Vedant Dave

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Publications

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M2CURL: Sample-Efficient Multimodal Reinforcement Learning via Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Robotic Manipulation
Fotios Lygerakis, Vedant Dave, Elmar Rueckert
arXiv 2024
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M2CURL builds on MViTac to improves RL by efficiently integrating visual and tactile representations. It accelerates learning in downstream manipulation tasks.

Multimodal Visual-Tactile Representation Learning through Self-Supervised Contrastive Pre-Training
Vedant Dave*, Fotios Lygerakis*, Elmar Rueckert
ICRA 2024
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MViTac integrates vision and tactile modalities using contrastive learning, focusing on their inter and intra-modality relationships.

Can we infer the full-arm manipulation skills from tactile targets?
Vedant Dave, Elmar Rueckert
Workshop on Advances in Close Proximity Human-Robot Collaboration, Humanoids 2022
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Using a multi-image diffusion model as a regularizer lets you recover high-quality radiance fields from just a handful of images.

Predicting full-arm grasping motions from anticipated tactile responses
Vedant Dave, Elmar Rueckert
Humanoids 2022 (Oral Presentation)
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TacProMPs learns and predicts complex arm movements based on tactile responses, particularly for manipulating non-uniform objects, demonstrating adaptability diverse grasping scenarios.

Orientation Probabilistic Movement Primitives on Riemannian Manifolds
Leonel Rozo*, Vedant Dave*
CoRL 2021
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Using a multi-image diffusion model as a regularizer lets you recover high-quality radiance fields from just a handful of images.

Industrial Collaborations

Area Chair, CVPR 2024
cs188 Graduate Student Instructor, CS188 Spring 2011
Graduate Student Instructor, CS188 Fall 2010
Figures, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach", 3rd Edition

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Blog Posts

Squareplus: A Softplus-Like Algebraic Rectifier
A Convenient Generalization of Schlick's Bias and Gain Functions
Continuously Differentiable Exponential Linear Units
Scholars & Big Models: How Can Academics Adapt?

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