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Sanjay Thakur
dblp:237/9820
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
0since 2021 · last 2019
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-authorSystems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Robot manipulation · 56% Motion planning and robot control · 44% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Robot manipulation
learning from demonstration |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | Uncertainty Aware Learning from Demonstrations in Multiple Contexts using Bayesian Neural Networks · ICRA 2019 |
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control › robot control
uncertainty-aware control |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | Uncertainty Aware Learning from Demonstrations in Multiple Contexts using Bayesian Neural Networks · ICRA 2019 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
uncertainty estimation · 0.4bayesian neural network · 0.4
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Uncertainty Aware Learning from Demonstrations in Multiple Contexts using Bayesian Neural NetworksabstractDiversity of environments is a key challenge that causes learned robotic controllers to fail due to the discrepancies between the training and evaluation conditions. Training from demonstrations in various conditions can mitigate - but not completely prevent - such failures. Learned controllers such as neural networks typically do not have a notion of uncertainty that allows to diagnose an offset between training and testing conditions, and potentially intervene. In this work, we propose to use Bayesian Neural Networks, which have such a notion of uncertainty. We show that uncertainty can be leveraged to consistently detect situations in high-dimensional simulated and real robotic domains in which the performance of the learned controller would be sub-par. Also, we show that such an uncertainty based solution allows making an informed decision about when to invoke a fallback strategy. One fallback strategy is to request more data. We empirically show that providing data only when requested results in increased data-efficiency. Sanjay Thakur, Herke van Hoof, Juan Camilo Gamboa Higuera, Doina Precup, David Meger |
ICRA | 1 |