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A Diffusion-Model of Joint Interactive Navigation
Matthew Niedoba, Jonathan Wilder Lavington, Yunpeng Liu +8
Simulation of autonomous vehicle systems requires that simulated traffic participants exhibit diverse and realistic behaviors. The use of prerecorded real-world traffic scenarios i…
Analyzing and Improving Greedy 2-Coordinate Updates for Equality-Constrained Optimization via Steepest Descent in the 1-Norm
Amrutha Varshini Ramesh, Aaron Mishkin, Mark Schmidt +3
We consider minimizing a smooth function subject to a summation constraint over its variables. By exploiting a connection between the greedy 2-coordinate update for this problem an…
Realistically distributing object placements in synthetic training data improves the performance of vision-based object detection models
Setareh Dabiri, Vasileios Lioutas, Berend Zwartsenberg +8
When training object detection models on synthetic data, it is important to make the distribution of synthetic data as close as possible to the distribution of real data. We invest…
Video Killed the HD-Map: Predicting Multi-Agent Behavior Directly From Aerial Images
Yunpeng Liu, Vasileios Lioutas, Jonathan Wilder Lavington +8
The development of algorithms that learn multi-agent behavioral models using human demonstrations has led to increasingly realistic simulations in the field of autonomous driving.…
Noise Is Not the Main Factor Behind the Gap Between SGD and Adam on Transformers, but Sign Descent Might Be
Frederik Kunstner, Jacques Chen, Jonathan Wilder Lavington +1
The success of the Adam optimizer on a wide array of architectures has made it the default in settings where stochastic gradient descent (SGD) performs poorly. However, our theoret…
Target-based Surrogates for Stochastic Optimization
Jonathan Wilder Lavington, Sharan Vaswani, Reza Babanezhad +2
We consider minimizing functions for which it is expensive to compute the (possibly stochastic) gradient. Such functions are prevalent in reinforcement learning, imitation learning…