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David Gruber

3 accepted papers

2026

A Collision-Free Sway Damping Model Predictive Controller for Safe and Reactive Forestry Crane Navigation

Marc-Philip Ecker, Christoph Froehlich, Johannes Huemer, David Gruber, Bernhard Bischof, Tobias Glück +1
ICRA 2026poster

Forestry cranes operate in dynamic, unstructured outdoor environments where simultaneous collision avoidance and payload sway control are critical for safe navigation. Existing approaches address these challenges separately, either focusing on sway damping with predefined collision-free paths or per…

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2025

Towards A Translative Model of Sperm Whale Vocalization

Orr Paradise, Liangyuan Chen, Pranav Muralikrishnan, Hugo Flores García, Bryan Pardo, Roee Diamant +3
NeurIPS 2025poster

Sperm whales communicate in short sequences of clicks known as codas. We present WhAM (Whale Acoustics Model), the first transformer-based model capable of generating synthetic sperm whale codas from any audio prompt. WhAM is built by finetuning VampNet, a masked acoustic token model pretrained on m…

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2023

A Theory of Unsupervised Translation Motivated by Understanding Animal Communication

Shafi Goldwasser, David Gruber, Adam Tauman Kalai, Orr Paradise
NeurIPS 2023poster

Neural networks are capable of translating between languages—in some cases even between two languages where there is little or no access to parallel translations, in what is known as Unsupervised Machine Translation (UMT). Given this progress, it is intriguing to ask whether machine learning tools c…

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