Empirical Inference


2024


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Demonstration: Minsight - A Soft Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Robotic Fingertips

Andrussow, I., Sun, H., Martius, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J.

Hands-on demonstration presented at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Munich, Germany, November 2024 (misc) Accepted

Abstract
Beyond vision and hearing, tactile sensing enhances a robot's ability to dexterously manipulate unfamiliar objects and safely interact with humans. Giving touch sensitivity to robots requires compact, robust, affordable, and efficient hardware designs, especially for high-resolution tactile sensing. We present a soft vision-based tactile sensor engineered to meet these requirements. Comparable in size to a human fingertip, Minsight uses machine learning to output high-resolution directional contact force distributions at 60 Hz. Minsight's tactile force maps enable precise sensing of fingertip contacts, which we use in this hands-on demonstration to allow a 3-DoF robot arm to physically track contact with a user's finger. While observing the colorful image captured by Minsight's internal camera, attendees can experience how its ability to detect delicate touches in all directions facilitates real-time robot interaction.

Project Page [BibTex]

2024

Project Page [BibTex]


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Use the 4S (Signal-Safe Speckle Subtraction): Explainable Machine Learning reveals the Giant Exoplanet AF Lep b in High-Contrast Imaging Data from 2011

Bonse, M. J., Gebhard, T. D., Dannert, F. A., Absil, O., Cantalloube, F., Christiaens, V., Cugno, G., Garvin, E. O., Hayoz, J., Kasper, M., Matthews, E., Schölkopf, B., Quanz, S. P.

2024 (misc) Submitted

arXiv [BibTex]

arXiv [BibTex]

2023


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Denoising Representation Learning for Causal Discovery

Sakenyte, U.

Université de Genèva, Switzerland, December 2023, external supervision (mastersthesis)

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2023

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Efficient Sampling from Differentiable Matrix Elements

Kofler, A.

Technical University of Munich, Germany, September 2023 (mastersthesis)

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Intrinsic complexity and mechanisms of expressivity of cortical neurons

Spieler, A. M.

University of Tübingen, Germany, March 2023 (mastersthesis)

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CausalEffect Estimation by Combining Observational and Interventional Data

Kladny, K.

ETH Zurich, Switzerland, February 2023 (mastersthesis)

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Towards Generative Machine Teaching

Qui, Z.

Technical University of Munich, Germany, February 2023 (mastersthesis)

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ArchiSound: Audio Generation with Diffusion

Schneider, F.

ETH Zurich, Switzerland, January 2023, external supervision (mastersthesis)

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Generation and Quantification of Spin in Robot Table Tennis

Dittrich, A.

University of Stuttgart, Germany, January 2023 (mastersthesis)

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Borges und die Künstliche Intelligenz

Bottou, L., Schölkopf, B.

2023, published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 December 2023, Nr. 294 (misc)

PDF [BibTex]

PDF [BibTex]

2022


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Investigating Independent Mechanisms in Neural Networks

Liang, W.

Université Paris-Saclay, France, October 2022 (mastersthesis)

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2022

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Causality, causal digital twins, and their applications

Schölkopf, B.

Machine Learning for Science: Bridging Data-Driven and Mechanistic Modelling (Dagstuhl Seminar 22382), (Editors: Berens, Philipp and Cranmer, Kyle and Lawrence, Neil D. and von Luxburg, Ulrike and Montgomery, Jessica), September 2022 (talk)

link (url) DOI [BibTex]

link (url) DOI [BibTex]


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Multi-Target Multi-Object Manipulation using Relational Deep Reinforcement Learning

Feil, M.

Technnical University Munich, Germany, September 2022 (mastersthesis)

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Independent Mechanism Analysis for High Dimensions

Sliwa, J.

University of Tübingen, Germany, September 2022, (Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience) (mastersthesis)

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On the Adversarial Robustness of Causal Algorithmic Recourse

Dominguez-Olmedo, R.

University of Tübingen, Germany, August 2022 (mastersthesis)

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Independent Mechanism Analysis in High-Dimensional Observation Spaces

Ghosh, S.

ETH Zurich, Switzerland, June 2022 (mastersthesis)

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2021


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Learning Neural Causal Models with Active Interventions

Scherrer, N.

ETH Zurich, Switzerland, November 2021 (mastersthesis)

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2021

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Study of the Interventional Consistency of Autoencoders

Lanzillotta, G.

ETH Zurich, Switzerland, October 2021 (mastersthesis)

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Pulling back information geometry

Arvanitidis, G., González Duque, M., Pouplin, A., Kalatzis, D., Hauberg, S.

2021 (misc)

arXiv [BibTex]

arXiv [BibTex]


A Robot Cluster for Reproducible Research in Dexterous Manipulation
A Robot Cluster for Reproducible Research in Dexterous Manipulation

Wüthrich*, M., Widmaier*, F., Bauer*, S., Funk, N., Urain, J., Peters, J., Watson, J., Chen, C., Srinivasan, K., Zhang, J., Zhang, J., Walter, M. R., Madan, R., Schaff, C., Maeda, T., Yoneda, T., Yarats, D., Allshire, A., Gordon, E. K., Bhattacharjee, T., Srinivasa, S. S., Garg, A., Buchholz, A., Stark, S., Steinbrenner, T., Akpo, J., Joshi, S., Agrawal, V., Schölkopf, B.

2021, *equal contribution (misc)

arXiv [BibTex]

arXiv [BibTex]


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Reinforcement Learning Algorithms: Analysis and Applications

Belousov, B., H., A., Klink, P., Parisi, S., Peters, J.

883, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer International Publishing, 2021 (book)

DOI [BibTex]

DOI [BibTex]


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Nonpar MANOVA via Independence Testing

Panda, S., Shen, C., Perry, R., Zorn, J., Lutz, A., Priebe, C. E., Vogelstein, J. T.

2021 (misc)

arXiv [BibTex]

arXiv [BibTex]


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On the Impact of Stable Ranks in Deep Nets

Georgiev, B., Franken, L., Mukherjee, M., Arvanitidis, G.

2021 (misc)

arXiv [BibTex]

arXiv [BibTex]


Scientific Report 2016 - 2021
Scientific Report 2016 - 2021
2021 (mpi_year_book)

Abstract
This report presents research done at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems from January2016 to November 2021. It is our fourth report since the founding of the institute in 2011. Dueto the fact that the upcoming evaluation is an extended one, the report covers a longer reportingperiod.This scientific report is organized as follows: we begin with an overview of the institute, includingan outline of its structure, an introduction of our latest research departments, and a presentationof our main collaborative initiatives and activities (Chapter1). The central part of the scientificreport consists of chapters on the research conducted by the institute’s departments (Chapters2to6) and its independent research groups (Chapters7 to24), as well as the work of the institute’scentral scientific facilities (Chapter25). For entities founded after January 2016, the respectivereport sections cover work done from the date of the establishment of the department, group, orfacility. These chapters are followed by a summary of selected outreach activities and scientificevents hosted by the institute (Chapter26). The scientific publications of the featured departmentsand research groups published during the 6-year review period complete this scientific report.

Scientific Report 2016 - 2021 [BibTex]


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Manifold forests: closing the gap on neural networks

Perry, R., Tomita, T. M., Mehta, R., Arroyo, J., Patsolic, J., Falk, B., Vogelstein, J. T.

2021 (misc)

arXiv [BibTex]

arXiv [BibTex]


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Random Forests for Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Estimation of Information-Theoretic Quantities

Perry, R., Mehta, R., Guo, R., Yezerets, E., Arroyo, J., Powell, M., Helm, H., Shen, C., Vogelstein, J. T.

2021 (misc)

arXiv [BibTex]

arXiv [BibTex]


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Transferring Dexterous Manipulation from GPU Simulation to a Remote Real-World TriFinger

Allshire, A., Mittal, M., Lodaya, V., Makoviychuk, V., Makoviichuk, D., Widmaier, F., Wüthrich, M., Bauer, S., Handa, A., Garg, A.

2021 (misc)

arXiv [BibTex]

arXiv [BibTex]

2020


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A Robotic Manipulation Benchmark for Causal Structure and Transfer Learning

Ahmed, O.

ETH Zurich, Switzerland, October 2020 (mastersthesis)

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2020

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Deep learning for the parameter estimation of tight-binding Hamiltonians

Cacioppo, A.

University of Roma, La Sapienza, Italy, May 2020 (mastersthesis)

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Learning Algorithms, Invariances, and the Real World

Zecevic, M.

Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, April 2020 (mastersthesis)

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Learning Neural Causal Models from Unknown Interventions

Ke, R., Bilaniuk, O., Goyal, A., Bauer, S., Larochelle, H., Schölkopf, B., Mozer, M. C., Pal, C., Bengio, Y.

2020 (misc)

arXiv Project Page [BibTex]

arXiv Project Page [BibTex]

2019


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Multivariate coupling estimation between continuous signals and point processes

Safavi, S., Logothetis, N., Besserve, M.

Neural Information Processing Systems 2019 - Workshop on Learning with Temporal Point Processes, December 2019 (talk)

Talk video link (url) [BibTex]

2019

Talk video link (url) [BibTex]


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Inferring the Band Structure from Band Mapping Data through Machine Learning

Stimper, V.

Technical University of Munich, September 2019 (mastersthesis)

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