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Elisei Shafer

4 accepted papers

2026

More with LESS – Local Scene Representations for Tactile Imaging

RSS 2026poster

Tactile imaging seeks to reconstruct the internal structure of soft objects through touch sensing, with applications in medical diagnosis and robotic manipulation. Recent self-supervised learning approaches have shown promising results, but rely on global, unstructured representations and robot-cont…

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2025

Blindfolded Experts Generalize Better: Insights from Robotic Manipulation and Videogames

NeurIPS 2025poster

Behavioral cloning is a simple yet effective technique for learning sequential decision-making from demonstrations. Recently, it has gained prominence as the core of foundation models for the physical world, where achieving generalization requires countless demonstrations of a multitude of tasks. Ty…

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2025

Toward Artificial Palpation: Representation Learning of Touch on Soft Bodies

NeurIPS 2025poster

Palpation, the use of touch in medical examination, is almost exclusively performed by humans. We investigate a proof of concept for an artificial palpation method based on self-supervised learning. Our key idea is that an encoder-decoder framework can learn a **representation** from a sequence of t…

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2023

Fine-Tuning Generative Models as an Inference Method for Robotic Tasks

CoRL 2023poster

Adaptable models could greatly benefit robotic agents operating in the real world, allowing them to deal with novel and varying conditions. While approaches such as Bayesian inference are well-studied frameworks for adapting models to evidence, we build on recent advances in deep generative models w…

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