Sharath Matada

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Motion planning and robot control · 33% Reinforcement learning · 33% Deep learning architectures and training · 33%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control
motion planning
0.912025
Generalizable Motion Planning via Operator Learning · ICLR 2025
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
neural operator
0.912025
Generalizable Motion Planning via Operator Learning · ICLR 2025
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
value function approximation
0.912025
Generalizable Motion Planning via Operator Learning · ICLR 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

neural operator · 0.9a* · 0.9RRT · 0.9Eikonal PDE · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Generalizable Motion Planning via Operator Learning
abstract
In this work, we introduce a planning neural operator (PNO) for predicting the value function of a motion planning problem. We recast value function approximation as learning a single operator from the cost function space to the value function space, which is defined by an Eikonal partial differential equation (PDE). Therefore, our PNO model, despite being trained with a finite number of samples at coarse resolution, inherits the zero-shot super-resolution property of neural operators. We demonstrate accurate value function approximation at 16× the training resolution on the MovingAI lab’s 2D city dataset, compare with state-of-the-art neural value function predictors on 3D scenes from the iGibson building dataset and showcase optimal planning with 4-joint robotic manipulators. Lastly, we investigate employing the value function output of PNO as a heuristic function to accelerate motion planning. We show theoretically that the PNO heuristic is $\epsilon$-consistent by introducing an inductive bias layer that guarantees our value functions satisfy the triangle inequality. With our heuristic, we achieve a $30$% decrease in nodes visited while obtaining near optimal path lengths on the MovingAI lab 2D city dataset, compared to classical planning methods (A$^\ast$, RRT$^\ast$).
Sharath Matada, Luke Bhan, Nikolay Atanasov 0001
ICLR1