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Distributed Mean Estimation (DME) is a central building block in federated learning, where clients send local gradients to a parameter server for averaging and updating the model. Due to communication constraints, clients often use lossy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Shay Vargaftik , Ran Ben Basat , Amit Portnoy , Gal Mendelson , Yaniv Ben-Itzhak , Michael Mitzenmacher

Humanoid loco-manipulation requires coordinated high-level motion plans with stable, low-level whole-body execution under complex robot-environment dynamics and long-horizon tasks. While diffusion policies (DPs) show promise for learning…

Diffusion models have become a popular choice for decision-making tasks in robotics, and more recently, are also being considered for solving autonomous driving tasks. However, their applications and evaluations in autonomous driving remain…

Real-time robotic control demands fast action generation. However, existing generative policies based on diffusion and flow matching require multi-step sampling, fundamentally limiting deployment in time-critical scenarios. We propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Guowei Zou , Haitao Wang , Hejun Wu , Yukun Qian , Yuhang Wang , Weibing Li

Solving a collision-aware multi-agent mission planning (task allocation and path finding) problem is challenging due to the requirement of real-time computational performance, scalability, and capability of handling static/dynamic obstacles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Zehui Lu , Tianyu Zhou , Shaoshuai Mou

Uncertain dynamic obstacles, such as pedestrians or vehicles, pose a major challenge for optimal robot navigation with safety guarantees. Previous work on motion planning has followed two main strategies to provide a safe bound on an…

As neuromorphic sensors, event cameras asynchronously record changes in brightness as streams of sparse events with the advantages of high temporal resolution and high dynamic range. Reconstructing intensity images from events is a highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Weilun Li , Lei Sun , Ruixi Gao , Qi Jiang , Yuqin Ma , Kaiwei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

While existing equivariant methods enhance data efficiency, they suffer from high computational intensity, reliance on single-modality inputs, and instability when combined with fast-sampling methods. In this work, we propose E3Flow, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Qinglun Zhang , Shen Cheng , Tian Dan , Haoqiang Fan , Guanghui Liu , Shuaicheng Liu

In this work, we present DiPPeR, a novel and fast 2D path planning framework for quadrupedal locomotion, leveraging diffusion-driven techniques. Our contributions include a scalable dataset generator for map images and corresponding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Jianwei Liu , Maria Stamatopoulou , Dimitrios Kanoulas

Learning to defer uncertain predictions to costly experts offers a powerful strategy for improving the accuracy and efficiency of machine learning systems. However, standard training procedures for deferral algorithms typically require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Giulia DeSalvo , Clara Mohri , Mehryar Mohri , Yutao Zhong

Deepgenerative models havebecomeapromisingapproach for human motion prediction due to their ability to capture multimodal distributions and represent diverse human be haviors. However, generating predictions that are both di verse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Lei Chu , Yuhuan Zhao

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) offer a flexible framework for sampling from high dimensional data distributions. DDMs generate a path of probability distributions interpolating between a reference Gaussian distribution and a data…

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Autonomous agents such as self-driving cars or parcel robots need to recognize and avoid possible collisions with obstacles in order to move successfully in their environment. Humans, however, have learned to predict movements intuitively…

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Predicting stochastic spreading processes on complex networks is critical in epidemic control, opinion propagation, and viral marketing. We focus on the problem of inferring the time-dependent marginal probabilities of states for each node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Fei Gao , Yan Zhang , Jiang Zhang

Modeling multimodal human behavior has been a key barrier to increasing the level of interaction between human and robot, particularly for collaborative tasks. Our key insight is that an effective, learned robot policy used for human-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Eley Ng , Ziang Liu , Monroe Kennedy

Current robotic pick-and-place policies typically require consistent gripper configurations across training and inference. This constraint imposes high retraining or fine-tuning costs, especially for imitation learning-based approaches,…

Ensembles of models often yield improvements in system performance. These ensemble approaches have also been empirically shown to yield robust measures of uncertainty, and are capable of distinguishing between different \emph{forms} of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-27 Andrey Malinin , Bruno Mlodozeniec , Mark Gales

Embodied visual planning aims to enable manipulation tasks by imagining how a scene evolves toward a desired goal and using the imagined trajectories to guide actions. Video diffusion models, through their image-to-video generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yuming Gu , Yizhi Wang , Yining Hong , Yipeng Gao , Hao Jiang , Angtian Wang , Bo Liu , Nathaniel S. Dennler , Zhengfei Kuang , Hao Li , Gordon Wetzstein , Chongyang Ma

Automated parking is a critical feature of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), where accurate trajectory prediction is essential to bridge perception and planning modules. Despite its significance, research in this domain remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jiarong Wei , Niclas Vödisch , Anna Rehr , Christian Feist , Abhinav Valada

Recently, deep-learning based approaches have achieved impressive performance for autonomous driving. However, end-to-end vision-based methods typically have limited interpretability, making the behaviors of the deep networks difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Hengli Wang , Peide Cai , Yuxiang Sun , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu