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Dissecting Adam: The Sign, Magnitude and Variance of Stochastic Gradients

Balles, L., Hennig, P.

In Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2018 (inproceedings) Accepted

Abstract
The ADAM optimizer is exceedingly popular in the deep learning community. Often it works very well, sometimes it doesn't. Why? We interpret ADAM as a combination of two aspects: for each weight, the update direction is determined by the sign of stochastic gradients, whereas the update magnitude is determined by an estimate of their relative variance. We disentangle these two aspects and analyze them in isolation, gaining insight into the mechanisms underlying ADAM. This analysis also extends recent results on adverse effects of ADAM on generalization, isolating the sign aspect as the problematic one. Transferring the variance adaptation to SGD gives rise to a novel method, completing the practitioner's toolbox for problems where ADAM fails.

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2018

pn Balles, L., Hennig, P. Dissecting Adam: The Sign, Magnitude and Variance of Stochastic Gradients In Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2018 (inproceedings) Accepted

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Deep Marching Cubes: Learning Explicit Surface Representations

Liao, Y., Donne, S., Geiger, A.

In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE Computer Society, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018, 2018 (inproceedings)

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Existing learning based solutions to 3D surface prediction cannot be trained end-to-end as they operate on intermediate representations (eg, TSDF) from which 3D surface meshes must be extracted in a post-processing step (eg, via the marching cubes algorithm). In this paper, we investigate the problem of end-to-end 3D surface prediction. We first demonstrate that the marching cubes algorithm is not differentiable and propose an alternative differentiable formulation which we insert as a final layer into a 3D convolutional neural network. We further propose a set of loss functions which allow for training our model with sparse point supervision. Our experiments demonstrate that the model allows for predicting sub-voxel accurate 3D shapes of arbitrary topology. Additionally, it learns to complete shapes and to separate an object's inside from its outside even in the presence of sparse and incomplete ground truth. We investigate the benefits of our approach on the task of inferring shapes from 3D point clouds. Our model is flexible and can be combined with a variety of shape encoder and shape inference techniques.

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avg Liao, Y., Donne, S., Geiger, A. Deep Marching Cubes: Learning Explicit Surface Representations In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE Computer Society, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018, 2018 (inproceedings)

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Semantic Visual Localization

Schönberger, J., Pollefeys, M., Geiger, A., Sattler, T.

In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE Computer Society, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018, 2018 (inproceedings)

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Robust visual localization under a wide range of viewing conditions is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Handling the difficult cases of this problem is not only very challenging but also of high practical relevance, eg, in the context of life-long localization for augmented reality or autonomous robots. In this paper, we propose a novel approach based on a joint 3D geometric and semantic understanding of the world, enabling it to succeed under conditions where previous approaches failed. Our method leverages a novel generative model for descriptor learning, trained on semantic scene completion as an auxiliary task. The resulting 3D descriptors are robust to missing observations by encoding high-level 3D geometric and semantic information. Experiments on several challenging large-scale localization datasets demonstrate reliable localization under extreme viewpoint, illumination, and geometry changes.

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avg Schönberger, J., Pollefeys, M., Geiger, A., Sattler, T. Semantic Visual Localization In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE Computer Society, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018, 2018 (inproceedings)

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Augmented Reality Meets Computer Vision: Efficient Data Generation for Urban Driving Scenes

Alhaija, H., Mustikovela, S., Mescheder, L., Geiger, A., Rother, C.

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2018, 2018 (article)

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The success of deep learning in computer vision is based on the availability of large annotated datasets. To lower the need for hand labeled images, virtually rendered 3D worlds have recently gained popularity. Unfortunately, creating realistic 3D content is challenging on its own and requires significant human effort. In this work, we propose an alternative paradigm which combines real and synthetic data for learning semantic instance segmentation and object detection models. Exploiting the fact that not all aspects of the scene are equally important for this task, we propose to augment real-world imagery with virtual objects of the target category. Capturing real-world images at large scale is easy and cheap, and directly provides real background appearances without the need for creating complex 3D models of the environment. We present an efficient procedure to augment these images with virtual objects. In contrast to modeling complete 3D environments, our data augmentation approach requires only a few user interactions in combination with 3D models of the target object category. Leveraging our approach, we introduce a novel dataset of augmented urban driving scenes with 360 degree images that are used as environment maps to create realistic lighting and reflections on rendered objects. We analyze the significance of realistic object placement by comparing manual placement by humans to automatic methods based on semantic scene analysis. This allows us to create composite images which exhibit both realistic background appearance as well as a large number of complex object arrangements. Through an extensive set of experiments, we conclude the right set of parameters to produce augmented data which can maximally enhance the performance of instance segmentation models. Further, we demonstrate the utility of the proposed approach on training standard deep models for semantic instance segmentation and object detection of cars in outdoor driving scenarios. We test the models trained on our augmented data on the KITTI 2015 dataset, which we have annotated with pixel-accurate ground truth, and on the Cityscapes dataset. Our experiments demonstrate that the models trained on augmented imagery generalize better than those trained on fully synthetic data or models trained on limited amounts of annotated real data.

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avg Alhaija, H., Mustikovela, S., Mescheder, L., Geiger, A., Rother, C. Augmented Reality Meets Computer Vision: Efficient Data Generation for Urban Driving Scenes International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2018, 2018 (article)

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Immersive Low-Cost Virtual Reality Treatment for Phantom Limb Pain: Evidence from Two Cases

Ambron, E., Miller, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Buxbaum, L. J., Coslett, H. B.

Frontiers in Neurology, 9(67):1-7, 2018 (article)

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hi Ambron, E., Miller, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Buxbaum, L. J., Coslett, H. B. Immersive Low-Cost Virtual Reality Treatment for Phantom Limb Pain: Evidence from Two Cases Frontiers in Neurology, 9(67):1-7, 2018 (article)

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Online optimal trajectory generation for robot table tennis

Koc, O., Maeda, G., Peters, J.

Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 105, pages: 121-137, 2018 (article)

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ei Koc, O., Maeda, G., Peters, J. Online optimal trajectory generation for robot table tennis Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 105, pages: 121-137, 2018 (article)

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Comparison-Based Random Forests

Siavash Haghiri, Damien Garreau, Ulrike von Luxburg

ICML, 2018 (conference)

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Siavash Haghiri, Damien Garreau, Ulrike von Luxburg Comparison-Based Random Forests ICML, 2018 (conference)

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Dynamics of the knowledge instinct: Effects of incoherence on the cognitive system

Schoeller, F., Eskinazi, M., Garreau, D.

Cognitive Systems Research, 2018 (article)

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Schoeller, F., Eskinazi, M., Garreau, D. Dynamics of the knowledge instinct: Effects of incoherence on the cognitive system Cognitive Systems Research, 2018 (article)

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Which Training Methods for GANs do actually Converge?

Mescheder, L., Geiger, A., Nowozin, S.

International Conference on Machine learning (ICML), 2018 (conference)

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Recent work has shown local convergence of GAN training for absolutely continuous data and generator distributions. In this paper, we show that the requirement of absolute continuity is necessary: we describe a simple yet prototypical counterexample showing that in the more realistic case of distributions that are not absolutely continuous, unregularized GAN training is not always convergent. Furthermore, we discuss regularization strategies that were recently proposed to stabilize GAN training. Our analysis shows that GAN training with instance noise or zero-centered gradient penalties converges. On the other hand, we show that Wasserstein-GANs and WGAN-GP with a finite number of discriminator updates per generator update do not always converge to the equilibrium point. We discuss these results, leading us to a new explanation for the stability problems of GAN training. Based on our analysis, we extend our convergence results to more general GANs and prove local convergence for simplified gradient penalties even if the generator and data distributions lie on lower dimensional manifolds. We find these penalties to work well in practice and use them to learn high-resolution generative image models for a variety of datasets with little hyperparameter tuning.

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Counterfactual Mean Embedding: A Kernel Method for Nonparametric Causal Inference

Muandet, K., Kanagawa, M., Saengkyongam, S., Marukata, S.

Arxiv e-prints, arXiv:1805.08845v1 [stat.ML], 2018 (article)

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This paper introduces a novel Hilbert space representation of a counterfactual distribution---called counterfactual mean embedding (CME)---with applications in nonparametric causal inference. Counterfactual prediction has become an ubiquitous tool in machine learning applications, such as online advertisement, recommendation systems, and medical diagnosis, whose performance relies on certain interventions. To infer the outcomes of such interventions, we propose to embed the associated counterfactual distribution into a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) endowed with a positive definite kernel. Under appropriate assumptions, the CME allows us to perform causal inference over the entire landscape of the counterfactual distribution. The CME can be estimated consistently from observational data without requiring any parametric assumption about the underlying distributions. We also derive a rate of convergence which depends on the smoothness of the conditional mean and the Radon-Nikodym derivative of the underlying marginal distributions. Our framework can deal with not only real-valued outcome, but potentially also more complex and structured outcomes such as images, sequences, and graphs. Lastly, our experimental results on off-policy evaluation tasks demonstrate the advantages of the proposed estimator.

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ei pn Muandet, K., Kanagawa, M., Saengkyongam, S., Marukata, S. Counterfactual Mean Embedding: A Kernel Method for Nonparametric Causal Inference Arxiv e-prints, arXiv:1805.08845v1 [stat.ML], 2018 (article)

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Model-based Kernel Sum Rule: Kernel Bayesian Inference with Probabilistic Models

Nishiyama, Y., Kanagawa, M., Gretton, A., Fukumizu, K.

Arxiv e-prints, arXiv:1409.5178v2 [stat.ML], 2018 (article)

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Kernel Bayesian inference is a powerful nonparametric approach to performing Bayesian inference in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces or feature spaces. In this approach, kernel means are estimated instead of probability distributions, and these estimates can be used for subsequent probabilistic operations (as for inference in graphical models) or in computing the expectations of smooth functions, for instance. Various algorithms for kernel Bayesian inference have been obtained by combining basic rules such as the kernel sum rule (KSR), kernel chain rule, kernel product rule and kernel Bayes' rule. However, the current framework only deals with fully nonparametric inference (i.e., all conditional relations are learned nonparametrically), and it does not allow for flexible combinations of nonparametric and parametric inference, which are practically important. Our contribution is in providing a novel technique to realize such combinations. We introduce a new KSR referred to as the model-based KSR (Mb-KSR), which employs the sum rule in feature spaces under a parametric setting. Incorporating the Mb-KSR into existing kernel Bayesian framework provides a richer framework for hybrid (nonparametric and parametric) kernel Bayesian inference. As a practical application, we propose a novel filtering algorithm for state space models based on the Mb-KSR, which combines the nonparametric learning of an observation process using kernel mean embedding and the additive Gaussian noise model for a state transition process. While we focus on additive Gaussian noise models in this study, the idea can be extended to other noise models, such as the Cauchy and alpha-stable noise models.

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pn Nishiyama, Y., Kanagawa, M., Gretton, A., Fukumizu, K. Model-based Kernel Sum Rule: Kernel Bayesian Inference with Probabilistic Models Arxiv e-prints, arXiv:1409.5178v2 [stat.ML], 2018 (article)

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L4: Practical loss-based stepsize adaptation for deep learning

Rolinek, M., Martius, G.

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018), pages: 6434-6444, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 2018 (inproceedings)

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al Rolinek, M., Martius, G. L4: Practical loss-based stepsize adaptation for deep learning In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018), pages: 6434-6444, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 2018 (inproceedings)

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Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning of Multiple Grasping Strategies with Human Instructions

Osa, T., Peters, J., Neumann, G.

Advanced Robotics, 32(18):955-968, 2018 (article)

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k–SVRG: Variance Reduction for Large Scale Optimization

Raj, A., Stich, S.

In 2018 (inproceedings) Submitted

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ei Raj, A., Stich, S. k–SVRG: Variance Reduction for Large Scale Optimization In 2018 (inproceedings) Submitted

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Distribution-Dissimilarities in Machine Learning

Simon-Gabriel, C. J.

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2018 (phdthesis)

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ei Simon-Gabriel, C. J. Distribution-Dissimilarities in Machine Learning Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2018 (phdthesis)

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Anisotropic Gold Nanostructures: Optimization via in Silico Modeling for Hyperthermia

Singh, A., Jahnke, T., Wang, S., Xiao, Y., Alapan, Y., Kharratian, S., Onbasli, M. C., Kozielski, K., David, H., Richter, G., Bill, J., Laux, P., Luch, A., Sitti, M.

ACS Applied Nano Materials, 1(11):6205-6216, 2018 (article)

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pi Singh, A., Jahnke, T., Wang, S., Xiao, Y., Alapan, Y., Kharratian, S., Onbasli, M. C., Kozielski, K., David, H., Richter, G., Bill, J., Laux, P., Luch, A., Sitti, M. Anisotropic Gold Nanostructures: Optimization via in Silico Modeling for Hyperthermia ACS Applied Nano Materials, 1(11):6205-6216, 2018 (article)

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Collectives of Spinning Mobile Microrobots for Navigation and Object Manipulation at the Air-Water Interface

Wang, W., Kishore, V., Koens, L., Lauga, E., Sitti, M.

In 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages: 1-9, 2018 (inproceedings)

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pi Wang, W., Kishore, V., Koens, L., Lauga, E., Sitti, M. Collectives of Spinning Mobile Microrobots for Navigation and Object Manipulation at the Air-Water Interface In 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages: 1-9, 2018 (inproceedings)

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Probabilistic Deep Learning using Random Sum-Product Networks

Peharz, R., Vergari, A., Stelzner, K., Molina, A., Trapp, M., Kersting, K., Ghahramani, Z.

2018 (conference) Submitted

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ei Peharz, R., Vergari, A., Stelzner, K., Molina, A., Trapp, M., Kersting, K., Ghahramani, Z. Probabilistic Deep Learning using Random Sum-Product Networks 2018 (conference) Submitted

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Assessment methodology of promising porous materials for near ambient temperature hydrogen storage applications

Minuto, F. D., Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R., Policicchio, A., Hirscher, M., Agostino, R. G.

{International Journal of Hydrogen Energy}, 43(31):14550-14556, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2018 (article)

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mms Minuto, F. D., Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R., Policicchio, A., Hirscher, M., Agostino, R. G. Assessment methodology of promising porous materials for near ambient temperature hydrogen storage applications {International Journal of Hydrogen Energy}, 43(31):14550-14556, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2018 (article)

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A probabilistic model for the numerical solution of initial value problems

Schober, M., Särkkä, S., Philipp Hennig,

Statistics and Computing, Springer US, 2018 (article)

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We study connections between ordinary differential equation (ODE) solvers and probabilistic regression methods in statistics. We provide a new view of probabilistic ODE solvers as active inference agents operating on stochastic differential equation models that estimate the unknown initial value problem (IVP) solution from approximate observations of the solution derivative, as provided by the ODE dynamics. Adding to this picture, we show that several multistep methods of Nordsieck form can be recast as Kalman filtering on q-times integrated Wiener processes. Doing so provides a family of IVP solvers that return a Gaussian posterior measure, rather than a point estimate. We show that some such methods have low computational overhead, nontrivial convergence order, and that the posterior has a calibrated concentration rate. Additionally, we suggest a step size adaptation algorithm which completes the proposed method to a practically useful implementation, which we experimentally evaluate using a representative set of standard codes in the DETEST benchmark set.

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Autofocusing-based phase correction

Loktyushin, A., Ehses, P., Schölkopf, B., Scheffler, K.

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 80(3):958-968, 2018 (article)

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ei Loktyushin, A., Ehses, P., Schölkopf, B., Scheffler, K. Autofocusing-based phase correction Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 80(3):958-968, 2018 (article)

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Learning 3D Shape Completion from Laser Scan Data with Weak Supervision

Stutz, D., Geiger, A.

In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE Computer Society, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018, 2018 (inproceedings)

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3D shape completion from partial point clouds is a fundamental problem in computer vision and computer graphics. Recent approaches can be characterized as either data-driven or learning-based. Data-driven approaches rely on a shape model whose parameters are optimized to fit the observations. Learning-based approaches, in contrast, avoid the expensive optimization step and instead directly predict the complete shape from the incomplete observations using deep neural networks. However, full supervision is required which is often not available in practice. In this work, we propose a weakly-supervised learning-based approach to 3D shape completion which neither requires slow optimization nor direct supervision. While we also learn a shape prior on synthetic data, we amortize, ie, learn, maximum likelihood fitting using deep neural networks resulting in efficient shape completion without sacrificing accuracy. Tackling 3D shape completion of cars on ShapeNet and KITTI, we demonstrate that the proposed amortized maximum likelihood approach is able to compete with a fully supervised baseline and a state-of-the-art data-driven approach while being significantly faster. On ModelNet, we additionally show that the approach is able to generalize to other object categories as well.

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avg Stutz, D., Geiger, A. Learning 3D Shape Completion from Laser Scan Data with Weak Supervision In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE Computer Society, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018, 2018 (inproceedings)

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Systematic self-exploration of behaviors for robots in a dynamical systems framework

Pinneri, C., Martius, G.

In Proc. Artificial Life XI, pages: 319-326, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2018 (inproceedings)

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One of the challenges of this century is to understand the neural mechanisms behind cognitive control and learning. Recent investigations propose biologically plausible synaptic mechanisms for self-organizing controllers, in the spirit of Hebbian learning. In particular, differential extrinsic plasticity (DEP) [Der and Martius, PNAS 2015], has proven to enable embodied agents to self-organize their individual sensorimotor development, and generate highly coordinated behaviors during their interaction with the environment. These behaviors are attractors of a dynamical system. In this paper, we use the DEP rule to generate attractors and we combine it with a “repelling potential” which allows the system to actively explore all its attractor behaviors in a systematic way. With a view to a self-determined exploration of goal-free behaviors, our framework enables switching between different motion patterns in an autonomous and sequential fashion. Our algorithm is able to recover all the attractor behaviors in a toy system and it is also effective in two simulated environments. A spherical robot discovers all its major rolling modes and a hexapod robot learns to locomote in 50 different ways in 30min.

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al Pinneri, C., Martius, G. Systematic self-exploration of behaviors for robots in a dynamical systems framework In Proc. Artificial Life XI, pages: 319-326, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2018 (inproceedings)

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Case series: Slowing alpha rhythm in late-stage ALS patients

Hohmann, M. R., Fomina, T., Jayaram, V., Emde, T., Just, J., Synofzik, M., Schölkopf, B., Schöls, L., Grosse-Wentrup, M.

Clinical Neurophysiology, 129(2):406-408, 2018 (article)

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ei Hohmann, M. R., Fomina, T., Jayaram, V., Emde, T., Just, J., Synofzik, M., Schölkopf, B., Schöls, L., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Case series: Slowing alpha rhythm in late-stage ALS patients Clinical Neurophysiology, 129(2):406-408, 2018 (article)

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Inverse Reinforcement Learning via Nonparametric Spatio-Temporal Subgoal Modeling

Šošić, A., Rueckert, E., Peters, J., Zoubir, A., Koeppl, H.

Journal of Machine Learning Research, 19(69):1-45, 2018 (article)

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ei Šošić, A., Rueckert, E., Peters, J., Zoubir, A., Koeppl, H. Inverse Reinforcement Learning via Nonparametric Spatio-Temporal Subgoal Modeling Journal of Machine Learning Research, 19(69):1-45, 2018 (article)

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Grip Stabilization of Novel Objects using Slip Prediction

Veiga, F., Peters, J., Hermans, T.

IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2018 (article) In press

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ei Veiga, F., Peters, J., Hermans, T. Grip Stabilization of Novel Objects using Slip Prediction IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2018 (article) In press

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Measures of distortion for machine learning

Vankadara, L., von Luxburg, U.

In Proceedings Neural Information Processing Systems, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2018) , 2018 (inproceedings)

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slt Vankadara, L., von Luxburg, U. Measures of distortion for machine learning In Proceedings Neural Information Processing Systems, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2018) , 2018 (inproceedings)

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Domain Adaptation Under Causal Assumptions

Lechner, T.

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2018 (mastersthesis)

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ei Lechner, T. Domain Adaptation Under Causal Assumptions Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2018 (mastersthesis)

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Geckos Race Across the Water’s Surface Using Multiple Mechanisms

Nirody, J. L. L. J. A. H. D. F. R.

Current Biology, 28(24):4046-4051.e2, Elsevier, 2018 (article)

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Acrobatic geckos can sprint at high speeds over challenging terrain {$[$}1{$]$}, scamper up the smoothest surfaces {$[$}2{$]$}, rapidly swing underneath leaves {$[$}3{$]$}, and right themselves in midair by swinging only their tails {$[$}4, 5{$]$}. From our field observations, we can add racing on the water?s surface to the gecko?s list of agile feats. Locomotion at the air-water interface evolved in over a thousand species, including insects, fish, reptiles, and mammals {$[$}6{$]$}. To support their weight, some larger-legged vertebrates use forces generated by vigorous slapping of the fluid?s surface followed by a stroke of their appendage {$[$}7?12{$]$}, whereas smaller animals, like arthropods, rely on surface tension to walk on water {$[$}6, 13{$]$}. Intermediate-sized geckos (Hemidactylus platyurus) fall squarely between these two regimes. Here, we report the unique ability of geckos to exceed the speed limits of conventional surface swimming. Several mechanisms likely contribute in this intermediate regime. In contrast to bipedal basilisk lizards {$[$}7?10{$]$}, geckos used a stereotypic trotting gait with all four limbs, creating air cavities during slapping to raise their head and anterior trunk above water. Adding surfactant to the water decreased velocity by half, confirming surface tension?s role. The superhydrophobic skin could reduce drag during semi-planing. Geckos laterally undulated their bodies, including their submerged posterior trunk and tail, generating thrust for forward propulsion, much like water dragons {$[$}14{$]$} and alligators {$[$}15{$]$}. Geckos again remind us of the advantages of multi-functional morphologies providing the opportunity for multiple mechanisms for motion.

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Incorporation of Terbium into a Microalga Leads to Magnetotactic Swimmers

Santomauro, G., Singh, A., Park, B. W., Mohammadrahimi, M., Erkoc, P., Goering, E., Schütz, G., Sitti, M., Bill, J.

Advanced Biosystems, 2(12):1800039, 2018 (article)

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mms pi Santomauro, G., Singh, A., Park, B. W., Mohammadrahimi, M., Erkoc, P., Goering, E., Schütz, G., Sitti, M., Bill, J. Incorporation of Terbium into a Microalga Leads to Magnetotactic Swimmers Advanced Biosystems, 2(12):1800039, 2018 (article)

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Endo-VMFuseNet: A Deep Visual-Magnetic Sensor Fusion Approach for Endoscopic Capsule Robots

Turan, M., Almalioglu, Y., Gilbert, H. B., Sari, A. E., Soylu, U., Sitti, M.

In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages: 1-7, 2018 (inproceedings)

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pi Turan, M., Almalioglu, Y., Gilbert, H. B., Sari, A. E., Soylu, U., Sitti, M. Endo-VMFuseNet: A Deep Visual-Magnetic Sensor Fusion Approach for Endoscopic Capsule Robots In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages: 1-7, 2018 (inproceedings)

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A Differentially Private Kernel Two-Sample Test

Raj*, A., Law*, L., Sejdinovic*, D., Park, M.

2018, *equal contribution (conference) Submitted

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ei Raj*, A., Law*, L., Sejdinovic*, D., Park, M. A Differentially Private Kernel Two-Sample Test 2018, *equal contribution (conference) Submitted

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Electrophysiological correlates of neurodegeneration in motor and non-motor brain regions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—implications for brain–computer interfacing

Kellmeyer, P., Grosse-Wentrup, M., Schulze-Bonhage, A., Ziemann, U., Ball, T.

Journal of Neural Engineering, 15(4):041003, IOP Publishing, 2018 (article)

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ei Kellmeyer, P., Grosse-Wentrup, M., Schulze-Bonhage, A., Ziemann, U., Ball, T. Electrophysiological correlates of neurodegeneration in motor and non-motor brain regions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—implications for brain–computer interfacing Journal of Neural Engineering, 15(4):041003, IOP Publishing, 2018 (article)

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A Causal Perspective on Deep Representation Learning

Suter, R.

ETH Zurich, 2018 (mastersthesis)

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Quantum machine learning: a classical perspective

Ciliberto, C., Herbster, M., Ialongo, A. D., Pontil, M., Rocchetto, A., Severini, S., Wossnig, L.

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 474(2209):20170551, 2018 (article)

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ei Ciliberto, C., Herbster, M., Ialongo, A. D., Pontil, M., Rocchetto, A., Severini, S., Wossnig, L. Quantum machine learning: a classical perspective Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 474(2209):20170551, 2018 (article)

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Thermodynamics, kinetics and selectivity of H2 and D2 on zeolite 5A below 77K

Xiong, R., Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R., Zhang, L., Li, P., Yao, Y., Sang, G., Chen, C., Tang, T., Luo, D., Hirscher, M.

{Microporous and Mesoporous Materials}, 264, pages: 22-27, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2018 (article)

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mms Xiong, R., Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R., Zhang, L., Li, P., Yao, Y., Sang, G., Chen, C., Tang, T., Luo, D., Hirscher, M. Thermodynamics, kinetics and selectivity of H2 and D2 on zeolite 5A below 77K {Microporous and Mesoporous Materials}, 264, pages: 22-27, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2018 (article)

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Volumetric hydrogen storage capacity in metal-organic frameworks

Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R., Schlichtenmayer, M., Hirscher, M.

{Energy Technology}, 6(3):578-582, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2018 (article)

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mms Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R., Schlichtenmayer, M., Hirscher, M. Volumetric hydrogen storage capacity in metal-organic frameworks {Energy Technology}, 6(3):578-582, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2018 (article)

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Kernel-based tests for joint independence

Pfister, N., Bühlmann, P., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 80(1):5-31, 2018 (article)

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ei Pfister, N., Bühlmann, P., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J. Kernel-based tests for joint independence Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 80(1):5-31, 2018 (article)

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Temporal Human Action Segmentation via Dynamic Clustering

Zhang, Y., Sun, H., Tang, S., Neumann, H.

arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05790, 2018 (article)

Abstract
We present an effective dynamic clustering algorithm for the task of temporal human action segmentation, which has comprehensive applications such as robotics, motion analysis, and patient monitoring. Our proposed algorithm is unsupervised, fast, generic to process various types of features, and applica- ble in both the online and offline settings. We perform extensive experiments of processing data streams, and show that our algorithm achieves the state-of- the-art results for both online and offline settings.

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ps Zhang, Y., Sun, H., Tang, S., Neumann, H. Temporal Human Action Segmentation via Dynamic Clustering arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05790, 2018 (article)

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Prediction of Glucose Tolerance without an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test

Babbar, R., Heni, M., Peter, A., Hrabě de Angelis, M., Häring, H., Fritsche, A., Preissl, H., Schölkopf, B., Wagner, R.

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 9, pages: 82, 2018 (article)

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ei Babbar, R., Heni, M., Peter, A., Hrabě de Angelis, M., Häring, H., Fritsche, A., Preissl, H., Schölkopf, B., Wagner, R. Prediction of Glucose Tolerance without an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test Frontiers in Endocrinology, 9, pages: 82, 2018 (article)

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Invariant Models for Causal Transfer Learning

Rojas-Carulla, M., Schölkopf, B., Turner, R., Peters, J.

Journal of Machine Learning Research, 19(36):1-34, 2018 (article)

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ei Rojas-Carulla, M., Schölkopf, B., Turner, R., Peters, J. Invariant Models for Causal Transfer Learning Journal of Machine Learning Research, 19(36):1-34, 2018 (article)

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MOABB: Trustworthy algorithm benchmarking for BCIs

Jayaram, V., Barachant, A.

Journal of Neural Engineering, 15(6):066011, 2018 (article)

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ei Jayaram, V., Barachant, A. MOABB: Trustworthy algorithm benchmarking for BCIs Journal of Neural Engineering, 15(6):066011, 2018 (article)

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Robust and Cheap 3D Haptic Sensation using Deformation Patterns and Machine Learning

Huanbo Sun, Georg Martius

In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2018), 2018, to appear (inproceedings)

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Huanbo Sun, Georg Martius Robust and Cheap 3D Haptic Sensation using Deformation Patterns and Machine Learning In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2018), 2018, to appear (inproceedings)

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f-Divergence constrained policy improvement

Belousov, B., Peters, J.

Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2018 (article) Submitted

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ei Belousov, B., Peters, J. f-Divergence constrained policy improvement Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2018 (article) Submitted

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