Cornelius V. Braun

I am a PhD student in Machine Learning and Robotics since 2023, affiliated with the TU Berlin. My advisor is Marc Toussaint, head of the Learning & Intelligent Systems group at TU Berlin. My primary interests lie in the development of intelligent systems capable of autonomous reasoning and learning. Examples of applications that I work on are creative problem solving and robotic manipulation. Among other things my work currently forcuses on:

  • (Evolutionary) Optimization Methods
  • Strategy / Policy Discovery
  • Exploration and Open-Endedness

Email: braun at tu-berlin.com

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Publications

For an up-to-date list of publications see Google Scholar.

Stein Variational Evolution Strategies

Cornelius V. Braun, Robert T. Lange, Marc Toussaint
Preprint, 2024

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@misc{braun2024steinvariationalevolutionstrategies,
title={Stein Variational Evolution Strategies}, 
author={Cornelius V. Braun and Robert T. Lange and Marc Toussaint},
year={2024},
eprint={2410.10390},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.LG},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10390}, 
}
NLP Sampling: Combining MCMC and NLP Methods for Diverse Constrained Sampling

Marc Toussaint, Cornelius V. Braun, Joaquim Ortiz-Haro
Preprint, 2024

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@misc{toussaint2024nlpsamplingcombiningmcmc,
      title={NLP Sampling: Combining MCMC and NLP Methods for Diverse Constrained Sampling}, 
      author={Marc Toussaint and Cornelius V. Braun and Joaquim Ortiz-Haro},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2407.03035},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.RO},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03035}, 
}
RHH-LGP: Receding Horizon And Heuristics-Based Logic-Geometric Programming For Task And Motion Planning

Cornelius V. Braun, Joaquim Ortiz-Haro, Marc Toussaint, Ozgur S. Oguz
Preprint, 2022

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@INPROCEEDINGS{braun2022rhhlgp,
  author={Braun, Cornelius V. and Ortiz-Haro, Joaquim and Toussaint, Marc and Oguz, Ozgur S.},
  booktitle={2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)}, 
  title={RHH-LGP: Receding Horizon And Heuristics-Based Logic-Geometric Programming For Task And Motion Planning}, 
  year={2022},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={13761-13768},
  keywords={Legged locomotion;Heuristic algorithms;Decision making;Kinematics;Programming;Robustness;Planning},
  doi={10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981797}}