When Gaussian process meets big data: A review of scalable GPs

H Liu, YS Ong, X Shen, J Cai - IEEE transactions on neural …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vast quantity of information brought by big data as well as the evolving computer
hardware encourages success stories in the machine learning community. In the …

Model learning for robot control: a survey

D Nguyen-Tuong, J Peters - Cognitive processing, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Models are among the most essential tools in robotics, such as kinematics and
dynamics models of the robot's own body and controllable external objects. It is widely …

A survey of deep learning techniques for autonomous driving

S Grigorescu, B Trasnea, T Cocias… - Journal of field …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The last decade witnessed increasingly rapid progress in self‐driving vehicle technology,
mainly backed up by advances in the area of deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) …

Deep reinforcement learning in a handful of trials using probabilistic dynamics models

K Chua, R Calandra, R McAllister… - Advances in neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can attain excellent sample
efficiency, but often lag behind the best model-free algorithms in terms of asymptotic …

End-to-end safe reinforcement learning through barrier functions for safety-critical continuous control tasks

R Cheng, G Orosz, RM Murray, JW Burdick - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2019 - aaai.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms have found limited success beyond simulated
applications, and one main reason is the absence of safety guarantees during the learning …

Learning stable nonlinear dynamical systems with gaussian mixture models

SM Khansari-Zadeh, A Billard - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a method to learn discrete robot motions from a set of demonstrations.
We model a motion as a nonlinear autonomous (ie, time-invariant) dynamical system (DS) …

Robust constrained learning-based NMPC enabling reliable mobile robot path tracking

CJ Ostafew, AP Schoellig… - The International Journal …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents a Robust Constrained Learning-based Nonlinear Model Predictive
Control (RC-LB-NMPC) algorithm for path-tracking in off-road terrain. For mobile robots …

Fast machine-learning online optimization of ultra-cold-atom experiments

PB Wigley, PJ Everitt, A van den Hengel, JW Bastian… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
We apply an online optimization process based on machine learning to the production of
Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). BEC is typically created with an exponential evaporation …

Nonparametric inference of the neutron star equation of state from gravitational wave observations

P Landry, R Essick - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We develop a nonparametric method for inferring the universal neutron star (NS) equation of
state (EOS) from gravitational wave (GW) observations. Many different possible realizations …

A deep spatial-temporal ensemble model for air quality prediction

J Wang, G Song - Neurocomputing, 2018 - Elsevier
Air quality has drawn much attention in the recent years because it seriously affects people's
health. Nowadays, monitoring stations in a city can provide real-time air quality, but people …