Varun Bhatt retweeted
We asked a VLA-powered robot to “open top drawer” and “could you open the top drawer, please?”: identical commands, yet yields a 60% performance difference 🤯🤯
How can we scalably red-team robots with such diverse and realistic user instructions? 🤔
Learn more! 🧵 [1/11]
Varun Bhatt retweeted
One of the biggest challenges in designing agents/robots that collaborate effectively with humans is the lack of diverse human data—large scale collection is hard!
Introducing PLAN-QD: a framework that algorithmically generates diverse, human-like agents.
👇 Learn more! [1/9]
ALT PLAN-QD Main Figure
Varun Bhatt retweeted
Ecstatic to announce the release of @pyribs 0.7.1! The absolute highlight of this release is the QDHF (Quality Diversity through Human Feedback) tutorial contributed by @li_ding_! The tutorial is available here and runs on Google Colab in ~1 hour:
docs.pyribs.org/en/stable/tu…
ALT Images generated by QDHF for the prompt "an astronaut riding a horse on mars"
Varun Bhatt retweeted
Excited to announce the release of @pyribs v0.7.0! Pyribs v0.7.0 greatly improves the flexibility of our archives and adds a number of new algorithmic features 🧵
Varun Bhatt retweeted
If you are at CORL, don't miss @vbhatt_cs's oral presentation on Nov 9, from 1:45 to 2:45 pm, about surrogate-assisted generation of HRI scenarios using quality diversity!
Varun Bhatt retweeted
Excited to share a new paper “Arbitrarily Scalable Environment Generators via Neural Cellular Automata” with @tehqin17, @vbhatt_cs, @snikolaidis19, @JiaoyangLi9, accepted to #NeurIPS2023!
Paper:arxiv.org/abs/2310.18622
Website:yulunzhang.net/publication/z…
Code:github.com/lunjohnzhang/ware…
Varun Bhatt retweeted
Submissions for the EGG workshop are now open! sites.google.com/usc.edu/egg…
We have an incredible list of speakers: @AleksandraFaust @jeffclune @_rockt @deepakpathak @mark_riedl @mattdeitke
Varun Bhatt retweeted
Are you getting ready for #NeurIPS2022? We compiled all the latest USC research being presented next week ⬇️
viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2…
@USCViterbi @ResearchAtUSC #USC @EnouenJames @yanliu_usc @_jessethomason_ @vbhatt_cs @snikolaidis19 @caodefu_dove @tejubabyface_ @NeurIPSConf
Varun Bhatt retweeted
Excited to share work with @tehqin17 @AniruddhaKalkar @snikolaidis19 “Training Diverse High-Dimensional Controllers by
Scaling Covariance Matrix Adaptation MAP-Annealing”
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2210.02622
Supplemental Website: scalingcmamae.github.io
Code: github.com/icaros-usc/scalin…
