Seminar

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Motivated by the ever-increasing success of machine learning in language and vision models, many aim to build AI-driven tools for scientific simulation and discovery. Contemporary techniques drastically lag behind their comparatively mature counterparts in modeling and […]

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Towne 100 Heilmeier Hall and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT In this talk, I present an approach for interpreting the internal computation in deep vision models. I show that these interpretations can be used to detect model bugs and to improve the performance of pre-trained […]

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Control tuning and adaptation present a significant challenge to the usage of robots in diverse environments. It is often nontrivial to find a single set of control parameters by hand that work well across the broad […]

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Partial observability is ubiquitous in Reinforcement Learning (RL) applications, where agents must make sequential decisions despite lacking complete information about the latent states of the controlled system. Partially observable RL is notoriously challenging in theory—well-known information-theoretic results […]

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. This seminar will NOT be recorded. ABSTRACT State of the art prediction can fail catastrophically when operating outside of the training distribution. We show methods that can be used to reduce these failures. We then outline how […]

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Construction remains one of the least automated industries, struggling with labor shortages, inefficiencies, and rising costs. At BotBuilt, we are revolutionizing the way homes are built by leveraging robotics and AI to automate framing, making construction faster, […]

Abstract: Fast solid-state Li-ion conductors are a crucial class of materials with the potential to enable all-solid-state batteries, offering enhanced safety and energy density. However, these materials remain rare, and progress in developing novel solid electrolytes has been hindered by a lack of clear descriptors for superionic conductivity and a limited understanding of ion transport […]

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT The goal of building machines that can perceive and act in the world as humans and other animals do has been a focus of AI research efforts for over half a century. Over this same period, […]

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 512 and virtual attendance on Zoom. This seminar will NOT be recorded. ABSTRACT Dynamic scene reconstruction from monocular cameras often requires us to simultaneously estimate depth and 3D motion, where knowledge of either one would help to constrain the other. I will review two […]