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Post-Convergence Sim-to-Real Policy Transfer: A Principled Alternative to Cherry-Picking

Dylan Khor, Bowen Weng · 2025

Learning-based approaches, particularly reinforcement learning (RL), have become widely used for developing control policies for autonomous agents, such as locomotion policies for legged robots. RL tr…

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Dynamic Perturbation-Adaptive Adversarial Training on Medical Image Classification

Shuai Li, Xiaoguang Ma, Shancheng Jiang, Lu Meng · 2024

Remarkable successes were made in Medical Image Classification (MIC) recently, mainly due to wide applications of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, adversarial examples (AEs) exhibited im…

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Bio-Inspired Compensatory Strategies for Damage to Flapping Robotic Propulsors

Meredith L. Hooper, Isabel Scherl, Morteza Gharib · 2024

To maintain full autonomy, autonomous robotic systems must have the ability to self-repair. Self-repairing via compensatory mechanisms appears in nature: for example, some fish can lose even 76% of th…

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Conformance Testing for Stochastic Cyber-Physical Systems

Xin Qin, Navid Hashemi, Lars Lindemann, Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh · 2023

Conformance is defined as a measure of distance between the behaviors of two dynamical systems. The notion of conformance can accelerate system design when models of varying fidelities are available o…

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Learning Stable Graph Neural Networks via Spectral Regularization

Zhan Gao, Elvin Isufi · 2022

Stability of graph neural networks (GNNs) characterizes how GNNs react to graph perturbations and provides guarantees for architecture performance in noisy scenarios. This paper develops a self-regula…

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Generation of Anonymous Chest Radiographs Using Latent Diffusion Models for Training Thoracic Abnormality Classification Systems

Kai Packhauser, Lukas Folle, Florian Thamm, Andreas Maier · 2022

The availability of large-scale chest X-ray datasets is a requirement for developing well-performing deep learning-based algorithms in thoracic abnormality detection and classification. However, biome…

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Learning Decentralized Wireless Resource Allocations with Graph Neural Networks

Zhiyang Wang, Mark Eisen, Alejandro Ribeiro · 2021

We consider the broad class of decentralized optimal resource allocation problems in wireless networks, which can be formulated as a constrained statistical learning problems with a localized informat…

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Reality-assisted evolution of soft robots through large-scale physical experimentation: a review

Toby Howison, Simon Hauser, Josie Hughes, Fumiya Iida · 2020

In this review we introduce the framework of reality-assisted evolution to summarize a growing trend towards combining model-based and model-free approaches to improve the design of physically embodie…

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Enhancing and Learning Denoiser without Clean Reference

Rui Zhao, Daniel P.K. Lun, Kin-Man Lam · 2020

Recent studies on learning-based image denoising have achieved promising performance on various noise reduction tasks. Most of these deep denoisers are trained either under the supervision of clean re…

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Stochastic Graph Neural Networks

Zhan Gao, Elvin Isufi, Alejandro Ribeiro · 2020

Graph neural networks (GNNs) model nonlinear representations in graph data with applications in distributed agent coordination, control, and planning among others. Current GNN architectures assume ide…

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COVIDGR dataset and COVID-SDNet methodology for predicting COVID-19 based on Chest X-Ray images

S. Tabik, A. Gomez-Rios, J.L. Martin-Rodriguez, I. Sevillano-Garcia, M. Rey-Area, D. Charte, E. Guirado, J.L. Suarez, J. Luengo, M.A. Valero-Gonzalez, P. Garcia-Villanova, E. Olmedo-Sanchez, F. Herrera · 2020

Currently, Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), one of the most infectious diseases in the 21st century, is diagnosed using RT-PCR testing, CT scans and/or Chest X-Ray (CXR) images. CT (Computed Tomography…

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Semantic sensor fusion: from camera to sparse lidar information

Julie Stephany Berrio, Mao Shan, Stewart Worrall, James Ward, Eduardo Nebot · 2020

To navigate through urban roads, an automated vehicle must be able to perceive and recognize objects in a three-dimensional environment. A high-level contextual understanding of the surroundings is ne…

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Traversing the Reality Gap via Simulator Tuning

Jack Collins, Ross Brown, Jurgen Leitner, David Howard · 2020

The large demand for simulated data has made the reality gap a problem on the forefront of robotics. We propose a method to traverse the gap by tuning available simulation parameters. Through the opti…

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Bayesian Parameter Estimation Applied to the Li-ion Battery Single Particle Model with Electrolyte Dynamics

Antti Aitio, Scott G. Marquis, Pedro Ascencio, David Howey · 2020

This paper presents a Bayesian parameter estimation approach and identifiability analysis for a lithium-ion battery model, to determine the uniqueness, evaluate the sensitivity and quantify the uncert…

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Online Simultaneous Semi-Parametric Dynamics Model Learning

Joshua Smith, Michael Mistry · 2019

Accurate models of robots' dynamics are critical for control, stability, motion optimization, and interaction. Semi-Parametric approaches to dynamics learning combine physics-based Parametric models w…

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Optimal Wireless Resource Allocation with Random Edge Graph Neural Networks

Mark Eisen, Alejandro Ribeiro · 2019

We consider the problem of optimally allocating resources across a set of transmitters and receivers in a wireless network. The resulting optimization problem takes the form of constrained statistical…

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Quantifying Conformance using the Skorokhod Metric (full version)

Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh, Rupak Majumdar, Vinayak S. Prabhu · 2015

The conformance testing problem for dynamical systems asks, given two dynamical models (e.g., as Simulink diagrams), whether their behaviors are "close" to each other. In the semi-formal approach to c…

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