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Akshay Dhonthi
dblp:303/4375
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3ranked-venue papers
3as first author
3since 2021 · last 2024
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Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Theory of computation · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | AGNES: Abstraction-Guided Framework for Deep Neural Networks Security
Akshay Dhonthi, Marcello Eiermann, Ernst Moritz Hahn, Vahid Hashemi |
VMCAI (2) | 1 |
| 2023 | Backdoor Mitigation in Deep Neural Networks via Strategic Retraining
Akshay Dhonthi, Ernst Moritz Hahn, Vahid Hashemi |
FM | 1 |
| 2022 | Optimizing Demonstrated Robot Manipulation Skills for Temporal Logic ConstraintsabstractFor performing robotic manipulation tasks, the core problem is determining suitable trajectories that fulfill the task requirements. Various approaches to compute such trajectories exist, being learning and optimization the main driving techniques. Our work builds on the learning-from-demonstration (LfD) paradigm, where an expert demonstrates motions, and the robot learns to imitate them. However, expert demonstrations are not sufficient to capture all sorts of task specifications, such as the timing to grasp an object. In this paper, we propose a new method that considers formal task specifications within LfD skills. Precisely, we leverage Signal Temporal Logic (STL), an expressive form of temporal properties of systems, to formulate task specifications and use black-box optimization (BBO) to adapt an LfD skill accordingly. We demonstrate our approach in simulation and on a real industrial setting using several tasks that showcase how our approach addresses the LfD limitations using STL and BBO. Akshay Dhonthi, Philipp Schillinger, Leonel Rozo, Daniele Nardi |
IROS | 1 |