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Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Optimization Algorithms for Machine Learning Raj, A. University of Tübingen, Germany, June 2021 (Published) BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Orthogonal Over-Parameterized Training Liu, W., Lin, R., Liu, Z., Rehg, J., Paull, L., Xiong, L., Song, L., Weller, A. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :7251-7260, Computer Vision Foundation / IEEE, CVPR, June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Populating 3D Scenes by Learning Human-Scene Interaction Hassan, M., Ghosh, P., Tesch, J., Tzionas, D., Black, M. J. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :14703-14713, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 2021 (Published) project pdf poster video DOI BibTeX
Rationality Enhancement Poster Promoting metacognitive learning through systematic reflection Frederic Becker, , Lieder, F. The first edition of Life Improvement Science Conference, June 2021 (Published) BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Article Red shape, blue shape: Political ideology influences the social perception of body shape Quiros-Ramirez, M. A., Streuber, S., Black, M. J. Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8:148, June 2021 (Published) pdf on-line sup. mat. sup. figure author pdf DOI BibTeX
Intelligent Control Systems Article Structured learning of rigid-body dynamics: A survey and unified view from a robotics perspective Geist, A. R., Trimpe, S. GAMM-Mitteilungen, 44(2):e202100009, Special Issue: Scientific Machine Learning, 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Rationality Enhancement Article Toward a Formal Theory of Proactivity Lieder, F., Iwama, G. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 42:490-508, Springer, June 2021 (Published) Toward a formal theory of proactivity DOI URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Uncertainty-Based Biological Age Estimation of Brain MRI Scans Armanious, K., Abdulatif, S., Shi, W., Hepp, T., Gatidis, S., Yang, B. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), :1100-1104, IEEE, June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper We are More than Our Joints: Predicting how 3D Bodies Move Zhang, Y., Black, M. J., Tang, S. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :3371-3381, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 2021 (Published) code arXiv DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper AGORA: Avatars in Geography Optimized for Regression Analysis Patel, P., Huang, C. P., Tesch, J., Hoffmann, D. T., Tripathi, S., Black, M. J. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :13463-13473, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 2021 (Published) dataset pdf video DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper BABEL: Bodies, Action and Behavior with English Labels Punnakkal, A. R., Chandrasekaran, A., Athanasiou, N., Quiros-Ramirez, M. A., Black, M. J. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :722-731, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021) , June 2021 (Published) dataset poster pdf sup mat video code DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper LEAP: Learning Articulated Occupancy of People Mihajlovic, M., Zhang, Y., Black, M. J., Tang, S. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :10456-10466, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 2021 (Published) project arXiv pdf code DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper SCALE: Modeling Clothed Humans with a Surface Codec of Articulated Local Elements Ma, Q., Saito, S., Yang, J., Tang, S., Black, M. J. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :16077-16088, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 2021 (Published) Project Page Code Video arXiv PDF Supp. Poster DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper SCANimate: Weakly Supervised Learning of Skinned Clothed Avatar Networks Saito, S., Yang, J., Ma, Q., Black, M. J. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :2885-2896, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 2021 (Published) Project Page PDF Supp. Video arXiv Poster code DOI URL BibTeX
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Soft urinary bladder phantom for endoscopic training Choi, E., Waldbillig, F., Jeong, M., Li, D., Goyal, R., Weber, P., Miernik, A., Grüne, B., Hein, S., Suarez-Ibarrola, R., et al. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 49(9):2412-2420, May 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Conference Paper Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators for Origami Inspired Shape-Changing Interfaces Purnendu, , Acome, E., Keplinger, C., Gross, M. D., Bruns, C., Leithinger, D. In CHI EA ’21: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, :377, ACM, New York, NY, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Ungrounded Vari-Dimensional Tactile Fingertip Feedback for Virtual Object Interaction Young, E. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In CHI ’21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, :217, ACM, New York, NY, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Dynamic Locomotion Ph.D. Thesis Control Mechanisms for Postural Stability and Trunk Motion in Bipedal Running. A Numerical Study for Humans, Avians, and Bipedal Robots Drama, Ö. Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, May 2021 () DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper CausalWorld: A Robotic Manipulation Benchmark for Causal Structure and Transfer Learning Ahmed*, O., Träuble*, F., Goyal, A., Neitz, A., Bengio, Y., Schölkopf, B., Wüthrich, M., Bauer, S. In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), :20, ICLR, Wien, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Article Optimizing a Viscoelastic Finite Element Model to Represent the Dry, Natural, and Moist Human Finger Pressing on Glass Nam, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 14(2):303-309, IEEE, May 2021, Presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC) (Published) DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper A teacher-student framework to distill future trajectories Neitz*, A., Parascandolo*, G., Schölkopf, B. In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Fast And Slow Learning Of Recurrent Independent Mechanisms Madan, K., Ke, N. R., Goyal, A., Schölkopf, B., Bengio, Y. In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning explanations that are hard to vary Parascandolo*, G., Neitz*, A., Orvieto, A., Gresele, L., Schölkopf, B. In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Predicting Infectiousness for Proactive Contact Tracing Bengio, Y., Gupta, P., Maharaj, T., Rahaman, N., Weiss, M., Deleu, T., Muller, E. B., Qu, M., Schmidt, V., St-Charles, P., et al. In The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Rao-Blackwellizing the Straight-Through Gumbel-Softmax Gradient Estimator Paulus, M. B., Maddison, C. J., Krause, A. In The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations , 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Spatially Structured Recurrent Modules Rahaman, N., Goyal, A., Gondal, M. W., Wüthrich, M., Bauer, S., Sharma, Y., Bengio, Y., Schölkopf, B. In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX
Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper ’What Do You Want in Life and How Can You Get There?’ An Evaluation of a Hierarchical Goal-Setting Chatbot González Cruz, H., Prentice, M., Lieder, F. 13th Annual meeting of the Society for the Science of Motivation, Abstract of presentation at the 13th SSM Virtual Congress, Society for the Science of Motivation, Virtual Congress, May 2021 (Published) BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Advancing Trajectory Optimization with Approximate Inference: Exploration, Covariance Control and Adaptive Risk Watson, J., Peters, J. American Control Conference (ACC), :1231-1236, IEEE, ACC, May 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Contextual Latent-Movements Off-Policy Optimization for Robotic Manipulation Skills Tosatto, S., Chalvatzaki, G., Peters, J. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :10815-10821, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021) , May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Differentiable Physics Models for Real-world Offline Model-based Reinforcement Learning Lutter, M., Silberbauer, J., Watson, J., Peters, J. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :4163-4170, IEEE, May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Directed Acyclic Graph Neural Network for Human Motion Prediction Li, Q., Chalvatzaki, G., Peters, J., Wang, Y. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :3197-3204, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper Evaluating Life Reflection Techniques to Help People Set Better Value-Driven Life Goals Prentice, M., González Cruz, H., Lieder, F. 13th Annual Conference of the Society for the Science of Motivation, Society for the Science of Motivation, 13th Annual Conference of the Society for the Science of Motivation , May 2021 () BibTeX
Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Extracting Strong Policies for Robotics Tasks from Zero-order Trajectory Optimizers Pinneri*, C., Sawant*, S., Blaes, S., Martius, G. In The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021) , May 2021, *equal contribution (Published) OpenReview URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Human-like Hand Reaching for Human-Robot Handshaking Prasad, V., Stock-Homburg, R., Peters, J. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :3612-3618, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Meta Attention Networks: Meta-Learning Attention to Modulate Information Between Recurrent Independent Mechanisms Madan, K., Ke, N. R., Goyal, A., Schölkopf, B., Bengio, Y. 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Model Predictive Actor-Critic: Accelerating Robot Skill Acquisition with Deep Reinforcement Learning Morgan, A., Nandha, D., Chalvatzaki, G., D’Eramo, C., Dollar, A., Peters, J. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :6672-6678, IEEE, May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper On the Transfer of Disentangled Representations in Realistic Settings Dittadi*, A., Träuble*, F., Locatello, F., Wüthrich, M., Agrawal, V., Winther, O., Bauer, S., Schölkopf, B. In The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), The 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021) , May 2021, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX
Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Practical and Rigorous Uncertainty Bounds for Gaussian Process Regression Fiedler, C., Scherer, C. W., Trimpe, S. In The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the Thirty-Third Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, the Eleventh Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 8:7439-7447, AAAI Press, Palo Alto, CA, Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021), Thirty-Third Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI 2021), Eleventh Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI 2021), May 2021 () URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Recurrent Independent Mechanisms Goyal, A., Lamb, A., Hoffmann, J., Sodhani, S., Levine, S., Bengio, Y., Schölkopf, B. In The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper ResNet After All: Neural ODEs and Their Numerical Solution Ott, K., Katiyar, P., Hennig, P., Tiemann, M. In The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Robot Interaction Studio: A Platform for Unsupervised HRI Mohan, M., Nunez, C. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :3330-3336, Xian, China, May 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Master Thesis Robotic Surgery Training in AR: Multimodal Record and Replay Krauthausen, F. :1-147, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, May 2021, Study Program in Software Engineering () BibTeX
Empirical Inference Probabilistic Learning Group Conference Paper Scaling Guarantees for Nearest Counterfactual Explanations Mohammadi, K., Karimi, A., Barthe, G., Valera, I. AIES ’21: Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, :177-187, (Editors: Marion Fourcade, Benjamin Kuipers, Seth Lazar and Deirdre K. Mulligan), ACM, New York, NY, Fourth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2021), May 2021 (Published) arXiv DOI BibTeX
Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Self-supervised Visual Reinforcement Learning with Object-centric Representations Zadaianchuk*, A., Seitzer*, M., Martius, G. In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), May 2021, *equal contribution () Arxiv Code Paper @ ICLR 2021 (spotlight video) OpenReview BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Spatial Dependency Networks: Neural Layers for Improved Generative Image Modeling Miladinović, D., Stanić, A., Bauer, S., Schmidhuber, J., Buhmann, J. M. In The 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX
Article Tails, Flails, and Sails: How Appendages Improve Terrestrial Maneuverability by Improving Stability Shield, S., Jericevich, R., Patel, A., Jusufi, A. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(2), May 2021 () DOI BibTeX
Rationality Enhancement Technical Report Toward a Science of Effective Well-Doing Lieder, F., Prentice, M., Corwin-Renner, E. May 2021 () Preprint BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Visual Representation Learning Does Not Generalize Strongly Within the Same Domain Schott, L., von Kügelgen, J., Träuble, F., Gehler, P., Russell, C., Bethge, M., Schölkopf, B., Locatello, F., Brendel, W. ICLR 2021 - Workshop on Generalization beyond the training distribution in brains and machines, May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX
Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Article Inertial Tail Effects During Righting of Squirrels in Unexpected Falls: From Behavior to Robotics Fukushima, T., Siddall, R., Schwab, F., Séverine, T., Byrnes, G., Nyakatura, J. A., Jusufi, A. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(2):589-602, Oxford University Press, April 2021 () DOI BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Patent An electric machine with two-phase planar Lorentz coils and a ring-shaped Halbach array for high torque density and high-precision applications Nguyen, V., Javot, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. (EP21170679.1), April 2021 () BibTeX