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July 10, 20265 min readHydroShear, a new physics-based simulator, teaches robots how to use their sense of touch to perform complex manipulation tasks, in a way that transfers seamlessly to the real world. -
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IEEE ICIP 20232023Learning product similarity using distance metric learning from real world catalog needs to take care of large number of product categories and noisy labels. On one hand, large number of product categories makes online hard mining (OHM) less effective as hard triplets become sparse and thus difficult to find. On the other hand, the validity of the hard-triplets themselves is less certain in the case of
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IEEE ICIP 20232023People navigate a world that involves many different modalities and make decision on what they observe. Many of the classification problems that we face in the modern digital world are also multimodal in nature, where textual information on the web rarely occurs alone, and is often accompanied by images, sounds, or videos. The use of transformers in deep learning tasks has proven to be highly effective.
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IEEE RO-MAN 20232023This paper describes the development of algorithms that decide when to move, where to move, and how to look for people in a home environment. We introduce a design framework as a tool to guide the development of a social robot to proactively be with people for companionship and assistance in the home. Through a series of experiments ranging from simulations to longitudinal A/B studies, we demonstrate how
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KDD 2023 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Computational Advertising (AdKDD)2023This paper proposes a learning model of online ad auctions that allows for the following four key realistic characteristics of contemporary online auctions: (1) ad slots can have different values and click-through rates depending on users’ search queries, (2) the number and identity of competing advertisers are unobserved and change with each auction, (3) advertisers only receive partial, aggregated feedback
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UAI 20232023We study algorithms for online change-point detection (OCPD), where samples that are potentially heavy-tailed, are presented one at a time and a change in the underlying mean must be detected as early as possible. We present an algorithm based on clipped Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), that works even if we only assume that the second moment of the data generating process is bounded. We derive guarantees
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