the Effects of Measurement Uncertainty in Optimal Control of Contact Interactions Ponton, B., Schaal, S., Righetti, L. In The 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics WAFR, Berkeley, USA, 2016 () URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Painfree and accurate Bayesian estimation of psychometric functions for (potentially) overdispersed data Schütt, H. H., Harmeling, S., Macke, J. H., Wichmann, F. A. Vision Research, 122:105-123, 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Miscellaneous Perceiving Systems (2011-2015) Scientific Advisory Board Report, 2016 () pdf BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Perpetual superhydrophobicity Giacomello, A., Schimmele, L., Dietrich, S., Tasinkevych, M. Soft Matter, 12(43):8927-8934, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Poisson-Boltzmann study of the effective electrostatic interaction between colloids at an electrolyte interface Majee, A., Bier, M., Dietrich, S. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 145(6):064707, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Preface to the ACM TIST Special Issue on Causal Discovery and Inference Zhang, K., Li, J., Bareinboim, E., Schölkopf, B., Pearl, J. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technologies, 7(2):article no. 17, 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Conference Paper Proactive Human-Robot Collaboration with Interaction Primitives Maeda, G., Maloo, A., Ewerton, M., Lioutikov, R., Peters, J. 9th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR), :40-45, 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Article Probabilistic Inference for Determining Options in Reinforcement Learning Daniel, C., van Hoof, H., Peters, J., Neumann, G. Machine Learning, Special Issue, 104(2):337-357, (Editors: Gärtner, T., Nanni, M., Passerini, A. and Robardet, C.), European Conference on Machine Learning im Machine Learning, Journal Track, 2016, Best Student Paper Award of ECML-PKDD 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Probabilistic Movement Models Show that Postural Control Precedes and Predicts Volitional Motor Control Rueckert, E., Camernik, J., Peters, J., Babic, J. Scientific Reports, 6(1):article no. 28455, 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Pymanopt: A Python Toolbox for Optimization on Manifolds using Automatic Differentiation Townsend, J., Koep, N., Weichwald, S. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 17(137):1-5, 2016 (Published) PDF Arxiv Code Project page URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Reconstructing Articulated Rigged Models from RGB-D Videos Tzionas, D., Gall, J. In European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops 2016 (ECCVW’16) - Workshop on Recovering 6D Object Pose (R6D’16), :620-633, Springer International Publishing, 2016 () pdf suppl Project's Website YouTube DOI URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Rectification and Non-Gaussian Diffusion in Heterogeneous Media Malgaretti, P., Pagonabarraga, I., Rubi, J. M. Entropy, 18(11), Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Recurrent Spiking Networks Solve Planning Tasks Rueckert, E., Kappel, D., Tanneberg, D., Pecevski, D., Peters, J. Nature PG: Scientific Reports, 6(1):article no. 21142, 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Materials Article Reflection and Phase Matching in Plasmonic Gold Tapers Guo, S. R., Talebi, N., Sigle, W., Vogelgesang, R., Richter, G., Esmann, M., Becker, S. F., Lienau, C., van Aken, P. A. Nano Letters, 16(10):6137-6144, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Reusable and Long-Lasting Active Microcleaners for Heterogeneous Water Remediation Parmar, J., Vilela, D., Pellicer, E., Esque-de-los Ojos, D., Sort, J., Sanchez, S. Advanced Functional Materials, 26(23):4152-4161, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Reversed Janus micro/nanomotors with internal chemical engine Ma, X., Jang, S., Popescu, M. N., Uspal, W. E., Miguel-López, A., Hahn, K., Kim, D., Sanchez, S. ACS Nano, 10(9):8751-8759, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Screening Rules for Convex Problems Raj, A., Olbrich, J., Gärtner, B., Schölkopf, B., Jaggi, M. 13th International (Virtual) OPT Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning, 2016, Submitted (Submitted) URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Self-Assembly of Micromachining Systems Powered by Janus Micromotors Maggi, C., Simmchen, J., Saglimbeni, F., Katuri, J., Dipalo, M., De Angelis, F., Sanchez, S., Di Leonardo, R. Small, 12(4):446-451, Wiley, Weinheim, Germany, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Self-Supervised Regrasping using Spatio-Temporal Tactile Features and Reinforcement Learning Chebotar, Y., Hausman, K., Su, Z., Sukhatme, G., Schaal, S. In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2016, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016 () pdf video BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Self-diffusiophoresis of chemically active colloids Popescu, M. N., Uspal, W. E., Dietrich, S. European Physical Journal - Special Topics, 225(11-12):2189-2206, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Self-regulation of brain rhythms in the precuneus: a novel BCI paradigm for patients with ALS Fomina, T., Lohmann, G., Erb, M., Ethofer, T., Schölkopf, B., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Journal of Neural Engineering, 13(6):article no. 066021, 2016 () URL BibTeX