Greg Grudic
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My area of research is Machine Learning and I am interested in formulating new, theoretically motivated, algorithms for solving problems that have no known solutions. My work touches upon a number of basic areas in Machine Learning including Regression, Classification, Reinforcement Learning, and, more recently, Semi-supervised Learning, Clustering, and Outlier Detection. My main application area is Machine Learning Based Robotics.


 

Publications

Abhishek Jaiantilal, Greg Grudic, Topology Based fuzzy Clustering, In preperation, 2007
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Abhishek Jaiantilal, Greg Grudic, Fuzzy Clustering using Topological properties, In preperation, 2007
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Michael Procopio, Greg Grudic, Jane Mulligan, Using binary classifiers to augment stereo vision for enhanced autonomous robot navigation, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309-430, Tech. Rep. CU-CS-1027-07, 2007
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Avleen Bijral, Markus Breitenbach, Greg Grudic, Mixture of Watson Distributions: A Generative Model for Hyperspherical Embeddings, Accepted to AISTATS, 2007
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Avleen Bijral, Adam Bates, Greg Grudic, Semi-supervised Path Identification using Markov Random Walks, Submitted Robotics Science and Systems, 2007
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Avleen Bijral, Greg Grudic, On Clustering High Dimensional Unit Norm Data, In preparation., 2007
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Greg Grudic, Jane Mulligan, Outdoor Path Labeling Using Polynomial Mahalanobis Distance, Robotics: Science and Systems II, 2006
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Jane Mulligan, Greg Grudic, Topological Mapping from Image Sequences, Submitted, n Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (with CVPR05), 2005
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Greg Grudic, Jane Mulligan, Topological mapping with multiple visual manifolds, Robotics: Science and Systems I, 2005
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Markus Breitenbach, Greg Grudic, Clustering Through Ranking On Manifolds, ICML, 2005
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Markus Breitenbach, Greg Grudic, Clustering with Local and Global Consistency, Submitted, Also Available as Technical Report CU-CS-973-04, 2004
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Adam Vinueza, Greg Grudic, Unsupervised Outlier Detection and Semi-Supervised Learning, Submitted, Also Available as Technical Report CU-CS-976-04, 2004
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Greg Grudic, Predicting the Probability of Correct Classification, Submitted, Also Available as Technical Report CU-CS-974-04, 2004
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Greg Grudic, Probabilistic Regression Using Basis Function Models, Submitted, Also Available as Technical Report CU-CS-975-04, 2004
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Markus Breitenbach, Sander M. Bohte, Greg Grudic, Linear Time Nonparametric Classification and Feature Selection with Polynomial MPMC Cascades for large datasets, Submitted, Available as Technical Report CU-CS-977-04, 2004
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Sander M. Bohte, Markus Breitenbach, Greg Grudic, Nonparametric Classification with Polynomial MPMC Cascades, ICML, July 4-8 2004, Banff, Canada, 2004
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Markus Breitenbach, Rodney Nielsen, Greg Grudic, Probabilistic Random Forests: Predicting Data Point Specific Misclassification Probabilities, Technical Report CU-CS-954-03, 2003
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T. R. Strohmann, Andrei Belitski, Greg Grudic, Dennis DeCoste, Sparse Greedy Minimax Probability Machine Classification, NIPSa, 2003
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T. R. Strohmann, Greg Grudic, Robust Minimax Probability Machine Regression, Submitted. Available as Technical Report CU-CS-952-03, 2003
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Greg Grudic, Vijay Kumar, L. H. Ungar, Using Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning on Autonomous Robot Controllersn, IEEE-RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS03), 2003
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T. R. Strohmann, Greg Grudic, A Formulation for Minimax Probability Machine Regression, NIPS, 2002
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R. Fierro, A. Das, J. Spletzer, J. Esposito, V. Kumar, J. P. Ostrowski, G. Pappas, C. J. Taylor, Y. Hur, R. Alur, I. Lee, Greg Grudic, J. Southall, A framework and architecture for multi-robot coordination, International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), vol. 21, no. 10-11, pp. 977-995, 2002
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Greg Grudic, L. H. Ungar, Rates of Convergence of Performance Gradient Estimates Using Function Approximation and Bias in Reinforcement Learning, NIPS, 2001
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Greg Grudic, L. H. Ungar, Exploiting Multiple Secondary Reinforcers in Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning, Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 01), August 4th - 10th, 2001
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R. Alur, A. Das, J. Esposito, R. Fierro, Y. Hur, Greg Grudic, V. Kumar,I. Lee, J. Ostrowski, G. Pappas, J. Southall, J. Spletzer, C. Taylor, Localizing Policy Gradient Estimates to Action Transitions, Taylor, A framework and Architecture for Multirobot Coordination, Experimental Robotics: LNCS Series, Springer-Verlag, 2001
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Greg Grudic, L. H. Ungar, Localizing Search in Reinforcement Learning, Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2000), June 29 - July 2, 2000
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Greg Grudic, L. H. Ungar, Localizing Policy Gradient Estimates to Action Transitions, Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2000), July 30 - Aug. 3, 2000
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Greg Grudic, P. D. Lawrance, A Nonparametric Learning Approach to Vision Based Mobile Robot Localization, IEEE-RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS98), 1998
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Greg Grudic, P. D. Lawrance, Is Nonparametric Learning Practical in Very High Dimensional Spaces?, Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97) , NAGOYA, Aichi, Japan, 1997
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Greg Grudic, P. D. Lawrance, Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer Using the SPORE Approximation, IEEE Int. Conf. on Rob. and Aut. (ICRA'96) , Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1996
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Greg Grudic, P. D. Lawrance, Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer Via Teleoperation, IEEE Int. Conf. on Sys. Man and Cyb. , Vancouver, B.C., 1995
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Greg Grudic, P. D. Lawrance, Iterative Inverse Kinematics with Manipulator Configuration Control, IEEE Trans. Robotics and Automation ,volume 9, Number 4, pages 476-483, 1993
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