Search Results for author: Katia Sycara

Found 53 papers, 21 papers with code

Sigma: Siamese Mamba Network for Multi-Modal Semantic Segmentation

2 code implementations5 Apr 2024 Zifu Wan, Yuhao Wang, Silong Yong, Pingping Zhang, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara, Yaqi Xie

In this work, we introduce Sigma, a Siamese Mamba network for multi-modal semantic segmentation, utilizing the Selective Structured State Space Model, Mamba.

Scene Understanding Segmentation +1

CBGT-Net: A Neuromimetic Architecture for Robust Classification of Streaming Data

1 code implementation24 Mar 2024 Shreya Sharma, Dana Hughes, Katia Sycara

This paper describes CBGT-Net, a neural network model inspired by the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic (CBGT) circuits found in mammalian brains.

Image Classification Robust classification

Negative Yields Positive: Unified Dual-Path Adapter for Vision-Language Models

1 code implementation19 Mar 2024 Ce Zhang, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara, Yaqi Xie

Recently, large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated great potential in learning open-world visual representations, and exhibit remarkable performance across a wide range of downstream tasks through efficient fine-tuning.

Computational Efficiency Domain Generalization +1

HiKER-SGG: Hierarchical Knowledge Enhanced Robust Scene Graph Generation

1 code implementation18 Mar 2024 Ce Zhang, Simon Stepputtis, Joseph Campbell, Katia Sycara, Yaqi Xie

Being able to understand visual scenes is a precursor for many downstream tasks, including autonomous driving, robotics, and other vision-based approaches.

Scene Graph Generation

Optimal Task Assignment and Path Planning using Conflict-Based Search with Precedence and Temporal Constraints

no code implementations13 Feb 2024 Yu Quan Chong, Jiaoyang Li, Katia Sycara

To incorporate task assignment, path planning, and a user-defined objective into a coherent framework, this paper examines the Task Assignment and Path Finding with Precedence and Temporal Constraints (TAPF-PTC) problem.

Multi-Agent Path Finding Reinforcement Learning (RL)

WIT-UAS: A Wildland-fire Infrared Thermal Dataset to Detect Crew Assets From Aerial Views

1 code implementation14 Dec 2023 Andrew Jong, Mukai Yu, Devansh Dhrafani, Siva Kailas, Brady Moon, Katia Sycara, Sebastian Scherer

We present the Wildland-fire Infrared Thermal (WIT-UAS) dataset for long-wave infrared sensing of crew and vehicle assets amidst prescribed wildland fire environments.

Toward General-Purpose Robots via Foundation Models: A Survey and Meta-Analysis

no code implementations14 Dec 2023 Yafei Hu, Quanting Xie, Vidhi Jain, Jonathan Francis, Jay Patrikar, Nikhil Keetha, Seungchan Kim, Yaqi Xie, Tianyi Zhang, Shibo Zhao, Yu Quan Chong, Chen Wang, Katia Sycara, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Dhruv Batra, Xiaolong Wang, Sebastian Scherer, Zsolt Kira, Fei Xia, Yonatan Bisk

Motivated by the impressive open-set performance and content generation capabilities of web-scale, large-capacity pre-trained models (i. e., foundation models) in research fields such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV), we devote this survey to exploring (i) how these existing foundation models from NLP and CV can be applied to the field of robotics, and also exploring (ii) what a robotics-specific foundation model would look like.

Personalized Decision Supports based on Theory of Mind Modeling and Explainable Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations13 Dec 2023 Huao Li, Yao Fan, Keyang Zheng, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara

Our proposed approach is agnostic to task environment and RL model structure, therefore has the potential to be generalized to a wide range of applications.

counterfactual Decision Making +2

Benchmarking and Enhancing Disentanglement in Concept-Residual Models

no code implementations30 Nov 2023 Renos Zabounidis, Ini Oguntola, Konghao Zhao, Joseph Campbell, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara

Concept bottleneck models (CBMs) are interpretable models that first predict a set of semantically meaningful features, i. e., concepts, from observations that are subsequently used to condition a downstream task.

Benchmarking Disentanglement

Theory of Mind for Multi-Agent Collaboration via Large Language Models

no code implementations16 Oct 2023 Huao Li, Yu Quan Chong, Simon Stepputtis, Joseph Campbell, Dana Hughes, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive accomplishments in both reasoning and planning, their abilities in multi-agent collaborations remains largely unexplored.

Hallucination Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

Explaining Agent Behavior with Large Language Models

no code implementations19 Sep 2023 Xijia Zhang, Yue Guo, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara, Joseph Campbell

Intelligent agents such as robots are increasingly deployed in real-world, safety-critical settings.

counterfactual Hallucination +2

Knowledge-Guided Short-Context Action Anticipation in Human-Centric Videos

no code implementations12 Sep 2023 Sarthak Bhagat, Simon Stepputtis, Joseph Campbell, Katia Sycara

This work focuses on anticipating long-term human actions, particularly using short video segments, which can speed up editing workflows through improved suggestions while fostering creativity by suggesting narratives.

Action Anticipation Long Term Action Anticipation

Theory of Mind as Intrinsic Motivation for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations3 Jul 2023 Ini Oguntola, Joseph Campbell, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara

The ability to model the mental states of others is crucial to human social intelligence, and can offer similar benefits to artificial agents with respect to the social dynamics induced in multi-agent settings.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning

Solving Multi-Agent Target Assignment and Path Finding with a Single Constraint Tree

1 code implementation2 Jul 2023 Yimin Tang, Zhongqiang Ren, Jiaoyang Li, Katia Sycara

As a leading approach to address TAPF, Conflict-Based Search with Target Assignment (CBS-TA) leverages both K-best target assignments to create multiple search trees and Conflict-Based Search (CBS) to resolve collisions in each search tree.

Introspective Action Advising for Interpretable Transfer Learning

no code implementations21 Jun 2023 Joseph Campbell, Yue Guo, Fiona Xie, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara

Transfer learning can be applied in deep reinforcement learning to accelerate the training of a policy in a target task by transferring knowledge from a policy learned in a related source task.

Transfer Learning

Sample-Efficient Learning of Novel Visual Concepts

1 code implementation15 Jun 2023 Sarthak Bhagat, Simon Stepputtis, Joseph Campbell, Katia Sycara

Despite the advances made in visual object recognition, state-of-the-art deep learning models struggle to effectively recognize novel objects in a few-shot setting where only a limited number of examples are provided.

Multi-Label Classification Object Recognition

Concept Learning for Interpretable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations23 Feb 2023 Renos Zabounidis, Joseph Campbell, Simon Stepputtis, Dana Hughes, Katia Sycara

Multi-agent robotic systems are increasingly operating in real-world environments in close proximity to humans, yet are largely controlled by policy models with inscrutable deep neural network representations.

Decision Making Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning +2

Predicting Out-of-Distribution Error with Confidence Optimal Transport

no code implementations10 Feb 2023 Yuzhe Lu, Zhenlin Wang, Runtian Zhai, Soheil Kolouri, Joseph Campbell, Katia Sycara

Out-of-distribution (OOD) data poses serious challenges in deployed machine learning models as even subtle changes could incur significant performance drops.

Towards True Lossless Sparse Communication in Multi-Agent Systems

no code implementations30 Nov 2022 Seth Karten, Mycal Tucker, Siva Kailas, Katia Sycara

We evaluate the learned communication `language' through direct causal analysis of messages in non-sparse runs to determine the range of lossless sparse budgets, which allow zero-shot sparsity, and the range of sparse budgets that will inquire a reward loss, which is minimized by our learned gating function with few-shot sparsity.

Representation Learning

Explainable Action Advising for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

1 code implementation15 Nov 2022 Yue Guo, Joseph Campbell, Simon Stepputtis, Ruiyu Li, Dana Hughes, Fei Fang, Katia Sycara

This allows the student to self-reflect on what it has learned, enabling advice generalization and leading to improved sample efficiency and learning performance - even in environments where the teacher is sub-optimal.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +2

ARC -- Actor Residual Critic for Adversarial Imitation Learning

no code implementations5 Jun 2022 Ankur Deka, Changliu Liu, Katia Sycara

In AIL, an artificial adversary's misclassification is used as a reward signal that is optimized by any standard Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm.

Continuous Control Imitation Learning +1

Probe-Based Interventions for Modifying Agent Behavior

no code implementations26 Jan 2022 Mycal Tucker, William Kuhl, Khizer Shahid, Seth Karten, Katia Sycara, Julie Shah

Neural nets are powerful function approximators, but the behavior of a given neural net, once trained, cannot be easily modified.

Decision Making Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning +2

Interpretable Learned Emergent Communication for Human-Agent Teams

no code implementations19 Jan 2022 Seth Karten, Mycal Tucker, Huao Li, Siva Kailas, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara

In human-agent teams tested in benchmark environments, where agents have been modeled using the Enforcers, we find that a prototype-based method produces meaningful discrete tokens that enable human partners to learn agent communication faster and better than a one-hot baseline.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

Emergent Discrete Communication in Semantic Spaces

no code implementations NeurIPS 2021 Mycal Tucker, Huao Li, Siddharth Agrawal, Dana Hughes, Katia Sycara, Michael Lewis, Julie Shah

Neural agents trained in reinforcement learning settings can learn to communicate among themselves via discrete tokens, accomplishing as a team what agents would be unable to do alone.

Learning Embeddings that Capture Spatial Semantics for Indoor Navigation

1 code implementation31 Jul 2021 Vidhi Jain, Prakhar Agarwal, Shishir Patil, Katia Sycara

We know that humans can search for an object like a book, or a plate in an unseen house, based on the spatial semantics of bigger objects detected.

Object

Deep Interpretable Models of Theory of Mind

no code implementations7 Apr 2021 Ini Oguntola, Dana Hughes, Katia Sycara

When developing AI systems that interact with humans, it is essential to design both a system that can understand humans, and a system that humans can understand.

Adaptive Agent Architecture for Real-time Human-Agent Teaming

no code implementations7 Mar 2021 Tianwei Ni, Huao Li, Siddharth Agrawal, Suhas Raja, Fan Jia, Yikang Gui, Dana Hughes, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara

Previous human-human team research have shown complementary policies in TSF game and diversity in human players' skill, which encourages us to relax the assumptions on human policy.

Space Fortress

Predicting Human Strategies in Simulated Search and Rescue Task

no code implementations15 Nov 2020 Vidhi Jain, Rohit Jena, Huao Li, Tejus Gupta, Dana Hughes, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara

In our efforts to model the rescuer's mind, we begin with a simple simulated search and rescue task in Minecraft with human participants.

Addressing reward bias in Adversarial Imitation Learning with neutral reward functions

1 code implementation20 Sep 2020 Rohit Jena, Siddharth Agrawal, Katia Sycara

Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning suffers from the fundamental problem of reward bias stemming from the choice of reward functions used in the algorithm.

Imitation Learning

Explanation of Reinforcement Learning Model in Dynamic Multi-Agent System

no code implementations4 Aug 2020 Xinzhi Wang, Huao Li, HUI ZHANG, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara

The results show that verbal explanation generated by both models improve subjective satisfaction of users towards the interpretability of DRL systems.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Natural Emergence of Heterogeneous Strategies in Artificially Intelligent Competitive Teams

1 code implementation6 Jul 2020 Ankur Deka, Katia Sycara

We corroborate that modeling agents with Graph Neural Networks and training them with Reinforcement Learning leads to the evolution of increasingly complex strategies for each team.

MA 3 : Model Agnostic Adversarial Augmentation for Few Shot learning

1 code implementation10 Apr 2020 Rohit Jena, Shirsendu Sukanta Halder, Katia Sycara

Despite the recent developments in vision-related problems using deep neural networks, there still remains a wide scope in the improvement of generalizing these models to unseen examples.

Few-Shot Learning

Augmenting GAIL with BC for sample efficient imitation learning

2 code implementations21 Jan 2020 Rohit Jena, Changliu Liu, Katia Sycara

Behavior cloning and GAIL are two widely used methods for performing imitation learning.

Imitation Learning

An Unsupervised Domain-Independent Framework for Automated Detection of Persuasion Tactics in Text

no code implementations13 Dec 2019 Rahul Radhakrishnan Iyer, Katia Sycara

With the increasing growth of social media, people have started relying heavily on the information shared therein to form opinions and make decisions.

Misinformation Multi-class Classification +1

Event Outcome Prediction using Sentiment Analysis and Crowd Wisdom in Microblog Feeds

no code implementations11 Dec 2019 Rahul Radhakrishnan Iyer, Ronghuo Zheng, Yuezhang Li, Katia Sycara

In this work, we investigate whether crowd wisdom is useful in predicting such outcomes and whether their opinions are influenced by the experts in the field.

Classification General Classification +3

MAME : Model-Agnostic Meta-Exploration

no code implementations11 Nov 2019 Swaminathan Gurumurthy, Sumit Kumar, Katia Sycara

Meta-Reinforcement learning approaches aim to develop learning procedures that can adapt quickly to a distribution of tasks with the help of a few examples.

Efficient Exploration Meta Reinforcement Learning

Learning Transferable Cooperative Behavior in Multi-Agent Teams

4 code implementations4 Jun 2019 Akshat Agarwal, Sumit Kumar, Katia Sycara

While multi-agent interactions can be naturally modeled as a graph, the environment has traditionally been considered as a black box.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Zero-shot Generalization

Active Learning with Gaussian Processes for High Throughput Phenotyping

1 code implementation21 Jan 2019 Sumit Kumar, Wenhao Luo, George Kantor, Katia Sycara

A looming question that must be solved before robotic plant phenotyping capabilities can have significant impact to crop improvement programs is scalability.

Active Learning Gaussian Processes +2

Better Safe than Sorry: Evidence Accumulation Allows for Safe Reinforcement Learning

1 code implementation24 Sep 2018 Akshat Agarwal, Abhinau Kumar V, Kyle Dunovan, Erik Peterson, Timothy Verstynen, Katia Sycara

The agent makes no decision by default, and the burden of proof to make a decision falls on the policy to accrue evidence strongly in favor of a single decision.

Decision Making reinforcement-learning +2

Object-sensitive Deep Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations17 Sep 2018 Yuezhang Li, Katia Sycara, Rahul Iyer

In this paper, we propose a novel method that can incorporate object recognition processing to deep reinforcement learning models.

Atari Games Object +4

Transparency and Explanation in Deep Reinforcement Learning Neural Networks

1 code implementation17 Sep 2018 Rahul Iyer, Yuezhang Li, Huao Li, Michael Lewis, Ramitha Sundar, Katia Sycara

For those systems to be accepted and trusted, the users should be able to understand the reasoning process of the system, i. e. the system should be transparent.

Atari Games Object Recognition +2

Towards Better Interpretability in Deep Q-Networks

1 code implementation15 Sep 2018 Raghuram Mandyam Annasamy, Katia Sycara

Deep reinforcement learning techniques have demonstrated superior performance in a wide variety of environments.

Q-Learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Challenges of Context and Time in Reinforcement Learning: Introducing Space Fortress as a Benchmark

1 code implementation6 Sep 2018 Akshat Agarwal, Ryan Hope, Katia Sycara

Research in deep reinforcement learning (RL) has coalesced around improving performance on benchmarks like the Arcade Learning Environment.

Atari Games Reinforcement Learning (RL) +1

Community Regularization of Visually-Grounded Dialog

1 code implementation10 Aug 2018 Akshat Agarwal, Swaminathan Gurumurthy, Vasu Sharma, Mike Lewis, Katia Sycara

The task of conducting visually grounded dialog involves learning goal-oriented cooperative dialog between autonomous agents who exchange information about a scene through several rounds of questions and answers in natural language.

Combining Model-Free Q-Ensembles and Model-Based Approaches for Informed Exploration

no code implementations12 Jun 2018 Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan, Raghuram Mandyam Annasamy, Katia Sycara, Carolyn Penstein Rosé

Q-Ensembles are a model-free approach where input images are fed into different Q-networks and exploration is driven by the assumption that uncertainty is proportional to the variance of the output Q-values obtained.

Learning Time-Sensitive Strategies in Space Fortress

1 code implementation17 May 2018 Akshat Agarwal, Ryan Hope, Katia Sycara

Although there has been remarkable progress and impressive performance on reinforcement learning (RL) on Atari games, there are many problems with challenging characteristics that have not yet been explored in Deep Learning for RL.

Atari Games Reinforcement Learning (RL) +2

Joint Embedding of Hierarchical Categories and Entities for Concept Categorization and Dataless Classification

no code implementations COLING 2016 Yuezhang Li, Ronghuo Zheng, Tian Tian, Zhiting Hu, Rahul Iyer, Katia Sycara

Due to the lack of structured knowledge applied in learning distributed representation of cate- gories, existing work cannot incorporate category hierarchies into entity information.

General Classification

Joint Embeddings of Hierarchical Categories and Entities

no code implementations12 May 2016 Yuezhang Li, Ronghuo Zheng, Tian Tian, Zhiting Hu, Rahul Iyer, Katia Sycara

Due to the lack of structured knowledge applied in learning distributed representation of categories, existing work cannot incorporate category hierarchies into entity information.~We propose a framework that embeds entities and categories into a semantic space by integrating structured knowledge and taxonomy hierarchy from large knowledge bases.

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