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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 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), June 2025, Accepted (Accepted) 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), June 2025, Accepted (Accepted) project pdf Paper 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), June 2025, Accepted (Accepted) Project Paper Code Video 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), Atlanta, USA, May 2025, Accepted (Accepted) 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, Accepted (Accepted) 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, Accepted (Accepted) 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, Accepted (Accepted) 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, Accepted (Accepted) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Efficient Diversity-Preserving Diffusion Alignment via Gradient-Informed GFlowNets Liu, Z., Xiao, T. Z., Liu, W., Bengio, Y., Zhang, D. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025, Accepted (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX

Empirical Inference Robust Machine Learning Conference Paper Identifiable Exchangeable Mechanisms for Causal Structure and Representation Learning Reizinger, P., Guo, S., Huszár, F., Schölkopf, B., Brendel, W. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Language Model Alignment in Multilingual Trolley Problems Jin, Z., Kleiman-Weiner, M., Piatti, G., Levine, S., Liu, J., Gonzalez, F., Ortu, F., Strausz, A., Sachan, M., Mihalcea, R., et al. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Learning Conference Paper On the Transfer of Object-Centric Representation Learning Didolkar, A. R., Zadaianchuk, A., Goyal, A., Mozer, M. C., Bengio, Y., Martius, G., Seitzer, M. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Standardizing Structural Causal Models Ormaniec*, W., Sussex*, S., Lorch*, L., Schölkopf, B., Krause, A. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025, *equal contribution, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Gaussian Garments: Reconstructing Simulation-Ready Clothing with Photo-Realistic Appearance from Multi-View Video Rong, B., Grigorev, A., Wang, W., Black, M. J., Thomaszewski, B., Tsalicoglou, C., Hilliges, O. In International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), International Conference on 3D Vision, March 2025 (Published) arXiv project video URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper My Robot, My Motion: Expressive Real-Time Teleoperation Mohan, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Hands-on demonstration presented at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Melbourne, Australia, March 2025 (Published) 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

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Why AI Is WEIRD and Should Not Be This Way: Towards AI For Everyone, With Everyone, By Everyone Mihalcea*, R., Ignat*, O., Bai, L., Borah, A., Chiruzzo, L., Jin, Z., Kwizera, C., Nwatu, J., Poria, S., Solorio, T. The Thirty-Nineth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2025 (Senior Member Presentation Track), AAAI Press, February 2025, *equal contribution, Accepted (Accepted) 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 (Accepted) 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

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 (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 Oral), January 2025, Accepted (Accepted) arXiv URL 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 (Submitted) URL 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. The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), May 2025, Accepted (Accepted) 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 (Accepted) 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 (Accepted) DOI URL 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 (Accepted) 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, *equal contribution, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Differential private steering for Large language model alignment Goel, A., Hu, Y., Gurevych, I., Sanyal, A. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Improving Probabilistic Diffusion Models With Optimal Covariance Matching Ou, Z., Zhang, M., Zhang, A., Xiao, T. Z., Li, Y., Barber, D. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Influence Functions for Scalable Data Attribution in Diffusion Models Mlodozeniec, B., Eschenhagen, R., Bae, J., Immer, A., Krueger, D., Turner, R. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference 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. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025, Accepted (Accepted) 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 Preference Elicitation for Offline Reinforcement Learning Pace, A., Schölkopf, B., Rätsch, G., Ramponi, G. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper The Directionality of Optimization Trajectories in Neural Networks Singh, S. P., He, B., Hofmann, T., Schölkopf, B. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025, Accepted (Accepted) 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. The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), May 2025, *equal contribution, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper VERA: Explainable Video Anomaly Detection via Verbalized Learning of Vision-Language Models Ye, M., Liu, W., Pan, H. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper What Does It Mean to Be a Transformer? Insights from a Theoretical Hessian Analysis Ormaniec, W., Dangel, F., Singh, S. P. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025, Accepted (Accepted) 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. The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), May 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper MathGAP: Out-of-Distribution Evaluation on Problems with Arbitrarily Complex Proofs Opedal*, A., Shirakami*, H., Schölkopf, B., Saparov, A., Sachan, M. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025, *equal contribution, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Nonparametric Teaching for Multiple Learners Zhang, C., Cao, X., Liu, W., Tsang, I. W., Kwok, J. T. In December 2024 (Published) 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