Scaling data-driven robotics with reward sketching and batch reinforcement learning

S Cabi, SG Colmenarejo, A Novikov… - ar** strategies
Z Yin, Z Yang, M Van De Panne, KK Yin - ACM Transactions on Graphics …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We present a framework that enables the discovery of diverse and natural-looking motion
strategies for athletic skills such as the high jump. The strategies are realized as control …

Investigating positive and negative qualities of human-in-the-loop optimization for designing interaction techniques

L Chan, YC Liao, GB Mo, JJ Dudley… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Designers reportedly struggle with design optimization tasks where they are asked to find a
combination of design parameters that maximizes a given set of objectives. In HCI, design …

A general recipe for likelihood-free Bayesian optimization

J Song, L Yu, W Neiswanger… - … Conference on Machine …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
The acquisition function, a critical component in Bayesian optimization (BO), can often be
written as the expectation of a utility function under a surrogate model. However, to ensure …

BO as assistant: Using Bayesian optimization for asynchronously generating design suggestions

Y Koyama, M Goto - Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Many design tasks involve parameter adjustment, and designers often struggle to find
desirable parameter value combinations by manipulating sliders back and forth. For such a …

Human-in-the-loop differential subspace search in high-dimensional latent space

CH Chiu, Y Koyama, YC Lai, T Igarashi… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Generative models based on deep neural networks often have a high-dimensional latent
space, ranging sometimes to a few hundred dimensions or even higher, which typically …

Gesture knitter: A hand gesture design tool for head-mounted mixed reality applications

GB Mo, JJ Dudley, PO Kristensson - … of the 2021 CHI conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Hand gestures are a natural and expressive input method enabled by modern mixed reality
headsets. However, it remains challenging for developers to create custom gestures for their …

Method for exploring generative adversarial networks (gans) via automatically generated image galleries

E Zhang, N Banovic - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can automatically generate quality images from
learned model parameters. However, it remains challenging to explore and objectively …

Photographic lighting design with photographer-in-the-loop bayesian optimization

K Yamamoto, Y Koyama, Y Ochiai - Proceedings of the 35th annual ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
It is important for photographers to have the best possible lighting configuration at the time of
shooting; otherwise, they need post-processing on images, which may cause artifacts and …