Dominik Straub

I’m a PhD student in the Psychology of Information Processing group at the Centre for Cognitive Science, TU Darmstadt.

I am interested in probabilistic models of perception and action in naturalistic sequential tasks. To understand the uncertainties, intrinsic costs of behavior, and subjective internal models involved in these tasks, I use computational modeling techniques including inverse optimal control and Bayesian inference.

news

Oct 31, 2024	I submitted my PhD thesis Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action today!
Apr 4, 2024	My paper “If it looks like online control, it is probably model-based control” with Constantin Rothkopf has been accepted at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Preprint on PsyArXiv available now!
Feb 8, 2024	I will be at VSS 2024 with three abstracts on continuous psychophysics, Bayesian modeling, and intuitive physics. Write me an email if you want to meet :)
Jan 12, 2024	New paper published in Nature Human Behaviour with Tobias Thomas, Fabian Tatai and others: Modelling dataset bias in machine-learned theories of economic decision-making.
Sep 29, 2023	Our submission to NeurIPS 2023 has been accepted! Check out our preprint on arXiv.

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CogSci

If it looks like online control, it is probably model-based control

Dominik Straub, and Constantin A. Rothkopf

In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

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@inproceedings{straub2024if,
  title = {If it looks like online control, it is probably model-based control},
  author = {Straub, Dominik and Rothkopf, Constantin A.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society},
  volume = {46},
  year = {2024},
}

NatHumBehav

Modelling dataset bias in machine-learned theories of economic decision-making

Tobias Thomas, Dominik Straub, Fabian Tatai, and 4 more authors

Nature Human Behaviour, 2024

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@article{thomas2024modeling,
  author = {Thomas, Tobias and Straub, Dominik and Tatai, Fabian and Shene, Megan and Tosik, T{\"u}mer and Kersting, Kristian and Rothkopf, Constantin A.},
  journal = {Nature Human Behaviour},
  year = {2024},
}

NeurIPS

Probabilistic inverse optimal control for non-linear partially observable systems disentangles perceptual uncertainty and behavioral costs

Dominik Straub*, Matthias Schultheis*, Heinz Koeppl, and 1 more author

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023

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@article{straub2023probabilistic,
  title = {Probabilistic inverse optimal control for non-linear partially observable systems disentangles perceptual uncertainty and behavioral costs},
  author = {Straub*, Dominik and Schultheis*, Matthias and Koeppl, Heinz and Rothkopf, Constantin A.},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume = {36},
}

eLife

Putting perception into action with inverse optimal control for continuous psychophysics

Dominik Straub, and Constantin A. Rothkopf

eLife, 2022

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@article{straub2022putting,
  title = {Putting perception into action with inverse optimal control for continuous psychophysics},
  author = {Straub, Dominik and Rothkopf, Constantin A.},
  editor = {Diedrichsen, Jörn and Gold, Joshua I},
  volume = {11},
  journal = {eLife},
  issn = {2050-084X},
  publisher = {eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd},
  year = {2022},
  month = sep,
  pub_date = {2022-09-29},
  pages = {e76635},
  citation = {eLife 2022;11:e76635},
  doi = {10.7554/eLife.76635},
  talk = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbO9n6_mNE},
}