Empirical Inference Conference Paper Declarative Reactive Robot Behaviors from Imperative Language Models Berenz, V., Kim, T., Schölkopf, B. In IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2026), August 2026 (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Riemannian Networks over Full-Rank Correlation Matrices Chen, Z., Wu, X., Schölkopf, B., Sebe, N. In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2026 (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Hyperbolic Busemann Neural Networks Chen, Z., Schölkopf, B., Sebe, N. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 42029-42038, June 2026 (Published) PDF Supplemental URL 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), 38:8002-8024, (Editors: D. Belgrave and C. Zhang and H. Lin and R. Pascanu and P. Koniusz and M. Ghassemi and N. Chen), Curran Associates, Inc., 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Autonomous Learning Empirical Inference Conference Paper Adding Internal Audio Sensing to Internal Vision Enables Human-Like In-Hand Fabric Recognition with Soft Robotic Fingertips Andrussow, I., Solano, J., Richardson, B. A., Martius, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 373-380, Seoul, South Korea, September 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Active Fine-Tuning of Multi-Task Policies Bagatella, M., Hübotter, J., Martius, G., Krause, A. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:2409-2441, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Learning Conference Paper SENSEI: Semantic Exploration Guided by Foundation Models to Learn Versatile World Models Sancaktar, C., Gumbsch, C., Zadaianchuk, A., Kolev, P., Martius, G. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:52745-52777, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), International Conference on Machine Learning , July 2025 (Published) arXiv Project website URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Empirical Inference Conference Paper Zero-Shot Offline Imitation Learning via Optimal Transport Rupf, T., Bagatella, M., Gürtler, N., Frey, J., Martius, G. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:52345-52381, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

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), 5401-5411, June 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper VERA: Explainable Video Anomaly Detection via Verbalized Learning of Vision-Language Models Ye, M., Liu, W., He, P. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 8679-8688, June 2025 (Published) DOI 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), 8150-8161, June 2025 (Published) project pdf Paper DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Learning to Control Emulated Muscles in Real Robots: A Software Test Bed for Bio-Inspired Actuators in Hardware Schumacher, P., Krause, L., Schneider, J., Büchler, D., Martius, G., Haeufle, D. In Proceedings 10th International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 806-813, IEEE, 10th International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), September 2024 (Published) arXiv DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Empirical Inference Conference Paper Ghost on the Shell: An Expressive Representation of General 3D Shapes Liu, Z., Feng, Y., Xiu, Y., Liu, W., Paull, L., Black, M. J., Schölkopf, B. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2024 (Published) Home Code Video Project BibTeX

Empirical Inference Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Parameter-Efficient Orthogonal Finetuning via Butterfly Factorization Liu, W., Qiu, Z., Feng, Y., Xiu, Y., Xue, Y., Yu, L., Feng, H., Liu, Z., Heo, J., Peng, S., et al. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, May 2024 (Published) Home Code HuggingFace project URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Learning Conference Paper The Expressive Leaky Memory Neuron: an Efficient and Expressive Phenomenological Neuron Model Can Solve Long-Horizon Tasks Spieler, A., Rahaman, N., Martius, G., Schölkopf, B., Levina, A. In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2024 (Published) arXiv BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper DeViL: Decoding Vision features into Language Dani, M., Rio-Torto, I., Alaniz, S., Akata, Z. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14264, 363–377, 45th Annual Conference of the German-Association-for-Pattern-Recognition (DAGM GCPR), 2024 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Waffling around for Performance: Visual Classification with Random Words and Broad Concepts Roth, K., Kim, J. M., Koepke, A. S., Vinyals, O., Schmid, C., Akata, Z. In Proceedings 2023 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION (ICCV 2023), 15700-15711, 2023 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION (ICCV 2023), 2024 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Optimistic Active Exploration of Dynamical Systems Sukhija, B., Treven, L., Sancaktar, C., Blaes, S., Coros, S., Krause, A. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023), 1-32, Curran Associates Inc. , NeurIPS, December 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Causal normalizing flows: from theory to practice Javaloy, A., Sanchez-Martin, P., Valera, I. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023), 36:58833-58864, (Editors: A. Oh and T. Neumann and A. Globerson and K. Saenko and M. Hardt and S. Levine), Curran Associates, Inc., 37th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2023 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Controlling Text-to-Image Diffusion by Orthogonal Finetuning Qiu*, Z., Liu*, W., Feng, H., Xue, Y., Feng, Y., Liu, Z., Zhang, D., Weller, A., Schölkopf, B. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023), 36:79320-79362, (Editors: A. Oh and T. Neumann and A. Globerson and K. Saenko and M. Hardt and S. Levine), Curran Associates, Inc., 37th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems , December 2023, *equal contribution (Published) Home Code URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Nonparametric Teaching for Multiple Learners Zhang, C., Cao, X., Liu, W., Tsang, I. W., Kwok, J. T. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023), 36:7756-7786, (Editors: A. Oh and T. Naumann and A. Globerson and K. Saenko and M. Hardt and S. Levine), Curran Associates, Inc., 37th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2023 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Spuriosity Didn’t Kill the Classifier: Using Invariant Predictions to Harness Spurious Features Eastwood*, C., Singh*, S., Nicolicioiu, A. L., Vlastelica, M., von Kügelgen, J., Schölkopf, B. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36, 36:18291-18324, (Editors: A. Oh and T. Neumann and A. Globerson and K. Saenko and M. Hardt and S. Levine), Curran Associates Inc., 37th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2023, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Perceiving Systems Conference Paper One-shot Implicit Animatable Avatars with Model-based Priors Huang, Y., Yi, H., Liu, W., Wang, H., Wu, B., Wang, W., Lin, B., Zhang, D., Cai, D. In Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 8940-8951, International Conference on Computer Vision, October 2023, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv code project DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Empirical Inference Conference Paper Pairwise Similarity Learning is SimPLE Wen, Y., Liu, W., Feng, Y., Raj, B., Singh, R., Weller, A., Black, M. J., Schölkopf, B. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), International Conference on Computer Vision, October 2023 (Published) URL BibTeX

Embodied Vision Learning and Dynamical Systems Empirical Inference Conference Paper Black-Box vs. Gray-Box: A Case Study on Learning Table Tennis Ball Trajectory Prediction with Spin and Impacts Achterhold, J., Tobuschat, P., Ma, H., Büchler, D., Muehlebach, M., Stueckler, J. In Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control, 211:878-890, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Nikolai Matni, Manfred Morari and George J. Pappa), PMLR, June 2023 (Published) preprint code URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Empirical Inference Conference Paper Benchmarking Offline Reinforcement Learning on Real-Robot Hardware Gürtler, N., Blaes, S., Kolev, P., Widmaier, F., Wüthrich, M., Bauer, S., Schölkopf, B., Martius, G. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2023 (Published) Website arXiv Code URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Empirical Inference Conference Paper DEP-RL: Embodied Exploration for Reinforcement Learning in Overactuated and Musculoskeletal Systems Schumacher, P., Haeufle, D. F., Büchler, D., Schmitt, S., Martius, G. In The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2023 (Published) Arxiv pdf Website URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Empirical Inference Conference Paper Bridging the Gap to Real-World Object-Centric Learning Seitzer, M., Horn, M., Zadaianchuk, A., Zietlow, D., Xiao, T., Simon-Gabriel, C., He, T., Zhang, Z., Schölkopf, B., Brox, T., et al. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2023 (Published) Code Website URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Effective Bayesian Heteroscedastic Regression with Deep Neural Networks Immer, A. P. E. M. A. V. J. E. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023), 1-24, Curran Associates Inc., NeurIPS, 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Human Aspects of Machine Learning Empirical Inference Conference Paper Robustness implies fairness in causal algorithmic recourse. Ehyaei, A., Karimi, A., Schölkopf, B., Maghsudi, S. In 2023 (Published) BibTeX