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Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


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Autonomous Vision

Autonomous Learning

Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots

Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

Intelligent Control Systems

Learning and Dynamical Systems

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

Organizational Leadership and Diversity

Probabilistic Learning Group


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Empirical Inference Article Real-time inference for binary neutron star mergers using machine learning Dax, M., Green, S. R., Gair, J., Gupte, N., Pürrer, M., Raymond, V., Wildberger, J., Macke, J. H., Buonanno, A., Schölkopf, B. Nature, 639(8053):49-53, March 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper CameraHMR: Aligning People with Perspective Patel, P., Black, M. J. In International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), International Conference on 3D Vision, March 2025 (Published) arXiv project BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper CHOIR: A Versatile and Differentiable Hand-Object Interaction Representation Morales, T., Taheri, O., Lacey, G. In Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), February 2025 (Published) GitHub Paper URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Article Wrist-to-Wrist Bioimpedance Can Reliably Detect Discrete Self-Touch Forte, M., Vardar, Y., Javot, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 74(4006511):1-11, February 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Article How knee muscles and ground reaction forces shape knee buckling and ankle push-off in neuromuscular simulations of human walking Buchmann, A., Kiss, B., Badri-Spröwitz, A., Renjewski, D. Scientific Reports, 15:2249, January 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Deep Models and Optimization Conference Paper Geometric Inductive Biases of Deep Networks: The Role of Data and Architecture Movahedi, S., Orvieto, A., Moosavi-Dezfooli, S. In The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2025, The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, January 2025 (Accepted) BibTeX

Materials Article Simultaneous Selective and Quantitative Sensing of Diclofenac and Metoprolol via Electrical Conductance of Two Polyelectrolyte Hydrogels Tsianaka, A., Fichtel, K., Tovar, G. E. M., Southan, A. Advanced Sensor Research, 4(3):2400141, January 2025 (Published) pdf DOI URL BibTeX

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. In January 2025 (Published) OpenReview BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Flow Matching for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets: Where Reliability meets Adaptive Noise Levels Gebhard, T. D., Wildberger, J., Dax, M., Kofler, A., Angerhausen, D., Quanz, S., Schölkopf, B. Astronomy \& Astrophysics, 693, January 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Robust Machine Learning Conference Paper Identifiable Exchangeable Mechanisms for Causal Structure and Representation Learning Reizinger, P., Guo, S., Huszár, F., Schölkopf, B., Brendel, W. In January 2025 (Published) OpenReview BibTeX

Robust Machine Learning Conference Paper In Search of Forgotten Domain Generalization Mayilvahanan, P., Zimmermann, R. S., Wiedemer, T., Rusak, E., Juhos, A., Bethge, M., Brendel, W. In January 2025 (Published) OpenReview BibTeX

Robust Machine Learning Conference Paper Interaction Asymmetry: A General Principle for Learning Composable Abstractions Brady, J., von Kügelgen, J., Lachapelle, S., Buchholz, S., Kipf, T., Brendel, W. In January 2025 (Published) OpenReview BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Lawma: The Power of Specialization for Legal Tasks Dominguez-Olmedo, R., Nanda, V., Abebe, R., Bechtold, S., Engel, C., Frankenreiter, J., Gummadi, K., Hardt, M., Livermore, M. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), January 2025 (Accepted) ArXiv Code BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Limits to Scalable Evaluation at the Frontier: LLM as Judge Won’t Beat Twice the Data Dorner, F. E., Nastl, V. Y., Hardt, M. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), January 2025 (Accepted) arXiv URL BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Miscellaneous Training on the Test Task Confounds Evaluation and Emergence Dominguez-Olmedo, R., Dorner, F. E., Hardt, M. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), January 2025 (Accepted) ArXiv BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper OpenCapBench: A Benchmark to Bridge Pose Estimation and Biomechanics Gozlan, Y., Falisse, A., Uhlrich, S., Gatti, A., Black, M., Chaudhari, A. In IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) , January 2025 (Published) arXiv code/data URL BibTeX

Learning and Dynamical Systems Conference Paper Distributed Event-Based Learning via ADMM Er, D., Trimpe, S., Muehlebach, M. In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025 (Submitted) URL BibTeX

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Article Scaly-tail organ enhances static stability during Pel’s scaly-tailed flying squirrels’ arboreal locomotion Schulz, A. K., Chellapurath, M., Khandelwal, P. C., Rezaei, S., Merker, S., Jusufi, A. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 22(227), Royal Society, London, 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Biomimetic Materials and Machines Article Highly agile flat swimming robot Hartmann, F., Baskaran, M., Raynaud, G., Benbedda, M., Mulleners, K., Shea, H. February 2025 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article In silico biological discovery with large perturbation models Miladinovic*, D., Höppe*, T., Chevalley, M., Georgiou, A., Stuart, L., Mehrjou, A., Bantscheff, M., Schölkopf, B., Schwab, P. Nature Computational Science, October 2025, *equal contribution (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Book Special issue on embodied intelligence-understanding animal locomotion and its robotic implementations Manoonponga, P., Badri-Spröwitz, A., Owaki, D. Advanced Robotics, 39:1-2, Taylor & Francis and RSJ, Milton, January 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Deep Models and Optimization Conference Paper Using Shapley interactions to understand how models use structure Divyansh Singhvi, D. M. A. E. R. J. I. P. N. S. In Proceedings ACL, 1-20, Vienna Center, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), 2025 (Accepted) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A data and task-constrained mechanistic model of the mouse outer retina shows robustness to contrast variations Kadhim, K. L., Beck, J., Huang, Z., Macke, J. H., Rieke, F., Euler, T., Deistler, M., Berens, P. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025), 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2025 (Accepted) bioRxiv BibTeX

Learning and Dynamical Systems Conference Paper Adversarial Training for Defense Against Label Poisoning Attacks Bal, M. I., Cevher, V., Muehlebach, M. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025 (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics Kraemer, M. U. G., Tsui, J. L., Chang, S. Y., Lytras, S., Khurana, M. P., Vanderslott, S., Bajaj, S., Scheidwasser, N., Curran-Sebastian, J. L., Semenova, E., et al. Nature, 638(8051):623-635, February 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Conference Paper Bird-inspired tendon coupling improves paddling efficiency by shortening phase transition times Lin, J., Zhao, G., Badri-Spröwitz, A. Proceedings of ICRA 2025, 6, arxiv, NY, ICRA, 2025 (Accepted) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper CauSciBench: Benchmarking 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

Human Aspects of Machine Learning Article Causal fair metric: Bridging causality, individual fairness, and adversarial robustness Ehyaei, A. R., Farnadi, G., Samadi, S. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2025 (Accepted) BibTeX

Learning and Dynamical Systems Conference Paper Conformal Generative Modeling with Improved Sample Efficiency through Sequential Greedy Filtering Kladny, K., Schölkopf, B., Muehlebach, M. In International Conference On Learning Representations, International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025 (Accepted) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Counterfactual reasoning: an analysis of in-context emergence Miller, M., Schölkopf, B., Guo, 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 Article Early warning of complex climate risk with integrated artificial intelligence Reichstein, M., Benson, V., Blunk, J., Camps-Valls, G., Creutzig, F., Fearnley, C. J., Han, B., Kornhuber, K., Rahaman, N., Schölkopf, B., et al. Nature Communications, 16(1), March 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Effortless, Simulation-Efficient Bayesian Inference using Tabular Foundation Models Vetter, J., Gloeckler, M., Gedon, D., Macke, J. H. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025), 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2025 (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX

Robotic Composites and Compositions Article Emergent patterns of interaction with dynamic objects Aktaş, B., Myers, P., Salem, E., Klatzky, R., Howe, R. PLOS ONE, 20:e0331844, 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper FNOPE: Simulation-based inference on function spaces with Fourier Neural Operators Moss, G., Muhle, L. S., Drews, R., Macke, J. H., Schröder, C. 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 Fitting 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) 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) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report International AI Safety Report Bengio, Y., Mindermann, S., Privitera, D., Besiroglu, T., Bommasani, R., Casper, S., Choi, Y., Fox, P., Garfinkel, B., Goldfarb, D., et al. (DSIT 2025/001), 2025 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Joker: Conditional 3D Head Synthesis with Extreme Facial Expressions Prinzler, M., Zakharov, E., Sklyarova, V., Kabadayi, B., Thies, J. In International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), International Conference on 3D Vision, 2025 (Published) project page arxiv BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Language Models Are Inefficient Reasoners: An Analysis on Arithmetic Proof Search 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) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter Natural Language Processing Jin, Z., Mihalcea, R., Schölkopf, B. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication, (Editors: Nai, A. and Grömping, M. and Wirz, D.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025 (Accepted) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Predictions, Policies, Rewards: Models of Decision-Making from Observational Data Pace, A. ETH Zurich, Switzerland, February 2025, ETH AI Center-Fellowship-Program (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Probabilistic Machine Learning for Real-Time Gravitational-Wave Inference Dax, M. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, July 2025, (MPI IS + ELLIS Institute T{\"u}bingen) (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Reparameterized LLM Training via Orthogonal Equivalence Transformation Qiu, Z., Buchholz, S., Xiao, T., Dax, M., Schölkopf, B., Liu, W. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025), 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2025 (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX