7 papers
UniMLR: Modeling Implicit Class Significance for Multi-Label Ranking
V. Bugra Yesilkaynak, Emine Dari, Alican Mertan +1
Existing multi-label ranking (MLR) frameworks only exploit information deduced from the bipartition of labels into positive and negative sets. Therefore, they do not benefit from r…
Morphological Cognition: Classifying MNIST Digits Through Morphological Computation Alone
Alican Mertan, Nick Cheney
With the rise of modern deep learning, neural networks have become an essential part of virtually every artificial intelligence system, making it difficult even to imagine differen…
Evolutionary Brain-Body Co-Optimization Consistently Fails to Select for Morphological Potential
Alican Mertan, Nick Cheney
Brain-body co-optimization remains a challenging problem. To understand and overcome its challenges, we exhaustively map a morphology-fitness landscape: we train controllers for ea…
Controller Distillation Reduces Fragile Brain-Body Co-Adaptation and Enables Migrations in MAP-Elites
Alican Mertan, Nick Cheney
Brain-body co-optimization suffers from fragile co-adaptation where brains become over-specialized for particular bodies, hindering their ability to transfer well to others. Evolut…
No-brainer: Morphological Computation driven Adaptive Behavior in Soft Robots
Alican Mertan, Nick Cheney
It is prevalent in contemporary AI and robotics to separately postulate a brain modeled by neural networks and employ it to learn intelligent and adaptive behavior. While this meth…
Towards Multi-Morphology Controllers with Diversity and Knowledge Distillation
Alican Mertan, Nick Cheney
Finding controllers that perform well across multiple morphologies is an important milestone for large-scale robotics, in line with recent advances via foundation models in other a…