publications

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Tobias Lang, Marc Toussaint: Planning with Learned Stochastic Relational Rules. Subm. to Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
 
Laurent Charlin, Marc Toussaint, Pascal Poupart: Hierarchy discovery and hierarchical policy optimization for planning in partially observable domains. Subm. to Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
 
Marc Toussaint, Nils Plath, Tobias Lang, Nikolay Jetchev: Integrated motor control, planning, grasping and high-level reasoning in a blocks world using probabilistic inference. Subm. to ICRA 2010.
 
Nikolay Jetchev, Marc Toussaint: Trajectory Prediction in Cluttered Voxel Environments. Subm. to ICRA 2010.
2010
Marc Toussaint, Amos Storkey, Stefan Harmeling (2010): Expectation-Maximization methods for solving (PO)MDPs and optimal control problems. In Silvia Chiappa, David Barber (Eds.): Inference and Learning in Dynamic Models, Cambridge University Press, print expected in 2010.
 
Marc Toussaint, Christian Goerick (2010): A Bayesian view on motor control and planning. In Olivier Sigaud, Jan Peters (Eds.): From motor to interaction learning in robots, Springer, print expected in 2010.
2009
Nikos Vlassis, Marc Toussaint, Georgios Kontes, Savas Piperidis (2009): Learning Model-free Robot Control by a Monte Carlo EM Algorithm. Autonomous Robots 27, 123-130.
 
Tobias Lang, Marc Toussaint (2009): Relevance Grounding for Planning in Relational Domains . European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2009).
 
Marc Toussaint (2009): Pros and Cons of truncated Gaussian EP in the context of Approximate Inference Control. NIPS-Workshop on Probabilistic Approaches for Robotics and Control.
 
Marc Toussaint (2009): Probabilistic inference as a model of planned behavior. Künstliche Intelligenz (German Artificial Intelligence Journal) volume 3/09.
 
Marc Toussaint (2009): Robot Trajectory Optimization using Approximate Inference. 25nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009).
 
Nikos Vlassis, Marc Toussaint (2009): Model-Free Reinforcement Learning as Mixture Learning. . 25nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009).
 
Tobias Lang, Marc Toussaint (2009): Approximate Inference for Planning in Stochastic Relational Worlds. 25nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009).
 
Nils Plath, Marc Toussaint (2009): Multi-class image segmentation using Conditional Random Fields and Global Classification. 25nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009).
 
Nikolay Jetchev, Marc Toussaint (2009): Trajectory Prediction: Learning to Map Situations to Robot Trajectories. 25nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009).
 
Sethu Vijayakumar, Marc Toussaint, Giorgios Petkos, Matthew Howard (2009): Planning and Moving in Dynamic Environments - A Statistical Machine Learning Approach. In Creating Brain-Like Intelligence -- From Basic Principles to Complex Intelligent Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol 5436/2009, Springer, 151-191.
2008
Volker Willert, Julian Eggert, Marc Toussaint, Edgar Körner: Probabilistic Exploitation of the Lucas and Kanade Smoothness Constraint. The seventh Int Conf on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2008).
 
Michael Gienger, Marc Toussaint, Nikolay Jetchev, Achim Bendig, Christian Goerick: Optimization of fluent approach and grasp motions. 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2008).
 
Michael Gienger, Marc Toussaint, Christian Goerick: Task Maps in Humanoid Robot Manipulation. In International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS 2008).
 
Marc Toussaint, Laurent Charlin, Pascal Poupart: Hierarchical POMDP Controller Optimization by Likelihood Maximization. In Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2008). (best paper runner up award) (See also the video lecture and the AAAI 2008 workshop version. )
 
Ben Williams, Marc Toussaint, Amos Storkey: Modelling motion primitives and their timing in biologically executed movements. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20 (NIPS 2007).
2007
Marc Toussaint, Michael Gienger, Christian Goerick (2007): Optimization of sequential attractor-based movement for compact behaviour generation. 7th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2007) .
 
Volker Willert, Marc Toussaint, Julian Eggert, Edgar Körner: Uncertainty Optimization for Robust Dynamic Optical Flow Estimation. The sixth Int Conf on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2007), pages 450-457. (best paper award)
 
Marc Toussaint (2007): Bayesian inference for motion control and planning. Technical Report 2007-22, Technical University Berlin, ISSN 1436-9915.
 
Marc Toussaint, Volker Willert, Julian Eggert, Edgar Körner (2007): Motion Segmentation Using Inference in Dynamic Bayesian Networks. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2007).
 
Stefan Harmeling, Marc Toussaint (2007): Bayesian Estimators for Robins-Ritov's Problem. University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics Research Report EDI-INF-RR-1189.
 
Christopher R. Stephens, Marc Toussaint, Darrel Whitley, Peter F. Stadler (Eds.): Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA 2007) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4436, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-540-73479-6
 
Marc Toussaint, Christian Goerick (2007): Probabilistic inference for structured planning in robotics. Int Conf on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007).
 
Marc Toussaint, Werner von Seelen (2007): Complex adaptation and system structure. BioSystems, 90 (3), p.769-782, Nov 2007.
 
Ben Williams, Marc Toussaint, Amos Storkey (2007): A primitive based generative model to infer timing information in unpartitioned handwriting data. Int Joint Conf on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007).
2006
Marc Toussaint, Stefan Harmeling, Amos Storkey (2006): Probabilistic inference for solving (PO)MDPs. Research Report EDI-INF-RR-0934, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics.
 
Felix V. Agakov, Edwin V. Bonilla, John Cavazos, Björn Franke, Grigori Fursin, Michael F. P. O'Boyle, John Thomson, Marc Toussaint, Christopher K. I. Williams (2006): Using Machine Learning to Focus Iterative Optimization. Int Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2006), 295-305.
 
Ben Williams, Marc Toussaint, Amos Storkey (2006): Extracting Motion Primitives from Natural Handwriting Data. Int Conf on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2006).
 
Georgios Petkos, Marc Toussaint, Sethu Vijayakumar (2006): Learning Multiple Models of Non-Linear Dynamics for Control under Varying Contexts. Int Conf on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2006).
 
Marc Toussaint (2006): Compact representations as a search strategy: Compression EDAs [ps.gz]. Theoretical Computer Science 361, 57-71.
 
Marc Toussaint and Amos Storkey (2006): Probabilistic inference for solving discrete and continuous state Markov Decision Processes [ps.gz]. 23nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2006). For a more detailed and revised exposition please also see this Technical Report. See also the comment by Hoffman et al. (an errata of their AISTATS 09 paper) concerning the Unscented Transform.
 
Marc Toussaint (2006): A sensorimotor map: Modulating lateral interactions for anticipation and planning [ps.gz]. Neural Computation 18, 1132-1155.
2005
Marc Toussaint and Amos Storkey (2005): Probabilistic inference for computing optimal policies in MDPs [ps.gz]. NIPS 2005 Workshop - Game Theory, Machine Learning and Reasoning under Uncertainty.
 
Marc Toussaint and Sethu Vijayakumar (2005): Learning discontinuities with Product-of-Sigmoids for switching between local models [ps.gz]. 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005).
 
Marc Toussaint (2005): Factorial representations to generate arbitrary search distributions [ps.gz]. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2005), Theory of Representations workshop, 339-345, ACM Press.
 
Marc Toussaint and S. Vijayakumar (2005): Learning discontinuities for switching between local models [ps.gz]. 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005), 1744-1745.
 
Andrey V. Bogdanov, Marc Toussaint, Stein Sandven (2005): Recurrent modular network architecture for sea ice classification in the Marginal Ice Zone using ERS SAR images. In Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XI, Proceedings of SPIE vol 5982, SPIE, Bellingham, WA.
 
Marc Toussaint (2005): Compact genetic codes as a search strategy of evolutionary processes [ps.gz]. In Foundations of Genetic Algorithms 8 (FOGA 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 3469), 75-94, Springer, Berlin. [ISBN: 3-540-27237-2]
 
Christian Igel, Marc Toussaint, W. Weishui (2005): Rprop using the natural gradient compared to Levenberg-Marquardt optimization [ps.gz]. In Trends and Applications in Constructive Approximation. International Series of Numerical Mathematics, volume 151, 259-272, Birkhäuser Verlag.
2004
Christian Igel, Marc Toussaint (2004): A No-Free-Lunch theorem for non-uniform distributions of target functions [ps.gz]. Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms 3, 313-322. For a draft see Recent Results on No-Free-Lunch Theorems for Optimization (2003), Los Alamos pre-print cs.NE/0303032.
 
Marc Toussaint (2004): Learning a world model and planning with a self-organizing dynamic neural system [ps.gz]. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16 (NIPS 2003), 929-936, MIT Press, Cambridge. For a draft see nlin.AO/0306015.
2003
Marc Toussaint (2003): The evolution of genetic representations and modular adaptation. PhD thesis, Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universiät Bochum, Germany. Published with the Logos Verlag Berlin (2004), ISBN 3-8325-0579-2, 173 pages.
 
Christian Igel, Marc Toussaint (2003): Neutrality and self-adaptation [ps.gz]. Natural Computation 2, 117-132.
 
Marc Toussaint (2003): The structure of evolutionary exploration: On crossover, buildings blocks, and Estimation-Of-Distribution Algorithms [ps.gz]. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2003), 1444-1456. See also the earlier version at the Los Alamos e-Print Archive nlin.AO/0212030.
 
Marc Toussaint (2003): Demonstrating the Evolution of Complex Genetic Representations: An Evolution of Artificial Plants [ps.gz]. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2003), 86-97.
 
Christian Igel, Marc Toussaint (2003): On Classes of Functions for which No Free Lunch Results Hold. Information Processing Letters 86, 317-321. See also the earlier version [ps.gz] at the Los Alamos e-Print Archive cs.NE/0108011.
 
Marc Toussaint (2003): On the evolution of phenotypic exploration distributions [ps.gz]. Foundations of Genetic Algorithms 7 (FOGA 2003), Eds: Ken De Jong et al., Morgan Kaufmann, 169-182. [order the book ISBN 0-1220-8155-2]
2002
Michael Huesken, Christian Igel, Marc Toussaint (2002): Task-dependent evolution of modularity in neural networks [ps.gz]. Connection Science 14, 219-229. See also the earlier version [ps.gz] in 2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2001), Late-Breaking Papers, 187-193.
 
Marc Toussaint (2002): A neural model for multi-expert architectures [ps.gz]. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2002), 2755-2760. [nlin.AO/0202039, citeseer]
 
Marc Toussaint (2002): On model selection and the disability of neural networks to decompose tasks [ps.gz]. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2002), 245-250. [nlin.AO/0202038, citeseer]
 
Marc Toussaint, Christian Igel (2002): Neutrality: A Necessity for Self-Adaptation [ps.gz]. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2002), 1354-1359. [nlin.AO/0204038, citeseer]
2001
Marc Toussaint (2001): Self-adaptive exploration in evolutionary search [ps.gz]. Internal Report IRINI 2001-05, Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universiät Bochum, Germany. [physics/0102009, citeseer]
2000
Marc Toussaint (2000): A numeric solution for metric-affine gravity and Einstein's gravitational theory with Proca matter [ps.gz]. General Relelativity and Gravitation 32, 1689-1709. [supplementary computer algebra code, gr-qc/9910042, citeseer]
 
Marc Toussaint (2000): A gauge theoretical view of the charge concept in Einstein gravity [ps.gz]. General Relelativity and Gravitation 32, 885-896. [supplementary computer algebra code, gr-qc/9907024, citeseer]
 
Friedrich W. Hehl, Marc Toussaint (2000): Schwarze Löcher (Black Holes) [ps.gz]. MNU (Der mathematische und naturwissenschaftliche Unterricht) 6, 327-333.
1999
Marc Toussaint (1999): Gauge theory of gravity: Foundations, the charge concept, and a numeric solution. Diploma thesis, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Germany. [abstract and supplements]
 
Marc Toussaint (1999): Lectures on Reduce and Maple [ps.gz]. Los Alamos e-Print Archive cs.SC/0105033. [supplementary material, cs.SC/0105033, citeseer]

notes (non-refereed)
(See also my lecture notes.)
2008
Marc Toussaint: Probabilistic inference methods in robotics -- filling the gap between high-level reasoning and low-level motion control. Presented at the PASCAL Symposium, Bled 2008. See the video lecture.
2005
Marc Toussaint (2005): Exact conditions for commutativity of projections with crossover. Technical Note, 2005.
2004
Marc Toussaint (2004): Notes on information geometry and evolutionary processes. Los Alamos pre-print nlin.AO/0408040.
1999
Marc Toussaint (1999): The local map and the metric as symmetry breaking properties of spacetime in gauge theories of gravity. Part of my diploma thesis.

very old stuff on gravity