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Harry Zhao

5 accepted papers

2025

Rejecting Hallucinated State Targets during Planning

ICML 2025poster

Generative models can be used in planning to propose targets corresponding to states that agents deem either likely or advantageous to experience. However, imperfections, common in learned models, lead to infeasible hallucinated targets, which can cause delusional behaviors and thus safety concerns.…

2024

Consciousness-Inspired Spatio-Temporal Abstractions for Better Generalization in Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2024poster

Inspired by human conscious planning, we propose Skipper, a model-based reinforcement learning framework utilizing spatio-temporal abstractions to generalize better in novel situations. It automatically decomposes the given task into smaller, more manageable subtasks, and thus enables sparse decisio…

2023

TrackDLO: Tracking Deformable Linear Objects Under Occlusion With Motion Coherence

RA-L 2023

The TrackDLO algorithm estimates the shape of a Deformable Linear Object (DLO) under occlusion from a sequence of RGB-D images. TrackDLO is vision-only and runs in real-time. It requires no external state information from physics modeling, simulation, visual markers, or contact as input. The algorit

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2022

Revisiting Heterophily For Graph Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2022accept

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) extend basic Neural Networks (NNs) by using graph structures based on the relational inductive bias (homophily assumption). While GNNs have been commonly believed to outperform NNs in real-world tasks, recent work has identified a non-trivial set of datasets where their…

2021

A Consciousness-Inspired Planning Agent for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2021poster

We present an end-to-end, model-based deep reinforcement learning agent which dynamically attends to relevant parts of its state during planning. The agent uses a bottleneck mechanism over a set-based representation to force the number of entities to which the agent attends at each planning step to…