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Empirical Inference
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Corrupted by reasoning: Reasoning language models become free-riders in public goods games
Guzman Piedrahita, D., Yang, Y., Sachan, M., Ramponi, G., Schölkopf, B., Jin, Z.
Second Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2025), October 2025 (Published)
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Haptic Intelligence
Autonomous Learning
Empirical Inference
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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)
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Social Foundations of Computation
Algorithms and Society
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Performative Prediction: Past and Future
Hardt, M., Mendler-Dünner, C.
Statistical Science, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, August 2025 (Published)
arXiv
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Empirical Inference
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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)
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Empirical Inference
Deep Models and Optimization
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Generalized Interpolating Discrete Diffusion
von Rütte, D., Fluri, J., Ding, Y., Orvieto, A., Schölkopf, B., Hofmann, T.
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:61810-61843, 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)
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Empirical Inference
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Generative Intervention Models for Causal Perturbation Modeling
Schneider, N., Lorch, L., Kilbertus, N., Schölkopf, B., Krause, A.
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:53388-53412, 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)
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Empirical Inference
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Learning Joint Interventional Effects from Single-Variable Interventions in Additive Models
Kekić, A., Garrido Mejia, S., Schölkopf, B.
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:29651-29669, 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)
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Empirical Inference
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Position: Probabilistic Modelling is Sufficient for Causal Inference
Mlodozeniec, B. K., Krueger, D., Turner, R. E.
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:81810-81840, 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)
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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)
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Empirical Inference
Conference Paper
Progressive Tempering Sampler with Diffusion
Rissanen*, S., OuYang*, R., He*, J., Chen, W., Heinonen, M., Solin, A., Hernández-Lobato, J. M.
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:51724-51746, 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, *equal contribution (Published)
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Empirical Inference
Autonomous Learning
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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)
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Empirical Inference
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Scalable Gaussian Processes with Latent Kronecker Structure
Lin, J. A., Ament, A., Balandat, M., Eriksson, D., Hernández-Lobato, J. M., Bakshy, E.
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:37730-37744, 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)
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Autonomous Learning
Empirical Inference
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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)
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Empirical Inference
Ph.D. Thesis
Bridging Deep Learning and Probabilistic Inference: Towards Data Efficiency, Identifiability, and Sampling Scalability
Chen, W.
University of Cambridge, UK, June 2025, (Cambridge-Tübingen-Fellowship) (Published)
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Empirical Inference
Article
Flow annealed importance sampling bootstrap meets differentiable particle physics
Kofler, A., Stimper, V., Mikhasenko, M., Kagan, M., Heinrich, L.
Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 6(2), IOP Publishing, June 2025 (Published)
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Empirical Inference
Ph.D. Thesis
Self-Supervised Structured Representation Learning From Interaction – Group Action And Objects Composition
Keurti, H.
ETH Zurich, Switzerland, June 2025, CLS Fellowship Program (Published)
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Empirical Inference
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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)
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Empirical Inference
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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)
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Empirical Inference
Perceiving Systems
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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)
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Empirical Inference
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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.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 258:2170-2178, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Li, Yingzhen and Mandt, Stephan and Agrawal, Shipra and Khan, Emtiyaz), PMLR, May 2025 (Published)
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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)
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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)
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Empirical Inference
Conference Paper
Training Neural Samplers with Reverse Diffusive KL Divergence
He*, J., Chen*, W., Zhang*, M., Barber, D., Hernández-Lobato, J. M.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 258:5167-5175, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Li, Yingzhen and Mandt, Stephan and Agrawal, Shipra and Khan, Emtiyaz), PMLR, May 2025, *equal contribution (Published)
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Empirical Inference
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Your Finetuned Large Language Model is Already a Powerful Out-of-distribution Detector
Zhang, A., Xiao, T. Z., Liu, W., Bamler, R., Wischik, D.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 258:2701-2709, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Li, Yingzhen and Mandt, Stephan and Agrawal, Shipra and Khan, Emtiyaz), PMLR, May 2025 (Published)
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Empirical Inference
Autonomous Learning
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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 (Published)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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Empirical Inference
Perceiving Systems
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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
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Empirical Inference
Robust Machine Learning
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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
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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)
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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)
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Empirical Inference
Robust Machine Learning
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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
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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
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Empirical Inference
Autonomous Learning
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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)
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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
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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
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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)
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Empirical Inference
Article
The Fiction Machine
Bottou, L., Schölkopf, B.
SIAM News, 58(3), April 2025 (Published)
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Empirical Inference
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Empirical Inference
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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)
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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)
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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)
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