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Human Aspects of Machine Learning

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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

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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

Organizational Leadership and Diversity Article Inclusive avatars in the Metaverse: learning from the lived experiences of people with disabilities Angerbauer, K., Van Wagoner, H. P., Keplinger, K., Halach, T., Vogelsang, J., Hube, N., Smith, A., Sedlmair, M. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 34:101935, September 2025 (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

Physical Intelligence Article Mixed-length multivariate covalent organic framework for combined near-infrared photodynamic therapy and drug delivery Rodrı́guez-Camargo, A., Yildiz, E., Juela, D., Fischer, F. R., Graf, D., Rath, B. B., Ochsenfeld, C., Bauer, M., Sitti, M., Yao, L., et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147:33472-33481, September 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Anisotropic Surface Microrollers for Endovascular Navigation: A Computational Analysis with a Case Study in Hepatic Perfusion Arslan, B., Bozuyuk, U., Görgülü, K., Yildiz, E., Ozturk, H., Liotta, L., Heinemann, V., Algül, H., Sitti, M. Advanced Theory and Simulations, 8:2400387, May 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Real-time in situ magnetization reprogramming for soft robotics Bao, X., Wang, F., Zhang, J., Li, M., Zhang, S., Ren, Z., Liao, J., Yan, Y., Kang, W., Zhang, R., et al. Nature, 645:375–384, August 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

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 Improving Large Language Model Safety with Contrastive Representation Learning Simko, S., Sachan, M., Schölkopf, B., Jin, Z. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 28166-28194, (Editors: Christodoulopoulos, Christos and Chakraborty, Tanmoy and Rose, Carolyn and Peng, Violet), Association for Computational Linguistics, November 2025 (Published) arXiv DOI URL 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 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 (Published) PDF 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

Empirical Inference Conference Paper SPARTAN: A Sparse Transformer World Model Attending to What Matters Lei, A., Schölkopf, B., Posner, I. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025), 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2025 (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Scalable Gaussian Processes: Advances in Iterative Methods and Pathwise Conditioning Lin, J. University of Cambridge, UK, May 2025, (Cambridge-T{\"u}bingen-Fellowship-Program) (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article The Fiction Machine Bottou, L., Schölkopf, B. SIAM News, 58(3), April 2025 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis The Geometry of Learning Via Loss Landscape Curvature Singh, S. P. ETH Zurich, Switzerland, May 2025, CLS Fellowship Program (Published) BibTeX

Conference Paper PICO: Reconstructing 3D People In Contact with Objects Cseke, A., Tripathi, S., Dwivedi, S. K., Lakshmipathy, A., Chatterjee, A., Black, M. J., Tzionas, D. In June 2025 (Published) arXiv project BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper MotionFix: Text-Driven 3D Human Motion Editing Athanasiou, N., Cseke, A., Diomataris, M., Black, M. J., Varol, G. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference Proceedings, ACM, SIGGRAPH Asia , December 2024 (Published) Code (GitHub) Website Data Exploration ArXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper From Causal to Concept-Based Representation Learning Rajendran*, G., Buchholz*, S., Aragam, B., Schölkopf, B., Ravikumar, P. K. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024), 37:101250-101296, (Editors: A. Globerson and L. Mackey and D. Belgrave and A. Fan and U. Paquet and J. Tomczak and C. Zhang), Curran Associates, Inc., 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Partitions from Context Buchholz, S. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024), 37:140066-140112, (Editors: A. Globerson and L. Mackey and D. Belgrave and A. Fan and U. Paquet and J. Tomczak and C. Zhang), Curran Associates, Inc., 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Metacognitive Capabilities of LLMs: An Exploration in Mathematical Problem Solving Didolkar, A. R., Goyal, A., Ke, N. R., Guo, S., Valko, M., Lillicrap, T. P., Rezende, D. J., Bengio, Y., Mozer, M. C., Arora, S. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024), 37:19783-19812, (Editors: A. Globerson and L. Mackey and D. Belgrave and A. Fan and U. Paquet and J. Tomczak and C. Zhang), Curran Associates, Inc., 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Generative Model of Symmetry Transformations Allingham, J. U., Mlodozeniec, B. K., Padhy, S., Antorán, J., Krueger, D., Turner, R. E., Nalisnick, E., Hernández-Lobato, J. M. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024), 37:91091-91130, (Editors: A. Globerson and L. Mackey and D. Belgrave and A. Fan and U. Paquet and J. Tomczak and C. Zhang), Curran Associates, Inc., 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A Randomized Controlled Trial on Anonymizing Reviewers to Each Other in Peer Review Discussions Rastogi, C., Song, X., Jin, Z., Stelmakh, I., Daumé III, H., Zhang, K., Shah, N. B. PLOS ONE, 19(12), Public Library of Science, December 2024 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX