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James Heald

3 accepted papers

2026

Joint-Space Empowerment as a Theory of Dexterous Motor Coordination

ICML 2026spotlight

Searching for effective policies in high-dimensional action spaces is notoriously challenging. This difficulty is compounded in overactuated musculoskeletal systems, where multiple muscles span each joint, and individual muscles actuate multiple joints. Although this redundancy complicates naive pol…

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2026

Maximum-Likelihood Learning of Latent Dynamics Without Reconstruction

ICML 2026poster

We address the challenge of uncovering systematic, and potentially controllable, dynamical structure underlying complex high-dimensional time series data. Existing generative and autoregressive models have difficulty telling systematic content apart from distractors, while contrastive methods strugg…

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2025

MyoChallenge 2024: A New Benchmark for Physiological Dexterity and Agility in Bionic Humans

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advancements in bionic prosthetic technology offer transformative opportunities to restore mobility and functionality for individuals with missing limbs. Users of bionic limbs, or bionic humans, learn to seamlessly integrate prosthetic extensions into their motor repertoire, regaining critica…

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