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Inductive conformal predictors (ICPs) are algorithms that are able to generate prediction sets, instead of point predictions, which are valid at a user-defined confidence level, only assuming exchangeability. These algorithms are useful for…

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We introduce a framework for robust uncertainty quantification in situations where labeled training data are corrupted, through noisy or missing labels. We build on conformal prediction, a statistical tool for generating prediction sets…

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This letter introduces SVN-ICP, a novel Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm with uncertainty estimation that leverages Stein Variational Newton (SVN) on manifold. Designed specifically for fusing LiDAR odometry in multisensor systems,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shiping Ma , Haoming Zhang , Marc Toussaint

We consider the MAP-MRF inference task, that is, minimizing a function of discrete variables represented as a sum of unary and pairwise terms. A prominent approach for tackling this NP-hard problem in practice is to solve its natural LP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Asaf Lev-Ran , Pavel Arkhipov , Vladimir Kolmogorov

Point cloud registration (PCR) is an essential task in 3D vision. Existing methods achieve increasingly higher accuracy. However, a large proportion of non-overlapping points in point cloud registration consume a lot of computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yang Ai , Qiang Bai , Jindong Li , Xi Yang

This work introduces a novel, fully robust and highly-scalable, $h$-adaptive aggregated unfitted finite element method for large-scale interface elliptic problems. The new method is based on a recent distributed-memory implementation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Eric Neiva , Santiago Badia

We consider the reliable implementation of an adaptive high-order unfitted finite element method on Cartesian meshes for solving elliptic interface problems with geometrically curved singularities. We extend our previous work on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Zhiming Chen , Yong Liu

We propose a new method for training iterative collective classifiers for labeling nodes in network data. The iterative classification algorithm (ICA) is a canonical method for incorporating relational information into classification. Yet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Shuangfei Fan , Bert Huang

Transformation-robustness is an important feature for machine learning models that perform image classification. Many methods aim to bestow this property to models by the use of data augmentation strategies, while more formal guarantees are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Sai Raam Venkataraman , S. Balasubramanian , R. Raghunatha Sarma

Correlative microscopy aims at combining two or more modalities to gain more information than the one provided by one modality on the same biological structure. Registration is needed at different steps of correlative microscopies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Stephan Kunne , Guillaume Potier , Jean Mérot , Perrine Paul-Gilloteaux

Solving real-time quadratic programming (QP) is a ubiquitous task in control engineering, such as in model predictive control and control barrier function-based QP. In such real-time scenarios, certifying that the employed QP algorithm can…

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Accurate structural relaxation is critical for advanced materials design. Traditional approaches built on physics-derived first-principles calculations are computationally expensive, motivating the creation of machine-learning interatomic…

Identifying correspondences in noisy data is a critically important step in estimation processes. When an informative initial estimation guess is available, the data association challenge is less acute; however, the existence of a…

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This paper concludes a series of studies on the polyharmonic cascade, a deep machine learning architecture theoretically derived from indifference principles and the theory of random functions. A universal initialization procedure is…

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A computationally efficient nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) algorithm is proposed for safe learning-based control with a system model represented by an incompletely known affine combination of basis functions and subject to…

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For any black-box model, conformal prediction (CP) returns prediction sets guaranteed to include the true label with high adjustable probability. Robust CP (RCP) extends the guarantee to the worst case noise up to a pre-defined magnitude.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Soroush H. Zargarbashi , Mohammad Sadegh Akhondzadeh , Aleksandar Bojchevski

Output reference tracking can be improved by iteratively learning from past data to inform the design of feedforward control inputs for subsequent tracking attempts. This process is called iterative learning control (ILC). This article…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-18 Isaac A Spiegel , Nard Strijbosch , Tom Oomen , Kira Barton

Isotonic regression is a nonparametric approach for fitting monotonic models to data that has been widely studied from both theoretical and practical perspectives. However, this approach encounters computational and statistical overfitting…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-03-21 Ronny Luss , Saharon Rosset , Moni Shahar

Some robust point cloud registration approaches with controllable pose refinement magnitude, such as ICP and its variants, are commonly used to improve 6D pose estimation accuracy. However, the effectiveness of these methods gradually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Yiheng Han , Irvin Haozhe Zhan , Long Zeng , Yu-Ping Wang , Ran Yi , Minjing Yu , Matthieu Gaetan Lin , Jenny Sheng , Yong-Jin Liu

We introduce a new iterative method for computing solutions of elliptic equations with random rapidly oscillating coefficients. Similarly to a multigrid method, each step of the iteration involves different computations meant to address…

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