Spatial perception is a key task in several robotics applications. In general, it involves the nonlinear estimation of hidden variables that represent the state of the robot/environment. However, in the presence of outliers the standard nonlinear least squared formulation results in poor estimates. Several methods have been considered in the literature to improve the reliability of the estimation process. Most methods are based on heuristics since guaranteed global robust estimation is not generally practical due to high computational costs. Recently general purpose robust estimation heuristics have been proposed that leverage existing non-minimal solvers available for the outlier-free formulations without the need for an initial guess. In this work, we propose two similar heuristics backed by Bayesian theory. We evaluate these heuristics in practical scenarios to demonstrate their merits in different applications including 3D point cloud registration, mesh registration and pose graph optimization.

Low-rank and sparse decomposition based methods find their use in many applications involving background modeling such as clutter suppression and object tracking. While Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) has achieved great success in performing this task, it can take hundreds of iterations to converge and its performance decreases in the presence of different phenomena such as occlusion, jitter and fast motion. The recently proposed deep unfolded networks, on the other hand, have demonstrated better accuracy and improved convergence over both their iterative equivalents as well as over other neural network architectures. In this work, we propose a novel deep unfolded spatiotemporal RPCA (DUST-RPCA) network, which explicitly takes advantage of the spatial and temporal continuity in the low-rank component. Our experimental results on the moving MNIST dataset indicate that DUST-RPCA gives better accuracy when compared with the existing state of the art deep unfolded RPCA networks.

We propose an ensemble approach to predict the labels in linear programming word problems. The entity identification and the meaning representation are two types of tasks to be solved in the NL4Opt competition. We propose the ensembleCRF method to identify the named entities for the first task. We found that single models didn't improve for the given task in our analysis. A set of prediction models predict the entities. The generated results are combined to form a consensus result in the ensembleCRF method. We present an ensemble text generator to produce the representation sentences for the second task. We thought of dividing the problem into multiple small tasks due to the overflow in the output. A single model generates different representations based on the prompt. All the generated text is combined to form an ensemble and produce a mathematical meaning of a linear programming problem.

Split Learning (SL) and Federated Learning (FL) are two prominent distributed collaborative learning techniques that maintain data privacy by allowing clients to never share their private data with other clients and servers, and fined extensive IoT applications in smart healthcare, smart cities, and smart industry. Prior work has extensively explored the security vulnerabilities of FL in the form of poisoning attacks. To mitigate the effect of these attacks, several defenses have also been proposed. Recently, a hybrid of both learning techniques has emerged (commonly known as SplitFed) that capitalizes on their advantages (fast training) and eliminates their intrinsic disadvantages (centralized model updates). In this paper, we perform the first ever empirical analysis of SplitFed's robustness to strong model poisoning attacks. We observe that the model updates in SplitFed have significantly smaller dimensionality as compared to FL that is known to have the curse of dimensionality. We show that large models that have higher dimensionality are more susceptible to privacy and security attacks, whereas the clients in SplitFed do not have the complete model and have lower dimensionality, making them more robust to existing model poisoning attacks. Our results show that the accuracy reduction due to the model poisoning attack is 5x lower for SplitFed compared to FL.

室内运动计划的重点是解决通过混乱环境导航代理的问题。迄今为止，在该领域已经完成了很多工作，但是这些方法通常无法找到计算廉价的在线路径计划和路径最佳之间的最佳平衡。除此之外，这些作品通常证明是单一启动单目标世界的最佳性。为了应对这些挑战，我们为在未知室内环境中进行导航的多个路径路径计划者和控制器堆栈，在该环境中，路点将目标与机器人必须在达到目标之前必须穿越的中介点一起。我们的方法利用全球规划师（在任何瞬间找到下一个最佳航路点），本地规划师（计划通往特定航路点的路径）以及自适应模型预测性控制策略（用于强大的系统控制和更快的操作） 。我们在一组随机生成的障碍图，中间航路点和起始目标对上评估了算法，结果表明计算成本显着降低，具有高度准确性和可靠的控制。

该研究检查了通过计算过滤方法Kalman滤波技术（KFT）预测短期交通流量的数量。短期流量预测是交通管理和运输系统运营的重要工具。短期交通流值结果可用于按路线指导和高级旅行者信息系统进行旅行时间估算。尽管KFT已经测试过均匀的流量，但其异质交通效率尚未研究。这项研究是在索班巴格清真寺附近达卡的米尔普尔路进行的。该流包含流量的异质组合，这意味着预测的不确定性。该命题方法使用Pykalman库在Python中执行。该库主要用于KFT框架中的高级数据库建模，该模型解决了不确定性。数据源自车辆的三个小时的交通计数。根据2005年孟加拉国公路和公路部（RHD）出版的《几何设计标准手册》，将异质的交通流量转换为同等的乘用车单元（PCU）。然后将从五分钟聚合获得的PCU用作建议的模型的数据集。命题模型的平均绝对百分比误差（MAPE）为14.62，表明KFT模型可以很好地预测。根平方百分比误差（RMSPE）显示出18.73％的精度，小于25％；因此，该模型是可以接受的。开发的模型的R2值为0.879，表明它可以解释数据集中可变性的87.9％。如果在更长的时间内收集数据，则R2值可能接近1.0。

模型不合时宜的元学习（MAML）目前是少量元学习的主要方法之一。尽管它具有有效性，但由于先天的二聚体问题结构，MAML的优化可能具有挑战性。具体而言，MAML的损失格局比其经验风险最小化的对应物更为复杂，可能的鞍点和局部最小化可能更复杂。为了应对这一挑战，我们利用了最近发明的清晰度最小化的最小化，并开发出一种清晰感的MAML方法，我们称其为Sharp MAML。我们从经验上证明，Sharp-MAML及其计算有效的变体可以胜过流行的现有MAML基准（例如，Mini-Imagenet上的$+12 \％$ $精度）。我们通过收敛速率分析和尖锐MAML的概括结合进行了经验研究。据我们所知，这是在双层学习背景下对清晰度感知最小化的第一个经验和理论研究。该代码可在https://github.com/mominabbass/sharp-maml上找到。

由于在存在障碍物和高维视觉观测的情况下，由于在存在障碍和高维视觉观测的情况下，学习复杂的操纵任务是一个具有挑战性的问题。事先工作通过整合运动规划和强化学习来解决勘探问题。但是，运动计划程序增强策略需要访问状态信息，该信息通常在现实世界中不可用。为此，我们建议通过（1）视觉行为克隆以通过（1）视觉行为克隆来将基于国家的运动计划者增强策略，以删除运动计划员依赖以及其抖动运动，以及（2）基于视觉的增强学习来自行为克隆代理的平滑轨迹的指导。我们在阻塞环境中的三个操作任务中评估我们的方法，并将其与各种加固学习和模仿学习基线进行比较。结果表明，我们的框架是高度采样的和优于最先进的算法。此外，与域随机化相结合，我们的政策能够用零击转移到未经分散的人的未经环境环境。 https://clvrai.com/mopa-pd提供的代码和视频