Publications from academics at the Applied AI Lab at the Oxford Robotics Institute

BibTeX

@misc{compactsymbolic-2027/,
  title={Compact Symbolic Representation Learning for Efficient Planning from Unsupervised Interaction},
  author={Geiss H-J, Hollenstein J, Agostini A, Posner I & Piater J},
  year = "2027"
}

@misc{thepnplcompetit-2026/9,
  title={The 2026 PNPL Competition: Word Classification and Efficient Cross-Subject Generalisation in LibriBrain100},
  author={Mantegna F, Elvers G, Jayalath D, Landau G, Kim T et al.},
  year = "2026"
}

@misc{acommonmeasureo-2026/9,
  title={A Common Measure of Communication for Speech Brain-Computer Interfaces},
  author={Jayalath D, Ballyk B & Jones OP},
  year = "2026"
}

@misc{libribrainonehu-2026/8,
  title={LibriBrain100: One Hundred Hours of Broad and Deep MEG Data for Neural Speech Decoding at Scale},
  author={Mantegna F, Jayalath D, Elvers G, Kim T, Ballyk B et al.},
  year = "2026"
}

@misc{coherentoffpoli-2026/6,
  title={Coherent Off-Policy Improvement of Large Behavior Models with Learned Rewards},
  author={Scherer C, Watson J, Gruner T, Palenicek D, Posner I et al.},
  year = "2026"
}

BibTeX

@article{acousticpropert-2026/5,
  title={Acoustic properties of utterance-initial glottal stop in Hawaiian},
  author={Roon KD, Davidson L & Parker Jones O},
  journal={Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  volume={159},
  pages={4038-4055},
  publisher={Acoustical Society of America},
  year = "2026"
}

@misc{noepochlikethep-2026/5,
  title={No Epoch Like the Present: Robust Climate Emulation Requires Out-of-Distribution Generalisation},
  author={Stanley-Clamp B, Lei A, Christensen HM & Posner I},
  year = "2026"
}

@misc{xqcfdaccelerati-2026/5,
  title={XQCfD: Accelerating Fast Actor-Critic Algorithms with Prior Data and Prior Policies},
  author={Palenicek D, Vogt F, Watson J, Posner I, Kragic D et al.},
  year = "2026"
}

BibTeX

@article{modellingdiscre-2026/4,
  title={Modelling Discrete States and Long-Term Dynamics in Functional Brain Networks},
  author={Cho S, Huang R, Gohil C, Jones OP & Woolrich MW},
  journal={Imaging Neuroscience},
  publisher={MIT Press},
  year = "2026"
}

@misc{posteriorsampli-2026/3,
  title={Posterior Sampling Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Processes for Continuous Control: Sublinear Regret Bounds for Unbounded State Spaces},
  author={Flynn H, Watson J, Posner I & Peters J},
  year = "2026"
}

@misc{megxldataeffici-2026/2,
  title={MEG-XL: Data-Efficient Brain-to-Text via Long-Context Pre-Training},
  author={Jayalath D & Jones OP},
  year = "2026"
}

@misc{megnifyingemoti-2026/1,
  title={MEGnifying Emotion: Sentiment Analysis from Annotated Brain Data},
  author={Liu B & Jones OP},
  year = "2026"
}

@inproceedings{disentanglingdy-2026/1,
  title={Disentangling Dynamical Systems: Causal Representation Learning Meets Local Sparse Attention},
  author={Baumgartner MW, Lei A, Watson J & Posner I},
  pages={119-165},
  year = "2026"
}

BibTeX

@article{separatingthefo-2026/,
  title={Separating the forest from the palm trees: Individual variation in a presurgical language mapping task},
  author={Voets NL, Parker Jones O, Seghier ML & Plaha P},
  journal={NeuroImage Clinical},
  volume={49},
  pages={103943},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  year = "2026"
}

BibTeX

@article{anendtoendframe-2025/12,
  title={An End-to-End Framework for Modeling Pneumatic Soft Robots Based on Differentiable Finite Element Methods},
  author={Zhong S, Yao Y, Maiolino P & Posner I},
  journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  volume={10},
  pages={13003-13010},
  publisher={Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)},
  year = "2025"
}

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@misc{meggptatransfor-2025/10,
  title={MEG-GPT: a transformer-based foundation model for magnetoencephalography data},
  author={Huang R, Cho S, Gohil C, Parker Jones O & Woolrich M},
  year = "2025"
}

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@inproceedings{lumoslanguageco-2025/9,
  title={LUMOS: language-conditioned imitation learning with world models},
  author={Demoss B, Hawes N & Posner H},
  booktitle={IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS 2025)},
  pages={8219-8225},
  year = "2025"
}

BibTeX

@article{thecomplexitydy-2025/8,
  title={The Complexity Dynamics of Grokking},
  author={DeMoss B, Sapora S, Foerster J, Hawes N & Posner I},
  journal={Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena},
  volume={482},
  number={134859},
  pages={134859-134859},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  year = "2025"
}

@misc{enhancingjointh-2025/8,
  title={Enhancing Joint Human-AI Inference in Robot Missions: A Confidence-Based Approach},
  author={Nguyen D-A, Colombatto C, Fleming S, Posner I, Hawes N et al.},
  year = "2025"
}

@misc{libribrainoverh-2025/6,
  title={LibriBrain: Over 50 Hours of Within-Subject MEG to Improve Speech Decoding Methods at Scale},
  author={Özdogan M, Landau G, Elvers G, Jayalath D, Somaiya P et al.},
  year = "2025"
}