Computer Science Seminar: Krishna Murthy

Description

Krishna Murthy, a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give a talk titled "Structured World Models for Robots" for the Department of Computer Science.

Abstract:

Humans have an innate ability to construct detailed mental representations of the world from limited sensory data. These "world models" are central to natural intelligence, allowing us to perceive, reason about, and act in the physical world. Krishna Murthy's research seeks to create "computational world models"—artificial intelligence techniques that enable robots to understand and operate in the world around as effectively as humans. Despite the impressive successes of modern machine learning approaches in media such as text, images, and video—where abundant training data is readily available—these advancements have not translated to robotics. Building generally capable robotic systems presents unique challenges, including this lack of data and the need to adapt learning algorithms to a wide variety of embodiments, environments, and tasks of interest.