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Samuel Hopkins

4 accepted papers

2024

A Quasi-Passive Robotic Ankle Foot Orthosis With Speed-Adaptive Stiffness

RA-L 2024

Ankle foot orthoses (AFOs) are one of the most prescribed mobility devices for individuals with walking disability from conditions like cerebral palsy (CP) and stroke. Current AFO designs offer a fixed stiffness during walking, functioning optimally at only a single speed. The primary goal of this s

Cited by 14SourceScholar
2020

Estimating Rank-One Spikes from Heavy-Tailed Noise via Self-Avoiding Walks

NeurIPS 2020spotlight

We study symmetric spiked matrix models with respect to a general class of noise distributions. Given a rank-1 deformation of a random noise matrix, whose entries are independently distributed with zero mean and unit variance, the goal is to estimate the rank-1 part. For the case of Gaussian noise,…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2019

Quantum Entropy Scoring for Fast Robust Mean Estimation and Improved Outlier Detection

NeurIPS 2019spotlight

We study two problems in high-dimensional robust statistics: \emph{robust mean estimation} and \emph{outlier detection}. In robust mean estimation the goal is to estimate the mean $\mu$ of a distribution on $\mathbb{R}^d$ given $n$ independent samples, an $\epsilon$-fraction of which have been corru…