Exploration for Continually Improving Robots
NSH 4305Abstract: Data-driven learning is a powerful paradigm for enabling robots to learn skills. Current prominent approaches involve collecting large datasets of robot behavior via teleoperation or simulation, to then train policies. For these policies to generalize to diverse tasks and scenes, there is a large burden placed on constructing a rich initial dataset, which is [...]
Unlocking Magic: Personalization of Diffusion Models for Novel Applications
3305 Newell-Simon HallAbstract: Since the recent advent of text-to-image diffusion models for high-quality realistic image generation, a plethora of creative applications have suddenly become within reach. I will present my work at Google where I have attempted to unlock magical applications by proposing simple techniques that act on these large text-to-image diffusion models. Particularly, a large class of [...]