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Recently, motion generation by machine learning has been actively researched to automate various tasks. Imitation learning is one such method that learns motions from data collected in advance. However, executing long-term tasks remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Kazuki Hayashi , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

We have previously shown how to socially integrate a fish robot into a group of zebrafish thanks to biomimetic behavioural models. The models have to be calibrated on experimental data to present correct behavioural features. This…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Leo Cazenille , Yohann Chemtob , Frank Bonnet , Alexey Gribovskiy , Francesco Mondada , Nicolas Bredeche , Jose Halloy

A multi-state version of an animal movement analysis method based on conditional logistic regression, called Step Selection Function (SSF), is proposed. In ecology SSF is developed from a comparison between the observed location of an…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-14 Aurélien Nicosia , Thierry Duchesne , Louis-Paul Rivest , Daniel Fortin

A wide range of decision problems can be formulated as bilevel programs with independent followers, which as a special case include two-stage stochastic programs. These problems are notoriously difficult to solve especially when a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Timothy C. Y. Chan , Bo Lin , Shoshanna Saxe

Activity recognition using built-in sensors in smart and wearable devices provides great opportunities to understand and detect human behavior in the wild and gives a more holistic view of individuals' health and well being. Numerous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-16 Mehrdad Fazli , Kamran Kowsari , Erfaneh Gharavi , Laura Barnes , Afsaneh Doryab

Optimization of hyper-parameters in reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms is a key task, because they determine how the agent will learn its policy by interacting with its environment, and thus what data is gathered. In this work, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Juan Cruz Barsce , Jorge A. Palombarini , Ernesto Martínez

Hierarchical learning has been successful at learning generalizable locomotion skills on walking robots in a sample-efficient manner. However, the low-dimensional "latent" action used to communicate between two layers of the hierarchy is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Tianyu Li , Roberto Calandra , Deepak Pathak , Yuandong Tian , Franziska Meier , Akshara Rai

We develop a human movement trajectory prediction system that incorporates the scene information (Scene-LSTM) as well as human movement trajectories (Pedestrian movement LSTM) in the prediction process within static crowded scenes. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Huynh Manh , Gita Alaghband

Modelling pedestrian behavior is crucial in the development and testing of autonomous vehicles. In this work, we present a hierarchical pedestrian behavior model that generates high-level decisions through the use of behavior trees, in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Scott Larter , Rodrigo Queiroz , Sean Sedwards , Atrisha Sarkar , Krzysztof Czarnecki

Collecting multiple longitudinal measurements and time-to-event outcomes is a common practice in clinical and epidemiological studies, often focusing on exploring associations between them. Joint modeling is the standard analytical tool for…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-10 Taban Baghfalaki , Reza Hashemi , Catherine Helmer , Helene Jacqmin-Gadda

The study of animal behavioural states inferred through hidden Markov models and similar state switching models has seen a significant increase in popularity in recent years. The ability to account for varying levels of behavioural scale…

Computation · Statistics 2021-05-06 Giada Sacchi , Ben Swallow

Wild animals are commonly fitted with trackers that record their position through time, and statistical models for tracking data broadly fall into two categories: models focused on small-scale movement decisions, and models for large-scale…

Applications · Statistics 2025-10-07 Théo Michelot , Ephraim M. Hanks

The processes influencing animal movement and resource selection are complex and varied. Past efforts to model behavioral changes over time used Bayesian statistical models with variable parameter space, such as reversible-jump Markov chain…

Applications · Statistics 2015-06-15 Ephraim M. Hanks , Mevin B. Hooten , Mat W. Alldredge

Over the past decades, the performance design of closed-chain legged mechanisms (CLMs) has not been adequately addressed. Most existing design methodologies have predominantly relied on trajectory synthesis, which inadvertently prioritizes…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Long Guo , Ying Zhang , Qi Qin , Guanjun Liu , Hanyu Chen , Yan-an Yao

One of the challenges in model-based control of stochastic dynamical systems is that the state transition dynamics are involved, and it is not easy or efficient to make good-quality predictions of the states. Moreover, there are not many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Behnoosh Parsa , Keshav Rajasekaran , Franziska Meier , Ashis G. Banerjee

The analysis of data from multiple experiments, such as observations of several individuals, is commonly approached using mixed-effects models, which account for variation between individuals through hierarchical representations. This makes…

Computation · Statistics 2026-03-05 Henrik Häggström , Sebastian Persson , Marija Cvijovic , Umberto Picchini

Most functional magnetic resonance imaging studies rely on estimates of hierarchically organized functional brain networks whose segregation and integration reflect the cognitive and behavioral changes in humans. However, most existing…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-17 Lingbin Bian , Nizhuan Wang , Leonardo Novelli , Jonathan Keith , Adeel Razi

Capture-recapture studies are widely used to obtain information about abundance (population size or density) of animal populations. A common design is that in which multiple distinct populations are sampled, and the research objective is…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-11-27 J. Andrew Royle , Sarah J. Converse , William A. Link

We propose a multistage method for making inference at all levels of a Bayesian hierarchical model (BHM) using natural data partitions to increase efficiency by allowing computations to take place in parallel form using software that is…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-23 Devin S. Johnson , Brian M. Brost , Mevin B. Hooten

This paper presents an object-aware whole-body bilateral teleoperation framework for wheeled humanoid loco-manipulation. This framework combines whole-body bilateral teleoperation with an online multi-stage object inertial parameter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Donghoon Baek , Amartya Purushottam , Jason J. Choi , Joao Ramos