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Kevin A. Smith

6 accepted papers

2024

Evaluating Large Vision-and-Language Models on Children's Mathematical Olympiads

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recent years have seen a significant progress in the general-purpose problem solving abilities of large vision and language models (LVLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.; some of these breakthroughs even seem to enable AI models to outperform human abilities in varied tasks that demand higher-order…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2023

Are Deep Neural Networks SMARTer Than Second Graders?

CVPR 2023poster

Recent times have witnessed an increasing number of applications of deep neural networks towards solving tasks that require superior cognitive abilities, e.g., playing Go, generating art, question answering (such as ChatGPT), etc. Such a dramatic progress raises the question: how generalizable are n…

2023

H-SAUR: Hypothesize, Simulate, Act, Update, and Repeat for Understanding Object Articulations from Interactions

ICRA 2023poster

The world is filled with articulated objects that are difficult to determine how to use from vision alone, e.g., a door might open inwards or outwards. Humans handle these objects with strategic trial-and-error: first pushing a door then pulling if that doesn't work. We enable these capabilities in…

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2021

Data-Efficient Learning for Complex and Real-Time Physical Problem Solving Using Augmented Simulation

RA-L 2021

Humans quickly solve tasks in novel systems with complex dynamics, without requiring much interaction. While deep reinforcement learning algorithms have achieved tremendous success in many complex tasks, these algorithms need a large number of samples to learn meaningful policies. In this letter, we

Cited by 19SourceScholar
2021

Physion: Evaluating Physical Prediction from Vision in Humans and Machines

NeurIPS 2021poster

While current vision algorithms excel at many challenging tasks, it is unclear how well they understand the physical dynamics of real-world environments. Here we introduce Physion, a dataset and benchmark for rigorously evaluating the ability to predict how physical scenarios will evolve over time.…

Cited by 82SourcecodeScholar
2021

Unsupervised Discovery of 3D Physical Objects from Video

ICLR 2021poster

We study the problem of unsupervised physical object discovery. While existing frameworks aim to decompose scenes into 2D segments based off each object's appearance, we explore how physics, especially object interactions, facilitates disentangling of 3D geometry and position of objects from video,…

Cited by 34SourcePDFScholar