Search Results for author: Ben Evans

Found 9 papers, 1 papers with code

FourCastNeXt: Optimizing FourCastNet Training for Limited Compute

1 code implementation10 Jan 2024 Edison Guo, Maruf Ahmed, Yue Sun, Rui Yang, Harrison Cook, Tennessee Leeuwenburg, Ben Evans

FourCastNeXt is an optimization of FourCastNet - a global machine learning weather forecasting model - that performs with a comparable level of accuracy and can be trained using around 5% of the original FourCastNet computational requirements.

Model Optimization Weather Forecasting

PcLast: Discovering Plannable Continuous Latent States

no code implementations6 Nov 2023 Anurag Koul, Shivakanth Sujit, Shaoru Chen, Ben Evans, Lili Wu, Byron Xu, Rajan Chari, Riashat Islam, Raihan Seraj, Yonathan Efroni, Lekan Molu, Miro Dudik, John Langford, Alex Lamb

Goal-conditioned planning benefits from learned low-dimensional representations of rich, high-dimensional observations.

Dexterity from Touch: Self-Supervised Pre-Training of Tactile Representations with Robotic Play

no code implementations21 Mar 2023 Irmak Guzey, Ben Evans, Soumith Chintala, Lerrel Pinto

In the first phase, we collect 2. 5 hours of play data, which is used to train self-supervised tactile encoders.

Representation Learning

Dexterous Imitation Made Easy: A Learning-Based Framework for Efficient Dexterous Manipulation

no code implementations24 Mar 2022 Sridhar Pandian Arunachalam, Sneha Silwal, Ben Evans, Lerrel Pinto

Optimizing behaviors for dexterous manipulation has been a longstanding challenge in robotics, with a variety of methods from model-based control to model-free reinforcement learning having been previously explored in literature.

Imitation Learning

Context is Everything: Implicit Identification for Dynamics Adaptation

no code implementations10 Mar 2022 Ben Evans, Abitha Thankaraj, Lerrel Pinto

Understanding environment dynamics is necessary for robots to act safely and optimally in the world.

BAM: Bayes with Adaptive Memory

no code implementations4 Feb 2022 Josue Nassar, Jennifer Brennan, Ben Evans, Kendall Lowrey

Online learning via Bayes' theorem allows new data to be continuously integrated into an agent's current beliefs.

BAM: Bayes Augmented with Memory

no code implementations ICLR 2022 Josue Nassar, Jennifer Rogers Brennan, Ben Evans, Kendall Lowrey

Online learning via Bayes' theorem allows new data to be continuously integrated into an agent's current beliefs.

It's the Journey Not the Destination: Building Genetic Algorithms Practitioners Can Trust

no code implementations13 Oct 2020 Jakub Vincalek, Sean Walton, Ben Evans

The results from a survey showing the attitudes of engineers and students with design experience with respect to optimisation algorithms are presented.

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