MSR Thesis Talk – Manash Pratim Das
TBATitle: Model-Accuracy Aware Anytime Planning with Simulation Verification for Navigating Complex Terrains Abstract: Off-road and unstructured environments often contain complex patches of various types of terrain, rough elevation changes, deformable objects, etc. An autonomous ground vehicle traversing such environments experiences physical interactions that are extremely hard to model at scale and thus very hard to [...]
MSR Thesis Talk – Akshay Dharamavaram
NSH 4305Title: Stabilizing the Training Dynamics of Generative Models using Self-Supervision Abstract: Generative Models have been shown to be adept in mimicking the behavior of an unknown distribution solely from bootstrapped data. However, deep learning models have been shown to overfit in either the minimization or maximization stage of the two player min-max game, resulting [...]