7 accepted papers
Large language models (LLMs) exihibit increasingly sophisticated linguistic capabilities, yet the extent to which these behaviors reflect human-like cognition versus advanced pattern recognition remains an open question.In this study, we investigate how LLMs process the temporal meaning of linguisti…
Textual style expresses a diverse set of information, including interpersonal dynamics (e.g., formality) and the author’s emotions or attitudes (e.g., disgust). An open question is how language models can be explicitly controlled so that they weave together target styles when generating text: for ex…
The success of NLP systems often relies on the availability of large, high-quality datasets. However, not all samples in these datasets are equally valuable for learning, as some may be redundant or noisy. Several methods for characterizing datasets based on model-driven meta-information (e.g., mode…
Mobile robots in unstructured, mapless environments must rely on an obstacle avoidance module to navigate safely. The standard avoidance techniques estimate the locations of obstacles with respect to the robot but are unaware of the obstacles’ identities. Consequently, the robot cannot take advantag…
Deep neural networks are the leading solution to the object detection problem. However, challenges arise when applying these networks to the kind of real-time, first-person video data that a robotic platform must process: specifically, detections may not be consistent from frame to frame, and object
Deep neural networks are the leading solution to the object detection problem. However, challenges arise when applying these networks to the kind of real-time, first-person video data that a robotic platform must process: specifically, detections may not be consistent from frame to frame, and object…
Autonomous underwater robots working with teams of human divers may need to distinguish between different divers, e.g., to recognize a lead diver or to follow a specific team member. This paper describes a technique that enables autonomous underwater robots to track divers in real time as well as to…