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48 results for Repetitive Motion Tasks

This work uses QPGPs to improve ILC performance in repetitive tasks.

problem Performance degradation in repetitive motion tasks due to environmental changes and robot wear.
method Incorporates Quasi-Periodic Gaussian Processes into a predictive ILC framework.
result The proposed approach achieves faster convergence and robustness under disturbances.

Introduces Motion Programs for better video analysis of human motion.

problem Current video analysis focuses on raw pixels or keypoints, missing higher-level motion primitives.
method Introduces Motion Programs as a neuro-symbolic representation of motions as a composition of high-level primitives.
result Motion Programs accurately describe diverse human motions and improve downstream tasks.

Generative model captures repetitive industrial processes with varying durations and dynamics.

problem Capturing repetitive industrial processes with varying durations and dynamics using Gaussian Processes.
method Posterior-weighted Gaussian Process with a novel kernel to decouple intra-repetition and inter-repetition variability.
result Generative model produces realistic synthetic trajectories from toy datasets.

Bayesian optimization outperforms other methods in hyperparameter tuning for reinforcement learning.

problem Finding optimal hyperparameters that generalize across random seeds in reinforcement learning.
method Benchmarked Successive Halving, Random Search, and Bayesian Optimization with and without repetitions on PPO2 algorithms for Cartpole and Inverted Pendulum tasks.
result Bayesian optimization with noise robust acquisition function is the best choice.

This study investigates abrupt learning dynamics in Transformers, revealing plateau formation and internal representation collapse.

problem Abrupt learning in Transformers, particularly during the loss plateau.
method Investigates mechanisms of abrupt learning in shallow Transformers, focusing on attention maps and hidden states.
result Reveals plateau formation, internal representation collapse, and strong repetition bias in outputs.

The paper uses persistent homology to estimate recurrence times in multi-variate time series.

problem Estimating recurrence times in multi-variate time series with different cyclic behaviors.
method Persistent homology framework with three specialized methods.
result Validated methods on real-world data, including a new benchmark dataset.

This paper considers the problem of characterizing the simplest discrete point sets that are aperiodic, using invariants based on topological dynamics. A Delone set whose patch-counting function N(T), for radius T, is finite for all T is called repetitive if there is a function M(T) such that every ball of radius M(T)+…

1999-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

UTE improves reinforcement learning by measuring action uncertainty, enhancing policy learning efficiency.

problem Degrading performance of action repetition in reinforcement learning, especially with sub-optimal actions.
method UTE uses ensemble methods to measure uncertainty during action extension, allowing strategic exploration or certainty.
result UTE outperforms existing action repetition algorithms, significantly enhancing policy learning efficiency.

In dynamic environments, learned controllers are supposed to take motion into account when selecting the action to be taken. However, in existing reinforcement learning works motion is rarely treated explicitly; it is rather assumed that the controller learns the necessary motion representation from temporal stacks of …

2019-01-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Spaced repetition is a technique for efficient memorization which uses repeated, spaced review of content to improve long-term retention. Can we find the optimal reviewing schedule to maximize the benefits of spaced repetition? In this paper, we introduce a novel, flexible representation of spaced repetition using the …

2017-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows how repetition affects learning in bandit settings, providing algorithms with sublinear regret.

problem Effect of persistence of engagement on learning in stochastic multi-armed bandit settings.
method Novel algorithms that achieve sublinear regret under temporal constraints.
result Additive effect of priming on regret upper bound, matching popular algorithms in absence of priming.

Prior work on training generative Visual Dialog models with reinforcement learning(Das et al.) has explored a Qbot-Abot image-guessing game and shown that this 'self-talk' approach can lead to improved performance at the downstream dialog-conditioned image-guessing task. However, this improvement saturates and starts d…

2019-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the task of learning to extract motion from videos. To this end, we show that the detection of spatial transformations can be viewed as the detection of synchrony between the image sequence and a sequence of features undergoing the motion we wish to detect. We show that learning about synchrony is possible …

2013-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep network predicts action sequences for complex tasks from a scene image.

problem Scalable task and motion planning from initial scene images.
method Deep convolutional recurrent neural network that predicts action sequences.
result Predicts promising action sequences, reducing motion planning problems.

Paper introduces a method for generating interlocutor-aware facial gestures in dyadic settings.

problem Generating appropriate non-verbal behavior for conversational agents in dyadic settings.
method Probabilistic method using multi-modal cues from the interlocutor to synthesize facial gestures.
result The model successfully leverages multi-modal input from the interlocutor to generate more appropriate behavior.

Improved vehicle motion prediction with uncertainty estimation.

problem Robust motion prediction for autonomous vehicles, especially under distributional shift.
method Presented an approach significantly improving the benchmark and taking 2nd place on the leaderboard.
result Significantly improved motion prediction and uncertainty measurement.

Automatic conflict detection has grown in relevance with the advent of body-worn technology, but existing metrics such as turn-taking and overlap are poor indicators of conflict in police-public interactions. Moreover, standard techniques to compute them fall short when applied to such diversified and noisy contexts. W…

2017-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Experimental design is a classical statistics problem and its aim is to estimate an unknown mm-dimensional vector ββ from linear measurements where a Gaussian noise is introduced in each measurement. For the combinatorial experimental design problem, the goal is to pick kk out of the given nn experiments so as to m…

2018-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

In online display advertising, selecting the most effective ad creative (ad image) for each impression is a crucial task for DSPs (Demand-Side Platforms) to fulfill their goals (click-through rate, number of conversions, revenue, and brand improvement). As widely recognized in the marketing literature, the effect of ad…

2019-08-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Motion analysis is used in computer vision to understand the behaviour of moving objects in sequences of images. Optimising the interpretation of dynamic biological systems requires accurate and precise motion tracking as well as efficient representations of high-dimensional motion trajectories so that these can be use…

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Iterative method learns unknown constraints for MPC control.

problem Learning to satisfy unknown polyhedral state constraints in iterative MPC.
method Collects and improves estimates of unknown constraints using collected data, designs an MPC controller to satisfy the estimated constraints.
result Robust and probabilistic guarantees of constraint satisfaction as a function of task iterations.

Researchers created a continuous Markov martingale that mimics Brownian motion but lacks the strong Markov property.

problem Constructing a continuous Markov martingale with Brownian marginals that misses the strong Markov property.
method Developed a new approach to create a continuous Markov martingale that differs from Brownian motion in terms of the strong Markov property.
result A continuous Markov martingale with Brownian marginals that lacks the strong Markov property was successfully constructed.

In continual learning (CL), an agent learns from a stream of tasks leveraging prior experience to transfer knowledge to future tasks. It is an ideal framework to decrease the amount of supervision in the existing learning algorithms. But for a successful knowledge transfer, the learner needs to remember how to perform …

2019-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

We present an image preprocessing technique capable of improving the performance of few-shot classifiers on abstract visual reasoning tasks. Many visual reasoning tasks with abstract features are easy for humans to learn with few examples but very difficult for computer vision approaches with the same number of samples…

2019-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent years have seen a boom in interest in machine learning systems that can provide a human-understandable rationale for their predictions or decisions. However, exactly what kinds of explanation are truly human-interpretable remains poorly understood. This work advances our understanding of what makes explanations …

2019-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Geometric approach improves motion alignment accuracy and efficiency.

problem Temporal alignment of human motion data for various applications.
method Geometric point of view, principal fiber bundle, reparameterization invariant projection, dynamic programming, keyframe correspondences.
result Temporal alignment procedures are more accurate and computationally efficient.

This paper proposes IMU preintegrated features for efficient deep inertial odometry.

problem Efficient odometry from IMU data is challenging due to sensor imperfections and noise.
method Proposes IMU preintegrated features exploiting IMU motion model's manifold structure.
result Improves odometry performance and reduces computational burdens.

We tackle the task of diverse 3D human motion prediction, that is, forecasting multiple plausible future 3D poses given a sequence of observed 3D poses. In this context, a popular approach consists of using a Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE). However, existing approaches that do so either fail to capture the …

2019-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Most recent semi-supervised deep learning (deep SSL) methods used a similar paradigm: use network predictions to update pseudo-labels and use pseudo-labels to update network parameters iteratively. However, they lack theoretical support and cannot explain why predictions are good candidates for pseudo-labels. In this p…

2019-08-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Humans are capable of building holistic representations for images at various levels, from local objects, to pairwise relations, to global structures. The interpretation of structures involves reasoning over repetition and symmetry of the objects in the image. In this paper, we present the Program-Guided Image Manipula…

2019-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Data repetition improves SGD's learning of high-dimensional functions.

problem Learning pertinent features in multi-index models with high-dimensional noisy data.
method Investigation of two-layer shallow neural networks trained with gradient-based algorithms, focusing on data repetition.
result Data repetition significantly improves the computational efficiency of SGD, learning all directions with at most O(dlogd)O(d \log d) steps.

Selective relevance method improves motion explainability in 3D activity recognition models.

problem Models do not appropriately factor motion information into their decisions.
method Selective relevance method to adapt 2D explanation techniques for 3D inputs.
result Improves selectivity of motion explanations, revealing model's spatial bias.

This paper presents a novel yet intuitive approach to unsupervised feature learning. Inspired by the human visual system, we explore whether low-level motion-based grouping cues can be used to learn an effective visual representation. Specifically, we use unsupervised motion-based segmentation on videos to obtain segme…

2016-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimates linear model from noisy covariates and instruments using spectral regularization.

problem Estimating a linear model from many noisy covariates and instruments.
method Two-stage least squares with spectral regularization of canonical correlations.
result Upper and lower bounds on estimation error, proving optimality of the method with noisy data.

In this article, we will formulate a mathematical framework that allows us to treat character animations as points on infinite dimensional Hilbert manifolds. Constructing geodesic paths between animations on those manifolds allows us to derive a distance function to measure similarities of different motions. This appro…

2014-05-16abs ↗pdf ↗

RFC enhances humanoid control to imitate complex human motions.

problem Dynamics mismatch between humanoid models and real humans.
method Residual Force Control (RFC) augments control policies with external forces.
result RFC outperforms state-of-the-art methods in convergence speed and motion quality.