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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 Ph.D. Thesis From Perception to Actions: Autonomous Exploration, Synthetic Data, and Dynamic Worlds Bonetto, E. January 2026 (Published) Thesis: From Perception to Actions BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Physics-Informed Modeling of Dynamic Humans and Their Interactions Shashank, T. January 2026 (Published) Thesis BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article 3D-printed low-voltage-driven ciliary hydrogel microactuators Liu, Z., Wang, C., Ren, Z., Wang, C., Wang, W., Ko, J., Song, S., Hong, C., Chen, X., Wang, H., et al. Nature, 649:885-893, January 2026 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotics Article Open-Source Hardware and Software Platform for Vibrotactile Motion Guidance Rokhmanova, N., Martus, J., Faulkner, R., Fiene, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Device, 4(1):100966, January 2026 (Published) DOI 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
Physische Intelligenz Article Optofluidic three-dimensional microfabrication and nanofabrication Lyu, X., Lei, W., Gardi, G., Khan, M. T. A., Bagheri, S., Zhang, M., Sitti, M. Nature, 00:1-8, January 2026 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Social Foundations of Computation Miscellaneous Scaling Open-Ended Reasoning To Predict the Future Chandak, N., Shashwat, G., Prabhu, A., Hardt, M., Geiping, J. January 2026 (Submitted) arXiv BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Aerial Robot Formations for Dynamic Environment Perception Price, E. University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, December 2025 (Published) Thesis DOI 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
Haptic Intelligence Article Creating an Affective Robot That Feels Both Touch and Emotion Burns, R. B., Richardson, B. A., Klingenberg, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 1-18, December 2025, Rachael Bevill Burns and Benjamin A. Richardson contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI 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
Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Learning Hands in Action Fan, Z. December 2025 (Published) PDF 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
Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Pose Estimation: Application to Sign Language Forte, M. University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, November 2025, Department of Computer Science (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Article Dataset and Analysis of Long-Term Skill Acquisition in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery Sharon, Y., Geftler, A., Kossowsky Lev, H., Nisky, I. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 7(4):1513-1524, November 2025, Yarden Sharon and Alex Geftler contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI BibTeX
Social Foundations of Computation Miscellaneous Policy Design in Long-run Welfare Dynamics Wu, J., Abebe, R., Hardt, M., Stoica, A. Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO), November 2025 (Published) 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
Robotic Composites and Compositions Article Jamming with magnetic composites Aktaş, B., Kim, M., Baeckert, M., Sicilia, G., Franchini, G., Heemeyer, F., Gervasoni, S., Chen, X., Pane, S., Nelson, B. Nature Communications, 16:8711, September 2025 (Published) DOI URL 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 Grüninger 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
Haptic Intelligence Master Thesis Wrist-Worn Pressure Pulses for Phantom Directional Cues in VR Kadmani, A. Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, September 2025, M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (Published) BibTeX
Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Article Performative Prediction: Past and Future Hardt, M., Mendler-Dünner, C. Statistical Science, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, August 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous The Benefits of Gait Retraining with Vibrotactile Feedback Outweigh Higher Perceived Mental Load Sundaram, V. H., Rokhmanova, N., Halilaj, E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (1 page) presented at the American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting (ASB), Pittsburgh, USA, August 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Materials Article Sensitivity Enhancement of a Micro Ring Resonator-Based Photonic Sensor by Using a Gelatin Methacryloyl Functional Coating for the Detection of Metoprolol Tsianaka, A., Schweikert, C., Southan, A., Hoppe, N., Greul, M., Kaschel, M., Vogel, W., Berroth, M., Rademacher, G., Tovar, G. E. M. ACS Applied Optical Materials, 3(7):1556-1566, July 2025 (Published) pdf DOI URL BibTeX
Haptische Intelligenz Miscellaneous A DNN-Based Metamodel for Simulating Fingertip Deformation Deshmukh, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Serhat, G. 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 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 Conference Paper Avoiding spurious sharpness minimization broadens applicability of SAM Singh, S. P., Mobahi, H., Agarwala, A., Dauphin, Y. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:55702-55719, 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