Robots that ask for help: Uncertainty alignment for large language model planners

AZ Ren, A Dixit, A Bodrova, S Singh, S Tu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit a wide range of promising capabilities--from step-by-
step planning to commonsense reasoning--that may provide utility for robots, but remain …

A gentle introduction to conformal prediction and distribution-free uncertainty quantification

AN Angelopoulos, S Bates - arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.07511, 2021 - arxiv.org
Black-box machine learning models are now routinely used in high-risk settings, like
medical diagnostics, which demand uncertainty quantification to avoid consequential model …

Formal synthesis of controllers for safety-critical autonomous systems: Developments and challenges

X Yin, B Gao, X Yu - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, formal methods have been extensively used in the design of autonomous
systems. By employing mathematically rigorous techniques, formal methods can provide …

Conformal prediction for uncertainty-aware planning with diffusion dynamics model

J Sun, Y Jiang, J Qiu, P Nobel… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Robotic applications often involve working in environments that are uncertain, dynamic, and
partially observable. Recently, diffusion models have been proposed for learning trajectory …

Adaptive conformal prediction for motion planning among dynamic agents

A Dixit, L Lindemann, SX Wei… - … for Dynamics and …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper proposes an algorithm for motion planning among dynamic agents using
adaptive conformal prediction. We consider a deterministic control system and use trajectory …

Conformal decision theory: Safe autonomous decisions from imperfect predictions

J Lekeufack, AN Angelopoulos, A Bajcsy… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce Conformal Decision Theory, a framework for producing safe autonomous
decisions despite imperfect machine learning predictions. Examples of such decisions are …

Conformal prediction: A gentle introduction

AN Angelopoulos, S Bates - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2023 - nowpublishers.com
Black-box machine learning models are now routinely used in high-risk settings, like
medical diagnostics, which demand uncertainty quantification to avoid consequential model …

Conformal prediction for stl runtime verification

L Lindemann, X Qin, JV Deshmukh… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We are interested in predicting failures of cyber-physical systems during their operation.
Particularly, we consider stochastic systems and signal temporal logic specifications, and we …

Conformal prediction regions for time series using linear complementarity programming

M Cleaveland, I Lee, GJ Pappas… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Conformal prediction is a statistical tool for producing prediction regions of machine learning
models that are valid with high probability. However, applying conformal prediction to time …

PAC-Bayes generalization certificates for learned inductive conformal prediction

A Sharma, S Veer, A Hancock… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Inductive Conformal Prediction (ICP) provides a practical and effective approach for
equipping deep learning models with uncertainty estimates in the form of set-valued …