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Haptic Intelligence Robotics Article Building Instructions You Can Feel: Edge-Changing Haptic Devices for Digitally Guided Construction Tashiro, N., Faulkner, R., Melnyk, S., Rosales Rodriguez, T., Javot, B., Tahouni, Y., Cheng, T., Wood, D., Menges, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 32(1):1-40, April 2025 (Published) DOI 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 (Published) arXiv 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 (Published) arXiv 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 (Published) arXiv 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, *Joint first authorship (Published) arXiv BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Differentially 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 (Published) arXiv 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 (Published) 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 (Published) arXiv 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, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Influence Functions for Scalable Data Attribution in Diffusion Models Mlodozeniec, B. K., Eschenhagen, R., Bae, J., Immer, A., Krueger, D., Turner, R. E. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025 (Published) arXiv 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, *joint senior author (Published) arXiv 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 (Published) arXiv 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, *equal contribution (Published) URL 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 (Published) arXiv 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 (Published) arXiv 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 (Published) URL 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 (Published) arXiv 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), (27)28657-28670, (Editors: Toby Walsh, Julie Shah, Zico Kolter ), AAAI Press, April 2025, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv DOI 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, April 2025 (Published) DOI 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 (Published) arXiv BibTeX

Robotic Materials Article A robotic and virtual testing platform highlighting the promise of soft wearable actuators for wrist tremor suppression Shagan Shomron, A., Chase-Markopoulou, C., Walter, J. R., Sellhorn-Timm, J., Shao, Y., Nadler, T., Benson, A., Wochner, I., Rumley, E. H., Wurster, I., et al. Device, 3:100719, March 2025 (Published) Press release Video (overview) Video (technical description) Article in pdf DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article A Sleeve Alters the Pressure-Stretch Curve of a Hyperelastic Balloon to Enable Pre-Programmed Sequencing Gertler, I., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Advanced Materials Technologies, 10(6):2400993, March 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Error-State Extended Kalman Filter Sensor Fusion for Tracking Collaborating Humans Hudhud Mughrabi, M., Allemang–Trivalle, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (3 pages) presented at the German Robotics Conference (GRC), Nuremberg, Germany, March 2025 (Published) 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 Miscellaneous Haptify: A Measurement System for Benchmarking Grounded Force-Feedback Devices Fazlollahi, F., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (3 pages) presented at the German Robotics Conference (GRC), Nuremberg, Germany , March 2025 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Learning to Generalize Across Distribution Shifts Träuble, F. J. University of Tübingen, Germany, March 2025, (IMPRS-PhD-Fellowship-Program and ELLIS-PhD-Fellowship-Program) (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper My Robot, My Motion: Expressive Real-Time Teleoperation Mohan, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 1797-1799, Hands-on demonstration presented at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Melbourne, Australia, March 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

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

Haptic Intelligence Article Simulation Training with Haptic Feedback of Instrument Vibrations Reduces Resident Workload During Live Robot-Assisted Sleeve Gastrectomy Gomez, E. D., Mat Husin, H., Dumon, K. R., Williams, N. N., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Surgical Endoscopy, 39(3):1523-1535, March 2025 (Published) DOI 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

Biomimetic Materials and Machines Article Ecosystem-Centered Robot Design: Toward Ecoresorbable Sustainability Robots (ESRs) Yilmaz, T., Fang, Y., Contreras, C., Schulz, A. K., Hartmann, F. Advanced Science, e09194:1-31, January 2025 (Published) DOI URL 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

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, 6 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper BEDLAM2.0: Synthetic humans and cameras in motion Tesch, J., Becherini, G., Achar, P., Yiannakidis, A., Kocabas, M., Patel, P., Black, M. J. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 12 2025 (Published) Project Paper Video 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

Physical Intelligence Article 3D Locomotion of Surface-Rolling Microrobots: A Trade-off between Hydrodynamic Wall and Gravitational Effects Park, M., Bozuyuk, U., Yildiz, E., Min, H., Yoon, J., Sitti, M. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 7:2500381, May 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX