DEPARTMENTS

Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


Research Groups

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


Topics

Robot Learning

Conference Paper

2022

Autonomous Learning

Robotics

AI

Career

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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

Empirical Inference Perceiving Systems Technical Report 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. August 2024, To be published (To be published) BibTeX

Embodied Vision Technical Report Incremental Few-Shot Adaptation for Non-Prehensile Object Manipulation using Parallelizable Physics Simulators Baumeister, F., Mack, L., Stueckler, J. CoRR abs/2409.13228, CoRR, 2024, Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025, Submitted (Submitted) URL BibTeX

Embodied Vision Technical Report Learning a Terrain- and Robot-Aware Dynamics Model for Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Achterhold, J., Guttikonda, S., Kreber, J. U., Li, H., Stueckler, J. CoRR abs/2409.11452, 2024, Preprint submitted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11452, Submitted (Submitted) BibTeX

Safety- and Efficiency- aligned Learning Technical Report A Realistic Threat Model for Large Language Model Jailbreaks Boreiko, V., Panfilov, A., Hein, M., Geiping, J. October 2024, Submitted (Submitted) URL BibTeX

Safety- and Efficiency- aligned Learning Technical Report AI Risk Management Should Incorporate Both Safety and Security Qi, X., Huang, Y., Zeng, Y., Debenedetti, E., Geiping, J., He, L., Huang, K., Madhushani, U., Sehwag, V., Shi, W., et al. 2024 () BibTeX

Safety- and Efficiency- aligned Learning Technical Report Coercing LLMs to do and reveal (almost) anything Geiping, J., Stein, A., Shu, M., Saifullah, K., Wen, Y., Goldstein, T. 2024, Submitted (Submitted) URL BibTeX

Safety- and Efficiency- aligned Learning Technical Report Generating Potent Poisons and Backdoors from Scratch with Guided Diffusion Souri, H., Bansal, A., Kazemi, H., Fowl, L., Saha, A., Geiping, J., Wilson, A. G., Chellappa, R., Goldstein, T., Goldblum, M. 2024, Submitted (Submitted) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Synchronizing Machine Learning Algorithms, Realtime Robotic Control and Simulated Environment with o80 Berenz, V., Widmaier, F., Guist, S., Schölkopf, B., Büchler, D. Robot Software Architectures Workshop (RSA) 2023, ICRA, 2023 (Published) arxiv poster URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Technical Report Toward a Science of Effective Well-Doing Lieder, F., Prentice, M., Corwin-Renner, E. May 2021 () Preprint BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Technical Report Optimal To-Do List Gamification Stojcheski, J., Felso, V., Lieder, F. ArXiv Preprint, 2020 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Technical Report Identifying Causal Structure in Dynamical Systems Baumann, D., Solowjow, F., Johansson, K. H., Trimpe, S. 2020 () arXiv BibTeX

Technical Report Mediating between human driver and automation: state-of-the artand knowledge gaps : D1.1 of the H2020 project MEDIATOR Christoph, M., Cleij, D., Ahlström, H., Bakker, B., van Egmond, R., van Grondelle, E., de Ridder, H. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 2019 () BibTeX

Technical Report A review on the effects of motion characteristics on motion sickness incidence Nooij, S. 197(197), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, 2018 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Technical Report Distributed Event-based State Estimation Trimpe, S. Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, November 2015 () arXiv BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Cosmology from Cosmic Shear with DES Science Verification Data Abbott, T., Abdalla, F. B., Allam, S., Amara, A., Annis, J., Armstrong, R., Bacon, D., Banerji, M., Bauer, A. H., Baxter, E., et al. arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05552, 2015 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report The DES Science Verification Weak Lensing Shear Catalogs Jarvis, M., Sheldon, E., Zuntz, J., Kacprzak, T., Bridle, S. L., Amara, A., Armstrong, R., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bonnett, C., et al. arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05603, 2015 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Technical Report Puppet Flow Zuffi, S., Black, M. J. (7), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, October 2013 () pdf BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Technical Report Learning and Optimization with Submodular Functions Sankaran, B., Ghazvininejad, M., He, X., Kale, D., Cohen, L. ArXiv, May 2013 () arxiv URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Technical Report A Quantitative Analysis of Current Practices in Optical Flow Estimation and the Principles Behind Them Sun, D., Roth, S., Black, M. J. (CS-10-03), Brown University, Department of Computer Science, January 2013 () pdf BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Technical Report Animating Samples from Gaussian Distributions Hennig, P. (8), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany, 2013 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Maximizing Kepler science return per telemetered pixel: Detailed models of the focal plane in the two-wheel era Hogg, D. W., Angus, R., Barclay, T., Dawson, R., Fergus, R., Foreman-Mackey, D., Harmeling, S., Hirsch, M., Lang, D., Montet, B. T., et al. arXiv:1309.0653, 2013 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Maximizing Kepler science return per telemetered pixel: Searching the habitable zones of the brightest stars Montet, B. T., Angus, R., Barclay, T., Dawson, R., Fergus, R., Foreman-Mackey, D., Harmeling, S., Hirsch, M., Hogg, D. W., Lang, D., et al. arXiv:1309.0654, 2013 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Technical Report Coregistration: Supplemental Material Hirshberg, D., Loper, M., Rachlin, E., Black, M. J. (No. 4), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, October 2012 () pdf BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Technical Report Lie Bodies: A Manifold Representation of 3D Human Shape. Supplemental Material Freifeld, O., Black, M. J. (No. 5), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, October 2012 () pdf BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Technical Report MPI-Sintel Optical Flow Benchmark: Supplemental Material Butler, D. J., Wulff, J., Stanley, G. B., Black, M. J. (No. 6), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, October 2012 () pdf BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report High Gamma-Power Predicts Performance in Brain-Computer Interfacing Grosse-Wentrup, M., Schölkopf, B. (3), Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Tübingen, February 2012 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Non-stationary Correction of Optical Aberrations Schuler, C., Hirsch, M., Harmeling, S., Schölkopf, B. (1), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany, May 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report PAC-Bayesian Analysis of Martingales and Multiarmed Bandits Seldin, Y., Laviolette, F., Shawe-Taylor, J., Peters, J., Auer, P. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, May 2011 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Multiple Kernel Learning: A Unifying Probabilistic Viewpoint Nickisch, H., Seeger, M. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, March 2011 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Multiple testing, uncertainty and realistic pictures Langovoy, M., Wittich, O. (2011-004), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, January 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Nonconvex proximal splitting: batch and incremental algorithms Sra, S. (2), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany, 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Computationally efficient algorithms for statistical image processing: Implementation in R Langovoy, M., Wittich, O. (2010-053), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, December 2010 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Fast Convergent Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian Inference Seeger, M., Nickisch, H. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, December 2010 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report A PAC-Bayesian Analysis of Graph Clustering and Pairwise Clustering Seldin, Y. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2010 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Robust nonparametric detection of objects in noisy images Langovoy, M., Wittich, O. (2010-049), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, September 2010 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Sparse nonnegative matrix approximation: new formulations and algorithms Tandon, R., Sra, S. (193), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2010 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Cooperative Cuts for Image Segmentation Jegelka, S., Bilmes, J. (UWEETR-1020-0003), University of Washington, Washington DC, USA, August 2010 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Fast algorithms for total-variationbased optimization Barbero, A., Sra, S. (194), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, August 2010 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Large Scale Variational Inference and Experimental Design for Sparse Generalized Linear Models Seeger, M., Nickisch, H. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, August 2010 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Gaussian Mixture Modeling with Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models Nickisch, H., Rasmussen, C. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, June 2010 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Generalized Proximity and Projection with Norms and Mixed-norms Sra, S. (192), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, May 2010 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Cooperative Cuts: Graph Cuts with Submodular Edge Weights Jegelka, S., Bilmes, J. (189), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, March 2010 () PDF BibTeX