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Jost Tobias Springenberg

Machine Learning Lab
University of Freiburg

Room 079/00010
Georges-Koehler-Allee 079
79110 Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany

Phone: +49 761 203 8048
Email: springj@informatik.uni-freiburg.de

This website is only periodically updated! Please visit my personal website for more information about my research.

Publications

2016

Jost Tobias Springenberg (2016) Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Learning with Categorical Generative Adversarial Networks. In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). web Bibtex

@incollection{springenberg2016iclr,
  title = {Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Learning with Categorical Generative Adversarial Networks},
  author = {Springenberg, Jost Tobias},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  keywords = {SPP},
  year = {2016},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06390}
}

J. T. Springenberg, A. Klein, S. Falkner, F. Hutter (2016) Bayesian Optimization with Robust Bayesian Neural Networks. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 29. Bibtex

@incollection{springenberg2016nips,
  title = {Bayesian Optimization with Robust Bayesian Neural Networks},
  author = {J. T. Springenberg and A. Klein and S. Falkner and F. Hutter},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 29},
  note={accepted},
  keywords = {SPP},
  year = {2016}
}

2015

M. Feurer, T. Springenberg, F. Hutter (2015) Initializing Bayesian Hyperparameter Optimization via Meta-Learning. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. web Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{Feurer2015,
  lAUTHOR =       {Matthias Feurer and Tobias Springenberg and Frank Hutter},
  AUTHOR =       {M. Feurer and T. Springenberg and F. Hutter},
  TITLE =        {Initializing Bayesian Hyperparameter Optimization via Meta-Learning},
  BOOKTITLE =    {Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  CONFERENCE = {AAAI Conference},
  YEAR =         {2015},
  url={http://aad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/papers/15-AAAI-MI-SMBO.pdf}
}

T. Domhan, J. T. Springenberg, F. Hutter (2015) Speeding up Automatic Hyperparameter Optimization of Deep Neural Networks by Extrapolation of Learning Curves. In Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). web Bibtex

@InProceedings{DomSprHut15,
  lauthor = "Tobias Domhan and Jost Tobias Springenberg and Frank Hutter",
  author = "T. Domhan and J. T. Springenberg and F. Hutter",
  title = "Speeding up Automatic Hyperparameter Optimization of Deep Neural Networks by Extrapolation of Learning Curves",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)",
  url={http://aad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/papers/15-IJCAI-Extrapolation_of_Learning_Curves.pdf},
  year = "2015",
  keywords = {EXC1086;BLBT;Deep Learning;Hyperparameter Optimization}
}

Wendelin Böhmer, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Joschka Boedecker, Martin Riedmiller, Klaus Obermayer (2015) Autonomous Learning of State Representations for Control: An Emerging Field Aims to Autonomously Learn State Representations for Reinforcement Learning Agents from Their Real-World Sensor Observations. KI - Künstliche Intelligenz pp. 1-10. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi web Bibtex

@article{BoeSprBoeRieObeKI2015,
  year={2015},
  issn={0933-1875},
  journal={KI - Künstliche Intelligenz},
  doi={10.1007/s13218-015-0356-1},
  title={Autonomous Learning of State Representations for Control: An Emerging Field Aims to Autonomously Learn State Representations for Reinforcement Learning Agents from Their Real-World Sensor Observations},
  url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13218-015-0356-1},
  publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
  keywords={End-to-end reinforcement learning; Representation learning; Deep auto-encoder networks; Slow feature analysis; Autonomous robotics; BoedeckerSelect},
  author={Böhmer, Wendelin and Springenberg, Jost Tobias and Boedecker, Joschka and Riedmiller, Martin and Obermayer, Klaus},
  pages={1-10}
}

A.Dosovitskiy, J.T.Springenberg, T.Brox (2015) Learning to Generate Chairs with Convolutional Neural Networks. In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). web Bibtex

@InProceedings{DosSprChair15,
  author       = "A.Dosovitskiy and J.T.Springenberg and T.Brox",
  title        = "Learning to Generate Chairs with Convolutional Neural Networks",
  booktitle    = "IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)",
  year         = "2015",
  url          = {http://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de//Publications/2015/DB15},
  keywords = {EXC1086;BLBT;Deep Learning}
}

J. T. Springenberg, A. Dosovitskiy, T. Brox, M. Riedmiller (2015) Striving for Simplicity: The All Convolutional Net. In arXiv:1412.6806, also appeared at ICLR 2015 Workshop Track. web Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{SprDosBroRied15,
  AUTHOR =       {J. T. Springenberg and A. Dosovitskiy and T. Brox and M. Riedmiller},
  TITLE =        {Striving for Simplicity: The All Convolutional Net},
  BOOKTITLE =    {arXiv:1412.6806, also appeared at ICLR 2015 Workshop Track},
  CONFERENCE = {ICLR 2015 Workshop Track},
  YEAR =         {2015},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6806},
  keywords = {EXC1086;BLBT;Deep Learning}
}

Matthias Feurer, Aaron Klein, Katharina Eggensperger, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Manuel Blum, Frank Hutter (2015) Efficient and Robust Automated Machine Learning. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. PDF Bibtex

@article{feurerefficient,
  title={Efficient and Robust Automated Machine Learning},
  author={Feurer, Matthias and Klein, Aaron and Eggensperger, Katharina and Springenberg, Jost Tobias and Blum, Manuel and Hutter, Frank},
  booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year={2015},
  file={http://aad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/papers/15-NIPS-auto-sklearn-preprint.pdf}
}

A. Eitel, J. T. Springenberg, L. Spinello, M. Riedmiller, W. Burgard (2015) Multimodal Deep Learning for Robust RGB-D Object Recognition. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). web Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{EitSprSpiRieBur15,
   author = {Eitel, A. and Springenberg, J. T. and Spinello, L. and Riedmiller, M. and Burgard, W.},
   title = {Multimodal Deep Learning for Robust RGB-D Object Recognition},
   booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
   keywords = {EXC1086;BLBT;Deep Learning;RGB-D;Robotics},
   url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.06821},
   year = 2015
}

Manuel Watter, Jost Springenberg, Joschka Boedecker, Martin Riedmiller (2015) Embed to Control: A Locally Linear Latent Dynamics Model for Control from Raw Images. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28. pp. 2728–2736. PDF Bibtex

@incollection{watter2015e2c,
  title = {Embed to Control: A Locally Linear Latent Dynamics Model for Control from Raw Images},
  author = {Watter, Manuel and Springenberg, Jost and Boedecker, Joschka and Riedmiller, Martin},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28},
  editor = {C. Cortes and N.D. Lawrence and D.D. Lee and M. Sugiyama and R. Garnett and R. Garnett},
  pages = {2728--2736},
  keywords = {EXC1086; SPP; BoedeckerSelect},
  year = {2015},
  file = {http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5964-embed-to-control-a-locally-linear-latent-dynamics-model-for-control-from-raw-images.pdf}
}

2014

Tobias Domhan, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Frank Hutter (2014) Extrapolating Learning Curves of Deep Neural Networks. In ICML 2014 AutoML Workshop. web Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{DomSprHut2014,
  author = "Tobias Domhan and Jost Tobias Springenberg and Frank Hutter",
  title = "Extrapolating Learning Curves of Deep Neural Networks",
  booktitle = "ICML 2014 AutoML Workshop",
  year = "2014",
  url = {http://aad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/media/_publications/14-AUTOML-ExtrapolatingLearningCurves4.pdf}
}

Matthias Feurer, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Frank Hutter (2014) Using Meta-Learning to Initialize Bayesian Optimization of Hyperparameters. In ECAI workshop on Metalearning and Algorithm Selection (MetaSel). web Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{FeuSprHut2014,
  AUTHOR =       {Matthias Feurer and Jost Tobias Springenberg and Frank Hutter},
  TITLE =        {Using Meta-Learning to Initialize Bayesian Optimization of Hyperparameters},
  BOOKTITLE =    {ECAI workshop on Metalearning and Algorithm Selection (MetaSel)},
  CONFERENCE = {European Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  YEAR =         {2014},
  url = {http://aad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/media/_publications/14-METASEL-MI-SMBO.pdf}
}

Joschka Boedecker, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Jan Wülfing, Martin Riedmiller (2014) Approximate Real-Time Optimal Control Based on Sparse Gaussian Process Models. In Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL). PDF Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{BoeSprWuel2014,
  author = {Joschka Boedecker and Jost Tobias Springenberg and Jan Wülfing and Martin Riedmiller},
  title = {Approximate Real-Time Optimal Control Based on Sparse Gaussian Process Models},
  booktitle = {Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL)},
  year = {2014},
  file = {adprl-2014.pdf},
  keywords= {EXC1086;BLBT;Neurobots;PR2;BoedeckerSelect}
}

Alexey Dosovitskiy, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Martin Riedmiller, Thomas Brox (2014) Discriminative Unsupervised Feature Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks. In 28th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{DosSpr2014,
  author = {Alexey Dosovitskiy and Jost Tobias Springenberg and Martin Riedmiller and Thomas Brox},
  title = {Discriminative Unsupervised Feature Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks},
  booktitle = {28th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)},
  year = {2014}
}

2013

Jost Tobias Springenberg, Martin Riedmiller (2013) Improving Deep Neural Networks with Probabilistic Maxout Units. In arXiv:1312.6116, also appeared at ICLR 2014 Workshop Track. web Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{SprRied2014a,
  AUTHOR =       {Jost Tobias Springenberg and Martin Riedmiller},
  TITLE =        {Improving Deep Neural Networks with Probabilistic Maxout Units},
  BOOKTITLE =    {arXiv:1312.6116, also appeared at ICLR 2014 Workshop Track},
  CONFERENCE = {ICLR 2014 Workshop Track},
  YEAR =         {2013},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6116}
}

Alexey Dosovitskiy, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Thomas Brox (2013) Unsupervised feature learning by augmenting single images . In arXiv:1312.5242, also appeared at ICLR 2014 Workshop Track. web Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{DosSpr2014a,
  AUTHOR =       {Alexey Dosovitskiy and Jost Tobias Springenberg and Thomas Brox},
  TITLE =        {Unsupervised feature learning by augmenting single images },
  BOOKTITLE =    {arXiv:1312.5242, also appeared at ICLR 2014 Workshop Track},
  CONFERENCE = {ICLR 2014 Workshop Track},
  YEAR =         {2013},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.5242}
}

2012

Manuel Blum, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Jan Wülfing, Martin Riedmiller (2012) A Learned Feature Descriptor for Object Recognition in RGB-D Data. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. PDF Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{blumicra2012,
  AUTHOR = {Manuel Blum and Jost Tobias Springenberg and Jan Wülfing and Martin Riedmiller},
  ADDRESS = {St. Paul, Minnesota, USA},
  BOOKTITLE = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  TITLE = {A Learned Feature Descriptor for Object Recognition in RGB-D Data},
  YEAR = {2012},
  FILE = {http://ml.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/_media/publications/blumicra2012.pdf}
}

Jost Tobias Springenberg, Martin Riedmiller (2012) Learning temporal coherent features through life-time sparsity. In International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP). pp. 347–356. Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{springj2012a,
  title = {Learning temporal coherent features through life-time sparsity},
  author = {Jost Tobias Springenberg and Martin Riedmiller},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP)},
  pages = {347--356},
  year = {2012},
  organization = {Springer}
}

2011

Manuel Blum, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Jan Wülfing, Martin Riedmiller (2011) On the Applicability of Unsupervised Feature Learning for Object Recognition in RGB-D Data. In NIPS Workshop on Deep Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning. Granada, Spain. PDF Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{blumnips2011,
  AUTHOR = {Manuel Blum and Jost Tobias Springenberg and Jan Wülfing and Martin Riedmiller},
  ADDRESS = {Granada, Spain},
  BOOKTITLE = {NIPS Workshop on Deep Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning},
  TITLE = {On the Applicability of Unsupervised Feature Learning for Object Recognition in RGB-D Data},
  YEAR = {2011},
  FILE = {http://ml.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/_media/publications/blumnips2011.pdf}
}