Search Results for author: John Mern

Found 12 papers, 2 papers with code

Autonomous Attack Mitigation for Industrial Control Systems

no code implementations3 Nov 2021 John Mern, Kyle Hatch, Ryan Silva, Cameron Hickert, Tamim Sookoor, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

The proposed deep reinforcement learning approach outperforms a fully automated playbook method in simulation, taking less disruptive actions while also defending more nodes on the network.

Decision Making reinforcement-learning +1

Interpretable Local Tree Surrogate Policies

no code implementations16 Sep 2021 John Mern, Sidhart Krishnan, Anil Yildiz, Kyle Hatch, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

In this work, we propose a method to build predictable policy trees as surrogates for policies such as neural networks.

Reinforcement Learning for Industrial Control Network Cyber Security Orchestration

no code implementations9 Jun 2021 John Mern, Kyle Hatch, Ryan Silva, Jeff Brush, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Defending computer networks from cyber attack requires coordinating actions across multiple nodes based on imperfect indicators of compromise while minimizing disruptions to network operations.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Measurable Monte Carlo Search Error Bounds

no code implementations8 Jun 2021 John Mern, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Monte Carlo planners can often return sub-optimal actions, even if they are guaranteed to converge in the limit of infinite samples.

Obstacle Avoidance Using a Monocular Camera

no code implementations3 Dec 2020 Kyle Hatch, John Mern, Mykel Kochenderfer

In this work, we present an obstacle avoidance system for small UAVs that uses a monocular camera with a hybrid neural network and path planner controller.

Collision Avoidance

Improved POMDP Tree Search Planning with Prioritized Action Branching

1 code implementation7 Oct 2020 John Mern, Anil Yildiz, Larry Bush, Tapan Mukerji, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Online solvers for partially observable Markov decision processes have difficulty scaling to problems with large action spaces.

Bayesian Optimized Monte Carlo Planning

1 code implementation7 Oct 2020 John Mern, Anil Yildiz, Zachary Sunberg, Tapan Mukerji, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Monte Carlo tree search with progressive widening attempts to improve scaling by sampling from the action space to construct a policy search tree.

Bayesian Optimization

Towards Recurrent Autoregressive Flow Models

no code implementations17 Jun 2020 John Mern, Peter Morales, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

The proposed method defines a conditional distribution for each variable in a sequential process by conditioning the parameters of a normalizing flow with recurrent neural connections.

Gaussian Processes

Exchangeable Input Representations for Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations19 Mar 2020 John Mern, Dorsa Sadigh, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

We show that our proposed representation results in an input space that is a factor of $m!$ smaller for inputs of $m$ objects.

Policy Gradient Methods reinforcement-learning +1

Object Exchangeability in Reinforcement Learning: Extended Abstract

no code implementations7 May 2019 John Mern, Dorsa Sadigh, Mykel Kochenderfer

Although deep reinforcement learning has advanced significantly over the past several years, sample efficiency remains a major challenge.

Object Policy Gradient Methods +2

Layer-wise synapse optimization for implementing neural networks on general neuromorphic architectures

no code implementations20 Feb 2018 John Mern, Jayesh K. Gupta, Mykel Kochenderfer

An optimal set of synapse weights may then be found for a given choice of ANN activation function and SNN neuron.

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