PAC-Bayes generalization certificates for learned inductive conformal prediction

A Sharma, S Veer, A Hancock… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Inductive Conformal Prediction (ICP) provides a practical and effective approach for
equipping deep learning models with uncertainty estimates in the form of set-valued …

Sim-to-lab-to-real: Safe reinforcement learning with shielding and generalization guarantees

KC Hsu, AZ Ren, DP Nguyen, A Majumdar, JF Fisac - Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
Safety is a critical component of autonomous systems and remains a challenge for learning-
based policies to be utilized in the real world. In particular, policies learned using …

Invariant policy optimization: Towards stronger generalization in reinforcement learning

A Sonar, V Pacelli, A Majumdar - Learning for Dynamics …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
A fundamental challenge in reinforcement learning is to learn policies that generalize
beyond the operating domains experienced during training. In this paper, we approach this …

Learning latent representations to co-adapt to humans

S Parekh, DP Losey - Autonomous Robots, 2023 - Springer
When robots interact with humans in homes, roads, or factories the human's behavior often
changes in response to the robot. Non-stationary humans are challenging for robot learners …

Task-driven out-of-distribution detection with statistical guarantees for robot learning

A Farid, S Veer, A Majumdar - Conference on Robot …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Our goal is to perform out-of-distribution (OOD) detection, ie, to detect when a robot is
operating in environments that are drawn from a different distribution than the environments …

Failure prediction with statistical guarantees for vision-based robot control

A Farid, D Snyder, AZ Ren, A Majumdar - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.05894, 2022 - arxiv.org
We are motivated by the problem of performing failure prediction for safety-critical robotic
systems with high-dimensional sensor observations (eg, vision). Given access to a black …

Learning differentiable safety-critical control using control barrier functions for generalization to novel environments

H Ma, B Zhang, M Tomizuka… - 2022 European Control …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Control barrier functions (CBFs) have become a popular tool to enforce safety of a control
system. CBFs are commonly utilized in a quadratic program formulation (CBF-QP) as safety …

Safe perception-based control under stochastic sensor uncertainty using conformal prediction

S Yang, GJ Pappas, R Mangharam… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider perception-based control using state estimates that are obtained from high-
dimensional sensor measurements via learning-enabled perception maps. However, these …

A PAC-Bayesian Framework for Optimal Control with Stability Guarantees

MG Boroujeni, CL Galimberti, A Krause… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Stochastic Nonlinear Optimal Control (SNOC) involves minimizing a cost function that
averages out the random uncertainties affecting the dynamics of nonlinear systems. For …

Integrative use of computer vision and unmanned aircraft technologies in public inspection: Foreign object debris image collection

T Munyer, D Brinkman, C Huang, X Zhong - DG. O2021: the 22nd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have become an important resource for public service
providers and smart cities. The purpose of this study is to expand this research area by …