kPAM 2.0: Feedback Control for Category-Level Robotic Manipulation

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Wei Gao, Russ Tedrake, , , | Summary: In this paper, we explore generalizable, perception-to-action robotic manipulation for precise, contact-rich tasks. In particular, we contribute a framework for closed-loop robotic manipulation that automatically handles a category of objects, despite potentially unseen object instances and significant intra-category variations […]


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Breaking the degeneracy between polarization efficiency and cosmological parameters in CMB experiments

Kavli Affiliate: Thomas Crawford | First 5 Authors: Silvia Galli, W. L. Kimmy Wu, Karim Benabed, François Bouchet, Thomas M. Crawford | Summary: Accurate cosmological parameter estimates using polarization data of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) put stringent requirements on map calibration, as highlighted in the recent results from the Planck satellite. In this paper, […]


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Improved Treatment of Host-Galaxy Correlations in Cosmological Analyses With Type Ia Supernovae

Kavli Affiliate: Richard Kessler | First 5 Authors: Brodie Popovic, Dillon Brout, Richard Kessler, Dan Scolnic, Lisa Lu | Summary: Improving the use of Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) as standard candles requires a better approach to incorporate the relationship between SNIa and the properties of their host galaxies. Using a spectroscopically-confirmed sample of $sim$1600 SNIa, […]


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Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescope overview

Kavli Affiliate: Nobuhiko Katayama | First 5 Authors: Kenji Kiuchi, Shunsuke Adachi, Aamir M. Ali, Kam Arnold, Peter Ashton | Summary: The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment from the Atacama Desert in Chile comprising three small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one large-aperture telescope (LAT). In total, SO will field over 60,000 […]


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DESC DC2 Data Release Note

Kavli Affiliate: Eli S. Rykoff | First 5 Authors: LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, Bela Abolfathi, Robert Armstrong, Humna Awan, Yadu N. Babuji | Summary: In preparation for cosmological analyses of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST DESC) has created a 300 […]


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Distributionally robust second-order stochastic dominance constrained optimization with Wasserstein ball

Kavli Affiliate: Jia Liu | First 5 Authors: Yu Mei, Jia Liu, Zhiping Chen, , | Summary: We consider a distributionally robust second-order stochastic dominance constrained optimization problem. We require the dominance constraints hold with respect to all probability distributions in a Wasserstein ball centered at the empirical distribution. We adopt the sample approximation approach […]


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Metastable Helium Absorptions with 3D Hydrodynamics and Self-Consistent Photochemistry II: WASP-107b, Stellar Wind, Radiation Pressure, and Shear Instability

Kavli Affiliate: Lile Wang | First 5 Authors: Lile Wang, Fei Dai, , , | Summary: This paper presents simulations of the metastable helium (He*) observations of WASP-107b, so far the highest signal-to-noise ratio detection that is confirmed by three different instruments. We employ full 3D hydrodynamics coupled with co-evolving non-equilibrium thermochemistry and ray-tracing radiation, […]


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FLTrust: Byzantine-robust Federated Learning via Trust Bootstrapping

Kavli Affiliate: Jia Liu | First 5 Authors: Xiaoyu Cao, Minghong Fang, Jia Liu, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, | Summary: Byzantine-robust federated learning aims to enable a service provider to learn an accurate global model when a bounded number of clients are malicious. The key idea of existing Byzantine-robust federated learning methods is that the service […]


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Optical Design of the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM)

Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey McMahon | First 5 Authors: Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Trevor Oxholm, Gage Siebert, Alyssa Barlis, Emily M. Barrentine | Summary: This work describes the design and implementation of optics for EXCLAIM, the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping. EXCLAIM is a balloon-borne telescope that will measure integrated line emission from carbon monoxide (CO) at […]


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Optical Design of the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM)

Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey McMahon | First 5 Authors: Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Danny Chmaytelli, Trevor Oxholm, Tatsat Parekh, Gage Siebert | Summary: This work describes the design and implementation of optics for EXCLAIM, the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping. EXCLAIM is a balloon-borne telescope that will measure integrated line emission from carbon monoxide (CO) at redshifts […]


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