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David A.W. Barton

6 accepted papers

2026

Weight-Space Linear Recurrent Neural Networks

ICLR 2026poster

We introduce WARP (**W**eight-space **A**daptive **R**ecurrent **P**rediction), a simple yet powerful model that unifies weight-space learning with linear recurrence to redefine sequence modeling. Unlike conventional recurrent neural networks (RNNs) which collapse temporal dynamics into fixed-dimens…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Neural Context Flows for Meta-Learning of Dynamical Systems

ICLR 2025poster

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) often struggle to adapt to new dynamic behaviors caused by parameter changes in the underlying physical system, even when these dynamics are similar to previously observed behaviors. This problem becomes more challenging when the changing parameters are…

2025

Text2Touch: Tactile In-Hand Manipulation with LLM-Designed Reward Functions

CoRL 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) are beginning to automate reward design for dexterous manipulation. However, no prior work has considered tactile sensing, which is known to be critical for human-like dexterity. We present Text2Touch, bringing LLM-crafted rewards to the challenging task of multi-axis in…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

AnyRotate: Gravity-Invariant In-Hand Object Rotation with Sim-to-Real Touch

CoRL 2024poster

Human hands are capable of in-hand manipulation in the presence of different hand motions. For a robot hand, harnessing rich tactile information to achieve this level of dexterity still remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we present AnyRotate, a system for gravity-invariant multi-axis in…

Cited by 19SourceScholar
2020

Learning to Live Life on the Edge: Online Learning for Data-Efficient Tactile Contour Following

IROS 2020poster

Tactile sensing has been used for a variety of robotic exploration and manipulation tasks but a common constraint is a requirement for a large amount of training data. This paper addresses the issue of data-efficiency by proposing a novel method for online learning based on a Gaussian Process Latent…

Cited by 10SourceScholar
2020

Walking on TacTip toes: A tactile sensing foot for walking robots

IROS 2020poster

Little research into tactile feet has been done for walking robots despite the benefits such feedback could give when walking on uneven terrain. This paper describes the development of a simple, robust and inexpensive tactile foot for legged robots based on a high-resolution biomimetic TacTip tactil…

Cited by 25SourceScholar