Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Physical Intelligence Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots Article Miniature coiled artificial muscle for wireless soft medical devices Li, M., Tang, Y., Soon, R. H., Dong, B., Hu, W., Sitti, M. Science Advances, 8(10):eabm5616, March 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Curvature effects in charge-regulated lipid bilayers Khunpetch, P., Majee, A., Podgornik, R. Soft Matter, 18(13):2597-2610, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambdrige, UK, March 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Witness Two-Sample Test Kübler, J. M., Jitkrittum, W., Schölkopf, B., Muandet, K. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 151:1403-1419, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Camps-Valls, Gustau and Ruiz, Francisco J. R. and Valera, Isabel), PMLR, March 2022 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A prior-based approximate latent Riemannian metric Arvanitidis, G., Georgiev, B., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 151:4634-4658, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Camps-Valls, Gustau and Ruiz, Francisco J. R. and Valera, Isabel), PMLR, March 2022 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Adversarially Robust Kernel Smoothing Zhu, J., Kouridi, C., Nemmour, Y., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 151:4972-4994, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Camps-Valls, Gustau and Ruiz, Francisco J. R. and Valera, Isabel), PMLR, 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2022) , March 2022 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Being a Bit Frequentist Improves Bayesian Neural Networks Kristiadi, A., Hein, M., Hennig, P. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 151:529-545, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Camps-Valls, Gustau and Ruiz, Francisco J. R. and Valera, Isabel), PMLR, March 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Physical Intelligence Article BirdBot achieves energy-efficient gait with minimal control using avian-inspired leg clutching Badri-Spröwitz, A., Sarvestani, A. A., Sitti, M., Daley, M. A. Science Robotics, 7(64):eabg4055, March 2022 (Published) Edmond Free-access referral link Youtube video 01 Youtube video 02 DOI URL BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Physical Intelligence Technical Report Data for BirdBot Achieves Energy-Efﬁcient Gait with Minimal Control Using Avian-Inspired Leg Clutching Badri-Spröwitz, A., Sarvestani, A. A., Sitti, M., Daley, M. A. Edmond, March 2022 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Deep Learning for Text Style Transfer: A Survey Jin, D., Jin, Z., Hu, Z., Vechtomova, O., Mihalcea, R. Computational Linguistics, 48(1):155-205, March 2022 (Published) arXiv DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Discovering Inductive Bias with Gibbs Priors: A Diagnostic Tool for Approximate Bayesian Inference Rendsburg, L., Kristiadi, A., Hennig, P., von Luxburg, U. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 151:1503-1526, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Camps-Valls, Gustau and Ruiz, Francisco J. R. and Valera, Isabel), PMLR, 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2022), March 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper GalilAI: Out-of-Task Distribution Detection using Causal Active Experimentation for Safe Transfer RL Sontakke, S. A., Iota, S., Hu, Z., Mehrjou, A., Itti, L., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 151:7518-7530, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Camps-Valls, Gustau and Ruiz, Francisco J. R. and Valera, Isabel), PMLR, March 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article High shear rate propulsion of acoustic microrobots in complex biological fluids Aghakhani, A., Pena-Francesch, A., Bozuyuk, U., Cetin, H., Wrede, P., Sitti, M. Science Advances, 8(10):eabm5126, March 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Article Investigation of Hydrogen Incorporations in Bulk Inﬁnite-Layer Nickelates Puphal, P., Pomjakushin, V., Ortiz, R. A., Hammoud, S., Isobe, M. A. K. B., Hepting, M. Frontiers in Physics, 10:842578, March 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Article Leveraging artificial intelligence to improve people’s planning strategies Callaway, F., Jain, Y. R., Opheusden, B. V., Das, P., Iwama, G., Gul, S., Krueger, P. M., Becker, F., Griffiths, T. L., Lieder, F. 119(12), PNAS, March 2022 () DOI URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Conference Paper Performative Power Hardt, M., Jagadeesan, M., Mendler-Dünner, C. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (NeurIPS 2022), Curran Associates Inc., The Thirty-Six Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), March 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Pick-and-Mix Information Operators for Probabilistic ODE Solvers Bosch, N., Tronarp, F., Hennig, P. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 151:10015-10027, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Camps-Valls, Gustau and Ruiz, Francisco J. R. and Valera, Isabel), PMLR, March 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Probabilistic Numerical Method of Lines for Time-Dependent Partial Differential Equations Krämer, N., Schmidt, J., Hennig, P. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 151:625-639, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Camps-Valls, Gustau and Ruiz, Francisco J. R. and Valera, Isabel), PMLR, March 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Provable Lifelong Learning of Representations Cao, X., Liu, W., Vempala, S. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 151:6334-6356, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Camps-Valls, Gustau and Ruiz, Francisco J. R. and Valera, Isabel), PMLR, March 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Pulling back information geometry Arvanitidis, G., Gonzalez-Duque, M., Pouplin, A., Kalatzis, D., Hauberg, S. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 151:4872-4894, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Camps-Valls, Gustau and Ruiz, Francisco J. R. and Valera, Isabel), PMLR, March 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Medical Systems Article Radio frequency sensing‐based in situ temperature measurements during magnetic resonance imaging interventional procedures Bilgin, M. B., Tiryaki, M. E., Lazovic, J., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials Technologies, 7(9):2101625, March 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Resampling Base Distributions of Normalizing Flows Stimper, V., Schölkopf, B., Hernández-Lobato, J. M. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 151:4915-4936, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Camps-Valls, Gustau and Ruiz, Francisco J. R. and Valera, Isabel), PMLR, 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2022), March 2022 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Robot, Pass Me the Tool: Handle Visibility Facilitates Task-Oriented Handovers Ortenzi, V., Filipovica, M., Abdlkarim, D., Pardi, T., Takahashi, C., Wing, A. M., Di Luca, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), :256-264, Sapporo, Japan, March 2022, Valerio Ortenzi and Maija Filipovica contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Ultrasound-responsive systems as components for smart materials Athanassiadis, A., Ma, Z., Moreno-Gomez, N., Melde, K., Choi, E., Goyal, R., Fischer, P. Chemical Reviews, 122(5):5165-5208, March 2022 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Understanding and designing metal matrix nanocomposites with high electrical conductivity: a review Pan, S., Wang, T., Jin, K., Cai, X. Journal of Materials Science, 57:6487-6523, March 2022 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Article What to learn next? Aligning gamification rewards to long-term goals using reinforcement learning Pauly, R., Heindrich, L., Amo, V., Lieder, F. March 2022, Accepted (Accepted) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Article Guiding the Design of Superresolution Tactile Skins with Taxel Value Isolines Theory Sun, H., Martius, G. Science Robotics, 7(63):eabm0608, February 2022 (Published) Authors copy DOI URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Active microrheology in corrugated channels: comparison of thermal and colloidal baths Malgaretti, P., Puertas, A. M., Pagonabarraga, I. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science , 608(Part 3):2694-2702, February 2022 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Second harmonic Rayleigh scattering optical activity of single Ag nanohelices in a liquid Ohnoutek, L., Olohan, B. J., Jones, R. R., Zheng, X., Jeong, H. Nanoscale, 14(10):3888-3898, February 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Haptic Intelligence Article A Soft Thumb-Sized Vision-Based Sensor with Accurate All-Round Force Perception Sun, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Martius, G. Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(2):135-145, February 2022 (Published) Paper DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Adaptive Optimal Measurement Algorithm for ERT-Based Large-Area Tactile Sensors Park, K., Lee, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Kim, J. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 27(1):304-314, February 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Benchmark of Data Processing Methods and Machine Learning Models for Gut Microbiome-Based Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Kubinski, R., Djamen-Kepaou, J., Zhanabaev, T., Hernandez-Garcia, A., Bauer, S., Hildebrand, F., Korcsmaros, T., Karam, S., Jantchou, P., Kafi, K., et al. Frontiers in Genetics, 13:784397, February 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Article Combined effects of body posture and three-dimensional wing shape enable efficient gliding in flying lizards Khandelwal, P. C., Hedrik, T. L. Scientific Reports, 12:1793, February 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Deep Learning-Enabled Technologies for Bioimage Analysis Rabbi, F., Dabbagh, S. R., Angin, P., Yetisen, A. K., Tasoglu, S. Micromachines, 13(2):260, February 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Learning Group Conference Paper On the Fairness of Causal Algorithmic Recourse von Kügelgen, J., Karimi, A., Bhatt, U., Valera, I., Weller, A., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 9:9584-9594, AAAI Press, Palo Alto, CA, Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022), February 2022, *also at ICML 2021 Workshop Algorithmic Recourse and NeurIPS 2020 Workshop Algorithmic Fairness through the Lens of Causality and Interpretability (AFCI) (Published) arXiv DOI URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper Promoting value-congruent action by supporting effective metacognitive emotion-regulation strategies with a gamified app Amo, V., Prentice, M., Lieder, F. Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention 2022, San Francisco, USA, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention, February 2022 () BibTeX

Physics for Inference and Optimization Article Reciprocity, community detection, and link prediction in dynamic networks Safdari, H., Contisciani, M., De Bacco, C. Journal of Physics: Complexity, 3(1):015010, February 2022 (Published) Code Preprint DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Self-Cleaning Surfaces Realized by Biologically Sized Magnetic Artificial Cilia Cui, Z., Zhang, S., Wang, Y., Tormey, L., Kanies, O. S., Spero, R. C., Fisher, J. K., den Toonder, J. M. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 9(5), February 2022 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Probabilistic Learning Group Conference Paper VACA: Designing Variational Graph Autoencoders for Causal Queries Sanchez-Martin, P., Rateike, M., Valera, I. In Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 7:8159-8168, AAAI Press, Palo Alto, CA, Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022), February 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Variational Inference in Dynamical Systems Ialongo, A. University of Cambridge, UK, Cambridge, February 2022, (Cambridge-Tübingen-Fellowship) (Published) BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Dynamic ultrasound projector controlled by light Ma, Z., Joh, H., Fan, E. D., Fischer, P. Advanced Science, 9(9):2104401, January 2022 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Roadmap on soft robotics: multifunctionality, adaptability and growth without borders Mazzolai, B., Carpi, F., Suzumori, K., Cianchetti, M., Speck, T., Smoukov, S. K., Burgert, I., Keplinger, T., Siqueira, G., Vanneste, F., et al. January 2022 () DOI URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Article Algorithmic Amplification of Politics on Twitter Huszár, F., Ktena, S. I., O’Brien, C., Belli, L., Schlaikjer, A., Hardt, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), National Academy of Sciences, January 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Benchmarking Structured Policies and Policy Optimization for Real-World Dexterous Object Manipulation Funk, N., Schaff, C., Madan, R., Yoneda, T., Urain, J., Watson, J., Gordon, E. K., Widmaier, F., Bauer, S., Srinivasa, S. S., et al. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 7(1):478-485, January 2022 (Published) arXiv DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Diagnostic benefit of multiparametric MRI over contrast-enhanced CT in patients with bladder cancer: A single-center 1-year experience Hagen, F., Norz, V., Thaiss, W. M., Mair, A., Rausch, S., Bedke, J., Nikolaou, K., Stenzl, A., Kruck, S., Hepp, T., et al. European Journal of Radiology, 146, January 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Article Discovering Rational Heuristics for Risky Choice Krueger, P., Callaway, F., Gul, S., Griffiths, T., Lieder, F. PsyArXiv Preprints, January 2022, Submitted (Submitted) Discovering Rational Heuristics for Risky Choice DOI URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper Evaluating Life Reflection Techniques to Help People Select Virtuous Life Goals Prentice, M., Gonzalez Cruz, H., Lieder, F. Integrating Research on Character and Virtues: 10 Years of Impact, Oriel College, Oxford, Integrating Research on Character and Virtues: 10 Years of Impact, January 2022, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Evaluation of Vibrotactile Output from a Rotating Motor Actuator Gourishetti, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 15(1):39-44, January 2022, Presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Human-Robot Handshaking: A Review Prasad, V., Stock-Homburg, R., Peters, J. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14:277-293, January 2022 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Metal matrix nanocomposites in tribology: Manufacturing, performance, and mechanisms Pan, S., Jin, K., Wang, T., Zhang, Z., Zheng, L., Umehara, N. Friction, 10(10):1596-1634, January 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Oxygen hole character and lateral homogeneity in PrNiO2+delta thin films Fürsich, K., Pons, R., Bluschke, M., Ortiz, R. A., Wintz, S., Schierle, E., Weigand, M., Logvenov, G., Schütz, G., Keimer, B., et al. Frontiers in Physics, 9:810220, Frontiers Media, Lausanne, January 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

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