This week's #PaperILike is "People construct simplified mental representations to plan" (Ho et al., Nature 2022).
People generate ("construe") simplified task representations on-the-fly. (Robots should too!) Also: awesome first paragraph.
PDF:
Tom Silver
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- ⏰ Two weeks until NERC 2026 submissions close! Abstracts and rising star applications are due August 20. August 20 is also the registration deadline to be considered for a travel grant. We're excited to receive your submissions!NERC is coming to beautiful @EPrinceton this Fall! Please see the CfP for papers and demos, as well as our call for Rising Stars in Robotics. Submissions due August 20 AoE. nerc2026.github.io
- This week's #PaperILike is "Algorithm Runtime Prediction" (Hutter et al., 2014). "I don't know the answer, but I know I will know the answer in about 10 minutes" (e.g., to a SAT question). Pretty wild that this is possible! PDF:
- This week's #PaperILike is "A general scenario theory for non-convex optimization and decision making" (Campi et al., 2018). Very general idea with applications in robotics, e.g., Safe Horizon MPC (arxiv.org/abs/2307.01070) PDF: re.public.polimi.it/retrieve/e0c31…
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