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 Cai, Chang


RoboReflect: Robotic Reflective Reasoning for Grasping Ambiguous-Condition Objects

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

As robotic technology rapidly develops, robots are being employed in an increasing number of fields. However, due to the complexity of deployment environments or the prevalence of ambiguous-condition objects, the practical application of robotics still faces many challenges, leading to frequent errors. Traditional methods and some LLM-based approaches, although improved, still require substantial human intervention and struggle with autonomous error correction in complex scenarios.In this work, we propose RoboReflect, a novel framework leveraging large vision-language models (LVLMs) to enable self-reflection and autonomous error correction in robotic grasping tasks. RoboReflect allows robots to automatically adjust their strategies based on unsuccessful attempts until successful execution is achieved.The corrected strategies are saved in a memory for future task reference.We evaluate RoboReflect through extensive testing on eight common objects prone to ambiguous conditions of three categories.Our results demonstrate that RoboReflect not only outperforms existing grasp pose estimation methods like AnyGrasp and high-level action planning techniques using GPT-4V but also significantly enhances the robot's ability to adapt and correct errors independently. These findings underscore the critical importance of autonomous selfreflection in robotic systems while effectively addressing the challenges posed by ambiguous environments.


Efficient Hierarchical Bayesian Inference for Spatio-temporal Regression Models in Neuroimaging

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Several problems in neuroimaging and beyond require inference on the parameters of multi-task sparse hierarchical regression models. Examples include M/EEG inverse problems, neural encoding models for task-based fMRI analyses, and climate science. In these domains, both the model parameters to be inferred and the measurement noise may exhibit a complex spatio-temporal structure. Existing work either neglects the temporal structure or leads to computationally demanding inference schemes. Overcoming these limitations, we devise a novel flexible hierarchical Bayesian framework within which the spatio-temporal dynamics of model parameters and noise are modeled to have Kronecker product covariance structure. Inference in our framework is based on majorization-minimization optimization and has guaranteed convergence properties. Our highly efficient algorithms exploit the intrinsic Riemannian geometry of temporal autocovariance matrices. For stationary dynamics described by Toeplitz matrices, the theory of circulant embeddings is employed. We prove convex bounding properties and derive update rules of the resulting algorithms. On both synthetic and real neural data from M/EEG, we demonstrate that our methods lead to improved performance.


Deep Doubly Supervised Transfer Network for Diagnosis of Breast Cancer with Imbalanced Ultrasound Imaging Modalities

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Elastography ultrasound (EUS) provides additional bio-mechanical in-formation about lesion for B-mode ultrasound (BUS) in the diagnosis of breast cancers. However, joint utilization of both BUS and EUS is not popular due to the lack of EUS devices in rural hospitals, which arouses a novel modality im-balance problem in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) for breast cancers. Current transfer learning (TL) pay little attention to this special issue of clinical modality imbalance, that is, the source domain (EUS modality) has fewer labeled samples than those in the target domain (BUS modality). Moreover, these TL methods cannot fully use the label information to explore the intrinsic relation between two modalities and then guide the promoted knowledge transfer. To this end, we propose a novel doubly supervised TL network (DDSTN) that integrates the Learning Using Privileged Information (LUPI) paradigm and the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) criterion into a unified deep TL framework. The proposed algorithm can not only make full use of the shared labels to effectively guide knowledge transfer by LUPI paradigm, but also perform additional super-vised transfer between unpaired data. We further introduce the MMD criterion to enhance the knowledge transfer. The experimental results on the breast ultra-sound dataset indicate that the proposed DDSTN outperforms all the compared state-of-the-art algorithms for the BUS-based CAD.