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Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Supervising 3D Talking Head Avatars with Analysis-by-Audio-Synthesis Danecek, R., Schmitt, C., Polikovsky, S., Black, M. J. In Int. Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV), March 2026 (Accepted) project arXiv BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper NeuralFur: Animal Fur Reconstruction from Multi-view Images Skliarova, V., Kabadayi, B., Yiannakidis, A., Becherini, G., Black, M. J., Thies, J. In Int. Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV), March 2026 (Accepted) project arXiv code BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Predicting 4D Hand Trajectory from Monocular Videos Ye, Y., Feng, Y., Taheri, O., Feng, H., Black, M. J., Tulsiani, S. In Int. Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV), 3 2026 (Accepted) project arXiv code BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Sim-to-Real for Muscle-Actuated Robots via Learned Actuator Models Schneider, J., Mahajan, M., Chen, L., Guist, S., Schölkopf, B., Posner, I., Büchler, D. 2nd German Robotics Conference (GRC), March 2026 (Accepted) BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper HairFree: Compositional 2D Head Prior for Text-Driven 360° Bald Texture Synthesis Ostrek, M., Black, M., Thies, J. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2025 (Published) pdf project poster BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper GenLit: Reformulating Single Image Relighting as Video Generation Bharadwaj, S., Feng, H., Becherini, G., Abrevaya, V. F., Black, M. J. In SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Papers ’25, Association for Computing Machinery, SIGGRAPH Asia, December 2025 (To be published) Project Page Paper DOI URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Are Language Models Efficient Reasoners? A Perspective from Logic Programming Opedal, A., Zengaffinen, Y., Shirakami, H., Pasti, C., Sachan, M., Saparov, A., Cotterell, R., Schölkopf, B. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025), 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2025 (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX
Empirische Inferenz Conference Paper CauSciBench: Assessing LLM Causal Reasoning for Scientific Research Acharya, S., Zhang, T. J., Kim, A., Haghighat, A., Sun, X., Shrestha, R. B., Mordig, M., Danisman, F., Jose, C., Qi, Y., et al. NeurIPS 2025: 5th Workshop on Mathematical Reasoning and AI (Math-AI) and CauScien Workshop, December 2025 (Published) URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Cultural Alien Sampler: Open-ended art generation balancing originality and coherence Hernandez, A., Yakura, H., Brinkmann, L., Sola, M. C., Alhaija, H. A., Serna, I., Rahaman, N., Schölkopf, B., Rahwan, I. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025), 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Creative AI Track, December 2025 (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Do-PFN: In-Context Learning for Causal Effect Estimation Robertson*, J., Reuter*, A., Guo, S., Hollmann, N., Hutter, F., Schölkopf, B. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025), 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2025, *equal contribution (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Forecasting in Offline Reinforcement Learning for Non-stationary Environments Ada, S. E., Martius, G., Ugur, E., Oztop, E. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025), 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2025 (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Identifying multi-compartment Hodgkin-Huxley models with high-density extracellular voltage recordings Tanoh, I. C., Deistler, M., Macke, J. H., Linderman, S. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025), 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2025 (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Root Cause Analysis of Outliers with Missing Structural Knowledge Orchard, W. R., Okati, N., Garrido Mejia, S., Blöbaum, P., Janzing, D. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025), 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2025 (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX
Organizational Leadership and Diversity Conference Paper Inclusive Leadership in the Age of AI: A Dataset and Comparative Study of LLMs vs. Real-Life Leaders in Workplace Action Planning Singh, V., Schulte im Walde, S., Keplinger, K. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 19732-19753, Association for Computational Linguistics, Suzhou, China, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, November 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Conference Paper CauSciBench: Assessing LLM Causal Reasoning for Scientific Research Zhang, T. J., Acharya, S., Kim, A., Haghighat, A., Shrestha, R. B., Jose, C., Qi, Y., Cobben, P., Mordig, M., He, P., et al. MathNLP 2025: The 3rd Workshop on Mathematical Natural Language Processing at EMNLP, November 2025 (Accepted) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Contact-Aware Refinement of Human Pose Pseudo-Ground Truth via Bioimpedance Sensing Forte, M., Athanasiou, N., Ballardini, G., Bartels, U., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Black, M. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Honolulu, USA, October 2025, Nikos Athanasiou and Giulia Ballardini contributed equally to this publication (Published) pdf BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Diffusion-Based Approximate MPC: Fast and Consistent Imitation of Multi-Modal Action Distributions Marquez Julbe, P., Nubert, J., Hose, H., Trimpe, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 5633-5640, Hangzhou, China, October 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Generative Zoo Niewiadomski, T., Yiannakidis, A., Cuevas-Velasquez, H., Sanyal, S., Black, M. J., Zuffi, S., Kulits, P. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Honolulu, HI, International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV, October 2025 (Published) project page code demo pdf BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper ETCH: Generalizing Body Fitting to Clothed Humans via Equivariant Tightness Li, B., Feng, H., Cai, Z., Black, M. J., Xiu, Y. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) project arXiv code video BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Im2Haircut: Single-view Strand-based Hair Reconstruction for Human Avatars Vanessa, S., Egor, Z., Malte, P., Giorgio, B., Michael, B., Justus, T. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Honolulu, USA, October 2025 (Accepted) arXiv project code BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper MagicHOI: Leveraging 3D Priors for Accurate Hand-object Reconstruction from Short Monocular Video Clips Wang, S., He, H., Parelli, M., Gebhardt, C., Fan, Z., Song, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), ICCV, October 2025 (Published) Project Video Code URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper MoGA: 3D Generative Avatar Prior for Monocular Gaussian Avatar Reconstruction Dong, Z., Duan, L., Song, J., Black, M. J., Geiger, A. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) pdf project code video BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper PRIMAL: Physically Reactive and Interactive Motor Model for Avatar Learning Zhang, Y., Feng, Y., Cseke, A., Saini, N., Bajandas, N., Heron, N., Black, M. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) pdf project code video BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper SDFit: 3D Object Pose and Shape by Fitting a Morphable SDF to a Single Image Antić, D., Paschalidis, G., Tripathi, S., Gevers, T., Dwivedi, S. K., Tzionas, D. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) Project arXiv Code Video Poster BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper St4RTrack: Simultaneous 4D Reconstruction and Tracking in the World Feng, H., Zhang, J., Wang, Q., Ye, Y., Yu, P., Black, M., Darrell, T., Kanazawa, A. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) pdf arXiv project code demo video BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Autonomous Learning Empirical Inference Conference Paper Adding Internal Audio Sensing to Internal Vision Enables Human-Like In-Hand Fabric Recognition with Soft Robotic Fingertips Andrussow, I., Solano, J., Richardson, B. A., Martius, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 373-380, Seoul, South Korea, September 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotics Embodied Vision Conference Paper ISyHand: A Dexterous Multi-finger Robot Hand with an Articulated Palm Richardson, B. A., Grüninger, F., Mack, L., Stueckler, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 720-727, Seoul, South Korea, September 2025, Benjamin A. Richardson, Felix Grueninger and Lukas Mack contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI BibTeX
Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Strategic Hypothesis Testing Hossain, S., Chen, Y., Chen, Y. The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Spotlight Poster, top 3%, September 2025 (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Active Fine-Tuning of Multi-Task Policies Bagatella, M., Hübotter, J., Martius, G., Krause, A. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:2409-2441, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Deep Models and Optimization Conference Paper Generalized Interpolating Discrete Diffusion von Rütte, D., Fluri, J., Ding, Y., Orvieto, A., Schölkopf, B., Hofmann, T. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:61810-61843, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Generative Intervention Models for Causal Perturbation Modeling Schneider, N., Lorch, L., Kilbertus, N., Schölkopf, B., Krause, A. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:53388-53412, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Joint Interventional Effects from Single-Variable Interventions in Additive Models Kekić, A., Garrido Mejia, S., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:29651-29669, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Position: Probabilistic Modelling is Sufficient for Causal Inference Mlodozeniec, B. K., Krueger, D., Turner, R. E. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:81810-81840, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Progressive Tempering Sampler with Diffusion Rissanen*, S., OuYang*, R., He*, J., Chen, W., Heinonen, M., Solin, A., Hernández-Lobato, J. M. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:51724-51746, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Autonomous Learning Conference Paper SENSEI: Semantic Exploration Guided by Foundation Models to Learn Versatile World Models Sancaktar, C., Gumbsch, C., Zadaianchuk, A., Kolev, P., Martius, G. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:52745-52777, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), International Conference on Machine Learning , July 2025 (Published) arXiv Project website URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Scalable Gaussian Processes with Latent Kronecker Structure Lin, J. A., Ament, A., Balandat, M., Eriksson, D., Hernández-Lobato, J. M., Bakshy, E. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:37730-37744, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Autonomous Learning Empirical Inference Conference Paper Zero-Shot Offline Imitation Learning via Optimal Transport Rupf, T., Bagatella, M., Gürtler, N., Frey, J., Martius, G. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:52345-52381, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Reconstructing Animals and the Wild Kulits, P., Black, M. J., Zuffi, S. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project arXiv code BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper DiffLocks: Generating 3D Hair from a Single Image using Diffusion Models Rosu, R. A., Wu, K., Feng, Y., Zheng, Y., Black, M. J. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project paper code dataset BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper InterDyn: Controllable Interactive Dynamics with Video Diffusion Models Akkerman, R., Feng, H., Black, M. J., Tzionas, D., Abrevaya, V. F. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project arXiv BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper PICO: Reconstructing 3D People In Contact with Objects Cseke, A., Tripathi, S., Dwivedi, S. K., Lakshmipathy, A. S., Chatterjee, A., Black, M. J., Tzionas, D. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project arXiv video code dataset BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper ChatGarment: Garment Estimation, Generation and Editing via Large Language Models Bian, S., Xu, C., Xiu, Y., Grigorev, A., Liu, Z., Lu, C., Black, M. J., Feng, Y. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project arXiv video code data BibTeX
Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Difficult Lessons on Social Prediction from Wisconsin Public Schools Perdomo, J. C., Britton, T., Hardt, M., Abebe, R. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, June 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper How Benchmark Prediction from Fewer Data Misses the Mark Zhang, G., Dorner, F. E., Hardt, M. The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), June 2025 (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Temporally Consistent Object-Centric Learning by Contrasting Slots Manasyan, A., Seitzer, M., Radovic, F., Martius, G., Zadaianchuk, A. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 5401-5411, June 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper VERA: Explainable Video Anomaly Detection via Verbalized Learning of Vision-Language Models Ye, M., Liu, W., He, P. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 8679-8688, June 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Perceiving Systems Conference Paper ChatHuman: Chatting about 3D Humans with Tools Lin, J., Feng, Y., Liu, W., Black, M. J. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 8150-8161, June 2025 (Published) project pdf Paper DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper InteractVLM: 3D Interaction Reasoning from 2D Foundational Models Dwivedi, S. K., Antić, D., Tripathi, S., Taheri, O., Schmid, C., Black, M. J., Tzionas, D. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 22605-22615, June 2025 (Published) Project Paper Code Video BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper PromptHMR: Promptable Human Mesh Recovery Wang, Y., Sun, Y., Patel, P., Daniilidis, K., Black, M. J., Kocabas, M. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) arXiv project video BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Accuracy on the wrong line: On the pitfalls of noisy data for out-of-distribution generalisation Sanyal, A., Hu, Y., Yu, Y., Ma, Y., Wang, Y., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 258:2170-2178, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Li, Yingzhen and Mandt, Stephan and Agrawal, Shipra and Khan, Emtiyaz), PMLR, May 2025 (Published) URL BibTeX