Smcp3: Sequential monte carlo with probabilistic program proposals

AK Lew, G Matheos, T Zhi-Xuan… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper introduces SMCP3, a method for automatically implementing custom sequential
Monte Carlo samplers for inference in probabilistic programs. Unlike particle filters and …

Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems

D Dalrymple, J Skalse, Y Bengio, S Russell… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Ensuring that AI systems reliably and robustly avoid harmful or dangerous behaviours is a
crucial challenge, especially for AI systems with a high degree of autonomy and general …

[PDF][PDF] Scene understanding and distribution modeling with mixed-integer scene parsing

G Izatt, R Tedrake - 2021 - groups.csail.mit.edu
We present a probabilistic procedural modeling strategy for capturing the distribution of
scenes of varying numbers of rigid objects, motivated by the need for such models to enable …

Capturing Distributions over Worlds for Robotics with Spatial Scene Grammars

G Izatt - 2022 - dspace.mit.edu
Having a precise understanding of the distribution over worlds a robot will face is critical to
most problems in robotics. This distribution informs mechanical and software design …