4 papers
NavAble: A Large-Scale Dataset and Synthetic Data Generation Pipeline for Blind Navigation
Hochul Hwang, Jahir Sadik Monon, Soowan Yang +9
Reliable recognition of accessibility-critical objects (e.g., audible pedestrian signals, door-activation buttons, and handrails) is essential for assistive navigation technologies…
GuideNav: User-Informed Development of a Vision-Only Robotic Navigation Assistant For Blind Travelers
Hochul Hwang, Soowan Yang, Jahir Sadik Monon +4
While commendable progress has been made in user-centric research on mobile assistive systems for blind and low-vision (BLV) individuals, references that directly inform robot navi…
BAPPA: Benchmarking Agents, Plans, and Pipelines for Automated Text-to-SQL Generation
Fahim Ahmed, Md Mubtasim Ahasan, Jahir Sadik Monon +4
Text-to-SQL systems provide a natural language interface that can enable even laymen to access information stored in databases. However, existing Large Language Models (LLM) strugg…
Enhancing Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Cooperation in Decentralized MARL via GNN-driven Intrinsic Rewards
Jahir Sadik Monon, Deeparghya Dutta Barua, Md. Mosaddek Khan
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is emerging as a key framework for various sequential decision-making and control tasks. Unlike their single-agent counterparts, multi-age…