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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
Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Miscellaneous Learning-Based Touch Detection and Force Estimation in Cutaneous Electrohydraulic Devices Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Singer, D., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, South Korea, July 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Perception of Diverse Asymmetric Vibration Signals Tashiro, N., Ballardini, G., Nunez, C. M., Vardar, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, South Korea, July 2025 (Published) 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
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Quantifying Texture-Rendering Quality Across Haptic Devices Fazlollahi, F., Seifi, H., Ballardini, G., Taghizadeh, Z., Schulz, A. K., MacLean, K. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, South Korea, July 2025 (Published) 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
Haptic Intelligence Robotics Miscellaneous Soft Magnetic Fingertip Devices for Clear Vibrotactile Feedback Gertler, I., Ballardini, G., Grüninger, F., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, South Korea, July 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Watch, Feel, Do: Investigating the Impact of Naturalistic Vibrotactile Feedback and Active Imitation on Manual Skill Learning Gourishetti, R., Hughes, A. G., Javot, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, South Korea, July 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Whole-Arm Humanoid Robot Teleoperation with Naturalistic Vibrotactile Feedback Gong, Y., Hudhud Mughrabi, M., L’Orsa, R., Mohan, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, South Korea, July 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotics Robotic Materials Miscellaneous Wrist-Worn Circumferential Pressure Feedback for Conveying Directional Forces in Virtual Reality Kadmani, A., Bartels, J. U., Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Gasparetto, W., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, South Korea, July 2025 (Published) 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
Physical Intelligence Article Surface Rolling Active Magnetic Emulsions Khan, M. T. A., Gardi, G., Bozuyuk, U., Sitti, M. Advanced Science, 12, June 2025 (Published) DOI 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
Empirical Inference Article Flow annealed importance sampling bootstrap meets differentiable particle physics Kofler, A., Stimper, V., Mikhasenko, M., Kagan, M., Heinrich, L. Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 6(2), IOP Publishing, June 2025 (Published) DOI 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
Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis Towards Robust and Flexible Robot State and Motion Estimation through Optimization and Learning Nubert, J. ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2025, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (Published) 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
Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Article Wearable Electrohydraulic Actuation for Salient Full-Fingertip Haptic Feedback Shao, Y., Shagan Shomron, A., Javot, B., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Advanced Materials Technologies, 10(12):2401525, June 2025, Yitian Shao and Alona Shagan Shomron contributed equally to this publication. This article was selected for the front cover. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202570062 (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
Haptic Intelligence Article Comparing Puncture-Detection Approaches for Manual Needle Insertions Through the Parietal Pleura L’Orsa, R., Zareinia, K., Sutherland, G. R., Westwick, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 7(2):455-468, May 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Article Enhancing Needle Puncture Detection Using High-Pass Filtering and Diffuse Reflectance L’Orsa, R., Bisht, A., Yu, L., Murari, K., Sutherland, G. R., Westwick, D. T., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 12(1429327):1-16, May 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Optics and Sensing Laboratory Miscellaneous Open-Source Multi-Viewpoint Surgical Telerobotics Caccianiga, G., Sharon, Y., Javot, B., Polikovsky, S., Ergün, G., Capobianco, I., Mihaljevic, A. L., Deguet, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (2 pages) presented at the ICRA Workshop on Robot-Assisted Medical Imaging (ICRA-RAMI), Atlanta, USA, May 2025 (Published) URL BibTeX
Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper To Give or Not to Give? The Impacts of Strategically Withheld Recourse Chen, Y., Estornell, A., Vorobeychik, Y., Liu, Y. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTAS), PMLR, The Twenty-Eight International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), May 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Training Neural Samplers with Reverse Diffusive KL Divergence He*, J., Chen*, W., Zhang*, M., Barber, D., Hernández-Lobato, J. M. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 258:5167-5175, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Li, Yingzhen and Mandt, Stephan and Agrawal, Shipra and Khan, Emtiyaz), PMLR, May 2025, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Embodied Vision Robotics Conference Paper Visuo-Tactile Object Pose Estimation for a Multi-Finger Robot Hand with Low-Resolution In-Hand Tactile Sensing Mack, L., Grüninger, F., Richardson, B. A., Lendway, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Stueckler, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 12401-12407, Atlanta, USA, May 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Your Finetuned Large Language Model is Already a Powerful Out-of-distribution Detector Zhang, A., Xiao, T. Z., Liu, W., Bamler, R., Wischik, D. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 258:2701-2709, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Li, Yingzhen and Mandt, Stephan and Agrawal, Shipra and Khan, Emtiyaz), PMLR, May 2025 (Published) URL BibTeX
Autonomous Learning Miscellaneous Emergence of natural and robust bipedal walking by learning from biologically plausible objectives Schumacher, P., Geijtenbeek, T., Caggiano, V., Kumar, V., Schmitt, S., Martius, G., Haeufle, D. F. iScience, 28(4):112203, April 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Estimating Human and Camera Motion From RGB Data Kocabas, M. April 2025 (Published) Thesis PDF BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Understanding Human-Scene Interaction through Perception and Generation Yi, H. April 2025 (Published) thesis BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Navigating microalgal biohybrids through confinements with magnetic guidance Akolpoglu, M. B., Baltaci, S. F., Bozuyuk, U., Karaz, S., Sitti, M. Matter, 8:102052, April 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous A Method for Single-Input Sequencing of Hyperelastic Balloons Gertler, I., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (3 pages) presented at the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Empirical Inference Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Advancing Out-of-Distribution Detection via Local Neuroplasticity Canevaro, A., Schmidt, J., Marvi, M. S., Yu, H., Martius, G., Jordan, J. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025 (Published) arXiv BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotics Miscellaneous Bio-Inspired Gradient (BIG) Whiskers: Stiffness-Shifting Structures Provide Dynamic Functional Benefits for Contact Sensing Schulz, A. K., Andrussow, I., Farsijani, F., Faulkner, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (3 pages) presented at the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotics Article Building Instructions You Can Feel: Edge-Changing Haptic Devices for Digitally Guided Construction Tashiro, N., Faulkner, R., Melnyk, S., Rosales Rodriguez, T., Javot, B., Tahouni, Y., Cheng, T., Wood, D., Menges, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 32(1):1-40, April 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Can Large Language Models Understand Symbolic Graphics Programs? Qiu, Z., Liu, W., Feng, H., Liu, Z., Xiao, T. Z., Collins, K. M., Tenenbaum, J. B., Weller, A., Black, M. J., Schölkopf, B. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025 (Published) arXiv Paper BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Compositional simulation-based inference for time series Gloeckler*, M., Toyota*, S., Fukumizu, K., Macke, J. H. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025 (Published) arXiv BibTeX
Empirical Inference Learning and Dynamical Systems Conference Paper Conformal Generative Modeling with Improved Sample Efficiency through Sequential Greedy Filtering Kladny, K., Schölkopf, B., Muehlebach, M. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Robust Machine Learning Conference Paper Cross-Entropy Is All You Need to Invert the Data Generating Process Reizinger*, P., Bizeul*, A., Juhos*, A., Vogt, J. E., Balestriero, R., Brendel, W., Klindt, D. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025, *Joint first authorship (Published) arXiv BibTeX